Happy 10th Birthday, Maria!!

Can you believe she's 10 ?!?! In case you would like to start with a look back at her 9th birthday and those before that, please go ahead and click on the links :)

We actually began Maria's birthday celebration on Wednesday, Sept. 8th. Dany knew that he had a meeting late on Thursday afternoon, so Maria started opening presents and eating cake a day early. Who can complain? :) She chose Pasta ala Carbonara for supper. Yummy!

We schooled on Monday (Labor Day) so that we could take Maria's birthday off! A lady from church invited us over for a nice breakfast and then playtime!

She had a sandtable, which the little ones especially loved...

Maria spent a good bit of time hoola-hooping...

Matteo played some ring toss...

And, Maria got another cake!

Here is Elena ready to claim a piece for herself :)

Another gift...

Here's "Happy Birthday" #1...

Happy Birthday, #2









Here's Chiara enjoying a birthday card from Grandma and Pipa...

Just so you know, it's her big brother fussing at her at times in the video, not me!