A Birthday and a House

Our new kitchen. Yay! More house pics are at the end of this post.

Claire's birthday was on the 5th. She has been so excited for her birthday and wanted a Dora castle cake. She has always loved yellow and so I shouldn't have needed to ask her what color she wanted it because of course she wanted "yeyyow"! This girl is getting so big. She is talking so much now and finally mimics things that we say. She started preschool last week. We had her tested becuase of her language delay and they accepted her into the school district preschool. She is supposed to ride the bus but only rode it one day when I rode with her. But she does love school and does really well there. They had picture day today and when the guy showed her her picture on the computer screen she said, "wow, me pretty!" She is also starting to get potty trained. We made a chart for her and she has really wanted to go to the swimming pool so we made that her reward for filling out her chart. Her favorite things right now are the pool, yogurt, fish crackers, polka dots and yellow.

This is a before and after of some signs I made for our house. I found them on clearance at our local grocery store and I love how they turned out!

Now some more pics of the house. We got to move in the week of March 20th and it is so nice to be moved in. One of my friends said that when she moved into her new house it felt weird like it didn't feel like home. I think just the opposite. This felt exactly like home to me. (Maybe it's because I can see my family's old junk yard from my back window;)