Riding Around...

The weather has been so so nice lately even in the middle of the day and we have been taking full advantage and playing outside a lot. Molly has set in her sweet little mind that she is going to tip on her bigger bike so I raised Maggies bike seat as high as it would go and let her give it a shot-she had absolutely NO fear and cruised around without a care in the world. So like gymnastics we are going to let her go at her own pace and grow confidant enough to cruise on her bigger bike when she is good and ready- Now she asks every second if she can ride her "little" bike so she can get super fast then ride her "big" bike next! Maggie is mastering her 4 wheeler and loves to place chase with whoever is willing. She laughs her head off the whole time- Then best is when the girls are chasing each other laughing their heads off at each other!

Gymnastics...

Molly has been in gymnastics since the first of the summer and although she has made huge improvements she is still very scared and nervous to do certain things like umm.. go upside down in any fashion- It is frustrating to watch because I know she can do it, but it really freaks her out and sends her into a panick attack at times so we don't mention it and just let her do what she is willing and wanting do it- I want it to be fun for her not scary- so with that in mind and now that school has started and she has ballet and tap already we decided that this would be our last month of gymnastics until next spring- I am going to give her a break and when Maggie turns 3 and can start then we will talk about it and let her try it again if she wants. 

She really loves it, but we decided it would be best to take the break, let her gain a little more confidence in herself and then try again. She is OK with this idea and gets to take tap instead. It still makes me sad cuz she did love most of it and her teacher has helped her a lot in the last month so it made me a little sad to go through with pulling her for a bit. I just think with everything she is doing on top of gymnastics was just too much and she needs to be a kid still - 

Since I just go my nice camera back I decided to take it to Gym that day and get some decent pictures of her. She was showing me all her tricks and her sweet teacher said Maggie could join them for the day so Maggie was on cloud nine and Molly couldn't wait to "teach" Maggie what to do. I love how much they love each other and how much they love to do things with each other. So it was the perfect day to get her in action. 

The one thing she has not changed much on is the bars- she HATES to flip upside down on the bar, but will swing on them so its a start since at the beginning of the summer she would not even hang on them. She has also gotten really good at "the bridge" move.  The skill she has improved the most on is the somersault- she would freak when she had to do them-even when I would try to help her at home she would just cry it scared her so bad. Her teacher figured out a little trick- if we just tap her foot as she is rolling she has no problem with it-it is the strangest thing, but I think that little tap gives her confidence that we are there and will help if needed. I am so proud of her for facing her fears and doing her best and if she wants to give it another shot next spring we will let her try again!

Skeleton Jamies

While we were out and about one day I stumbled on these jamies and knew the girls would LOVE them, not only are they "super preaky" (freaky) according to Maggie they glow in the dark- My girls are all about the holidays-they come about it naturally so these were a must. They could not get them on fast enough when we got home and had to dance in the dark and stay up till daddy came home to show them their new jams!

Color Days @ Pre-School...

 Molly has been doing color days at school for the  past like 3 weeks, although it was fun it was kinda a pain cuz she has so much cute new clothes that I wanted her to wear, but some days that just didn't work so we made it all work out and she had a blast. Her favorite day was pink day and thats cuz she chose to wear her pink skeleton pj's her teacher is great and said, "This is Pre-School so let them be themselves and wear what they want, you OCD moms that like them to matchy match close your eyes and let them wear different shades of each color-let it go for one day consider it helping them learn" We tried our best and she had something for every color so I would say we succeeded!!! 

Funny little tid bit- Last Tuesday Molly had a rough day after school and for some reason said "I don't love Pre-School anymore and I never want to go back except for on Rainbow day, Rainbow day is the only day I am going to go"  No worries the next day she was fine and could not wait to go to school I think she was just tired- But it is safe to say Molly loves anything Rainbow and anything Pink!

 RED DAY

 ORANGE DAY

 YELLOW DAY

 GREEN DAY-

notice our cute little photo bomber-

 

BLUE DAY

 PURPLE DAY-

( I cant find the picture I took before school, but this is on purple day @ Aladdin)

 

 PINK DAY

 BLACK DAY

 

BROWN DAY

 GREY DAY-

This is the Molly pose as I like to call it she did this every time I wanted to take her pic for these days-silly girl I let her do one like this then made her smile and stand normal for another one!

 WHITE DAY

 RAINBOW DAY!

Aladdin...

Molly had been to Aladdin with Clint a few weeks before our big girls night out! I had previously bought tickets with my mom so Clint took the girls solo that time. This time Mag stayed home with Clint - When I bought the tickets I didn't think she would even care to go,  well she did and was kinda sad she couldn't go with us this time too- luckily she had seen it so I didn't feel as bad! 

We started off by going to dinner with everyone going to the play-Kaitlin, Maddox, Jill and Grandma Grape, and My Mom, Aunt Mary (Grandma Grapes sister) and Molly and I. It was a whole lotta fun and we had a blast- Molly was so excited to go again and wanted us to take a million pictures in the head cut out boards of the characters. She got her usual popcorn and fun cup combo meal and was all set for the show- She was so funny to sit next too she is very sensitive to loud sounds and has been since she was tiny so since she had already seen it she knew when things got loud or sparks were going to fly and she would cover her ears and lean into me a few seconds before they went off. She LOVED it even the second time and especially loved going with her Grandma Kara and Grandma Grape. 

It was a really fun night and Grandma Grape and Mary stuck around for a few more days since Courtney was coming up to visit for the weekend- I didn't take one picture of the weekend imagine that, but it was a blast and the girls LOVE being with family and always ask what the plan is or whats happening next or who we are going to be with when we get there.

 So glad I was able to just take Molly and have a special date with my big girl! Mag had a blast with dad and couldn't wait to tell me that they played lots of Candyland and Princess games and got Old McDonalds for dinner. I would say her special night with dad was pretty great too!

 Molly looks pretty sweet in this picture I don't know what she is doing!

 Kaitlin-Mol-Maddox

 Sisters-Aunt Mary/Grandma Grape

 Jill-Kaity-Maddox

 Grandma Kara-Me-Mol

This girl sure loves her Grandma Grape---