Day 44

Trees and stuff.....The good weather continues. Yipeeeee!

Day 43

Today we spent the day at a good friend's house. Katherine and Josie played in the dirt and they got dirrrrrrrrtay. Wowza, did they ever! Of course these don;t really show just how much they enjoyed the dirt, and it's obvious we are happy to see SPRING!

Day 42

Katherine seems to LOVE balls, she thought she was pretty cool on my mom's deck with the coveted basketball all to herself. Sweet baby.

Day 41

We went to my mom's this past weekend. This is my mom, aka Nona, pushing four of the eight grand-kids on the swing set. They were cracking up and had her out there about an hour. They are the luckiest kids to have her, really.

Day 40

And finally today at school. It has FINALLY warmed up here - 73 degrees today. That means we bring out the warm weather clothes WOOT! The bad thing is that I cannot find the sandals that I bought for Josie when she was Katherine's age, grrrrrr.

Anyway, here is Katherine with her new haircut, she got the whole thing cut. It's very wispy and unmanageable, it gets tangled and matted super easy. Hopefully, the trimmed ends will help with that. She was exploring big sister's school....

Another thing I love about Josie's school is that they have fresh flowers all over the place for the children to enjoy and also sketch/paint. It's really lovely.

Day 39

The second day at school....This is a HUUUUUUGE canvas that the kids get to paint. It covers almost an entire wall and apparently it has been painted over many, many times. I love it.

Day 38

I took my camera to Josie's preschool the last few days that she has gone.....I got some really great shots of Jos and her buddies but I won't put pics of other kids on my blog without permission. Der! This is the coolest little table they have set up and change periodically. I need to ask and find out the significance of it. It's a Waldorf theory based preschool so I'm sure there is meaning behind it.

Day 37

Indignant Girl. Clearly, there was some grave injustice being done. I get it. (Barf, whenever I hear "I get it", I think of pissy Meredith Grey off of Grey's Anatomy.)

Day 36

I drive past this graffiti whenever I drive downtown. I've admired it for years and finally remembered my camera and got a shot of it. I like it.

Day 35

This outfit is her own doing. I can't remember where she was headed on this particular day. She wears those awful heals until her feet are literally blistered and raw. I have to hide them and use them to prompt good behavior. It's hilarious to me that while she's dressed like this, her "job" is "a mama...just a mama!" Um, yeah.....'cuz that's what this mama wears every day. Riiiiiiiight.

Day 34

Meet "The Restaurant Girl". Josie and Katie were playing, or Josie was directing Katherine about where to go and what to do and Katherine allowed her to push her around for a while. The whole apron was cracking me up, though. Ignore the mess, it was before clean up time. Just go ahead and pretend we have like regular clean up time.

Day 33

Hunting for Easter eggs.

Day 32

I write Josie little notes to put in her lunch on the days she goes to preschool. This one is, of course, the most elaborate one I've ever done. I did it the first day and she loved it so much that now I feel sorta obligated to do one every day. Thank God she only goes twice a week. I'm glad that she likes them and when I think it's a hassle, I remind myself that one day she will spend most of her time not wanting to have a thing to do with me. It makes it easier to relish these times.

She insists that I keep them all. One day last week she found the small stash and got them out. After a thorough selection process she put a few up on the fridge. At least in my mind it was a careful selection process. It could have been the first four that she grabbed.

Day 31

Check out the Jersey Shore barbies. No kidding, these are straight up SOOC.

That is the true color of their skin, no joke and hair.

These also were hand-me-downs. When I play with Josie and we use these barbies, I make them have New Jersey accents. It bugs her, lol!

Day 30

A pocket. A Gap Kids denim skirt pocket to be exact. And a hand-me-down at that. Jeez, I loooooooooove hand-me-downs. Just save the stained, skid-marked-up, underwear, thankyouverymuch.

Day 29

Soooooo, my baby was sick. The last photo of her was not really her being ticked off , she was actually sick. Ended up in the urgent care with a 105 degree fever. She recovered a couple of days ago but I am just now getting around to posting because I think it takes me a few days to get back to normal. Or somewhat normal.

Here is one of Josie. This was an icky day outside and she was really getting tired of being cooped up for so long. That is such a bummer about having a sick kiddo, NEVER leaving the fricking house for days.