Adventures in Sisterhood...

These girls are having lots of fun lately. As Lainie gets older, she is more able to play with Faith...and it usually makes Mommy's job a little easier :) When Lainie wakes up from her nap, the first person she asks for is "Sissy? Sissy?" Every morning is a reunion (okay...well, most mornings....)

A few minutes ago I was doing laundry in our room (is it EVER caught up??? If anyone figures out that secret...please let me know!), and in walks Lainie escorted and scooted along by Faith. Here's the convo...

Faith: "We are at the festival! My little honey (aka Lainie) wants to ride the carnival!"
Me: "Well, there are lots of rides at the festival. Which one does your little sweetie..or is it honey..want to ride?"
Faith: "She's my little sweetie and my little honey."
Me: "Oh, you crack me up Faith"
Faith: "I am not Faith! I am Mommy!"

The sisters then proceed out to the living room after taking a "ride" in our room.

I go out as Faith is tying a sequined belt around Lainie's waist. She says, "It's a 'tembadoe' it's kind of like a miracle. Yeah, it's a miracle. It's so we can ride on the ferris wheel."

Meanwhile Lainie is chanting "Tembadoe!! Tembadoe!! Tembadoe!!"

They had a great ride on the ferris wheel...in the middle of our living room...thanks to their wonderful tembadoes....It's always an adventure!!!

Happy Easter (a little late :))

Our motto around here is usually...better late than never :) So, in that fashion...here are some Easter pics! We had a great Easter here in MO. It was BEAUTIFUL. We didn't travel to see family or have family here, which we think is the first time ever. But, we had a sweet time just our little family. The Sunday before Easter (Palm Sunday) Faith's Sunday school class performed during worship service. They came in waving their palm branches. Faith thought it was her personal dancing prop...I can only imagine it brought a smile to God's face :)

Easter weekend was full of good stuff. We had a church Easter egg hunt on Saturday, colored eggs Saturday night, woke up Sunday morning and "found" Easter baskets and lots and lots of eggs. We went out to eat with some good friends. Kind of funny...we had planned on eating at a local family style restaurant...but the only restaurants open Easter Sunday were very "high end" (aka out of our budget :)) and our local pizza place-Shakespeares. We opted for pizza! It was low key and fun. We are thankful for good friends and a great church family which helped us celebrate Jesus's resurrection.

Here are some pics from the weekend (not necessarily in chronological order :))

Church Easter egg hunt. Such a big girl with her Elmo basket!

 Faith is an old pro at the Easter egg hunt these days :)

 Playing with her "resurrection" set. I found this at Hobby Lobby for a few dollars and LOVE it! She could color all the characters and it gave us something tangible to talk about and look at as we learned about Jesus's resurrection.

Faith opening her Easter basket

 Butterfly mask!

 Lainie enjoying yet ANOTHER chocolate Easter egg...

All kinds of goodies...

Sweet face :)

 Sister hug!

Big sister was a good sport! Little sister wasn't really feeling it!

 Family pic at church Easter morning

 Some of Faith's Sunday School class waiting their turn on Palm Sunday

Dancing with her Palm branch!!

Singing together :)

Thankful for a great Easter!!!

......Round Two :)

Well, I think it is getting close to Round Two of potty training at our house. This was my clue with Faith...and now with Lainie...When I can't find her and all is quiet, I check behind our chair. Guess what I usually find?

 In Lainie's words, "Poopin, Mommy. Leave alone!" Mommy usually leaves her alone, but couldn't resist snapping a picture last time. So, bring on Round Two! :)

Spring is HERE!!!

We are SO glad that Spring is here! And thankful it's come earlier this year too...no complaining in our house about being too hot, that's for sure. We have been playing outside alot...broke out our kiddie pool today, bubbles, sidewalk chalk, bikes, wagon, picking flowers, etc. We even ate our first popsicle of the season outside this afternoon...a regular occurrence around here in the Spring/Summer.

We spent last week's Spring Break in Oklahoma, and Faith went down a couple days early all by herself to stay with Gigi and Papaw! Mommy was nervous, but she did so great. No homesick episodes. She got to see a Fancy Nancy play, have Cherry Berry with Aunt Ally and all kinds of fun things. I think it was definitely harder on me than her :) Lainie really missed her big sissy. It was the first time they have been apart for longer than a few hours. Lainie wandered around a bit lost. It was a sweet reunion for all of us. Spring in OK was beautiful too. Gigi and Papaw had wild flowers galore...which meant butterflies...and you KNOW a 3 year old who loves butterflies :) Nate hadn't been home since last summer, so it was such a nice time for him to get to just be home, and all of us to relax and enjoy family.

Sister reunion!

 Uncle Raymond reading a princess story

 Running from the chickens!!! Love those chickens!

 Swing Mommy!

 Family picture on the swing :)

 Fishing with Daddy

 Chillin with their chocolate milk watching cartoons

 Having fun running through the water!

 Bonfire! And Faith got to roast her own hot dog too...

 Checking her "mail"

Hope you and yours are enjoying this Spring too :)