McCabe is 7 and Wynnlee is 4

Our amazing McCabe turned 7 years old.  These pictures don't capture enough of what I want to share with the world about this child.  These pictures show him stuffing his face, getting to eat out, and receiving a lot of presents.  But what they don't capture is his personality, his growing character, his  humor, the magnificent volume of his voice, his sensitive side, or his sweet demeanor.  He is delightful.  He is thoughtful.  He is athletic.  He is charming.  He is intelligent.  He is smiley.  And he needs about an hour more sleep than anyone else in this house if you want him to be the things I just listed.   I am so glad that I am his mother.  

Our equally as amazing Wynnlee turned 4 years old.   The pictures of her obviously don't do justice to the entire beautiful soul that she is, but they do show a surprising amount of her personality.  She loves her brothers so passionately.  She is their little shadow.  For her birthday she asked for Guns, sporty socks, and a razor scooter so she can zip around the neighborhood with them.  She will follow them anywhere.  Lets hope they model a lot of really good things in the years to come!  She loves her dad a lot too.  She is also very silly.  And has a girly side fighting for attention too.  She changes her outfits and shoes multiple times each day.  Happy Birthday to this wonderful first daughter of ours.  

Brooks is FOUR!

Brooks has been following in his older brothers footsteps for so long that he seems so much older to me.  He potty trained right when he turned two, was the youngest to ride a bike without training wheels, stopped napping a whole year before his brother ever did, can completely dress himself (unless he needs help matching and buttoning on church day or when he simply likes to be lazy and pretends that he cannot do it) and has been begging to do school like his brothers for a year. It was weird saying that he was turning 4 because I honestly felt like he should be turning 5 or maybe even 6 by now!  During his birthday we kept talking about how he was turning 4 and I kept seeing the 4 on his candle and every time I would second guess and think, "Is that right?  Is he really only 4?"

But how exciting that he is only 4 because time goes by quickly enough and I want to enjoy more years of him being a little guy!

We love Brooks so much!

Some things that stand out to me about him are:

1.  He loves hats and wears them often

2.  He prefers to snack all day instead of eat meals at meal time (but he will eventually learn the momma is boss)

3.  He is rarely serious about anything.  Always joking.  Always trying to get a laugh.  Always searching for a "reaction."

4.  He is a great wrestler.

5.  His drink of choice is Kombucha and he guzzles it down.

6.  He is usually the first child awake.

7.  He takes apart his sandwiches and eats one type of food at a time.

8.  He is cuddly.

9.  He will do anything for daddy's attention, which causes lots of trouble!

10.  He loves to color!

11.  He asked for Legos for birthdays and christmas but once they are built he either never plays with them, or plays with them for 3 minutes during which he manages to destroy the whole thing that took an hour to build.

My early predictions are that he will want to be a contractor since he copy's a lot of the stuff he sees down in our house.  He was once caught up at night "cocking" cracks in the door with toothpaste.  He was once caught "mudding" the brand new drywall with a hammer and screwdriver which obviously broke the new drywall.  And he loves to use dry, paint-less paint brushes to paint stuff.  And oh the joy in his face when our contractor let him take the spacers out of the cracks between the tile after the tile was set!

Now on to the pictures ...