Liberty turned 8 years old in July!

It is so fun to have a girl because I was a girl.  My boys have always been a little bit of a mystery to me.  Interested in dirt, bugs and animals.  But it is so fun to have a little girl doing the same little girl things I did when I was a girl.  Nail polish and hair stuff, gymnastics and hand clap songs.  Some things never change!

She finally has several friends in the neighborhood to play with and that’s a big blessing. I blame it on the playhouse.

If you paint it pink, they will come.

Obviously, we didn’t paint the outside pink, but just painting the inside pink must have brought the little girls.  Now they are always playing in it and in our yard and it makes me so happy to have our big yard and trampoline and playhouse used.

But most of all I’m glad she finally has friends in the neighborhood.

There is always some sign that little girls are playing in our yard.  From plates full of rocks and grass arranged to look like food, to little creations like this one I found in the yard last week:

They even decorate the sprinkler boxes.

Liberty LOVES shopping, especially at the mall.  When our Target got mannequins after a recent remodel, she ran up to them squealing with delight.  She wants to be a fashion designer when she grows up and spends hours designing clothes and jewelry.

Eating Smores

Liberty made the sack bunnies for the table centerpiece.

We made bunny plates,

held a real bunny,

and picked up bunny tails with vaseline on our noses.

We even found Blue Bunny ice cream with chocolate bunnies!

Cleaning up the wrapping paper.