I had an awesome Mother's Day this year. We spend some time at Grandma Joyce's place with family, went to church, and got to play with my sweetheart girls.
Here is Grandma Gayle with all her kids at the church
Grandma Joyce and her daughter-in-law
Britt and her dad
Mommy (me), McKel, Avril, and Auntie Arleen
Mommy daughter
Uncle JJ with Papa
Making sure we are all well fed
Avril chowing down on an orange
Just love this girl
Mommy got a most delicious cheesecake from a special friend :)
I decided to have a girls day with Avril and get pedicures! Avril wanted sparkley blue nails
I let her pick Mommy's color too :)
See? It was an awesome Mother's Day! I love being Mommy...
McKel-Somehow I think this little girl just keeps outdoing herself by getting cuter and cuter each day. She is growing such a head of hair! It is so fun to have two little blondie girls. McKel's personality is just that. All personality. She definitely has one. She is one of the most headstrong 17 month-olds I've ever seen. She knows what she wants and will go for it 110%. She is little miss independent. She has no fear, and will try anything. She enjoys watching the things her older sister does and then will imitate. She is all smiles and full of energy. She loves to jump around and climb on anything and everything. McKel seems to have all of a sudden developed quite a vocabulary. We were worried for some time, because she didn't say much. Now, out of nowhere, all these words just keep popping out! Some of her current word faves are, "nose," and "eye." You have to watch out for the eye word, because she points right at your eye when she says it and usually will poke her little finger right in your eye.
McKel also loves to give kisses....especially wet, slobbery, ones. She often will plants one right on your mouth. It is just so sweet it will melt your heart. The other night she also started walking up to everyone and hugging their leg, then planting a kiss right on their leg. She would walk up to each person, give a nice shin-hug, followed by a leg-kiss! She's one in a million. She is such a blessing... love this girl more than I can say.
Right before bath time. I shot some McKel shots cuz her hair was just too stinkin cute. Love her curls
Avril- This little sweetheart is learning in leaps and bounds. I am astounded at how intelligent she is. She has a memory like a sponge, she just soaks up every little thing. She loves to talk. She will talk and talk and talk, saying the most hilarious things you've ever heard, "kay?" Avril lately throws that at the end of every sentence. I tried to make a mental note to document some of the funny things but I waited too long to post this, but I'll try to remember a couple.
So we were out playing on the driveway at Nana and Papa's and there was an ant walking along the pavement. McKel shouts and points, "ant!" Then along comes Avril and quickly stomps on the ant. Then she proudly states, "I shooted it!" Papa asks, "you shooted it? With what?" Then Avril says, "with my shoe! I shoeded it! Like this!"... and stomps on the ant again. Hahaha. Too funny. We all got a good laugh out of that.
Another funny Avril story is that in the middle of the night, she woke up and said, "Rawr!" (in a quite growl). Then she whispered, "I'm a quiet tiger." Another hilarious Avril moment. :) Love Love Love my sweet Avril girl.
And here she is, my lil sweetheart:
During this photo session Avril grinned and said, "I'm a model!"
The other night Nana pulled out a couple frog costumes she had found for the girls. We put them on them just for fun, and then watched as they ribbited and hopped around like little froggies. It was another good time with my lil bundles of joy!
Ribbit Ribbit!
My tadpoles
Just playing before bed
And here are the girls in their matching outfits, all ready for a fun day!
And it doesn't get any better than a day at the park with all the girls, playing on the tire swing!:
I've been meaning to play some blog catch-up, and post about our exciting news for some time... but just had to make sure it was really for "reals" first. This coming Thursday, May 3rd, is when I am scheduled to close on a home for the girls and I. Woo Hoo!!!
I wish I had some pics to post of our new house, but those will be coming soon, do not fret. I needed a place that was close to family, for child-care purposes. Single mommihood kinda requires lots of help, that's a given. So... I bought a house on the same street as my brothers' home! We already met a few of the neighbors, and even started planting some peas in the garden behind the house. The owners let us come play, which is oober nice of them.
There is a little playhouse and swingset that the girls are totally stoked about. Here are a couple pics of Avril peeping out the playhouse window:
Sup, playhouse peeps?
Can I interest you in some home grown rocks? They rock.
And here are the girls jumping on the tramp in the backyard of our new home. Sadly, the tramp doesn't come with the house...
So there you have it, the Yarger girls are packin up and movin on in to a new neighborhood! Yay! Very excited!!
And here are some other miscellaneous pics/videos that will overwhelm you with their adorableness factor...
Listen to Avril say her full name. You will laugh, promise :)
And all dressed in Sunday's best, here are the two most adorable girls I have ever seen:
Just can't get enough of these sweetheart girls...
