Big Week for just 3 Days...

Wow. What a big week for just 3 days. How did we get so much in? How did I miss getting so much more in? I'm such a Bad Day Care Momma sometimes - we haven't even colored this week! Well, maybe we didn't color - but we sure had lots of fun.

This week we welcomed a yet-to-be-blog-named Little Dumpling (okay, maybe that will be her name) into our group. Look at this beauty, will you? Don't you just want to kiss her up? I know I wanted too - and I did too.

So how does this work, do you think this Little Dumpling, The Princess, and Baby Cakes will be fast friends forever? Here are some representations of the babies by Girl3 who just loves to steal pages from my notebook, climb into a corner, and create...

The Princess dropped in on Wednesday for a little photo shoot with her new BFFs - they were a little too busy to pose very long - especially Baby Cakes (confined to the saucer for the picture) who has now unofficially been released into General Population with her newly acquired skill in the military crawl. We will have lots of opportunities for more pictures at the end of summer, but here is a shot of my "Gaggle of Baby Girls" from yesterday...

And by the end of the day yesterday, overwhelmed with meeting her new buddies and worn slick by her awesome mobility skills, Baby Cakes returned to a womb, taking my Wednesday Hump Day Chocolate with her. I'm probably going to feel like this too - the first couple of weeks I'm watching the 3 of them together!

And we broke in our new floors, although not fully "cured" we worked around that with basic equipment that day care requires and followed everyone around with a towel to take care of my 7th Day Care Charge - the NEW CORK FLOORS. Do they like them? Yes. Do I like them? I will like them more when I am able to really clean them on Sunday and we can get out our Hot Wheels and other "more scratchy stuff" next week.

Before (right) After (left)

Pretty Floors for a Pretty Baby Cakes

Cork Burls and Boy Curls (Smiley)

And this week held The Last Day of Kindergarten for Girl4. Here's a shot from the first day, and then again (right) of the last day. She is now a First Grader, Mrs. IDKHSDI officially released her to her new title. She will be hanging out with us for a couple of weeks until Summer Camp starts in the middle of June.

(Going in a preschooler...)

(...coming out a 1st Grader.)

And what about that NEW 42 INCH PLASMA TV? The unexpected additional expense (along with those pesky termites) from getting new floors. Do the kids like it too? Well, of course they do. They do however, feel that the increase in viewing size should have come with an increase of TV Time - which is very limited around here during day care hours. Sorry guys, we just can't watch TV all day - we got stuff to do! On the left below are the two that appreciate the new TV - The Prince (couch) and Little (squatting with Diego).

The two pictured on the right, Sweetie Pie & Smiley, really aren't too impressed. Our 15-30 minute window of viewing time (if we aren't dancing to a CD instead) is usually spent for her on a morning nap. Today she insisted she did not want a nap and did not want me to remove her glasses - but predictably she crashed (and no, I did not "pose" her in the picture). I should have waited another 5 minutes to take the picture, by then Smiley had buried her with some "gifts" of books and dolls. Smiley usually uses viewing time to have a chance to play alone with whatever special toy we have out that day - but today I guess the opportunity to decorate Sweetie Pie was just too tempting. ;O)

And in the category of "Will They Eat It?" this month's winner is Asian Crunch Salad from today. The lettuce is finely chopped Romaine, the ingredients are shown. Extra on the crunch stuff - heck, just leave out the lettuce.