It's just mean.
Got through it though. Lilly got one of three class voted awards so she was proud. She got the Citizenship Award for being sweet and polite to everyone. Obviously 'everyone' excludes her sister. No one's that perfect, right?
Audrey decided to wear her Easter dress to school the last day. She marched in proud as a peacock in her meringue dress (Audrey: 'it has FIVE layers!') much to the delight of teachers and staff. She and her 'boy toys' got the Three Musketeers Award. You may remember Audrey, Dillon and Jonathan from such antics as 'tagging Enrique on his last day of school so he'd be 'it forever'. These three are thick as thieves and I am loving that at age 9 there are still no real gender issues with them playing together. I do fear for the future though...
My sister and her kids came in from Atlanta last week to visit. Turns out, don't come to my house saying you are thinking about getting a puppy because by God you will leave with a dog! She'd been considering getting a mini Australian Shepherd - yeah, I didn't know they made them in different sizes either, go figure - but was having trouble locating a breeder and generally pulling the trigger on the whole thing. The siren song of rolling around in a bunch of puppies caused in me some sort of mental shift into tunnel vision puppy acquisition mode. Twenty four hours later I had located the specimen and within four days said specimen was licking my face with reckless abandon. Wanna see her? Of course you do!!
All went well until we a) realized that the old lady who owned her miscounted her birth date and that we were currently in possession of a 4 WEEK OLD puppy and b) they tried to name her. Sweet Georgia Brown I thought they'd never pick a name. I swear I named both my children in a fraction of the time it took to christen this dog! My sister, Mr. Stone and I sat around a table for literally hours brainstorming names for this creature as though the human race depended on us choosing well. The list was edited and re-edited and although written predominantly in crayon, treated like the holy grail that it was for several days. After a couple of false starts (she spent some time as Bluebell and Luna) they left for home with a dog named Phoebe but arrived with a dog now named Chewbaca aka Chewie.
So that happened. But I got to roll around in puppy love for a few days an my poor sister is home with a very young dog who is day night confused. Sorry Sis! (insert evil laugh here)
The family is now gone and we are onto summer proper. The girls have recently developed an obsession with water balloons, but not like you're thinking I'll bet. In typical girly fashion they create their balloons and rather than chucking them higgilty pigglty at each other, they name them and carry them around like babies. That is until Lilly decides to screw with her sister and 'accidentally' break one of her 'children'. It's so sad when water babies explode you know...
The water balloon phase has morphed into blow up balloon fun with Audrey. Every time I turn around these days she's marching about the house with a balloon shoved under her clothes. The best part is that she doesn't even insist on showing me all her creations because I suspect she's just doing it to amuse herself, which of course amuses ME greatly. I did get one shot though I pray I'm not seeing a glimpse of the near future... (for the record although you can't see it here, she also greatly enhanced her booty)
On the cooking front, we have discovered that we prefer eggless ice cream recipes. All the kids made me a birthday cake last week. It was heavy on the sprinkles and M&Ms which is of course, just how I like it. Tonight we make meatballs. I'll let you know how that goes.
OMG! I love this! Tell your girls I absolutely LOVE them both!
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