Spring time

 What fun would nice spring weather be if you can't get muddy?  Notice Ms Leeza perfectly clean and no mud on her!

 Sasha trying to clean the mud off in the grass.

 New swimsuits to try on.  After this picture, they swapped suits.  I picked Tinkerbell for Leeza since she loves Tinkerbell, but now that is Sasha's suit. 

Leeza's bangs will grow out someday.  Summertime here we come!

We love you Grandpa

We will miss you Grandpa.  A few weeks ago, Grandpa was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer that had spread to his brain and many other organs.  He tried 2 rounds of chemo and 3 weeks of radiation, but decided that the life chemo offered was not worth it.  He died quietly in a hospice with Ma, Dan and Kelsey there.  I was able to go out and see him and I had hoped that he would get well enough for the girls to visit him once last time, but he went quickly which is what he and Ma had hoped for.

My favorite memory of him will be when he came to help build the girls swing set a few months after they came home. The set had a thousand pieces or at least it looked like it did.  He spent all morning laying the piecies out in order. After lunch, the girls went out to "help" him.  As he was working, behind him the girls happily rearranged every single piece into one big long line of pieces.  Eventually, Grandpa turned around and saw what they were doing.  He didn't say anything, but his look said it all.  He went back to what he was doing.  In the end, it took about 2 1/2 days to put it together.  He probably could have done it in less than 2 days without his helpers.  I hope the girls remember working with him putting the swingset together. 

St Patricks Day Parade

We went to the Decatur St Patrick Day parade.  On the way, we met Melissa and Hailey.

The girls are watching for the candy that some floats threw to the kids.

Fire trucks can be very noisey.

I'm not sure what Melissa is pointing at.  The girls had a good time and collected a bag of candy each.  They now ask about the parade every time we go through Decatur.

Swimming 2012

 The girls are taking lessons again.  They are to the point where they need to be off the floats, but the YMCA keeps kids under 6 in floats so it is more fun time than learning a lot of new swimming.

 Sasha loves to jump in the water.  Leeza likes the swimming part best.

Well, maybe Leeza likes the cute instructor best.  She is a little boy crazy(and only 4). 

The Haircut

 Leeza had cut Sasha's hair once before, but it was fairly easy to find with a good cut.  They had scissors taken away from them as punishment.  I was just letting them use scissors again(supervised of course).  one Sturday morning as I was getting ready, Sasha asked if she sould use the scissors.  She promised to ONLY cut paper.  About 10 minutes later this is what I found in the play room.

There were clumps of hair on the bed and Leeza's bangs were scalped!  No bangs at all.  Plus a few chunks of hair were missing in various places.  Sasha had one piece cut out of her hair too, but Leeza's was bad.  Leeza immediately threw Sasha under the bus and said Sasha did it!  Leeza was proud of her hair cut!  Oh my! 
I decided to try to fix it a little and went to the supercuts place by Walmart.  If you can believe it, the lady made it worse!  She didn't cut anything straight and just chopped away.  I had to recut it afterwards to make it look not horrible.  She even hacked Sasha's hair up and hers is easy to cut.  It will be a long long time before the bangs grow back.  They are cut to the scalp.

New Beds

New beds and comforters to make up a big girls room.  They are a little big since they have a bookshelf in the footboard, but the shelves make a good nightstand.  I thought about going with one full size, but maybe in a few years the girls might want seperate bedrooms.



 The matching dresser has a nice mirror  The girls like the colors.

 Perfect beds for two perfect princesses.  The room will never be this neat and clean again!

Just testing the beds for bounciness.  They pass the test.  I think I am going to lower the mattresses and springs to the floor as they are a little tall for the girls to climb up in.

Snowmen

 There wasn't much snow, but the girls were able to make snowmen.  They used the snowmen kits I got them 

 They were pretty proud of their accomplishment.  As you can see, we used up most of the snow in the backyard.

 But there was enough left for a snowball fight.

 Leeza running from Sasha and her snowball!

 We made snow angels also.  They showed up ok if you knew where to look.

 Sasha was not content with her little snowman.  She wanted to build a BIG snowman.

 Leeza and I went back inside and Sasha stayed outside rolling her BIG snowman.  She did great considering how little snow there was.  She only got the bottom done before the melting snow and sun got ahead of her.

The snowmen didn't last the afternoon and melted quickly into little snow piles.  At least we got to make some this year as there has been very little snow.