4 years old

Our Fairy had her four-year-old checkup last friday. It went well. She is perfectly healthy and, contrary to the health department's statement, not the least bit overweight. She took her vaccinations like a woman, not crying or cursing until it was all done. She will need a palate something-or-other when she gets older, because her lower jaw does not align with the upper (thumbsucking!). But overall we are blessed with a perfectly healthy, happy, silly little girl.George came along for the ride...

Edventure

I decided to go with Our Princess's class on their last field trip of the year, up to Columbia to Edventure, the state children's museum. I realize it has been two weeks since the trip...I've been busy :OB

One thing I can say about our school, the parent involvement is great. I think all but two parents in our class came on the trip, making sure we only had our own kids to haul around. Anyways, the number one attraction is a two story(probably 4 if he were standing) person named Eddy. You can climb around his insides, through his heart, jump on his diaphram and slide down his bowels...I mean really, who wouldn't want to slide down bowels? Not to mention that there are speakers making the appropriate(or perhaps inappropriate) noises...needless to say, I sat at the bottom and took pictures.
They also have a "career" area, where you can be a farmer, a fireman, a grocer, a construction-worker, etc. Our Princess and her cousin enjoyed going for a ride on the big, green tractor(too much country music, I know; especially since she was singing it as she drove)
Tuesday was also a special birthday, so we celebrated while we were there by drawing graffiti in the museum...it was fun.

Mother's Day 2010

I'm not even going to dwell on the disaster that was this morning. This afternoon made up for it. We had a lovely luncheon after church. The men put it on for the moms. It was quite lovely and nice not to have to worry about cooking today.Our Oso enjoyed it. He was given a slice of cantaloupe which he proceeded to devour with undue haste.

This is him choking on a piece of melon as I attempt to get the perfect shot...don't worry, he spit it out right away... This is him 2 seconds later, letting you know he is the cutest guy around...

Our Fairy's first "real" haircut!

ok, I finally broke down and took Our Fairy to see Mrs. Sarah to get her hair cut. I mean really cut, not just trimmed. We had Sarah take at least 5 inches off. It looks so much healthier now. The girls' hair has never been cut more than an inch or two to get rid of frayed ends and we figured Our Fairy's would follow suit with Our Princess's, but her hair was just too ragged; it had to go. She was ok with it, her sister would have been hysterical. We still can't get rid of the toe-rag look, she has too many cowlicks for that, but it does look thicker! I still couldn't get her to stand still long enough to get a picture that wasn't blurry! I'm surprised Sarah was able to do it to get it cut! We won't talk about the hands on hips thing...

"Chuckacheese"

Before yesterday, Our Fairy had never been to Chuck E. Cheese. She had only seen it on TV and passed by it several times a week. Every time we went by she begged to go there. So we decided we would do her birthday party there this year.

She got to invite four friends and we brought everything with us; just ordered pizza, drinks and tokens (lots of coupons!! Thank you Hi-C!). It was way too expensive to do one of their birthday parties and who really wants rats on their birthday cake? I think we spent half the money doing it with Princess and the Frog. We got there when they opened and there was NO ONE there. It was perfect! They got to play for a long time before people started showing up. Our Fairy got a quilt from her Maga that Maga has been working hard on for a while. She didn't actually quilt it, although she knows how, her hands just don't do it anymore, so she had someone quilt it for her...but she and Papa cut out each and every little square and put them together. It is beautiful! It was the first thing we put away when we got home. The girls' room is the color I am pointing to there on the girl's hat. I can't wait to get one for Our Princess!

School Picnic

Our Princess's school picnic was Friday. It's a pretty fun day for the kids and Friday was just beautiful. Not too hot, and a slight breeze all day long. We went to Wannamaker and played on the playground, went on a nature walk and played in the field by the picnic shelter. Our Princess running under the parachute when they called June Birthdays...

They were great about letting Our Fairy join in on the fun

Our Oso loved watching all the kids run around on the playground while chewing the head of his Little person.

Until he fell asleep during his favorite part, the bubbles! (We won't talk about where his sister decided to leave her bag of Cheetos)

Our Fairy

Four years ago today, Oliver was having a decision-making crisis about whether to go to work. Like today, four years earlier there was immigration reform going on and everyone was all worked up. It was decided by the pro-immigration movement that they would "boycott" work on May day. But Oliver didn't want to do that. He felt it was wrong to treat his boss that way, yet was concerned about his co-workers with less than perfect papers thinking he didn't care about their situation, which was far from the truth. He really did struggle with this decision, so I made it easy for him...I told him to call in and tell his boss that he was going with his wife for her 39th week check-up, 'cause hopefully today would be THE DAY.

He did and it was. At 6:30pm on Monday, May 1st, 2006, a "day with no immigrants", Our precious Fairy was born at 8 lb 1 oz, 18.5 inches long and she was so light! Funny when you consider the significance of that day.  Our little Gûerra.

Now Our Fairy is four years old. She loves Clifford and Curious George, her baby dolls, especially Bitty Baby Julie, and riding her bicycle. She bumps into everything and falls down everywhere. If there is an accident that could happen, it's happened to her, although thankfully she has never broken any bones or had serious injuries...Her new favorite movie is Princess and the Frog (thank goodness, I'm getting tired of the mouse movie). She loves her Tía who has lived with us since she was 6 months old and would spend all day everyday with her Maga and Papa. She likes spicy food, much to our surprise. She can't wait to go to the water park this summer and she swims like a fish. She gets distracted easily and can't count to four yet (1, 2, 3...6!) but she comes up with some amazing stories and ideas that you know there are more important things going on in that mind. She loves to "read" books and tell the story Fairy-style. She has the most beautiful brown eyes and always looks like she's up to mischief (half the time she is! Did I mention the time that she decided Her sister's American Girl doll and her Bitty Baby needed a bath?) She is a blessing to our family and so very precious to me.

Gift #1 was a jungle pop-up book with animal/jungle sounds...the dog was not happy.

Gift #2 was a bug felt-board book with little felt bugs and such to put all over it.

Gift #3 was The Princess and the Frog movie

Gift #4 was Curious George!! She has been eye-balling him at Barnes & Noble for the last three months and begging to bring him home. How could I say no? She has been dragging him around for the last 24 hours...

The sad thing is I have no digital baby pictures of Our Fairy...our hard drive was erased January '09. But Maga has some and as soon as I get copies, I'll post one!