Toast 2 Mom

Spring Model

Standing 40 and 3/4 inches tall, Natatie, aka Sweet Cheeks, is sporting this year's trend. Just look at how she can wear those ruffles! Ooo - laa- laaaa :)

They're SO Cute!

But seriously, people, these shoes are from Target! Helllooooo - how cute are these on my little four year old's feet??! 

Tomorrow

What didn't we do today..... one thing - take a picture of the new kitchen. So tomorow, I'll unveil.... But the fam loves it. :)

Today though, busy. We began today by dropping some girls off at school. Mommy got some "free" time, which was so nice. I took my family down to Walton's Fancy and Staple for breakfast. Then we hit South Congress for lots of fun shops shopping. I scored a couple early birthday presents, and we also endulged in some fried pickles at The Mighty Cone.

Then we picked up little Cheekers up from school and hit more shops. This time, the motherload - Sephora! Cheeks hit about eight lip gloss zones. Then it was time to pick up the Sydney girl from school.

No time to go home and rest, we loaded up for an early dinner to The Salt Lick. Now we're home, watching a little MLB and prepping for the agenda for tomorrow.

This weekend has one theme - party. Saturday is a party and Sunday is a party - and we have a lot of party prep to do. But tomorrow, before the new kitchen gets too dirty, I'll flash up a picture - old kitchen and new before we break it in.

Until tomorrow.....

It's Friday Night

We had family dinner night out tonight. The girls wanted to get all dressed up. You can never have too many accessories. You can't see, but Cheekers has about six hair clips besides her piggy-tails and her Johnny Mac headband.

Dinner was great! Happy Friday!

 

A Story For Each of Them

I have a story to share about each of my girls today. It seems by these tales that maybe Mommy doesn't know everything that is going on all the time like I thought. :) I'll elaborate.

I'll start with Sydney. Yesterday I went to a playdate at a Mom's house. There were five of us moms there  - each with our child just starting Kindergarten and all in the same class. A few of us knew each other. A couple of us were new introductions. We were each sharing our stories about the first week of Kindergarten. "Oh Sydney loves that or Sydney doesn't like that as much." Eventually this mom that I've met before only briefly says, "so your daughter is Sydney." We were also learning the names of each child for association as well. I said, "yes, Sydney's mine." She said with chagrin, "oh I've already heard about Sydney." I think my cheeks then turned a bit pink at this point. I had no idea what this meant. In my mind, I didn't think that meant my child's name went to the office already - but I couldn't understand her remark.

I said, "oh, you've heard of Sydney?" She said, "yes, I have a colored picture of her at my house." So the story goes, apparently her son drew a picture of Sydney behind bars in a jail as the result of Sydney telling this boy that "girls rule and boys drool!" So as punishment to Sydney, this boy drew a picture of her behind bars during free color time at school.

Oh boy!

Now the even better part to this story is when I picked Sydney up yesterday, I told her about my Mommy playgroup and who all was there. I told her that this boy's mom was there. With a smirk on her face, she said, "oh his mom was there." I said, "yes, and I heard that you told him girls rule and boys drool." Sydney responds with yet another smirk, "yeah, I told him that."

So for all of these days thus far that I've picked her up and asked about her day, well I've yet to get any good stories like that!  I'm looking forward to my pick up today to see who this boy is....

Now, Cheekers' story. During her "quiet" day times at home while big sis is at school, Cheekers has been enjoying partaking in some dress up. She is pretty into her fashion and likes to change her clothes a few times a day. I typically don't encourage this, but she seemed to be responsible about it. My rule was that for every outfit she changes, she has to hang the old outfit back up. I don't want to spend my day hanging clothes - and she can do it.

Well last night, I went into her closet to put some laundry away. One of her shoes fell off the shelf and onto the floor. I bent over to pick it up. Her hanging clothes are on a bar lower to the ground. So they hang pretty low. When I bent over to get the shoe, I saw about five dresses wadded up into balls and shoved at the back of the closet.... "the Natalie version" of hanging up clothes, I guess!

So this week has been a bit enlightening for me. Perhaps some foreshadowing for my future - issues with boys, clothes and being sneaky! Ahh, they start early these days!

Cheekers aka Madonna

I really think Cheekers will go into the fashion industry in one way or another. She just has a skill of putting her clothes together and accessorizing herself ....well, way better than her Mommy knows how to. :)

Today, Cheeks went the a la Madonna route. Everything she's wearing, she selectively choose - sparkles, necklace, headband, sunglasses, rhinestone tennis shoes, etc....  How Vogue. :)

 

Look At Me

While Sydney is at camp this week, Cheekers and I have been passing the time doing a little of this and a little of that. One of the things we did today was some browsing at Anthropologie. That is quite the fun store to girls of all ages. Cheekers in particular liked trying on all the pretty stuff and asking me to take her picture. She likes to see if first before she buys...