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Mom's working on getting some more things on the blog, but here's what we look like in case you forgot :)

April Showers or is it April Snows?

April showers bring May flowers.  No, not this year.  April 8th brought us some snow.  Not that we've had much all winter, but it was still a shock to the system.

Someone was very willing to go out and shovel the sidewalk with her Dora shovel

 April 20th, brought us rain.  

The next day brought us more wet snow.

May has brought some much warmer temperatures, much to all of our delight.  Spring has finally sprung.

4 yrs old!!!!

April 29th was a special day for us as Katelyn turned 4 YEARS OLD!  I had to remind her of her special day, and I got the biggest smile.  Pancakes have been a breakfast favorite and today was extra special, so we made extra special pancakes with strawberries and whip cream!  For her birthday present, I found her a pink backpack with sparkles.  She has been wanting a back pack for a while.  Any bag she can sling on her back is a backpack, or a packpack is what she used to call it :)

 I kept asking her what kind of cake she wanted for her birthday.  She wanted a pink princess cake.  This is what I came up with.  We had a pink cake filled with homemade whip cream and strawberries and covered with pink buttercream icing.  I printed of the 3 princesses she wanted, Sleeping beauty, Cinderella and Belle. She's never seen these movies but she knows her princesses.

We booked her party at a local play place that has opened recently.  We've been there a few times and for a few other parties.  We got the party room for a hour and play time with friends for 2 hours.  We can't book the whole place privately but we had it on a Monday morning and no one else was there, so it worked out great.  Jason was even off that day and was able to come.

Katelyn with her friends, Oriah and Sam. 

Megan getting in on the play action

Sadly this was the only shot of her opening toys and blowing out the candles that I got.  So disappointed, but I was busy serving everyone cake.  

2 hours and it was over.  Goody bags handed out, thank yous said and we were home.  I was more disappointed it was over than Katelyn was.  We had a good time with all her friends and spent the opening every gift she got and playing with them all.  It was a good day completed with pizza for supper.

Mother's Day 2013

Mother's Day 2013 

Megan's 1st birthday

The last few days, Katelyn randomly comes up to me and says, "Happy Mother's day!"  The love of a child is so sweet!  Megan is busy crawling around, finding her boundaries.  We now have a toddler on our hands!

Gymnastics

For the past 5 weeks, Katelyn has been involved with the local Rec Department gymnastics program.  This was for 3 & 4 yr olds.  I thought Katelyn would like it since she was doing sommersaults at home already.  Twice a week from 4-4:40pm we ventured over to the middle school multipurpose room for some much needed get-out-of-the-house activity.  It took her a few lessons to really get comfortable with the way things worked.  She wouldn't do tumbling exercises when she was called on, she had to have some help from one of the helpers.  By the 3rd lesson, she was lining up for her turn and did what was asked when her name was called.  

Walking on the big beam

Warming up with some stretches

First attempt at a sommersault on the beam.

Uneven bar work.

Getting comfortable on the low beams.  This is where they worked on some footwork.  

They also did some tumbling on the floor mats.  Sommersaults, monkey walk, log rolls, and bunny hops.  She did great when she got comfortable.  She would run up to me after she was done at her station and give me a high five.  I was one proud mama.

10 Months Old

10 months old already!  What a sweetie pie! I think we'll keep her.  Katelyn would hate it if we sent back her "friend".

I love the crinkle up nose smile!  And yes, we are only sporting one tooth on the top and two on the bottom. The second top one is just sitting there below the gum line but refuses to cut through.  Oh well, we'll sport the red neck teeth just for a little while.

9 Months Old

I had bought a nice Christmas dress for Katelyn to wear at Christmas, but she didn't wear it.  I was lent a pretty red dress for Megan to wear, but again we just never wore them.  So, before they outgrew them, I needed to take some pictures.  

This is our monthly birthday shot to see her change.  The horse is sure getting small quickly.

This was the best I could get of both of them smiling.  Katelyn was not being very cooperative