5K Fun

We went to the annual 5K and Kids race at m work a few weeks ago. Last year Jr. Princess won the 4 and under race, and was super upset that she had to run with the 5-8 year olds this year and probably wouldn't win. It took a while to explain to her that this event wasn't about winning. If running was about winning, than Mom would never run :). So, we set her goal at trying to beat some older looking kids.

If you look closely, here they are lined up at the start line. The tall girl (bent over) between them kept trying to budge in front of them.

But here's Jr. Princess streaking past the (much older) budger...


And Starshine finished as the 2nd fastest girl. Who knew we had such fast genes in the family. They certainly aren't coming from me!

Here we are relaxing after all the hard work.

After all the super jumping, free snacks, healthy races, and good times, Jr. Princess found her true favorite part of the event. As we were leaving, a colleague of mine was cleaning up the food table. "Hey Pink Mom, do you guys want a case of Gogurt?" Yes we do! She carried this whole case to the car with an enormous smile on her face. Ah, the simple joys in life :)

Ninja Warrior

Lately, the girls favorite show has been Ninja Warrior. So, this weekend, M&M Dad promised he would set up a course for them. It was the perfect activity for this rainy day.

Balancing on the ledge...

Leaping to the bed...

Walking across paint cans...

Vaulting over the chair...

And lots more. It was an awesome good time.

After they were done, Starshine secretly came up and grabbed the video camera. She decided to make her own ninja warrior course. It was so cute, I helped her edit it down for you guys...

Easter

Starshine decreed that I was not allowed to blog about Easter. So, please skip over to her blog to read all about our fun day.

Another 5 year old statement

Jr. Princess learned about facts and opinions at school, so for fun at dinner last night we took turns coming up with statements and she had to decide: fact or opinion. Who knew it would make me laugh so hard, I almost cried. It went something like this:

Dad - "St. Paul is the capital of Minnesota"
Jr. Princess - "Fact!"

Starshine - "Pink is a pretty color"
Jr. Princess - "Opinion!"

blah, blah, blah through several rounds, and then

Mom (trying to be tricky) - "Jr. Princess can be sassy sometimes" (thinking she would either give me a look, or say "opinion", but instead...)
Jr. Princess - "Oh, that's a fact!"

OMG I laughed so hard :).

5 year old statements

It's the little things Jr. Princess says and does everyday that makes me smile.

For homework, she had to write two sentences using her sight words "as" and "not". She sat right down with her pencil and wrote:

"as you no you are not to do that"

and

"You are not spostoo do that"

:)

Nature Walk

This is Mom talking - Jr. Princess saw Starshine writing a blog post today and decided she wanted her very own blog post. So, this afternoon when she went out with M&M Dad to do her "using resources wisely" project for Girl Scouts, they took pictures so she could dictate the following to me: This is Jr. Princess talking- Dad and I went to pick up garbage and we saw a swamp.

I found a bottle.

It was cool to be by a swamp. And I loved looking at the swamp.

The swamp looks really cool when you look up close.

I took a picture of a swamp. Swamps are yucky!

Sigh.....

I can't believe it snowed last night.... sigh....

Starshine has been working on her literary terms all year in her English class, so I took this picture or her. It's a metaphor for how I feel about today's snow. My one poor daffodil is sad about it, too.

Jr. Princess - bike superstar

It was a fabulous Spring day today, so we all wanted to be outside after dinner. Starshine nicely rode her bike with me on my run to keep me company (I'm trying really hard to get ready for the 5k in a few weeks).

Jr. Princess stayed with M&M Dad and decided to practice her bike without training wheels. She's been thinking about this for awhile, but hasn't really tried very hard. So, Starshine and I were quite surprised to come back to see Jr. Bike Rider!

She's so excited about joining the big kid club. I can't wait for our first big family bike outing!

Art Star #2

Jr. Princess was readying her backpack for school Sunday night and showed us an envelope from her teacher indicated she was selected as a Kindergarten winner of the school carnival coloring contest! Well, it's official, both kids are officially better artists than M&M Dad and me. (You may recall that Starshine won a birdhouse decorating contest a few years ago). And yes, I realize the bar was quite low :).

Here is her sheet hanging on the school wall...

She won 40 tickets to the school carnival Unfortunately, the carnival was Friday night! We're hoping we can use them next year. Great job Jr. Princess!

Spring Gardening

Yesterday, M&M Dad took the girls to Home Depot to pick up some supplies and take advantage of the Saturday kids craft. They made very cute planter boxes. Starshine really wanted to have some flowers to go in her box, and since M&M Dad didn't remember all of the stuff he was supposed to get :), we went back to HD today to get seeds and the rest of our list...

The first step in any good container gardening project is definitely DECORATING!

We then planted mint, basil and rosemary (and a strawberry plant she got as a birthday party favor). So we are all crossing our fingers that we will have some delicious dinners in our future. At least this helped us think it was spring-like today.