Bye Bye Baby!

Our life has hit hyper drive with the addition of a second child on her feet. Wow, has that change things. All of a sudden I have a toddler and have to officially accept that my baby is not going to be a baby forever. I can still pretend though. At night when she lets me sing her a song and snuggles me with her paci in her mouth. I will take what I can get.

Anyway, Presleigh is walking and oh so proud of herself. She is keeping up with her sister more and pestering her more too. Blaire has taken to tattling on her sister and making sure that I know that Presleigh is doing something wrong. This is a challenge that I am not all to sure how to approach with Blaire, as explaining to her that I am the mom is not sinking in.

Anyway, life is on the move here! School is out and after I get my pedicure tomorrow afternoon I will be ready to dive into summer too!

Recital!

It has been a wild day! Blaire's recital was this afternoon and I would say all in all it was a success. Not only did she let me curl her hair, which was adorable but she also danced!

Now, when I say dance, don't forget that she is three. After they found their spot on the stage which was marked by a color, the girls made sure to all look back to the stage curtain to look for their teacher who reminded them what their moves were. This got quite comical as the moms all got in on the act trying to get their daughters to perform. We were jumping around too. Too funny!

I am so proud of my little ballerina. It takes a lot of courage for a little girl to dance in front of that many people. But, I think it was such a great experience for her. I hope that dance is teaching her self confidence and determination. She can do anything she wants if she has both!

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Monday, Presleigh took off. She finally found her confidence. I am afraid that we are in for it. Our wild child is on the move!

Presleigh Walking 001.MOV

Monday, Presleigh took off. She finally found her confidence. I am afraid that we are in for it. Our wild child is on the move!

AWANAS

Blaire has been attending AWANAS for the past year and tonight was the final night. It was the awards night and store night! Blaire was so excited to take her daddy and me to "AWANA Cubbies" with her.

Blaire has worked very hard to complete her book and earn all her patches. She was very excited when she earned an "Almost Perfect Attendance Award". She went every week except for one when she was sick!

We are so proud of her!!!!

Easter!

Happy Easter to everyone and praise be to God that He is Risen! What a blessed holiday celebration Easter is! This year Easter weekend also coincided with Stuart's Grandfather's 80th birthday. On Friday we headed to the town of Elkhart, KS where Stuart's grandparents live. Most of Stuart's cousins were planning on being there, though we missed Elaine and Lee(if you are reading this, we really did miss you guys and your families).

Saturday brought birthday festivities and even more of Stuart's family. I thought my family was big! It was really a lot of fun getting to know all of the cousins and their children.

After the party us moms decided that we needed to have an Easter Egg hunt. So we went to store and got some eggs and jelly beans to hide in them. We got the kids together and hid all the eggs. We thought 62 eggs would be enough. As it turns out the older kids had done this before.

They had so much fun. The big kids were off and Blaire kept running after them just to find nothing. We had to have a lesson in egg hunting, i.e., egg hunting is not a team sport! It was so fun to watch her "find" the egg and squeal with delight(that sounds very Laura Ingalls) as she ran to put the egg in her basket! The kids all located the eggs within minutes.

So came round two. Stuart and Uncle Ryan hid the eggs this time. I will let the pictures tell the rest....




After a fun filled weekend in Elkhart we headed home on Sunday morning. I was a bit disappointed that we hadn't made it to church and the girls hadn't had a chance to wear their Easter dresses. So we called up Grandma and Grandpa Wagner and they came over. The girls put on their dresses and got their Easter Baskets. Then, we celebrated with pizza!

I hated it that we didn't make it to church as I know that Easter is not about bunnies and eggs(though they make for fun traditions). We did have lots of opportunity to talk with Blaire over the weekend about why we celebrate Easter!

It really was a great weekend, though exhausting. I am so glad that today Monday is a day off for me and the girls to relax.

First Haircut!

Well the time finally came. Presleigh "needed" a haircut. By saying that she "needed" a hair cut I mean she needed a couple of snips to the back and the front. She doesn't have much hair but it was beginning to look a little muletty! So since Dad and Blaire needed haircuts we decided to make it her official first haircut and took her to see JoJo!

We sat her in the chair and JoJo(Linda Jo) and I strategized our plan of attack with Presleigh's growing do! There are lots of questions to be addressed; bangs, or no bangs, layers or no layers. You see what I mean. This isn't just as easy as snip, snip and see you in six weeks!

We ultimately decided that given Presleigh's facial structure we would grow out her bangs and short in the back. You see, as much as I love hair bows and tutus, I do NOT have time to mess with hair in the morning. When the girls get old enough to manage it on their own....then we'll talk!

So with a strategy in place, JoJo went to work. Two minutes later she had a brand new do!