Taekwondo Tournament

The girls have been taking Taekwondo for 2 weeks (can't you picture how cute RainbowBaby is running around in her little uniform) and they were over the moon excited that there was a tournament this weekend that they could participate in.  I can't believe how much they have learned in just 2 weeks!

I've been trying to get EasternStar to memorize her address for months ….. apparently she just needed the motivation of getting a stripe on her belt 'cause she nailed it in 2 days.



Here is some video of EasternStar from today:

Speed Kicking:




More speed kicking:



Her form:




And seriously the best part - her board breaking:



So proud that she broke her board into 3 pieces!!


Here is RainbowBaby:

Form:


Speed Kicking:




And how awesome is it to see a 3 year old break a board??



Last but not least, TinyDancer:

Yellow board:


Orange board:


Speed Kicking:



And some pictures of them with their medals:

Look at me!

The little girls wanted to show their Daddy how cute they are today.

Look at us Daddy!!

Finally got dressed

Watching the screen saver

Look at my ribbon!

Dancing

A girls gotta eat!

I picked this out myself!



Making some calls before my nap


TinyDancer is weekending with Grandma and Grandpa and doing big kid stuff.

Halloween in Strawberry Land

I'm too tired to write anything witty - but enjoy these photos anyway!

What it takes to get three little girls ready to trick or treat

Strawberry Shortcake

Blueberry Muffin

Apple Dumpling

Some attempts to get all three of them to look at the camera and smile -

I can't wait to see what they dream up for next year!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!!!

I'm sure that I'll have more pictures to post later, but here is how we started our day -

Ready for school!

Sisters with matching ribbons!

An extra dose of cheese!

Check back later for more photos from Strawberryland (that's a preview of their costumes for this year!)

Rapunzel's Crown

Three Rapunzel's

A few days ago the girls and I did a craft from Family Fun magazine.  They had a good time and the crowns came out pretty cute.


TinyDancer made hers look just like the real crown - complete with the jewel in the back.

Jewel in the back

EasternStar was very proud of the job she did "all by herself".

All by myself!!

Check out my shoes!

I made RainbowBaby's for her -

The girls had a good time and even Daddy joined in.

 

Rainbow Birthday



What type of first birthday party could a RainbowBaby have other than a Rainbow Party of course?  We had a simple party for RainbowBaby - just cake and presents in the backyard - but what a cake it was!  I found several cool examples of rainbow cakes online and had to try my hand at making one. 

Birthday cake - outside

RainbowBaby blowing out her candle.

Birthday cake - inside
How fun is that?

RainbowBaby even got her own rainbow cake all to herself!

What do I do with this?

Eat it???

In addition to cake, we had umbrella and raindrop cookies and cupcakes with suns on them. 

Umbrella and raindrop sugar cookies.  Yum!

Sunshine cupcakes

The cupcakes didn't turn out exactly as I'd pictured them in my head.  I used those sugar covered orange slices that you find in the candy aisle.  I flattened them with a rolling pin and then cut them into strips.  Some of them got stretched out making them look kind of like octopuses (or octopi? or an octopus?)

We also had party hats and decorations.  I loved the idea of making these tissue paper flowers, but then discovered that we didn't have anywhere to put them.  Oh well - they looked fun on the fence!

Birthday girl in a party hat!

We had so much fun that the birthday girl fell asleep in her swing! 

Oh when the mighty fall!

I can't believe that it's been a year!  Well, over a year now......RainbowBaby is 15 months old!










Questions that are better left unasked - Part 1

I think that I'm going to start a new series on my blog called "Questions that are better left unasked".  The first question will be:

1.  Why is Barbie floating in the toilet? 


Every kid needs a special place to store their stuff right?  A place that their siblings aren't allowed to (or won't) invade to steal their stuff.  Well, RainbowBaby seems to have chosen her "special place".  It's not behind the couch or under a bed or even in a potted plant.  Nope.  She's chosen a throne.  A glorious throne that unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your outlook) no one wants to reach in to remove stuff. 

In the past few days I've removed a comb, a book (sorry Nina Nina Ballerina), a crayon, and today a Barbie from the toilet.  Thankfully we've finally gotten my six year old to start flushing again and my three year old can't climb onto the potty by herself.  Otherwise we'd have some real.... uh.....prizes on our hands!

4th of July

Happy 4th of July!

We had a great day and hope that you did too!

Happy Father's Day!

Whew! The last few months have been a whirlwind! I can't believe that I haven't posted in almost 5 months. The blog needs to be updated with all of the fun stuff that we've been doing, but today, the girls would like to wish their dad, Grandpa, and Paw Paw a

Happy Father's Day!

Stranger's present was updated photos of the girls. I went intending just to purchase the cheap package - you know the one - a million copies of one pose for ten bucks. Of course, once you get there they shoot individual shots of the kids "just for fun" and then you get suckered in to way more than you need. Or is that just me? 8 )

Here is what we went for:





We also got some nice pictures of my two camera loving princesses:

(By the way, who brings a rocking chair to the beach? Well......EasternStar for one.....) 8 )

Getting shots of RainbowBaby was tough. She loves to pose for the camera at home but she was not into the professional photo shoot! She wouldn't stay on the "set" until this chair was brought out. Then she was all over climbing in and out of it!

Of course, what's a photo shoot without two of your kids fighting, right? Like RainbowBaby, EasternStar loves anything that is small enough for her to sit in by herself. Once this chair was out, the two little ones kept fighting over it. That is EasternStar's hand that you can see - reaching out to pull the chair out from under RainbowBaby. I wish that there was more of her in the photo - I'd have bought that one! 8 )

Anyway, happy father's day to all of the dads in our life!