Goooooaaaaal!!

Macy made a goal in her soccer game yesterday!!!!
First one of the season (and her life)!
:)

Hi Shandell

The kids were playing in the basement and I went down to check on them and Brady walks up to me and say's "Hi Shandell". It was the cutest thing! I won't let him call me by my first name so I just had to record it because I'll have to make sure it doesn't happen on a regular basis. :)

Soccer

Macy's first soccer game was a couple weeks ago and boy did I regret signing her up!
It was raining and so cold!

On the bright side she has done so well this year! Kicked the ball more times an I can count AND almost made a goal and we are only 3 games in. She runs so fast but she's too dang polite she moves out of the way so someone else can kick it. :}

Brady's Hair Cut

Most of you know and most have seen him but I have yet to blog about it, so here it goes. The pressure was on to cut his hair, Bryan had given me until summer and as soon as it started to get warm I started to panic and thought about it daily! I think the decision was finally made for me when over Easter week-end two different people called him a little girl (even though he was in jeans and a blue button up shirt, I mean give me a break!). I looked a pictures on the Internet because I didn't want him to have a typical boy haircut and emailed them all to Erica, so she had an idea of what we were going for. Then the day arrives :( I pull up to Erica's house and am instantly sick to my stomach. We go downstairs to her salon and she gets everything ready and says "Ok, Shandell you can put him down now" and I just stood there and said "I don't think I can". He was SO good through the whole process (had to use a little candy towards the end). I absolutely love his haircut! Erica did an awesome job, Thank you, Thank you! He looks a lot older and so much more like a little man now (NOT saying he looked like a girl before!).

Before...

So Long!

Almost left a mullet :)

After...

How handsome!

And now a month later I look back and I miss his long hair, he has such nice hair! I will keep it short over the summer but who knows what we'll do with it next :)

Easter

What a week-end! Bryan took Friday and Monday off, Macy was so excited about that!

We dyed Easter eggs on Thursday night. Brady HAD to be involved and it was all Bryan could do to keep him out of the dye.

Friday Macy was so excited to have her Daddy home that she wanted to make him breakfast in bed, so we made eggs and toast. He loved it! What a sweet little girl who loves her Daddy ALOT! Then Bryan took all of us to the Dinosaur museum, they both thought it was pretty cool.

Saturday we went to Nana's for the annual Easter egg hunt. Brady got to ride on Nana's walker but I'm not sure he thought it was that fun, he likes to be running around with all the other kids. :) Macy and Mary got to do their hunt together. While we were up in Nana's room I spied the golden egg in a tree and when we got outside, it happened to be in Brady's area! So as soon as the lady said go I ran over (with Brady of course) ;) and "helped" him get the egg. He only picked up about 5 other eggs, but got some fun sand toys and a dollar. Macy got a bucket full!
Easter morning the Easter bunny spread eggs all over the house, the kids had so much fun filling their baskets. The Easter bunny got Macy the Crayola 3D market set and new helmet and he brought Brady some cars and a new helmet. We went to breakfast with the Pino family and then over to G & G Pino's for another Easter Egg hunt! They also got some new clothes and movies. Brady is so funny, he pulled out each piece of clothing and said "oh cute".

We had G&G Dixon over for dinner and played a little Wii, the kids helped Grandpa get through the rest of his walk by walking with him. ;) After they went home Macy jumped up into the bottom of the counter and got a big goose egg and had to lay on the couch for awhile. :(

We had such a nice Easter! Had to do a slideshow to show all the pictures!

Sucky Broke

SOME HOW the tip of Brady's sucky got cut off! He tried it out, it wasn't the same so he handed it back and said "Broke". He has done so well, hasn't cried at night at all only a little before naps. Every once and awhile he will say "sucky?" and I will hand it to him and he looks at it and says "broke, sucky" and throw it on the floor. We haven't been able to get him to throw it away, he'll walk over to the garbage with it but then he just can't put it in there.

Macy is not happy about the whole process she keeps telling him that she will find him a new one and say's we are mean parents. :) She never had a sucky so really it was a new thing for all of us.

It was hard to take that step, he's growing up so fast! He seems to take it all so well. My big boy.

Best kids EVER & Book Nazi

So I'm starting this entry with the Book Nazi story.
I am think that Macy's teachers think that I am a book nazi and that I force Macy to read books and always make her read hard books, well we all know this isn't true considering the previous post about her reading to her friends.
The other day I asked Macy's teachers to give her harder books (they had previously but then started giving her the easy books again) well the teacher put her hand on my shoulder and said "they don't always have to be hard for her to read", which I followed with "they aren't hard for her, the one's you are giving her are too easy". Well two days later I was waiting outside the school door to pick her up and Brady was in the back seat in the car and a little boy in Macy's class said "I see Macy's little brother" and the teacher looked and this is what she saw:


and said "and look, he's reading a book" Ha ha, I about died.



Best kids EVER!
Monday I was in my room getting ready and the kids were out in the living room playing and then it was quite, for some time. I went out into the living room expecting bad things and this is what I walked out to:

My kids LOVE books, what can I say!