Yesterday Mckenna came home from school frantic that a Leprechaun stole her library book. She was determined to catch a leprechaun and take him to school with her. She told us how they are attracted to shinny things so she found a box and wrapped it in tinfoil....then she placed some food and candy gold coins in the box. She put a sign on the box that read "Free Food in here and Gold." All in hopes that a leprechaun might come along and be fooled to get in the box. She even asked me to leave a night light on so that the Leprechaun would see the gold. Unfortunately no Lepracon was caught last night....maybe we will try again tonight. The kids did find gold though. We left a path of Gold Coins that lead to a lucky pot of Gold and a Box of Lucky Charms for Breakfast....(you all know cereal is my cooking specialty). Anyway they all had fun this morning. Later in the morning Mia and I were discussing Leprechauns....and she decided since they like shiny things like gold they would love the brass plates! Gotta love that.
Catch Up.....AGAIN!!
I looked at my last post.....another month has flown by. Here are a few highlights!
I celebrated a birthday....Mckenna snapped these shots of me.... MAKING A WISH....notice the smoke! Great Job Mckenna.
Dr. Suess also celebrated a birthday (same day as mine). Mckenna got to dress up for this event. She was Thing 2 and her friend Carter was Thing 1. Thanks Heather for the costumes!!
Mckenna dressed up again for literacy week. They dressed up as a favorite character in a book. Mckenna chose to be Katy from the book Katy No Pocket. (A Kangaroo with no pouch so she finds an apron instead). I love that book. It is fun to see her excited about reading.
I hosted a baby shower. It was a win win situation. My friend and I decided to throw the shower since no one had offered. I had two weeks to get my house in order. It was nice to have an incentive to get some things done that I have been wanting to do for a long time. I haven't done much since I was pregnant with Kaden.....and now that he is a year old I guess it is about time. I finally finally finally (we've only lived here 3 1/2 years) painted over the "HOMEMADE MEMORIES" sign in our kitchen that was left by the previous owners. I don't know why I didn't do that sooner. I fixed and painted the baseboards.......from when we put wood in 2 years ago. OK maybe I am embarrassing myself. Yea, we don't get things done too quick around here. Too many others things that take our time. I got a few new decorations to go above our kitchen cupboards.....now that took time. Thanks to all of you for your never ending input....especially Matt. Does this look good? Do you like this better? Should I move this? Each day he came home to a different arrangement! You all know I don't make decisions well! Happy to report that I haven't rearranged them in almost a week now! Oh brother!! Anyway the shower went well. My sister in law, Heather, gave me some darling ideas to decorate the shower with. She told me to take some pictures.....I forgot to take them while it was decorated so these pictures are after the fact. At the shower we had the jars sitting in Tule. I just filled the jars with things I had around the house. The funniest part about it was when I took Mia's little bear and put it in the jar. She told me that she thought Missy (the girl we were having the shower for) was allergic to bears so I might not want to use the bear as a decoration ....obviously Mia really didn't want me using her bear. It was cute. Missy was Mia's nursery leader. She loves her. Like I mentioned I just put things in the jar that I had around the house and all I needed to buy was some ribbon and some scrapbook paper to go around the napkins. 5 scrapbook stores later....I decided to make my own paper with digital scrapbooking supplies. None of the stores had brown and blue paper!!......they all had to include the color green in there too....urrrr. That would have totally messed up my color scheme. JK. But you know I still made the paper so maybe I wasn't joking. Sometimes my prefection really drives me crazy!!
We spent a fun day out with the Willey Girls. We attended Disney on Ice. We had a wonderful time with Grandma Mimi, Mimi, Ellie, Mckenna, and Mia. Mia's favorite part was of course Ariel and Mckenna liked it all. I loved Peter Pan and Tinker Belle! Makes me want to head back to Disneyland.
The other day Mia's cheeks were flushed looking so I asked her why her cheeks were red. She said, "Nothing is wrong with my cheeks mom, I am just turning into a mother." Made me start to think.....do I ware a lot of blush or what???? It made me laugh. She is so funny. She is always making me laugh.
