Trapper Brady

The leprechaun trap has evolved a little bit...they painted the box green so it would attract the little guy.  They colored pictures and hung them for distractions.  They put rainbow tape around- b/c they (and the leprechaun) Love rainbow duct tape.  Brady installed a low "trip wire" (green {of course!} yarn across the bottom entrance way and also put sticky tape all over the floor.  So our distracted little leprechaun would wander in to this wondrous museum of beautiful artwork, only to trip and get stuck on sticky tape- Trapped!  He set it and it's ready!  (Sylvie's not in these pictures b/c she was crying and being challenging {again} at dinner; so she's in bed already.)

Fail

If our unauthorized tenants were still around (and not trapped by Brett, heh {it was mice...6 of them trapped!) they would have learned a valuable lesson this weekend-- their backup storage facility was a FAIL. When Brett fired up the RX-7 this weekend (for the first time in a few months) the rotary engine whirled like a Vita-Mix and ground another stockpile of dog biscuits to bits complete with a dramatic puff of smoke! ha! This ongoing "tale of tails" continues to entertain us.

Ready for Grandma's

The kids are having a sleepover @ Grandma's house tonight.  Sylvie requested a kitty shirt for Grandma.  Mimi outfitted her well then with this double-sided cutie kitty shirt!  (She was all about posing- lol!)

Leprechaun Trap Construction

Brady's actually thought about this this year...and requested that we make a trap for the leprechaun.  His articulation of the plan was hilarious, and actually pretty good!  He says, "Oh I know!  Let's make a whole bunch of super cool decoration that the leprechaun will like.  He will look at them and then get distracted (nice vocab!) and then be all like this, 'oh, that's a nice decoration!  Cool shamrock there.  AAHHHHHH!' when he falls in to our trap!"  A dramatic reenactment accompanied this explanation and I requested it over and over b/c it made me LOL!

Mill Run Carnival

We went to the carnival @ Brady's school tonight.  It was a fun family thing to do, even if it was super crowded!  iPicts are all I got-

Rainbow

Saw this driving home from swimming tonight.  The kids were positive that the leprechaun (and his pot of gold) had to be nearby!

Cuteness

Nah, I don't need to test the lens anymore, but she just looked TOO cute in her outfit.  She insisted pig needed to be in the pict too. ;p

Guess How Much I Love You

Sylvie snuggling with me and going to bed: "Mommy, I love you to GOD and back." (quickly followed by) "and even to Mill Run and back!" (note: this=1 mile round trip, but apparently is the greater distance to the four-year-old who walks it each morning when we take her brother to school; but I'll take this relative perspective, b/c I get what she means)
"It's b/c I love you the much-est, Mommy."
Trying to use expansion/modeling language, I respond, "I love you the most, Sylvie" but she thinks we're still playing the 'Guess How Much I Love You' game and she replies, 
"I love you the Most-est, Mommy!" 
Bested by Little Nutbrown Hare. ha!

Radishes

Who says tv isn't educational? We're at HT and Sylvie shouts, "Hey look Mommy! Radishes!" I said, "right. How did you know that?" (Thinking Grandma had told her bc she eats them a lot) Sylvie replies, "oh bc that's what Peter Rabbit likes. They look like that."

Three with Me

Syl's BFF Colin came home from school with us tonight.  We swung by HT first and they all were So cute!  A lady stopped me to tell me I had "the cutest kids."  (People always think Colin and Sylvie are twins...they certainly love/hate like bro and sis!)  She was the same lady who was trying to take a phone call in the frozen aisle where I was letting the crazies run wild.  At checkout, she said, "You have LOTS and LOTS of patience."  lol!  No, at that point I was just like, "eh, let 'em go!  Have fun!" and they were being cookoos!

Testing

We finally got a new camera lens- whoohoo!  Testing to make sure it works...little sis on our way to walk to school this AM.

Layered

Sister got a haircut today.  It was just getting so long and scraggly.  The stylist asked me if she should layer it.  Sure, why not?  That's how my hair is.  It's cute, but I'm a little sad that her "hombre" blonde highlights seem to have been hacked off.  :(  Hopefully they'll come back this summer!

Celebrating 100 Days of School!

Ready for school (with his "password" on)- His teacher says the password to get in to the classroom today is your 100-day shirt. He goes, "Mommy, where's your password?" Dude, I've got Mill Run spirit! Triple digit days in school, here we come!

100 Day Celebration!

The kids had a fashion show and got to walk (or crawl with a friend, as was the case with Brady!) the red carpet. If only my camera wasn't still broken. sigh.

100 Year Old Brady and Sylvie

We also had fun checking out what our 100-day kindergartener would look like as a 100-year old (and of course lil' sis joined in too...she might as well be in kg herself). I laughed so hard my face hurt (and no doubt added many more laugh lines to my own face!)!  We used the Aging Booth app.   Oddly enough it didn't work very well with adult faces. When I tried it, it didn't make my hair grey. Brady goes, "Maybe that's b/c you're already old." ha!

He very well may still be making these faces in 94 years, when he's 100 years old.

Seriously, she might as well be in kg...Brady's teacher says she is full of confidence and so ready for kindergarten. (Yes, Sylvie has regular interaction with her brother's teacher b/c we walk to school together every day and b/c she comes with me when I volunteer there. Just as she followed in Brady's footsteps for preschool...before blazing her own trail, Sister is Ready, for sure!)

100 Days of Kindergarten

We Finally made it to 100 Days of School (today)! Brady's class celebrates tomorrow. kg homework was to work together and create a shirt with 100 things. I'm honestly not sure who is more excited about this project- me or Brady! SO SO SO fun!!!!

I warned him that if he insisted on drawing faces on the clone troopers, he would have to do it 100 times. He was happy to do so.  This is one kg boy who loves him some Star Wars!

 I stamped one of his Lego dudes 100 times and then he used his fingerprint to give each of them a personalized head. Concept of 100- yeah, we got that.The back came with help from Ms. Tina, who did this OA's Cricut. way cool!  So in addition to visualizing the concept of "100," we also discussed opposites and parodies- HA!

Dress and Boots

I'm headed in to the office today (one of the two times I go in) and am actually dressed.  The little miss and I are both in dresses and boots today- fun!

Pirates and Princess Show

We took the "royalty-in-training"/"puny pirates" to Disney Junior's Sophia the First/Jack and the Never Land Pirates show today.  We do love a good show!

 Pirate's Booty, of course!

 

 

The nap-deprived pirate princess had an epic tantrum the Entire drive home because she "didn't like the song on the radio;" because Brady was "looking at me;" because she was "not {repeat} NOT tired!!!!"  She even sobbed a few times in her sleep as she finally succumbed to the exhaustion (but would wake up at stop lights and be just as angry- lol!)  She was beyond exhausted...and so were we!