awwww shucks

Bee and frankie wanted to dress up as "princesses" this afternoon, and so they put on their dresses and pretended that straws were magic wands. Bee asked me when the prince was going to come, and I said that daddy would be home from work in about an hour. She said, but mommy he is YOUR prince, what about mine?? Im not sure how I feel about her needing a prince at her tender age but it really made me happy she knew scott was mine!

Koomps

Koompa still has it! We went for a walk last night, and she saw a cat, and she took off. I almost dislocated my shoulder and both hips. It was hard to get upset with her. It just thrills me to see how much she loves life and to see her move her centurian bones so quickly and with such strength! I wanna be just like koompa when Im 100!

Tornado......and Superman!

So Friday was a little crazy for all us - we actually had a tornado! It didnt touch down near our house, but it did near my friend's apartment building, and she had two pine trees completely uprooted, and they crashed into her apartment building and took off part of the roof.

Anyhow, I was returning home from DC on friday and we landed just before the storm started. Just as I got home, the tornado alarms went off. So, I ran inside grabbed my car keys and sped off to my kids school (which is 3 blocks away). I got there and everyone was in the basement. so I went down there, and they told us that city hall called and said the tornado was over the post office (about a half mile away from the school). I dont think the tornado actually touched done, but we had a branch down in our back yard!

So, are you wondering about the branch and what we did about it? Well, superman came and helped us!!!

K-Club

Bee started pre-kindergarten yesterday (they call it k-club here)! We're so proud of her - being all grown up and such. Today we went to the playground before school and we were only on the swings for about 15 minutes when she says "OK frankie we're done, time to go to school!". She jumped off of the swing and ran to the school door. I hope she keeps the enthusiam up for school say, for the next 15 years.... Frankie just loves her big sister and wants to be just like her. She ran into the k-club classroom today screaming "Lets Rock and Roll!" because wants to be a k-clubber too! It was hilarious! So, Bee, being ever so wonderful a big sister, takes frankie's hand and says "Frankie you are just a toddler now, but soon you will be in preschool!" awwwwww, I wasnt sure whether to laugh or cry. It was so sweet! Then we walked together down to Frankie's classroom, and while i was getting a spoon a bib for frankie, Bee was opening Frankie's lunch box, getting out her yogurt and spreading a napkin on the table for her so that she would have a placement. That's my k-clubber!!

Talent show

Frankie wanted to put on a talent show! So, she pulled her chair in front on the TV cabinet, sat down and sang songs. We got a few on camera. Her last song was her rendition of wheels on the bus a la Darth Vader. Too bad our camera ran out of memory before the song was over! Bee also sang during Part 2 of the talent show. She is quite expressive in her song!!

Ok Im gonna get better at this

I will try to post more than, oh twice a month... for those of you waiting with baited breath, or how ever that saying goes... Frankie's pizza at the dollop of sauce in the middle, bee's all cheese, and mine was the one with basil. YUMMY!! tonight we are having pasta with sauce made from the garden. I have about a million and one tomatoes, so I made a big vat of sauce last night. pictures to follow!

pizza

we made pizzas for supper.... Im posting a bunch of pics detailing the process... but at the end you will see three pizzas. can you guess which family member made which? Oh yes, and lets not forget the roasted asparagus we ate with the pizza!

trying again...

frankie's gymnastics...tell me if this works!

how much difference a year makes!

Grow Frankie Grow!














































And not to be outdone.... Go Bee!

frankie's gymnastics

Here is how frankie spent the morning. She must have done the dive onto the couch from the toybox about 100 times. OK pardon the mess that is our side room or "parlor" as Bee likes to say!

More Kal-Haven

Click on the image above for a slide show of our trip.

kal-haven trail

we took a little family vacation this week, and packed up the kids, some clothes, and some beach items and headed out to the kal-haven trail. Scott pulled the girls while I pulled the clothes through the green, lightly rolling hills of south western michigan. We stopped half way in Bloomingdale for popsicles, blueberries, and nice cold water. We spent a couple of days in south haven at the beach. Frankie fearlessly waded out to her shoulders, while Bee became an expert sand castle and moat builder/digger. The sunsets were beautiful and the weather was perfect! I cant wait for our next bike trip!

Here are a few action-packed flicks from the covered bridge about a mile west of south haven.





And now for some fun pictures!

This picture was at Bloomingdale's Old Train station, and the girls loved the flag decorations, the train, and the creepy boy! (picture of creepy boy is too creepy to post...)


Bee getting water for the moat


















Scott taking frankie out of the water... that girl was a little duckie!!



















enjoying popsicles halfway home!

tagged...

Colleen (my SIL) tagged me to list 4 things I have learned/did in the past 4 years and 4 things I hope to learn/do in the next 4. So here goes:
1. had not one, but two kids and am learning how to be what I hope is caring, loving, good mommy
2. bike trip with scott and girls to the lake along the Kal-Haven trail (where we carried everything on our bikes!).. see upcoming post
3. started a blog with scott for our family, and also started a blog with my sisters and parents for our family
4. visted Japan with my family

what would be new adventures
1. visit a few states we've never been to before (the dakotas, montana, alaska)
2. teach the girls to read
3. teach the girls to ride bicycles
4. plant and cultivate some blueberry bushes in our yard (yum!)

OK, stay tuned for the details on our bike trip. But suffice it to say that was a BLAST!!