Twins

Leah tells me every morning that she wants to match, and today I obliged. 

Name

We have lowercase letters!! 

Exercise

I exercised today!

Exercised my right to vote... haha get it?!

(I wish exercising was always this easy!)

Big Brother

Today when I dropped Leah off at school her teacher asks me, "Does Leah have a big brother Jonathan?"

Hahahahhahaha! Made my day!

Gymcats

Leah got her first gymnastics ribbon!

She did a seat drop on the trampoline (jump, jump, sit, stand)! She's actually been able to do this for a few weeks on her bed (yeah, the best trampoline out there that won't increase your home insurance), but finally did it consistently in class. We are so proud!

What She Said

Leah, trying to get Brian's attention: "Micah. Micah. MICAH. MICAHHHHH!"

What She Said

What she said: "There's a bead in my polka dot!"

What she meant: "There's a seed in my apricot!"

What she said: "I need to put on my suitcase."

What she meant: "I need to put on my swimsuit."

Ice Cream

Today was such a wonderful day! It's nice to have weekends in and weekends out, weekends busy and weekends with nothing. But if I had a choice of a weekend day to have over and over, a day like this would be it. 

This morning we went to gymnastics, which is a typical Saturday morning for us, and Leah just loves it. The smile on her face when she finally gets to go on the bars or trampoline or foam block pit after a week (or two, with our travel schedule) is the best thing ever. 

After gymnastics, we headed over to Springs Preserve for their annual Ice Cream Festival! Since ice cream is a staple in our house, this was obviously going to be fun! It was really nice outside and I forget how beautiful Springs Preserve really is. 

Different flavors in each tent- and this is only one area!

Elsa was there to read stories. I was so surprised when Leah kept asking to go back and see Elsa to say hi and take a picture. Then of course when we took the picture, Leah wanted nothing to do with her. 

First root beer float!

What would an ice cream festival be without ice cream sundaes?!

There were also lots of fun carnival games. 

Leah totally showed up Brian in skee ball and made it into the top hole!

Didn't make it to the butterfly habitat, but these big ones were cool enough!

Of course, Leah fell asleep in the car on the way home. She actually made it out of the car without waking up, but didn't quite make it to her bed. A ten minute nap in the car was all we were going to get, so we eventually headed to the park to play with Zyler and his family. No pictures, but other than some scraped knees and tears over sharing a car, we had a blast. Leah also demonstrated she has mad soccer skills. Who knew?!

We joined Zyler and his parents for dinner, but Leah didn't exactly make it. After a few carrots, Leah laid down on the booth seat and, since she was being pretty calm and not playing around, I let her. Five minutes later, SHE WAS SLEEPING. I am still looking at the pictures in disbelief that she did that! Not even French fries could get her up. Girl definitely needed it- she made it out of the car, got a diaper, and into her bed without waking up this time... And dinner was quite nice 😉

We were home, fed, and Leah was sleeping so early that Brian and I actually got to watch a movie together. A little impromptu date night in was just what we needed to cap off a great day. 

Add to all of the above some invites for Memorial Day weekend, and today was a nice reminder that all is good 😊

ROCK CHALK!

After I picked Leah up from school today we went to the KU alumni bar for the first time. It was a big game tonight and Brian was working late, but I had really been wanting to go and they were selling t-shirts, so I brought along my good luck charm.

Everyone was super friendly. We sat with a dad, his five year old daughter, and his sister and brother-in-law. I hope we see them again (Saturday?). Leah had fun coloring with Sophie and yelling "Jayhawk!" every time someone walked in with a Jayhawk on their shirt/hat (so every time someone walked in).

She was such a trooper and watched a lot of the first half with me before Brian came to get her, even though it was pretty late. Apparently I have taught her well because when it came time for Brian to put her in bed she told him, "No go bed! Go Jayhawk!"

That's my girl ❤️💙

(He let her stay up... That's my guy 💙❤️)

ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK! GO KU!

Braid

Ever since I heard our baby was a girl I have been excited to play with her hair.

And I was a blessed with a baldy.

I waited TWENTY ONE MONTHS for hair and then, curls! Whaaaaaat?!? I love them- they are so Leah- but I really need Sara to come live with me so I can figure out what on earth to do with them. 

Anyways, Leah's hair is finally getting a bit longer and this morning she actually sat still enough for me to play a bit.

First braid ever! My best being-a-mom-of-a-little-girl moment yet!

Cubs

Some pictures from the Cubs class:

Easter egg hunt

Easter egg hunt

Fun with sand

Chapel

Leah's class did some story about a sheep in chapel (don't ask me what, I don't know)

Fun with Miss Cassidy

More sand!

Walking into school, definition of cool!

What She Said

Leah's recently started to point out every stop sign she sees. We have talked about its shape and color, and today, its letters. 

"L-E-A-H spells 'stop sign'!" she exclaims. 

She has also previously declared that "L-E-A-H spells 'me'," so we should probably work on that.

A few recent big girl moments, in pictures:

What She Said

Leah- "I fart out my mouth."

Me- "So, you burped?"

Leah- "Yeah, I burp out my mouth... Scuse me!"

Negotiator

It's not like Leah hasn't negotiated before, but today she took it to a whole new level.

"Leah, it's bath time."

"No Mommy, tomorrow."

Like, she's used "today" before, and maybe other concepts after I said it, but tonight she totally understood the completely abstract concept of another day. I mean, I was pretty proud since I see that skill on assessments all the time 😉 It's so cool how much more she understands every single day. She is constantly amazing me!

By the way, she got a bath tonight!

Waiting for gymnastics class to start... on Saturday

What She Said

This morning, when Brian was tickling Leah: "Don't tickle me. Just love me."

Because in this house we are ASU. We are KU.

"Wildcats" is a bad word. 

Makes my heart melt 😍

Pigs

These little piggies... 💜💙🐽

Cards

Thank you to everyone who brightened up our refrigerator for the last three months! I love holiday cards!!

And now that it's after Valentine's Day, I figured it's about time to make room for more of Leah's artwork or something. Babies and weddings, you get to stay.

What She Said

Tonight Leah was sitting on my lap and I said something about needing to shower. She looked at me and said, "you're stanky!"

Yup.

What She Said

Leah has recently begun saying "holy moly!" and more recently, "oh. my. gosh!" It's pretty entertaining and has definitely taught us to watch what we say. 

This weekend, she started saying, "holy majoly!" Then, out of no where, "holy gosh!"

As in, "holy gosh that's a lot of snow!"

Lucky

So lucky- again- for more hand-me-downs. My current unsolicited advice to moms: never say no to anyone who offers them!!

My little Jewish girl looooves chapel day ⛪️

Sasa and Mark

Sasa/Sarwa/Sara and Uncle Mark came to visit! Best. Weekend. Ever. 

In no particular order, our weekend in pictures:

Happy birthday Sara! Glad we could celebrate with you! Miss you both so incredibly much- come visit again soon (or just move here).