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Sophie's first haircut!

Mini manicures with cousins for our playdate.  

Crispy southwestern chicken wraps (link to recipe in my dinner post) 

Out for some exercise with my boy and my dog.  Bike ride for Will.  Walk/jog for me & Bru, just staying with Will's pace. 

Chicken & pineapple quesadillas (link to recipe in my dinner post) 

 Fast friends:  Sophie & Reese.  Little sibs of the Little Dragons.  Soon to be joining their big bros on the mats this spring.

Craig worked this night (karate night) so I was on my own with everything.  Had Weelicious sloppy joes ready in advance to ease my single-mom-ed-ness.  :)

Sophie is amazing at Memory. 

My little yogis.  They are adoring this yoga video from the library and getting some indoor exercise.  Perfect for the cold weather months!  This is cobra pose, but they just refer to it as snake pose in the kids' video so Will & Sophie are making "snake sounds".   

Warriors! 

Triangle pose (sorta).  Looks a little more like side angle with their legs bent.

Oh heavens!  I just swoon over fun polish!  Zoya Carey with sparkly Zoya Luna accents. 

What's For Dinner? February Weeks 3&4

Menu for the week of February 16-22:

1) taco salad
2) chili with grilled cheese
3) steak on the grill with salads and roasted red potatoes with thyme (Finally found a way that our kids will eat potatoes!!!  This is huge!!)

I'll give you three guesses who chose the above menu...
His name rhymes with Greg.  ;)

Moving on...

Menu for the week of February 23 - March 1:

1) whipped feta and roasted red pepper dip with pita chips for my girls night with work friends
2) Many Makings' chicken and pineapple quesadillas - I seriously love everything about these!
3) Weelicious sloppy joes - love this recipe, loaded with veggies
4) tomato bisque and grilled cheese (we like grilled cheese - can you tell?)
5) crispy southwest chicken wraps (Pinterest find)

A few pics from our tomato bisque and grilled cheese night...  The kids had some "fish" swimming in their soup.  It definitely encouraged their eating it!

Love this goofy girl... 

Sophie's Winter Music Program

Sophie had her winter music program during the church service at her preschool this morning.  Both classes from the Precious Moments Preschool (the Tuesday/Thursday kids and the Monday/Wednesday/Friday kids) came together to sing a handful of patriotic songs complete with decorative props and a few, minimal dance moves that standing on risers would allow.  :)  The church congregation was joined by lots of family and friends of the students for this performance.

Sophie had been practicing for weeks leading up to this and her "singing" was extremely loud and forceful in practice.  So we expected to hear as much this morning, but were pleasantly surprised to hear that she sang along with less... err... yell-singing. 

Stella & Mya singing the "Who's face is on the penny?" song.

"You're a grand old flag!"

"Yankee Doodle", I think?

After the performance, all the children of the congregation were invited up to join the students for a bell choir performance.

Cecilia even boldly came up to participate!  She'll be attending school in the Tuesday/Thursday class here next fall.

Mya's crabby face (?) cracks me up in this picture.

The pastor was speaking to all the children here.  Will sat on Nana's lap during this time.

A fun morning watching our girl perform! 

Everyone congregated for coffee clatch after as well.

Sophie's First Haircut & A Cousin Playdate

Sophie had her very first haircut this morning!

Only in the last month or so has she seemed to need it because of increased tangles and ragged looking ends, so I'd been waiting as long as possible for this day to come.  Here's a before pic from the back.

We went into downtown G-town to the Shear Delight where I've been going for cuts with Rachel, per a recommendation from my sister.  She does a great job and I love that she's close and reasonably priced.  I actually used to babysit Rachel when she was little!  She's my brother Zach's age.  

Rachel did a great job with Sophie, who was thrilled with all of the wild-print equipment and pink cape Rachel used.  :)

The staff were so good to Sophie.  Sophie noticed a rack of nail polish on one of the walls and commented on her favorite "polishes".  So they sent her home with a mini color and top coat as well as a sucker.  And for ME, they collected some of her first haircut clippings into foil, filled out a "child's first haircut" certificate for the baby book and told me the first hair cut is FREE!  So nice!!  We'll definitely be returning there for Sophie's future haircuts.

The "after" shot of the back.  So much healthier looking! 

On our way home from the haircut, we picked up Mya & Stella for a morning playdate.  Craig had taken Will out for some of their own bonding time and it was just us girls at home.  The three little ladies all got mini manicures with Sophie's new, free polish. 

They patiently waited for it to dry... 

...and then it was time for some yoga, per Sophie's request.   

"Rocking horse".  (They were grabbing their ankles and rocking on their bellies.) 

Lots of dress up took place throughout the playdate and then Will came home in time for lunch with his cousins before I took Mya & Stella home for nap.