Dearest Castillo Children,
Earlier this month, the week before Mother's Day, we made decided to make play dough since the one that Nora got for her Christmas present from a friend all dried out. Nora was so sad that I decided to whip up a batch for them. I decided to just leave it the regular dough color since Nora just mixed them all together until they turned brown. (This post is going to be heavy on the pictures since there are a TON for that week!)
Nora rolling out the play dough.
She was very proud of herself! (I like you can see our cabinets here, because in July they'll be re-done!)
Nora and Annalise working the dough together.
Nora loved showing off the dough to the camera
Annalise liked putting the cutters on her head.
Making the dough was just as fun as playing with it for them!
Later that week was Nora's Preschool party to celebrate the end of her first year of Preschool. I still can't believe that a whole year is done! I'm having a hard time deciding on what to do with her for Preschool next year since almost every little girl her age is paying for Preschool and I just can't justify the cost. I know Nora will be ready for Kindergarten, but I worry about her social aspect. She's a little immature in that aspect. She still has a hard time following directions and playing nicely with others. I take that back, she's great depending on the day. I just don't know if socially she'll be ready. I guess I have a whole year to decide what to do with her. Since she's an August birthday I can keep her home another year without any problems but I think she'll be bored. I think she would love school now, honestly. Like I said, I have a year to decide.
We brought cookies to share in the park for the party.
Nora's Preschool Class - and Annalise since she insisted on joining the group. :)
Nora with her year 1 completion certificate.
My little Nora is getting so big!
Playing on the slide
Nora with her friend Chase
Coloring with chalk at the park. They decided the fence needed more color.
That weekend was Ellie's birthday party and my groupon for the Phoenix Children's Museum coupon expired. We decided to drive straight to the museum and then go to Ellie's party afterward. Since we drove straight up we decided to stop at a Taco Bell near the museum for a quick bite. After we got out of the car and went inside Annalise started to look sad. Just as I was about to pick her up she started to throw up ALL over the Taco Bell. I mean, from the front counter, all the way down the hall to the bathroom. It was horrible! I asked for a mop and explained she gets car sick to the poor employees. They were super nice about it, all older ladies I think they must have kids or something. We got her cleaned up as best we could but I didn't bring an extra shirt. We thought about stopping somewhere to get a new shirt but decided we might have to give up on the museum. Todd cleaned her up the best he could and then it dried while we ate. We figured... it only smelled if you got close to her and it wasn't because she was ill... so we went to the museum anyway! Ahh! I don't think anyone noticed that she had the slight smell of throw up on her! The museum was a blast, WAY better than the Tucson Children's Museum. Here are a ton of pictures!
Climbing in the giant tree house!
Nora was quite the explorer!
In a floating boat suspended two stories up.
Me and my little throw up-ing Annalise
Crawling inside the tree house.
Nora liked how things moved.
In the art center
Annalise and Nora made me paper flowers for mother's Day. Todd was hilarious helping all the other people in the place to make flowers.
Annalise reaching for the lights.
Nora going through the "car wash"
A little blurry, but I LOVED her expression. This is how they looked the whole time we were there.
Lounging with my girlies.
At the pretend ice cream stand.
This was a huge hit with the girls. So simple to... might make one...
The girls serving other children.
There was this huge room just for grocery shopping.
Another room full of tracks for balls to roll on.
Holding baby Miles
The next day was Mother's Day and a woke up to two happy babies and breakfast.
Sadly, on the way to church Annalise threw up all over herself again... so I went back home with the girls and dropped Todd off since he was helping out in Primary since it was Mother's Day.
What my Mother's Day looked like. It wouldn't be a holiday celebrating parenthood without cleaning up throw up or poop.
Happy Mother's Day from my cute girls!
After dinner we had family music time. At first Nora wanted to play piano.
Then she wanted to sing. (That's the guitar stand that they are pretending to use as a microphone.)
Annalise used the music stand to sing her part.
Nora started to rock out...cause she's a Rock Star
Annalise helped Daddy with the guitar.
Although not the perfect Mother's Day, it was a very real one. I'm so grateful I get to raise children, even when it's exhausting. I hope to someday add to our family, but I know that will happen in the Lord's time and I'm trying to be patient. I love seeing all the new babies that have joined our extended family.
Anyway, love you my girls. I hope you remember more of the fun things we did and less of the time outs I force you to take!
Our "bed" we made from couch cushions.
With All My Love,
Your Mother
So fun. I want to go to the childrens museum with them in a couple of years. Maybe you should look into dramamine or something for Annalise??? I don't even know if they do that, it is just a thought. Mother's day joy. You never get a day off but you can't be fired either??!! Thanks for all the photos. I love seeing all my 'kids'.
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