St Patrick's Day and Bubble Fun

 Friday we celebrated St. Patrick's Day at school, which I must say, we play this holiday up a whole lot more now than when I was in school.  We used to wear green to avoid being pinched and that was about it.  Now we go all out with the leprechaun messing up our class and then going on a hunt for his treasure!!  The kids were so excited when they came into the classroom Friday to find our room in a mess which meant the leprechaun had been there!  We have been reading a few books about St. Patrick's Day.  Cohen on the other hand asked me to hold her immediately because she did not like the thought of a leprechaun being in our class.  I assured her he was long gone now and then had to assure her that our doors were locked at home and he would not be making a mess at our house.  We had a leprechaun hunt next leading to the leprechaun's hat with gold in it.  It was a lot of fun for the kids and needless to say they were wild the  rest of the day.  All weekend though we have had to hear Cohen tell everyone to lock their doors so the leprechaun can't get in.  Friday when she spent the night with Savannah, Aunt Sara had to tell her the alarm was on so the leprechaun couldn't get in and if he tried the alarm would go off.  Yesterday when I was getting her at my mom's house I found the door locked because they were keeping the leprechaun out.  Maybe it wasn't a good idea to play this holiday up more :)

Cleaning up the leprechaun's mess

Reading the leprechaun's clues

Running for the clue

We have really been enjoying this nice spring weather.  I only hope it is here to stay!  We have been playing outside and Kate gets to sit in her walker.   We have to keep her a little contained because she will put any and everything into her mouth.  I call her my little billy goat.  She is a mess for sure!  She does love bubbles though!  She will scrunch up her face when we start to blow them and just laugh.  Its so cute watching her try to catch and touch them.  I love watching a baby learn new things.  It has to be one of the most precious things.  She went on her first wagon ride this week too and loved it!  I know we have lots of those in store!

Trying to catch one

I love this face!!

Big sister having fun too!!

 Cohen playing with her princess ball game...we have some work to do before playing ball one day :)

Fancy Feathers Farm

Today our preschool 3 and 4 year olds went on a field trip to Fancy Feathers Farm.  This is a farm that has all kinds of farm animals from emus, ostriches, a turkey, donkey, goats, rabbits, chickens and some very large dogs!  The kids had so much fun seeing all the animals and even getting to hold a few of them.  The baby emus were my favorite and Cohen really enjoyed the emus because they liked to come and peck your shoes.  The owner told us they would untie your shoes if you let them but most of the kids didn't have ties so they were happy to let the bird come up and peck or touch their shoes.   It was all very entertaining and I think the kids really had a good time.
On a funny note, Cohen has really gotten on this kick about finding someone to marry.  And right in the middle of the field trip she looks at me and says, "Mama, I've got to find someone here who will marry me."  I think this is cute and really hilarious because lately she has nominated several boys to marry her...she doesn't understand they have to want to marry her first :)  She is into Wyatt, who is in the 4 year old class and you can see her move in on him in a few of these pictures.  Not only does my sweet baby like boys but she is going after the older ones...love her!

Ready to see all the animals

Getting her shoe pecked at

Both girls jumped as the emu came close!

Cohen & her cousin Savannah, notice they are striking a pose!

Holding the baby emu for Cohen to pet

Cohen loved holding the baby emu!

Cohen & Will decided to feed the chickens their lettuce instead of eating it themselves

Brooke & Cohen

Cohen moved in on Wyatt here while they waited for a piece of lettuce from the garden

Snack time was with Wyatt too :)

A waif reunion weekend

This weekend I got to see some of my favorites from N.C. and Pennsylvania-Tina, Tara, and Jessica (or the waifs).  The girls came to visit us in GA and we had a blast catching up and of course just laughing at everything.   We had not been together since Tara's wedding in September, way too long.  When we get together we are guaranteed a fun time with lots of laughs.  I took the girls to Commerce to do a little shopping and for a merry-go-round ride for Cohen and Jessica...

 

I guess your never too old for a ride:) Jessica is such a good sport with Cohen even though it may have been her idea to ride :)

After the girls went to bed we were able to play Kelly's new favorite game he got for Valentine's, Wits and Wagers, and we had so much fun laughing.  To me there is nothing better than laughing so hard you cry.  I wish I had that every day!  I love it!

What I didn't know would happen was selling my car!  Tina was in need of a car (on the days she doesn't ride her bike, of course) and we had one to sell and guess what, we did!  Tina decided to change her flight plans and take the Trailblazer back home!  Waifs are also good for buying/selling cars.  I get so attached to things and that includes my car so I am so happy to know it will have a good home!!  I can only hope it is as good of a car for Tina as it was for me.  Hubby washed and vacuumed the car out and then we headed off to Greenville to take Tina to drop off her rental.  What a fun weekend we had, and I'm already counting down to our next one, so waifs lets make it soon!!

Tara & Kate, who is amazed at the bubbles in front of her

Jess found her some new sunglasses in the trailblazer...I threw them in when Tina bought the car

Signing over the title

Waifs always do business on their bikes

One more group shot! Love them :)

Kate Daniels-9 months

I can't believe I'm typing Kate's 9 month post.   I feel like I just did the 8 month.  These months are passing way too fast.  I also haven't been blogging as much or it feels that way but not because there is a lack of things going on for sure.  Kate recently turned 9 months old and I waited a week to make this post thinking I would get a chance to sit with her and make some cute pictures but so far I haven't done that.  We also haven't went for her official 9 month check-up but I didn't want to wait for that since it is still a couple of weeks away.  We did make a Dr's visit this week because she has battled such a bad cold and runny nose.  It turned out to be a cold and also an ear infection.  I hate when she is all stuffed up because that is just a helpless feeling.  She just takes it like a champ though.  I've said this many many times but Kate has to be the happiest little girl ever!  This baby is like sunshine to me and she is always full of smiles.  

I'm glad I waited a few days too because Kate just yesterday pulled up for the first time.  She started crawling last month and that is the one thing that feels like it happened a while back.  She is a little mover!  I get a workout chasing her around.  Kate loves to get into anything she isn't supposed to be in, my plants (she loves to eat leaves and dirt or at least put them in her mouth), the dog's food and water, the fireplace, dog toys, and her most favorite is finding any teeny tiny speck of something in the floor to try to pick up and eat.  I call her my little goat.  She loves to eat food but she still has NO teeth.  I've been told that the longer it takes the better the teeth so I'm not worried at all.  In a playroom full of toys Kate tends to play with Daddy's drum set, cd covers or to try to pull up at Cohen's little picnic table.  I've told Cohen we have to make sure we pick everything up now since Kate will eat it.   I'll hopefully have more pictures to post soon and will definitely put an update after her check-up, but here is all about Kate now at 9 months:

• Weight-18 lbs 8 oz
• STILL NO TEETH
• She is now pulling up!
• Into EVERYTHING, and this baby girl moves very fast
• Wears 6-9 mos. or 6-12 mos. depending on the brand
• Has enough hair now for a bow and can't do headbands anymore
• Loves to "talk" and will wave her hands a lot or do a little "point" gesture with her fingers
• Sleeps through the night some nights, but most of the time will wake up to take a bottle once and that's usually around 5:00 am
• Is so happy and laid back. I would have several more babies if I were guaranteed they would be this good!!

Cohen and her "plugs"

If Cohen loves anything its dancing and singing.  She LOVES to sing to the radio when we are in the car and she really gets into it.  Kelly and I keep saying how we have got to record her singing in the car because her facial expressions are priceless.  She has always been a big Taylor Swift fan and now that has expanded to just about anything I listen to.  When we get in the car she knows what she wants to hear and fortunately we have bluetooth on the new car but sometimes I don't always want to hear what she does.  I told her recently that I would give her one of my old iPods and she was so excited.  I was getting it charged  up and all she kept asking me was "can I have my plugs?"  "can I listen to my plugs now?"   It really cracked me up because I never mentioned the ear phones and I wouldn't have called them plugs but she did.  Today she asked about her "plugs" and the iPod was finally charged and loaded with all her favorite songs.  Cohen is now set and this is all I've seen this afternoon...

singing hard

Just a few weeks ago we celebrated my Mama's birthday and I just realized I never posted the picture I took on the night we celebrated.  This is my mama with my girls and 2 of my sister's boys.  She is missing Chance, Paula's middle son.  You can see that even Dooley worked his way into the picture a little bit which is good since he is the spoiled grand-dog. I think she had a good birthday and enjoyed celebrating with everyone.  She got to drag it out a week or so too which is always the best way!

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

This week we have been studying Dr. Seuss at school since today was his birthday.  I love some quotes from Dr. Seuss but I have to admit that some of his books are really out there.  Not to mention tongue twisters!  We saved 2 of the best books for today which were "The Cat in the Hat" and "Green Eggs and Ham".  We cooked green eggs & ham and then we had a special guest, Mrs. Margaret, come and read "The Cat in the Hat".  All the kids had made their own hat earlier in the week so they could wear them today.   Its so funny to hear them all talk about how they like eggs but not green eggs but then once they have some on their plate they love them! Cohen really enjoyed hers and I was surprised!  She is hesitant to try new things or things she thinks may be bad but she is also real good to eat things in group settings with other kids so that probably helped.   It was a fun day at school.  Since we had just had a week off for winter break the first week back is always the hardest.  I'm excited about the weeks ahead, we have some fun things planned and spring is almost here!!

cracking her egg

GREEN EGGS!

Cohen & Brooke stirring the eggs