Fishing

It was a BEAUTIFUL weekend in Florida. I took the girls out for a bike ride and we ran into our good friends, Conner and Graham, who live by the lake. The boys were outside playing and the girls were very excited to check out their fishing poles!

Reilly was so determined to catch a fish, that she kept trying to cast it out. And she didn't want to leave until she caught something. I had to break the news that Conner and Graham's Daddy hasn't caught anything in that lake in two years. Thankfully we are going camping this coming weekend so the girls can have a true chance to fish!

Brooke wasn't so into the fishing pole, but she wanted into that water in a big way...and dipped her new boots in a few times ;-)

Princess Ball

Mental note...never trust it when Daddy says he will take pictures *later*. Because he won't.

Reilly had her school Princess Ball this weekend. It is an annual Father/Daughter dance. Adorable, right?!? The PERFECT photo opp, right?!? Right...yet, wrong! Mike was rushed leaving the house and promised me he would take pictures later. I didn't get one single shot of them together. But thanks to Charlotte's Daddy, we did get one of Reilly with her pals Charlotte and Livia. They had a great time!

Braids

Brooke rarely lets me do her hair. Who am I kidding? Neither kid likes to have me to their hair. I always think of those perfect kids with the perfect hair and wonder how their parents get to do that! But over the past week Brooke has been letting me braid her hair and it looks so darn cute!

She actually reminds me of me when I was two. Though I had straight hair and hers is super curly, we both had pretty thin hair. I couldn't get her to stop for a picture but here she is screaming while she is playing in the sink!

Swaddling

For anybody who knew Brooke as a newborn, you know she was a sleeper. (How I long for THOSE days!) But really the only way we could get her to sleep was to swaddle her. In fact, she was so big so fast that we had to swaddler her in a table cloth because the baby blankets wouldn't cut it!

Anyways. This weekend I was playing dolls with the girls and I was telling them that they needed to swaddle the babies so they would sleep. They thought that was the funniest thing and wanted to be swaddled too. So here they are!

Gasparilla

Mike has found memories of going to Gasparilla as a child. Since we moved to Florida 5 years ago he has wanted to go. The kids have always been too young - but not this year! He dressed Reilly up with pirate tattoos and bandanna and made the trek to Tampa with David and his Dad. They had a great time watching the parade, seeing pirates and catching beads! Maybe next year Brooke will go too ;-)

Happy Tu B'Shevat

Otherwise known as the New Year for the Trees....this is one holiday that the preschool DOESN'T close for. They do, however, have a nice lunch where we were able to join Reilly and her class for singing and eating - and then planting of "trees." In this case, Reilly planted flowers in an adorable pot that she painted. She had a great time, and the flowers are now in our kitchen, where she reminds me every day to give them sunshine.

Tat-Girl

Reilly got a couple tattoos at her cousin's Bat Mitzvah...and she just loved them! Mike promised her she could get another one the following day...so she got her name ;-) And she just loved to show it off! I asked her to make her meanest face...