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Flower Girls

July 10, 2010

The hair fiasco turned out to be not so bad.  A few curls, a head band to hide the bald spots, and a big flower made my beautiful girl into a beautiful flower girl.They were excellent flower girls. They both made sure that the ENTIRE center aisle was covered in flowers for the bride to [...]

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Recital Videos

June 7, 2010

The videos are from dress rehearsal…no filming during the actual performance =(
A little tap and then ballet performance from Avery. She looks confused during ballet mainly because the girls were standing on the wrong dot and my little rule follower couldn’t dance because she kept looking at the girls who weren’t following the rules [...]

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Sisters

May 19, 2010

The conversation was revolving around Avery going to preschool next year.
I made the comment to Elliana: “When Avery goes to kindergarten, that’s when you’ll go to preschool.”Elliana started crying and said.  “But if Avery’s not at preschool with me, who’s going to take care of me?”
Even after explaining, she wasn’t convinced the teachers could [...]

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Parenting Fail

April 29, 2010

Els has been having bad dreams lately.  I mean really really bad dreams where she wakes me up screaming.  She gets scared during the day too.  Which brings me to last night.
Let me set the scene…Me and the kids eating dinner and Els starts to talk about her scary dream. In an attempt to [...]

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Things I Never Want to Forget…

April 26, 2010

The way the 2nd born says “Ganana” instead of “Banana”When I think the girls are sleeping late but actually they got up at normal time,  went straight to the dress up clothes, and  came out dressed like this and ready to playWhen the girls play Cinderella but the whole game consists of the younger one [...]

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Morning Snack

April 19, 2010
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Successful Girls Night

February 10, 2010

For a successful evening, we must have sugar.  In this case, lots of sugar.
Each girl must be able to be creative in their own way…the oldest’s cookies are sprinkled very evenly; the middle one took a different approach.
And sampling the finish product is a must.
Happy Valentine’s Day a few days early!!!

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What We’ve Been Working On Today

February 1, 2010

The last couple weeks, the girls have started fighting…real knock down drag out fights. The kind that last all day and the kind that makes you want to scream “stop the drama!!  You’re not even prepubescent yet!”
In the exhaustion following the week of sickness, I’ve been dealing with the girls’ fighting by sending them to [...]

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Cinderella

December 3, 2009

Elliana kept getting in trouble this morning for using mean words. She kept saying things like:
“Avery that’s an ugly dress.”
“I’m going to rip that dress.”
“Avery you’re going to cry.”Finally after the 4th time of her getting in trouble, I finally realized what was going on. She’s trying to play Cinderella with Avery! [...]

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Sisters

June 12, 2009
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