Namaste

Today is drizzly, cold, and wet outside, that means, no outdoor play for us. So....we had a ton of fun indoors! We did body art, cleaned pennies, playing with make-up, and did kid's yoga (3 times!!!). After nap time, we are making fans with paint color samples.

YOGA

Namaste

Down Diggty Dog

Upiddy Diggity Dog

Calm Sweet Child

Walking the Tight Rope

Being a tree...Presley is an apple tree

Flamingo, our pink friend

Bunny Breath

Taking five...breathe in...breathe out, for a count of five

Shanti, present and peaceful

Piper is waiting for daddy to come home....little does she know, thats's another 5 hours away.

Squeezing a Lemon

BODY ART, BABY!!!!

Who says you can't wear flip flops on cold wet rainy days???

MAMMA'S LIPSTICK,

OH SO PRETTY!!!

CLEANING PENNIES

Fun....to be continued (after naptime)

My NEW Status!

I use to tell John that I wanted us to be the "cool" mom & dad so that when the girls made friends, their friends would rather hang out at our house rather than their house. The girls would be home and we'd know that they are safe and staying out of trouble.

Well, IT'S HAPPENED!!! Here's how...

Hannah, our neighbor, spent most of Saturday afternoon and evening over here snacking on grapes and ice cycle pops outside while I did some yard work, having a pizza picnic for dinner & watching a movie, then they played with play-doh, and then we made plaster of paris hearts to paint the next day, and we picked out an activity to build on Sunday(I usually grab extra stuff from the Home Depot and Lowes workshops).

The next day, Sunday, I had to go to the grocery stores in the morning. I went to Kroger and dropped the stuff back at home before heading to Tom Thumb. When we got here, Hannah was waiting for us. So I asked if Hannah could go to Tom Thumb with us. So we went to Tom Thumb and came back home.

OH, BTW, I saved $90 at the grocery stores yesterday & only spent $80.

Anyways...When we got home, Hannah started to build her activity while Presley played in the sprinklers. Hannah's mom came over a few minutes later and told me that Hannah came home telling her about how much fun she had over my house and all the stuff they got to do. Her mom told her that she could do all of that at her house. Hannah's response was, "No way, I want to do it over there. She is a cool mom!"

I still can't believe it is warm enough outside for the kids to play in the water! It's insane!

So there it is...my status has been from just a mom to a "COOL" mom!

How sweet is that!

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Here's some pics from the rest of our day.

Hannah & Presley working so nice and quiet.

John and Ivan started working on the fence.

Piper just waking up and coming outside to watch the kids while she eats her lunch.

Notice she has marker all over her... This is what they do when they go grocery shopping with me. I take them stuff to keep them busy. I get all kinds of odd looks since the girls are all drawn on, but hey, it's dry erase marker that comes off in 2 seconds with a wipey AND I can shop. So what ever works, right!

Lookin' pretty good

Here's the kiddos crafting away

John is helping Cameron out with his project.

Ivan invited us over for a fajita dinner. It was YUMMY!

Here is Presley chillin' with her best friend.

Maggie being a super bad girl!

This is why we are having to replace the fence. Maggie can nearly fit her little body under the fence. She wants to play with Bob sooo bad!

Maggie all nice, clean, and shiney. She got a very unwanted bath outside.

Finally...

Today, was such a nice day! And we finally got something...actually a couple of things done that we have been putting off.

This morning started by Maggie yelping to get out of her crate and head outside...that started at 530 am. She is already use to that morning walk that John takes her on before he goes to work during the week. It's just sooo much harder to get out of bed that early on the weekends!But he did it. And she was ready for another walk by 830 am! That pup loves to be oustide moving! So the girls and I walked Maggie for about an hour while John got ready for our day.

After hanging out with Maggie, we headed to Home Depot for the kid's workshop. The got to build a race car track thing. It was pretty cute. The love going!

After Home Depot we had a bite to eat at Chili's, then picked up a few groceries from Walmart, then headed home to do that much needed stuff.

I FINALLY trimmed the bushes in the front yard (they were getting way out of control) and cleaned the leaves out of the garden! I have been putting that off for months. The last time I tried doing yard work like that was next to impossible while having to watch the girls at the same time. It helped that our neighbor came over and played with the girls. So this time wasn't so bad at all, they kept busy with bubbles, snacks, and digging in the dirt. Now I am ready to get some new mulch.

AND John and Ivan got to go to the hardware store and get the wood to start working on the fence in that backyard. That project is set to begin tomorrow!

AND curious Maggie has been hanging around the AC unit. She chewed off some of the foam around the tubing, so John has to build something to go around that now to keep her from breaking our AC.

Our night ended by having a pizza picnic on the living room floor, the girls played with play-doh, bathed and crashed as soon as their heads hit the pillow!

What a wonderful day! Yay!

Maggie Belle's 2nd trip to the Vet

Maggie did so great! She had to go back to the vet today to get her 2ND round of vaccinations & start her heart worm preventative meds. She was so great and much better behaved than my other two girls while we were there. She didn't bark or yelp when she got her shots! What a good girl!

Operation Kindness had her listed as a Mastiff/Shepherd mix. Last week, the vet we saw said she looks like a Rotty/Shepherd mix. And today, the vet we saw said she immediately thought she was an Australian Shepard. Especially after I told her that Maggie likes to bite at our ankles when we walk and stuff....the vet immediately said she is more than likely a herding dog with those instincts.

So who knows.....

There is this test that they told me we could do to find out what exactly she is. We are seriously thinking about having it done. I may want to have it done more than John.

If...or when we have it done, I'll keep you posted on what Maggie really is....:)

A Picnic For Dinner!

Little Maggie is fitting so well into our family! It's so funny when we go places, people always tease John about living with four girls. We try and take her every where possible with us. She's such a sweetie!

Thursday night, we took her to the park in Addison and we had a picnic for dinner and had a ton of fun.

Juliet danced to music from my phone,

the girls ran with Maggie,

the girls did pencil rolls down hills,

Presley raced Maggie (along side of John) around the park,

and in the end, we relaxed and watched the water shoot up out of the fountains. Maggie Belle didn't care for it much...she is scared of water. Giving her a bath is no walk in the park either.

It was a great night! We hope to have several more (at the park)...weather permitting.

Body Art!!! YAY!!!

Brian & Tiffany got the girls a Body Crayon book for Christmas & it's the best thing ever! The girls use to get pens and write all over themselves...these crayons are about 1000 times better & MUCH cuter!

The girls love them some BoDy ArT!!!

They think drawing on them is the best thing in the world! Next to those temporary tattoos that they wear as accessories!

Here's a little bug on Piper's foot...

Presley loves her knee people....she has a flower necklace on too.

A close up of the princess and her jester...