T-Ball madness

Noelle has been doing so good in t-ball. She loves to play and practice all the time and is excited about her first game. Go King Rays!

Silly Baby Leah

Pictures of Leah, being silly and wild... just like her hair! Ms. Personality can't help but show out these days.

Let's go fly a kite

During Easter Weekend, the kids got the opportunity to fly their kites. Papa got to show Leah how to get her kite up REAL high!

Push me one more time, Daddy!

Spring has Sprung... a leak.

First day of Spring in the beautiful region of Northwest Arkansas. You can see the drift on our fence. From our table, we had over 10 inches. The snow continued to fall all day to day and finally changed to freezing rain about 4pm. The kids played, built a good snow man and sledded down the drive way (little difficult since we barley have a hill). I made cookies and cocoa after they thawed out... what a way to celebrate the first day of spring!

Razorback Gymnastics

We took the girls to the final night of Arkansas Gymnastics at Barnhill Arena. They competed against Oklahoma. The girls found it just fascinating and fun!

Puppet Show

Noelle's preschool class put on a puppet show for all the parents. They had invitations which they handed out the week before and they put on a great show. Noelle was Pig #1 in the skit, "Three Little Pigs". She did such a good job too!

Our Baby is becoming a Big Girl!

Last night was the first night our little Baby Leah slept in a big bed. She kept crawling out of her crib in the morning and after nap time so it was time to move her. She was very excited and put on her princess gown and danced around the room singing "going to bed in a big girl bed". She slept all night and did not try to get up one single time. She skipped in my room at 7:50am this morning telling me she was a big girl and a good girl. I celebrated by taking her for a doughnut after we dropped Noelle off at school. I told her if she does good for one week, then I will let the girls attempt to sleep together at night. Sigh. However, I was expecting a sleepless night last night but it went GREAT! Oh, my baby Leah is growing up. Double Sigh.

Our little Performing Artist

Noelle took a drama class this past spring at Art Center of the Ozarks. We were going to wait until summer but we decided to start this spring. After 6 weeks, they put on a play for the parents and she did so good. They did some acting (like walking the dog, being cold, in a hurry, etc), dancing, and put on a small play which Noelle was a bunny rabbit. Everyone did really good and Noelle enjoyed the class ALOT. She is begging to take more drama and art this summer. Between that and swim lessons (and not possible T-ball), we will be very busy. Poor Leah, what will we do with her now... besides swim lessons!

Noelle taking a very early bow... she was very proud of herself!

Did you say its my birthday?

Our little Tinkerbell is ready to Party!

Presents time!

A sample of the Little Gym birthday party fun....

I regret that once again I did not get a group picture for her party but we did get video sample on our camera of the kiddos. Unfortunatley, our camera was not out in time for the Happy Birthday song... I am still very sad about that!

Leah's Birthday Fun!

Leah got her Tinkerbell party! She talked about having one for weeks and finally she got to celebrate with her family, friends, and baby friends (some of her Mother's day out friends) at the Little Gym of Rogers! They played, ate pizza, had ice cream cake, and have more fun! Leah is still talking about her party to anyone who would listen!

Good Start of the Year at Preschool!

Noelle is off to a good start at preschool! In January, she learned her phone number and address (got the certificates in each of her hands in the pic) and got a prize in February (the 100 glasses on her head) for being able to count to 100 (or as Noelle puts it, hund wonderet). She even got a pair of binoculars for already completing all her kindergarten shots! We are so proud of our first born baby!

Little Gym Show Week

Noelle and Leah did so good at show week at The Little Gym. They both performed on the floor, beam, and high bars. It was so fun to watch them!

Snow Monsters!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

Ralphie and Randi... I mean Noelle and Leah enjoyed our first real snow of the year yesterday. They made snow angels and attempted a snowman (snow too dry and powdery for snowman but would have been great for sledding). After fun in the snow, we came in and made hot chocolate to warm up our insides!

Leah's own big girl chair!

Since last Christmas, Leah has wanted her own Justice for Girls big girl chair. Noelle got one last year and Elizabeth has one at her house... Leah will take over the chair and not allow its rightful owner to inhabit it. So this year, Uncle Steve and Aunt Keri got Leah her very own chair for Christmas. She is happy as a pea in a pod now!

A work of yummy art!

The girls did sucha great job constructing their annual gingerbread house. Leah was a such a big help this time and did as good as the big girls did!