They DID it!! Here are the pictures we took. I'll add captions and hopefully post these on facebook soon too!

I'm holding back the tears as I post these pictures of Lex turning 5 years old!! He's offically not a toddler anymore and definitely not a baby (technically, he'll always be my baby though!).

Here are pictures from his birthday weekend, which also fell on Easter. So we did a little DC touring, a little egg hunting and alot of moonbouncing!

Chloe visited us again! After she left all we heard was "I miss Chloe" x100.

So Lex got his Purple belt. And broke a board!

Thank you Teaneck NJ cousins for hosting a wonderful gathering! We ate a whole roast pig, tons of delicious sides, desserts and many bottles of wine and beer.

And thank you New City, NY cousins for organizing a very VERY loud, memory challenging, table pounding game of jeopardy that even made me lose my voice (now that's saying something!)

Can everyone who took pictures please email them to me- I'll add them to our website too!

These pictures will also be on facebook- so you can comment, tag and re-post all you want there.

We took a quick trip down to the White House to try to catch some picture time during the "Golden Hour."
(click on the picture below to see MORE pictures!)

The winner of Jeanne's Gingerbread House contest was a toss-up between all 4 entries.

The kids were playing and then we came over to supervise and saw THIS- I'll setup the scene for you- Sophie and Lex playing in their kitchen, Sophie was using a spatula and flipping something in her skillet- look at the pictures to see WHAT she was cookin' up...

And of course a movie of the kids playing- usually it's Lex driving Sophie around at break-neck speeds: Driving Mr. Lex around

Now all we have to do is get a good Christmas picture and send out cards! Oh and Lex wants to open his presents NOW! I told him he only has to wait about 20 DAYS- that's not long right?