Switching rooms

This summer we are spending most of a week switching rooms.  It wasn't until this year that we noticed one of the rooms is larger than the other.  We will most likely be in this house for the next 4-5 years, so with our daughter turning 8 and wanting more sleep overs, it becomes prudent that she be the one that has the larger room.
So the blue gets a new coat of pink and the pink a new coat of blue. And PRESTO new rooms. 

While doing make over rooms, it seems that new bedding and curtains are in order..any excuse for me to sew!
So Boy gets a Buz Lightyear quilt and Girl gets an amazingly precious brown and pink quilt.

Pics to come soon.

Fun in Dallas

We went to Dallas for a little Spring Break fun this year.  Carol Grace's birthday always falls on spring break.  We asked her this year if she would like a party or a trip..she chose TRIP!! Of course it had to involve going to American Girl! 



We started our trip off with a visit to the Dallas Zoo.



Just look at these cutes!!!

 

I am just in love with these two little ones.  Carol Grace loves that little guy, and he just adores her too!

In the children's zoo area they have a bird feeding attraction.  The birds seemed smitten with us..especially my hair!  CG was not into this at all!  Notice her her eyes on the birds!  Cracks me up!





Still NOT having it!! AT.ALL.
Then we rode some horses..



and camels..




Fed some Giraffe's...


And then ended our day at THE Purple Cow!


During....





After... It must have been good!





Even Connor had a great time! Look at those cheeks!

Here is how we ended our day.  This is too precious for words.

The next day we went to a Thomas and Friends outing.  Connor was overwhelmed with excitement!!



Love these boys. So. Much.  I love the way my husband loves our kids.



Group shot!



We ended our day at the Rainforest Cafe..and this amazing volcano of chocolate!  They made Carol Grace stand on a chair and pound her cheast like a gorilla while they sang Happy Birthday to her!  She loved every second.

And then American Girl the next day.  It was Carol Grace's birthday!!



Just look at this face..I love her.


He is completly wrapped around her finger, and loves every second.


Breakfast at American Girl!!



That is Shella Diamond..getting her hair done!  She just got her ears pierced.  For whatever reason it was very difficult for me to agree to the ear piercing.  Made my girl seem even older than her 8 years.



All done and now time to go home.
Happy Birtday sweet girl..Love Mom, Dad, and Bubba.

Boy!

Tonight my son scraped his knee.  Remarkably, this is literally one of the first "boo-boo's" that we have had since his birth.  He has had immunizations, but not really a scratch, scrape, or break of his skin. 
I was amazed  at watching him with his "boo-boo" 
I am not used to the nonchalant way that he carried on with his scratch.  My daughter has conditioned me to expect tears, limping of the leg with the affected scratch, drama, at times screaming, several applications of band aids (which then brings more drama when they need to be removed), and the occasional hysterics.  Believe me, I am NOT exaggerating here.
My boy, completly befuzzeled me.  He kept playing.  He was even crawling around on his sore knee!  We had to have bath time later, and I was really dreading getting him into the bath due to his scratch.  He completly surprised me!  He climbed right on in and flopped on his belly and began kicking and splashing.  Really! NO DRAMA.  I even put medicine on his knee later..you know because this is the routine I have become accustomed to for the last 7 years.  I even found two non barbie band aids to put on his knee.  His reaction--Ehh.  He acted like I was crazy.
I have a lot to learn in the world of Boy. 

Sure

Carol Grace, my sweet Carol Grace.  Today, St. Patrick's Day is a fun day for seven almost eight year olds.  She spent the afternoon telling us all about what happened at school curtesy of the school leprechuans.  The bathrooms had green water, they were locked out of their classroom by the little green guys, and their classroom was completly destroyed.  She is completly sure that they have leprechuans at her school. 

Transition to home.  We were playing outside in our back yard.  Carol Grace is busy looking for little lucky green fellas that might be living in our yard.  She even wanted to borrow the shovel to go in search of the ones that might be hiding, you know way down deep.  We did not allow her to do this of course.

Transition to dinner.  She begins a conversation about "Are Leprechuans real"  She asks "Mom do you believe that Leprechuans are real?"  I say "sure".  She says "Do you really mean that, or are you just saying that because I am a kid?  You know adults do that sometimes"  I had to laugh about this. Hard.  We have been working for weeks on "It's not what you say, but how you say it" which has yet to hit home.  Today it may have.  She goes on to explain how "Sure" has several meanings.  there is Sure-meaning Yeah right, Sure-meaning Yes, Sure-meaning you are just agreeing so you don't have to expain what you really think, and then Sure- a joking word. 

Who knew that one word could mean so many things?  And who knew that my sweet seven almost eight year old would know them all?  Am I really all that surprised?  Sure :)