Baseball

Mya started baseball at the beginning of March. This is the first day. She is on the yellow team. Her friend Ada is on her team & Ada's dad is the coach. Baseball is much more complicated than soccer (a surprize for me) but Mya is having a lot of fun! Gordon has been working with her which has helped a lot!

Mya lost her 1st tooth!

Gag! Mya lost her first tooth on March 9th. It was super wiggly for a while & her big tooth was already coming in. Gordon pulled on it a little each night for about a week. There was a little crying on Mya's part & a lot of gaging on my part. Good thing Gordon doesn't mind. Mya asked him to take the pliers out for a minute so he pulled the tooth out. She didn't know her tooth came out at first. Mya was super excited when she realized it was already out!

Gappy

She didn't want the tooth fairy to take her tooth but after some thought she decided to give it up & wrote the TF a note.

She got a dollar in quarters & a note back from the TF. She was one happy girl!

We are not far from having wiggly tooth #2 pop out! GAG!

BFF

Cute little hair twins! Two ponies with a twist.

Strike a pose - a fighting pose!

We had Camille's kids down for a few days in March after she had her baby. We had a lot of fun! Chuck E Cheese, pizza at Barros, playing @ the park, Chick-a-Filet, & lots of playing.  

Star Student

Today Mya is the Star Student at school! She has been so excited about this for weeks. She has a little poster that's all about her that will hang in the classroom this week. We also included a list of her likes & dis-likes. This is the list - most is what she had to say herself. Her teacher will read the list & Mya will get a few prizes.

Likes

Dogs esp. her dog Mikey.

Paint/draw/color/crafts – Mya is quite the artist.

Books – she loves being read to & reading herself.

Going to the movies – her favorite movies are 101 Dalmatians & Bolt.

Play Games: Go Fish is her favorite but she likes video games as well.

Dance – she’s currently taking ballet.

Swim.

To eat out with her family at a restaurant.

Look beautiful & play princesses.

Play “farmer” with Mikey & her sister Carley in the backyard.

Bounce Houses or any place to jump & wrestle.

Sports – she played soccer in the fall is getting ready to start baseball.

To climb & play at the park. She just mastered the fire pole & is getting good at the monkey bars.

She has a great imagination. She is always coming up with fun ideas!



Dis-Likes

Cleaning her room

Mushrooms

Candy with nuts

E.T.

Sharks

Artist

I love Mya's artwork! This is something she just whipped up the other day after watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.

February Happenins

February has been a fun month so far! The first weekend in Feb. my mom, sister, & brother came down for a pre-birthday celebration. It was one of the most relaxing days that I've had in a long time. We got pedis, ate out & Olive Garden & Someburros, watched a movie, & shopped. SUPER fun. Sunday we went over to the Wiltbanks for a Super Bowl party - even though it ended sadly we still had a nice time with our buddies. We still love those Patriots though! Dang N.Y.

On my 33rd b-day :/ we went to lunch as a family & came home for presents & clown cones! Then I had the day to myself. I got a reflexology massage & shopped! That Friday Gordon surprised me with tickets to Singin' in the Rain & dinner. Such a FUN night!

Valentines day we got our taxes done (super romantic) & ate out at our favorite pizza place. Gordon & the girls made me the cutest V-day coupon book. There were roses & candy galore! Mya had a v-day party @ school. It was fun to make little valentines for her classmates & see what she got back.

I had a R.S. Service Auction this last Thursday (16th) - lots of fun & went well!

Friday the girls had some friends over to play which during I may have been chasing them & picking them up. Which resulted in a disk going out in my lower back. I was hurting pretty bad Friday but Saturday was the mother. I almost passed out from the pain & could barely walk. Loaded up the girls & went to the chiropractor. While driving there Mya said "mom next time you should just pick up one friend at a time". Mya helped me a TON. She pretty much had to do everything for Carley until Gordon got home from work. Lots of rest & stretching & 2 adjustments later I can walk fairly normal but still no picking up or bending over. The doctor said I should be back to normal in a week. This is not my first time with this happening but I think the most annoying. Poor Carley - me carrying her around is her favorite thing - she has been a trooper! Love my sweet little helpers & my big helper too!!!

The girls loved going to the doctor with me so much that they were sad not to go again. Right before I left Carley hit her head & starting crying saying "I go to doctor too". LOL!!!

January in a Nutshell

The first Sunday in January Gordon got called to be Executive Secretary. It flipped our lives upside down for about a week while we tried to get used to a new busy schedule. But I think we've gotten the hang of it & Gordon is enjoying this new calling.

We have church from 2-5 p.m. which I kinda like. Carley had a hard time at nursery for some reason (she'd been loving it & doing fine) but after a few weeks she's liking it again & not crying. She does have a special hiding spot in there that she runs to each week. She has 2 men as her teachers & she calls them her "daddies". Haaaa Haaaaa! She'll say "I payed by my daddies".

Mya is in CTR 5 & has 2 teachers that she just loves. Sis. Wood & Sis. Thornes. She had Sis. Wood for nursery & Sunbeams so she's SUPER happy to have her again. Her testimony is so sweet & she says the funniest things sometimes (mixes up different principles & makes up her own). She's already given a talk this year & done scripture & prayer in sharing time. Her prayers are also starting to be more meaningful & she has prayed on her own when she's been scared or someone has been sick.

I am going on 4 years as the R.S. 2nd counselor & still enjoy it. I've learned a lot & am happy to get to know so many of the sisters.

On Monday the 16th the girls & I drove to Tucson to meet my sister & her kids for a fun day. We went to the Tucson Zoo & rode the little train (it was a little rainy but still fun). Peter Piper Pizza for lunch & then to the mall to watch Alvin & the Chipmunks & play for a bit. It is so nice to have my sister close again. We always have such a blast!

January usually goes by sooo slow but this year wasn't so bad. We just got back into our routine & Carley turned 2 1/2 so she is FINALLY old enough to start dance (Carley calls it "dance cass"). She is SOOO excited & acts so smug when it's Monday. Darling!

This was her first day before her first class.

Mya was trying to show her some moves.

Sweet little dancer! Sometimes she'll do this pose & tell me she's not going to do it in class.

Mya also had her first trip away from home with out us. At the end of the month my mom went to watch my sisters kids & asked Mya to come. Mya thought she was going to babysit & was super excited to go. She had a great time. It was weird just having Carley to ourselves but I think she loved every minute. I took her to the Mesa Youth Museum one day & we got to sleep in. We went out to eat & test drove cars with Gordon & ended up with a new Toyota Camery! Mya cried when she got back & we had a new car but she was over it the next day when she saw how cool the new car was. She loves the sun roof & tells everyone about it!