You are my sunshine...

is what we were singing on this beautiful day!

We started pushing Kella on the tricycle long before her feet could touch the petals, so we thought we'd give it a go with Ryan. She was laughing, out-loud for about the first 15 minutes! Precious!

We made it to the back of the park to find a beautiful pond!

The play area (where we usually hang out) is on the other side of the hill, but we brought K's new bike and the trike for R to test out the walking trails.

There was a group of sweet, little old men fishing and soakin' up the sun (one may have even been sleeping!)

I have to say...right after this last pic was taken Ryan managed to fall in the water. Bad parents? Maybe! I was coming down off the bridge, Kella was getting in trouble for getting as much mulch from the trees as she could carry and launching it into the water. She was trying to show us that she was, in fact, going to do it....yada, yada...we were both focusing on Kella, a.k.a defiant child of the moment, when Kipp looked down the embankment and Ryan was headed straight for the water. Before he got to her, she was knee deep (her knee, that is, so technically it was only 6 in. of water) and seeing how she hasn't had too much experience "walking" in wet, soggy mud, fell face first just as Kipp grabbed her. Luckily, it was a beautiful, warm day in Texas!!! I stripped her down and she rode her trike back to the car rockin' only a diaper! Good times!!!!

Orange Crush!!!

Since Kella is only attending school 3 days a week now, we decided to try our hand at soccer. Silly me thought you had to be 4 (our main reason for not starting before now), but these girls have been playing together for 2 seasons and about half of our team is 3!
There's our girl, #6!!!!
Kipp had to miss this game due to a seminar, so I was videoing the whole game for him to see and didn't get many pics other than these pre-game shots.
Getting warmed up!

"Goooooo.....

Orange Crush!"

So, we beat the "Hello Kitties", but who's counting - they don't keep score. Next week.... "The Unicorns"!!!!!

Happy V-Day!

Their v-day room activity was decorating heart cookies! So fun!

Daddy had his men's bible study on the actual night, so what else were the girls & I to do but make our own heart pizza!

Kella had to get a shot with her flowers that daddy brought home, just for her!

He was also the.best.dad.ever and found these princess balloons, complete with their own dresses! He was so thoughtful and bought all they had! I only wish I'd had these for her party.

Oh, and don't mind the stamps on her face. Since receiving these in a goodie bag from school, we are finding that most things are getting stamped, this includes her sister. Which doesn't sit well when she's battling those red splotches from the pesky Roseola! We thought those darn things wouldn't go away, then realized it was all big sis's doings!!!!

Not this again...

Another case of Roseola, that is!!!
This is Ryan's 2nd encounter with this crazy virus, which we thought was an allergic reaction.

She seemed to act and feel fine, even more of a frustration when trying to diagnose. Luckily for her it's only a cosmetic mess! Poor baby! Shame to those giving my little one double and triple takes!!!

As you can see here, it didn't affect her performance!!!!

This and that...

This is waaaay back during one of our (many) snow days...
Nothin' like a bowl of snow!

After we'd had a break in the weather we woke up to moooooore snow!

Ryan enjoying her breakfast.

Okay, i love when i learn new things about my hubby. who knew he is such an artist. i found this drawing on kella's easel a couple of days after the fact. i couldn't believe he didn't show me!!!

And here's Kella's interpretation of Ariel.... not bad, huh?!

Here's Kella's gown...aka "inspiration piece"!

Looking back, I remember it taking Kella forever to use a plate/bowl, etc. without launching it onto the ground. I decided to test Ryan with a small bowl of fruit...

She looks so grown up in these pics! (tear)