A Pinkalicious Day!

"It was a rainy day, too wet to go outside.

'Let's make cupcakes,' Mommy said, 'what color do you want?'

'PINK!' I said, 'Pink, pink, PINK!'"

Anybody recognize this?!

Yes, it is the first few lines of one of our favorite books called

'PINKALICOUS'!

We love this book at our house.

Grace especially loves it, as she loves all things pink. She practically has the book memorized....as do I, by the way, I didn't have to look up any of those words, they came straight from the old memory! :)

Anyway, on to the real story....

Grace had been telling me for the last week or so that she wanted to make pink cupcakes like Pinkalicious, but when I offered to make them the other day she said no because it wasn't raining like it was in the book - DUH, Mom!

Well, lo and behold, it POURED pretty much all day here on Friday, so we had to take the opportunity to have our pink-cupcake-baking-extravaganza....except that Joshua insisted that his cupcakes not be pink, but vanilla, so technically we had a pink-and-vanilla-cupcake-making-extravaganza!

Okay, interjection - isn't this the cutest apron EVER!? My mom made it for Grace for her birthday, and she loves to wear it every time she helps out in the kitchen! It's quite perfect for a pink-cupcake-baking girly girl!

YYUMMMM!!! Next time it is raining you'll have to stop by...who knows

what we'll be cooking up!

'Mother...Schmother' by Joshua and Grace

Part 1:

I had this great idea to take a picture of the kids holding a sign saying 'happy mother's day!' for their grandmas. I tried to get them all pumped by telling them how much their grandmas would love the pic, it would mean so much, etc.

Even with all my enthusiasm, this was still the best face I could get from

Grace, a.k.a. Grumpy Gills.

So Grandmas,

We love you!

even if we look like doing something nice for you brings us great pain! :)

Part 2:

So I am leaving in about an hour and a half to go to the big city for a weekend scrapbooking retreat! I am so excited!!!! I've been telling the kids that I would be gone for a day and a half and that Daddy would be here with them the whole time I was gone. Apparently the kids are as excited for this weekend as I have been. Observe:

I was just in the laundry room folding some clothes when Joshua walked in and asked me if today was the day that I was going scrapbooking. I said yes, expecting him to say he was going to miss me and maybe even give me a little hug. BOY WAS I WRONG! He yells this huge YEAH!! and starts to chant "Daddy! Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!" all while dancing around the kitchen! From the living room I can hear Grace pick up the chant "Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!"

So much for missing mom! My goodness....I should go away more often! :)

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY
to all the mothers in our lives!!!

Hola! and some adventures in 5 year old soccer

I have to apologize for my poor neglected blog! Somehow blogging always seems to take me FOR-EV-ER....so I have been putting it off. :)

Anyway, I wanted to share these pictures from Joshua's first soccer game a few weeks ago. It was a lot of fun (and, admittedly, a little bit of stress for the soccer mom) to watch him play!

He had never played before (besides in our front yard), and since we had been out of town he had missed the first two practices, so I was a little worried about what he would do.

The good news is that he is a very fast runner, he has a really strong kick, and he is super-dee-dooper excited about soccer! He loves to go to his games and practices, and he LOVES to wear his uniform. I think he wore it everyday that first week! He's cute.

Slightly less good news....

is that he thinks soccer is a game of sharing, bless his sweet heart!

He would run and catch up with the other team when they took the ball down the field, but he wouldn't kick it from them, he would just run beside them.

(Meanwhile mom is on the side lines screaming her lungs out - "KICK the ball, KICK the ball!! and realizing with every scream that she is behaving just like her parents did at her soccer games - yes, I have reached that moment when I find myself doing things just like my parents, things I said I would never do as a parent!)

After the first game we get in the car and I asked Joshua if he knew he was supposed to kick the ball away from the other team and take it.

He said "But mom, we are supposed to take turns!"

Well, at least I've taught him one thing, right?

So now we tell him we always want to take turns except when we are playing soccer - then you take that ball and runaway with it!

a little pre-game advice from

the CALM soccer parent. :)

And these are our cute kids on Easter - they were trying not to smile fore the picture...

obviously Grace is a little more practiced at grumpy faces than Joshua is!