Alphabet Parade

Today was the Alphabet Parade at Hayden's preschool. It was so darn cute!!! We loved seeing all of the creative costumes. Only the 4 year old's participated, so they actually walked in a parade around the circle in the parking lot. All of the parents stood outside to see them so I'm sure they felt like little celebrities. My favorites, other than Hayden's, were a jelly bean costume and a Lego. I don't think the video will upload because it's too big, but here is Hayden's finished look. He was a zookeeper because he drew the letter Z!

Pictures

She's SO close to crawling. She scoots all over the floor now.




Hayden's Spring school picture -- 4 1/2 years old





She didn't like these sunglasses for very long, but this was really funny. :)

Busy little bees...

It's that time of year when you just want to work in your yard....NOT! Although today we did because it was overcast and very cool weather. We bought some mulch (not nearly enough...we'll be making several trips), flowers, and potting soil. Yes, I finally planted some annuals and perennials in my pots on my front porch. I'm also going to spray paint a box planter and try to find some sort of full shade flowering shrub to go there. I'm thinking of getting a camellia, so if you have any thoughts on that, let me know. We also borrowed a shovel and Dave split the 4 HUGE daylillies in the front bed. They were ridiculous, so much so that I don't think they were going to bloom this year. He didn't even split them as much as they could have been and they still yielded 17 (!) more. We gave a few away and replanted the rest in the same bed and a few around the mailbox. I'm hoping that the original bed becomes a beautiful daylily oasis in the next couple of years. We have also trimmed shrubs in the last few weeks and have started having the grass sprayed for weeds. We just couldn't get them under control. On the upside, the yard is really looking good now. There is still more to do in the next couple of weeks though. We have a couple of diseased azaleas that need to be transplanted and more mulch to put down. I have also decided to repaint our front door, so I need to pick some non-humid days to do that. All in all, we're making progress and I hope it can continue! I'll be sure to post some pictures when I complete the front door and the daylillies bloom (if they do this year).

9 months old!

Livee is 9 months old! We took her to the doctor today for her checkup and she is 14 lbx, 13 oz. and almost 27 inches. I spoke with the doctor about her 6 month checkup and he said that her stats looked fine even then and that the nurse practitioner who freaked me out so bad is no longer working there.

Recently she has started fake laughing and fake crying, as well as throwing mini fits. I know, I know, she's too young. But she does throw fits, I swear. I will take away something that she doesn't need to play with and she lolls her head back and gives it all she's got. If her cry wasn't so pitiful and deafening, it would be funny. She even produces tears! What a little drama queen we have. It's the same thing if she falls. She cries for at least 3 minutes. I don't know how we're ever going to make it when she starts walking.

She can turn completely around sitting on her booty using her heels, and she lunges for everything. She kind of gets up on her knees now, but just flops to her belly and then starts crying again. She really wants to get moving, but just hasn't figured it out. Recently Dave started "walking" with her. She picks her feet up quite well and then that's all she wants to do all day. Wish we had a walker that she wasn't too short for. :)

She still only has a tiny bit of hair. I've had a bow in it a couple of times, but that's it. I don't care for those headbands with the obnoxiously large bow on them that ends up being the same size as the baby's head. I would just rather have a bald baby.

Dave loves this outfit. It is pretty cute! And here's one of her hairbows.

She finally cut a tooth on the bottom last week! It was about 5 days of agony and she's still fussy, so maybe the other one is coming in now. With Hayden, we didn't even know anything was wrong. He just woke up one morning and had two teeth on the bottom. Of course we are making up for that now, so all's fair.

She has started babbling a lot now too. She says ma-ma when she's upset, ba-ba-ba when she's talking, and squeals when something's funny. She still plays bashful with people, too. She'll smile and then hide her face. She's a content and sweet little baby who loves her big brother more than anybody! He can make her laugh when no one else can.

Happy Easter 2010!

He decorated his bucket from school!

Dyeing eggs on Saturday.

What Livee did while we were dyeing eggs. She loves her playpen.

What Grandpa did while we were dyeing eggs.

Our church has 3 services this year, and Dave was off last night, so we decided to go to the Saturday night service instead of getting up and rushing around this morning. It was a good idea in theory, but I (the worst mom of the year, apparently) fed Livee some dark chicken meat yesterday and it didn't agree with her (too much fat). She puked about 4 times while we were at church, once in the car, and once when we got home. Poor little thing was worn out when we got home, so I put her down for bed and she slept all night. I didn't even hear a peep out of her. We got up this morning and checked out what goodies the Easter bunny brought for the kids, and now I'm making a roast for lunch while the men folk are sleeping on the couches. Grandpa (Dave's father) is here spending the weekend with us, so we're having a good time with him. Hayden loves having company! It's a relaxing Easter morning!

Easter goodies!

Find Your Eggs!

Today was Hayden's Easter Egg Hunt and picnic at preschool. It was such a beautiful day and we were so thankful!!! Our room-mom for Hayden's classroom has really got this party-planning down to a science. She took up $5 and stuffed plastic eggs and came up with an Easter bucket picnic lunch plus craft stuff and party favors. They had pb&j, cheetos in a carrot-shaped bag, go-gurt, and capri-suns for lunch. Then they emptied their buckets and went hunting for the eggs with their name.

Picnic spread

Starting a new fashion trend: the bucket head.

I thought that would be hard, but since the teachers have been working with them all year on recognizing their name it was a piece of cake!

Found one!!!!!!!!

I think Livee was trying to get a boyfriend.

After the egg hunt, they went back inside to have their cupcakes and get their goody bags. They also drew a letter for the Alphabet Parade coming up. Hayden got "Z", which means he will have to dress up as something that starts with the letter Z for the parade. Any easy ideas?

When we got home I gave Hayden a much-needed haircut on the front porch. Yes, we are those redneck people!!!