Marina's Birthday!!!!!!

Today was Marina's 4th birthday!!!!! I can hardly believe that she is already 4 years old!

She's a real cutie. She has an extremely expressive face, and her different looks always make us laugh! Marina also has grown a lot over the past years. Whenever I look at the backs of Madeline and Marina sitting on the couch, I can barely tell the difference between them! Marina is only a little bit shorter than Madeline, and she already fits into some of the clothes Madeline wore when we first came here to Australia! Out of all of us girls, she will probably end up the tallest! (Some of the pix shown are what my dad calls "angle shots," so that's why they look a little different . . . :-))

I can't always spend enough time with her because of my school and all, but she's a lot of fun to play with. Sometimes she comes up to me and asks me to play with her and her doll . . . it's absolutely adorable!! (But it doesn't happen much . . . .) She also loves to play the game Hi! Ho! Cherrio!, which I don't find extremely interesting, but is pretty amusing with her. She never plays it completely according to the rules though . . . . :-)

This last picture is of Marina attempting to do her "fitness ball workout."

We had a great time celebrating Marina's birthday . . . except we didn't get any cake for her. Poor thing. She really wanted cake too. But we have been really busy getting ready to move and all. We are planning on doing a family birthday party later, so hopefully she'll be fine with that. Have a great day, everyone!