Happy Birthday Leeza

We had the girls birthday party last Thursday. Leeza had Thomas the Train theme for her 3rd birthday. Sasha had Curious George and Sponge Bob for her 2 1/2 birthday. Since we missed being together for Sasha's second birthday last fall by 8 days, we had a combined birthday party. Both girls had a good time.

We had a Sponge Bob cake and a Thomas cake. Debbie and Niki were here to help celebrate and they took most of the pictures that day so I have to wait until they send them to me. Then I will post some more pictures.

The kitchen and living room were both decorated with lots of balloons.

After the party, the ballons were great fun to run around with.The girls got a little wild and crazy with the balloons. These balloons were tough. The girls jumped on them, sat on them, bit them and they didn't pop! The girls loved the cake and ice cream. Leeza also loved the engine from the top of her cake. Sasha liked the Spnge Bob from her cake. She really liked the green frosting too!

The girls main present from mom was the tricycles that they had been wanting for a while. "Push Niki push" was heard many many times that day!

They really had fun with the bikes, but they wanted to be pushed rather than pedal. We will work on that one.

They got lots of nice presents from everyone. They loved the play dough and mom was ok with it after she hid the green and red colors and just gave them the white and yellow(they blend in better with the carpet color-ha). They got lots of beads which they love and several outfits including sponge bob PJs for Sasha.

I will catch up on everything this weekend. The last week or so has been really busy.

Swings and slide!

Checking out the progress. Almost there!

The first trip up the stairs. Leeza in the lead of course.

The first official slide!

Everyone made it down safely.

One swing done-one to go. Sasha got on the swings first and she never wanted to get off them.

Short legs mean the swings are very low to the ground. The girls loved the swings. Leeza got a little dizzy and went back to the slide. Sasha just kept saying push mama push. I did get Leeza to push her for about 2 minutes, but we have to work on learning to swing ourselves as mama gets tired of pushing after a while.

Grandpa

Grandpa came to visit and has been busy putting together the girl's new swing set. They were busy all day helping Grandpa. Someone had to move all those boards that were stacked in those neat piles!

Sasha discovered a bug on her while they were working. It took the two of them to remove it from her shirt.

The girls can't wait until they can play on their new swing set. So far, only Grnadpa has been allowed to be inside it.

This was early morning before it warmed up. The girls were very busy checking the yard out.THis picture has nothing to do with Grandpa's visit, but i just thought it was so cute. They are wearing their Easter hats, but no pants. A new fashion trend.

Busy Easter

We had a busy Easter Sunday. We got up and had breakfast and then colored our easter eggs.
We then got our Easter baskets from Mama. Sasha got the puppy and Leeza got the bunny. After we got the baskets, we went into the playroom and found out that the Easter bunny had visited. There were eggs hidden all over the place. Well, not hidden exactly, but we had a lot of fun collecting them and opening them and trying to eat all the candy while mama tried to get the candy away from us. After the incident Saturday with the pink peeps, mama decided that all that candy was not a good idea. Then we got dressed up in our easter dresses and went to visit a friend. Aren't we cute in our dresses and new shoes. We wore the shoes all day long. Sasha's are silver sparkly and Leeza's are pink(of course). After lunch and naptime, we got changed into our Sponge Bob and Buzz lightyear PJs that are about 1 size too small, but we really wanted to wear them. Our shoes looked a little funny, but we love our new shoes so we didn't care. Leeza saw the hard boiled eggs that we had colored and mama had put on a plate with some plastic grass to look pretty. Leeza decided that they look really good and tried to eat one- shell and all. After mama peeled the eggs, Leezxa ate 3 of them! She liked the eggs so much more than the candy. We played on our sli de all afternoon and then after dinner took Frosty for a walk. Then it was time for bed!

Dress Up

We tried on our Easter dresses today, Sasha was tired as they missed their nap yesterday and I did not let them sleep late today. I have an old charcoal sketch of me done long long ago. I think Sasha's expression and face look just like I did in that picutre.

Don't they look like big girls! They are growing up so fast. They are so different from the little toddlers that arrived 5 months ago.

This is Leeza's "Debbie" look. Whenever I see it, I know she is going to get into trouble soon. Plus I think she looks just like Debbie when she is in one of these moods.

I was trying to get a good picture of all of us. Trying toget 2 kids to smile at the camera at the same time is tough. We did better than at Christmas, but still didn't get that one great picture.

If Sasha hadn't had her arm up, this picture would be good. Some day, we will get a good photo.

Easter Photo

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We went to the mall tonight to get our picture taken with the Easter bunny. Isn't it cute? What? You don't see a picture above this? Maybe because that is because the girls decided at the very last moment they didn't want to see the big bunny- No way- No how. They were fine and were excited when I told them we were going to go see a big bunny. They were fine when they first saw him, but there was a little boy in front of us and by the time he got his picture taken, Leeza had started to cry. Sasha saw Leeza and then she decided she didn't want to see the evil bunny either. I tried to talk them into a picutre, but they didn't want anything to do with the bunny. Of course, once we started to walk away, they were all happy waving bye bye to the bunny and talked about the bunny the whole way home, but no bunny picture. Maybe next year.

Spring is here-Almost

There have been a couple warm days in the last week so we got out the new 3t summer clothes I bought a few weeks ago. I had to take the size tag(which were stickers) off of them. The girls loved the stickers and played with them all day. Leeza is modeling her stickers and cinderella skirt. She is standing in front of her new doll house(I actually got it used, but new to her). It was going to be her birthday present, but I was cleaning the closet where it was stored and she really wanted it now.

Despite all the new clothes, Sasha saw her sponge Bob PJs and just had to wear them. Leeza of course had to change into her Buzz Lightyear ones then as she has to match her sister. Sasha's red shoes are about 2 sizes too big, but they are shiny and she likes shiny.

Sunday we put on some of the new 3t shirts, but that didn't last long. Mom left the room for about 2 minutes and they managed to find a black sharpie marker(permanent black marker ink) and drew on each others arms and shirts. I got most of it out of one shirt, but not the other. The girls arms still show traces of the marker as I couldn't get it all off them either. I ordered a bunch of 4t shirts for Leeza from Kohl's. They had one of their sales this weekend so they were pretty cheap. Good thing since they will probably find more markers to color on them.

Weekly Update

We went to the Dr and everyone's ears were looking better, but still had fluid. Leeza goes to the specialist next Thursday. I think she can hear a little better now as I can tell her pronunciation has improved in the last 2 weeks.

I had ordered a new swing/slide set that the girls Grandpa is going to put together when he visits in 2 weeks. A friend dropped it off and we opened it to look at it. Today when Leeza got out of the car, she found it and figured out what it was. She climbed up on top of it and I had to drag her away from it. It looks like a nice set, but it has about 1000 pieces and parts to it.

Today is my parent's 50th Wedding Anniversary. Congratulations!