Haircuts

 

The girls have needed a haircut for a while, especially so Gwen and Grace could get their bangs trimmed.  With their spring pictures, class pictures, and apparently some special kindergarten graduation pictures happening this week, I took them first thing Saturday morning to get haircuts.  I didn't take any before pictures, because I wasn't expecting anything too dramatic, so you'll have to compare to past blog posts, but here's a couple after photos.

 

Gracie didn't do much with her hair other than get her bangs cut again, and get her hair trimmed.  She seems to like the length that her hair is at now.

 

Right after her haircut...her hair is still wet!!

 

All curled and ready for picture day-what a sweet girl!!

 

Georgia told me for a few days before taking them to get haircuts that she had to have bangs this time just like Aunt Mimi (my sister Melissa).  She even told the hair stylist that she had to have bangs like Aunt Mimi's before I could say a word about her hair. 

 

It looks super cute on her, but she looks so much more grown up-sadness!

 

What a cutie!!

 

Gwen really changed it up this time.  She has been reading a lot of Magic School Bus books lately (along with Magic Tree House, Captain Underpants...well, every book she can get her hands on that is).  She told me that she wanted her hair cut like Wanda's from The  Magic School Bus.  Rob and I were really hesitant to let her get it cut that short, so we told her she could get it to her chin.  Well......her hairstylist didn't take into account Gwen's very curly hair and it ended up just like Wanda's (I wish she would have listened to me about Gwen's bangs though...I think she cut them too short).

 

It's so short now!!

 I really wasn't sure for a day or two afterwards whether I liked her new haircut or not.  It is super cute though, especially when it's tightly curled, like we did for pictures.  She loves it, and I guess that's all that matters.  She just looks so grown up-my peanut is growing up so fast!!

 

I am excited to see how the girls spring photos turn out, and I am excited to take some of Georgia and Genesis too.  I can't wait to see what the next major hairstyle for the girls will be!!

Laughing With Genesis

 

I love how these two play together!!

 



A Happy Easter

 

Now that I've got my blog working again...

 

We had a really nice Easter this year.  My sister in law Amanda sent us some really cool ideas to do for Easter, but in the end we just ran out of time to do them between all their homework and trying to get our house cleaned up for Easter.  We did spend the week talking to the girls about why we truly celebrate Easter, but we also prepared them for E. Aster Bunnymund's visit (Gwen is reading the Rise of the Guardians series...this is the Easter Bunny's name in the books).  Gwen and Grace really seemed to understand why we really celebrate Easter, especially Gwen, who has a very sweet testimony of the Savior and His sacrifices for us, and was pleased to share that in her talk that she gave in Primary on Easter Sunday.

 

The girls spent a good deal of Saturday though riding bikes up and down our street with three boys who live in our neighborhood.  Two of them are in Gracie's kindergarten class, and the other is one of the boys older brother.  We walk home from school 3 or 4 times a week with the older brother and Gracie's classmate, and they have become good friends.  They had a lot of fun together, and I was really pleased to see that everyone, including the boys, were making sure that they included Georgia as well.

 

After playing outside for a while we came in, had dinner and baths, then decorated eggs.  Rob and I were so excited to see how Genesis would react to dying eggs, and just to celebrate her first Easter with her.

 

Genni loved looking at and touching the eggs.  She loved them so much that she started shrieking in displeasure when I helped her put them into the mugs to dye them.

Gwen had fun dying eggs...

...as did Gracie and Georgia.  The girls all had tons of fun putting an egg in and leaving it while we watched Scooby Doo cartoons and I put curlers in their hair.

 

The girls were so excited the next morning and had so much fun looking for their Easter baskets, which Bunnymund hid, as well as all the eggs he had hid that we had dyed the night before.  Their baskets had the normal goodies of chocolate bunnies, plastic eggs filled with MandM's and jellybeans, and peeps, but also had some beef jerky, pistachios, stickers, a notebook and pen, and a bouncy ball.  The girls were thrilled (and snuck as much candy as possible before mom and dad noticed).

 

 

 

Since Genesis can't have chocolate yet, or any type of candy for that matter, Bunnymund brought her some things that she'll be starting to eat in the next few months like Gerber's puffs, yogurt melts, fruit bars, and even a new outfit and toy.  She immediately gravitated to the new toy and began chewing and sucking on it.

Gracie's curls didn't come out like I had planned.  Her hair had just gotten too long for the curlers we had.  We still tried the ones we had though and figured we'd see how it turned out the next morning.  It didn't.  I had seen a post on one of the craft blogs I follow a week or two before Easter with instructions on how to do a 5 strand puffy braid, so I decided to try it on Gracie.  Once I got the hang of doing it, it was pretty simple and easy.  I think it would have turned out a bit better if her hair wasn't so crazy due to being semi-curly when I did it.  Next time I hope to do it while her hair is wet so it turns out smoother and I can get a better picture of it.

 

 We waited until after church to take pictures, because we just didn't have time before with Rob and I trying to get things ready for dinner, get ourselves ready for church, and get the kids ready.  Genni was a bit grumpy after church, and didn't want to sit up on her own, so we had to prop her up and get her sisters involved to get her to smile and once she started smiling she turned back into our happy baby and let us get a bunch of cute pictures of her.  The girls all did really well and let us take some nice photos of them.

 We decided to try and take some photos of the girls out on the swing set, but once we realized that none of them could hold on to their seat and hold Genni at the same time we scrapped that idea and took a couple of the three older girls, then went inside to take pictures of all 4 of them together.

 

We had fun getting the sillies out, and then took some nice photos.

 My 4 beautiful girls!!

I am so blessed that I have a wonderful husband who loves me and helps me so much, 4 healthy and happy girls, and a very loving Heavenly Father and Savior.  I am so grateful for all I have!!

7 Months Old!!

 

Here's some photos of Genesis from when she turned 7 months old a few weeks ago.

 

Having some play time on the floor.

 

Not a very good picture, but I love this girls curly hair!!

It was raining, so I put on our sling and stuck her in it and zipped up an extra large jacket around the two of us, and that way she was nice and warm and I could hold my umbrella over the two of us.

Big smiles!!

 

I love seeing her learn new things (she's so close to crawling!!) and problem solve.  She is growing and changing so much!!  What a sweet blessing she is!!

St. Patricks Day

 

We didn't do a whole lot for St. Patrick's Day.  The girls really wanted to make a leprechaun trap, but we just didn't have enough time over the weekend to make one, and they were pretty disappointed about that, but Robbie made them green eggs for breakfast that morning, they had green milk to drink later that day, and we talked a bit about it, but no big celebration-and it was great!  We just had fun wearing green, and eating green things.

 

The girls did do a bunch of stuff at school the next day to celebrate (they didn't do anything the week before because it was their spring break that week), and Gwen and Grace wore shirts that I made for them with iron on transfer paper and some T-shirts we had left over from birthday parties, which they were quite pleased with.  It was a nice, fun, relaxing holiday in between two fairly big holidays, and I think we'll keep it that way.

No Peas Please

 

So far the only baby food that Genni hasn't liked is peas.  She has chowed everything else I have fed her with such fervor that at first I can't seem to feed her fast enough.  However, when it came to trying peas for the first time, she absolutely hated them.  It was hilarious to watch because she made a face at every single spoonful of it.  I couldn't help laughing halfway through feeding her because the disgusted faces she was making never stopped.  Thankfully she has grown to like them and will eat them without fighting me now.  The expressions on her face were priceless though!!

 

Ewwww

I am going to spit this out right now.

 

What is this dribble you have fed me Mom?

 

Please...no more...it's torture!!

I am so glad we are all done!!  Please don't feed me peas again!!

Just Some Pictures

 

Just some pictures of the girls from the past few months.

 

Gwen discovered that she could stick a toothpick in between her two front teeth and it would stay there on its own.  We explained how normally this wasn't something she should do, but got a good laugh out of it first.

 

Gwen and I decided to pretend we were Cousin It, though I had to explain who Cousin It is.  She suggested we looked more like a bigfoot.  We were laughing like crazy.  I love moments like these where I can be silly with the girls, but bond with them and become closer with them at the same time.

Grace made two headbands at school to celebrate 100 days of school.  This was one of them.  She loved wearing it around the house, even while dressed up as a princess.

 

I check on the girls every night before I go to bed.  I had to leave the room quickly because I was laughing so hard when I saw this.  Apparently one of the best things to snuggle with while falling asleep is your own hand...inside a sock puppet.

I have mentioned before that Georgia is obsessed with the movie Tangled.  I made this hair for her the year she dressed up like Rapunzel for Halloween.  She wears it all the time.  I keep trying to pack it back up in the Halloween stuff, but because we're still trying to organize our garage, the tote with all the costumes has been in a very convenient place for her to raid it.  So, for now, we enjoy having Rapunzel in our home on a regular basis.

 Georgia is our only child who will tell us "Mommy...Daddy...I'm tired.  Can I go to bed?"  She climbs in her bed, or falls asleep wherever she is, whenever she feels tired, whereas the other girls will fight to stay awake during the day.  Georgia has been like this since she was a baby though.  I went to check on her because I hadn't heard her in a while, and found her asleep like this.  I can't believe that she could sleep like this...it would drive me crazy (and yes, we do have bunk beds...Robbie is just fixing them right now so we are letting the girls sleep in the toddler beds since they are too scared of bugs sneaking in and crawling on them to sleep on mattresses on the floor-doesn't matter how many times we tell them that we have someone spray to keep bugs out).

I just liked this picture of Genni and decided to put it in here.  It's the only beanie we have for a baby instead of those little baby hats, and it's so cute...and it finally fits!!

Pigtails!!  I was so excited to see that I could finally put pigtails in Genni's hair!!  Her hair has gotten so long since her birth...it's crazy.  Sadly only the top part fits in right now, but the back is getting there!!

 

Genesis cracks us up.  It doesn't matter what baby food she's eating that day, or if she's eating rice cereal or having a bottle...she growls like this at every feeding. 

I love the moments these girls share with us!!