A Momma's Heart

AHHH....My Momma's heart feels full today.

I have been reflecting about being a momma a lot this weekend. I made the comment to my husband the other day about I seem to be more connected with my son lately than my daughter. I thought maybe it was because my son is a little more attention craved and demanding at this age than my sweet girl and she tends to take care of herself these days. Maybe it's because I'm trying to hold on to the last little bit of infant hood with my son since I don't think I'll be experiencing it again as a mother. Either way, I felt like the princess and I needed some 'girl's time'.

We decided on a family day Saturday with some break out 'girl's time' and 'boys time' - we took the kids to the mall and hung out for awhile, went our separate ways for shopping and leisure, and met again for lunch as a family. It turned out to be a pretty monumental day, starting off with Faith getting her FIRST HAIRCUT EVER!!!

Can you believe how long it got?!? I've been wanting to get it cut for awhile now...she always wants to wear it down but it was too fine and stringy, so it never looked decent. I finally caved and took her to carnival cuts. They actually did a great job, and she got a certificate for her first haircut, and I got her first locket of hair for her baby book.

Faith was very quite and shy through the whole thing, but she did a great job, and sat VERY still.

She was a bit nervous I think....but I nearly teared up when they gave me the first locket and I saw how long it was!

Faith - still not sure what to think.

There's my happy girl - we let her pick out a bow to take with her so she could wear it with her new haircut!

Bye bye hair!

Cutie pie, all dolled up - getting ready to get her nails painted!

First ever haircut + girl's day pedicures + lunch with our favorite boys = a pretty great day!

Faith loves her new haircut! She's been staring at herself in the mirror all weekend! She loves that she gets to wear it down now. I think it suits her pretty well. And I have a wonderful day bonding with my sweet girl.

In other sappy news, my son traced his entire alphabet at preschool on Thursday, and when he brought it over to show me, I totally teared up in the middle of class, beaming with pride because he had concentrated SO hard on it and did a fantastic job. Each time he finished tracing a letter, he stopped to put his hands in the air and said 'YES.' And he's only 2!!!

I am one blessed (and very proud) Momma.

Girls just wanna have fun!

Yesterday afternoon, the hubs and my little dude took off for a 5 day trip to Canada....leaving Faith and I behind. While I am very sad to have my boys gone for a such a long time (it's the longest I've ever been away from my son), I am glad that Faith stayed behind to keep me company. All week she kept saying "Don't worry Mommy, I'm gonna stay with you. We can have some girls time."

And that we will. I actually have enough to do to keep me insanely busy this weekend, between work/school/home projects/etc I wanted to make sure I carved out some time with my princess. Today, we have our 3rd official 'Girl's Day' - which consisted of shopping, lunch, getting our nails done, and a movie. We saw "Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs" which was super cute. I love spending time with just her, building a close relationship with her, starting a tradition I hope will carry into her adulthood.

On the pony ride - she said 'I'm big enough to sit on a pony now - I won't cry anymore!' LOL

Getting her toes prepped and painted....

Getting her nails painted....

Trying to show me her fingernails. She chose purple nail polish and they put little flowers on each one. Cutie pie!

Tomorrow, the little lady and I are going to do a couple projects around the house tomorrow and head out to Brighton to see grandma! =] Until then, I've got lots to do before bed...

Girl's Day Out

When I was younger and got a good report card, my mom would reward me by letting me skip a day of school and taking me out for the day. It would usually involve lunch, shopping, and a movie. I absolutely loved it and it was something I wanted to do with Faith. Not necessarily for a good grade, just to make it a regular thing for us to have girls time. It's hard to work out because I have to find someone to watch Caleb cause he's still too young to enjoy a movie, etc.

A few months ago, Faith and I had our first 'Girls Day' (I love the way Faith calls it that). We went to the mall, had lunch together, got our nails done, and saw 'Kung Fu Panda'. Last week, we had our second girls day. Faith and I went shopping at Old Navy, I let Faith pick out a toy at KY Toys (she picked a My Little Pony Treehouse), went to lunch at Johnny Rockets, got our nails done, and saw 'High School Musical 3'. Faith got her nails painted orange for Halloween and they put little spider webs on her toes and pumpkins on her fingers! And I was nervous about taking her to see HSM3 cause it's for older kids, but there wasn't another movie I could really take her to. We ended up being the only two in the theatre, and she stood up and danced the whole movie!! It was super cute. We had a really fun day.  My camera didn't have batteries, so I only got a couple pictures with my cell phone:

Faith's festive 'Haloween' toes!

Enjoying a milkshake @ Johnny Rockets!

I had so much fun with my little princess. It's nice to have some one-on-one with her...I can't believe how quickly she is growing up! I really treasures these moments with her. I hope the tradition will continue.