s’more birthday

My birthday was last week. I totally had a great day and got celebrated but yesterday and last night I celebrated with Casey and our families. No pictures of the party, yummy food, or party games (Kyla had planned several) but I did pull out the big camera after dinner when everyone went outside to eat s’mores and play with Brutus.

Heidi used to be super scared of dogs, especially Brutus. But ever since the arrival of Sparkles (a cousin dog), she had taken a liking to them. She even wants one for her birthday (which she will not be getting).

Harper. Always in a princess dress no matter the occasion or temperature.

And of course I made my kids lay in these pretty flowers for pictures. At this point they were over it and my iPhone/instagram pic from earlier in the evening turned out a million times cuter. It’s a framer (not seen here).

love these.

happy birthday to me. thanks to everyone who made 32 super fun.

My Sketchers

There was no school today and so we had our Kyla girl home. We decided to head to the Art Museum where there was an Eric Carle exhibit- something Kyla would be very interested it. Of course they had to wear their non-school fashion glasses on their day off. AND that hat. That hat makes these pictures not as cute as they could be but she loves it.

This is the only pose they’d give me… a crazy one.

We were expecting the whole exhibit to be like this (work we know from Carle’s books). But it wasn’t. When we got their I noticed that the exhibit was called “Beyond the Books.” Bummer. It was more obscure things but Kyla seemed to think it was pretty cool.



We then visited “Leroy” a giant dog made out of cardboard, carpentars glue, and sheet rock screws. Pretty impressive. It was the only time Molly took out her binky and got out of the stroller.

They have a whole third floor art studio set up for kids. Unfortunately it was closed because of several field trips that were happening. This was a MAJOR disappointment. We had already seen everything and we’d only been there 30 minutes. The front desk gave us sketch books to make up for it. The girls seemed to be satisfied. They went through each exhibit again and sketched what they saw. It was pretty cute. They were very into it.
I love this last one.
The only four paintings we recognized.
She’s sketching away.

Random Photos

These photos are from the past week or so. They didn’t make it into other posts but they are getting a little love now (most of them were from 10 on 10 day).

First outdoor family dinner of the season. They love to play on the lawn.

This little girl LOVES to play kitchen, doctor, and hair salon now. She yells, “play with me.” She wants someone to partake in the meal she made, or get checked with her doctor instruments, or brush someone’s hair. She’ll go up to the little kitchen, make a “meal” and YELL “Dinner TIME!” until someone comes to “eat”. This can go on for 1/2 an hour if no one comes.

Harper and Molly have been playing a lot more together. I love when they see each other and say, “Hi, Harper.” “Hi, Molly.”
Last week they ran through the sprinklers and then did some pull ups.

We LOVE our neighborhood. After school is so much fun in “the Sac.”
Popsicles, tree climbing, and just general hanging out. Heidi and Hilary.

I think Heidi loves being outside with the neighbors the most.

That's all for now. 

1st Grade Concert

Kyla had her first grade concert last week. You know how much Kyla loves music and singing. The other day I noticed that there were over 100 original videos (mostly songs) of Kyla on my iPhone (self-directed and shot). She was very excited for this performance. She had won a spot on one of the xylophones. All her fans came out.

Molly wasn’t really into the photo-ops. This is her usual face when picked up by Kyla. She’s saying “HEEEEEYYYY!”

Ready and smiling!

Her instrumental performance on a song called BA Galactic (or something like that).

Now these next ones are blurry but I just LOVE them. Totally Kyla. Full on air guitar. No holding back.

Kyla and her friend Olivia. Sometimes they have creative differences but they are sweet IMAGINATIVE friends.
Dad and Heidi brought Kyla flowers. She had “always dreamed of getting flowers after a show.”

Kyla and Heidi LOVE Ms. Hinami. They talk about her all the time.

Can’t wait til the Kindergarten concert next month.

Mother’s Day

 

                                

I love these two!

Me and my girls.

Kyla took this….

and Heidi took this…

Ten on Ten: May 2013

Morning Tie Back.

Counting down the days til I’m older.

Lombardo backyard…yep that’s right!

A walk.

The Harper date continues.

Chocolate milk.

Neighbor party prep.

My chalk skills put to the test.

Monkey girl.

Dinner on the green.

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