Easter Part 2

It is our tradition that Grandma Ann helps the girls color Easter eggs on Good Friday. They always look forward to it and I think she does too. This year Renee could really do hers without dumping them in the colors and cracking them.




I'm not sure why neither of the girls would look at the camera but Grandma is happy.
The finished product! I decided to just leave them out on the table this year, instead of "hiding" them in the fridge. I'm out $1.59 for hours of enjoyment as our centerpiece. No egg salad out of them this year!!


The girls were very excited about wearing their new dresses on Easter Sunday.

You Heard It Here First

Happy Easter!

Next-door neighbor/nephew Ben is home for Easter and he brought a "friend". Her name is Lindsay and she is simply adorable! He brought her over to meet us yesterday and the girls were instantly smitten with her. They showed her their rooms, their new Easter dresses, etc. They sang and danced for her and snuggled on her lap for a story. It was love at first sight.

Kaitlyn has obviously been watching too many Disney movies about princesses and love because she asked us several times before meeting Lindsay if they were in love. She often makes that comment about lots of people and even animals (must be Lady and the Tramp's influence there.) Well, the front door was barely closed and she blurts out, "I think they're in love!" So it's official! You heard it here first!

I will post some pics later of the girls in their new Easter dresses.

Proud Mommy

Not much to blog about these days. But I did want to share a few "tidbits" about Kaitlyn. I had my parent/teacher conference this week with Miss Becca. (I find it weird to be sitting on the parent side of the table after so many years of being the teacher.) She said Kaitlyn is doing "exceptional work and is going to be very successful in kindergarten." I think so too but it's nice to hear it from an outside source. One thing that cracked me up was the classroom routine part: I follow the classroom rules. She got a 3 (which means she has mastered that skill). Becca wrote "she can tell you every rule too". She loves reporting all about school, who the VIP was, what they brought for Show-and Tell, what letters she has in common with them, etc. One of the other moms overheard her telling me some of that stuff the other day and was jealous because her son tells her NOTHING! The other day after supper the girls were playing school and of course, Kaitlyn was the teacher. Renee had a pretend name and I could hear Kaitlyn calling on her and saying things like, "Raise your hand if you know......"

Renee is still coming up to our room in the middle of the night. I FINALLY broke out the sleeping bag on the floor next to my side and the past few nights she crawls in it and I get to go right back to sleep.

The girls are going to watch Cinderella II right now so I must end this post for now. Maybe I'll add more later.

Breakfast in Bed and Sunday School

This morning I heard Kaitlyn get up and go downstairs. She often turns on the TV and watches whatever is on PBS at 7:30. (I think it's Sesame Street on Sundays.) But this morning she didn't turn on the TV. Instead she went down to the family room. When I went down to check on her she was loading up a tray and was very disappointed I found her. "Mommy, I was fixing you breakfast in bed with my pretend food." We took the tray up to Daddy and he got some special food. Toast, tea, syrup to put on the toast, bacon, grapes, etc. She was so cute!

Renee is into purses and bags. She loves to carry around her "stuff" in some sort of container, either a purse, gift bag or basket. Well, today she decided to take a purple sparkly gift bag to church. In it she had her Little Mermaid phone, a Tastefully Simple order form and a canning jar we were going to return to Mary Price. I was told that during prayer time in Sunday School, she was talking on the phone. When the college girl told her to put it away Renee told her "I'm talking to my friend." The girl took it anyways and Renee wasn't too pleased but didn't create a stink. She never asked for it back until the end when she told Mrs. "Braper" that she needed her phone. She is one social little butterfly. She probably had 11 texts by the time class was over! ☺

After church the girls were watching a video. I got some precious snuggle time in with Renee. I love when she's like that!

Renee's First Hair Cut

On Tuesday I took Renee to get her hair cut for the first time. It needed to be trimmed badly! She was all excited about going to "Lino's office" but once we got there she shut down. She wouldn't get in the chair and just clung to me. So I went first. After my trim she was ready, although she wouldn't let Debra put a little towel around her neck under the cape. But other than that, she did great. Debra didn't take a lot off but enough to get rid of the dead ends (baby curls) and it looks cute. Renee seemed happy but since then she still won't let me comb it every day without a fight and keeping clips in it is so hard! It's so fine that they don't stay and she could care less if her hair is in her face!

History in the Making!

Last night I was checking Kaitlyn's toothbrushing skills. When she went to spit, there was blood in the sink and her bottom tooth was slanted in. I got all excited and showed her and she turned on the drama queen act and cried and cried. She was excited, nervous, scared and just plain didn't want it to come out. She wouldn't even let me touch it! Probably didn't trust me. HA!

This morning when she woke up she came running to tell Daddy (he wasn't home last night) and was all excited about it. She told me she's ready for it to come out. Well, it happened during Sunday School. She said she was wiggling it with her tongue and then reached in and pulled it and out it came. She was SOOOO excited!! My little baby girl is getting all grown up!! I'm not sure I'm ready for this!!

Funny Stories

I have 2 funny stories to tell, one about each girl.

Story #1: Several weeks ago Renee came up to our room in the middle of the night. As I was carrying her back downstairs she told me there were FISH in her bed. I had to ask her again because I thought I had heard wrong. She wanted me to crawl in with her so I did. My toes felt something cold. I reached down and picked up a little rock that she had gone to sleep holding in her hand. When I showed her what it was she started to move away and got a look of sheer terror on her face. I had to reassure her that it was not a fish, just her rock. She still talks about fish in her bed. Just yesterday she told me the little birds on her Cinderella sheets were the fish. But she refuses to give up those sheets so she's stuck with sleeping with fish!

Story #2: Mondays are almost always cleaning days at out house. Both of the kids know this and don't complain anymore. They know if I can get it all done on that day, that gives us the rest of the week to "play". So this past Monday started like any other. Until I turned on the TV and discovered no school. I got out the vacuum cleaner and started in with my routine. Well, Kaitlyn wanted to help me in the worst way. She got the dustcloth out and dusted the TV. Then she put on her little half-apron and proceeded to dust the piano and the windowsill. She told me she didn't want to get any dust on her pants. (Besides, Alice on the Brady Bunch wears an apron.) Then she went upstairs and made her bed and mine. She wanted to vacuum the kitchen so I let her. Earlier in the morning she had gotten out the toaster, plugged it in and was putting the waffles in when I discovered her. So she was telling me she could get her own breakfast. She had also gotten out the gallon of milk but since it was full had not made an attempt to pour it. Thank goodness!!

The next day at school Becca overheard her telling her friends all of the things she had done the day before. Her next comment made Becca turn away, she was laughing so hard. "I clean, dust, make the beds, and get my own breakfast. I'm pretty much the housekeeper at my house." Boy, my life just got much easier!