Getting ready for warm weather!

Well vacation is almost here seems like we have been planning this trip forever! Ben is leaving tomorrow morning and of course is still not packed, nothing new...the girls and I have been packed for several weeks. I am of course very nervous about flying with both girls by myself especially since I had what seemed like a great idea to not check our bags. Now I am thinking that might have been kind of a crazy plan!
On a good note I went to the mall today and got a manicure and pedicure. I took the girls with me which may have made the experience a little less relaxing than going by myself. They were good though so I can't complain.

Today Emma asked who will be watching our cat Milo while we are gone. I told her that Mitchell will be. She said " does he even like cats? Does he like bitty babies? We need to call him to make sure." so I guess Mitchell will also be watching the baby dolls as well as the cat! It is amazing what my 4 year old comes up with these days...or as she would correct me, my 4 1/2 year old!


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Friends

Yesterday we went to the science center with some new friends. Christia and her boys Julian who is in emma's preschool class, Gabe who is in Bella's class and her little one Owen. The kids had fun exploring for a couple hours. Their favorite part was the bubbles and the rockets.

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Poop in the pool

So what a better way to spend a very cold Iowa winter day than swimming, or at least we thought it was a good idea.....we put our swimsuits on and of course our several layers over the top of the swim suits and headed for the local YMCA for some afternoon swimming today. We were in the pool enjoying Emma and Bella swimming in the deep end with their noodles and swim jackets when the lifeguards started blowing their whistles to get out of the pool. This of course worried me because in all the times we have swam there we have not had to get out of the pool until we were ready. So after we got out and wrapped up in our towels we noticed the young lifeguards putting on the rubber gloves and getting the skimmers out. And what to our wondering eyes should appear was POOP! One lifeguard states "there is so much this is going to take forever!" and that it did, we went into the other pool which was much too cold for our taste so decided to go. In the time we swam in the big pool got a 3 and 4 year old out of swimsuits and Ben and I changed out of our suits (which all this takes a long time) they were still cleaning the pool! What a day, I don't think we will be swimming for a while. And just to note the incident was in the shallow end and we were in the deep end so at least we were on the opposite side of the pool from the poop :)

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Snow day

Today we are getting a large amount of snow so we had to stay in. Except me of course, I have shoveled the driveway 2 times already and have at least 1 more time to go. The girls and I made 3 batches of pumpkin bread. The girls had a fun time licking the bowl and Emma got to try her hand at cracking an egg. Now as I am writing this the girls are running around in their underwear because they wanted to pretend they were dinosaurs from their book dinosaurs love underpants. They also used the video camera to try and make videos of them singing today, but Emma needs to work on her filming technique.


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Birthday party

Today I took Emma to a birthday party for her friend Jadah from preschool. Many games were played, cake and ice cream, and presents. Emma was very shy at first then she gradually warmed up. By the time we left Emma was hugging Jadah and telling her bye. So cute!
Ben took Bella to the YMCA for some swimming while Emma and I were at the party. Bell a swam on her own with her life vest and a swim noodle. I think she is going to be ready to swim on vacation.


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Finally found iPad app to blog

Yeah! I now have my blog linked to my iPad so hopefully I can catch up on my blogging. The girls and I had a fun week resuming activities after being on winter break. We also went swimming at the YMCA so they can get use to the water before vacation in 2 weeks. Emma got her costume for her dance recital in May and was very excited. I just hope Bella's comes in soon.

A funny quote this week is that Emma asked me to make sure I am awake before she gets up in the morning because she does not like having to wake me up. Not that there are too many mornings I am not up before her. Just wait til you are a teen Emma I will be waking you up early just for fun then yo will regret saying this!


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