Easter and Frozen

The Easter bunny stopped by our house to hide some eggs in the back yard and the girls caught him red handed. Luckily he was a good sport and danced and sang for them and didnt take his eggs and go home. He hung out for a bit and went down the slide and danced around the yard. The girls thought it was hilarious. After he stopped by, we searched for eggs inside, went to Grandpa Jim and Grandma Bonnie house and to Grandma M's house. All had egg hunts and the girls never got sick of finding eggs or eating candy.

Here he is!

He made himself at home and went down the slide and played on the swings too.

This was the pose any time she found an egg. And she found tons.

Focused on opening eggs and see what's inside. She's so serious.

Doesn't it look like she is going to jump up there to get it?

Recognize this pose?

For Christmas Aunt Anna and Uncle Brad gave the girls tickets to Frozen on Ice. They picked up the kids and took them out to dinner and the show. You cant even imagine how excited they were. They both got dressed in their favorite Anna and Elsa dresses and mom did their hair. It was a big deal.

This is how excited LW was. She was totally freaking out.

Random Pics of Lucy

 Here are a few random pics of what has happened since the last post. Mostly LW.

This is what happens when you let her pick out her own outfit.

She has claimed this chair. I have mine and she has hers. Mom has been displaced. Looks like I get to buy another Loll chair. 

 

 

You are never too old or too young for a selfie.

At the Catfish with mom only.

Attitude anyone? Point a camera at her and she really hams it up.Here she is shopping at Trader Joe's with her own cart of course.

Here is NW and a couple of her preschool pals at Cinderella. In case you haven't heard, there is also a preview of the next Frozen movie before the main event. She liked that part, but the movie was not her thing yet.

Dance Recital

Big dance recital last weekend. This was the culmination of weeks and weeks of practice. Not just the hour a week at class, but then NW practiced her dance routine 4 times a day for the week leading up to the event. She took this very serious and her hard work showed on the day of the recital. She did great and didnt miss a step. I dont have a trained eye when it comes to dancing, but I thought she looked great.

I thought this one was funny because all of the other girls are looking at her to see what they are supposed to be doing.

Grandpa John, Rosemary and the rest of the crew.

Grandma M and the rest of the crew.

Even more crew.

here is the class.

LW with her cool dudes on and sticking out her tongue,

Special Day at School

At NW's preschool if you have a summer birthday you get to celebrate your birthday about 6 months early. With 4 and 5 year olds, everything has to be fair and equal. Since her birthday is in July, she celebrated it today at school. They send a bag home with her and she is supposed to pick out 2 of her favorite things to show the class and talk about. This year she brought a doll and one of her Octonaut characters. She wanted to bring all of her Octonauts because in her mind they were all Octonauts and that only counted as one thing. I eventually got through to her and she only brought one.

Here she is in front of the class leading them in the welcome song.

Here she is showing the class the picture that she made for her special day. It tells everyone what her favorite color is, what her favorite food is and what she wants to be when she grows up. Purple, Honey Nut Cheerios and a doctor.

After preschool they all went out to celebrate her big day. Here they are both worshiping the popcorn maker.

LW can devour popcorn. Here is an action shot of her little hands shoveling the popcorn to her mouth. She is a machine when you put a bowl of popcorn in front of her. She loves it.

Laundry Room

So I decided to freshen up the laundry room a little. I added a cabinet, gave it a fresh coat of paint, put in new lights and cleaned it up. Now that it is almost done, the kids love to hang out down there and watch TV and play. It's funny. We have never spent as much time in the laundry room as we have in the last week. The kids want to go watch TV down there and it's the smallest TV in the house.

Since the cabinets were empty, LW thought it would be fun to hide in the cabinets. Somehow she conned me into squeezing in there too. Then she would have mom shut the doors and we wold sit in the dark.

She was in the upper cabinets too.

She insisted on us closing the door.

Switching gears...NW had a Valentines party at school. Everyone brought candy and they read books, played games and made crafts for the day. Sounds like fun to me.

Random pics

Dance class with new outfits.

This picture looks like she levitating. But she's walking on the ice at the pond hockey championship. It was a big deal for her, she had never walked on the ice before. It was hard for her to get her mind around. She was a little freaked out at first.

Big day at the Mall of America. We braved the crowds and spent a couple of hours going on rides and running around.

More Nanny Daddy

It's been a while since the last posting. But we were back to nanny daddy for a while. I had a week off with the girls and we did pretty much the same as before. Coffee shops in the morning, come home and play for a while and then crafts in the afternoon. Before we knew it, mom was back home.

Jenga with a 4 yr old is rough. I spent more time picking up the pieces than actually playing the game.

This thing blew her mind.

That's a lot of steps if you have little legs.

At the science museum acting like a DJ.

Twins.