And so summer begins...

Our summer got quite a start this year. We had one of those family moments where something happens that you think "Oh this will never happen to us". But guess what? It did. And I'm discovering that this happens to most families...So here goes. 

Our 5 year old son (you know, the genius that can read at almost a 4th grade level, fixes our computer, does our taxes?) got the awesome idea that it would be ok to cut off all of our 3.5 year old daughter's hair....We were furious and sad and angry. But it's been a little over a week now and the new "pixie" cut has sort of sunk in and grown on us. And if any of our girls can rock this hairdo it's definitely Heidi since she's a little fairy sized girl anyway. Here are the photos I have taken. I'm just really praying that by her 4th birthday in Oct. she will at least have some bangs again...

 Last Monday...about 5 minutes after her hair cut

The back side. Before Daddy took her to a hair salon to get it fixed up and evened out.

After getting back from the salon

Luckily we discovered a hair accessory store in the mall that sells everything for a $1. We let her pick out however many things she wanted.

Before all this happened though...school ended

Heidi and her preschool teacher (our dear friend and neighbor too!) Mrs. Paul

Bobby said good bye to Miss Denise and Pre-K and will be moving on to Kindergarten at Lilly's elementary school this fall. We will now have two kids in school full time!

Lilly's school picnic. Still cannot believe she is going to be in 2nd grade!

Nana took Lilly to get her ears pierced (this is the before shot)

Getting ready! She was totally calm and didn't freak out at all.

All done!!! 

And now that summer has started, we bought a tether ball court for the kids and we saw Monsters University. We've also been filling our days swimming at the neighbors, having play dates in the park, and mostly just goofing off and relaxing.

Happy Summer!!!

~Good bye May ~

Well May is over and we are only about 2 weeks away from summer starting. It was a fun month for us and busy as usual. I am looking forward to some lazy summer days where we don't have to jump up and hit the ground running each morning. Oh and definitely looking forward to not getting up at 6am to work out before getting everyone ready for school.

Lilly received an Extra Effort Award at school. Cannot believe she is 2 weeks away from becoming a 2nd grader. Seriously?! I am not old enough to have a kid in 2nd grade!

We had a mustache birthday party for a few people in Michael's family one Sunday.

 I went with Lilly's first grade class to the Ocean Institute in Dana Point. We had so much fun and were even interviewed by Ch 7. They didn't end up airing our interview but we got to see Lilly's class on TV so that was cool.

At the tide pools

Lilly's class did a school play about the people in your neighborhood. It was adorable. Lilly was a grocer. Unfortunately all my pics of her onstage really didn't come out.

Here's a pic of Loralee and my dad waiting for the show to start

Then it was Mommy and Me Day at the preschool for Heidi and Bobby

Nana came too

My brother Jeremy graduated from my Alma Mater Cal State Fullerton

We also just discovered that Loralee is definitely allergic to strawberries. We have had our suspicions over the past two years about it and have kept them from her. She had a weird reaction when I was nursing her as an infant after I had eaten strawberries so our pediatrician told us to not feed them to her until she was 4 and we could do blood work to check for the allergy.  But she accidentally ate a part of a strawberry the other day and immediately broke out in hives. So....now we know. And of course I took pics (mainly to show the pediatrician). Loralee didn't even care that she was covered in hives though. And thank goodness her tongue doesn't swell yet. 

Other random pics from May...

Lilly and one of her best buddy's Sofia having breakfast together. They had hot chocolate with whip cream too :)

Lilly and her magic eyes. They still amaze me every time I see them.

The End

Don't Blink....

Don't blink...

Because this

will turn into a 6 and a half years old who is starting to lose teeth and is making big decisions like donating 9 inches of her hair to little girls who don't have any.

 And this little guy

will turn into a 5 year old,

  who is starting Kindergarten soon, 

spends his time reading books to us,

gives Mommy hugs willingly still, and LOVES the computer

And don't blink

because this little gal

will turn into a 3 and a half year old 

who is a chatterbox, sweet as can be,

very sensitive and a little bit fearful of things

and last but not least

this little peanut

will become a non-stop,

full of energy, 

speaks in full sentences,

gets into EVERYTHING,

2 year old

So take some time and give the little ones in your life a squeeze and a smooch because time passes in an instant. Someday I will  go from a house that is always in chaos, where something always needs to be cleaned or picked up, is always noisy, to a house that is spotless and silent and where no one will be following me to the bathroom. And I am dreading it.

End of April photo dump

I just realized going thru my pics and blog that I never posted Loralee's 2nd birthday party pics or Easter pics. So here they are! Better late than never.

 Loralee had a Minnie Mouse party because she is basically obsessed with Minnie right now. My mom made two cakes, one for friends and family, and one for Loralee. This is the bigger cake.

This one was just for Loralee to dig into.

Still hard to believe our baby is two!

She dove right in, no problem!

With my parents

With Michael's parents

With her Godmother Auntie Kat

Exhausted after the party with Dat and Uncle Jer

Now onto the Easter pics

Mommy's attempts at a group shot

On a side note, Bobby wore his yellow bunny ears in church and most of the day...

This is what most of the pics actually turn out like. I usually get only one, sometimes two pics if I am lucky that all of them are looking.

You have to have a sense of humor on holidays

Loralee got ahold of Auntie Kat's high heels

My dad with 2 of the girls