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Bounce House

The girls didn't have school on Friday so I took them to the Bounce House for an hour.  That's as long as they wanted to be there.  Sophia was complaining that she was tired and hot.  Lilly quit bouncing and decided to play in the area for babies and kids under age 2.  That's when I knew it was time to go home. 

They had a good time when we were there, but it sure didn't kill the day like I had anticipated.  

Sophia's 4th tooth

It fell out this morning while she was brushing her teeth. She screamed and ran downstairs to tell Will.  She's so excited that the Tooth Fairy is coming again tonight.

After she calmed down a bit she commented that now people (meaning me and Will) will stop calling her weird.  (oops)

Practicing for Valentine's Day

A few days ago I put out our Valentine's Day decorations.  Since the girls both had pink on for school I asked them to hold this dish and smile pretty.  They are both so good about getting their picture taken these days.  I didn't have to beg them at all.  They both sat down and smiled away.  Aren't they just the cutest little girls ever?

Their first symphony

About a week ago Sophia told me that she wanted to learn how to play the flute. The flute! I have no idea where she even saw a flute, but of course I will entertain the idea.

The perfect opportunity came up today for us to go and see a symphony orchestra play live at the performance arts center, the Sandler Center.  Apparently they do this every January (mental note!). This year the theme was a "Carnival of Animals".  We got there right on time so we didn't get to browse around in the atrium before the show.  While I was standing in line to buy our tickets Will took the girls to get their faces painted.  Lilly didn't want anything.  Sophia chose a blue doggie on her left cheek.

After the show, there was an "instrument petting zoo" for the kids to walk through.  Sophia wanted to wait in line (quite a long time) to learn about the flute.  She even got to blow into one a time or two.  It seems really, really, really hard.

Lilly wanted me to take her picture

Tooth #3

Sophia lost tooth #3 on Saturday.  It was one of the top front teeth.  She wiggled that thing until her fingers were sore! 

It looks like she's going to have a monster tooth growing in because the hole is enormous.  You can kind of see it in this photo, but I'll have to take a better one...and soon.  You can already see the adult tooth coming in already.

Addie's 6th birthday party

The girls went to Addie's 6th birthday party on Saturday. The theme was Littlest Pet Shop.  The girls arrived and were hustled into the grooming station where they were transformed into one cat and one dalmation doggie. 

Then they went to the craft station where they were each given a box to decorate as their pet carrier.  It was really cute.  The food was an assortment of animal food:  goldfish, gummy worms, cinnamon grahams that looked like dog biscuits, chicken fingers, etc. 

They played a few games including one shown in the pictures below.  Ms. Amy had filled up two cat litter boxes with prizes then she dumped oatmeal and small tootsie rolls on top of it.  It really looked authentic!  The kids each had to put on a blindfold and dig for as many prizes as they could get in 30 seconds.  They all loved it.

 

Sophia is studying Dr. Seuss this month at school and last week they celebrated "Wacky Wednesday".  The kids were encouraged to come to school wearing whatever they wanted. 

Sophia chose to wear her nightgown backwards.  Most of the kids wore pajamas to school actually! 

She also had on two different shoes.  We topped it off with 5 pony tails of hair flair.

Jonas and the girls

Aunt Claire and Jonas came down for New Years.  Sophia and Lilly had a great time with Jonas.  They played baby Jonas for a week after he went home. Here they are playing outside. It was a beautiful day...

January 2012

It feels like yesterday that it was just January 2nd and the girls were gearing up to go back to school the next day.  It's already the 11th!  Wow.   Time is flying.

We're selling Girl Scout cookies right now. Sophia and I went door to door on Sunday.  We made it to 7 houses before she petered out on me.  Lilly was tagging along and loved pressing her face directly on the glass to check to see if anyone was coming along to answer the door at each house!  It was cracking me up.

This coming weekend we will go out again and hit the houses on the other side of ours.  We only went to the left last weekend.  We'll probably knock on another 7 doors.

Lilly is obsessed with fancy dresses right now and carrying the purse around that Aunt Carol got her. Her purse contains much of what mine does....cell phone, lipstick, money, credit card, etc. and I've heard her refer to it as her mommy purse.  She insists on wearing her fancy dresses every waking moment. She even sleeps in them. I am, of course, the mean mom because I make her wear regular clothes to school. She fights me every morning and every day we compromise that she can put on a fancy dress immediately after school.

Wish I had some pictures to post.  I haven't taken any lately.