Kindergarten

Today I left work early to go take my first baby for kindergarten registration. Well, she's not officially registered because I need to take her to the dentist next week but all the other paperwork is filled out and ready to go and she got to see her new school. I am excited, nervous and scared for her to be starting school. It seems like she is still so little!

Now quit growing up so fast - you're breaking your mama's heart!

I meant to add this to the last post -

Last Sunday, we had a belated St. Patty's Day dinner at the Farbotko's when we went to pick up the girls.  Andy was being... well, Andy, and was telling Audrey that the corned beef was made of tiny worms.  He asked her if she knew what chocolate was made of and she said "Chocolate is made by God!"

The girls are watching the Wizard of Oz for the first time as I type this.  Bridget asked us "Where's her prince?"  Me: "Who, Dorothy?"  B: "Yeah, where her prince?"  I had to explain to her that you don't always need  a prince to rescue you!

Last weekend we had what is hopefully one of the last birthday parties to attend for a while.  It was a princess dress up party, and you could tell who the most popular princess is as most of the girls were dressed as Rapunzel.

Audrey won the "Pin Pascal on Rapunzel game."

Bridget stayed home and helped Daddy in the yard while we were at the party.  That girl loves to help her Daddy!

After we got home, Grandma and Grandpa Farbotko picked up the girls to spend the night.  They took the girls to the Chick-fil-A Dwarf House (photo courtesy of Grandma; angry face courtesy of B) and Andy and I went to a St. Patty's Day party.

The rest of the week was spent getting ready for my Arbonne party on Thursday night.  I had a few girls over and we had facials, wine and dessert - it was lots of fun!  Bridget made the evening interested by throwing up in my car on the way home from daycare and 3 more times after we got home.  We couldn't send her to school on Friday so Grandma Mary offered to keep her and luckily, she was perfectly fine on Friday.

"OMG, will you quit taking pictures of me?"

Star Student

Audrey was the Star Student this week, and since she hates being the center of attention, she was not excited at all (did you get the sarcasm there??).  We had an All About Me poster board to fill out for her to bring in on Monday.  The daycare director was proud of her for filling it out herself since most of the other kids parents filled theirs out.  I can't get over how much Audrey's handwriting has improved over the past few weeks.

On Tuesday, Andy surprised her for showing up to eat lunch with her.  We thought she would be all excited to see him, but he was greeted with "What are you doing here?" and he's pretty sure he heard her say "You sit over there and I'll sit over here."  She's only 5 and she's already embarrassed by her folks!  On Wednesday, she got to bring in a snack for the class and she wanted me to bring in watermelon.  One of the other teachers was in the lobby when I dropped off the watermelon and she said "The kids are going to love that!  No one has brought in fruit before!"  So, now I know that Audrey is eating crappy snacks every Wednesday during Star Student weeks!  Today, I surprised her as the mystery reader.  She was excited to see me, although she did say "I'm not leaving with you after this."  I guess it's good that she loves school so much!

Bridget's drawing is improving too.  She brought home a picture of a bird that she colored in school and had drawn a little bird next to it.

Not much else exciting has been going on.  Audrey went out to lunch with the ballet girls for one of her friend's birthday last Saturday and then the girls got to spend the night at Aunt Tina's for the first time.  They had fun eating pizza and popcorn and watching movies with the boys.  Bridget started out in Tyler's room but then asked "Where Audrey?" and ended up sleeping in Jack's room with her big sis.  I guess they are so used to sleeping together that they can't sleep apart!

The weather has been really warm so Andy has been doing yard work on the weekends.  Bridget is the only one who actually likes helping with yard work.

I can't wait until Bridget is actually helpful in the yard so Andy stops trying to get me to help. :)

Yay Batman!

Conversation with Bridget this evening:

Me: "Bridget, what would you do if a stranger tried to pick you up?"

B: "Batman come and beat up the bad guy and I say 'Yay Batman!  You the best superhero!'"

I think we have some work to do!

I'm Back

Sorry it's been so long. I used to write a lot of my blog posts from work when I was at my old job and now I have a hard time finding a few minutes to sit down and write.  To get the bad news out of the way first, Avalanche passed away last Friday.  When he was born, he was the a scrawny little white runt.  Andy felt that he needed a strong name to help him grow big and strong, so he named him Avalanche.  It turned out to be quite appropriate, because not only was he a huge white and gray fluff ball, but he was extremely clumsy when he was a kitten.  He would be walking across an empty table and trip over his own feet and fall!  Audrey has dealt with the loss by not wanting to talk about it.  Bridget made us chuckle because she said "He like Sleeping Beauty and Snow White. Can I have new cat?"  She asks us almost every day if she can have a new cat, but that's not going to happen any time soon!

On to kid news, Bridget started drawing little people.  I discovered it when I drew a circle and asked her if she knew how to draw a smiley face.  She added a face, arms, legs and some hair and now she is a people drawing fool!

 She said that this one is Daddy:

Last weekend was nice out, so I had the back door open and the kids were in and out of the house.  I was in the kitchen making some breakfast sandwiches to freeze (very Martha of me) and Bridget walked in and said "Mommy, I help you cook.  Here, hold my snail!"  When I wouldn't hold her snail or let her touch my food, she got a little upset with me!

Here are a few pictures of my little cutie from my phone.  This is her trying to wink.

And a few of her in her superhero attire.  No ruffles and lace for this girl!

And my two favorite gals (and Nora of course):

I thought we were done with the constant birthday parties, but Audrey had one last weekend and was invited to 2 in the next coming weekends, plus another that both girls are going to.  Audrey proved that she is indeed Andy's daughter at the party we went to last weekend.  It was a party for one of her classmates and there were about 6 little girls from class at the party.  Audrey was definitely the ring leader and all of the girls were following her around.  When the kids were at the table in the party room, Audrey was talking loudly trying to make everyone laugh  (who does that sound like??).  She was singing "Happy Birthday KangaZoom" and telling everyone how she ordered a diet coke with her happy meal that day.

Here is one of Audrey's outfits.  When I told her that the skirt didn't really match the shirt, she said "But princesses wear rainbow colors and the skirt has rainbow colors so I am trying to look like that!"  Since we didn't have to go anywhere that day, I let her be a rainbow princess!  Doesn't she look so much older in this picture?

Three

We had Bridget's birthday party on Saturday at a place called Adventure Kids.  I had never been there before, but I bought one of those online coupon deals and figured we would give it a shot.  Luckily, it was a lot of fun!  The place had a couple of jumpy houses, some little bikes, a Wii Rock Band station, a trampoline and a huge indoor sandbox/playground.  We got there a little early to welcome guests and Bridget made a bee line to the sandbox.

One of her buddies from her old daycare came and after her friend warmed up to everyone, the two were attached at the hip - it was so cute! This is the two of them having a snack.

I forgot to get a picture of the Batman cake, but you can see it here.

Afterwards, the family all came to the house to watch Bridget open gifts.  The poor thing was so tired by the time everyone left but she had a great day!  Here is a link to the rest of the photos.
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For her birthday dinner yesterday, she requested "mac 'n cheese and chickens," so Andy brought KFC home.  What a fancy dinner!  After I put the girls to bed, I heard Bridget crying.  I went back to Audrey's room (where they sleep nowadays) and asked her what was wrong.  She is kind of hard to understand normally, but especially so when she is sobbing.  I asked Audrey if she could understand her.  In a sweet voice, she said "Bridgie, we can't understand you.  Your voice is too cute."  :)  (The crying fit was because I forgot to ask her what her best part of her day was. Bad Mommy!)