Hazelisms

I'm so proud of Hazel and all the progress she is making in speech therapy. However, I still find some of her mispronunciations so stinkin' adorable. For whatever reason, I'm bad about videoing the girls. I take lots of pictures but when it comes to documenting their language, dancing, singing, etc. I seem to fall behind. I wish I would have taken more time to do this with her.

So do I have a video? No. But here are a few Hazelisms off the top of my head from today.

Hazel said, "My nose is 'nuffy." and "I want a 'nuffed anemal." She also would love some hot lotlate. Which used to be ot lotlate, but thanks to therapy she has those "h" sounds pretty much down now.

We are moving on to "p" this week :)

The return of Baby Rainbow Dash

Hazel had a beloved tiny plastic Rainbow Dash pony with removable hair. She also has a baby Cheerilee but the Rainbow Dash was a favorite. Unfortunately, right about the time of our trip to Wyoming Baby Rainbow Dash went missing. I've searched the car, the house, everywhere. I'm guessing she was left in one of the many hotels we visited on our trip home. Hazel claims she was going on fabulous adventures and got lost in the woods. Every time she sees a crop of trees we have to look for poor lost little Baby Rainbow Dash.

And now for the other part of the story. No, we did not find little baby Rainbow Dash. However, this week Hazel insisted she did not want to wear a pull up to bed any longer because she was a big girl now. So we tried it and success. Two nights and no accidents. Her reward, as you might guess, a new little baby Rainbow Dash. Who is set to arrive here tomorrow, along with baby Pinkie Pie and baby Scootaloo.

Let me tell you, finding a baby Rainbow Dash, not an easy feat. Hence why she's getting all three because that's all I could find on Amazon. Hopefully, tomorrow I will have one happy little girl and we can stop searching for the poor lost little baby Rainbow Dash.

The big 5!

That's right my baby is 5. We celebrated with a home brewed my little pony party. I thought about doing my usual fancy decorating scheme, a cake with 3D ponies, etc. Then I decided, Clara is always wishing she could participate more when it comes to baking, decorating and decision making, so why not let her do it. It's her party after all. So Clara picked out decorations, decided on food, decided on the cake flavor, helped bake the cake and decorated it herself. She also made the artwork for the invitations and the "Happy Birthday" banner. I think letting her do all this was just as exciting for her than the actual party. Everything seemed to go well. We had a taco bar, all her idea, which I have to say worked out really well because it was easy to do. As usual I didn't get many photos because I was busy but here are the few I did get.

Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Chips and Chocolate Buttercream, covered in white fondant and decorated by the birthday girl.

Birthday Banner done by Clara, the ponies and a hot air balloon.

The dessert and favors table.

Flowers from the garden, we had 7 vases full of them.

Catch up

I've been extremely lazy about the blog this year. It's all that vacationing. Not that I'm complaining the vacations this year have been fabulous. Yes, I'm still editing photos. One day they will make it to the internet scene. Until then, what have we been up to?

The girls are getting big of course. Our little bug turned three in June and Clara is a week away from the big 5. Crazy how time flies. We have entered a hectic schedule of juggling school, ballet classes and countless Mommy and Papa activities. It's been crazy but fun. Now that a few weeks of our new weekday schedule have gone by I'm starting to get in the swing of things. It was hard going from a weekly schedule of nothing unless we felt like it to something we have to do everyday. So anyway enough about the schedule here are a few recent pics of the girls and their silly mommy. More can be found here - Clara and Hazel 2011

Firsts

It's a week of firsts. Clara has begun her journey into formal education (if preschool really counts as formal education. She loves school. Her class is small and has only two other girls but she's having a great time. She paints or draws everyday. Some days she has music, movement, drama and all sorts of other fun activities. I'm very pleased that she is enjoying school and Hazel and I are enjoying our few hours of one on one time together.

Another first for the month. Hazel has finally started ballet class. After waiting outside her sisters classes for a year she was so excited to be able to go too. She thinks it's fantastic. For only being three she's had no problem running into the room and participating. She hasn't once cried or complained. I knew she would love it since she's so into dance but I was a little worried about the transition since Clara had a little bit of a problem in the beginning. Nope not Hazel. She's been doing great. She appears to be the smallest in her class which makes her look even more adorable doing all her ballet steps. Now we have two little dancers in our house.

Fashion Diva

I know it's been ages since I updated the blog. My main reason is vacation. I like to wait to add new post, post vacation until I've edited vacation photos to post. However, I'm still behind on them and am tired of waiting so they will get up eventually.

This afternoon I asked Clara to finally go get dressed before lunch and this is what she came down in. Striking a pose and exclaiming. "I didn't feel like wearing pants." I was later told her fancy crocheted belt actual is dual purpose. It's also is a lasso. Thanks Wonder Woman.

I really think my child is going to grow up being a fashion designer. She is definitely artistically inclined. She obviously loves fashion and accessorizing and she is completely fascinated by my sewing skills. She wishes more than anything to be able to make her own dresses.

Paintings and Drawings

Putting a few more pieces of artwork up. I love this first one Hazel did. It's a really simple watercolor painting of a Hazel person. Followed by another that I think is the sun and a guy.

A few weekends ago, Clara was being quiet in the morning and when I came down to check on her she said, "Look Mommy, I made a camel!" This is one of her collage pieces, she is so into them lately. It had a bit of ribbon on it too that looked like a continuation of the reins she drew, but it fell off at some point.

This one she did last Friday at Grandmom's for me. She said it's her with really long hair like Rapunzel. Rapunzel has come up a lot around here lately.