5 year old questionnaire

I do this every year, ask the same questions and it's been fun to see the changes over the years!
Third birthday answers can be found here:
http://adiarasa.blogspot.com/2012/01/3-year-old-questionnaire.html
Fourth birthday answers can be found here:
http://adiarasa.blogspot.com/2013/01/4-year-old-questionnaire.html

what is your favorite food?
Rasa: "apples"
Adia: "peas" (she NEVER eats peas)

what is your favorite toy?
Rasa: "Violet, my cutest baby"
Adia: "baby lion" (NEVER plays with this toy…Rasa sleeps with it)

what is your thing to wear?
Rasa: "my belle dress"
Adia: "a t-shirt"

who is your favorite person in the whole wide world?
Rasa: "Momma"
Adia: "Abbi"

What is your favorite thing to play?
Rasa: "Go down the slides in spring"
Adia: "anything with Abbi"

can you tell me your favorite song?
Rasa: "poppin tags"
Adia: "Rhianna"

Where is your favorite place to eat?
Rasa: "Rainforest Cafe"
Adia: "Cupcake Cafe"

Who is your best friend?
Rasa: "Nova"
Adia: "Abbi"

What is your favorite part about you?
Rasa: "my heart"
Adia: "I'm going to say that I'm little again"

Whats your favorite movie
Rasa: "My Neighbor Totoro"
Adia: "Finding Nemo"

What's your favorite color?
Rasa: "pink"
Adia: "pink"

Do you know what love is?
Rasa: it means you love somebody
Adia: "it means you love a friend"

What is your favorite thing about having your 5th birthday?
Rasa: "my birthday party with Nova"
Adia: "playing with Abbi"

What is your favorite thing to do at school?
Rasa: "tough one. it is circle time?"
Adia: "play with Abbi and do you know sometimes we play in the loft and I be the baby and Abbi be's the mom and guess what we made the cushions a crib…in the loft"

barefoot and beautiful

Happy Halloween!

The girls had a fun Halloween! Both girls wanted to be WonderWoman but since WonderWoman stuff is hard to come by we had to settle for "amazing girl" with WonderWoman hair clips. They were totally cool with that ;)

They had a party at school (even though it wasn't a day they normally go to school), we carved pumpkins together, ate a BIG healthy dinner and then headed out trick or treating when Royce got home from work. Adia got scared when it got dark out and decided she wasn't going to go but I talked her into it and two houses in was running down the street screaming, "THIS IS GREAT!!!!" They had a lot of fun and we let them go up to the houses themselves this year while we stood back and reminded them (over and over and over) to say thank you.

After getting their fill of candy they both agreed to trade their stash in for a barbie at the end of the night and that was that.

a day at the orchard

The girls week in prek is all about apples so I decided it would be an excellent day to take them to an apple orchard just south of us here. It was a beautiful day, sunny and almost 80! We really had a great time together.



Unfortunately our day was cut short when I received phone calls and text messages alerting me that my Mother-in-law, Debi, was diagnosed with cancer and hospitalized. We are just starting to find out whats going on with her but prayers and good thoughts are definitely appreciated.

coolest kids in school!

first day of pre-k Bright Prospects style :)

part of me wants to jump up and down and the other part of me thinks "did I seriously just ship my kids off into south minneapolis to fend for themselves!" ok that might be a little dramatic but it did cross my mind.

the girls woke up very excited to start at their new school. they're going to rock it!

and THIS is why I'm so in love with little houses!

Our first home wasn't big by any means but it was super tall and we were all spread out. The lofted area was where the girls playroom was while the kitchen, dinning room and living room where I worked were on the main level. The bedrooms were upstairs together but not facing each other so even though the girls were in the room next to us we were never connected.

The first thing I noticed after a week of being in this house was how connected my family felt. We have two levels again but the basement is the basement, mostly storage even though technically there's bedroom and bathroom down there, laundry too. We all spend all of our time upstairs and in the yard. The girls bedroom is right across the hall from us and when I finally go to bed I see them, sleeping in their beds. We have conversations with each other at night from our beds. It's amazing. When they play, they bring their toys from room to room but it's all cozy and connected. When I work (from my dinning room table) I'm right in the living room too, I can see the kitchen and hear the girls playing, even if they're a back room.

Something about little houses. Everything I always wanted in a small simple space. This is all I ever want.

urban camping!