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There have been a lot of wonderful things happening lately. Here are the highlights...

Maya and Sahara had their 4th birthday party this past weekend. We had so much fun !!

Pinata !

Here's Maya picking up the pinata booty.


Does Maya look excited about her giant birthday cupcake.

Here's Sahara making her birthday wish.

Dodge ball !

Do these girls look happy or what?

Cousin Jad and his parents Scott and Merna helped us celebrate.

Nader's oldest friend in the world, Martin and Yvonne.

Gigi being her normal beautiful self with Uncle Saba.

We all had such a great time at the birthday party. That night Maya and Sahara's 4 cousins stayed for a sleep over party. They were in heaven.

Here's a shot that warms my heart. My two guys snuggled up.

Here's Maya discovering static electricity.

Our relatives from Maui came over for a special visit following their son's wedding in Vegas. From Left: Uncle Leslie, my dad, me, Kingston Auntie Lani, Nader, Maya & Sahara.

My dear friend from Hawaii also visited. This is the first meeting between Nos and Kingston.

Maya has a doll that she absolutely loves that she calls Kingston Paul Khoury. Nader and I dislike this doll because it looks crazy. It's eyes are broken and Nader often calls it Chucky. (remember the movie of the possessed doll). Maya loves it and won't part with it, even though we have offered many substitution dolls. She once found her doll in the trash and threw a fit. I guess we are stuck with Chucky. Here's a picture of Kingston with Chucky.

The whole family went to Vegas to celebrate my Cousin Kalen's wedding. It was a rare occasion where my entire immediate family was together. It was very cool hanging out with family and my dear friend Lahela that lives out there. The Belagio had an amazing flower exhibit that my girls went crazy over.

My spring chick.

Look at the giant bugs. That frog to Sahara's left is covered with green flowers.

Sahara is my flower girl. She loves flowers so much she is often asking daddy to turn the car around so that she can go back and pick some flowers.

My two handsome men. This was Kingston's first time in Vegas !

Giant flower garden.

Wow !

My brother Ken and Cousin Kathy at the wedding reception at the Belagio.

Here are all the cousins together. From Left: Heather, Ted, Kalen, J Girl, Jemma, Kathy, Ken, Rima.

So there are the highlights of late. So many smiles and good times. I love it !

Snap shots

I have been holding out on some really cute pictures of my cute babes. So here are a few snap shots.

Rare family shot at the Balboa Park botanical garden. Usually I'm the one taking the photos, so you hardly ever see me. That little thing strapped to me is Kingston.





Kingston and his deranged sister, Maya. Nader and I are on 24/7 guard duty for Kingston to ensure his sisters don't run off and love on him to death.

Baby in the sunlight.

Proud mama.

Here's what happens when the girls get their hands on Kingston. He is sitting in a baby doll stroller.



And here's our poor son held captive by his two sisters who put him in their baby doll crib. All I can think is that one day Kingston is going to be big enough to kick their asses and he will get even with them.

Monkey.

Monkey hugging a deer.

Cherub Kingston sleeping in a cloud of blankets.

Is there anything more adorable than a sleeping baby.

Today is Maya and Sahara's 4th birthday. It's hard to believe that they are growing up so fast. Although I often find myself wishing they were in preschool, I'm so blessed to be their mom. They are miracle babies and I am reminded of how much they were wanted on their birthday.

The day they were born. Maya & Sahara on May 4th, 2006.

Greetings from the Khoury camp

Life at our home has been very exciting and exhausting. Kingston is almost 3 months old and is getting chunky. He is cooing and grabbing and looking irresistibly cute. Maya and Sahara are busy as bees, as always. They will talk your ear off if you let them.

Our friend took some pictures of the family that I would like to share.

Oh my...they are growing so fast.

Growing Like Weeds

It's an understatement to say that we have been busy lately. Baby Kingston is getting chunky and cuter by the day. He prefers to be carried all the time, and to be honest, we don't really mind. Maya and Sahara are keeping us so busy. I can't wait for preschool to start.

Here's baby Kingston taking a bath today. He is our mighty mouse.

This past weekend the girls had their first belt test at Tai Kwon Do. The were testing to move up from white belt to yellow belt. Check out this video to see how they did.

Kingston = Daddy

My girlfriend from New York, Red Sonja, called to congratulate us today and told me that she thought Kingston looked like his daddy Nader. So I dug up a few pictures where I thought they looked similar...

These two pictures of daddy Nader and Kingston with crazy looking expressions were the only pictures I could find where they looked the same.

Good Things Come in Small Packages

On Friday, January 29, 2010 Kingston Paul Khoury was born. I was only 36 weeks pregnant at the time but because our doctors discovered that he was not growing in my tummy they decided to get him out early. As anticipated, Kingston's birth weight was only 4 lbs. After 10 days in the NICU to monitor his weight, he finally came home.

Maya and Sahara are such great big sisters. They made Kingston a welcome home sign. Each letter was made with lots of love, paint, glue and glitter.

Here's a close-up shot of the little guy.

Maya's maternal instincts have kicked in and she is always trying look after Kingston. If it were up to her, she would change his diaper every hour.

Here's a proud mama doing some Valentine Day artwork with the girls while Kingston naps.

Here's our Valentine Day tree. The girls decorated hearts and flowers then decorated our tree branch. Daddy brought home flowers for all his Valentines.

I had to include this great picture of Maya.


Here's Sahara showing off her little baby, Cloud.

We did some planting in the vegetable garden. Thanks to the girls we now have spinach, lettuce, beets and a bunch of herbs growing in our garden.

Gardening is a great excuse to play in the mud.

Here are the girls hard at work.

Lastly, Tata Rose has a litter of puppies that the girls have fallen in love with. I'm not sure, but we may have two new pets in the not too distant future. This is in addition to the dog, two guinea pigs and fish we already have. I'm not sure if I will be able to keep up.