Story by Sydney

Sydney made this story up and illustrated it all by herself the other day. The story says (in case you can't hear it) Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Sydney. She did not like cleaning up. Mommy called her "hey honey" "what?" "let's go to the playground." At the playground, a bumblebee landed on my nose. "Mommy!" The end.

A brand new smile

Yes! It finally happened! Briana lost her front tooth! It has been hanging on for several days, grossing us all out. Briana really wanted it to fall out at school because she would have gotten a treasure box to put it in, along with two toothy word search worksheets and all of the praise. But, she was playing with it before school today, and out it came! She was very very excited (until she tasted the blood, but that didn't last long, luckily). She couldn't wait to get to school to show it off to Josie and Mrs. Bahe. Yeah, Briana!!

Snuggle Up With A Good Book

Last night, we had the Harvey Oaks annual Snuggle up with a good book night. It was good! Last year, when Briana was in kindergarten, we went, and Briana was very nervous, shy, and she didn't even want to read any books with me. I remember her just wanting to go home as soon as we got there. But this year, she walked us into the library and got us our hot chocolate & cookies, picked out books to read, and sat proudly listening to the stories. What an improvement! Then we went to her classroom and she played around with her friends, and even ran off with Josie for the last 15 minutes or so. She was really enjoying her freedom! She showed us all of these books that she gets to read at school too. It was really fun! After that, we went to Best Buy and exchanged our camera. I really wanted to get a digital slr, but we ended up getting a canon that is a lot like the nikon that we returned (minus the shutter lag) so I am trying out the canon today seeing what I think.

Briana Lee

Since we got our new camera, I have been trying to take as many pictures as possible so I can get used to it. I took these pictures of Briana the other day, and I think they really capture her unique personality. I love her!!!

President's Day & Art Show

The girls were both out of school today for President's Day. We spent the morning playing around and I took a million pictures with our new camera. I got this one of Briana which I LOVE.



After lunch, we went swimming.



Then, we went out to dinner with Nana and Papa who were in Omaha for the girl's Art Show!! The art show was AWESOME!!! I know I'm their mom, but their artwork was truly outstanding. I am so so so proud of them!!








After we got home, we were playing around with the camera some more.

Briana actually took this picture. She picked out the pose and everything!


She may need to add photographer to her list of potential careers. She's good!




We had to set up the tripod for these last two shots, but Briana did push the button for the self timer.

New camera & back to the zoo

For Valentine's Day, Mike got me a new camera! We went and picked it out at Best Buy yesterday. It was a very long shopping trip for the girls, but I got my camera and am very happy.

We had to get the camera out in the car and try it out. Luckily, the battery was partially charged.

The bunny ear obsession.....will we ever take a picture without them?

After two hours, two Best Buy stores, a trip to Little King and a quick stop at Borders, we took the girls to the zoo to see the Kingdom of the Night (aka the alligators) and go to a 3D movie at the imax.

The girls and I outside the Desert Dome.

Mike and the girls inside the entrace of the desert.

See the alligator?

Briana and I with our 3D glasses on.

Valentine's Day

I'm too tired to write about everything that happened on Valentine's Day. Here's the pictures though.

Sydney making a mini book.

Briana making a mini book.

Our heart shaped pizza. I did that! Isn't it cute?

Valentine's dinner.

The girls getting ready to dig in. Aren't all the decorations awesome? I love Dollar Tree.

Snow day!

Sydney was supposed to have her Valentine's party at preschool today, but school was called off because of the snow. She was very, very dissapointed this morning. We put curlers in her hair last night, and she had her valentine's outfit all picked out for today.

After she found out school was cancelled, she went upstairs and changed her clothes and brushed all the curls out of her hair, that's how mad she was.

The girls did get to go out and play in the snow a few minutes ago. The news said it was good snowman weather, but I guess they didn't want to build one. All they wanted to do was eat the snow. Gross!

Briana trying to catch snowflakes on her tongue

Sydney eating snow off of her gloves.

They sat on the top of that slide and ate snow for 10 minutes. Fun!

The weather was super nice today, and we are supposed to get a foot of snow tomorrow, so we decided to go to the zoo! The girls were both out of school, and it was a very fun day. We spent $35 on snacks too! Woohoo!

The girls in front of the giant globe at the entrance to the zoo.

In the aquarium

Look at that turtle! It swam right up to Briana.

Then it swam right by Sydney

Those are lobsters. Aren't they nasty?

Outside of the aquarium

Portrait of a tribal person inside of the jungle

The girls in the jungle

Getting ready to go into the Africa part of the jungle

Sydney in the jungle

In the desert dome