The Greatest Show on Earth!

Curly's preschool class put on a circus performance this past week. About a month ago we went to the actual Ringling Bros circus with some friends. It was a HUGE hit with the girls. They loved everything about the circus. I loved that it wasn't nearly as smelly as I remember as a kid ;0). Curly chose to be an acrobat in her school performance. Thankfully we already had a little leotard in our dress up clothes at home that would work just fine for an acrobat costume. It was extremely tacky, but with bright colors and sparkles it was perfect for Curly. The Bear insisted she was going to be a butterfly in the circus. I got her a little butterfly headband to wear. Curly practiced and practiced the circus songs as well as her acrobatic balancing acts for her tight rope walk. She was so excited the day of the circus. She told me that we would be served "popcorn and some drink called soda" after the performance. Clearly her teachers aren't originally from the south =0). Curly did an GREAT job. She is a little performer. She absolutely loves being on stage and pleasing her audience. We surprised Curly by having Aunt Debbie in the audience with us. She was driving back to Oklahoma after visiting Tyler in Clemson. She got to the performance right when it began. Curly's face was really cute when she saw Aunt Debbie from the stage. She got really wide eyed and her jaw dropped. It was a great surprise. Afterwards we celebrated by taking Curly to lunch anywhere she wanted. In perfect Curly fashion, she chose Chick-Fil-A.

The Butterfly Bear was memorized by the circus. She loved watching sissy and all her friends perform.

Curly is between the 2 tigers

The World's Strongest Men

The Ring of Fire

Walking the tightrope

Curly and Ms Carol

An acrobat and a circus bear

An acrobat and a zebra

Acrobats

Party like a 5 year old!

Sorry for the long blogging break. Guess it took me a while to recover from all the birthday hoopla plus I'm getting ready to sell a bunch of stuff at a consignment sale. Curly had two birthday celebrations. On her actual birthday we took her to Chuckie Cheese and met Aunt Jenna, Uncle Prem and Aunt Lauren for some pizza, fun and games. Then on Saturday we had a party for her friends at Champion Kids or as the girls call it " The Jumping Place". Bounce houses, trampolines, swings, a foam pit, zip line and more. The kids had a great time. Curly was SO excited about her birthday, but then when it actually arrived she was a bit overwhelmed. She had a great time with friends and family. We are extremely blessed to have Curly in our lives. She brings us so much joy each and every day.

SLIDING

SWINGING

JUMPING

PARACHUTING

ROPE SWINGING OVER THE FOAM PIT

ZIP LINING

Uncle Prem became the official foam pit thrower

He was very popular with the kids

Birthday Throne

Time to open presents

Daddy's favorite present was definitely the Pretty Pretty Princess game =0)

FIVE

Our sweet, spunky, funny, talkative, silly, crazy, adorable Curly is five years old today. We are so happy and proud of the person is she becoming. Curly is a joy to be around. She is a great big sister to The Bear (most of the time). Curly has a wonderful caring heart. She has endless amounts of energy and endless amounts of questions. Be careful what you say around her, she hears all and forgets nothing. If you promised her something a year ago, she will bring it up. Curly has many sweet friends and loves making new friends. She is very excited about starting Kindergarten in the fall (mommy and daddy not so excited about that). Curly is still a girly girl. She loves pink, sparkles, babies, dressing up and well anything else that is girly.

I did a little interview with her this morning. I did this last year as well. It's fun to see what she answers:

What is your favorite color? Pink

What is your favorite food? Mac n Cheese (only Kraft though)

What is your favorite place? Home

What is your favorite book? Skippyjon Jones

What is your favorite movie? Snow White

What is your favorite thing to do? Swim

Where is a place you've never been but would like to go? Robert's house for a play date.

Where do you live? The United States of America

What do you want to do when you grow up? A hair cutter and a mommy

How many kids do you want? 8

What will their names be? Robert, Ethan, Michael, Lisa, Sparkle, Fira, Mali, Coley

How old is daddy? 54

What does daddy do? He tickles me

If daddy is 54, then how old is Papa? 55

Excited to be 5

The Bear is excited that she will get some cake today

FIVE!!!!!!!!!!

Off With Her Pink Leg

The Bear had her pink cast removed today. Hallelujah! The Bear is used to the little women nurses at her pediatricians office. All the nurses working at this pediatric orthopedic office were large muscular men. I guess orthopedics is a very popular career for ex athletes. The Bear doesn't exactly like strange men. Large strange man completely freak her out. When we first went to this office to get her cast on a few weeks ago, The Bear clung to me for dear life because of all these big men trying to talk to her. This time around she remembered how these men gave her stickers and lollipops to try to make her smile so she was super happy and talkative. I had warned her that when they removed her cast it would be really loud. The nurse gave her ear muffs to where and he let her touch the saw before he started removing the cast. She giggled the whole time. She said it tickled. We got more x-rays taken. They showed that her fracture was all healed. However, The Bear has a pretty ugly bruise on her heel from the cast plus her knee and ankle are a bit sore from not being able to bend for 3 weeks, so she is walking with a pretty heavy limp. The doctor said if she is still limping after 3 weeks to come back. I'm praying that once the bruise on her heel heals, she will be a lot more comfortable walking and there will be no need to return.

Sweet Aunt Shellie, sent The Bear a little teddy bear with a leg wrapped in a pink cast. The Bear kept calling it her "very special special bear". It was such a cute idea and very special to our pink legged cutie. Aunt Shellie also made some pretty bows for Curly which she LOVED. Thanks Aunt Shellie!

Curly decided to wear all the bows Aunt Shellie made for the picture. The Bear is holding her pink legged bear, Julia.

Waiting to get the cast off

Free at last!

Toomer's Corner

I, like all the whole Auburn Family, am very saddened by the poisoning of the beautiful oak trees at Toomer's Corner. I like what this Sports Illustrated reporter wrote about the Toomer's poisoning in an article titled " Toomer's Corner Poisoning Should Enrage All College Football Fans".

I could go on and on about how this is NOT a typical rivalry prank. This goes above and beyond silly pranks. This is hurtful and not fixable. Hearing people cheer and applaud what this man did to our beautiful campus is so sad. I am thankful we got to take Curly to one Auburn game and to Toomer's afterwards. We are still holding onto a slim hope that some miracle cure will develop and the trees will be saved but the outlook is extremely grim.

Here are a few pictures of when we took Curly to Toomer's as well as a few more pictures.

Toomer's the morning after the National Championship

The Belle of the Ball

Tonight our church hosted a Father/Daughter Valentine's Dance. Last night was a dance for older girls. Tonight's dance was just for 4 year olds through 3 grade. To say Curly has been excited about this dance ( or ball as she call it) is the understatement of the century! She has been over the moon ever since I told her about it. I had her try on dresses in her closet last week to see what she would like to wear. Surprisingly her flower girl dress from Aunt Lauren's wedding a year and a half ago still fit. WOO HOO! It was just a few inches shorter on her but it was still plenty long enough to wear.

Yesterday Daddy came down with a sinus infection. He quickly got on antibiotics. He still felt awful this morning and stayed home sick from work. I was praying hard he would fell better by tonight. Curly was confused as to why Daddy was not at work and still asleep at 8 this morning. She walked into his room and said "Daddy when are you getting up?". He replied " In just a little while. I need a bit more rest.". To which she reasoned "Oh right, you need to rest up for the ball tonight". Yes Curly that's exactly why Daddy needed his rest. Thankfully he did feel much better this evening and he was able to escort his little princess to the ball. On their way home, Daddy mentioned to Curly that next year at the ball she will be too big for him to pick her up and dance as much he did tonight. She excitedly replied "You mean we go AGAIN next year!".

Ready for the Ball

So excited

Daddy and his little girl

Hanging out with her best friends at the dance

Dancing with Daddy

Curly and Claire

Dancing the night away

Injured

So our girls have been a bit accident prone lately. Curly got a black eye after colliding with a boy at preschool. She was fine and the bruise was gone in a few days. However, our sweet dramatic Curly milked this injury for all it was worth. She begged for sympathy from anyone who would listen. Have I ever mentioned that Curly is dramatic, extremely dramatic.

Little Rocky Balboa

I told her to toughen up

The Bear has always been our tough little girl. She can fall down and scrape both knees and not shed a tear while bleeding. She tends to cry and get upset more when she's being bossed around by her big sister than when she is physically injured. Last weekend, Daddy was in school and I had a girl's weekend up at Big Canoe in the north Georgia mountains, so the girls spent the weekend in Augusta with Gran and Papa. At some point The Bear fell in their playroom and hurt her leg. She insisted on being carried the whole weekend. When she did try to walk she did so with a very heavy limp. When we got her back on Sunday afternoon she still wasn't walking. So Monday morning we took her to the pediatrician who then sent us over to the pediatric orthopedic doctor. After taking some x-rays, the doctor determined she had a fracture in her tibia right below her knee. She was put in a full leg bright pink cast. The Bear was so brave through the entire process. She didn't cry when they drew blood to test her white blood count at the pediatrician. She didn't cry when they took x-rays. She didn't cry when they put on the cast. She was a brave little girl through the entire process. I cannot even imagine how many tears Curly would have shed in the same situation. The Bear has to wear the cast for three weeks. We are very thankful it's not longer. She's been doing great scooting around on her bottom. Hopefully these three weeks will go by really fast.

Pink Leg

Curly is a bit jealous of the pink leg