Elle's Storyland field trip

This week was Elle's field trip to Storyland.  The weather was a little chilly, but at least we had sun.  The kids had a blast.  Elle has been asking me for weeks "is my field trip tomorrow?"  We even joined a few classmates at Chickfila for lunch after the field trip, so it was like Elle's dream day :o)

Cousin breakfast

Last weekend we had brunch with Cameron's cousin Lisa who was in town from Washington.  The girls of course instantly loved her!  

Courtney came to NOLA!

Courtney, Bryan and Zoey flew in for the day today.  We were unsuccessful in showing them the french quarter since for some reason it was packed out with no parking.  They got a driving tour of that :o)  We ended up stopping for lunch, going to Storyland and getting beignets before they had to be back at the airport.  It was a fun day and so great to see them!

 

Audubon Weekend

We hit 2 out of 3 of the Audubon attractions this weekend since our membership is expiring soon.  Yesterday we took advantage of the only non-rainy day of the whole Mardi Gras vacation week and went to the zoo with Tonya, Chloe and Grayson.  It was a little chilly and lots of the attractions were closed, but we were all thrilled just to be out of the house!

Elle and Chloe riding the ducks

The elephants were closed, so all we had to see on this side of the zoo were some goats and sheep.  The kids still liked watching the goat eat the tree though!

All the kids on the Komodo dragon.  Elle pet his back and said "hey little dude" then kissed him on his big brass lizard lips.  

Trying to get a good picture!

Today we went down to the aquarium.  They just opened a new Maya Reef exhibit today.  It was a pretty cool new twist on the first section.  Here's the girls with some lion fish.  

We went out to see the birds and they were CRAZY today!  I kept having to pull them out of my purse.  I guess they were scavenging for crumbs in there.  It was really freaking Scarlett out!  

Elle was getting upset that she couldn't hold a bird.  She kept running after them, trying to get a Hulk grip on their whole body.  Can't blame the things for flying from her!

Krewe of SPN

Today was the school Mardi Gras parade.  Scarlett got to walk again this year and throw from her wagon (although definitely less preparation than last year!).  Elle got to stand with her friends and watch the parade (and I did too!).

Both girls decorated Mardi Gras shirts with their class.

These girls (Elle's best friends) were WAY to excited to stand still for a picture.  They just kept jumping!

Catching from one of the more elaborate PK4 floats (people get way crazy with this stuff!)

Scarlett and her friends throwing from their wagon

After the parade the girls begged to get a ride (by that point the decorations on our wagon had seen better days!)

Buddies - Chloe, Scarlett, Grayson, Cannon, Elle and Brenna.

Snaggle tooth

So a big thing happened this weekend.  Scarlett lost her first tooth!!  She's been so excited for this day to come for over a year now.  I didn't want her to get her hopes up for it to come too soon because I was 7 when I lost my first tooth.  She didn't even tell me it was loose.  On Saturday, the girls were SUPPOSED to be napping.  I had already gone in twice to tell them to be quiet and rest, so when the 3rd time came around, I sent Cameron.  He came out and said "well, Scarlett pulled out her tooth".  I almost didn't believe him.  She said she just noticed it was loose at nap and pulled on it and it went flying over onto Elle.  She was SO excited all day.  She wrote a note to the tooth fairy and left it in her tooth fairy pillow.  She even woke up at 3am saying she was worried that the tooth fairy wouldn't come.  When she woke up though, she found her tooth and her note gone and $2 in it's place.  She has been so excited to show all her friends!

 

My Valentines

It's been a hectic (and COLD!) January, so I'm going to make this my month to get back to blogging!

The girls are getting excited for Valentine's Day.  We haven't finalized any plans yet, but they will definitely be handing out their cards and gummy bears to their friends at school!

Here's our V-day pictures for this year.