Random Stuff Today....

It was our last day of "nim-nastics" a.k.a. gymnastics. Miss Kathy was wonderful and we found out she lives right behind us by the "red park". The girls had so much fun and learned a lot from her. We didn't sign up for the next session, but we may look at the fall again. Now that spring is here, need to do the outside activities.

We went to an Open House at St. Andrew's Catholic School today. It was fantastic! The kids went to the kindergarten room with the teachers and the parents met with Father Joe, the principal, different parent volunteers and then the kindergarten teachers as well. It's wonderful! And the kids colored a picture, played in the room and....went on a school bus ride! Taylor and Allie thought that was the best thing ever! We left after 2 hours and they each got a little container of bubbles as well.

On our way home from the school, Allie was telling me about "Allison". Who is that you ask? Well, she was in Allie's tummy for 18 minutes. She then came out her mouth; per Taylor, that must have been "slickery". Allison drives a red car (because that's mommies favorite color), has red hair and her middle name is Johnny-O. She also likes to eat french toast sticks but with no syrup. She doesn't like to go to the bathroom, wears flip-flops and likes to sleep late. Allie is "hoping" Allison doesn't wake her up tomorrow morning so she can sleep in. I learned all this in a 4 minute car ride home from the school!

New Trees from Preschool

Preschool was giving away tiny, little bareroot Norway Pines. So we took two of them and planted in the backyard. The girl are now responsible for them! They need to water them two times a day!! The director at preschool said when her youngest daughter was 3 and went there, she got one. She's now 18 and the tree stands 20 ft! I think that is really great and hopefully ours will grow just as good!!!

Mom's Lovely Hair!!

No more going to get my hair done, I've found I have two little professionals right her at home! Not quite sure how many pieces were in my hair, but it sure took them a while! LOVELY!!

Conferences

We had conferences today for the girls for the final time. Makes me sad...this year is coming to a close and so fast! But, time moves on. The girls had a super year and had SOO much fun! Mrs. Kyle told us that Allie ALWAYS has something to tell them and tells them her schedule every day! She said Taylor is not quite as talkative, but is very outgoing and friendly to all the kids. She said both girls even pick up all the toys at the end of class, without being asked, and the toys they didn't even take out! She said Taylor is quite particular where the toys go -- that they go back where they are supposed to. We had a great report and it was sure fun to hear details.

The attached pictures are ones the teacher had the kids do, freehand. They asked for them to draw "one" person; they said our kids drew the whole neighborhood!!

This is Taylor's from left to right:

Aunt Lori, Mike, Lisa, Mom(green), Dad(orange), Mom(purple), Owen, Ashley, Abby(yellow)!!

This is Allie's from left to right:

Mommy, Taylor, Allie, Owen, Great Grandma, Puppet, Daddy (large purple one!), Ashley

What's going on in this family?

That is the question I heard after the week we had. It's been a while since we've posted, and here we are going to post a "real doozy". First of all, it was Monday after the holidays, back to the old routine. I brought the girls to preschool and went to work. At 11:45 a.m. I got a phone call from the preschool director. Said she had two little girls sitting there waiting to get picked up. WHAT?? It had totally escaped Chad's mind to pick them up. I called his cell, and he said he was sitting at work looking at his computer - yikes! I told him and he said *%^@ and hung up. The girls thought nothing of it - they got to go the lunchroom with the teachers, which was pretty cool. The next night, I came home late from work and was having a bite to eat. Allie was upstairs in the bathroom, for maybe 1 - 1 1/2 minutes. We heard her hollar for us. Chad went up thinking her hands were maybe wet and she couldn't open the door. He went in and I heard this, "OH MY GOD Allie - what, what, what are you doing??" I went running up and looked in the bathroom. Below is a picture of what we found. (If you have a weak stomach, beware!!) However, in the screaming of her dad and I, she looked at us straight faced and said, "But mom, dad - I washed my hands."

Allie's version of card from Jodi & Phil

I heard Allie reading a card from Aunt Jodi & Uncle Phil. I don't think this is what the card said, but it's so cute.

More Allie and Taylor "goofiness"...

Last night we went to Grandma and Grandpa Harry's house for dinner and a little "Voit Family Fun". We had a great night with lots of laughter. Those little cherubs sure keep us all in stitches. Allie was in a performing mood that's for sure. They were all playing "Simon Says" with Aunt Lori. She decided to have the KIDS take turns being Simon. Taylor took her turn, which was great. Stuck to the rules. Then it was Allie's turn. She sat on Lori's lap and you could just see the wheels turning. The FIRST thing out of her mouth was "Simon says touch your balls." OH MY!!! We all laughed with a few tears in there. Then it was story time. Lori had them all "tell a story". Allies' was all about a princess in a tower - over and over. Not much more to her story. Taylor grew a little shy, so Uncle Mike helped her along brought some "gut" laughs out of her in telling her story. Owen was telling his story, which was very detailed and "made sense" as opposed to the others. He went on to talk about the rain and storm that was happening and the birds in the nest, three of them. In the midst of his story about the birds, Allie chimes in and says "and then they cracked a bird." I wish we would have gotten it on video; much funnier! However, we all chuckled. Taylor was into tackling - not sure what her gig was. She was going after Allie with a vengeance. Then turned her sights onto Owen. She was just coming up behing and taking them down. Forget dance or gymnastics, I think dad thinks we should sign her up for football! Needless to say, we went home, had a bath a never heard another word from those two until 7:30 a.m.!!!