March 2-7

You can't really tell in this picture too much, but Macey fixed Lilly's hair in a ponytail and put a headband on her...It didn't last long though! Lilly hates having "pretties" in her hair nowadays.

Lilly getting ready to go furniture shopping with us...She insisted on wearing her shades and bringing her purse along!

Here is Lilly's new Dora swimsuit.

I've been very bad about updating the blog lately! So here we go, lots of stuff to post on...hmmm...where to start??!

Macey is in Girl Scouts again this year, so we had the cookie sale last month. Her goal was 130 boxes this year...all for a little stuffed elephant! She sold lots of cookies to family and then to some of Mike's coworkers, as well as my coworkers and did it - 130 boxes! So last week we had the fun of sorting through those and now have to finish delivering. Macey is doing great in school. We just did student-led conferences at her school and that was a lot of fun! She very professionally showed me her portfolio and it was so fun to see all the hard work she has been doing. She's in the process of entering a story she wrote into a contest so we're excited about that!

Lilly is quite the character, as always! Her latest phrase is "What the heck!" She's not saying it in a negative way, just when she's questioning something. Not quite sure where that one came from, guessing her sister possibly? Yesterday I took the girls to Shopko in North Branch while Mike picked up Macey's new mattress, and this was the first time that I almost had to walk out of the store due to Lilly being naughty! We have never had that before - usually she's fairly good about not getting stuff, but not this time! She wanted EVERYTHING in the store and wasn't taking no for an answer! Anyway, I did get her a Dora the Explorer swimsuit (pictured above) because she needed one and it was just so cute, and that did the trick. I hope my little girl isn't going to be doing this every time we hit the stores because we got many looks from people during her fits! Anyway, Lilly has not taken off the suit since yesterday! But, this is actually a good thing because usually she runs around in just her undies while at home! She's still loving daycare and playing with her buddy Oscar.

We are in the process of switching Macey into the playroom upstairs since it has much more closet space than her room, and what a project that has been! We actually ordered her a new bedroom set so that Lilly can have her old set, so we have been trying to go through her millions of clothes and trying to weed through all the junk she has accumulated throughout the last 8 1/2 years in her bedroom! We're waiting for her new comforter set and will post pictures of the room then.

That's it for now!