WAY too Cute!

Carolyn will often call for me or Andrew by putting her hand up to her mouth and singing "Ahhh..." like she sees Giselle calling for her animal friends in the movie, "Enchanted." Well, little Miss Cutey Angela started doing this a couple of weeks ago!! SO CUTE! Here is a picture of Angela and Daddy singing to each other with their hands up to their mouth like Giselle! Angela is also starting to be our signing babe. Her favorite sign would definitely have to be "dog" :)

Carolyn's Favorites

(Whenever Andrew goes out of town, I always find myself blogging a lot :) This one is a long post and really for Carolyn to read when she's older! If you want to see more pics and stuff, just skip down to the Easter posting under this one :)

I love how each and every day in my life revolves around favorites...it always seems to be the topic of discussion around here. When meeting someone new, Carolyn needs to be able to at least get down the basics..."What is your favorite animal and color?" These things are important. Who would have thought that when seeing anything orange, excitement would break out as we reflect how excited Uncle Al and cousin Katie would be to see their favorite color...this goes for just about everything.

Here is a list of some of Carolyn's favorite things:

• The color blue
• Alligators! While at the zoo last week (another favorite thing of Carolyn's...and Angela's) we were looking at the alligators. It was quite an exciting day at the zoo because on that particular day the gators were swimming around (not in their usual sleepy mood). To our great enjoyment, one of the alligators came close to the glass window and started chomping down its jaws. I heard two kids beside me exchange words of fear, "Scary!" Carolyn thought differently, however. She took a good look at the big teeth chopping down and exclaimed, "HOW CUTE!!!" Only our little Princess Carolyn could find alligators so cute.
• Favorite Care bear: Grumpy
• Favorite Books (her favorite books are always changing, but this is the list for this week): Care bear books; Panda Bear, Panda Bear What do you See?; Goldilocks and the Three Bears; Fancy Nancy at the Museum; Safari Animals (or, really, any book with alligators, lions, gorillas and polar bears); Curious George; "Booty and the Beast" (how she says it..); Cinderella books...etc, etc...really the list could go on for a long time..we love reading together.
• Favorite Princess: Cinderella
• Favorite Foods: Chocolate (but it has to be the right chocolate - like Recess Pieces (sp?), watermelon, pretzels, cucumbers, brocolli, hot dogs, pears, vanilla ice cream, oranges, grapes...I wouldn't call her a picky eater, but those are probably some of her favorites right now.
• Preschool...I love that she loves it so much! We started school together two weeks ago and I planned on having it as an every-other-day thing. However, she started asking me for it everyday (yeah :) so now it's part of the daily routine! I love it; it just feels like I'm playing "house" while doing it!
• Friends! Carolyn just loves her little friends. Today at church she saw her friend, Micah, and ran and gave him a big hug. She looked at him all sad and said, "I miss you." If she goes a day without friends, she'll tell me how much she misses them.
• Puzzles...her favorite one right now is a Cinderella one her grandma gave her.
• Birthday Parties
• Angela. Carolyn and Angela are such sweet little buddies. Sure, sometimes we have to be reminded to be soft, but they love each other and have so much fun playing.

Easter of 2009

We had such a wonderful Easter! We woke up Easter morning and the Easter Bunny had come! Both Angela and Carolyn had a fun time looking for their baskets and eggs. We will, however, have to tell the Easter bunny to only bring toys and such next year for Carolyn. She tried some of the candy she got from him and announced that it was "yucky" (even chocolate; she usually atleast likes that!) We love our little healthy eater. Here are some pictures of my sweet family right before going to church.

Giving Daddy kisses....

We were lucky enough to have Chris and Janeil's family come over for dinner and fun after church! Here are the older girls in the traditional Hardy "Funny Bunny" hats! Yes, we are keeping the "Funny Bunny" song and hats alive!

The Famous and Traditional Egg Roll!!!

Three years ago Andrew made an egg called the "Jannie Killer" that won the whole egg roll competition at his parents' house so now, of course, he has to make it every year. Basically, it's an egg he tries to make as ugly as possible (he was mad that this year's "Jannie Killer" turned out looking quite nice) and writes "Jannie Killer" on it. I have never been able to defeat the egg in the past...but, not this year! My "WINner" egg rocked!

Even Angela joined in for the fun! (Notice her cute little shoes...I love them!)

And - who won the Egg Roll?! Drum roll please.....CAROLYN!! She beat everyone with her Lion egg!! Here she is on the last roll...tongue out and full concentration on winning :)

Way to go, Carolyn!

EASTER EVE!!! The day before Easter, we dyed eggs!

One hour after the girls were finished dying their eggs....

Okay, so maybe it wasn't an hour....but, Daddy did spend a lot of time making all of his easter eggs perfect. I love my husband...he's one of a kind :)

The day before Easter we also went to the Rec Center close by for an Easter Egg Hunt. It was pretty crazy (small area and lots of kids).

The Girls' First Nuggets Game

On Wednesday all us girls went to our first Nugget game at the Pepsi Center (not a first for the dad). It was a lot of fun! I think Carolyn's favorite part was that we went with the cousins. "Five"

Carolyn cheering the team on with a mouth full of pretzels :)

Daddy's little cheerleader

Angela showing off her cute little Nike walking shoes while watching the game

Random picture of Angela...I think she looks so cute in her big girl princess pjs so I wanted to take a picture, but as soon as the camera came out she started to cry...Angela always wants to hold the camera when she sees it....I just want to kiss her when I see this picture :)

Happy Easter!

Baby Steps!

Angela took her first step today!! We just love, love, love our Angela! She is getting so big!

Carolyn loves playing “Birthday Party” just about every day (she makes pretend birthday cakes and then sings to herself, Angela, me, her dolls...whoever and whatever is close by). Well, we were excited that today we got to celebrate a birthday for real. Happy Birthday, Chantal! Angela and Carolyn also went to see the Easter bunny today. Unfortunately, the mall wouldn’t let us take our own pictures, but it was fun! Neither of the girls wanted to sit on his lap, but Carolyn was excited to give him “five” and “knuckles.”
Last week Carolyn and I also started our own “official” preschool together. It’s so fun watching Carolyn grow up and start doing fun stuff like preschool.

Pleasantly Surprised

This week two great discoveries were made:

1 - Angela and Carolyn are amazing roommates! When I put them in one room, I anticipated having many sleepless nights. Thus far, that has not been the case! Carolyn is a ROCK at night and will sleep through Angela's occasional crying! Thank you, Carolyn!

2 - Potty training Carolyn has been, surprisingly, going great! Carolyn had her "ah-ha!" moment last week where is all just clicked...She is doing wonderfully and looks so cute and big in her princess panties! Good job, Carolyn!