Leah Marie 6

"Daughters will melt your heart whenever they want to."

This week we celebrate the birth of our 5th child, Leah Marie.

She is the one my blog was named after. She is our blondie who loves to gather everything that she likes or loves.

Leah is going to be a little superstar someday. She is only 6, but she has a lot of self confidence. She loves to sing and act. I have a feeling we will see her on stage someday.

We did get to see our son Ethan on stage last week.

He was in his middle school's musical performance of Guys and Dolls.

He did great. I love that he has it in him to be on stage in front of an audience. I went to all 3 of the "public" performances. The students did a wonderful job!

While we were at the high school seeing the play, (That's where it was performed - bigger stage there.) we were able to see our oldest son's art work he did last year. It is a still-life drawing. They have it framed and hanging up. Brandon has such a talent for art. His drawings amaze me.

Tomorrow we are having a party for Leah. It is going to be a costume party. Tom has his yummy chili already cooking. I can't wait to eat it!

We will start the day with church. Ethan and Rachel will be singing in the choir. This will be our daughter Rachel's first time singing in choir during mass. She is very excited! And she loves that she is with Ethan.

Cameron is now rolling over back to tummy. Big boy!

And this will be his first Halloween.

It's cute when you ask Jacob what Cameron is going to be for Halloween. He says, "A woo woo."

Which is Jakey's way of saying "Dog."

Cameron is going to be dressed as a puppy, Jake is going to be a bat, our girls will be fairies, and our older boys are going to be Reapers. (I guess that would be the best way to describe their outfits. Just wearing all black.)

I have a fairy costume to match my girls.

Tom - I'm not sure. We'll do something with him. We try to do "matchy" outfits. We were thinking of some sort of "fairy catcher." Kind of like Gargomel (sp?) is to the Smurfs. I'm sure our girls would get a kick out of that.

I am just looking forward to spending a day with family and friends, celebrating one of our beautiful children.