Art by Kate

This is by far my favorite piece of artwork that Kate has sent home from school. For some reason it just really sums her up. I have to find a frame to fit it in so I can hang it on the wall. I know it doesn't look like much but really look at it and you'll see the detail and the focus along with the madness. Its awesome.

Wii are family...

So we broke down and bought a Wii this weekend. And we have been having sooo much fun with it. The girls are really really good at it. Hannah has mastered the beginners level at golf and Kate, well she loves the boxing. I however love the cow racing. It has been allot of fun to play as a family and to cheer on the kids. There is nothing like cheering your kids on to during boxing - funny stuff. So the next time your around our house you have to try it out - it really is that much fun.

Picture time

The girls got their school pictures back today - so cute. Both girls look soooo big in their pictures, and you can see the delight on their faces because they got to hold a bunny.

We're going to California

I just booked the tickets today, the girls and I are going to CA this summer. We are sooooo excited. We're going from June 1-11 and staying with Grandpa Dana. This will be my first time traveling with both kids and also Kate's first airplane flight. Hannah has been on many many flights since we would travel back and forth to Chicago the first few years of her life, but we have been grounded since Kate was born. Kate is a bit more active than Hannah was and I just didn't think I had it in me to keep track of her in an airport and on a plane. But she'll be 4 in May so I'm hoping that it will work out just fine for this trip.

I just can't wait to take them to Disney land and also to Seal Beach where I grew up. We are going to have so much fun...come on June.

3 kids kept me busy

The girls were off school for most of this week so the teachers could go on a retreat. Good for the teachers, bad for me. I love the routine of school, it keeps us moving. And on top of having my two I took on another little boy from Kate's class, his name is Addison and is a cute little guy. I am very pleased to say that it went great. We stayed very busy and did lots of fun stuff. Here are some pictures from our adventure out to lunch yesterday, all 3 of the kids did awesome and had a ton of fun.

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Watching the Bald Eagles

The girls and I have found that watching a bald eagle sit on her nest is fascinating. I got this link from another blog and showed it to the girls and now every hour or so we have to check in with the eagles. We haven't actually seen the eggs or even seen the bald eagle stand up, but any minute they will. The eggs are suppose to hatch and then I'm hoping there will be more excitement. Check them out and get hooked like we are.

http://www.suttoncenter.org/eaglecam.html

Hannah sick update and another lost tooth - but this one is really lost

Hannah still has her fever but its getting better. No other symptoms arrived so it looks like it is just a fever virus. She got as high at 104 over the weekend and was miserable. But as long as we kept Tylenol and IB in her she did fine. I took her into the Dr. today just to make sure it wasn't ears or strep and all checked out fine so we just have to ride it out.

Hannah's second tooth has been really really loose the last few days and we've been watching to see when it might fall out. And tonight while eating pizza she was talking to me and I noticed it was gone. When I said to her that her tooth was gone she said "no its not its right here" and put her finger to her mouth and at that point she realized it was gone. She looked and me and Greg and said "did I eat it?" We nodded our heads cautiously to see how she was going to react and she just kept eating and said "well how is the tooth fairly gonna know that I lost it?". We promptly said we'll write and note and let her know what happened. And she was fine with that - whew, we didn't know how that was going to go.

With Hannah sick the last few days Kate has not gotten as much of the attention as she usually does and she has been really acting out about it. I think I'm going to need to spend some one-on-one time with her this weekend to get her squared up, its been a bit hard the past few days. Maybe her and I will go shoe shopping (that kid loves shoes). That might be a fun mother, daughter date.

A fun day in Kate's class and a sick Hannah

I had the honor of hanging out in Kate's preschool class this morning. Their were 16 three year olds - that was allot of energy. We played in the gym and Kate was able to do 2 bars on the monkey bars today - that was a first, good upper body strength. We then went to music class and sang lots and lots of fun songs and after that we had snack. Kate ate all of hers and half of mine, glad I brought extra. It was so much fun watching her interact with her friends and to meet all the little ones she talks about. It was also fun watching Kate beam with excitement with me there, she was so proud to have me hang out with her.

After I left Kate's class I left the school to go run some errands while the girls finished out their day. I left at about 11a and the girls wouldn't be home until 330p so I had tons of time to run around and do lots of stuff. But as soon as I got to my first stop the school called and said Hannah was running a fever. This was very strange, she left the house perfectly fine this morning with no symptoms and also Hannah never ever runs a fever so I figured it must be bad. By the time I got back to school she was looking pretty ill. I got her home and put her in front of TV where she proceeded to doze on and off for the afternoon. Its so hard watching your little ones feel so sick. She has no other symptoms other than the fever so I'm just watching and waiting. The last time I took her temp it was 104 - yikes. I'm just hoping that the Tylenol and Motrin take it down a bit.

I had to take some pictures of her asleep on the couch, this never happens so its always funny when it does.

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Snow snow everywhere

We got about 10 in. of snow over night - wow was it pretty when we woke up this morning. The girls have been having a blast in it all day. We went sledding, took a long walk and built a snow man. Here are pictures of our adventures - enjoy.

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The tooth fell out

Yep, Hannah's first tooth fell out yesterday. I was gone but Greg was here and said she was eating pop corn when it fell out. They promptly put it in a baggie so she could keep it for the tooth fairy that night. She put it in her special tooth fairy pillow when she went to bed and she woke up this mornings she had gotten 8 quarters for it, she was very excited.

I had to search for a picture of Hannah when she first got her two front bottom teeth. So cute.