Dress up

UGGGHhh!!!!!!!!!!! My computer is driving me CRAZY!!! It's been acting weird for days now. I just lost one of my favorite pictures from today because when I edit any photos, it turns it to an "invalid image."! So for now, I don't have any pics to upload from Mary's program today.

This past weekend, Allie's little pal Emma Cate invited her to go to a Tea Party hosted by the Longview Ballet. The ballet is performing Cinderella at the end of the month, and Emma Cate will be part of the cast. She asked Allie to come along and meet the older dancers who autographed a shoe for each of the girls. Allie loved dressing up for it more than anything else!

Mary had a dress up "gig" this morning as well! It was Western Days at her school today, and the kids sang their howdy dudey songs while we ate barbeque. The hubs coult not attend, but I picked up Allie from school early to go support Mary. Mary said, "Allie be so proud of me singing!"

Wacky Wednesday

I guess it is the "kindergarten" thing to celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday. Today was "Wacky Wednesday" (termed after one of his books), and the kids were encouraged to dress "wacky". I forgot to take a picture of Allie's wardrobe...she picked it all out...a khaki skirt, blue jeans underneath, one rolled up above knee with a neon star knee sock underneath and her snow boots. Notice most of the kids shirts are turned around backwords.

"Spoon on a balloon" Allie loves her sweet teacher.

Meanwhile at home we were having a "wacky" wednesday as well. Wacking hair off that is...don't panic. I took Mary to get her hair trimmed...she's got a short little spring do now, and my friend who cuts our hair said, I'll trim the back of Garrett's if you want. I was thinking..huh....we've not had hair cuts before 2 with the girls...he's too young!!! He is a boy of course, but he does have WAY more hair than the other two did. You really can't tell he got it cut, but I needed to document. I took my camera, but the sweet older lady who said she'd take our picture (I was holding him) said she took 2 pictures, but they are no where on my camera!

"Dave" and Goliath

Last night was a rough night. As has been common this season, due to being very outnumbered by viral carrying vectors in this house, I was the recipient of the latest cold. When the hubs gets a cold, he just blows right through it. Not me...I received the asthma genes from the old man whose coughing still drives the old lady crazy! I, like my dad, tend to get the dry cough that is the worst at night. Last night was the third night in a row of the non stop cough! So upon Allie waking up barking coupled with my lack of sleep, I made an executive decision to stay home from church. Hubs was not available to go, and I did not have the drive to get the 3 little ones there in my delirious state. SO.....Allie decided we should have "home church" as she called it. She provided the congregation, music, and the "teaching", and I filmed the story as I could tell she was very excited to be taking on the teacher role. It may seem long and wordy (not sure where she gets it from), but I enjoy listening to her tell a story minus the nose picking and hacking of course. She chose to tell the story of David (whom she termed Dave) and Goliath. I had to trim and edit Mary out (she kept interrupting) so that it would be short enough to upload. Here are some pics as well.


Good grief will you look at that boy. He looks huge sitting there with Mary!

Going Green

Now and then Allie's school has Fun Fridays where they deviate from the dress code and have a theme for the kids to play along with. This week each grade was assigned a color to wear, and the kindergartners wore green! She paused for a quick pic!

Tonight as she was playing the Wii, she was playing a horse racing game. She was in last place, and she looked at me and said, "you know mom, it says in the scriptures that the last shall be first and the first shall be last. You know what that makes me in this game...the WINNER!" Love those literal minds....A few days ago at gymnastics, Mary walked in with a ponytail in her hair. My friend, Amy looked at her and said, "I like your ponytail Moo moo" She promptly turned her head around to look at her bottom and said, "I'm not a pony!"

Elmo

My friend Amy gave us a buzz earlier in the week, to see if Mary and I wanted to join her and Campbell (A.K.A Camel by Mary) for a Date with Elmo last night. The kids were a bit unsure at first, but by the end of the show, they warmed up to the characters who were VERY close! Here are some pics.

Hodge podge posting

This weekend has been a very lazy one...shew. Here are some pics from the week. On Monday we went to the Lion's Den as it was a school holiday for Allie. Little Lion and she do not get to play as often, but we've done a great job this year of getting together on her days off since he's not in school until next year. They had a great time together...not to mention the other two! Mary promptly found a Cind-a-lella dress and chased Little pumpkin around the house. I snapped a great pic of them as we were about to leave. It has come to be expected that they will leave with gumballs in their mouths! Also , there is a video of G crawling at the end. He's almost a full time crawler now, but with the slick floor is a better slider!

A rare pic of the girls smiling at the same time

Yes....his face is blue from the hair dye the night before at Awana's! Maybe it has exfoliated by now!
WHAT IS SO FUNNY???? I just loved this face after G finished his bottle this am.

His new favorite thing...the coffee table..his drum.

This morning I took G the Giant to his 9 month check up. He was 31 1/2 inches (100%) tall and only 1.5 inches away from what Allie was at 2!!! He weighed 22 pounds (75%). I won't even mention his head...but my sweet boy has a larger than avg head. I walked him over to my neighbor's house yesterday to take a few pics. Oh and Jason the hula hooper won the funniest home video poll. He was a good sport...actually I never heard from him, so that could go either way.