E. is 3!

I can't believe that little Elye is three.  When I think about Reesi when she was three she seemed so much older.  Elye is quite the little character.
Elye, at three you . . . .
- still love your milk, but are becoming a better eater.  Some of your healthy favorites are spinach salad with ranch, broccoli and carrots with ranch, and asparagus.  Some of your not so healthy favorites are candy, macaroni, and corn dogs without the corn bread (hot dog on a stick).
-have grown!  You weigh 29 pounds (40 percentile) and are in the 50 percentile for height.
- love to swing.
-love to listen to the Chipmunks songs.  Your favorites are Put a Ring on It and Party Rock.
-are kind of a scardy cat and don't like bugs.
-only take naps in the car and the swing.
-love Tangled and will never keep your shoes on because you say Tangled doesn't wear shoes.
-say lots of funny things like  . . .
  -puptake = cupcake
  - My nose is running out of batteries. (when you had a stuffy nose)
  - pornado=tornado
  -pooter=computer
  -tute-cute
  -berry=very
  -pokeypines-porcupines
  -I was fracking(cracking) up.
  -Here's the deal.  and then you go on to tell me what you want.

Easter

We spent Easter lunch at my parents house. On the way there, Annie puked all over my clothes. Before we took pictures, of course. After we ate we walked over to their neighbors for an Easter egg hunt. Lyla won the prize this year for collecting 84 eggs!

That night we went to Larry's mom's for dinner and another hunt. This time there was money in the eggs! Reesi collected over $8 and that sweet girl put every bit in her Honduras envelope. Love her!!!!

If you look carefully at some of the pictures you will notice that Elye has some tattoos. During church I Elye finally went on Larry's side and I actually was enjoying getting to pay attention to the sermon. Five minutes later I look over to see Elye laying in the pew while Reesi is using a pen to tat her up as the lady next to us looks on horrified. There were tattoos all up her arms and legs. You might think that Larry didn't notice, but no. He noticed. He just thought it was a great way to keep Elye quiet. Party pooper me made them stop immediately. So Elye starts yelling, "I want Reesi to give me tattoos!" It all went down from there. Happy Easter!

Lots and Lots of Eggs

We dyed Easter eggs at my parents this year. We ended up with a little too many eggs, but it kept the girls busy for a while. At the end of the dying, Reesi accidently dropped an egg and we realized that I had forgotten to boil one dozen of the eggs. So now we had to look through the other six dozen dyed eggs to find them. Did you know you can tell if they are boiled or not by spinning them? Reesi spun every one of those eggs and finally tracked down the bad dozen. It was a beautiful day and the girls (and the dogs) enjoyed spending all day dying eggs, picking rocks out of the garden, stealing my camera from me for a photo shoot, sucking up a million worms from the bottom of the pool, swimming in the freezing water, and playing in the new tree house. They never want to leave the farm!

I Never Knew Poop Could Be So Exciting!

Elye has been "partially" potty trained for a while now. The only obstacle standing in our way was the poop. I wrapped up a big pink present to bribe her with. Didn't work. I followed her around the house like a hawk trying to catch her in action. She's pretty sneaky. We played iPad on the potty waiting for it. It never came. Finally, Elye decided it was time. . .

We were spending our spring break in Florida and it was late afternoon-her prime time. We put in bed for some quiet time while Larry, Lesli, and I enjoyed sitting by the pool. Suddenly, Elye runs out and said, "I pooped on the potty!" I roll my eyes thinking, "yeah, right," but follow her inside for her to show me. Sure enough, there's poop in the potty, a little on the seat, and a trail in her pull up. I could not believe it! After that she has only had one or two accidents in her pants! However, every time she poops on the potty she still sneaks off and does it. Then she runs out, bare booty, and proudly announces, "I pooped on the potty!" I guess this girl likes her privacy! It just goes to show that no matter how I bribed her or what I did, I couldn't make her poop on the potty. She waited until she was ready and then took care of it herself!

Navarre Beach

We headed to Navarre Beach for a long weekend. It was perfect weather, which it seems like it's always raining when we go down there. Our days consisted of beach, pool, Tommy's Snoballs, eat fish, in that order. We mixed in some Putt-Putt and Pensacola Surf Burger, but that was about it. It was the perfect weekend!

More Birthday Time

Reesi also celebrated her birthday with a birthday dinner at Mimi and Papoo's house. It was supposed to be a birthday bonfire, but the weather didn't cooperate and we had massive storms predicted all afternoon. Reesi's school even closed early. On the way out there Reesi and Larry stopped at a gas station because of the storms and actually saw a funnel cloud in the distance. Reesi was terrified and crying when she got to Mimi and Papoo's. Luckily, it missed us and the party went on.

Surprise!

Reesi has always wanted a surprise party so we decided last minute to give her one. We set it up for Sunday afternoon at Goofballs. I said I had to go grocery shopping and you dad was taking you to Goofballs for a fun birthday afternoon. You had no clue at all! When you first walked in you were just shocked and quiet, but then you started acting like your crazy self. It was so fun to watch you with your friends! Being a surprise definitely made it a better birthday party!

Reesi is 8

1) Who are your best friends? Lydia, Caroline, Mary Taylor, Riley, Amy, Grace, Lyla, Ella

2) What is your favorite thing to do? Arts and Crafts

3) What is your favorite color? Aqua

4) What is your favorite food? apples, bananas, peaches

5) What is your favorite toy? ball, jump rope, puzzles

6) What do you like to do with your family? bowling and vacations

7) What do you want to be when you grow up? I want to own a pet store.

8) What makes you happy? When someone toots.

9) What makes you sad? When I get shots and when I have to clean my room

10) What is your favorite show? Ant Farm

11) What are your favorite books? Magic Tree House, Bad Kitty, Puppy Place

12) What do you love to learn about? animals

13) What was the best part of your birthday? My surprise party

14)What was your best present? My dog Annie

15) Where do you like to go? Target and Mimi and Papoo's house

16) What is your favorite treat? Nerds

17) What do you think about before you go to sleep? What I want to have in my pet store

18)If you could meet any one in the world, who would it be? Luke Bryan

19)Describe Jesus- Nice, kind, loving, helping, just Jesus

20)What are you most thankful for? My family, my dog Annie, and especially me.

Reesi, at 8 you

-love school, especially reading, but hate practicing math facts.

-are so good with your sister, most of time. She makes you play doggy and you always read books to her in the car.

-still like to try and sleep in our bed. You usually end up in our bed two or three nights a week. Luckily, we have a big bed and your pretty sweet and cuddly when you sleep.

-are still one of the shortest, smallest girls in your class. The other day you put on some of Elye's 3T shorts and they fit you perfectly.

-have a pretty healthy diet. I wish I ate like you. Your favorite snacks are fruit, you rarely eat bread, and aren't crazy about desserts. Your weakness is candy!

-have the sweetest heart! Your school is raising money to build houses in Honduras. The day you got your big envelope to raise money with you were fired up! You wanted to go house to house asking for money. I talked you out of that, but then you had another idea. You made flyers to put in mailboxes asking for donations to be sent to our address. It's been almost a week and you still check the mail everyday looking for donations. You're just in shock that nobody has sent money yet. You also got $10 in the mail from your grandma for your birthday and you put it straight in the Honduras envelope.