From the "You'd Only Understand if You've Had A Two Year Old" File

Jenna changed her shirt today from a white one to a pink/dark pink (or as she calls it, pinkt) one because she noticed that I had striped underwear on.
Clearly, the white shirt had to go.

She also stood outside the shower and wailed, "Get out! Get out!" during my entire shower this morning while pulling back the curtain.
Why?
Because she's two and the five minute seperation is too much for her to bear.

"Don't call it a date..."

This Saturday night was Michaela's Scout and Sweetie Dance, held at a local country club, for area Girl Scouts and their "sweetie"- either dad, uncle, grandfather, etc. Dan and Michaela got all dolled up and looked fantastic!

Several girls from her troop also attended and they all sat at the same table. The food was extremely kid-friendly and they had a DJ, a professional photographer (the same photographer who did our wedding) and a great time was had by all. Michaela's soccer coach, Coach Tim, was there with his daughter and he even busted out the tux for the event. They were there for three hours and the DJ played great music and had lots of contests and activities for them to do. Michaela came home very happy with a goodie bag and a pink long stemmed rose. The whole thing was adorable and they both had a great time.

Michaela, Grace, Camille and Erin dancing it up at the party

Michaela, who is just starting to understand the whole boy/girl, boyfriends/ love/romance gig, was totally grossed out /embarrassed by Dan calling the evening a "date" and kept saying to him, "Don't call it a date!!" and then giggling wildly.

Jenna and I hung out together while they were gone. We made a fun evening out of it and went swimming at the Y, or the YMCH as Jenna calls it, and then McDonald's for a little dinner. A fun night.

Michaela and Jenna before the dance...

Jenna is very proud of her swimsuit and her Dippies (flip flops)

A cruel wake-up

Happy Spring.

Jenna wanted to get into the action so we bundled her up

and she played "outdide" as Michaela waited for the bus.

Michaela didn't even get a delay. Totally gypped!

The silver lining: It is supposed to get into the 50's by the end of next week.

(No comments, please, from those of you who have been basking in sunshine

and 60 degree weather for weeks already.)

I'm done with the Lion part of March... and ready for the Lamb.

Bad blogger!

I've been a bad, neglectful blogger as of late... too much Easter and chocolate. I have lots of cute pics from Easter that I promise to post soon.
Hang on few more days and I promise to be back...

Weekend Fun

The Lady of Honor!!

The Libutti Family flew out to Michigan this weekend to attend Baby Kate's baptism. Such fun! We had a great time, even though Mommy was a little nervous about how the whole flight/shuttle/drive was going to go both getting there and returning.




Chillin' on the plane ride out



Turned out I had nothing to worry about... we had smooth sailing both times, though Jenna did throw a Mother of All Tantrums at the Detroit Metro Airport Security Gate, which was seen and enjoyed by all. (The crowning moment was when Jenna, in her stocking feet because she refused to put her shoes back on, got off one of the moving walkways in the terminal, turned around, stuck out her little pointer finger and screamed at the walkway, "You're STUPID!!!" It was lovely. And once again I look at her and think, how can my sweet, shy little Jenna get so incredibly angry?? You should have seen the looks on the faces of the other passengers as we approached the gate to board- I was carrying a screaming crying Jenna parallel to the the floor, face down, with her legs kicking. But she was fine once we got seated on the plane and had no other problems.)



The baptism was beautiful, of course and I'm going to let Brian and Beth post all the good pictures from the ceremony and of their beautiful little girl. Brian baptized her and it was all very moving. Add on to that it was Palm Sunday, one of my favorite church services of the year, and it was a hankies-all-around kind of moment. Brian led all the children of the congregation through the sanctuary waving palms and Jenna, Michaela and Cousin Katie joined right in!







Jenna, Michaela, and Cousin Katie

(my cousin Eric's daughter, not to be confused with Cousin Kate)

Jenna peeking through the palms

It was so nice to see Brian's church- big and open and a beautiful space- and hear the Senior Pastor preach. After the service we went back to Brian and Beth's house for a day-long party that was really fun and relaxing and great family time together.

Beth thought it would be fun to color Easter Eggs while we were there and that was lots of fun.

In the Bundalo Family tradition, each kid gets a dozen eggs to color.

Uncle Brian worked the Spin An Egg machine, which we all experimented with.

The award-winning eggs

The girls did a bang-up job of making different designs and Beth even made them little award ribbons for the Most Beautiful, Most Creative, and Most Artistic. Amazingly, it turned out that each girl got one of the ribbons. I love it when things work out that way!

They even each got Easter baskets, which were hidden and then found using the Davies Traditional Hot/Cold Method. Here's Michaela helping Jenna find hers.

The next day we visited for a while at the house (which, by the way, pictures don't do justice... it was big and homey and I instantly felt comfortable there. That house has some of the best Karma I've ever felt in a house.) and then Brian took us for a guided tour of the whole church/ school/ church offices complex across the street. There's nothing liker seeing with your own eyes what you've been imagining for two years!

We really had such a great time, I left wanting to immediately go back... so Dan and I started talking already about when our next trip out there will be... maybe in the fall.

Rock on, Detroit!!

Thanks to Brian and Beth for making our trip such a success and being perfect hosts.

We so appreciate all you did to make us and the girls feel comfortable and welcome...

they will be talking about our trip for months!