Violette Turns 4

A Birthday always forces me to listen to those parents of older children who tell me that these days fly by and soon my children will be driving and dating.  Some days it seems like years from now as I feel like I'm drowning in tantrums and constant fighting, but today, today I am reminded of how quickly time is truly passing.  Violette has turned four years old!  I look at her elongated face, with large, bright eyes as she searches the world for knowledge and promise of a good day, and I am more in love with her. She looks nothing like the baby we held for the first time.  She has grown into a truly beautiful, inside and out, four year old.

Violette has a magnetic and bright personality, always smiling and giggling.  She also has a very kind heart and loves animals.  More times than I can count I find her on or with arms tightly around Cyrus or Zeus.  She loves to have the dogs near her as she does everything, no care for slobber or drool, rather enjoying the licking. 

Being the third she is most happy surrounded by siblings.  Noelle and her play very well together, loving all things girly with equal enjoyment.  Max is best at pushing all of Violette's buttons on a constant basis, but they can be found huddled together looking at books or playing and genuinely getting along.  Zane and Violette also butt heads a lot, but many times Zane can be heard calling out to Violette, asking for help, or pleading with her to play.  Sibling play time is great, but Miss Violette sneaks off to do things on her own.  She loves to shut her bedroom door and have a conversation with her stuffed animals or apply makeup.  As I write so many wonderful things come to mind about my girl.  She is just right and she is a perfect Roehrig child!

 

Saturday we invited our neighbors over to enjoy cake with us.  Violette requested a rainbow cake and the local cake lady delivered an awesome cake.  She opened some gifts and wore her handmade dress with definite pride. 

 

 

 

Today, Sunday, Violette's actual birthday came and as promised I headed out before the sun rose and bought fresh doughnuts.  St. Patrick's Day sprinkled doughnuts was just early morning treat our Birthday Girl needed.  We dressed and headed out to conquer Violette's first Birthday want, The Chelsea Treehouse.

 

We arrived just as they were opening and were the first ones to enter.  The children ran around and climbed one of their favorite places, as if it was their own.  Aunt CC arrived with Maizey to join in the fun.  Tom enjoyed his first experience there too.  We all played for hours until the crowds began swarm and take over. 

 

 

 

The children all had built up their appetites and Violette wanted Steak n' Shake.  It was a good choice and all the children devoured their meals and shakes.

 

 Bellies full and bodies tired out, back to the house we went.  Maizey and Aunt CC hung out with us for the rest of day.  Violette opened some more gifts and enjoyed spending time with her little cousin.  After saying goodbye to our company Violette requested an earlier bedtime and fell asleep a content four year old, filled with smiles and extra night time snuggles. 













Wordless Wednesday - Silly Max Face

Wordless Wednesday

It Had To Happen Sometime...

This winter season has been truly kind to use.  We have avoided most sickness, only encountering a few fevers here and there and some runny noses.  I knew it was only a matter of time until we were hit with something substantial.  It started last Friday and has consumed almost the whole house.  We've hit record temperatures for fevers and lost countless hours of sleep.  Most families we know with young children have been completely riddled with ongoing sickness, we feel blessed this is our first run in. 

Max has been crowned, Most Miserable Patient, he randomly and frequently screams out just to make noise and express his displeasure.  It's rather draining and to be frank, annoying.  I try to hug and love on him, only to be screamed at for the sake of screaming. 

Violette wins for, Most Pitiful Patient, pouting out her lips and wanting to be held nonstop all while batting her long eyelashes at the parent closest to get her way.

 

Noelle claims the trophy for, Toughest Patient.  She held the highest temperature, has been sick the longest, but seems to be the strongest of all the children.  She has been suffering countless extreme nosebleeds and the dramatics do come into play, screaming for all to get out of her way as she runs to get Kleenex, and an almost fainting spell when she saw all the blood (it was a lot of blood).  They end and she is back to her tough self, fighting ridiculously high fevers with minimal demands. 

 



Zane has been the least sick, and definitely the entertainment of the house.  He is a little chatterbox, making us all laugh at his renditions of Buzz Lightyear and Scooby-Doo characters all while yielding a spatula "sword".  I think his time will come, but for now we all enjoy watching his actions. 

 

 

I have been enjoying a lot of snuggling with each one separately and all together.  We've stared at the TV entirely too much and read most books than I can count.  Ate whatever foods I could get them to take, and a clean house is nonexistent due to too many demands to be met.  This will pass and we'll look forward to Violette's 4th birthday, warmer weather, long adventure walks, and getting outside. 

 



Wordless Wednesday

DDD

Last year when our community had a Daddy Daughter Dance for some reason I completely dropped the ball and did not sign up Noelle and Tom.  I vowed not to forget this year and I did not.  When I called to get tickets I discussed age limits and it was left up to my discretion whether or not Violette would go.  I decided to get a ticket for her too.  Although only three, she'll be turning four next month and she is more mature than her older brother, so I knew she could handle it and truly enjoy the time with Tom and Noelle.

The girls cheered with excitement when I told them about it.  Noelle and Violette talked about the dresses they wanted to wear and practiced dancing to the continuous music played in the house over the next few weeks.  Violette realized she needed a new dress.  At the store she got very serious as her eyes inspected the selection of dresses.  I held up one after another and she delicately touched the fabric, tested each dress by holding it up to her.  After awhile I lined a few choices up and stood back.  She took this very seriously and finally settled on a dress dotted with butterflies.  She was happy.

Saturday came.  The girls were filled with excitement.  This was a big deal.  They decided they wanted me to curl their hair.  I wrapped their delicate hair around the wand and released ringlet after ringlet on both of their heads.  Noelle got very impatient, but Violette wanted me to keep going even after finishing the final curl.  We applied a small amount of shimmering eye shadow and a bit of lipstick.  Then the dresses were put on. Twirl upon twirl erupted from the girls as soon as the last button was done on the dresses.  They brought instant smiles to Tom and I as we proudly watched our girls.  Finally they posed for some pictures.

 

Our neighbors attended too and this is a cute picture of the four girls

All ready, they left and it was me and the boys.  We had to have our own version of fun she we headed out to get some ice cream.

After filling themselves up with sweet blue ice cream with sprinkles and marshmallows, the boys declared they were not ready to go home and wanted to go to a store.  I instantly knew a Meijer trip would not do it for these two high energy boys so I drove to Tractor Supply Co.  That was just the place for them.  They each picked our a tractor and explored the store, and climbed on some ATV's.  They were in heaven.

We arrived home only a short bit before Tom and the girls.  They were filled with many stories and smiles of the night.  Definitely a memory maker and success!  They are already talking about next year.

Wordless Wednesday

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