Better than normal week

Our family accomplishments this week:

Lacy has 262 AR points, these are points she earns for reading books & taking comprehension tests on them. Her goal was 69 sooooo I think its accurate to say she went above & beyond. We've tried to encourage the girls with "Newton girls go above & beyond"...guess she was listening!! Lacy has amazing reading skills, not unusual for her to read books at a middle school level. 

Lacy was named "Student of the Month" for her grade, might be due to her "above & beyond" achievements. 

Lily scored her first points during her basketball game (yay!), had a great steal and is really rocking her defense. Pretty sure she doesn't even let the girl she's guarding breathe too hard....

Some funnies this week:

Harper announced at breakfast "I'm going to be a magician when I grow up. It's super easy, all I need to learn is how to work that hat"

Harper doing her Valentines which are caterpillars made out of hearts correcting Haley by telling her, "No Haley, those are antennicals"

We had rented a redbox movie on our snow day & it was nowhere to be found. I told the girls they were going on a movie hunt after school. Lily said, "Why don't you give whoever finds it .50 cents?" I said that's a great idea. Five minutes later Lily says, "I think I might know where it is" runs upstairs and magically the movie was in her purse. She still asked for the money, I declined. 

Harper & Haley talking about how God is their friend,etc. which was music to this moms ears and then I heard Harper say, "God is my best friend because he doesn't argue with me"

Harper after her playdate this morning, "I had a good time but not the best time because she didn't always do what I want"

Pictures from our week:

Because apparently when I say, "No doing glitter on the carpet"  it can mean  "Dump a whole giant container of glitter on the floor" My favorite part of this mess is that I walked in and saw it, pretty much shrugged my shoulders & grabbed the vacuum. This shows my growth as a mother over the past 10 years...messes just don't matter most of the time.

Harper kept finding all these icicles before school on Friday so of course they're now sitting in freezer, I'm not sure why but I like to pick my battles & icicles in the freezer just isn't one.

My sweet grocery shopping, errand running, house cleaning, laundry & everything else buddy. Can't even think about my empty house in the fall without tearing up. Like right now, moving on....

100 days of school celebration shirt, Harper picked out 100 feathers for her shirt and I made the bird which suits her personality perfectly!