Ali's First Baseball Practice

Ali had her first baseball practice 2 weeks ago, yes, it is pathetic that I am that far behind in sharing photos and news. Anyway, she did excellent, she even seemed to love the fact that she was the only girl on the team. She would walk around talking to this boy named Colton with the biggest grin on her face. After the game she said to me "mom, why do I get along with boys much better than I don girls?" I guess we are a lot alike. I can not believe that the girl drama is already starting in Kindergarten.

So far she has had two practices, and their first game is May 4th. Last week at practice it was her turn to bat and after she hit the ball she just stood on home plate and everyone started yelling at her to run. The poor girl had no idea what to do after she hit the ball. I guess Matt and I better start teaching her the rules of the game, because at practice they just think that the kids already know how to play. Lets just say that the games will be rather interesting.

Trouble

On Monday when we got home from St. George, the girls were so excited to be home and be able to play with their friend Adria. I was busy unpacking and was just happy that they were not bothering me to entertain them. I kept hearing laughter from the play room, and then shortly after Ali came runnin out, "Mom, mom, come and look at Emily." I was expecting something not good, but this is what I see when I find her. All three of the girls were laughing so hard and Emily was not very appreciative that I washed it off. So, needless to say, I am just glad that they did not get into worse trouble when they were unsupervised.

St. George Fun

Last weekend was our trip to St. George for Ali's 3rd Dance Competition. We had such a good time, it was so nice just being lazy and relaxing at the pool. We even got to see Lynn and Rick, and Granny shared some good laughs with us on the way down and the way home.

The kids were in heaven being able to swim. This is where we were the whole trip.

Emiy was crazy in the water. She would not let us touch her, she wanted to do everything herself. So saturday I went to the big K and got her this silly penguin floatie. It was awesome, she totally cruised around the pool all by herself and felt very independent.

Ali chilaxin' on Nana's floatie. She is into the whole "Peace" word these days. I think that she got it from hearing Matt say "Peace" when he hangs up from talking to his friends on the phone. She says it in the funniest voice that is really deep, it frightens me when she catches me off guard because she does it so loud and deep. She is quite the comedian these days.

Ali's dance team won 1st for Hip Hop, 1st for Jazz & 1st for Lyrical! Our studio won Best Overall Performance for the entire competition! They did so good, and they just get better and better each competition that they do.

Here is a video of the girls swimming after their mermaid dolls. Also Emily always like to roll over onto her back after she got to where she was going. She has a hard time rolling back over onto her stomach, so there is a little bit of panic in this video also.

April Snow

It snowed a but load here on Monday. Matt, Daniel and Shelby took the girls to Meuller Park Jr. to go sledding. They even mad a couple snowmen while they were there.

Ali went down time after time and did not care when she would fall off of the sled.

Easter Eggs

Ali and Emily colored Easter eggs on Friday after school. Why is it that this activity always makes me so tense. I guess with a 2 year old it can't be expected to go as cleanly as hoped.

Ali loved it and was such a good girl. She kept wiping up every little drop of coloring that dropped because she knew that it was driving me nuts. Emily on the other hand would just wave the egg around and fling the crap out of the cup. I thought that I was going to have a mental breakdown by the time we were done.

Just to add to the funniness of the day. Ali has been really full of energy lately, and quite frankly driving me nuts. She constantly has to be doing something. So as soon as we were done with the eggs, she says to me, "Mom, lets go to the park." I then explain to her that I have to clean up all the coloring, and mess from the eggs and that we can't go right now, but later. So right after that she says "Mom, lets make banana muffins." So of course I explain it again, and do you think that she ever got the clue, she just kept asking me if we could do these totally random things. The whole rest of the day went like that. Wish me luck with spring break. I think that she is having a hard time with the fact that even though I am home with her, I am still taking care of 6 kids and I can't just drop everything all the time to do random craft projects. If anyone has any suggestions for anything that she may enjoy doing by herself, please share with me.

Lovin' The Sun

When the weather was nice a couple of weeks ago the girls wanted to go outside and lay on the picnic blanket. Emily enjoyed it so much that she fell asleep with Ali's pet rock that she had found at the park. Ali was nice enough to go out and put the sunglasses on her so her eyes would not get sunburnt.

Hopefully we will have many more of these days to come.

The Baseball Queen

Ali is really into playing baseball right now. She is actually quite good for just playing with this big blue bat. She can knock it out over the fence of the little common area. Emily laughs when she does it and goes after the ball. Matt calls her our little ball shagger.

We signed Ali up for baseball and hopefully it will start sometime this month. She needs lots of activities to expell her energy, I don't know how I am going to keep the child entertained during the summer. I may go crazy.

Disney on Ice with Ali

Ali all ready for our big date at the Disney on Ice. She was so excited that just me and her got to go. She was really cute about the whole thing, she was also worried about her sister and kept asking me if I though that Em was having fun with dad.

The Cars were the first ones out. It was pretty cool how they had all of them out on the ice driving around.

Lightning McQueen.

The Little Mermaid bunch.

Little Mermaid and Prince Eric.

We had also never seen The Lion King, but it was pretty neat.

Tinkerbell and all of her pixie boys.

I think that Fair Mary is my favorite.

The finale was really pretty with all the flowers and the bright Tinkerbell colors.

Disney on Ice with Emily

This time around we did Disney on Ice in shifts, it worked out really well because the girls felt like they had there own special little date with me. Emily was the first one to get to go. She loved seeing Princess Tiana, Princess Frog is her new favorite movie.

And of course, our other favorite Cinderella.

Emily, Isabel and Lex. We got to go with these fun guys our first trip. Emily loved having her best friends Lex & Isabel there with her.

Mickey and Minnie

They loved the Tinkerbell part of the show. Is it just me, or does the blue fairy look like a man?

New Addition

Today we got a new addition to our family. This loving awesome looking Tarantula. Thanks to our good friends Shane and Marianne, I have to look at this creature every night as I am trying to go to bed. Yes, it is in our room on our dresser, I am too nervous to have it out in any other room with all the children roaming around here during the day. The girls are totally amazed by it and have watched it all night just waiting to see if it will eat one of the crickets in her cage. Yes, it is a she and she is a Chilean Rose tail, or bud - whatever. Matt is really proud of her because he is from Chile. Once again, Thanks Shane.

Ed Hardy Shoes

Ali is the girl front and center once she realizes where she is supposed to be.

Cars That Go Boom

Here is the girls Jazz Dance. Ali is the 3rd girl in from your left side if you are looking at the computer - she is the one with the huge hip shakes and holding the line up.

Medallion Classic Competition

This weekend we had Ali's first dance competition. It was at SLCC. It was a really long day, and the preparation started the night before.

First we loaded Ali's head with curlers.

Then it was off to bed.

This morning we woke up and took them out. "Oh My!" What a mess.

It turned out rather frizzy.

Next came some drama and Ali nearly in tears that her hair looked so funny.

Luckily, by the time we drove there it was mellowed out and a lot better once we got it fixed how it was supposed to be. Lesson learned, never use any of the tiny curlers ever again.

Ali and Savannah ready for their first dance. All the other girls kept walking around saying that they were nervouse. Ali would look at them and say "about what?"

She is quite the ham out there with all of her "Facials" as the teachers would call them.

Their first dance was "Cars that go Boom." Then it was a quick run back to the dressing room to change and get ready for their Lyrical dance.

All the girls ready to go.

Ali in the splits.

Wow, someone looks like Gumby. After the Lyrical dance we had a two hour break, so we went to dinner and wandered around in Ross for awhile. The whole time we were there Ali kept saying "Take me back to dance, I want to dance again." She was not even acting tired, I can not believe her. She has a never ending battery.

Ready for Hip Hop with her money in the pockets of her jeans.

Ali thought that performing the Hip Hop dance was the funnest of them all. And all their hard work paid off. They took 1st place in the Hip Hop category for the mini teams.

Before the awards ceremony all the girls from all the different dance studios went our on the floor and danced to random songs that the DJ played. The first one was the Boot Scootin Boogie. Ali really got into it and tried it for her first time.

All the girls with the Jazz Studio trophies. Hailey L., Savannah, Errin, Hailey A., Mrs. Steph, Angela, Ali, Olivia, Jensen, Oliva N. and Lauren. All in all the Mini's one 1st place for Hip Hop, and 2nd place for thier Lyrical dance. Great Job my little Tiny Dancer.