Is it really April 18th???

I know the calendar says it is April 18th and that we need April showers to bring May flowers, but who said they need to be snow showers???  As I sit here typing this, the snow is falling outside.  It first started falling as little round balls, like Dippin' Dots ice cream.  Now it looks a little more wet.  It is supposed to be cold and rainy/snowy all weekend!  But the weather people say that the 8-14 day forecast looks warm and dry-- I hope they are right!  I had thought about planting flowers last weekend when it was close to 80 around here, but I am glad I didn't.


UPDATE:  I started composing this entry around 12p this afternoon.  It started snowing harder around 5p and we even had a large lightning strike and clap of thunder. It is now about 8p and you can see the difference in the weather!  Pretty crazy!






Enough about the crazy weather... Jenna's stitches were taken out yesterday.  If you missed this story, scroll down to my last post.  Once again, she was a brave little girl.  Dr. Spiro showed her the dull scissors and tweezers he was going to use and explained to her how he was going to cut each stitch.  She laid on the table and held my hand.  Dr. Spiro started cutting and said "1 is done" and then Jenna said, "Mommy, I don't need your hand".  Once she realized there was nothing to it, she counted along until the 4th one was finished.  She now has a steri strip covering the area until Saturday afternoon and then we just need to keep applying antibiotic ointment until it is fully closed.  Doesn't she look like a happy girl???
Jenna has graduated to a 2 wheeled  scooter and is doing really well.  And Miranda loves Jenna's old 3-wheeled scooter.  Even though she is a girl, Miranda loves cars and trucks.  She saw this big dump truck while we were in Target one day and she fell in love with it.  I told her we could buy it and she ended up pushing it around Target while we finished our shopping and she used it as her own little cart.  It was really cute!

Jenna started swimming lessons twice a week.  There was only supposed to be 2 in the class, but we haven't seen the other child so Jenna has had private lessons.  She missed class this week because of her stiches, but hopefully we can go next week.

About 2 weeks ago, we converted Miranda's toddler bed to a full size bed.  We had fun picking out new bedding and a mattress.  Can you tell she likes it a lot????

Miranda has been taking gymnastics once a week and she loves it!  She is pretty flexible and strong.  She loves to tumble and to hang on the bar and pick up her legs straight out in front of her and then put her toes on the bar.  She has great balance too!