Messy, Messy Girl

Rachel has no fear of getting messy.

On the way home from Fort Worth, I gave each of the kids a little chocolate treat to enjoy for the ride. When we got home, Rachel was a bit of a chocolately mess!

I cleaned her up and then we headed to a park to meet up with friends.

Rachel was playing quietly with a friend of hers. I walked over to see what they were doing.

I was informed that they were making food for their babies. How is it that the other little girl is still clean but mine is covered from head to toe in dirty ashes?

Rachel went back to our table and got some ice to try to clean herself up.

I don't think the ice will do much. A garden hose might be needed this time!

Disney on Ice: Dare to Dream

We had a wonderful opportunity to go to Disney on Ice: Dare to Dream. I was given four tickets to the show so that I could write a review for She Is Dallas. You can check out my review HERE.

The show is all about the Disney Princesses but Nicholas had fun too. I made sure he got a Disney Prince crown and we had plenty of glow sticks to play with.

I have an awesome video clip of the show finale but Stuart says I shouldn't post it because I would spoil it for you if are going to the show. I'll just say that it was really incredible!

Books on CD

We were at the library the other day and we stumbled upon the Books on CD section. Nicholas was excited to see a couple of CDs by Gary Paulsen. He is one of Nicholas' favorite authors.

Books on CD are a great way to spend some time while driving around in the car or listening to while building with LEGOS during quiet time. I'm surprised I never thought to seek these out for Nicholas before but I'm glad we've discovered them.

Autobiography

I was talking to Nicholas about reading and writing today. As we were reviewing the different types of books, I asked him what an autobiography was.

He paused for a moment then excitedly said, "Oh, I know! It's a book about a car guy like Stacey David on Gearz!"

Grapevine Wolves End of the Season Party

Hockey season is over. I'm bittersweet about it. It is time consuming with 1-2 practice sessions per week and 1 game per week. But we've made some great friends and had a lot of fun. I'm going to miss seeing everyone over the summer....although we might let Nicholas sign up for the summer league.

The team had an end of the season party on the ice today. They had some drill competitions with the team.

And family members could just skate around for free. I tried to skate but the rental skates were just too painful on my feet so I had to take them off and watch from the sidelines.

The Zamboni piled the scraped ice into a big pile so the kids could climb around and play in the "snow". Rachel had fun for about 5 minutes then decided it was too cold to roll around in that stuff. So Stuart just skated around with her for a while.

She does well with Stuart but doesn't skate far before she's ready to take a break and get off the ice.

We found the treats table. It had already been ravaged by the hungry boys but Rachel still found plenty of yummy things to chose from.

Then she played with her off-ice friends. I hope their big brothers will be back on the team next fall. Rachel is looking forward to their weekly playgroups at their big brothers' hockey games!