Happy Birthday Lottie!

I can't believe my little Lottie Lu is 4 years old.  It feels to me sometimes like she's more like 14.  When I put her to bed on the night of her birthday she said - "mom, this was the best birthday ever.  You are the best mom in the whole world."  Then, when I told her to get back in her bed twenty minutes later when she was sneaking a toy out of the playroom she flailed herself on her bed sobbing "mom is so mean, the worst mom ever, I'm never going to talk to that mom again.  One of those moments when you just have to laugh..

We got Lottie her very own trampoline for her birthday.  So far this has been the most brilliant thing we've ever bought.  The kids roll it all over the house and jump and jump and jump all day.  Now I say things like, "stop fighting, go jump".  It works wonders.

 We don't do parties for 4th birthdays so we decided to go up to This is The Place park in Salt Lake.  Luckily a couple of our cousins happened to be going that day too and it was so much fun.

 Here's proof that I was there:

 Everyone's favorite part were the baby animals.  You can just reach down and pick up a baby duck or a baby chick.  They are so tiny and adorable right now.

 There are baby pigs and goats and they just wander around poking their noses into strollers and making babies laugh.  So fun.

 Although, this was Lottie during the entire animal encounter.  She was terrified.  Those baby lambs set her off into hysterical screaming - "please dad, get me out of here, please please dad!"

 Luckily Lottie has these two.  Lottie loves Ansley and Maizy with all the love a 4 year old heart can hold.  I hope these girls are best friends for the rest of their lives.  They are so lucky to have each other.

 They even have free pony rides up there.  All my kids rode twice.  Strange since we can have free horse rides whenever we want since my in laws have horses - somehow it's different for the kids when it's somewhere new. 

 Isn't this Brylee the cutest thing ever.  She was standing this way when I happened to have my camera handy.  Not posing, just standing.  Such a sweet little thing.

This is Jack and Tate.  My sister-in-law and I had these boys less than 2 weeks apart.  We used to lay them next to each other as babies and talk about how cute they would be when they were old enough to actually play.  They have totally different personalities but they love to play.  Just like we knew they would.  They are so funny together.   

 On the way home all the kids fell asleep.  That means we did our job well.  We picked up a hot and ready pizza and some cupcakes and that was that.

 Oh, one more thing.  I brought along some sunscreen specifically for my little red headed baby and completely spaced putting any on her.  I feel so bad for her every time I look at her.  I'm so sorry Ivy, that's my fault.  And, being Ivy, she's not letting me forget it.