Hair and Humidity

Hi guys.

This is just a random post to say I feel like my hair looks like this so I took a selfie.

My children did not get my weird curly hair. Theirs is thick and straight and lovely.

But the SNARLS, you guys. And the HAIR BRUSHING RESISTANCE. 

You can bet your bottom dollar that our first week of summer we will all be getting fairly significant haircuts. 

After Dan and Hanna’s wedding, of course, which is in 9 DAYS!!!!!! Can’t wait!!!!

Timehop Tuesday

Happy Tuesday! We have a couple cute ones today.

My favorite pink swimming suit!

Cousins!

Weekend Wrap-Up: The Memorial Day LUCY Edition

Hi everybody!  We had a super fun and busy weekend with our adorable little 1-year-old houseguest. The weekend was a blur of play time, naps, chasing a toddler around, and trying to embrace/avoid the ridiculous HEAT.

So here are some fun pictures!

This girl always has a smile and loves to play!  And get into mischief... ;)

Maya and Lucy are two peas in a pod.  They have so much fun together, and I love seeing Maya play the "big sister" role with Lucy.

And their bath time? Freaking hilarious!

Callie is such a little mommy to Lucy.  They also love to play and giggle together.

The three of them together MELT MY HEART.

Let's see...other things that happened this weekend: Chris and Callie played with, then LOST, then Chris and Dan recovered...the DRONE.

Lucy went to watch the ballerinas at Maya's dance class.



There was just an overall level of controlled chaos at all times.

Today we kept cool by going to the pharmacy, drinking lots of water, and playing with bubbles outside.

Callie and Maya went on a boat ride with G-ma, Pa, Nana and Papa.

Lucy and I hung out with the Stolles a little bit more.

We hung out with the Johnson cousins tonight.

Overall I had a blast with this little one all weekend!

I wanted to leave you with a 5:00+ video of lots of weekend shenanigans, but it is taking a long time to load and may be experiencing technical difficulties. So check back later. Hopefully I’ll be able to update the post once it actually works!

Update! Here it is!

Stay cool!

A Picture Update

Happy Friday!

Here are the pictures from the week:

Monday!

Wednesday/Thursday!

Thursday evening- Brent, Bethany and Weston came to town and stayed with us. And we got a girls’ night out.

Friday! The last official day of Maya’s Preschool career (she’s doing some days there this summer). She grew so much this year, I can’t stand it. The pic on the left is her first day of school in September and the one on the right is from today.

We have Lucy this weekend and the shenanigans have started! Also...Chris ordered a Star Wars drone “for Callie.” Enjoy the pics and videos!

Have a great long weekend! I’ll be back on Monday for the Wrap-Up.

57-Months-Old (+1 month +1 day) and 58-Months-Old (+1 day)!

It occurred to me today on my drive home from work that yesterday was the 23rd and I totally missed Maya's 58-months-old day...and then I just looked at last month's posts and realized I missed her 57-months-old day too...(thankfully I stopped doing Callie's month day after 60 months, so I'm almost to that point for Maya, because clearly my brain is mush).

So Maya is 58-months-old and one day and I'll celebrate that by writing about her and posting a bunch of pictures of her.

She makes so many people giggle.  Her personality is beyond awesome and she is becoming such a big girl.  She's a lovable weirdo and owns it and I hope she always will.  She loves to clean.  She loves animals and harasses Luna on a daily basis.  She is very particular about her clothes these days, and REFUSES TO WEAR ANY KIND OF SOCKS OR PANTS.  This proved difficult with snowstorms in April, but thankfully now I think we are in the clear and her not wearing pants or socks will be fine for awhile.

What else about Maya...she is so interested in reading and writing.  She won't read picture books though...they have to be chapter books (which she can't actually read but does a great job pretending).  Her favorite food is black beans and rice.  She would eat that at every meal if she could.  And if she had her pick of all desserts, she would still choose chips and salsa.  She's a salt girl like her mom.

She gets under Callie's skin and they fight like cats and dogs.  This summer is going to be interesting.

I'll leave you with a QOTD (before the pictures of course).  Callie was losing it about something, and Maya said "CALM YOUR HORSES DOWN, CALLIE."

Isn't that good life advice for us all?  ;)

Enjoy some Maya silliness!

And finally, her preschool picture for this year. 

Oh. My. Goodness.

There's my little LOVE BUG. 

Timehop Tuesday

Baby Callie!

The girls!

Weekend Update

Oh my goodness did we have a busy weekend!

It was mostly just us girls this weekend because Chris headed out of town for Dan’s bachelor party weekend at a cabin. They had fun and all came back in one piece. 🤣

So I wake up early and that paid off on Saturday morning because I was awake in time to start the Royal Wedding coverage at 5am with my coffee and laptop in bed. The girls came down about 6:45 and finished the last 10 minutes of the wedding with me.

We found lilacs and had dance later that morning.

Then I dropped the girls off at Boom’s house for a sleepover! They had so much fun.

I got to go to the shower and Twins Game bachelorette party for my dear friend Adrea, who is getting married June 30th! 

This morning we played outside a little bit, before I dropped the girls off with Pa.

Then I went to Hanna’s shower with all the families thrown by the Gosselin aunts. It was so lovely and fun!

Less than 3 weeks to Dan and Hanna’s wedding and we are sooooooooo excited!!!!

Callie went with Boom to the Lynx home opener tonight.  She won a T-shirt and they ran into Chris’ friends Shadi and Belle.

We are all happily worn out. This week is the last full week of the school year. Bring it on.

A Picture Update

Happy mid-May!! Crazy!!!

Monday- Maya’s usual day with Boom, Lucy and Iris.

Tuesday- playing outside after school.

Wednesday- G-ma and Maya went on a preschool field trip to Como Zoo.

And more time outside.

Last night I saw beautiful sunrays and this morning Luna and I finally saw the bloomed lilacs on our 5am walk.

Tonight I paid actual money for Callie to become a “member” of a math computer game she plays at school because she kept saying “I can’t believe math can be so fun!” And the paid membership gets her lots more fun math activities to do. I’ll take that over her spending her (limited) screen time watching silly shows any day. And she got Maya interested too!

Have a great weekend! 

Timehop Tuesday

Happy Tuesday! 

M favorite Timehop in awhile is this one: last year Lucy was a calm, docile baby on Maya’s lap. Now she goes after her toys and her squeezies.

And then we have the girls.