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Circus Day
Friday, March 28, 2008
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(3 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days)

Reese's teacher is awesome have putting together themed weeks or days for the kids to engage in. And today was to talk about the Circus. I am not 100% sure what they discussed, but Reese came home with a pretty red balloon with a purple string.

I made SURE to put it as far in the back of the van as it would go as not to have it fly off into the great blue yonder. As I was strapping Riley in, Reese in her last procrastination attempt to get into the van before leaving Ma's house went to pull the balloon out to show Ma. Great... there it went and 20 minutes of crying ensued but I did try to rationalize with her:

"Reesey, I'm sorry you lost your balloon, but look at it this way, you shared it with the Heavens and God..."
"I want Jesus to give it back."

Yes, that's EXACTLY what she said to which I responded............... I love the way this kid thinks.

Ultimately, we agreed to head to the $ store and get her another one tomorrow.
 

Happy Easter!
Friday, March 28, 2008
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(3 years 5 months 2 weeks 5 days)

Hope that everyone had a wonderful Easter Sunday! We were going to head over to the Easter Egg hunt yesterday, but with 4 inches of snow on the ground putting the girls in snowsuits and gloves sorta defeats the purpose of hunting for eggs, but they had SO MUCH FUN getting their eggs this morning!

Reese had been talking about the "Easta" bunny in preschool a lot so when we told her that we were going to have an easter egg hunt in our house she said "No Mommy, we have to find the eggs in the GRASS!"

And I have to give major credit to Scott. He's in charge of Easter baskets every year and this year didn't disappoint either! I was very impressed with all his thought and effort.

I also tried to get some photos of Reese getting her eggs, but she was running around like a crazy girl... she definitely knew what she was doing and had so much fun looking at everything in her basket and in her eggs that grabbed up.
 

Happy St. Patty's Day!
Monday, March 17, 2008
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(3 years 5 months 1 week 6 days)

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand.
 

Getting into the spirit of Easter early!
Friday, March 14, 2008
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(3 years 5 months 1 week 3 days)

We had SUCH a good time today! Thanks again to Karen and her daughter Regan for having us over to color Easter Eggs!

This was the first time that Reese and/or Riley has colored Easter Eggs, I think for the sheer fact of the messiness factor and well, wasn't sure how patient they would be, but I was SO IMPRESSED with both of them! Their eggs were FANTASTIC!

Of course they had to show Scott each and every one of them when he got home after dinner... 24 masterpieces!
 

Official!
Friday, March 14, 2008
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(3 years 5 months 1 week 2 days)

I heard from Joey's mom and we have our first playdate set up in 2 weeks. Reese is beside herself and keeps saying "I go to Joey's house in 2 weeks." Not that she has any idea what two weeks means! But it's cute none-the-less!
 

Reese is THRILLED!
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
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(3 years 5 months 1 week)

Today when I went through Reese's preschool items there was an envelope from her favorite classmates… obviously written by his mom/dad to the attention of Scott and/or I. When I opened it I was pleasantly surprised to see a wonderful little note in there stating that Joey had been asking to have Reese over for a play date!!!! Along with a lovely personally made picture of Harold asking if you had a purple crayon what would you draw? And Joey had written "Ree Ree" in the blank area! I found this SO ironic because since DAY ONE at preschool Reese has ALWAYS talked about Joey, it was the first name she mentioned when she came home on that first day and the first person she mentions when she comes home even now and I had been talking to Scott about the best way to ask Joey's parents if he wanted to come over, we meet up or even have him come to a birthday party…. But it's tricky because NONE of the parents see each other unless we're looking at the tail lights of their vehicle as we drop the kids off at the door, or at 2 or 3 school functions throughout the year.

I left his mom a message tonight, hopefully I'll hear something back tomorrow… Reese is super excited to see her friend Joey "at his house."

Does this constitute as a "first date?" OMG, Scott would die… he's already said "Is this boy coming over so I can interview him?"

 

We are all perfect parents...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
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(3 years 5 months 1 day)

... until we have children."

I've always laughed when I've seen this in various parenting articles or brought up in casual conversation. And we all have this grandiose idea that we will have perfect children that won't need discipline and will not speak until spoken to, wash their hands after going to the bathroom, pick up their room before continuing throughout their day, never back talk and all those lovely made for T.V. Leave it to Beaver moments.... but the honest to goodness fact is, what the heck were those kids drugged with?

Reese is definitely still a gentle soul, doesn't want to hurt anyone's feelings for the most part and really a caring disposition. I love that about her.... though she's started to exert her own sense of self and control, mostly over Riley, which we are curbing as best to our ability...

However, her newest things to do are if she's getting in trouble for touching something she shouldn't or being too rough we tell her she's going to have to put it down or we're taking it away.... and her knee jerk response is "No! I'm going to hide it!" and then if Scott or I do have to take something away it's "You aren't my friends anymore guys" as she goes and pouts in the corner.

99% of the time I do ignore it because it's just her 3 year old way trying to express her deepest sense of hurt that she feels has been forced upon her, but sometimes it's too easy to respond with "That's ok, I don't want to be your friend either because the way you are acting isn't how friends would act towards each other." And I know she really can't comprehend that, but what's the right response.... ignore her, or tell her to stop, put her in time out???

The nice thing is that after these little outbursts of hers she usually will come to me, give me a hug and say "Mommy, I'm sorry, I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck." and we're "friends again."
 

Day of Fun in the SNOW!
Sunday, February 24, 2008
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(3 years 4 months 1 weeks 6 days)

It was enough snow today to be able to have a FAMILY outting to Green Leaf park to take the girls sledding for the first time this year. We even had a nice surprise.... UNCLE MATT JOINED US!!!! It was awesome having another adult there so someone was always at the bottom to take photos, pick up kids from faces in the snow or deflect from running into the poll.... but the best part? Toting Riley up the hill and of course the sleds!

Reese was HYSTERICAL, and got a little sassy by the end as she was a little too sure of herself, way over stimulated and overly tired.....but all in all, it was a good family day in the snow finished up with havnig lunch at Reese's FAVORITE resturaunt, CiCi's pizza.

Matt was a champ at taking the girls up and down the hills, until Reese decided she could go down herself. She picked up the sled turned around to Matt and said "Don't come up, I'll go down myself." And she did! The best part was when she went down the hill with Riley, those two had a blast!

Just an awesome day, and full of good memories.

 
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