We had a wonderful little break from everyday life and spent some time away at Mamaw and Papaw's house.  Spring break was quick, but it felt wonderful to not have to set an alarm everyday to get kids up and ready for school.  The kids are still talking about the grandparents house...good thing they are going back this weekend:)  I have to work and Joe is having a guys weekend filled with a midwest brewery tour!  Cheers to the grandparents for watching the munchens:) 

We weren't able to make it up north so see family on Easter, but we did have fun as a family and did a little egg hunt in our yard and went to an awesome church service dressed to celebrate.

The exciting news around this house is that someone lost her first tooth  Grace has had a loose tooth for a few weeks and finally managed to pull it out last night.  She was super excited to leave it under her pillow for the tooth fairy and was very pleased to wake up too 2 dollar bills in it's place.  Now she wants to go buy something...lol.  Grace is also excited because she is the first in her preschool class to loose one and gets to put a special sticker on the chart there.  Plus she is loving all the extra attention!


All the kids had dentist appointments yesterday.  Grace and Bella sat in the big girl chair and did perfect.  Ian sat in my lap and let them do whatever they needed too.  The dentist thinks Grace will loose 8 teeth this year, all the front ones(4 top and 4 bottom).  Of course, I got the lecture on how my kids are not suppose to suck their thumbs......I KNOW......haven't found that magical button to push to make them stop!  Grace is getting better, plus we just had the talk about her new big girl teeth not coming in correctly if she doesn't stop. 


We have spent a few days at that park, who would have thought in February?  The girls also enjoyed a friends birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese and they had a blast, Bella keeps asking to go back.


My new favorite picture with the kids, all snuggly after a bath!

The girls back up with Dance last week, we put Bella in the sane class as Grace.  Thankfully this week went better then last week.  Big sister Grace can be a little overwhelmed when little sis is not doing everything they say.  We had a talk about only worrying about ourselves and letting the teachers help Bella.  This week seemed much much better.



I am trying Ian on the potty off and on.  I am not pushing it, but he is constantly asking to go pee pee or asking for his diaper to be changed as soon as he pees.  Hoping it is just around the corner..  Both the girls were 3 when they finally potty trained, so I'm optimistic that he will be sooner:)




We took the girls to see Disney on Ice, Dare to Dream.  It was amazing, I haven't been to an ice show since I was little and it is still magical:)  They performed Princess and the Frog, Cinderella, and Tangled.  Tangled was by far my favorite, but Grace says they all were her favorite part.  Grace was the classic princess girl watching the show, getting up and dancing along with them.  Bella just stood there dazed, wide eyed, open mouth in awe of it all.  I think Bella's favorite part was watching Max the horse, she kept screaming his name. 

    Waiting for the show to begin


     Severely overpriced cotton candy....but so worth it!  ( except for when it ended up on me;)


  Lots of flying tricks on Tangled


   Max look so real!


While we where at the show my sister who was watching Ian texted that Ian was vomiting at home, though and behold Bella starts vomiting halfway through Tangled!  Luckily the show was almost over and then we headed home for the not so fun car ride.  I was telling Joe that I missed having a diaper bag, I usually had ready change of clothes and lots of wet wipes.  It was impossible to get cleaned up there!  So far Bella and Ian are the only unfortunate ones.  We were exposed to it on Thursday, so we are crossing our fingers that no one else gets it.  So far this morning both are keeping down clear liquids.