Finances 101

Today Trey and Paige dumped out their piggy banks to see how much money they have collected.  I have to say, I was pretty impressed with the loot they have saved.  It was a great counting lesson for Paige since she helped sort the different coins and then put them in piles of 10 for pennies, nickels and dimes and stacks of 4 for quarters.  It was great for Trey too as he was able to sort, stack and count to see how much money he had.  The plan is to go to the bank and then we are going to divide up their shares into charity, savings and of course - spending it on something fun!  While the kids were busy, I dumped out Dominique's "piggy bank" (an empty milk gallon) and whoooo hooo that was fun!  Time for date night maybe?  Or new shoes?  Or saving it for babysitting $?  Or (okay, you get the point!) maybe I should give it back to him....nah!

Fancy nails

Paige received Hello Kitty fake nails for her birthday from her sweet cousins Kaitlyn, Lauren and Emma.  We finally got around to trying them out!  How fancy!  However, we ran into a problem right away with her bad thumb sucking habit. :<(  So the left thumb Hello Kitty nail had to go.  She found it next to impossible to do anything with them on ... Daddy fed her lunch, Trey helped her use the restroom and even had to pick up her beloved Spunky from the ground a few times.  She insisted on keeping them on though until she was able to show them to Grandma (who has some very pretty long nails herself).  Then off they went.  I was hoping for a back scratch first...oh well!

Princess Camp Videos

If you are interested, here are two Princess dances I recorded from Paige's Princess Camp.  She is the one in the Cinderella dress and headband with a big flower on top.  Again, a very focused dancer and I think I see a little grace developing. ;.)

She had so much fun and was so disappointed to wake up on Friday only to learn that it was over and she would not be going today!

"Jasmine" Dance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZUen8iRPVA

"Belle" Dance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C68Tv1q_M18

Princess Camp

Paige has been going to Princess Camp this week.  What is Princess Camp you may be asking?  Well, it is when you dress up in a different tutu/leotard each day, dance, color, watch a little of a movie featuring a certain princess, snack and then actually meeting the princess of the day!  So far Cinderella and Belle came to visit her class.  I am anxiously awaiting the news of who came to see her today!  These are pics from this morning...love the tutu and matching headband.

Best buddies

So Trey and Paige are obsessed with their stuffed animals.  Here they put together their most favorite friends in a 'bed time pile'.

Paige caught this pretty guy eating the seeds/flowers from my basil.

Caught ya red handed!

Just a post

After such a busy May, we are taking it easy for the summer.  This post is not exciting in the least, however, I am putting these pics up anyway!  Paige wanted to get her hair cut b/c she didn't care for me brushing the tangles, so much to my and her Daddy's dismay, we chopped off a good 2 inches this morning.  It looks cute of course.

Before with Spunky

Before

Before

After with Spunky

After

This last picture just cracks me up.  The kids were drawing on the white board and each of them drew a funny man's face with a mustache.  I heard the giggles all the way in my room so I had to investigate and then take this photo to post. ;.)

Trey's mustache man is on the left with his tongue hanging out and Paige's is on the right including a party hat.

Silly kiddos!

Pump It Up!

Paige invited 24 friends to her birthday party at Pump It Up.  The turn out was 15 which was a great number.  There was lots of (you guessed it!) JUMPING!!!  Pizza and cupcakes and present opening rounded out the party.  I think I can pretty much say that all the kids were pooped out by the end of the party.

Silly faced party crowd.

Blowing out her "4" candle on her cupcake.