Spring has Spung

G riding her horse.

Darby eating sand. The more I say please don't the more she does it.

We had some friends over to dye Easter eggs on Friday. It was a real nudey fest.

D in Aunt Kiki's sunglasses.

Georgi and her friend running around in tube swim suits. I am sure they will be more fun once the pool is actually open.

Gilcrease has a kids art day on Saturday so we took the girls. They both love to paint and draw so much.

They grounds there are gorgeous and I think one of the under-appreciated areas of Tulsa.

I cannot get a posed pic of the girls so I will stop trying, or not.

Matt took them out and let them do some painting at home after nap that day. They made and awesome mess.

G didn't get much on her body.

She left that up to Darby.

Not sure what is going on here but not unusual for Darby to be crying and G to be grinning.

There is a piece of paper under there.

See. There it is.

And the bath afterwards.

Hopefully I can post Easter pictures this week. D's birthday is Thursday then G's two weeks from that so we are coming up on a busy time.

March 2010

Okay, so I didn't post the month of March. I am pretty tired by bed time for the girls, which is when I usually get around to it and just haven't felt like it. So here is a recap of the month to make up for lost time. D and Daddy are still best friends. He puts her to bed every night and while she still prefers me more of the time she is much happier to accept him lately.

I picked up a couple of "tutus" at the JBF sale this year and the girls like to dance and twirl in them.

Georgia's is more of a real tutu but D doesn't know the difference.

They have days where they are best buddies. Mostly this is dictated by G's mood because Darby is always happy to be with her big sis. Here they pulled their chairs together to eat dinner.

In the last month Darby has really taken to books and has much more patience both when being read to and when "reading" by herself. She loves the Brown Bear series and has most of them memorized so she will sit and read them to herself.

Again in the chair with Daddy. I learned how to stove pop popcorn last month since I don't like any of the microwave variety and air pop has no flavor. The kids love it in a bag for a snack.

Nanue came for the first time since X-mas and watched the girls so I could work over their spring break. It was a great trip and so nice to have the help.

It also snowed. Too much snow for March in my opinion but the second year in row for a late March snow.

And we are gearing up for swim season. Swim suits have been brought out of the closet and worn around the house on numerous occasions already.

D is working on her "popping under."

She is too cute lately.

I turned 33 last month and here they are waiting for the party to start and looking for deer in the valley.

My party was fun and all my family came. The girls love their cousin Vivian and she is so good with them.

I think the kids got more presents than I did thanks to Mary and Aunt Kiki and uncle Matt. Here is D with her first Slinky.

I like this picture because it looks like D is upset about a bible book when really she is crying about a balloon. She is terrified of balloons.

Darby got a princess key chain and G was quite jealous.

And my big present was a new sewing machine. It is so nice and quiet and smooth. I love it.

And then there was the cake

Always the best part of a birthday party.

Vivian got some temp tattoos and I put a few on the old belly.

And finally here is G completing a stacking challenge.

Here she is guarding it so Darby won't knock it over.

Messy Art Night 2010

We went to the annual Messy Art night after our hair cut. Darby stayed home with Daddy so G and I could have some alone time and she was so much fun. She loves art and textile activities. Here she is using something to stamp white paint.

And this is a big block of Moon Sand. Birthday idea if I forget. I have seen it at Target.

Painting is by far her favorite.

She got it to it with the double brush action.

There was water table.

She didn't spend as much time there as usual but she did stop by.

This was my favorite. Watch the progression. First she just used the cookie cutters like she was supposed to.

Then she got an idea.

Why not paint with her hands.

And while we are at it, let's put our hands in every color of paint.

Big Haircut

I decided to get G's hair cut short so when the baby comes Daddy can fix and because it just doesn't look very goo or healthy. Here is a before shot.

She freaked out a little when she had to have her hair washed. but after that was a trooper.

I had the lady take about 4 inches off.

Here is the finished product.

I think it turned out great and she loves it.