Welcome to Double Digits!

Allie turned 10.  That is still unbelievable.  I became a mother ten years ago.  Wow- it feels like... a hundred?  Two hundred years?  Oh wait, did I type that out loud?  

We have loved her for 10 years and even longer.  Allie requested a piano cake.  Pretty easy  to do- whew- and  I was so excited about how perfect Kit Kats would be for the black keys.  I really like Kit Kats too.  Jason was nice enough to get a shot of the cake by itself (I was kind of sad there wasn't a good shot of Wesley's cake before it caught fire.  Just fun to have a record of the cakes in all their homeliness).

 Take a deep breath, there are a lot of candles this time!

Allie is growing up.  She complains about having to share a room with her three year old sister.  AND all the chores and extra responsibilities she has and how unfair it is.  The boys always complain about how Allie always gets to stay over at friends longer, eat dinner with them, go to Activity Days and stay up late and how unfair it is!  I just have to laugh at the irony of it all.  I remember the exact same complaints growing up.  It seems you can't have your piano cake and eat it too.