Birthdays always come in threes and fours

Always in threes at our house, since all the 3 kids are two weeks a part, and Lucy's follows 1 month later so we get a small breather there. At least it is 6 months between them and Christmas time. This year the 3 kids had big birthdays, Syd turned 12 and started Young Womens, Stockton turned 8 years old and was baptised, and Nicholas turned 5 and starts school this year in China of all places.

Lucy Girl had a swimming birthday party in Fife, Washington, in September and got to have two of her best friends be there. We hate missing her birthdays, but we love skyping with her and talking on the phone.