The Hummingbird

Sarah and I were at our boot camp class on Monday and the crazy girl who dresses in black and has an extra spring in her shoes, turns out one of the guys in class calls her "the hummingbird". Yeah, so apparently Sarah and I aren't the only ones who think this girl needs an exercise chill pill. She was like a machine on Monday, I could barely stand to watch her and when I did, I just laughed. Then on Tuesday I went to Pilates and seriously, considering all of the squats we do, my butt and thighs should be as hard as steel. At the end of Pilates we always have a rest time for about three minutes. The instructor turns off the lights and turns on some sappy music like Celine Dion and we just lie there and let me tell you, it's always the best three minutes of my day. I don't know what it is, but those three minutes are amazing and I try to savor them with everything I've got because I could lie on that gym floor and listen to sappy music all day. Then we sit up, slowly of course, and fold our legs and bring our arms up and then slowly bring our arms back down in front of us and it's as if I'm pushing all of the bad or hard or exhausting part of my day out and leaving it there on that floor. It's the best. I love Tuesdays.

We spent yesterday at the park with Sarah, Maya and Charlotte. We always know when it's time to call it quits because the girls, meaning Maya and Isabella, start arguing and yelling at each other and then have multiple, rather dramatic, break downs. Until that point though, they are best friends. Oh, and Isabella insisted that I put six pony-tails in her hair.

Some pictures Sarah took while I rushed the girlies to the bathroom...

Later that night we decided to test the limit of Maya and Isabella's friendship even more and took them to the library playroom and then to get ice-cream...

Isabella and Maya marched into the ice-cream shop and before we knew it, they were ordering their own ice-cream. Now that's what I call being on the road to becoming strong, independent young women! That's what I like to see!

Maya's outfit enjoyed the ice-cream too.

On Monday, Isabella and I made blueberry-raspberry muffins and I had to take a picture of them because I never bake and was quite proud of how well they turned out. The berries were from my in-law's garden.

Do you like my awesome back splash? It's the latest trend...industrial-modern...I just made that up.

Today Stella went to the groomer, which was much needed. Unfortunately she layered my front seat in dog hair. She was quite excited about getting to go on a car ride and Isabella was quite excited for Stella to get bows in her hair. We had to ask the groomer to put bows in her hair because she didn't have them when we picked her up. A special surprise for today was that I got to see my friend Karen who moved to Michigan a few months ago. We met Karen and her sister Mary Ann and little Grace who is also three years old to play at the park. Unfortunately, we left with a bang after Isabella fell onto a picnic table bench and proceeded to throw up all over both of us. She's fine now, but it was quite scary. We rushed home to wash off the throw up and then rushed out to pick up Stella from the groomer.

Do you see my pretty red bow? Isabella picked it out for me.