Babysitters

The girls and I got to babysit baby Luke today!  This was SO exciting for them (okay, I admit--for me too)!

PALS Easter Party

Today was the annual PALS Easter party.  Jocelyn was so excited that she was able to go since she was on Spring break.  The girls ran around and played with friends, had a hearty snack, played some Easter games and Jocelyn sat on the Easter Bunny's lap.  Reagan wouldn't get within 20 feet of the Bunny...a giant bunny is just not her thing!  :)

Spring Snow

We got a snowstorm last night.  That's not exciting when you are REALLY ready for spring, and especially when it really IS spring.  Jocelyn said this spring is like "Christmas spring."  She's got that one right.  Maybe someday we will see green leaves and feel warmer temperatures, but for now we are playing in the snow.  I guess we have to make the best of it!

Dyeing Eggs & Grandma 2's Birthday

Yesterday we went to Grandma's house to dye Easter eggs and celebrate Grandma 2's 84th birthday.  We ate some pizza and got straight to work on the 5 DOZEN eggs we had to get colored!  This was Luke's first egg-dying experience.  I think he was shocked at the number of eggs we were working with!

Jocelyn was really into dying the eggs this year and stayed put at the table until all the eggs were done.  She even wrote her own name on one of the eggs!  

Reagan was hit or miss...coming and going from the table, but definitely more into it than last year.  She dyed a few eggs and was pretty good at it after the first egg that made a big splash into cup.

After all the eggs were done, we enjoyed some birthday cake and ice cream with Grandma 2 for her 84th birthday!

Easter Party x2

The girls were excited to have TWO Easter parties in one day!  Yesterday, Jocelyn's preschool and the Brentwood Library had Easter parties.  Jocelyn and Reagan had a lot of fun at each!

Reagan finding some eggs on her hunt

Making Jesus' tomb

Hand print Easter Flowers

Story time at the Library Party

Decorating (and eating) her own cookie!

Yummy!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Learning About Stranger Danger at PALS

Officer Jason came to PALS today to talk to the children and their parents about ways to stay safe in public.  Reagan liked Deputy Jason a lot!

Reagan held 'Check First Charlie'

We learned that it is important to always "check first" when someone offers you anything or when someone wants to take you somewhere--even if it's someone you know!  We also learned that it is important to stay where mom or dad can see you.

The deputy also offered tips to the parents.  Some of these tips were to never call your children by name in public (that would be hard) so that they can't use it to lure your child away, take a picture of your child with your cell phone before any public outing so you have a recent picture with the clothing they were wearing if your child should become separated from you.  It's also important to teach your children to YELL and SCREAM if someone tries to take them away.  They should yell "You are not my mommy (or daddy if it's a man)", and make a huge fuss.

You hate to think about awful things happening to your children, however it's always better to be prepared so that you can be safe rather than sorry!

Goggle Girl

Today Reagan wore goggles!  She is such a silly little girl...

The Clumsy Crocodile

Jocelyn drew a picture from one of her books today at rest time.  I think she did such a great job on this crocodile!

Little Miss Independent

Reagan is a typical "I do it MYSELF" 2-year-old.  She wants to do almost everything herself, even when it drives mommy crazy.  It's just not developmentally appropriate for a 2-year-old to tie their shoes yet!  

One of her major areas of independence is getting dressed and selecting her clothes.  She has a dresser and a closet full of clothes, however, she has her favorites and the majority of those clothes (which were also worn by Jocelyn) are left unworn.  I try not to fight her, but sometimes her outfits are outrageous!  I can name her favorites right now:  For shirts, it's either one of two half-zip, pull-over fleece sweatshirts, her Supergirl T-shirt, or any random non-fitted T-shirt including her 'Future Lancer' tee and her 'I Love Paris' tee.  She usually pairs those with one of three fitted, long sleeve white tees.  Sometimes you will even catch her wearing 3-4 shirts at one time.  Her favorite pants are either the khaki ones you see above, her "zebra" pants, which aren't really zebra print, but blue and white pinstriped, or any pair of jeans.  She tends to like any clothes she would describe as a "boy shirt" or "for boys".  A tom-boy in the making?  Maybe, but that doesn't bode well for hand-me-downs since Jocelyn is definitely a girly-girl!  Sigh...

Oh well, we will take her any way--Boy clothes, girl clothes, outrageous clothes, mismatched clothes--She is too cute and we absolutely love her to pieces!

Baking Banana Muffins

After playing in the snow, the girls just weren't ready to say goodbye to Andrea, so we continued the fun with inside!  We made some yummy, warm banana muffins for an afternoon snack.  All three girls are great kitchen helpers!

The Snowman of 2013

We almost ran out of time to build a snowman this winter!  We hadn't had a lot of good snowman-snow this winter, and the one time we did, Jocelyn was sick with Influenza.  Jocelyn was not very happy that winter was almost over and we hadn't built a snowman.  Luckily (or not) we got a snow storm last night, and the snow was perfect for snowman making! The girls' bestie Andrea came over an helped build him!

 Although we got about 8 inches of snow, once the snow stopped coming down, the temperature increased and the sun came out.  The snow was melting fast, so we had to work fast.  Then, after only about 20 minutes or so, Mr. Snowman took a tumble to the ground, and the girls smashed him!  

Hopefully this is the last time we see snow this winter!  ;-)

Raging Reagan

'Raging' is probably too strong of a term to use to describe Reagan, however, our little Reagan most definitely gets mad.  Why?  Because someone has told her "no" or someone (who won't be mentioned by name) isn't sharing, or because she can't get her clothes on completely by herself.  It's so hard not to laugh at her when she gets this way, but we try pretty hard not to.  She will look downward, red-faced and eyes welling up with tears, cross her arms and growl.  After she calms down a bit you will most like hear her most common 'angry' phrase: "Throw you away!"  I'm not sure where it came from, but when she's mad at you, Reagan will most definitely tell you that she is going to "throw you away".  Then, she comes to me or her father, and depending on who she's mad at, tells them: "Throw Daddy away!" or "Throw Mommy away!"  It's kind of cute, and if you could see her face while she says it...that's cute too.  Maybe I shouldn't be thinking any of this is cute, but I just can't help it...it is! 

Don't let Daddy See!

How Daddy Cleans the Oven