Yum?

We headed to White House for the annual crawfish boil.  This year there were not near as many crawfish sacrificed and there were still tons left over.  Reesi did eat her share of them though.  There were lots of diving contest, with Phillip winning the biggest splash, and a corn hole tournament that I think Phillip and I got last place in.  It was a day full of fun.

Softball Season

Reesi played her third season of softball this spring.  I wouldn't say she loves it, but once she gets to the games she always has a good time.  My favorite part of softball is listening to the girls cheering in the dugout.  It is so cute to watch them chant and dance for their team.

Grandparents Day

Helping Papoo build his bee house.  Obviously, I have no idea what the correct term for this is!

Every May Reesi's school has a big Grandparents' Day program.  Reesi has always loved to sing and you can definitely tell when watching her in a program.  She smiles the whole time she is singing.  This year she was chosen to dance with her grandparent during one of the songs, which she was pretty excited about.  After the program, we went to Mimi and Papoo's for lunch and playing with cousin Easton.  Grandparents' Day is even better because they get out of school half day!

Pool TIme

Reesi, Elye, and Elye's best friend Sara McGee

Elye got a kiddie pool for her birthday so since it's been almost 90 this week we brought it out.  Surprisingly, Elye wasn't the only one who loved it.  Reesi, Grace, and Lyla played in it forever.  They are getting so big, but are still little kids at heart.

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!