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Easter etc...

I'm outdoing myself today....two postings!

Easter was great. We painted eggs...hid them in the back yard and both Emilie and Danielle had a blast looking for them.  Unlike all of her friends...Emilie gets real chicken eggs at easter and so when she was asked what the bunny had put in her eggs by her friends at school my poor child was a bit confused by the question.  Danielle and Emilie did however, get a great basket of goodies from the Easter bunny.  These were especially great since 80% of what was in them came from Eliane the Swiss easter bunny!!! (merci beaucoup!)

 

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The weather in Arizona has been absolutely gorgeous this month.  Spring and fall are my favorite seasons here...warm but not blazing hot and this year we even got a normal amount of rain for once.  The desert is in full bloom and the cacti and other desert plants are beautiful.  I love this time of the year but for Mike this is hell season.  My poor husband suffers from both seasonal allergies and asthma...and one triggers the other.  He has been miserable lately and apparently our little Danielle inherited the seasonal allergy part of his problem.  Our poor little one has been walking around sneezing and snotty for the past week and her pretty blue eyes and just as red as they can be.  Benadryl works for her but it also knocks her into a three hour coma. (I will admit to taking advantage of this fact in my planning of nap time though!) While I'm on the subject of allergies and allergens....Danielle is also allergic to sunblock, which, for a Scottish/Irish/Swiss really white kid living in the Arizona desert.... is wonderful news!!!  She breaks out in itchy hives and looks miserable.  I have found an organic fragrance free "granola" made sunscreen that works for her but unfortunately it only comes with SPF 30.  Emilie needs to have a sunscreen with SPF 70 in order not to turn red so I guess I'll be reapplying on Danielle every 15 minutes......ahhh.....the joy!

Emilie is loving school and planning her birthday party.  She is very excited and makes sure to tell me how good she was in school every day...."Je suis gentille maman....I can come to my birthday...right???" Soo cute!

Okay...I guess I've written enough for this time....If I could only be this verbose more often you'd all know every detail of our little lives.  I'll leave you with some more pictures of Easter etc...

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Until next time!

Very late but still better than never

Okay so I completely forgot about the blog.  I promise to do a bit better and have a least one post a month...Unlike my friend Ana...I can't get myself to blog almost every day.....I'm not that organized....he,he,he!

The past two months have gone by and the girls keep growing up and surprising us every day with their wit and energy.  The older I get the more I realize that if adults were able to move and do as much as children...the world would get a lot more accomplished.  But enough of that...lets move on to the news.  Danielle decided to take a header off the dishwasher door while I was putting away the dishes and the horrible sound of a skull hitting the tile made my blood chill.  I called one of the doctors from work and was told that all they would probably do if I took her in was observe her for a few hours and then send her home if all was well....since she didn't lose consciousness....they probably wouldn't scan her and just watch her...heck...That info saved us the price of an ER visit and I did that at home...waking the poor child up every 3 hours to see if her brain was swelling....luckily...she was fine but the huge bruise on her forehead stayed for a few days and migrated south to cause a black eye as well....the moral of this story....don't fall head first onto your head....it hurts!!! ......Oh and I'm a bad Mommy!

 

 

 

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In other, more pleasant Danielle news....She is trying to potty train.  We are a long way from not needing diapers but in March she started sitting on the potty and waiting until something came out.  before that.. she would sit on it and immediately get up and run out of the bathroom.  Mike took a picture of her first accomplishment! 

 

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But enough of the little one.  Emilie is getting to be quite a young lady.  She is still way too tall for her age and still skinny as ever.  She is a wonderful big sister but Danielle's weight gets in the way of Emilie trying to "help" her.  Almost once a day Emilie tries to pick up Danielle for some reason or another and it always ends up the same way....both of them are on the floor screaming!! 

Mike decided that his eldest was old enough to take fishing last month and bought her a pincess themed fishing pole. On a grey Saturday morning the two went out to one of the urban lakes in Phoenix to fish.  They didn't bring anything home but their smiles but that was enough for me.

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As for the rest of the month...not much to report.  We made it the the Arizona farm day and got to show Emilie how to ride an old John Deere...and took a ride in a hay wagon wich Danielle loved.  It was a great day and it was also sad to think that everything that I took for granted as a kid.... like running around a bunch of  chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits, horses and cows was scary and new to my kids.  I'm raising a couple of city dwellers and wish I could afford to live in a place where they could get the best of both worlds...kind of like I did. Oh well...maybe someday we'll win the lottery or something....

 

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