Dancing, Preschool, Voting, Unicorns

The girlies were so cute this morning. I had pulled out these toddler mattresses that we've had under the trampoline. We got new ones a while back and I initially kept these thinking maybe we'd need them someday. And then yesterday when our house was a disaster I went into, "get rid of everything" mode and pulled these mattresses out to give away or throw away. The girls saw them out this morning and immediately started jumping and dancing on them. They found the soundtrack from Coco and started doing some really great Spanish dancing. So...we are now keeping these mattresses. :) 

Alice has been so excited for preschool! She was going to start in September but I pulled her out last minute when I thought we would just homeschool Emma. I figured if Emma was going to be home and getting homeschooled, Alice might as well stay home and do the same. But then Emma ended up enjoying virtual school. And although Alice will sometimes do parts of virtual school with Emma, we started thinking it might be nice for her to have "her" school. 

I have also been hesitant about putting Alice in preschool because I love having all my girls home together. There are definitely times when they get cranky with each other and when I get cranky with them, but overall, they do really well together and I don't want to cut this time short. It also costs money (duh, Amy) and I don't want to waste money if she ends up not liking it and wants to get out. In the end, I decided if Alice is excited about going, we should send her. I have tried to not sway her one way or the other. A few weeks ago we went in and met with the teacher and she felt really excited about going. So, today, we started! 

Here she is - in her cute outfit and boots and two bows. As you all know, Alice loves getting dressed up and loves wearing lots of bows. We love her so much and the drive home seemed SO quiet, even though I still had my four other girls in the car. It was Lucy's naptime so I turned on the sleep music playlist. The first song it played was one of Alice's favorites "Come Thou Fount". Alice actually calls it the "Fine Song". She sings "Fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, etc." to the entire tune. It is really cute. Anyway, that song came on and I felt sad and missed Alice. I love seeing our girls grow but it is also so hard letting them go. 

Dallas picked up Alice on his way home from work and then we all met at the High School to vote! Neither Dallas nor I have voted in a loooooong time. I don't know if I should say how long. But let's just acknowledge it's been a great while. Anyway, we didn't think we could bring our kids in with us. So I waited in line while Dallas stayed in the car with the girls and then we swapped. I have since learned that we could have all gone at the same time. Oh well. Next time. Here's a pic of Dallas with his sticker and Lucy trying to feed Mabel a pretzel. As usual, Mabel is ALL ABOUT getting some food and Olive is the chill observer. 

See what I mean about how sweet they are? Here are Alice and Lucy playing together while Emma is practicing violin with Dallas. Alice is pretending to be a unicorn and Lucy is her puppy. 

Here is Emma  - also being a sweet unicorn. I love our girls so much.

And yes. Proof that I also voted.