Elyany Lucy Therese:
Precocious.
Clever. Cheeky. Creative.
Artful. Affectionate.
Sensitive. Slight.
Five.
For our March family birthday bash, we got to party at Heidmann East out in Apache Junction at Jon’s place. It is grand to let all the kiddos run around outside on their acreage and play with the dogs and chickens.
Xavier has been pestering me like mad for a chance to use my camera, and I finally relented and sent him off with stern instructions about keeping the strap around his neck, and one or two technical pointers, and wondered what would come back to me. Turns out the kid has a good eye! All the pics below that are not people are his, the ones at the end in the chicken coop were from Paul, and a few others are Natalie’s but I’m not sure which. Next problem is he’s going to want my computer to do editing…. I’m going to lose all my tech if I’m not careful! Lol!
Anyway, the bulk of the presents were for the brand new Five-Year-Old, and her favorite thing was her new balance beam, until she opened the Club Chelsea doll sets from Grandma and Laurent. Oh.my.gosh. they are so cute! I suddenly don’t hate Barbie anymore! 😀 Hilariously, even the boys are having fun playing with her – although their style of play is more “Just how far can we stretch these movable limbs?” and various other boyish high jinks. Anyway, the new Barbies have brought the kids together in unforeseeable ways and it’s pretty fun to watch.
Pics from Saturday, really had a fun time editing the ones Xavier took, and I’ve promised him some editing practice in the next week, so I might have another gallery of these with his own particular artistic slant coming soon.
