When the weather is good, there are always friends to play with outside!

Noelle set up a street artist booth and started drawing caricatures of the girls.

Love this picture of Rose discovering all things new!

Julia and Anna Kate having a good time!

I love this picture so much… there is always something going on with each of my girls all the time.  They are so good and are usually off creating something fantastic!

Baby girl got away with snatching a big girl marker without her sissies noticing, and she’s about to do her happy dance!

Oh yeah! 

If one of Anna Kate’s friends is over, you can bet that they will be off playing doctor somewhere.  They really get into it and love to role play… it’s so cute to watch!

Even though Anna Kate’s not smiling, this picture is soo precious.  We love our sweet neighbors!

We are enjoying this beautiful spring weather!

Madison and Anna Kate had so much fun looking for turtles at the pond!

Rose is screaming, Anna Kate is laughing!  That’s the way it goes around here these days!  Cutting one year molars hurts!

Thanks for coming to the park with us Madison and Mindy!  We had a blast playing with you guys!

So, Anna Kate is officially potty trained!  The week after she turned 3, she decided that she wanted to pee pee on the potty.  She put her Dora panties on, went to the restroom on her potty and has done it there ever since.  And that was that.

She is starting to look like a big girl, and these are the first pictures where I really noticed.  It makes me sad but excited all at the same time!  Celebrating all these little milestones with the girls makes life so fun!  We’re so proud of you, Anna Kate!

When the littles are still asleep for their afternoon naps, Noelle and I work on her homework together in peace and quiet.

She always has such a good attitude about it, and loves learning new things.  I can’t believe all the progress she has made this year!  I’m so proud of my little school girl!

I told Anna Kate when I was a little girl I looked just like her.  And she said, “Now you’re a big Mommy named Melissa!” 

Anna Kate loves fruit and yogurt parfaits from McDonald’s.  She calls them fruit and parfaits.  I can’t correct her, because I love to hear her say it… too cute!

From Rose’s journal: Noelle said about you at lunch, “She’s eating with a spoon all by her baby self!” Aww, you have the biggest cheerleaders in the world! Your sisters love you very much and celebrate all of your accomplishments with you!

From Anna Kate’s journal: Last night you came in our room at 3AM and when Daddy asked you what was wrong, you said, “I’m upset at the dark.” So… of course we let you sleep with us for the rest of the night. Stinker, why ya gotta be so cute!?!

From Noelle’s journal: When you are in distress, have just fallen or hurt yourself or really need me (those times when you are in tears), you call me Nahnah. I don’t know where it came from, but when you really need me, that’s what comes out. You call me Mom and Mommy the rest of the time. It makes me feel really special.  I’ll always come running to you!  I just love you to the moon and back girlie.

Anna Kate had her first dance performance on a stage Saturday morning at the MECPTA gift market!  We took a quick pic before we left, and she was SO excited!

I can’t believe Anna Kate is growing up so fast.  It’s crazy to think she was a little bitty baby when we moved into this house!  She’s so stinkin’ cute!

Anna Kate did such a good job at her first ever on stage appearance!  She knew all the steps and boogie woogied all the way home!

Noelle had her soccer game right before Anna Kate’s dance performance, and since I had to put on all of Anna Kate’s get-up, Mike took Noelle to her game.  They made it in time to watch Anna Kate, and Mike videoed some of Noelle’s big soccer plays for me!

I really wanted Noelle to take dance this spring, but she really didn’t!  However, today after she saw all the girls her age wearing all those sparkly fancy costumes, she was the one begging me to take dance!  I told her we’d have to wait until the 1st grade now because the year was almost over, and she asked me when the 1st grade starts.  She wants in that bling now!  Lol!  I told her it’s a lot of hard work, but she wants to give it another try, so we shall see. 

And baby Rose has her one year molars coming in strong right now!  Bless her heart.  All I can say is we tried to get her in the picture, but she was not having it!

The Skittles had a fun scrimmage with another team on Friday at an event called Friday Night Lights.  We had a lot of fun and then went to Chick-fil-A Family Fun Night!

Oh Rosie, it’s not that bad!  She loves big sissy’s chair!  We’ll have to get her her own pretty soon!

Emma loves hanging out with baby Rose…

Carson and Anna Kate are ready to start a team; they can’t wait!

Having fun playing a little hang man to work on Noelle’s sight words!