Queen for a day!

Last week Audrey got to be Queen for the day in her Kindergarten class. She got a special crown, and got to bring her Royal Family in--Myself, Owen and Drew--Maggie had to stay in class. ANd then she got to talk all about herself and her poster that she made about her. She also got to teach about vowels and consanants in her name. I can't believe the year is almost up and she will be a first grader next year!

my latest and greatest

I've been nesting I guess, or just bored, or maybe I'm realizing that there won't be much sewing going on after the baby is born. Here are a few little projects I've made. Do I think I'm having a girl? Yes, but really I just have a lot of material that I'm trying to use up.
Here is a little scripture bag I made for Maggie to carry her new scriptures in. If it looks familiar, it is similar to the one I made in Philly at enrichment.
Yellow snugglie--the plain yellow fabric is that soft chenille that i love!
I got these squares at Garner village and I thought it turned out so cute. The plain pink side is chenille--if I don't have a girl, someone that does is getting a NICE gift--this took a little time with the ruffle and handstiching the two together.

qwirkle

This is our latest game we've been addicted to. Maggie got it for her birthday, and it has been a lot of fun. It's a perfect kid game and a game adults can play without getting bored. It's for ages 6 and up and Audrey who is not quite 6 does rather well at the game. You can't find it at your generic toy store--we got it at a specialty game store and paid $35 for it. But i did see it at one of those specialty discovery toy stores and it was only $25. So if you have kids my age, who enjoy playing games, I recommend it.--I even think a 4-5 year old could figure it out--it's not too complicated.

results...

Glucose test= NEGATIVE. Frankly, I'm surprised, but heck, I'm happy. Now I can enjoy my cadbury robin eggs during Easter!

Today I did this

Ka-Ka! Personally, I would have rather had the orange flavored one--this one was sooooo sweet and sooooo nasty--i really felt ill after drinking it. The sad part is that with Audrey and Drew, I failed the first one and had to do the 3 hour test. I've never had gestational diabetes though which is good--so far that is. So, I may be doing this again next week! Blah!

It's Great to be 8!

Yes, My babe is 8! Where has the time gone??? We actually just had a 3 day festival in honor of Maggie's 8th birthday on the 9th. Why 3 days? Well, Owen and his mom came this weekend and since they were flying out on Monday back to L.A., we kind of had to do a lot of the celebrating before her birthday. Saturday was the friend birthday party where we took 5 friends minature golfing--much less stressful for me--I don't really like to entertain a bunch of kids at my house, so this was a great alternative. That night, we celebrated with dinner at Red Lobster--Maggie loves seafood. On Sunday, we had the birthday dinner at home with another cake, and presents from grandparents.. And on Monday which was her actual birthday, she had treats at school, more presents at home and dinner at Fuddruckers. Man, am I wiped out and broke! Maggie has been talking about her 8th birthday since March 10th of last year, so far so good, we haven't heard of birthday #9 yet. We will have another celebration on the 28th of this month when she is Baptized! We love our little Mags!


The Big Day--March 9th on her way to school

A special friend from Alaska dropped in for her party (Carter Newell--yes, they are the same age)

Her friend party from left to right Audrey, Madeline, Maggie, Hannah, Renee,& Alexa--You have to enlarge this one to see how cute these little girls are!

The traditional Candy bar poster from Drew and Audrey--this is always a big hit!

Maggie with all her loot--she was thrilled--her favorites were her new games for her DS and the Mama Mia soundtack

Kids do say the darndest things

so Random---Driving in the car, everyone is quiet, and Drew says, "I want to eat all my food so I can grow hair on my arms like Daddy." This was a couple of months ago, and he's still talking about it. The other day he said he wanted white hair like Daddy--uh, oh, it's time to get the dye out. I've been wanting Owen to color his hair for years, and he says he looks distinguished. I told him he would look distinguished if he was maybe 40, but 30??? c'mon!

Tonight after watching American Idol, After watching the Allison girl --the 16 year old rocker chick, Audrey says "I don't like her red hair--how does she get it that color?" Me: "She colors it" Audrey "with a crayon?" --yes, she was totally serious--Maggie and I had a good chuckle.