Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day for all of you! We love our mothers and are grateful for all they do for our little family! We had a pretty good day today, although we desperately miss Logan, and are super excited we're going to be seeing him on Saturday. My special little girl had a hard time understanding today was a special day. We made flower pictures for her grandmas where her hand print is the flower, which she colored and put stickers all over. She was very excited about those but thought it was just fun to color for her grandmas. She even, with my help, made one for me in nursery today (which is going much better since we split it up and have the bigger kids separate from the littler ones. Elise is doing loads better, Sunday runs smoother, and I'm a bit more sane after church is over.)

Anyways, we ended up doing the large project Friday and Saturday (we'll post pictures soon) of brownie hearts dipped in chocolate and drizzled with chocolate to give all the mothers at church. This was a bit stressful, and made me want a day off. Elise felt like we should play a lot today, which we did, but I was feeling a bit tired, and sore throat-ish. My girl stepped up to the plate. She did a couple really cute things that made me even more glad she is my little girl. She was hugging me this evening, and I asked her if I was her friend. She put her little hands on the sides of my face, gave me a kiss, and said, "Best friend!" with a big smile. Talk about making your heart melt! I love that she loves to hang out, read stories, watch a movie and have popcorn, or just giggle and dance together.

The other really, incredibly cute thing she did today really should have a picture, but I didn't get one yet. I'll try to remedy that situation soon, however here is the story. We watched Cinderella Saturday night. She loves this movie. She pretends she is the fairy making the pumpkin into a car, and then she is 'Sillerella' wearing a dress and dancing with the prince (which is usually me, or sometimes Uncle Trevor). She wears her socks on her hands all the time because Cinderella has gloves. It is getting pretty intense. We found a pattern for a Cinderella dress, and I've been toying with the idea of making one for her. Today, we were getting dressed for church. She hasn't wanted to wear anything but her Easter dress for a month, but this morning I thought I'd pull out the dress my older sister made for her to match the ones her cousins had for my little sister's wedding 2 years ago (it was the blue one we took pictures of her wearing on Valentine's Day). It was a bit big when she last tried it on, but I thought we'd try it today. I pulled it out, and Elise got very excited and started saying, "Sillerella dress! Sillerella dress!!!" She put it on, and danced around. In the movie, when Cinderella dances with the prince, she holds his hand with one of hers, but holds her skirt out with the other. Elise walked like that all day today. She had a hard time not dancing through church but she contented herself with holding my hand and holding her skirt out with the other. When we got in the car to come home, she pulled off her shoes and socks, and put her socks on her hands like gloves. She would not let me take her dress off for lunch, and told her grandparents all about her beautiful Cinderella dress. Thank you so much to my little sister for choosing this color as one of her wedding colors, and to me older sister who made this fabulous dress! Little did I know it would save me from making a Cinderella costume, but now I can see how perfect it fits this need, and how much my little princess loves it! We'll probably be wearing it a lot, so I'll try to post pictures of it soon. I love our little girl, and especially feel blessed to be "best friends!"