March 2014

Well, I didn't plan to make the whole month of March one big post, but that is how the pictures uploaded and it will take more time to separate them into smaller posts. So, here it goes...

Our church had its annual Early Childhood Party in March. And it happened to be the weekend Jason's sister and family came up to visit (not sure why I don't have a single picture of the cousins!). Last year you may remember my post about the The Drive-In Movie Night at church. This year's theme was Mouse Race. The fun activities included; a wind-up mouse race, making an oreo look like a mouse, super cute mouse ears, face painting and the favorite; a mouse tunnel made from several huge boxes.

Jaxon the mouse.

Dakota the mouse.

While Memaw was visiting, the kids both wanted her to sleep with them. So, we compromised by putting the blow-up mattress in Jaxon's room and they each took turns sleeping in the bed or on the mattress.

More pictures of my crazy girl! With Jaxon in school this year, I got a lot more time to spend with Dakota and her personality really came out. Without her brother home to play with, her imagination grew immensely and I constantly found her talking to imaginary friends.

Lunch date with my girl at McDonald's!

Posing with her Bitty Baby, Ali, in matching PJ's.

Like I mentioned in a previous post, I find selfies of Dakota on my phone every day. Here are a few of my favorites:

I have tried taking Dakota's nap away, but I still find her asleep in random places late in the afternoon. So, back to letting her nap on days that she wants to.

Found Dakota asleep on the couch.

Love these two crazy kids!
Dakota is ready for gymnastics class.

More pictures of Dakota...

This is a hand-me-down dress from hockey friend, Allie.
After her 7th day in a row wearing this, I had to sneak
it from her to wash it!

Beautiful Dakota at the Easter Egg Hunt at school.

The kids and I drove to Kansas for Jaxon's Spring Break (Jason had already left for deployment at this point). We had a great week seeing family! Took them to Cosmic Jump, Kaleidoscope, and Fritz's Railroad Restaurant.

Dakota on the trampoline at Cosmic Jump.

Jax at Cosmic Jump.

Kaleidoscope is owned by Hallmark Cards and is free! It's a large room filled with many opportunities for kids to be creative. Hallmarks gives all their card scraps to Kaleidoscope and kids move around the room creating things from the scraps. It's a fun place to allow kids to be creative. I remember going as a kid, so I was thrilled to bring Jax and Kota here. It was a super fun morning!

Jax creating something super cool!

Kota working on a necklace.

And of course, there was some time spent in the hot tub!