GoGo Makes It

So this is late in coming but GoGo celebrated her First Holy Communion about 2 weeks ago.
It was an incredibly cold and windy day for May-more like November.  Her hair blew out of it's original "style" by the time we even made it into Church.  But her dress was beautiful and she was excited.  Naturally, my big camera's battery died about 2 pictures into the whole thing.  Thank God for the iPhone.

I asked her where she wanted to go for lunch after with the entire family.  Her suggestions?  Five Guys or Chik-fi-La.  Definitely my non-foodie child.
We settled on Brixx.  This allowed my kids to play on the playground after we ate.
So there was GoGo in this beautiful white dress, running around screaming as she froze her behind off.

I pray she never forgets this day or what it really means for her.  Love you!

Masking the Crazy

So the kids made these incredibly sweet Mother's Day cards for me.  It cracks me up the things they sometimes think to include.  Makes you really wonder what's going on in those little minds sometimes…
This is by Squeezalicious…all of the moms were supposed to guess which kid wrote what.  As the teacher was reading Nora's, I totally was not thinking it was me.  Except for the nuggets and fries comment.

Not sure why GoGo's loaded in sideways…this is so sweet.  I almost had to read it in the bathroom to hide the tears streaming.

Or D's…not sure why he thinks I love country music only.  

Must be my thing for Keith Urban's guitar work.  I thanked D for not including the things like I'm terribly crabby without my coffee or that I yell sometimes.  He said, "Yeah, I didn't want to say all that."  Thanks, buddy.

In other news, we continue to treat Kitty as a 4th child.

So Squeezalicious went to a friend's bday party and it was Dinosaur themed.  She scored this purple mask.  It reminds me more of something from He-Man cartoons but she loves it.  In fact, all 3 loved it and fought over it one day in the driveway.   This girl here has been heard singing "Going Potty Like a Dinosaur" while wearing said mask and on the pot.  Memories.

I hope this isn't some elementary school gang sign that I don't recognize.

Shortly after this mask extravaganza, they were playing "family".  This is something that very rarely happens now that D is getting older.  But maybe the mask sharing made them feel all warm and fuzzy inside because before I knew it, they were in the back of hubs' car.  I overheard them assigning names to one another.  Squeezalicious was BISCUIT.  How appropo.  They pretended to drive the the Teeter, Target and school.  Life, in a nutshell.

Our pool opens this weekend - getting our beach towels, sunscreen and pool toys ready!