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Guess it is best to start with a few quick updates...
Someone turned 3 and had a Chuck E Cheese Party!

It WAS a great experience and I loved every moment. Then a few weeks later we return for an afternoon of fun and my poor baby got trampled in a flash mob in the most ridicules scene ever. I complained to corporate not even looking for anything more than an apology and did not even get that. Truth be told I just wanted someone to ask if she was ok since she left with a foot print on her face. I know now why so many parents before - swear off the Cheese Man. I now am also ANTI-CEC! Don't go to the one in SKOKIE - Amber's official public warning.

Dad went to Colorado and all we got were these silly shirts!

Noodles make a girl sleepy!

Painting faces at the zoo!

Cars also make a girl sleepy!

 Somebody got some roller skates!

I started selling Usborne Books visit my web store www.myubam.com/S3401 !

We made kid roll ups...Yum!

We also had an awesome Easter!

More zoo action!

Dad bought the girls new duds! To bad they are not dudes!

 She has a little inner fashionista!

Ball in the house...Brilliant!

And a playdate!

Ok I am ready to go? But where???

A little library time. I think I may have even managed 7 minutes of studying due to that train! Score!

ZOO!

Nessa's 1st time at any beach!

Both girls' 1st time on Lake Michigan...It was a good day!

Cinco De Mayo!

Maise's 1st Dance Show Bathing Beauties! She did amazing!!!

Bo Rick Springfield got an upgraded space!

We have been at the park almost everyday! With sunscreen!

Got to go pool side in Salem.

Other than that we are just trying to start Maise on a regular school routine for the fall. I know it is early but why stress and rush at the end. We are doing pretty well. Gymnastics is over for Maise at the park and we have decided to go back to the YMCA. The girls will continue swim, Nessa will start gymnastics and Maise will start Karate...Lord help us all. Maybe they have preschool yoga instead. Hope you all enjoyed the update. I miss my blog...one day it will get back up to what it should be...plus some updated decor. But 2 kids - nice weather - and about 14 more weeks of grad school...it's gonna have to wait!

Have a great week or possibly month or shall I say see ya when I see ya!

What have we been up to you ask?

We experienced our 1st school lotto. We had lucky # 7 and actually got the location and schedule we wanted. Woo Hoo! It was a mind-blowing experience. Not only was I registering my 1st born (yeah I know dramatic) for school for the 1st time. I was also competing for a spot. Very Waiting For Superman! Well not that hard but still. I had to get a number a week ahead of time and gather the proper paperwork and physical and return a week later to have numbers drawn. You registered in the order you were called. It was more really for time slot but was a bit nerve racking as I sat not having my number called. But alas it was called and my park and time were still available. I also registered the girls for a music class and Maise for gymnastics in hope of maybe meeting some of her classmates early.

We have been doing a lot of arts and crafts. We have lots of purple paint to get through. Joe argues that the following picture on the right is not a foot but I swear it is. Right after that foot print went haywire I got a print of the same foot on my favorite pair of jeans. I do believe that was the 1st Pinerest injury ever!

And some more Pinterest fun...

Nessa is really good at coloring.
She is getting in to it way faster than Maise did.
Maybe we have an artist on our hands!

Below the girls create butterflies...

This one we call the Mrs. Lippy!
Stolen from Billy Madison and not Pinterest.
Thank you MRS. LIPPY!

Cleaning out the storage!
Look what we found!
Some of mommy's old toys.
My Precious!

This is a Target activity.
From the dollar section; they are paint an animal pots with grass seeds.
We will revisit when we see green.
So far Maise's looks pretty good but mine not so much...Still waiting on my 1st sprouts.

Oh and I got a tattoo!

And of course we have been hitting the gym.
Got to look good for summer.
DISCLAIMER: No children were hurt in the taking of this photo.
Machine was unplugged and the room was full of adults. 1:1 ratio!

Ok now your caught up...see ya after Maise's Party!

November Snapshots

November brought on the cold but that didn't stop us from hitting the park!

Gobble Gobble from the Parylak's!

Check out our painted turkeys...Joe even got his hands dirty on this one!

Two Little Turkeys!

Modeling from head to toe...check out that point!

A Thanksgiving Miricle, Nessa is no longer afraid of BooBoo!

Some families have kid tables. We make 'em eat off the floor...totally kidding!

The first cousins hotel party...they are only gonna get more wild!

Have a great week!

Trying out a new park with daddy

These are some pictures Joe took on a daddy and daughter trip to the park last week!

Good times!