Anatomy of a Preschooler's Outfit

She seriously kills me with her poses.
I loved the little dress Jessica picked out, and that she asked for her hair to be in "ballerina bun"- her current hairstyle of choice. Such a little girl!

Color blocked dress- hand me down
Black flats- also hand me downs
Ballerina Bun

Jessica's perspective....

Jessica has been really into using my camera to take pictures recently (Izzy is, too, but I don't let her do it as often. She IS only two.... I posted one of her pictures in this post).

Maybe she'll be into photography like her mommy!

Here are a few shots from August:

Obviously Mommy & Daddy are her favorite subject to shoot :)
I kind of love this shots, for her little 4 year old perspective 

Jessica is playing soccer!

Jessica just started her first season of soccer!

I'm so proud of her :)

And I for sure have the potential to become a psycho soccer mom. I was cheering like crazy!

Her team is the Dragonflies (side note: the team didn't get to pick their own names. When I was a kid, that was one of the best parts! Was that just where I lived, or is this a new thing?)

AND her team colors are magenta & black.

How perfect?

 Izzy is her number one cheerleader- if she has enough snacks, of course

 So cute to watch her run around- she actually looks like she knows what she's doing!

This is right before she scored her first goal!

 One of the best parts- half time fruit breaks :)

 LOVE this action shot. Totally crop it close so you could see her expression- priceless! And she didn't even cry, just got back up and kept playing. Atta girl....

 Her and coach

 Scoring her THIRD goal! I know! Considering, in all four years I played soccer that I NEVER scored a goal, I was pretty darn impressed. And proud. Don't matter the fact that the girls have no idea what defense is (oh, she has the ball now? thats cool) and they don't even keep score.....

 And she fell on the dirt right at the end of the game. This led to some tears....

 and a pep-talk from Daddy

And then all was good.

So much fun, I'm loving this soccer thing. Though it is crazy juggling her soccer practices and games, and both girls swim lessons. They're also only four and two- and we want another ???- so its just the begining.....

Loving about you right now...

 I love when you randomly ask me to take your photo, and you bust out your super model poses

I love that you want to be an artist when you grow up

I love that you have such an opinion about what you wear every day

I love how you believe

I love to read you stories, and watch as you start to learn to read on your own

I love your little freckle under you big beautiful blue eye, and your blond blond hair

I love your big, squeez-y hugs

I love you and everything about you, my princess popcorn

Pink Cupcake

Jessica earned a special treat with mommy for staying dry all night for more than a week strait (finally! we're done with potty training! well, at least with her.....).  She hasn't been sleeping with a pull up at night since she turned 4, but she recently began to wet the bed at night a lot more.  I don't know why it went backwards, but bribery ended up working :)

I took her to CB cupcakes, which just opened up down the street.

One little cupcake, she got to pick the flavor and the frosting and the topping.  Just a $1.50.  Not bad!

Of course, she chose all pink ;)

Flower girls!

Jessica and Izzy were flower girls in Miss Angie's wedding in early June

The wedding was at the Wild Animal Park- it was such a fun and unique location!

Jessica has been a flower girl before (which I apparently never blogged about.  THAT was  a story.  Bascially Steve ended up being the flower girl while he carried a crying Jessica down the aisle.  He tossed the flowers and everything!) but this was Izzy's first time.

Jessica got to get all fanci-fied at the salon with the big girls!

 She even got her nails done!

 I tried to get a shot of her and me before we left, but she didn't like that idea...

 When we got to the WAP she was ready with the map! (and Izzy with her shades ;) )

 We had to glam Izzy up a bit, too.  Yipstick that she immediately licked off

 One perk, lots of cool things to look at while waiting for the wedding to start!

 And thank goodness we had Miss Justine with us! She was our nanny for the day.  She was also basically another flower, since she had to carry BOTH girls down the aisle and hand them off to Steve.

Who then threw the flowers on the aisle.

It was actually quite entertaining :)

 Even though they didn't actually do their duties as they were supposed to, they were still the cutest flower girls ever!

Off to the show!

Jessica and I went to see "The Wizard of Oz" put on by the city of San Marcos.  It was a children's play, one of Jessica's friends neighbor was in it (you follow that?)

So fun doing these things with Jessica now- she's finally old enough.  

I can't wait to take her to the Nutcracker this winter!

Jessica is in gymnastics again!

 I say again but then realized that I never even posted when she was doing Mommy me gymnastics when she was 1.  But anyway, we signed her up for the 4/5 year old class at the closest YMCA.  Every Saturday she's doing tumbles and flips and swings and streches with her friends.  So cute!  Its funny to watch her, she's very timid and not aggressive when trying new things, and she also apparently has slippery hands so she has to use the chalk a lot.....

Izzy is also doing a Mommy Me gymnastics class, but I can't take pictures since I'm in the class with her.  Hoping to get Daddy to tag along and snap a few for us soon.

Enjoy the pics!

See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil

Having fun playing around with Jessica & her friends one day at school. They totally posed for me- this was one of my favorites :)