Carly's the birthday girl!

 Our sweet little Carly is 4 years old!  

Favorites:

color- 'purple and pink and blue, oh wait, and red, and yellow, and orange, and brown.'

food- "strawberries and watermelons and quesadillas."

thing to do- "play babies and play with Hayes-a" (Hailey's got lots of strange nick names)

place to go-" write down everywhere... it's m-o-g-a-i... that's how you spell everywhere"

scripture story-" everything, Ummm. maybe this one the most (holding up the D&C reader)"

friend- "Meagan" our neighbor

drink- "water, milk, juice, and punch"

Carly is growing up quick, but she still likes to be babied a little bit.  I call her my kitty cat, because anytime I sit, she just curls up on my lap.  She gets really sad if we don't have our special snuggle time while Luke and Abigail are at school, and Hailey is sleeping.  

She's such a sweet heart, and she's always thinking about her siblings.  If she has a snack, she'll get more out for the other kids if they aren't around and she'll save them for when they get home.  

Carly is a bag lady.  She has a hoarding issue, I know I've mentioned it before... but I think we're making progress on it.  She used to keep all of her things in the unfinished basement  in a  pile.  At first it was cute, and then the pile grew, and it got to be a big problem.  If she ever heard someone going down the stairs she would follow them to make sure they didn't touch her stuff.  Then things started to dissappear.  Like watches, cell phones, bills, my makeup, and lots of little important things.  So we got it all cleaned out,    VERY TRAUMATIC...  I told her she could have one bag full of her special things.  That's been going pretty well, I still have to go through her bag every few days because she'll sneak sandwich baggies full of her left over lunch into them.  She usually has a couple of bags full of things and then keeps them in a little shopping cart.  She also goes on strolls through the neighborhood with all of her things.

On a side note-  we had to quit calling it hoarding because Abigail forgot to put the letter -d- in the word.  One night she yelled to me, "Mom, Carly's hoaring again!"  So we just call it her stuff now.

 Carly woke up feeling good on her birthday, but quickly went down hill.  After she tossed her cookies, she said she was glad she had another birthday in a couple of days.  We had to have her party 2 days late because of the Grandma's schedules. 

 Luckily she could pull it together enough to celebrate a little bit that night.  She said she only wanted two things for her birthday, a cherry purse, and a shopping with the little baby car in the front of the cart.  Nevermind that we already have a million purses and stroller/shopping carts. 

 still not feeling good, but determined to have a good birthday

 She decided to eat a cupcake... we were regretting that later that evening

 2 days later, so HAPPY!  She put on this special dance outfit for the party

 cute little Abs

 making a wish (she wants a real baby, a real live baby for herself)

 She requested a cherry cake

 Daddy's girl

 Also Uncle Blake's girl. He can't be around her without her climbing onto of his shoulders

 Hayes-a chillin on our new patio built by Ben

 Kael was not happy with me, I just wanted a picture of the cute little guy

 Besties... Jake (next door neighbor) told his Mom that him and Hailey are besites

 handsome Beau

Carly got lots of fun gifts from her Grandparents!  She was excited about all the new things to wear.  For some reason none of the pictures turned out of our guests, but it was sweet of them all to come and make Carly's 2nd party special!