"Tangled"

 This past Saturday, Sydney and I had some "girl time" together. And of course top on our list of girlie things to do was to go and see the new Disney movie entitled "Tangled." Sydney wanted to get all dressed up for our outing by having her hair fixed, some pixie dust on her cheeks, and a pretty dress. She started out in her own seat but about 5 minutes into the movie she was sitting with me, eating a hot dog and a few treats I had stashed in my purse. We laughed, I cried, we laughed some more, answered a few pertinent questions from Sydney about events taking place and then I cried and we laughed until the end. We both loved the movie and Sydney has started saving money in an envelope entitled "Rapunzel" in order to purchase the movie as soon as it hits the store shelf.

Our new favorite character: Pascal

"Rapunzel's one true friend is her silent, color-changing sidekick, Pascal. Pascal may be just a small chameleon, but he plays a big role in Rapunzel's decision to leave her lonely tower. This supportive and encouraging companion's true colors just might hold a key to unlocking a royal mystery."

Sydney Ballerina

As requested by her grand-parents-a picture of Sydney dressed for her first day of ballet. The hairdo was a bit challenging, but with a lot of gel and a little bit of pixie dust, it stayed up. 

Sydney had a fantastic time in ballet class! Almost as soon as she walked in the front door, she began to show me everything she had learned in class. Precious!

Noah, Sydney, and Lizzie sharing the limelight together. 

Time For Ballet!

  June-bug starts ballet class tomorrow!
She has been talking about wanting to take ballet for months now. She is bursting at the seems with joy that the day has finally arrived. Yesterday, we had a blast picking out her ballet shoes, white tights, black leotard, and pink tutu together. It was definitely memory making girlie time with my little ballerina! Now, all that is left is for me to master the ballerina hairdo!

What's a Dishwasher?

Sydney loves to sing and talk with me while we clean the dishes together. One of our many conversations this week consisted of what our new house would have; one of those things being a new dishwasher. I was trying to explain to her that we wouldn't be hand washing the dishes in our new house when she interrupted me with, "Mommy, we can't eat on dirty dishes!" I then explained to her further that no, we wouldn't be eating on dirty dishes because we would be using a dishwasher. She then looked at me with a perplexed expression on her face and asked, "Mommy, what's a dishwasher?" Hopefully she'll learn soon enough!

Happy Birthday June bug!

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Birthdays in our house start with that special someones room being filled with balloons after their asleep. Joshua put the balloons in Sydney's room around midnight in order to be sure that she would be sound asleep. But to our surprise, she rolled over to see him and said, "Don't worry Dad, I'm not peaking!" We think she was a little too excited to sleep well last night. :o) The early morning was filled with screams of delight and laughter as the sprouts started to play. Joshua and I headed down the hall to enjoy the celebration with our camera in hand. Then it was off to the bakery with Dad to pick out favorite donuts and bring some home to share with the rest of the family.

Happy Birthday Sweet Girlie!
Daddy and Mommy love you and are blessed to have you in our lives.

Sydney Bon Bair

This week at the Library we found a new favorite book entitled "Ruthie Bon Bair."

 It's about a little girl who does not obey her mommy and the consequences end up not being very fun for Ruthie.

"So begins this delightfully irreverent tale in the tradition of Dr. Seuss. When a spirited little girl named Ruthie Bon Bair refuses to dry her wet hair before bedtime, she is plagued by an unusual host of difficulties-plants and flowers begin to sprout from her scalp, leading to hilarious consequences. Escalating to a dizzying climax, Ruthie and friends attempt to control the growing vegetation in her hair, but not without some surprising results..."

 After breakfast yesterday, Joshua gave Sydney this dress-up idea.

Introducing Sydney Bon Bair.

 And of course Noah wanted to participate as a dragon, but I think he ended up looking like an angry leprechaun (a small, mischievous sprite).  :)

Brushing Cuties

Big sister's apprentice.

Lizzy on her pink tiptoes.

Hee-hee!

Milestone

Sydney has learned to swing by herself this week.

Good job Juneberry!

Pinkalicious Musical

The Pinkalicious fascination first started when we borrowed the book from the library. Sydney loved the story and has since wanted to read it over and over. So a few months ago, when Joshua was checking out the plays at the Magik Theatre in San Antonio, and discovered that Pinkalicious was going to be showing there, he planned to send his two oldest girls out for a day filled with Pinkalious fun!

Here is the plug from the children's Theater -

"What if our skin turned the color of the foods we ate? In this musical based on the popular book, Pinkalicious, find out the answer to that very question when she can't stop eating pink cupcakes despite her parents warnings. Her love for pink cupcakes lands her at the doctor's office with a case of pinkititis, an affliction that turns her pink from head to toe - certainly a dream come true for Pinkalicious, right? The doctor prescribes a dose of green foods, everything from brussel sprouts to grapes, but Pinkalicious can't refuse one more pink cupcake and turns a shade of bright red! She even watches in disbelief as her own little brother turns pink when he too can't refuse the yummy treats! How will little Pinkalicious find her way out of this predicament? Find out in the regional premier of the musical that's been playing to sold out audiences in New York City for two years!"

When Sydney saw the stage with the giant cupcakes she turned to me and asked, "Mom, can I eat one?"

The cast was kind enough to pose with the kids after their performance, so here is a picture of Sydney with Pinkalicious (Ms. Becky King). I am so glad that this was a wonderful experience in introducing her to theater arts. She loved the musical and was already asking when we could go back again. I still have wonderful memories as a little girl going with my mom to Casa Manana in Fort Worth.
I hope she catches a love for the stage as well.

Now I'm off to make Pinkalicious cupcakes with my girlie! Have a pinkerific day!

Librarian/Weather Woman?

We go to the Library at least twice a week to check out new books and videos. And because we go so often, the librarians have gotten to know our sprouts. They will talk with them and give them stickers which is as good as gold to my sprouts. So it was no surprise when Sydney wanted to start pretending to be like her favorite librarians. She places a chair in front of the bookshelf in her closet and checks out books to Noah and Lizzy. This picture was taken yesterday as she cleared the shelf of all the books to organize them and get them ready to be checked out again.

Sydney has started trying her hand at broadcasting descriptions and forecasts of worldwide weather conditions. She stands on her stool with her pink microphone and begins her "Jennifer Broom Storm Tracker 4" impersonation. She favors Madagascar as her island country of choice, and she has the uncanny ability to predict where crocodiles will be swimming. A real plus for any weather woman!

Here she is talking about ocean currents and the definite direction in which the air will be moving in the coming days.

Sydney Sayings

  

  Tuesday night is pizza night in our house. Sydney is always sure to remind us what kind of pizza to get because of a former mistake I made, and one that will never be forgotten by her. I ordered a multiple topping pizza thinking that it would be sufficient to remove toppings for the sprouts in order to serve them cheese only. But it did not work out quite like that and the sprouts ended up not enjoying their pizza that night. Hence the reminder from Sydney to get cheese pizza every Tuesday night. On the way out the door to work yesterday, Sydney called out to Joshua, " Don't forget the cheese pizza because we don't like the Roni kind!" She will forever be scarred by "Roni" pizza and in the meantime we will enjoy her cute made up words.

 After dinner we went on a walk and while we were admiring our favorite homes, Sydney pointed out a beautiful house that she liked and said, "Mommy, you need to blog about that!" Joshua and I started laughing because I thought my time on the computer was going unnoticed because it is of short duration, but nothing escapes my little girlie.

Sprout's Movie Quotes

 

Sydney and Noah are big fans of the Pixar movie "Up." If you ask them what their favorite line in the movie is they will both quote the little boy Russel when he says, "Phew, I thought you were dead!" 

  

 Their second favorite movie is the "Swiss Family Robinson's." They love the pirates, the animals, and of course the damsel in distress. Which brings me to their second favorite quote.  The scene in the movie where the 2 boys discover that the boy they rescued from the pirates is really a girl named Roberta. Frits and Ernest ask her why she was pretending to be a boy and why she cut her hair. She starts sobbing and in this weepy, funny voice she says, "It was because of the pirates!" When the sprouts hear her say that they start rolling in laughter and mimicking her voice and her sobbing. It is the funniest thing to see your children develop their sense of humor and wonder where they got it from. ;)

Tunnel Fun

 

 Lizziebeth finally braved the scary tunnel and crawled through it with a little motivation from her big sister and Daddy.

Hello June-bug! Great job playing with your baby sister.

Crawling Monkey's

 

 One of the daily exercises the sprouts do is chase each other around the house crawling. Lizzy is always the leader of the pack while her siblings race to keep up with her. She is still our resident super crawler, and therefore is much faster on all fours than her older brother and sister who are accustom to walking on two feet.

  

 The race is on!

  

 The winner is...Lizzy Grace!

 

My precious three.

A Week of Spring in January

 

 We all enjoyed a week with temperatures in the mid 60's a couple of weeks ago. The sun was shining bright and spring cleaning was calling, so out went the sprouts to play. I began to tackle a closet where the majority of its contents were destined for the shelves at Goodwill, but not before I got a few snaps of the sprouts enjoying a sunny day.

Sydney with her plant she found on our treasure walk.

  

Yes, we are finally growing her bangs out. 

  

 Cheesy grin

  

 Popeye the Sailor Man

"He's strong to the finish 'cause he still eats his spinach, he's Popeye the Sailor man."

 

Simply cute

"June Bug" in November

 

 

 

"Fancy Music"

 Sydney loves to check out "Fancy Nancy" books from the Library.

The books are about a little girl named Nancy who is Sydney's age that loves to dress-up, dance, and use "fancy" words like posh, elegant,

stylish, luxurious, etc. So it's not hard to understand why Sydney likes the books and goes on a hunt for them as soon as we enter the Library.

Today, after breakfast Sydney wanted to dress-up and practice her ballet like Fancy Nancy for her daddy. So out she came with her elegant princess dress, followed by a stylish necklace and a luxurious pair of jelly shoes. She asked, "Mommy, can you play some fancy music for me to dance to?" Yes, of course. So off I went to grab some music that could be deemed "fancy" by my little girlie. I put in Andrea Bocelli's CD entitled "Sentimento" and pushed play. Sydney began to do her warm up's with foot work and twirls. She smiled at me and said, "Thank you Mommy, I like this fancy music."

Sydney's 4th Birthday

Sydney June-bug Princess turned 4 today and was greeted with the sunshine and 30 pink balloons that her Daddy filled her room with in the middle of the night.
There was great joy and laughter echoing down the hall at 6am this morning when the discovery was made.

Sydney wore her princess dress today along with a princess hairstyle. She then was escorted to the doughnut shop by her Daddy to go and pick out her favorite doughnuts.
After breakfast and presents came lunch and a date with her Daddy. Joshua took her to see the new Pixar movie "Up."

Her princess hairstyle

The sprouts playing hide and go seek with Daddy and the balloons.

Time to open presents.

Joshua and I got her a pink v-teck computer.
I know it's not a Mac but it will have to do until she's older. :)

Happy Birthday to you...

Lizzy congratulating her older sister and enjoying the birthday festivities.

Our 4 years with you little one have gone by so fast.
You are a gift from God to us and we love you so much!