A mini vacation and another week at school!

Since Mia had 4 days off from school over Easter we packed up and went to the Dallas area.  It was a lovely trip complete with amazing food, LegoLand, Sea Life Aquarium, Grapevine Mills Mall (for my Bama friends - it's much like Opry Mills Mall!), Fort Worth Zoo, Perot Science Museum and a visit to Ben's Uncle and Aunt in Mesquite.

April 22, 2014

April 23, 2014 

(Day after her first Tball game of the season so she absolutely had to wear her jersey to school!)

April 24, 2014

Field Trip Day!!!!!

The entire kindergarten went to Cameron Park Zoo for their field trip.  

Thankfully our class had 7 moms volunteer to chaperon so we only had 2-3 kids each!

April 25, 2014

In other news - our little bird friends from last spring are back and built a nest while we were in Dallas!!!  

We figured out they are Barn Swallows and Mia named them Theodore and Callie!

Dallas, Football and a Green Star

Friday we went up to Dallas to see Ben's cousin play football and to see his grandparents who were in town for the weekend.  It was a lovely visit.  I thoroughly enjoyed getting to watch a high school football game.  Oh and watching the Bama / Texas A&M game with a room full of Texans was fun too - nerve wracking but fun!

Mia is off to fantastic start to her week having brought home another green star!  We are sooo super proud of her!

Richland Mall

A few days ago Mia found out from a catalog we received in the mail that Build-A-Bear now carries both Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie from My Little Pony (which happens to be her absolute favorite cartoon).  As soon as she saw this she knew exactly where her money was going.  After counting her coins and being told that yes, she had enough for the doll but not for all of the accessories shown in the pictures she decided that she did indeed have to have her very own.  So off we went to Richland Mall today to get a Rainbow Dash.  After building said pony (who was named "Lily Rainbow Dash Dyer") we walked around for a bit and then she played in the play area and by play I mostly mean she chased a little boy around while growling at him.  Yes - growling - she was the monster and he was the scared little boy.  LOL

Obviously we didn't get to go to Dallas after all.  The weather didn't end up being bad but I'm a scaredy cat when it comes to possible storms - especially with a 2 hour drive.  Hopefully the forecast will settle down and we'll make it up there soon.

T-Ball starts Tuesday and swimming the week after.  We are getting really excited about that!  Not only will Mia be around other kids and Ben and I around other adults but it will also be great to get back into a weekly routine!  Yippee!

Just an ordinary day

The squirt and I hung out today just cleaning, organizing, doing laundry and other ordinary stuff.  We started working on Ben's father's day present and set up a "dining area".  I decided that eating at an actual table was much more important to me than having my sewing machine set up all the time.  Eating in front of the tv was getting really, really old so I picked up another rug (to avoid potential food stains on the carpet), some more folding chairs, threw a table cloth on the folding table and added a napkin holder - voila - a dining room area!  LOL

Ben and Mia have started working on more math together - she loves numbers (that definitely came from her daddy because all they do is confuse me :-P).

Tomorrow is supposed to be our Dallas trip but the weather report is iffy so I'll make that decision in the morning.

Just an ordinary day

again...
I've decided when there isn't something specific to post about I'll just call the post "just another ordinary day" ... I still want to post so I keep up the habit.

Today was essentially just another day... add in some whining, crying and tantrums to make it interesting. Mia had a bit of a rough day but she seems back on track tonight.
We played games, practiced t-ball and took a couple walks.  We also made plans to go to Dallas to see a very sweet lady this week.  We are super excited to see some of the sights up there.  For being in the middle of nowhere Waco is perfectly positioned close to big cities - Austin, Dallas, and Fort Worth are all within a 2 hour drive.  Hopefully Little Miss will wake up in a better mood tomorrow and the day won't be so trying.