Spring Break Begins!!

Linnea and I are having a wonderful spring break (Harper too, however Im not sure her daycare break is considered spring break)!
It started Thursday night by ordering pizza and watching some new shows before bed.
Then Friday after storytime we made cookies and packed up for our weekend trip to our friends house. We left for the Wallins as soon as we could when daddy got home from work.
We arrived at bedtime so not too much happened on Friday night besides a quick storytime with the lil girls and Linnea being afraid of the dog.
We all slept well and the fun truly began Saturday morning.

Breakfast is always better with a buddy.
Linnea and Sophia.

its not a playdate without some dressing up!

The climbing structure was a big time hit! 

The big girls loved to jump off into the dog bed and the lil ones loved to climb up the slide. Harper is on the left and sweet lil Gabby on the right.

Daddy read Pinkalicious sleepover about 30 times in his funny voices.

Harper loved getting a ride inside and outside!

Isabel is such a good helper :)

We walked to a park a few blocks away and did some playing :) It was nice to take advantage of the sunshine and pretty warm weather.

9 month old Cora and about 7 month old Gabby :)

Us mamas got to go on a hike after the playground while Harper napped and the big girls had some quiet time with a show. I felt weird because I did not have a kid with me and Lori and DeAnna were both wearing theirs!

well I wanted to put the super sweet picture I had of Sophia and Linnea having their slumber party in her bed but I must have deleted it! I cant find it :( If I do I will put it here. Linnea slept with Sophia until about 4am and then she came scurrying out to sleep in the family room on the couch with daddy. She was worried the dog would come in she said.

More rides on Sunday morning :)

We drove another park Sunday before heading out.

We have Flat Stanley from Ella...he is a lil paper guy who is supposed to join us on our adventures for a week. I meant to get a picture of him with us at the playground but didnt remember to take him out then.

We had so much fun with 6 girls under 6 and 4 other adults and a dog. 

Circus Field Trip!

I was so lucky to be able to go to the circus with one student last Thursday. I had been so worried about this field trip because all of our students in my class this year use "instructional learning chairs" so without these at the circus it was going to be very hard to keep them seated and away from the animals! We would have likely just ended up walking a lot. 

Anyways, I could not believe that just two students came to school and only one had turned their field trip slip in so only one was going. And I was lucky enough to go with her :) I LOVED the one on one time. We have an EXTREMELY busy class this year and sometimes the students who are well behaved don't get as much attention because we are so busy with the other students who are having a hard time. Anyways...the student I got to go with is one who maybe doesn't get as much attention so it was a special day. 

there was a man running around and around in this and on top of it while it was going around and around.
crazy.

 poor but talented elephant...

loving the dancing elephant.
she found the shadows of the trapeze artists as well and liked those too :)

I have decided I'm not crazy about the idea of circuses but our students sure do love them and that makes it worth it to go. My gal smiled the whole time and that warms my heart :) 

Turns out more of our class showed up to school late...I hope they got to go to the circus on Friday when another group was going.

Weekend fun...

Harper and I started our weekend of March 21st with a little bit of an adventure. We brought Linnea to school on a Friday which is different in itself but it was a "free" day and she wanted to go so off we went. After dropping L off we headed home for breakfast and then back out to the library to return some stuff and play. Well when we were done and headed out to the car and wanted to go on another errand, the car wouldn't start! Battery dead! So we went back in and had a lil lunch date at the Dunn Brothers connected to it. I called AAA and they came and fixed it. We headed home, Harper had a nice nap in the car after that and we proceeded on with our evening of playing at another library after picking up Linnea. I can't remember what we did exactly the rest of the evening but the battery situation was the highlight :) 

Saturday morning I got a run in and then we went to our fav library event...Saturday Live at the Central Library downtown St. Paul. Such a beautiful place and the events are so fun.

Wendy's Wiggle Giggle Jiggle and Jam. Linnea is on the end in the blue shirt. She has seen this show before and loves going up :)

When Harper wasnt climbing on the chair she was playing with some puzzles and magnet mazes.

Linnea proudly made a pattern :)

We went to Chris' moms after that and Chris and I got to go on our March date...3rd one this year! YAY! We are keeping that resolution so far :) I will get those pics up soon...they are on Chris' phone.

We came home from Bay City late Saturday night and all slept in on Sunday. I think the girls slept til 10!!! I went on a run along the river to switch it up from the Como area. I also picked up this cool art easel someone was giving away for free on my new fav thing on Facebook...essentially Facebook garage.

Our budding artist! It was just water but she loved it!

The girls and I ended our Sunday at my parents house with Dylan and Jake. The guys were at a baseball draft so we had our lil party with my mom. We played, watched some Ninja Turtles, and the watched Frozen again! Fun times!

1st Sleepover and Baseball Draft 2014

We had our neighbor Linnea over to play with our Linnea and  Harper a few Fridays ago. We had a blast playing Frozen. Yes playing it. Not watching it. They acted out most of it taking turns playing Anna and Elsa. Harper tried her best to keep up and "sang" along when they did. We also made a shamrock wreath, had lunch and played ponies :) Great morning!

And the morning was so fun...they extended it into the night when neighbor Linnea invited our Linnea to sleepover! YES! A sleepover at age 5. I would have never done it. BUT this girl below was all about it. She was so excited so she ate the fastest dinner ever and we packed a quick bag and I walked her the few blocks over. We knew she was only a few blocks away if it didnt work out...

I took one picture before leaving her there with these fun gals. They were going to have a little makeover...here is the before...

And after...pretty girls both ways!

 Movie time (Linnea's mom put these on FB, I didnt stay for the whole makeover and movie)

Sweet Dreams! And she made it til morning! We were soooo surprised! We thought maybe Harper would stay in crib all night while big sis was gone cuz we could maybe let her cry but we just can't do it. 25 minutes of hyperventilating screaming is all we could do.

So that weekend started with a sleepover, we celebrated St. Patricks Day during Saturday and then Sunday came around and it was time to draft for fantasy baseball! This was my one and only. It was Chris' 10th I think. He had one more this past weekend. He is in 11 fantasy baseball leagues! EEK! I hope he does well and know he will. He has been studying a lot!

I love having it at our house my dad and our friend Stan. We make ballpark food, have some beers, chat, laugh and my mom plays with the girls! Oh yes...we pick our fav baseball players too :)

 Studying up before the drafts!