This kid cracks us up, how does she come up with this stuff? =)

1/25/12 - Me & Phoebe got home today and cousins were coming over and bringing pizza in an hour and a half, so I wasn't going to cook dinner. Phoebe chose to eat the little single serving bowls of mac n cheese. I cooled it some and then gave it to her. She says "momma, I have hearburn." I said Phoebe, what do you mean you have heartburn? And where ever did you learn that word?" She said "I just know mom, I have heartburn". I said "well explain to mom what you're feeling". She said (while patting her chest), the macaroni and cheese was hot when I swallowed it, so it burned my heart." I was cracking up. 12/27/11 - So I give Phoebe her clothes to wear this morning and she said "Uhm Mommy, I wore these when I was 5, I am 6 now"." She certainly has the right idea! We should all get a new wardrobe for our birthday each year. :)

Phoebe - Cheerleading

We signed her up for Cheerleading at church. During the evaluations, they tried on uniforms and practiced cheers. Here's her first try with a group for cheerleading. She did great. :) Phoebe really enjoyed it and can't wait to start cheering! Here's a video of her first halftime performance on March 3, 2012

Another Mommy Daughter Day

Since I had to work late everyday last week, I told Phoebe I'd make it up to her by taking her out for a Mommy/Daughter Day. We woke up, got dressed and went to meet Aidan, Evan & Tammy at Skeeters for breakfast. Then we all headed to Toys R Us. Phoebe got her guitar pics and strap. Then me & Phoe went to Claire's, she picked out a pink and purple feather jewel that clips in her hair and a ladybug pee wee pillow pet. I gave her the option of getting the pee wee baby or going to get our nails done, she chose the pee wee and said we can do each other's nails at home. We then went over to Children's Place and got her a few things, then headed home. We have spent the entire day hanging out. While Daddy was washing Big Red, I took Phoebe around the neighborhood to ride her bike. I told her this was my exercise, so she kept speeding up and making me run. It was great. I did get some exercise, it was fun and I was able to spend time with my girl while exercising. My dream workout :) And now we're ending our day watching Strawberry Shortcake, before that we watched a few episodes of Angelina Ballerina.

Tomorrow we're taking Phoebe to get fitted for her Cheerleading uniform. Aidan & Evan signed up for Flag Football. I am so excited to see how cute all 3 of them look in their uniforms.

Phoebe's First Time Ice Skating

Today was Martin Luther King's birthday and school was closed, as well as the after care center. I had to work because my deadline is the 20th of the month and we were filing year end returns, so I had more than double the amount of my normal return count. Nikki & Patrick offered to take Phoebe ice skating with them. Phoebe and Aubree are BFFs (as Phoebe calls her). These are one of the very few people we would trust Phoebe with. According to Aubree's parents, Phoebe and Aubree did great! Phoebe also got to pick out a stuffed animal at the Disney Store. She got the baby lion from the Lion King movie and called her Nahla. She was thrilled about that!

They wouldn't allow them to take pictures while on the ice. But they assured me that she did great and had so much fun! That was a first for us to let her go off with another family, but I'm glad that we did, it was certainly worth it. And again, if there's anyone we'd trust with our child, it would be this family... they rock!

Bowling & a Playdate

Me, Phoebe & Mikey went bowling this morning. We had such a good time. Afterwards, we went home, Mikey went to play his game before the Saints game came on. I noticed Phoebe's friends Victoria & Kelly were outside, I called Phoebe outside to see if she wanted to play with her friends.  They ended up coming over and spent about 3 hours by our house. They had a great time together. It was nice for me to sit back, relax and watch them play.

We're heading back to church tomorrow. We've had to miss the past few months. It started with me being in pain all the time, then the surgery to fix that, then working too much so I had a lot to catch up on in the house, then we'd have visitors in or be out of town. Ms. Connie contacted me today asking if I could help teach Phoebe's Sunday school class tomorrow, so Phoebe is super excited that I'll be teaching her class. :)

Phoebe's 6th Birthday Party

Phoebe's party was a success! We absolutely loved Stacey's Dance Studio! We had 2 kid tables set up by the door. As the kids arrived, they came to the tables by Phoebe's Uncle Rudy and MawMaw Tessie to get their faces painted and/or get a Hello Kitty or Pirate tattoo. We mainly offered 2 face painting options - a pirate skull or a hello kitty face, this was a big hit! Then they went over to a helper from Stacey's to make beads and have some free play while other guests arrived. Once everyone arrived, they played follow the leader and the hokey pokey, which Nanny and MawMaw Tessie joined in on =). Then they had a hula hoop contest. Phoebe did so great on the first 3 and then for the contest it was her and Lexi holding on for a long time, but Phoebe ended up dropping it and Lexi won the contest. Which was great because like I told Phoebe, you want your guests to win because they came to your party and you're the one already getting lots of presents, so it's good that she won. After the hula hoop contest, they had a relay race, there were 2 lines and each person had to put all this dress up stuff on, take it off and run back and tag the next person, it was hilarious, they had so much fun. Some were jumping in excitement waiting for their turn. After that they set up a big tarp on the floor and we served pizza and cupcakes. Then we opened presents, handed out favors and packed things up.
Here are a few pictures: (you can click on the slideshow to see larger images)