Character Day

The school had a Disney Character dress up day.  Ada, of course, wanted to be Elsa... Sam, who will not dress up, wear stickers or face paint of any kind, etc... except for on Halloween... decided that a simple version of Bay Max would be okay.  Red T-Shirt and pants with a paper port pinned to him... which he tore off as soon as I picked him up from school.  Yup, that's Sam.  They had fun seeing what everyone else dressed up as too.

Ballet

April Fool's day was Ada's dance recital.  Ada has a great sense of timing.  She loves to be up there performing and smiles big at me every time.  Ada is toughest when she's dancing.  She falls and gets up and tries again.  I love that she's learning that important lesson. Ada got home from school full of stories about April Fools Day.  Ada said that she pretended to be asleep in class and surprised her teacher.

April 2nd was Evelyn's first dance recital.  I helped out behind the scenes on this one, but I did get to come out and watch my little dancer. She was so cute and distracted.  I loved her little wave as she walked onto the stage. She likes to show me the different dance moves with their names.

Smarty pants

Driving down State Street Sam tells me that the play place at Arctic Circle is a compound word.

Baby food not allowed

This kid does not want anything to do with baby food. He does like noodles, pizza, broccoli, animal crackers, hamburger, egg, water, etc... Silly boy.

Evelyn is a nut

She's been "healing" me all morning and saying that she's Bay Max.  She said she has low batteries,  so she's in her charging station.

Man's best friend

I'm not sure about man... But this baby sure likes to watch Lucy through the window .

All in appearance

As part of spring cleaning, I am cleaning and organizing the kitchen cupboards. I did the one that I keep all the easy school lunch stuff in. I didn't go shopping or do anything special... I just washed out the cupboard and put everything back in nicely. Ada has been complaining that I don't make her lunches and don't give her things like lunchables and notes in her lunch. BUT she opened up the cupboard to make her lunch today and said, "Mom, you do care about my lunches!" Well of course I do... That's why I make you take a grain, a fruit/veggie and a protein...That's why I buy stuff that only you can take on your lunches and the other kids can't eat as snacks...  Silly girl. Just because I'm not a pintrest mommy doesn't mean I don't care.

Lego Americana Exhibit

This was pretty neat.  It was at the Fashion Place mall for a few days.  The Capitol building was absolutely huge... The kids loved that people had thrown a bunch of pennies into the Lincoln Memorial.

Saturday

We had tickets to the Symphony on Saturday. It was a kids welcome one and they were playing Peter and the Wolf and some other Fables.  At first we were only going to take Ada, but we all went and the kids loved it even though the film they showed with the music was fairly depressing and a little gruesome.  Evelyn giggled.  Sam followed along with the different instruments that they have listed in the program. We invited my parents up to eat at Siegfrieds with us after. (We'd never been there before, but my dad served his mission in Germany and they sell things from Germany there too.)

We took a walk around between our two activities. Jer was telling the kids what the base and median spot was and they all wanted to be in the "middle"... so they kept pushing each other out of the way.

We went through the Beehive house.  It was really neat to see the beauty of the building and know how much time and effort went into this home and office building.  The sister missionary asked if anyone knew what a prophet was.  Sam volunteered and said that they were examples of Jesus.  Everyone on the tour kind of giggled and Evelyn started cheering and hugged him as hard as she could saying, "Yay Sam, you did it!"

Game of tag

We went to the FamilySearch Center for a little while too.  The kids LOVED the kids play area and Jer and I did some genealogy while they played.

Siegfried's was fun too.  We discovered that baby likes eclairs and the other kids loved the chocolate.

This and that

Park day because it was super warm...

Sam wanted to play baseball, so I pitched to him and he was hitting all the ones that came in his zone.

Me, Ada and Evelyn got to go with Aunt Nellie to the new Cinderella movie.  Not only was it super cool, but we went to the new Vineyard theater that has luxury seating and all sorts of perks... one of which is Tuesdays are their $5 day for any seat in the house (3D, Luxury, IMAX...) So we saw it on IMAX.  It was a good movie, and my girls danced and descended stairs like a princesses for a day or two after.  Evelyn still says that I'm the prince when she wants me to dance with her.

Evelyn LOVES the Shutterfly books that I make every year.  She tells me all about all the pictures.

We wanted to try our new curlers.  Ada's hair was too short and it just made it wave... Evelyn's was pretty cute until they jumped on the tramp... I didn't put hairspray in.  And mine is still wet 4 hours later so I still haven't taken them out yet.  I'm guessing that I either need to sleep in them or buy a hair dryer if I want to use them more often.

Poor kiddo

This kid isn't feeling so happy... upside is that he let me cuddle him to sleep where he won't let me do that anymore....