Saint Patrick's Day 2011

This morning, before the girls got up, I mixed some green food coloring into the milk so when they had their cereal, it got to be green. Karlee was excited to see the milk...but of course, Shelby wasn't. She explained that if she doesn't like to even wear green, she REALLY doesn't like to eat green things that shouldn't be green. She went on to comment, "Great, my poop is going to be green too, huh?" I explained to her that this was fun and she needed to enjoy it...

While they were eating, I got out their green shirts. Shelby explained that she doesn't feel beautiful in green, but when I showed her that the shirt had a little sparkle and bling to it...she said it will do.

Karlee was excited to wear green today and see if her friends were wearing green. When she got home, I asked if they did any fun things today. She said that a Leprechaun named Rumpelstiltskin came and "trashed" their classroom. She really didn't explain to me how the room was trashed, but it sounded more like it was funny, and not a bad thing. I asked where this Leprechaun was from and she told me he came from the magical land of Maryland. I asked her if they had any green food for lunch, and she said they had some healthy food that was green, but of course she didn't eat that.

For dinner, we had chicken alfredo and I only made the noodles green...I could tell Shelby was almost pushed over the edge in regards to green by dinnertime.

Tikki Tikki Tembo

Karlee has been practicing and practicing for this school program since the day they first heard the songs in Music. It has been fun to hear her sing at home, but even more fun to watch the program. (We finally understood what the songs were about!)

She got to be a fan dancer, so she felt pretty special. I forgot to get our video camera ready and so tried to take a few videos with my camera...I can't seem to post those...so if I figure it out, I will post the videos.

It was so funny to watch her the rest of the performance. After the fan dance, she went into the stands. She was in the middle group, smack dab in the middle. Pretty much all of the kids just sang and didn't move much, but of course Karlee didn't. She was dancing around, throwing her arms in the air, shaking her hips and singing as loud as possible. Maybe she thought it was suppose to be like "Glee"... Afterwards, quite a few parents came up to say how much they liked watching Karlee's performance. :)

Yellow Snow....

On Saturday, the girls were playing outside in the snow with Gene Paul and having a blast. Shelby actually outlasted Karlee, which is not normal. After awhile Shelby came in very excited to tell me that "Daddy made me some yellow snowballs!" She was having so much fun playing with them and she wants to keep them forever...

So, of course, my first reaction was, "What!?, What do you mean, yellow snow?!" Shelby said she would bring them in to show, but I didn't think that would be a good idea. I asked her how Daddy made the yellow snow and she said he made "yellow" balls with his hands...and that is when I remembered she can not say her "L's" and figured she was meaning to say "Little". Phew!

Um, I think I look a little ridiculous...

Karlee and Shelby have been asking me to learn how to do girls hair since I usually do there hair with my old standby of the quick ponytail. So we found a blog with a lot of cute styles and Shelby and I decided to try one. After about 8 rubberbands, holding her head at weird angles and 2 cute bows, I said "Tada! Look in the mirror!" I was obviously kind of excited about it...

Well, Shelby looked at her self for a bit and then said hesitantly, " Um, I think I kind of look ridiculous."