The Best Art Ever!!

Next week DCA is having a Celebration of the Arts and each class prepared a piece to put in the auction benefiting the school. I'll have to talk to Marty to see just how high he will let me go. The class painted a canvas and I think it is adorable. I love how there are multiple houses, dogs and flowers. One child drew something and the rest followed suit. Abby's masterpiece is the first one on the second row. A flower of course!

Just a thought

Today, Marty, Andrew and I went to have lunch with Abby at her school. She was the star student of the week so we thought it would be a nice way to end her special week. On the way back to work I started thinking what it would be like if we were still back in Georgia. I take Abby to school in the morning because it’s on my way to work and her school is only 5 miles from the office. I can run down there for lunch and class parties. On Tuesday they had a FunRun that I was able to go to. May 9th is Field Day and again I will be there. Back in Georgia, I would have had to miss all of this. My office was so far away from where her school would have been that it would have been really difficult for me to make it to anything. Isn’t it funny how things work out?

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Andrew's Birthday Party

Well, Andrew's birthday party was a huge success and the best thing about it was that I didn't have to clean before or after the party. YIPPEE!! We had his party at Pump it Up which is a jumpy place and I believe everyone in Abby's class has had their party there. I'm sure Abby will too when the time comes. Andrew has been able to tag along to the birthday parties that Abby was invited to and insisted on having his party at Pump it Up. He was so excited about it. We had a good number there, not too crazy and not too small. We let Abby invite some of her friends from school so we had friends, class mates and teachers there. It was a great group.

You're not going to do that to me are you?

We're in trouble

All the friendsSpiderman, of courseYummy

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Happy birthday Roo

How, how is it possible that my baby is 3 years old today? How did he turn from that squishy rolly baby into such a handsome little man? He has completely stolen my heart and I don’t foresee getting it back anytime soon. He is so much fun and so funny, such a joy to be around. Thank you Andrew for completing our family. At the time we didn’t know we were incomplete but you did, and we were so wrong. I love you. Happy birthday baby Roo.

Pictures from his party will come next week.

Healthy teeth

First I need to apologize for being MIA. I have taken over some of my old job duties (the ones I asked to take with me when we first moved here) and my time at work is quite busy now.
Abby had a dentist appointment on Tuesday and I am happy to report that she had no cavities. YIPPEE!! That is a huge improvement from our last visit. I'm not real sure what happened to the 2 cavities that the first dentist we went to "saw" but this is the second visit at the new dentist and he hasn't seen them either time. I guess her teeth cured themselves, isn't that just amazing. Her dentist appointment was quite timely since they are studying healthy teeth this week in school. In fact, the tooth fairy came to visit their classroom yesterday. Did you know that she only has her magic powers at night? Yeah, me neither. She is eagerly awaiting for the first tooth to fall out but none of her teeth are budging. I just knew she would lose them early since she got them so early. I'll never figure her out.

Easter Pics

I hope everyone had a great Easter, we did!! We had a very relaxing day and it was perfect. The Easter service at church was awesome, just what you would want an Easter service to be.

Our day started early with Abby getting up at 7:00 and both kids eating ring pops out of their Easter baskets by 7:45. I let them stuff themselves silly with candy Sunday morning. I figured their Sunday School teachers could deal with the tummy aches. This was after the homemade cinnamon rolls that we had for breakfast. Can you say sugar high? Saturday I made homemade cinnamon rolls (dough from scratch and everything) and gave a few pans out to our friends and neighbors. They made 7 pans and I was NOT going to have that many pans of yummy cinnamon rolls in my house. We had a egg hunt after lunch and it was so much fun. Marty and I hid eggs for the kids in the front yard and the kids hid the eggs for us in the back yard. All and all it was a perfect Easter.

Happy Easter

Sorry, I thought it was funny

The newest member

Last week Marty had band practice and our babysitter fell through so Andrew got to tag along with daddy. I was worried about him going at first because it can get pretty loud in the tiny room but he did great and wore the earplugs without a fight. When Marty first told him that they were going to go practice, Andrew went right upstairs and got his guitar. You can’t go to band practice without your guitar now can you? Marty said that at one point they were practicing a song and all quit playing, then they heard this tiny guitar that was horribly out of tune. Andrew was playing along with them and I guess didn’t get the word that it was time to stop. So cute, he was rockin’. It was such a fun time for Andrew and he still talks about it.
Jami took the pictures with his camera phone so they aren’t the best quality.

He got to try his hand at the electric drums also.

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This is snow!

Well, it snowed and it was beautiful and the kids had a blast. We had a snow drift on our patio that measured about 7 inches but I think the more accurate totals would be 4-5 inches. It wasn’t great snow for snowman building but it was perfect for sledding. And we all did some sledding. We went to our friends’ house in the neighborhood since we don’t have a hill in sight of our house and we had so much fun with them. It was how I remember snow days being when I was a kid; staying outside playing until you can no longer feel your fingers and toes. Andrew was the first to throw in the towel. After about 30 minutes he came to me crying “mommy I’m really cold” Marty and I were prepared for the snow since we have our ski gear so we were nice and toasty but we did the best we could for the kids although I know they were a lot colder than we were. Andrew was even wearing a pair of Abby’s tights to keep his little legs warm. It was so cute, we kept telling the kids while we were getting ready that we were going sledding. I know neither one of them knew what we were talking about because we have never had enough snow for sledding. But on the way home, Andrew said to me, “mommy, we didn’t go sleighing with Santa” I guess he thought we were going sleighing not sledding. Sleighing with Santa would have been fun too.
I hope you enjoy the pictures. I do have a few videos to put up but we can’t find the software for our video camera, so check back in a few days.

Yes, that's a air mattress they are riding on

Stinkin' snow!

I can’t believe I’m saying that because normally I love the snow but why do we have to get 4-6 inches of snow THIS weekend. I never get to see Marty play, I’ve been able to see him play twice since we’ve been here, and I was actually going to be able to go tonight. A few of the girls from our clogging team are coming up for one last hurrah before one gets married next week and we were all going to go to Marty’s show tonight. I was so excited. One because I actually get to go out but mainly because I get to see the girls. Now they are saying that
we are to get 4-6 inches of snow starting tonight.
Another reason why I’m so bummed is because I was looking forward to going to a consignment sale tomorrow morning. Yes, I know I’m such a dork. This sale is huge and they have such great things, even Gymboree clothes still with the tags on. My sale will probably be cancelled tomorrow and I won’t be able to go Monday.
Snow, snow go away. Come again NEXT YEAR! I’m ready for Spring!
I'll post pictures next week of the beautiful snow and my kids having a blast in it.

Books, books and more books

Well, Abby can officially graduate from Kindergarten but she can’t go to 1st grade yet. What are you talking about you ask? Abby has to read 20 books before she can graduate from Kindergarten but 40 before she can go to 1st grade. We just finished book # 20, phew! Abby brings home a book (the Steck-Vaughn Phonics Readers) and she reads it to us and then has to do a journal entry for each book. She then reads it to her teacher at school and gets another book. Yes, she’s only in Kindergarten. We have to keep each book for 2 nights so that’s about 3 books a week At that rate we can finish the remaining 20 but I tell ya, this stuff is stressful. I do have to brag though because she really is doing a great job reading. Now if she could just get the shoe tying thing done then we would really be doing good.

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Tiny tot

I guess this is going to be the story of Abby’s life. On Friday, Abby and a few girls from her class went to Build A Bear after their field trip to Rainforest Café, and looking at the pictures I realized just how short Abby really is. Granted these girls are about 6-8 months older than Abby but I’m pretty sure that in 6-8 months Abby still won’t be as tall as they are now. The funny thing is that she doesn’t even notice it.

Snow, finally!!

We finally had a snow day yesterday. It wasn’t much but the kids (ok, Marty and I too) had a blast playing in it. Yesterday when Andrew woke up and looked out the window, I asked him what it was and he said “I don’t know” I guess he doesn’t remember the snow from last year. We didn’t have enough to build a snowman but we had a pretty good snowball fight. It was such a great day with hot chocolate in the morning and warm chocolate chip cookies after lunch. I am so glad I got to enjoy it with them.

Such cutiesWatch out!Weeee

He loves his ranch

I’m talking about Andrew and no I’m not talking about a ranch with horses and cows, although I’m sure he would love that too. I’m talking about the ranch dressing that comes out of a bottle and is used on salads. Well, Andrew has other ideas for his ranch dressing and they don’t stop at the salad. He loves ranch dressing and will dip anything into it. It started out with french fries (ok, I admit that I do this too) But he gets a little gross from here; he will dip apple slices into ranch dressing. I even had a cup of caramel sauce and he chose the ranch. Last night he asked for ranch to dip his hot dog in. I guess what ever floats his boat!

Out of the mouth of babes

This is a list of questions that I’ve read on various other blogs and I thought it would be fun to ask them to Abby. These are her answers just as they are, no editing.

What are you good at doing?
Feeding Prince

If you had $10, how would you spend it?
I would buy a kitchen, but a Princess one

What are you afraid of?
The thunder, sometimes

Who are your friends?
In school, no I don’t want to do school. Just Ella because she will always be my friend

What is important to you?
That you love me

What is your favorite food?
That’s easy, peanut butter and jelly sandwich

What is your favorite thing about school?
Learning about the Bible

What is your favorite thing to do?
Go on a field trip

How do you show your family that you love them?
By giving them hugs and kisses

What do you want to be when you grow up?
A ballerina teacher

Why?
Because I think it’s nice

What are you thankful for?
Mommy

Tell me something about God?
He doesn’t pick who he loves, he loves all of us.