WELCOME SPRING BREAK!!

Today, the 2nd day of spring, we began our spring break!  No school for me meant we could head to the big city of Indianapolis and have some fun!!!  First on our agenda was to take Myla for her FIRST EVER hair cut!!  We love Cookie Cutters so that was our destination.
Myla did a GREAT job!  She walked right in and picked a car to sit in.  She didn't really want to wear the cape, but when mommy explained it was so her shirt wouldn't get dirty she decided to leave it on.  (We all know how Myla does NOT like to be dirty.)  Myla looked down when she was supposed to and she laughed when the beautician sprayed her hair with water.  They only took off a little bit of a couple of inches of hair and then put her hair in a "princess braid" so she could play.  We were so proud of her.  She asked mommy, "How does my hair look?"  She asked that several times during the day!
After Cookie Cutters we headed to Monkey Joe's for some bounce time!!  We spent about 3 hours in motion!  I went down lots of slides and bounced my way through all the bounce houses.  Myla was a different story.  She decided that she really didn't want anything to do with the bounce houses.  However, she LOVED just running around on the carpet the entire time!  She also enjoyed trying to shoot daddy with the cannon on the pirate ship!  We had a wonderful time!
Mommy thought maybe we needed some cupcakes before heading back to Muncie, so we stopped by GiGi's for a delicious treat!  This was Myla's first time there and she sure did love the icing!  We both picked the Vegas Wedding cupcakes because they had LOTS of sprinkles!!
We also stopped by Uncle Patrick's work since we were right down the street.  We took him a coke and just talked for a minute.  We'd never been to his work building before.
Me and Myla slept on the way home.  We were exhausted from such a fun afternoon!!  We were home before we knew it and found out that there was another fun thing to do just around the corner.  We got in the house, put on our bathing suits and headed to Family Swim Night!  Nothing says fun like an hour and a half kicking around the pool!!!
We are so tired tonight that we haven't made a peep since getting in bed!  I am really looking forward to what the rest of break has in store for us!!  Mommy and daddy are hoping maybe tomorrow we will sleep in, but I don't think me and Myla have decided about that yet!

How Do You Sum Up 2 Months?

Yes, it has really been 2 months since I've updated our blog.  No, I don't have a really good reason for that.  We've had lots of cold and snowy weather.  We've had lots of snow days from school (and now make up days).  We've have some sadness in our family.  We've had some really great things happen. As always, it has been a busy time for the Douglas Darlings...and we haven't even been that great at getting pictures of everything!  BUT we will try to highlight a few things that have happened!
We were able to celebrate Grandma Haz's birthday with her!!  We've been able to do lots of playing inside since the weather has been stinky.  Me and daddy got to go to the My Girl Gala (Father/Daughter dance) for my school.  It was downtown in a beautiful building and I told mommy it was just like a wedding with lots of lights and music and a dance floor.  Daddy said I wanted to dance the night away!!  I had a really good time playing and dancing with my friends and dancing a few slow dances with daddy.  We got all dressed up!  He got me flowers to wear on my wrist!  It was a great evening AND I got to stay up past my bedtime!
We successfully completed another year of Upward Cheerleading!  I was definitely more into it this year.  I took a leadership role in my group and did my best to learn all the cheers, practice our dance AND stay off the wall during games!  Instead of leaning on the wall I smiled big, cheered and kicked and jumped as best I could!!  I got several stars for leadership this year!!  And, last night, was our awards ceremony.  It was really fun.  We did our dance for the audience and the special guest was great at juggling!!
This week is going to be great...I just know it because Aunt Emily & Uncle Tim are home from Texas AND daddy is on his spring break!  Hopefully we will do some more updating!!

Drastic Times Call for Drastic Measures!

So much to tell you!  First let me say, "Happy New Year!"  2014 has been a very unusual year already!  This is the first time in my 6.5 years that I have been allowed to stay up to ring in the new year!!  It was amazing!!!  We had some family over for a game night and me, Myla, Levi and Evan had a great time watching movies, playing games and running around the Academy Lounge!  The adults played games and almost everyone made it to midnight!  Uncle Patrick, Melissa, mommy and daddy made it until 4:00am playing cards and dominoes!!  I think this whole staying up really late is a wonderful tradition and I can't believe I am just getting a chance to do it!!!  I am already planning next year!
Some of you may have heard of the blizzard of '78.  My parents have heard of it...but they were just babies and don't remember. People talk about it every once in a while...well now I have my own story.  I survived Snowmageddon 2014, also known as the Deep Freeze of 2014.  It started snowing Sunday morning and it snowed and snowed and snowed!  It didn't stop all day.  Depending on who you talk to, we had more than 10 inches of snow!  We were supposed to start school Monday morning, but there was just too much snow.  And the BIG story really was the temperatures!!  I survived the wind chill of -40 degrees!
It is now Wednesday and tonight was the first time I'd been out of my house!  Me and Myla were allowed to play in the snow for about 10 minutes because we are having a heat wave of 28 degrees!! Daddy went out for a little bit yesterday just to get the car cleared off and mommy went to work this morning for just a few hours. Tomorrow is Thursday and we STILL haven't been back to school yet.  Mommy thinks we will go back Friday.
Well, drastic times call for drastic measures!  I am not sure if some of you have been stuck in a little place with a 2 year old and a 6 year old before...but it gets tough to keep us entertained!  Daddy went back to work Sunday afternoon, so mommy has been working hard to keep us from going stir crazy!  We've read books, colored, watched movies, played in the bath tub, played school and started my Magic School Bus Journey Into the Human Body Experiment Kit!  I've made a ball and socket joint, learned the difference between the ball and socket and hinge joints.  I made a stethoscope and it really works!!!  We've played games, helped mommy cook and have played with every toy from Christmas we got!  We've hatched dinosaur eggs that came in our stockings, we've decorated and bedazzled Minnie Mouse (and she is as tall as Myla).  We threw boiling water outside to watch it turn into, "smoke." And finally today something happened that I was sure would never happen in our house....MOMMY LET US PLAY WITH PLAY DOH!
The icing on the cake was going outside with daddy and mommy today and playing in the snow.  It wasn't very long, but at last we could play in that glorious white stuff that has been teasing us from the window for 3 long days!!  We are loving these snow/cold days!