New Dress, Busy Week, and Roller Skating

One of Makenna’s birthday presents from Grandma Becky was a new dress to wear to Church. I thought I'd show you a picture, Grandma Becky, of Makenna in her dress. She looked super cute and she LOVES the dress!

  

I have to write EVERYTHING I have going on in my planner or else I don’t remember to do it. This is a picture of a typical week’s planner for me:

We have a couple of things going on each week, but it’s usually not too busy or full.

Here is a picture of my planner last week:

I felt like it was a pretty busy week and we had quite a bit going on.

This is a picture of my planner this week:

Honestly, out of control busy! We have something almost every hour of every day! I’m not sure why this week is so crazy for us, but here’s hoping my planner stays empty next week so we have time to recuperate!!! I am EXHAUSTED already and it is only Wednesday!

One of the things we had going on today was a field trip with our Play and Learn group. We went roller skating! This was a first for both of the kids, and I wasn’t quite sure what to expect.

Notice the following picture—Max is in tears and we had only been there for a few minutes!

For some reason, Max has been in just a really clingy, whiney mood lately. He was crying there because he had wanted me to hold him and when I wouldn’t he started to have a tantrum and, well, let’s just say tantrums don’t work too well while wearing roller skates! : )

Eventually he calmed down a little bit and started skating. As you can see, he was wearing the skates that just go over your shoes. He did GREAT in his skates. He actually has super good balance and could skate on his own fairly well.

Poor Makenna, however, was really struggling.  Even holding my hand or on to the wall she was falling like crazy.

 

I ended up switching her skates to the plastic ones as well, and after that she was a pro! She LOVED skating!

Midway through our skate, we had a skating lesson. Learning how to stand up properly while wearing skates:

 

Then we had a few group dances. Doing the hokey pokey:

By around this point, Max started crying and wanting held again. He cried the entire rest of the time (except for snack time) that we were there. : (

Doing the chicken dance:

Snack time:

 

Makenna enjoyed skating so much, that she didn’t even want to sit down for snack time! So while all the other kids were eating, she went back out to skate by herself!

 

It was fun and I’m glad we went!

Happy, Happy Birthday, Makenna Dear!

As I may have possibly mentioned (maybe only once or twice…) today is Makenna’s 4th birthday! She was SO excited about this birthday! Most of her other friends are already four, so she was ready for it to be her turn!

She woke up this morning before 7 am and before Austin left for work, so we went ahead and let her open her birthday presents so her Dad could watch.

Yes I do wrap birthday presents in Christmas/snowman wrapping paper…

 

She instantly noticed her new booster car seat. She is so excited to “buckle up with the same seat belt as Mom and Dad!” : )

New pajamas. She is SUCH a fan of night gowns because they are just like a “really long dress.”

A new Wii game—Just Dance for Kids 2.

Beauty and the Beast

A pony set with stuff to do the ponies’ hair:

She played with her ponies for a little while until Max got up.

 

When Max got up I said, “Max, don’t you have something to say to Makenna?” So he said, “Umm, thank you, Makenna?” : ) After I reminded him it was her birthday, he was quick to wish her a happy birthday and give her a big hug.

Then he said, “Makenna, I got you a piano for your birthday! Mom, where’s the piano I got Makenna for her birthday?” Umm, it’s over on the fireplace… still wrapped where you haven’t given it to her yet, goof ball! : ) I don’t think he gets the idea of secrets yet!

We were going to go to the library during the morning, but the kids were having too much fun to leave!

They were busy playing with toys:

And watching Beauty and the Beast:

And dancing (Makenna spent over an hour dancing along to her game this morning!):

   

Who has time to go to the library when you have birthday presents to play with?!? : )

Right after lunch (for lunch today we had Makena’s favorite—Speghetti O’s with hotdogs… umm, yeah…), Makenna received a package in the mail from Aunt Melissa, Uncle Tyler, and Alexa, Jonah, and Eli:

I had never heard of Squinkies before, but they are these little creatures that snap on a bracelet and ring. Makenna thought they were AWESOME!

I had also never heard of “Lalaloopsy” before (obviously I am out of the little kid loop), but Makenna loved playing with the little dolls. She even took them to take a nap with her at nap time!

I had to wake the kids up from their naps early because Makenna had an appointment to get her hair cut.

When we arrived at the salon, the kids quickly started playing video games. I love how close these two are. They love playing with each other!

 

Next it was hair cut time! Makenna was a little nervous about getting her hair cut because she REALLY wants to have long hair, but I assured her she was just getting her ends trimmed up.

 

Watching a movie during the cut:

All done!

We went from this:

To this:

So not a HUGE difference, but at least now maybe it will look a little neater and less uneven.

After her hair cut, we went and got her 4 year old pictures made. By this time, Austin had finished up at work and met us and we went to California Pizza Kitchen for dinner. Makenna has been asking for pizza for several days now, so she finally got it!

She also got to share a yummy M&M Sunday with Max for dessert:

The boys after dinner:

 

 

The girls after dinner:

After dinner it was already pretty late, so we came home and played one more game of Just Dance and then it was bedtime. Hopefully Makenna enjoyed her big day! Happy Birthday, big girl!