Happy St. Patrick's Day

 Claire

Early this week when Shay and I went to pick Claire up from school she came out with a cup of dirt! We've been watering it and it already sprouted which made her excited and she said it's a sunflower. I don't know if all plants look the same when they first sprout, but I googled what sunflowers look like and it looks the same so I hope she's right. It's a fun activity and with the weather this week, I think we should plant some outside, especially some grass seed because there is a lot of mud the girls have already been playing in. I can't believe I didn't get a picture of Claire, but she wore a cute green outfit for St. Patricks Day on Thursday for school since they had Friday off. Her teacher has been sending home a lot of extra work to help the kids practice for tests coming up apparently and I've been having her do extra so she gets time to play her new phone game. She found an ad for a game her cousin has and asked to 'load-down' it and she has been having a lot of fun hatching the eggs and playing the games. She will wake up and ask to check it first thing in the morning...yay...

Shay

I've been trying to get Shay to try new foods, and she is resisting. If you don't remember, more than a year ago she did this awful thing where she would hold food she didn't like in her mouth FOREVER. She did it a little this week but it didn't last as long she did swallow it but it took her half an hour of sitting at the table while I was doing dishes and watching her. She did eventually earn her ice cream but now she is hesitant about putting food in her mouth and will take the tiniest little bits if I ask her to try things. On Friday I didn't have work and Claire didn't have school but the weather was beautiful so we went for some errands that I had waited to do. First I rewarded the with going to DI since Shay always asks to go and I gave them little chores of cleaning up as a responsibility. They each picked a toy and then we went to the bank drive-through to deposit a check when Claire asked if we were ordering food. I sort of laughed and figured it was lunchtime anyway and we were right across the street from a Chipotle so I tested the waters to see if they would eat it. They picked at the food but behaved well enough that going out to eat isn't impossible anymore.

Party

On Saturday, we were invited to one of Chris' coworker's daughter's birthday party with a princess theme. The girls were very excited about a princess party and they dressed up and Chris took them because I was at work when it started. I was able to join after and Elsa was there painting their faces! They had already done some singing and dancing together and the girls were so excited to show me a real Elsa. They were even distraught when she had to leave and asked if she could come to our house so I told them that we might arrange it for their next party. Claire played with her neighbor after coming home and when she came back inside after was telling me that she wasn't jealous that she met Elsa because her neighbor had met princesses at Disneyland. Then Claire said, "I wish I could go to Disneyland." So now it has begun and we have to start thinking about vacations like that!