Johnson Smiles

My baby turned 5 last week.  5 as in starts Kindergarten in the fall.  Yeah, that kind of 5.  This has been one of those milestones that has just hit me hard.  With the other two it didn't really hit me until they actually started school (because, ya know, it's still 7 months away) but with Sylvie the day she turned 5 I feel like everything inside me turned upside down and has been flip flopping around ever since. She on the other hand could not wait to turn 5.  She started counting down to her birthday before Christmas.  The night before she was SO excited because it was her "birthday eve".  She was jumping around on the beds and even celebrated by having Cora "sleep over" in her room.  I can't believe how much she has grown and changed in the past year.  She has blossomed from being clingy, timid, and full of tears  into this brave, silly, confident little girl.  She's still my little worrier though.  She notices ever...

Hello 2018!  Aahhh, deep breath, we made it into the new year.  Ha!  Just kidding there's no time for breathing in January!  No sooner is the Christmas tree down than we start in with birthdays!  We just celebrated Sylvie's 5th birthday (more to come on that) and will celebrate Cora's 8th next week.  In my head I always think of January as the month of cake.  Seriously there is just so. much. cake.   We also have a daycare kiddo/family friend whose birthday is just 3 days after Sylvie's so that also contributes to the cake count!  Between birthday treats at school, friend parties, daycare birthday celebrations, family parties, and cake on their actual birthday. This years cake count was 99 cupcakes + 3 normal cakes in the span of 2 weeks.  Every year when I go to order cake (because I'm not baking 99 cupcakes and 3 normal cakes) I always think that can't be right .  I count and re-count, but it always seems that the insane calc...