Spirit filled week....

This past week was "Spirit Week" at the girls' school.
They were full of "spirit" as they participated in the fun dressing days....and we had a little "spirit" going on in our home too...

Above, you can see the big girls on "Fake an injury" day--They had fun working with Andy for a black eye, cuts, stitches, and wrapping their arms in bandages!

While the "hurt" girls went off to school, we started Potty Training 101 for Colin. As you can see, the Wiggles were learning to potty, Colin was learning to potty, and Ava was sit and spinning! The bottom right photo is the treat picture--those enticing treats sat on the mantle just making Colin's mouth water. However, after 1 day, we realized we had to switch the reward treats--he was drooling chocolate over everything...chocolate that Ellie is allergic to! The new treats? Gummies!

Tuesday brought "Fashion Disaster" day....and I had to chuckle as I heard the girls talking as they were getting dressed. Ava was just overflowing with genuine compliments at how beautiful the big girls looked! I guess it's safe to say that a 5 year on her own with clothes has "fashion disaster" taste!

On the upper right photo below, the girls participated in "Dress like your mom" day, complete with Ava's hair being straightened. We had to go to a lot of work for that--bath, straightening creme, blow drying, flat iron....and then by the time she went to kindergarten, she had wavy hair!

The bottom 2 photos are of the Friday "Blue and White" day--NHCS was having a basketball tournament last week as well and the girls were very excited to have me spray their hair blue in sections and to have Andy write on their faces with blue paint!

As for the other "spirit" in our house? Well....let's just say that the child who doesn't even like having his pillowcase changed has not really enjoyed the change from diapers to underwear. He's getting it, but he's definitely showing a stubborn spirit for change....