Molly's Art Show

Friday, April 15th, the day after Molly's birthday and the day before her birthday party, she had an art show at school.  It was a crazy, busy three days.  The 15th was also mine and Scott's 16th wedding anniversary.  We're celebrating by going to Austin this weekend, just the two of us.  Back to the art show.  Molly has been learning about many different artists at school and how they painted.  She's told me how Georgia O'Keeffe painted big subjects and Jackson Pollock was an action painter.  Molly was excited to show us her artwork. It was a lot of fun.

Molly's is the top right.  The next picture shows it more

This was three pieces of wood glued together.  The child would squirt paint onto the top, then count to 5 while it dripped down, then add another color, count to 5 again and continue until it looked how they wanted it to.

This is how they made this picture and the one above.  She made this one while I was there for her birthday.  The paper is on a bike wheel.  She squirts on paint and the teacher spins it.  She adds as many colors as she wants till it's how she likes it.

This was the paper sculpture all the kids worked on.  It started as the kids just rolling up newspaper and gluing it wherever they wanted.  Once it was how they liked it, they painted it.

This was our family project.  They sent a bag home with a few different pieces and that's all we could use other than markers or paint and glue or tape.  Molly named ours, The Feathery, Glittery Snow Girl

This was Molly's " Meet the Artist"

This is Molly's best friend, Kaelyn

I have just loved Molly's school this year.  She's had so much fun there.  It's a Montessori School, so even though there are no desk and worksheets, she learned a lot.  This Thursday is Pajama Day and in May they have Mud Day and then she's finished on May 25.  It was a splurge to send her there, but I'm so glad we did. 

Molly's Unicorn Party

Saturday was the big day-Molly's Unicorn 5th birthday party.  It went well even though it rained and we had to stay inside.  We had a few games, a pinata that Scott had to rig up inside, lunch, cake, and present time.  I think everyone had a good time.  Molly loved it!

When the guest arrived, Molly gave them a unicorn headband.  My wonderful mom made them and they turned out so cute.  The party favors were these cute jars with a unicorn on top and with glitter play-doh inside. We spray painted the unicorns white, then Molly painted their horns with glitter silver paint and we hot glued them to the tops; we made the glitter play-doh, and then Molly cut out the circles to put in the jars.

The unicorn pictures says: Always be yourself unless you can be a unicorn, then always be a unicorn.

The kids played two games plus had the pinata.  We had a Skittle Relay. There were two teams.  Each child would draw a number, run down to a bowl of skittles, eat the number of skittles that they drew, then run back and the next player would go.  The kids enjoyed it.  We also had Pin the Horn on the Unicorn.  Molly painted the unicorn and did a great job. The game was fun too.

 

For lunch, we had pb&j, rolls with lunch meat and cheese, fruit, and chips. The next picture shows the cute center pieces we made.

Molly with her best friend, Kaelyn from preschool and her friend, Ayla on the right.

 Friends having lunch!  At least the kids were able to eat outside on the porch.

Uncle Brett, Aunt Carman, and Vienne came over for the party.  

 

We had cake, cupcakes with mini ice cream cones on top to look like unicorn horns, chocolate covered pirouettes, and cupcake chex mix

A few more pictures of the birthday girl! In the second one, she shows how she really feels about taking pictures.  She had a special unicorn headband that Grandma made her.

Molly turns 5

I can't believe this girl is 5 years old already.  Time needs to slow down.  She had fun this morning opening her presents.  They do this things at school called "A Celebration of Life" and that was fun.  We just picked up cupcakes from a cute little bakery for dessert tonight after our dinner of Domino's, her request for her birthday dinner. 

I like this one with Scott being silly

a headband decorating kit

A mermaid tail that can go in the water.  She's been wanting one for a long time.  She was so excited.

Molly really wanted an Easy Bake Oven, but a couple friends have them and said the snacks are super small and don't really taste good.  Instead I got her an apron and some baking utensils and a kids cookbook.  She was really excited about it.  We made a smoothie from the book for breakfast and for lunch she changed up her pb&j to a pb&j pocket we made from the book.  I got her one cooking class at Young Chef's Academy.

At preschool, she decorated this ring just how she wanted, brought baby pictures to show and had a form to fill about herself as she's grown up.  They sang a cute little song to her.  She loved it. 

The Unicorn Party is this Saturday.  I'm feeling a little stressed trying to get everything done without tiring myself out. It should be lots of fun!  I'll have pictures after.

Cinderella

I'm so glad I was up for taking Molly to see Cinderella at the Majestic Theater today.  She got the tickets for Christmas and has been looking forward to it.  We went with her friend Ayla.  Her mom is my good friend, Emily.  Scott dropped us off and then Emily drove us home.  We had a great time.  It was different than the Disney movie, but the girls enjoyed it.  When the Fairy God Mother would change things, Molly kept saying-she really is magical!  The costumes were so neat because while they were dancing, they'd twirl and flip over their skirt and it'd all change in time with the Fairy God Mother doing magic.  Here are some pictures of the girls.

 

 

 

Surgery

Last Saturday I had a little pain in my stomach.  That night I felt a little bump. Scott said-oh no, it's a hernia.  Sunday, I went to my friend, Brooke's house. She's an ER nurse and she confirmed it was a hernia.  She tried to push it back in, but could not.  Monday I went to a surgeon another friend recommended to me.  He had done her hernia surgery back in December.  He said he could get me in Tuesday or next Tuesday, the 12th.  I chose Tuesday, the next day.  Surgery went well.  It took me a little bit to come out of the anesthesia. I was pretty light headed and nauseous. I was home that evening and Miss Molly has not left my side other than for preschool.  She has been so sweet.  She's slept in our room, helps me up, holds my hand if I go anywhere, give me lots of hugs and arm rubs, tells me to let her know if I need anything...she's been so sweet.  Scott took all week off too to take care of me and the kids.  Tyler's been helpful when he's been home too.  I'm not gonna lie-this little incision hurts! Today it doesn't hurt as bad to sit up and lay down.  I've been sneezing today, so that's no fun.  The doctor said it'd hurt for 2 days and after about a week, I should be up moving around, doing normal things.  So we'll see.

Spring Break Trip in IL

A few weeks back we went to IL for Spring Break.  We had a great time, like always.  The kids have so much fun with their grandparents and cousins.  I love seeing everyone too.  The weather was pretty nice.  Here are a bunch of pictures.  I'll write about them in the captions. 

My kids always love walking on Grandpa's treadmill.  Molly walked 1/4 of a mile each time. Tyler walked 2 miles three days that we were there. 

Molly loved playing with Oreo.  One night when all the cousins spent the night, they made forts and kept Oreo up there with them.  That poor dog, you could tell he wanted out.

Tyler loves playing with all the cool toys at their house.

The boys can build with Lego's for hours

 

 

 The kids had a blast playing the game Pie Face.

 

On Sunday, we celebrated birthdays for Jan-April.

 

Monday, we visited my Grandma.  She played several songs for us on the organ.  It was fun to hear her play and the kids loved it.

 

Molly and Bailey both love their Uncle Tom.

Seeing the movie Zootopia

On the weather channel, Tyler saw the story about the Belvidere Tornado.  They showed this tornado statue at the high school, so Tyler wanted to go see the real thing while we were there.  

Tuesday, Molly and I drove into Chicago so she could see her friend, Briley. They had so much fun!  While we were there, Tyler stayed with my mom and they made wooden crafts with the saw.  

 

 

I was able to meet my friend, Elisa night for dinner.  We had a great time catching up.

Things I don't have pictures of were Grandpa taking the kids to the park, all the cousins making forts and playing outside, my dinner with Kim and our friend, Gayle.  We had a great time and look forward to seeing everyone again this summer at our house in TN.