spring sing

I LOVe the Spring Concert at Legacy for so many reasons!
1. the theme for the night is always so original...
tonight they sang songs from animated movies
SonGs that make you dreAm, reflect,
CHeeR and tap your TOeS
2. it marks the near-END of school...and that
is ALWAYS something to cheer about!
3. it makes me take a minute to reflect on
another school year and how much my
KidS have grown.

little miss soon-to-be 6th grader...
can I really have another one already?

Singin' "Dig a Little Deeper" from Princess and the Frog
ummm....Maddy's a little intense!

This CUTE girl of mine!
Stay tuned for new pics of her the first week of June...
Maddy gets her BraceS on June 2nd.
She's so excited she made a countdown chain...LOL!

even moms don't know everything!

I know, I KNOW, you are wondering
how a sweet little face like this
could possibly decide to use his brother's Bionicles
(which took HouRs to build with all those tiny pieces)
for batting practice.
And no! I do not keep a bat in the house,
so Jace used his sword for batting...so inventive.
Needless to say, I had a 9 year old boy in tears
when he discovered all his hard work in pieces in the playroom.

And WHY would Jace do this?
The answer still eludes me.
There are some things even a mother CaNNoT understand.

tooth holes

Tonight is a big night at our house....
the Tooth Fairy is coming...twice!
Lady lost tooth #6 and Jace lost the big TOOTH #1!
They were both proud as could be and called grandma to share the exciting news.
Once the bleeding stopped, both kids insisted they could not put their lost teeth under their pillows without writing a note
to the tooth fairy.
I was hoping we might get away with just putting
a tooth under the pillow...
since it was already past 9:00. No luck for me.
So as soon as I finish this, I will be writing two tooth-shaped notes
and answering all the questions
a 5 year old and 7 year old could think up!

Lost the bottom tooth on the right!

LOOK mom, still bleeding a little!
And isn't that what every mom wants to see....
the bloody hole left by the just pulled tooth?

sometimes the whole stopping-bleeding-thing
takes longer than you expect!

Proud owner of a new hole-in-the-mouth!
Hole-in-the-mouth owners get to drink by
putting a straw into their new hOLeS for the next
couple of days.

SEE!?!

Jace checking out his first tooth hole in his bedroom mirror...
He was so excited it took him another hour to finally fall asleep.

I'm hoping the Tooth Fairy brings along the Flower Fairies and gets rid of all the cold and snow. Lady is sure the Flower Fairies have gotten lost and so the Winter Fairies are keeping it cold until the Flower Fairies return to get Spring ready.

WiSh it were that easy....I'm soooo done with the cold!

little boy in a garden

Thinking today would be WARM, I tagged along with my parents to
the TuLiP fEstIvAL.
I definitely should have listened to that nagging suspicion that I needed to change into pants. It was windY and overcast...but the tulips were still beautiful as always.
Jace thought it was pretty COOL being the only
kid along for the day.
He got ALL the bread and actually threw it in the pond
one piece at a time
(usually, it is a race to see who can feed the fish the fastest!).

Spying round the pillars in the
secret garden.

Like I said,
alWayS bEauTiFuL!

wish the flowers in my yard looked like this!

mY liTTle guY!

My favorite tULiP of the day. . .
Just heard the school kiddos come home...
time for me to go be a MoM again!

all dressed up

Dressed up #1:
Every year Tim's school takes students from the teen living class to La Caille for dinner. They get a full course meal for a BIG discount. However the dates worked out this year, I had conflicts all three times they went...so Kenzie got to go in my place. Lucky girl! She was feeling like the queen of her little castle getting all dressed up to go have a fancy, schmancy dinner with her dad.

Waiting for the appetizers a.k.a. snails....which Kenzie actually liked!

The grounds are beautiful...or so I've heard.

This was a house/mansion they drove by on the way. Kenzie says someday she's gonna have a house like this...with horse property of course! I guess if you're gonna dream, you may as well dream big :)

Dressed up #2
Laityn was invited to a Fabulous Book Party for one of the neighbors. She was supposed to dress as her favorite book character....which of course, is a fairy. Doesn't really matter which fairy or what the fairy does, as long as the fairy is involved in some way. The fairy wings that Santa brought came in handy...and Miss Lady was so excited to be all dressed up!

Okay....I really do think she makes the cutest little fairy ever!

After the party, Lady wrote a note to her fairy friends and put it in the fairy garden we made in the back flowerbed. Imagine her surprise this morning when she received a leaf-shaped note back, rolled up and tied with a piece of grass. The note assured her she is a true fairy friend and the fairies love the house she made for them. The note was special enough to make it into her treasure box, along with all the tooth fairy notes. The magic of a seven year old just makes me smile!

mind control

Took Jace to the dentist today to get his first cavity filled. Not exactly the milestone you hope for your 5 year old to reach this early in life....Jace is just ahead of the game on plaque buildup. Anyway, on the way there, I tried to prep him for what would happen. I told Jace the dentist would put a little thing with tubes over his nose, and that it would make him a sleepy and relaxed. He thought on that for a minute and then asked

"So....does that thing on your nose control your mind?"

"Uh....I guess it could."
"COOL!!"

goats, pigs, and llamas...oh my!

We took all the little cousins to the farm at Thanksgiving Point today. In a couple more years, I won't have anyone left to take along...the kids will all be in school all day. Not only does that completely freak me out, it makes me wonder where my youth has gone. The weather was perfect and the crowds were small, so the kids got plenty of the "feeding the animals dried corn" time.

petting the baby ducks

feeding the goats can get a little slobbery

Thank goodness the llamas take the corn with their lips...they have big old sharp teeth under those lips!

"Hey Mom! Take a picture of my silly face!"

waiting for a pony....

Jace being so proud of himself. Can't believe this little man will be in school in September!

It was a great day and the kids loved it all!