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My 2.5 Year Old Girl

My girl is 2.5 Years old!

She figured out how to use the potty during Easter weekend.  One day when it was warm I decided not to put a onesie on her for layering.  So I put a pull up on her and told her to let me know when she needed to go.  Before naptime, she said she had to go and from then on she had it figured out. Seriously.  It was like no work at all.  When people said girls are easier, I didn't know it was going to be that easy.  She is the sweetest and easiest child to care for.  

She is quite the talker.  She is always asking "What are you doing?", "What did you say?", or "Where are we going?!!"

Most mornings after I drop off David at school, she goes with me to the gym.  She enjoys playing there and one day a week we do the Moms and Tots class.

She loves her purses/bags and has quite the collection.  Most days when she plays she grabs all her bags and stuffs them with toys and random things.  Then, she takes them out and puts them back in.  She likes her kitchen and enjoys pretending to cook and make us food.  

A lot of times when I get the camera out, she says "stop taking my picture!", but she enjoys getting her picture taken with the toy camera by David (above).

She is very social and smiles at everyone.  Everyone loves being around her because she's so sweet.

She will try to eat almost everything.  However, she doesn't seem to like the same foods that David likes.  For example, David loves eggs for breakfast, but Kayla doesn't.  Kayla loves oatmeal, but David doesn't.. These kids like making meals a challenge for me.  :)

She loves to scribble with crayons and markers

Cleaning with her vacuum is another favorite activity.  Whenever someone is vacuuming, she always rushes to her vacuum and vacuums along with us.

She loves wearing her rain gear and shopping.

Stats:

24.6 lbs

34.5 inches

Wears 24 Month, 2T, and sometimes 3T shirts

18-24 Month bottoms

My 4.5 Year Old Boy

My oldest is 4.5 years old.  David's favorite part is that he no longer has to be a napper at school and gets to do afternoon class. 

 Loves going for donuts on Saturday mornings.

 He helped me make this shirt. He picked out the dinosaurs and what it was going to say.  It also says RAWR!! on the back.  :)

 He is sweet to sister and even shares his yogurt.

He loves going swimming.  He is currently taking 2 classes a week.  I'm hoping he'll be able to swim without floaties this summer.

His favorite subjects in school include math and geography.  I'm finally starting to see interesting work coming home in David's bag:

 Math in preschool?  I don't think I did any of this until I was in first grade. 

He brings home random little booklets.. Each page has a different part of the first picture colored with the part labeled.  

 I was super impressed by this map that he brought home one day.  They call it a pricking map.  He pricked around each state and glued it on to the paper.

Stats:

36 lbs.

3 ft 6 inches tall

Size 10 shoes

Size 4T in pants and shirts

Easter and some pics

 I haven't updated in a while, so here's some pics of the kids if that's what you're here for.  :)

I made the heart/kk on her shirt with a freezer paper stencil and fabric paint.  :)

I like to take pics of my kids eating healthy, so I can show them later what a wonderful mom I was.  Haha :)

 Kayla's silly face

One weekend in Arkansas you get nice warm weather to wear shorts (photo above)...the next weekend you have to break out your winter coat and rainboots for an Easter Egg Hunt:

 This Easter Egg Hunt we were FREEZING cold.  It was drizzly outside which made this event less crowded.  It was super fun because there were plenty of eggs for everyone.  :)

 The next weekend was warm again for Easter :)

 We did an Easter egg hunt at our house with some neighbors.  Kids loved it.

Kayla with her best friends :)

Missing Teeth

Poor David.  He's had to get his teeth pulled out.  

Here is the xray of his teeth.  The one labeled "a" was how his teeth looked in February.  The one next to it is the xray of it 6 months ago.  The poor kid has fallen on his teeth too many times.  It was wiggling and apparently the roots started to disintegrate from the trauma.  

So here's some last pictures of David before he got his teeth removed. 

The whole procedure probably took less than 30 minutes.  He wasn't able to eat or drink 6 hours before the surgery.    This is a picture of him the afternoon after he had his teeth removed.

I made him a little pillow for the tooth fairy.  She gave him $5 a tooth.  David was not excited about the tooth fairy.  He said he hated her and she was just pretend.  However, the morning after putting his teeth in the pillow, he was super excited to find the money.

We went to the associate store today and he got a batman hot wheels wall track.  He had to use his valentine money and tooth fairy money, but he was super excited.  He's been wanting another track since he got one for Christmas from his uncle.  

I think he's looking pretty cute with those missing teeth.