Our favorite drink

This is G and L's favorite drink right now. It has to be hot though. They don't want just plain old chocolate milk. They won't accept any other kind of hot chocolate either. I was given a coffee mug and some "gourmet" hot chocolate at preschool one day so I fixed that for them that afternoon and they wouldn't even drink it! It was soooooo much better than their Ovaltine too. This is what they ask for in the morning when they get up and especially in the afternoon while watching Clifford. Just a little tidbit of our life these days.

A very messy day

After the easter eggs were done the girls ran off to play while I cleaned up the big mess. After a little while I realized I hadn't heard from them in a while. I found them in the backyard playing in the mud, in dresses of course. When I asked what they were doing they said, "Look Mom, we're throwing poop balls at each other." They thought it was so funny. Why couldn't it have simply been mud balls? What are they so fascinated with the words pee pee, poop, poo poo, etc.? We have started putting a bar of soap in their mouths when they carry on like this. I don't think it has made a big enough impression though. I think I might try what my friend, Kelly, suggested. She said she makes her child clean the toilet when she uses potty words. Maybe I'll try that next time. So, even though they were pretending it was something totally gross, I still had to capture it in pictures.....

Easter Eggs

During spring break we dyed easter eggs. The girls loved it. They love anything that is messy and creative. I could barely keep up with them though. It amazed me how fast they got all of the eggs done and were ready to dump the dye into the sink. I barely had a chance to snap pictures b/c I was trying to help each of them at the same time. Lyla wanted to know "Can I dye me?" She wanted to put her hands in the dye and use the ink wands to draw all over herself. She did get quite a bit on herself but not as much as she wanted. Have you ever heard of those people that cover themselves in paint and use their entire body to paint with? Lyla and Grace would LOVE to do that!

A weekend of firsts!

After the spring program at preschool I took Grace and Lyla to Hunters Bend Elementary for a little open house for upcoming kindergarten families. Grace was very excited. It was nice. They took us on a tour of the building, showed us the playgrounds, and even took us on a bus ride around the parking lot. Grace and Lyla really like the bus. Grace told me on the way there that she was excited about kindergarten but she was going to be nervous. "I know it will be ok, but I'm still going to be nervous, because it's ok to be nervous about new things, but I know it will be ok, but I'll still be a little nervous." It's so interesting to hear them process things out loud. Bless her little heart.

Anyway, after the open house, I left for a girls weekend in Atlanta. I met my three college roommates for a girls weekend. It was so nice to be able to sleep through the night uninterupted! I think that is what I was most excited about. Eric took the girls to his parents' house for the weekend. I packed the girls' suitcase for him but didn't put the diapers in the suitcase. Lyla is potty trained but still wore diapers at night. Well, at about 9pm Friday night he called me asking where the diapers were. I told him they were left on the kitchen counter for him to take. They weren't in the suitcase though! Well, Lyla has been in panties at night since that Friday night! Eric takes her to the potty when we go to bed at 11pm (or so) and then she can make it the rest of the night! Exciting! For the first time in 5 years we are diaper free in our household!!!!!! Wow, it's weird....does that mean it's time for another? Eric says yes....Jenny says no!

The next first that happened that weekend was that Grace started riding her bike without training wheels!!! When I pulled into the driveway Sunday afternoon she was speeding by! Eric said she asked him to take the wheels off and then she just took off. We tried this last fall but it didn't work out so well. We have a home video of that weekend. ha ha Below is a picture of Grace riding like a big girl!!! She can really fly. Lyla gets so mad b/c her little bike just won't go that fast. I feel so sorry for her. She wants to be big so bad.

Kickin' Back

When we saw Lyla sitting like this to watch "cooby dooby" (her favorite right now), I just had to capture it with the camera. How could that position be comfortable? Notice how Lyla is in jeans, with a brown belt, feet on the table, arms behind her head and Grace is in tap shoes, a skirt, legs crossed, arms crossed. The drastic contrast continues to amaze me. I don't think it's that Lyla doesn't like girly things, it is honestly that she just wants to rebel. Whatever Grace says, she says the opposite. It cracks me up.

These are pictures of the preschool Spring Program. The kids all wear t-shirts with the preschool logo on them. Each class has a different color. Grace is a girly-girl. She wears dresses about 99% of the time. She was not happy about wearing a plain old t-shirt at all! I finally made her accept it by putting it on top of a ruffly dress.

I just love this next picture. Grace and Addie are so into the songs but they just have to catch a quick smile at each other while everyone is clapping. It was so cute!

I don't know how much Lyla was into the whole performing for an audience thing. She doesn't look to happy about it in the pics above. The whole program was cute though. The parents of the kids at preschool just love this stuff.

These are just more pictures of Grace's Pre-K egg hunt. There were too many cute ones.

"Did you get the gold egg?" "No, did you?"