Daddy multi-tasks while watcing M play on the swingset

Here is B watching vintage Lost in Space tv episodes on the laptop while watching M play on her swingset/play area.

Pretty bad when M knows who Dr. Smith is... The special effects on this show are hilariously bad!

Birthday Party at the horse farm

We had a large horse farm next to our house, growing up. They gave riding lessons, but they never had birthday parties like this!

More photos of Dancing Girl in full costume

Food shopping in style

Ok, so I am late as usual in posting this for the 'Challenge'. It's probably not even Friday somewhere anymore...

Food shopping with Mary is much more challenging now! If the kid sized shopping cart or the car cart is unavailable, we have had a couple of mini crying tantrums (and that was just me : ).

But sometimes we get through it without attracting negative attention!

Then I saw that the Salsa twins were also caught food shopping, in very spectacular style.

*Any shopping trip has become a tantrum waiting to happen, lately, here at our 3.5 year old franchise of "Meltdowns r Us" ! : ) Got through this one unscathed, happily!

Fashion Challenge Friday (a creation of the Salsa Twins' Mommy)!

This outfit happened when I told M. she had to add more layers in order to go play on the swingset. Previously, she just had on the red striped sundress.

see link below for the before photos:

http://princesstrainer.blogspot.com/2009/04/few-more-entertaining-photos.html

a few more entertaining photos

for some reason, the 4 other photos i added didnt show up in prev post.

assorted tableaux and vignettes

Highlights from the past few days, or as glen beck's tag line says, the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment

Wacky Wednesday Poses

It took a lot of bargaining, deal making and 'if/then' statements to get Mary to pose for these 3 photos.

I had some bargaining chips, and I was not afraid to use them. One was ice cream. M*aggie Moos was supposed to be offering a free scoop of ice cream to customers, as part of a tax day promotion.

The local franchise's manager said, when we walked in, that corporate was offering that, not them. So I said someting about deceptive practices and stated that we were going to Coldstone.

Once we got to Coldstone, there were 3 other groups of customers that had walked out of Maggie M*oos to buy from Coldstone. They were told that the promo ran only until 1 p.m , and it was 1:02 p.m when the woman finally came out of the back room and told them this. She didnt mention anything about a time constraint to me.

Anyway, we had our ice cream, did a bit of food shopping and went home to get changed for M's dance class.

Easter weekend fun

Click the title to view the slideshow. There are 50 + photos. Ok, so I am not a minimalist when it comes to editing the photos!

Last 20 or so are improv home studio shots...

E. Bunny revisited

Friday fashion fotos and fotos with the Ether Bunny

Mary and the "Ether" Bunny (as my fav anesthesiologist and brother calls him when speaking to his younger patients). Bad dr. jokes, hee hee.

At a local restaurant, the bunny suited dude was there, and they had a craft table where kids could make Easter themed bookmarks or decorate Easter baskets.

After running up to the bunny many times, Mary declared, "he's not a real bunny, he goes back and takes off his head", (gestured to indicate this). Ha, well that didnt take long. Maybe it was because she heard him talking to another customer, whom he seemed to know. Also, she noticed said bunny was wearing sneakers... i said it was becasue he was a 'city' bunny.The big center seam and obvious zipper up the back of costume was , I am sure, noticed. But she had a good time, fake bunny and all!

Friday crazy fashion stuff

The third dress, a few more parting shots...

Trying on possible Easter Sunday dresses, with a difficult model

We managed to try on 3 dresses, somehow, amidst silly, mini pout, passive aggressive and borderline tantrum modes...