Creative challenges

 

When I do Maggie's hair I have to be quite specific on how many and what kind of hair clips or ties I want her to choose..... occasionally, I forget and just tell her to chose which ones she wants that day. When that happens I have to find creative ways to use all the ones she picked - on this particular day she chose 7 things. Hmmm. This is one of those 'choose your battles' moments - I have decided that it's just not worth it to fight about her hair-do, yet... Most of the time she will listen and chose the few I ask but on those days I forget to remind her..... well, it's just a way to boost my creative talents. Right?

Pretty Pretty Princess

 

Some friends told me about a game called "Pretty Pretty Princess" - amazingly enough I found it at a yardsale not long after.... Maggie loves it. All you do is move your piece around the game board and collect plastic jewelry in your color. Once you have collected all your pieces you win! Is has earrings (which Maggie calls "earbells"), a necklace, bracelet, ring and crown. It's a very simple game that the kids can even play on their own without my help. It was missing a few of the game pieces but amazingly had all the jewelry - so I am ordering some replacements from Hasbro for just a few dollars. Fun! I just have to swallow my pride and decorate myself along with her as we play.....

Books

 

We read books every night as part of our bedtime routine.... Jackson and Maggie love it and always want to read more. Hailey is usually a menace, as you can see. She climbs all over us and everything else causing general mayhem. She does sit and flip the pages of books on her own though so maybe the day she sits still while we read isn't too far off.

Peach days

 

The annual celebration here is called Peach Days. On a Fri night they have a children's parade for all the local schools - with Jackson being in Kindergarden this year he could also be in the parade. He was very excited and chose to take his scooter...... the parade goes for about 4 1/2 blocks - which doesn't sound far but he was very tired by the end. He said "I don't think I want to do that again. It was too far!" The following morning was the big city parade. The kids loved collecting candy but got bored before the parade was over - and Hailey kept trying to run in the road and follow the parade..... Later that day I took Maggie and Jackson to go on some of the carnival rides. We had a good time but it took over 2 hrs to go on three rides. Sometimes I hate crowds! :)

I think I am finally caught up with my blogging. Whew. Now I can go back to posting once in awhile! I am trying to keep it up to date so it will make a good journal record someday. I am working on getting last years posts made into a book. It's a lot of fun. So I am trying to do an even better job of staying on top of things this year. Wish me luck and check in a lot :)

Here we go!!

 

We pulled out the rollerblades the other day.... even mine and Matt's! Although I don't have any pictures of the two of us on rollerblades I have some rather good ones of the little Fisher's :) They love to be out and active. We should do it more often! Hailey also loves to be in on the action so she rides her little bike around. Matt put her on Jackson's scooter one day and now she is addicted to that and tries to get it herself. They don't last long on skates but it's fun to watch them try.

Maggie starts preschool

 

Maggie's first day of preschool was last Tue.... but we missed it to visit with a friend from Alaska who had a layover in SLC. So she started on Thur - on the way there she said "Mom, I won't be scared today. I will be brave and it will be fun!". This was an improvement over the week before when she said she would be too scared to go there by herself. She has done great. She hasn't been sad at all and loves to go do projects and play games. I love her preschool because they always have some active playtime. It's at a gymnatiscs place so they will go out and play in the big gym or in the indoor playplace they also have. It's well organized and Maggie loves it. Couldn't ask for more I guess! So a few days a week it's just Hailey and I - but only for about an hour and a half. It adds a lot of running around into my schedule but the kids love the social time.

Puppy

 

We decided to go ahead and get another dog...... It's been two years since we've had one. I kept putting it off until we moved, hopefully, to somewhere with more property but who knows when that will be. The kids love it especially Hailey. She and the puppy play together like siblings. It gets a little rough at times. He is about 5 months old and he's a beagle/harrier mix. His name is Jasper (not very original since my family had a black/white dog named Jasper growing up - but oh well). He will probably be about 30-40 lbs when he is fully grown. He is fully potty trained which is very nice. So far he really hasn't added too much work - we just have to keep things picked up so he doesn't chew on them..... Jackson was ready to give him back when he started chewing on some legos!