Sophie got to meet her Great-Grandmother!

We headed to my Meme's house on Good Friday early in the morning. We spent the day with family that Sophie has never met, stayed over night, took Meme out to lunch, and then headed back home today to get ready for the Easter bunny to come tomorrow! It was a long trip to make in 2 days (4 hours each way) but it is always important to introduce a Great Grandmother to her new great grand baby!

We had a good time but are happy to be back home!

Man is it hard to travel with 3 kids---one being almost 4 months old!

HAPPY EARLY EASTER!

I AM A WINNER!

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Check out this website to see what I won! I AM NEVER A WINNER (until today that is). I am so pepped up about being the winner to this contest! I will post pictures of my name meaning painting when I receive it!

YEAH TO ME! (not to boost too much or anything...)

Sophie pics and Madalyn's 1st grade Easter Party

Madalyn after hunting eggs with her full basket!

Her good friend-Celeste and her playing a 'Don't break the Egg' game.
Madalyn and another good friend- Braden

OMG-- she is getting so BIG!

Sophie is her cute bunny outfit!

Not quite happy about the bunny ears!

This picture was taken Monday when the humidity was crazy high!

You can't see it really well in this picture but Sophie's hair was standing completely up!

Glow in the Dark Easter Eggs

How to Make Glow in the Dark Easter Eggs
Simple easy to do guide to making your Easter egg hunt fun and more memorable.

Steps
Take regular plastic Easter eggs and fine grit sand paper and sand the plastic Easter eggs lightly.
Pour 8 ounces of waterbase acrylic varnish into a plastic cup and add 2 oz of GloNation.com's, glow in the dark powder.
Mix well.
With a craft brush paint the eggs and allow to dry.
You can choose from 8 different glow colors they can glow up to 15 hours.
Place all the eggs under a black light 10 minutes prior to hiding. This will charge the glow pant you painted on. Place in the back yard at night.
Watch the kids have a ball.


Tips
Make fun hats for the kids by painting the mixture on paper hats.
Paint on old t-shirts too.

Mommy's and shopping

Alot of times I will hit Walmart at late night hours just to have a couple hours of shopping without anyone interfering. I love to go like on a Friday or Saturday night and be gone for a few hours while Mark is home with the girls sleeping.
Tonight mom and I hit Walmart around 9. You would not believe how many other moms I saw there that I know that were doing the same thing. Hilarious how many other moms have the same idea I have about getting excited about such a small thing as getting to go to Walmart ALL BY MYSELF!
Have fun shoppping fellow Mommies!

THE LAST BIG BANG!

After church and lunch today, we decided to have one more fun outing before starting back to work and school. We went to the museum here at Baylor.

The song on here has been our 'theme song' for the week. We have listened to this song so much that I bet if Sophie could talk she would be singing it along with all of us!

Cereal, sleeping, and the end to Spring Break

So I was buying groceries last night and decided to go ahead and get Sophie some cereal. I didn't plan on feeding it to her yet, just wanted to have it for when we were ready.

When we got home plans changed...Every night she has a fussy time or more like screaming time right before bed. She started that up and my thoughts on the cereal changed. I know alot of people think that babies need to be around 4 1/2-5 months of age before feeding cereal but I did some research on it before even buying it. I read that as long as they are 13 or more pounds, can sit up supported, and have doubled their birth weight then it is ok to start cereal.

Well, like I said we decided to give it a try and if she didn't like it, I was going to hold off until she was MORE ready. As soon as she had had about 2 bites, she pretty much knew what to do and LOVED IT! A gave her 1 teaspoon of rice cereal with 4 teaspoons of water. After eating that, she had a bath, I fed her, and she went right to sleep. and slept, and slept, etc. She went to bed at 11:00, woke up around 1 to eat, slept till 7, ate, and went back to sleep until 12:30 lunch time! WOW...

So spring break has come to an end...

Thursday we just hung out at the house, pretty much did nothing. Friday since it was a wonderfully 91 degrees, we were outside as long as we could stand it! Mark even got sunburned! Today, Saturday, Mark took the girls to the movie to see Dr. Seuss'-Horton Hears a Who.

.not much else to report.