Week of the Child

Simone has had a very exciting week. Her preschool celebrated the Week of the Child by doing something special each day. Monday was Pajama day and Tuesday was Color day -- Simone's class dressed in yellow. We didn't remember to take pictures, however, until Wednesday which was ...Picture day. So here she is all dressed up for school pictures. Thursday was Character Day. Simone was, of course, Pinkalicious--her favorite character of all. She was a little upset that we couldn't find pink fairy wings, but we explained that Pinkalicious doesn't always wear her wings. I thought she turned out a pretty close approximation considering we accomplished it in one evening!

And we ended the week with Freaky Friday (which Simone affectionately called Freaky Fracky Day). She picked out lots of stripes and mismatched shoes. But the craziest part was her hair, which we brushed out to about twice the size of her head. She thought it was hillarious and kept touching it, calling it "airy". LOL!

All Tuckered Out

It's incredible, Simone has been mastering more things than we can keep track of these days. Just tonight I noticed that she has learned how to twist her ice cream cone as she eats it rather than eating one side at a time. Over the past couple of weeks, she has also learned how to use a mouse and play computer games; how to ride her scooter and bicycle; and color inside the lines (for the most part); and the list goes on. She's also turned into a little negotiator. Every offer is met with a counter offer and her favorite word is "but". "Ok, daddy, I'll take my bath, BUT can I come back downstairs and watch TV?" She's something else. But all this growing up takes it's toll and here Simone is for only the second time in her whole life -- having fallen asleep on her own, watching TV. What can we say? It takes alot of energy to be Simone!!

A Mommy Day

Well, today was mommy's birthday, and we spent it as a family doing lots of fun things together. We started the day at a cooking class at Cookology. The theme was a mommy-daughter tea party. Of course, Daddy came along as the photographer.The menu was strawberry scones with honey butter and white bean humus and rice cake sandwiches. Yummy!

Afterward we headed to Fair Oaks to see the Easter Bunny. We caught him just as he was headed on break. Simone was a little shy and worked her way up to shaking his hand but not long enough for me to get a good shot. On the bright side, we avoided waiting in a long line only for her to dart away.

And we ended the day at one of Simone's favorite spots.... Wegmann's kids area, where she had pizza, and we had birthday cake and coffee.

Who could ask for more? Truly a PERFECT birthday!