Busy

It's been a busy week with Amanda here on her spring break.  Hannah came home from school Monday with the sniffles, and started coughing last night.  So I'm hoping it doesn't get any worse, I'm not looking forward to trying to find all the pieces to the nebulizer after 3.5 months without it. 

There are new pictures on shutterfly, Hannah's birthday especially.  It's so crazy to have a six year old.  So Crazy!

Happy Six!

My biggest baby turns six today.  Hannah is having a very happy birthday so far, but six is hitting me personally much harder than any of her other birthdays so far.  I feel like she's growing up too fast, and having another behind her, doing all the same things, it's hard not to think of her when she was 3, especially when Norah is similar at the same age.  She's loving Kindergarten, reading, and coloring.  She only does most of those things, and rarely anything else. 

So far she's had her fabulous friends call her to sing Happy Birthday, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are more phone calls as the day goes on.  She's visiting Grampy and Mimi for the day, just waiting on them returning from church to celebrate.  I hear there will be cake, and I'm sure she'll have a blast.  So Happy Birthday to my one and only Hannah.  I love you, you inspire me to be a better person, so I can watch you grow into your potential.

About Finished

Norah is 3 now, and we've been about finished with wraps and carriers for quite a while now.  She prefers to walk almost all the time now.  I can count on one hand the number of times she's asked to go in a carrier in the last six months.  I was contemplating getting rid of the last of my wraps.  I have two shorties (less than 3 meters) and a ring sling.  I think I'll probably keep the ring sling, since it WAS used when we went to Boston, and I can lend it out to friends since they're easy to use.  Then I got a message on TBW about a wrapping meet up in CT.  She has a new toddler and just like I was, is looking for something to contain her.  So I agreed to meet her and let her try my wraps.  It was supposed to be today, but we ended up postponing until next week.  So maybe after that I'll go back and rehem the wraps and sell them, because Norah won't be wrapped anymore. 

Not a Party

Well, not exactly anyways.  We haven't planned a party for the girls this year, mostly because they don't need one.  They see their friends fairly regularly, and definitely don't need any more toys/books/clothes/etc... But we already had plans with friends for Saturday, and since there were going to be seven kids here, we had cake and sang happy birthday.  They enjoyed it immensely, though they wouldn't have cared if we didn't sing, and just ate cake.  That's how my kids roll.  Love the cake.  Norah even ate the cake... which is almost unheard of.  To top it off they got to stay up late and play with all their friends until 8pm, and Hannah is looking forward to the upcoming Saturday when her actual birthday takes place.  We're going to visit Grampy and Mimi, and I might have heard he'll be having a birthday cake for her there.  Now, if only I could figure out what to do for the third kid's birthday on Thursday.

Novelty

I don't know WHAT it is about school lunch, but Hannah adores getting it.  After holding her off until November or December, I finally let her pick something off the menu.  She loves it.  I don't understand.  I mean, I think I'm a decent cook.  And whatever I make her is bound to be better than what she gets there.  It's more like what she's used to, and just generally yummier.  But she still asks at least once a week if she can buy lunch.  A couple weeks back when I was so sick, I had her buy lunch on two days she wouldn't normally, and even trying something new, she was fine.  I know Norah will not be so cooperative when she's going to kindergarten.  So today is pizza, and I don't mind.  Especially since I need to go grocery shopping, there's not much here for lunch today.

Three

Three years ago this morning, Norah came rushing into our lives.  She was welcomed, and special, and we all loved her immediately.  Despite some of her early issues regarding food, and sleep... we still love her, and are so glad to have celebrated her third birthday with her.  She had a very lovely day, she ate lunch with Meme and Grampy, then had her favorite dinner ever.  Tacos, of course.  After a chocolate cupcake with "canimal" frosting (that's Caramel for the rest of us), she opened her new pet shop gift.  Now she's playing nicely, and hopefully sleeps great tonight.

I guess it was fun

Sunday we ate lunch, and then headed out the Mass Pike.  We hit Weston and got off and took the T into the city.  We got right off at the TD Banknorth Garden, and had tickets to take the girls to see Toy Story 3 Disney on Ice.  They were very VERY excited, and even riding the subway in was an adventure for them.  Hannah watched out the window the whole time, and read as many signs as she could.  Norah bounced between watching out the windows and asking if we were going to ride on another train. 

After some snacks, we headed in to find our seats.  We were directed by an employee to our seats, and they weren't too bad.  Close enough to see, not bad at all.  About 3 minutes before the show was about to start, some other people came by saying we were in their seats.  So we got out our tickets and showed them again.  The man in charge told us we were indeed sitting in the wrong seats, that our seats were down ON THE ICE!  It was Amazing!  Literally one row of chairs between us and the show.  Hannah had Woody waving to her, and Norah was almost totally awestruck.  They were so excited that a small snack held them over afterwards for the ride back to the car.  Around 7:30 we got to the car, and changed into PJ's quickly, since it was cold.  They ate in the car on the way back, and neither one fell asleep the entire way home.  An hour in the car, in the dark, and they were both awake when we got home.  It was crazy.  So I guess they had some fun.