Traumatized by a Leprechaun & The Weekend

 I don't have any pictures to add to this story but the leprechaun visited Taylor's preschool on Tuesday.  There was no leprechaun sighting, just evidence left behind that he had been there - a messy room and some gold coins.  Apparently that was too much for Taylor. The teachers said she lost it.  After I picked her up, she was never more than 2 inches from me for the rest of the day.  She peeked around the corners each time we entered a new room.  She didn't go to sleep until after 11 pm, in our bed!  It was traumatic.  Luckily, yesterday was a little bit better.  Poor kid.

 Grandma and Grandpa Edwards were in town for the weekend and while the gentlemen were out golfing, we took the kids kite flying.  It was the perfect day for it.  So perfect that Grandma spent most of her time tangled up in the kite because it was too windy!

 Taylor took off with out a hitch!

 Chase tried.

 Flying high.

 Still trying.  (His kite is on the ground.  Taylor's is in the air!)

 Still up there!

 More trouble.

 Enough.  We decided it was the kite design more than operator error.  Still a good time, though.

 So we ditched the kites for the playground.

 Much better.

 We pretty much shut the place down.  I wish Saturday's weather would have stuck around a little longer!

 All smiles.

 My big babies. 

 All that fun wore everyone out!  The nut doesn't fall far from the tree here.  I'm sure they will just love that I took a picture of this moment!

 There was a claw machine victory.

 And then another claw machine victory.

 Max got a fancy new 'do.

 And the obligatory trip to Chuck E. Cheese.  Thank goodness for a snow day so Chase could go too! 

 Big win!

 Riding the horse.

 And a "little" ice cream afterwards!

Week of Pics

 Taylor is loving babysitting on Wednesdays.  She is good at it too!

 Vickie's birthday was last week and she requested a yellow cake with chocolate icing.  That seemed a little boring so I decided to color it up a little.  The colors were too pretty not to take a picture.

 It didn't taste too bad either!

 Chase's defense was pretty tough last week.  I wish I were coordinated enough to get a picture when he was facing us because his look was intense!

 He is relentless.

 To the point that the kid was out of bounds.  Chase knows you have to stay in bounds.  I don't remember exactly what happened next, but it's completely possible that the kid just jumped back in bounds and kept going.  Upward rules are a little flexible non-existent. Still fun, though!

 Chase loves a fan club and invites just about everyone, every week!  Last week he had 14 fans there.  It's out of control.

 After the game we had the chance to meet Roscoe.  One of Chase's classmates has a pet pig and he has wanted to meet it since the first day of school!

 I can't imagine - but it must be cool to be in kindergarten and have a pet pig!

 First soccer practice of the season.  We have 4 out of 6 of the same team members as last season and we're the same color again. Looks like a complete repeat!

 Taylor had picture day at school this week.  She doesn't have much in the line of spring clothes so I took her shopping for a new outfit.  It made her week.  She shopped and shopped until she decided on this masterpiece, complete with sparkly silver shoes.

 She barely slept the night before.  She was in the outfit basically before her feet hit the floor!

 I was starting to feel a bit Rapunzel-ish so I got a few inches taken off!

 Chase had his last basketball practice of the season and it brought him to tears.  Literally.  The poor kid is so sad to see the season end.  After practice we went out to dinner and each time something about basketball would get mentioned, he would get teary-eyed.  So sad.

 He did get a cool medal which helped soften the blow!

And back to another Wednesday of babysitting.  Puppies and babies, we'll take them all.....so long as they go home at the end of the day :)  (We would keep these two!)

Basketball, Circus & Snow

 Basketball season is almost over.  Chase will not know what to do with himself.  He has loved every minute of it.  Two more games to go!

 The Tigers.  Chase finally asked me to cut his hair last week.  It was "getting in his eyes and messing up his game"!

 Taylor and I found ourselves with not much to do one day so, we painted!  She was actually pretty good help and we didn't get any paint on the carpet!

 We took the kids to the circus last Friday afternoon.  We were expecting a little better reaction than this!!! It was loud and he didn't care for that!

 There were unicycle-riding basketball players so he might have smiled for a minute.

 Taylor loved every second of it.  She was up dancing and clapping along.

 The fake picture that will leave us with the memory that they loved it! Actually I used my hands as earmuffs for him and that seemed to make it better.

 Natural clowns.

 Finally, a smile!

 Bryce came over for a sleepover with his matching monkey.  They cracked me up like this.

 "A yellow jacket caught in a spider web" - by Chase. 

 Sunday.  Beautiful 72 degrees and sunny.  Like ate lunch outside without jackets nice.

 Every day since!

 Taylor finally gave in and went for a sled ride!

 Just once.

 We found a brick maker for 88 cents at Target.  It was our best snow investment yet.

 The fort, however, did not protect Taylor from the incoming snowball.

Fort Squirrel.  The boys insisted it needed a flag.  I found a stick and Max's stuffed squirrel.  While this was fun, we're ready to use the brick maker in the sand at the beach!!