Flowergirl Extraordinaire!

The Kennedy Wedding was a success! The bride looked beautiful and little Miss Lola was a trooper! She started her day early with breakfast joined by Chloe & Katie. After breakfast Lola went to the salon to get her hair curled. This was quite a treat. After the salon we went to Steve's parents for lunch and after that it was go time!!! Getting ready, photos, the walk down the aisle, sitting still (kind of) for the ceremony and the big fun party! Aaron and I were so proud of how well she did with everything, all day long. And with no nap! Of course we did tell her that if she did a great job she would be able to get her ears pierced (another blog post to follow). That bribe seemed to be the master bribe of all kid bribes.


I couldn't decide which video was more fun of these kids cutting the rug so I'm posting both. Kids love dance floors!



Congratulations to Mr. & Mrs. Kennedy! Thank you for including Lola in your special day! Have a Happy Honeymoon!

It's Kelsey!

The Big Rehearsal!

Lola AMAZED me tonight at the rehearsal for the upcoming Kennedy wedding in which she will provide the flower girl duties. I have to admit, I didn't think it would go this well. When we arrived on scene she clung to me and didn't want me to let her go. While she was happy to see Steve & Terri she wasn't totally sure about everyone else. I asked Steve's younger sister Kelsey if she would take Lola under her wing and help her out. Kelsey is also in the wedding and is a cute young girl in her early 20's so I knew Lola would attach to Kelsey and think she was so awesome. Kelsey didn't mind hanging out with Lola so I took off and let Lola go behind the scenes with the wedding party. I sat and waited for the rehearsal to start wondering how it would go. Below is how it went:


I'm so proud of my little girl! She even picked up the petals. awwww!!!!!! Knock on wood that she does this great tomorrow. (knock knock)

Thank you Kelsey for being so awesome with Lola and thank you Steve & Terri for including Lola in your special day!!!

So long Gigi

Lola was so sad to see her Gigi leave this morning.  After we dropped her off at the airport Lola said "why does Gigi always leave?" awww! 
I had anticipated a rough drop off at school today being that Lola hasn't been in two weeks but she did great and was happy to see her friends who greeted heer at the door with hugs!

Gigi, we had a great visit with you, we will miss you but look forward to our next visit in June!  We love you SO MUCH!!!

Birthday PARTY!!!!

Lola celebrated her 4th birthday today with her friends and family. It was an amazingly beautiful day out, perfect for a party.
Tons of photos are posted on FB. Check them out!

Thanks everyone for helping make Lola's 4th birthday so special!

happy birthday sweet 4 year old!

We love you birthday girl!

Happy Easter

Newsflash! We finally got a real babysitter!

And by real babysitter I mean someone we have to pay, someone who isn't family or a long time friend, someone who is a high school student and took the babysitting safety class. A real babysitter!

I know, this is a huge step for me and I did really well. I didn't call once during the half hour we were gone.
Just kidding, we were gone almost 3 hours and we had a great time and I really didn't call! I immdeiately felt comfortable with Danielle.

Danielle, the real babysitter.

We met Danielle at our local supermarket. She is always smiling and very friendly offering Lola a sucker at check out. So... after stalking her facebook page we were confident that she indeed could be trusted to babysit our little Lola and let me tell you, Lola practically kicked us to the curb the second Danielle walked in the door. She was so excited!
We came home to find the girls in a homemade tent. Lola was completely off the hook and in MAJOR show off mode. She was well behaved for Danielle and Aaron and I got to enjoy a nice dinner out.
Thank you Danielle for being the greatest real babysitter ever!


"Mommy, Danielle is my best friend" Lola

Wanted: CURLS

We have been rolling old school this week.  Lola has slept with spongy curlers in her hair for the past three nights in an effort to achieve fabulous curls.  She loves having curls, it's her new favorite thing ever!

Blogging from my phone

I've just downloaded the blogger app for my phone to test out blogging from my phone vs blogging from the computer.
The advantage...  Instant posts, anytime, anywhere!
So here it goes.  Testing, testing...

A how to video by Lola

How to make the following: mushy cookie, mushy cushy, cushy cushy. An instructional video by Lola

The Lola & Stella Show part II

Here are a couple photos and a short video of Lola and Stella doing whatever the heck they want at a restaurant in Downtown Disney. They were dancing and having so much fun while the wait staff and patrons walked around them. I'm so glad they didn't get in our girls way.





Stella may look a little sad in the above photo, that's because she just got out of the arms of her loving Aunt Amy.

Dear Amy, You're welcome for not posting and tagging you in this photo on Facebook. From your friend, E-mailee

Young at Art

Lola's first ever art show was yesterday at school. The kids and teachers have been working so hard on this for a couple of months now. In prep for the art show the kids have also been learning about famous artists, different types of media and even a little art history thrown in the mix. Lola told us that Vincent Van Gogh is her favorite artist because "he uses short strokes". I couldn't find it in myself to tell her that he was bat shit crazy and cut off his own ear. I'll save that for later.
Unfortunately I was home sick yesterday with stupid strep throat and didn't make it to the art show but Lola's Daddy went and took the camera capturing all of these wonderful photos. Lola took her Daddy to see all of her different pieces and told him all about each one. The above piece is a classroom project, the kids all worked together to make this fabulous sculpture out of recycled items.



Aaron was quite impressed with this rose that Lola made out of clay. The assignment was to make a rose and she did great!
Aw, how sweet is this?!



Lola and her friend show off another classroom project, a house that everyone took part in building. The teacher said that the blue cloth above one of the rooms was Lola's idea.



When I was looking at these photos I asked Lola what this is a painting of and she said "It's called splatter paint just like Jackson Pollock" (I had to google that since I wasn't familiar with Jackson Pollock, maybe I should go back to pre-school)



And finally we see Lola's painting that she calls "the makeup store" where she "used short strokes like Vincent Van Gogh"

We are so proud of our sweet little Lola! And by the looks of the photos Lola is pretty proud as well! Good Job baby girl!!!

beach day

We had a lovely day at the beach today with the girls. Lola continues to love sand and doesn't care when she is completely covered in it. I'm pretty sure I've mentioned before that I prefer the pool to the beach for that reason alone. However, today proved to be a fabulous day for the beach and we spent quite a bit of time there. The girls had fun building sand castles and playing in the water.

Julie and I took the girls to dinner at Muddy Waters tonight, a local place where the kids get pirate tattoos and pirate coins. The girls finished off a great day by gulping down their own Shirley Temple drinks (this is a big deal).

My only complaint this vacation... WHY can't I sleep in past 8am? Lola has been over at her Gigi's house each night and I've been at Pam's so I do NOT have to wake up and tend to my baby so WHY WHY WHY can't I sleep in? It's so annoying.

Cousins at Disney!

OH WAIT...
You were looking for these cousins!


We had a fabulous time at the Magic Kingdom and want to send a special HUGE THANK YOU to Gigi, Mimi and Nanny Karen for an awesome time! Celia enjoyed her first visit at Disney and Lola loved going back.
The girls started the day by having breakfast with the Pooh characters and they ended the day with a firework show where Lola had a huge meltdown because Tinker Bell flew away. Lola made it clear to everyone around us that she wanted Tinker Bell to stay at the Magic Kingdom. She fell asleep in my arms as I carried her to the car... 13 hours after we arrived that morning.
Check out this super frickin adorable video of the girls with Karen on the tea cup ride, they LOVED it!!!!


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