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Today was Leah's last day of school at My First School. Ms. Deb has been a wonderful teacher. Leah has a bit of a stubborn streak in her (ahem, not sure where that comes from!) and early in the year, Ms. Deb's spin on it was that Leah would make a great leader one day. Ha! Leah has loved school and would always insist on giving her teachers great, big hugs every day. She'd even run back in if she forgot.

We're so ready for preschool at ECP this Fall. Leah's super excited to go to "Molly's preschool" and I'm eager to get back into the classroom with Ms. Carol, enough that I even volunteered to be Leah's class coordinator!

We've tried to take advantage of some nice, Spring days lately and play outside. Molly tried skating a bit.

She then moved on to biking for the first time this season. She had some trouble here, though we did eventually figure out that she needed the seat raised, the tires inflated, and one of the training wheels adjusted. Once that was done she had a much easier time.

We had some fun throwing the disc around as well, though Leah didn't exactly throw this one very close to her target (Daddy).

At some point, Leah decided she didn't want to throw the Frisbee any more for no apparent reason.

It didn't take her long to cheer back up, though.

The most fun game of the afternoon was likely "pull the tree branch." This involves a child standing on a step stool and pulling a tree branch, pretending to be a monster.

And if you really pull the tree branch down, you can…

…let go of the branch and watch it spring up into the air.

We spent part of Spring Break in Birmingham visiting with my family. It was possibly the shortest time between visits with G'Mom and Grampa that the girls have ever had.

It's always fun to see what Grampa sees.

JJ loved his first ride in the Cozy Coupe. Leah stopped to chat along his route.

We went out to dinner at Joe's Crab Shack where the servers dance. Molly took that to mean that she should dance as well, and she spent much of the evening dancing and dancing and dancing.

The reason for our visit was to attend JJ's first birthday party.

The birthday boy is a happy boy as he waits for the party to start.

Who needs cake? The icing is the good stuff.

Emmie loved sitting with Uncle Chad. And Leah's always wanting to share in Daddy's love.

There's always time for reading with G'Mom.

Leah loves "baby JJ."

Grandma Dot came over for a post-party visit. Here she is with her four great-grandchildren.

JJ loves playing with his trucks.

Molly was super sweet with JJ. Every time he was fussy, she was right there trying to cheer him up. She even sat with him a few times and played trucks with him.

Molly's birthday weekend was also Easter weekend. The girls were excited to see what they got in their Easter basket. So excited that they made sure we were up a little early.

There were also some Easter presents from Aunt 'Chelle, Uncle J, Emmie, and JJ, including these fun eyes.

We had a nice Easter service, a great lunch at Grams's, and some good family time. Happy Easter from The Sellers!

It's the morning of Molly's actual birthday. Molly's got on her birthday crown and it's time to open presents. Why is she hugging her sister so excitedly?

A new umbrella! Leah picked it out herself, and Molly is thrilled with it.

Molly requested to go to Red Robin (yum!) for her birthday dinner as they sing. Here she is eating her birthday dessert after the singing.

We then headed home with aunts, an almost uncle, Grams, and Grammy to have some more treats and open presents. Molly is really excited about this Hello Kitty karaoke machine from Aunt Caroline. Her mom and dad are slightly less excited…

Molly has not yet embarked on a sleepover, but she's now ready with this Hello Kitty sleeping bag from Aunt EA and (almost) Uncle Scott.

Birthday cake at her party, ice cream sundae at dinner, and now a cupcake as well. She's one happy 6 year old!

On Good Friday, I took the girls to an Easter Egg Hunt organized by my MOMS Club. Leah was one of the oldest of the youngest group, so she ran full on in search of all the pink eggs.

Leah loved filling up her basket. She eventually had so many eggs that she started collecting eggs to give to the younger toddlers and babies.

The egg hunt for the older kids was a bit more challenging with eggs hidden in bushes and wedged in tight spots.

The girls were joined by some of their best playgroup buddies.

After the hunting was complete, the candy counting began. Leah and Molly brought home 40 pieces of candy each! They'll be eating Easter candy until Leah's birthday!

Molly, Keira and Maya were happy to pose next to the Easter Bunny. Leah is still unwilling to get near large, costumed figures.

There’s a birthday girl
that we all adore…
Who wants to get glamorous?
We’ll paint nails and more!

For the first time ever, we ventured out of our house for one of our kids' birthday parties. Molly had her 6th birthday party at our gym, which offers a number of different themed parties. Molly's choice - a Glamour Party. The first activity was to draw and decorate Molly.

Then we moved on to becoming glamorous. Molly started by having her nails painted.

Leah started out at the makeup station. Nice eyeshadow.

The girls also made picture frames, door hangers, and wands, covered with lots of glitter and stickers.

Chad set up a small portrait studio to capture these glamorous girls, complete with a feather boa of course.

Becoming glamours must equal becoming silly too!

It was then time for pizza. Molly and many of the other girls ate their pizza like this, trying to avoid messing up their nails.

Finally, the girls gobbled up the cake. Note that Molly started using her spork (which is still in her hand), but ultimately decided that was too slow. So, she opted to just shove it into her face.

The biggest reason for having the party outside our house was because we are prepping our house to put it on the market. That said, I couldn't resist being a little crafty and create a banner.

I also made glamourous goodie bags, complete with brush/mirror compact, nail polish, rings, bracelets, and flower bobby pins for their hair.

We didn't open presents at the party, but we opened them right after we got home. I think Molly's excited about this Barbie from Allison.

A nice thing this year is that Molly could read her own cards.

This disco ball from Kaylin was so funky we had to try it out immediately with an impromptu dance party to end a super fun day.

Check out many more pictures from the party here.

Leah and Molly have been asking for s'mores lately. They make a total mess, but the girls love them.

Caution - may induce crazy! The s'mores seem to have driven her mad.

She's gone so crazy, she forgot the tasty treat she had in her hand.

She has a thousand faces.

The madness subsided, returning her to a sweet little princess.

While in Savannah, we had a lot of family time that included playing a bunch of games. Aunt EA, Molly, and Leah (and many of the rest of us) got into Where's My Water?.

After the funeral, Uncle J, Aunt 'Chelle, and Emmie were happy to entertain Molly and Leah with a fun game of What's in the Cat's Hat?

Grandaddy imparted some wisdom to Leah, of course.

But he didn't just teach the little ones, he learned from them too. Here's Molly showing him how to play Cut the Rope on her iPhone. (The huge black eye is courtesy of tripping and falling at 3am the night before the funeral, requiring a trip to the ER and 17 stitches around his eye!)

Another fun game was "Let's wear Aunt EA's shoes." Leah was surprisingly good at walking in them - so good in fact that Chad had trouble taking her picture before she had sped across the room to him.

Of course, Molly couldn't let Leah have all the fun, so she grabbed another pair of Aunt EA's heels. Apparently, wearing heels causes kids to make ridiculous looking smiles.

Not a game, but something else Leah loves…Scott! We've been telling her that when he and Aunt EA get married in August, he'll become Uncle Scott, but she got confused at some point and started saying he'd be her Ankle Scott. Very cute. Sadly, Molly is too pedantic to let that slide, so she quickly taught Leah how to say it properly.

We spent some family time at the mall yesterday. After haircuts for both girls, we had some Chick-fil-a for lunch. The girls quickly scarfed down their chicken nuggets and wanted more. I went to get them some ice cream cones, but Leah couldn't wait for me to return so she had to eat Molly's face.

There's a little bit of something on your face, Leah.

Great new haircuts and ice cream cones - what else could a girl want?

Her faces crack me up!

The fun at the mall wasn't over. We headed to Build-A-Bear with Christmas gift cards in hand. Here's Leah pressing the pedal to fill her first-ever Build-A-Bear.

Once filled, it was time to put the bear's heart in.

All sewn up and ready to go.

Before looking for some clothes for the bear, Leah had to bathe her bear using the brushes and air blowers. Molly already has a Build-A-Bear, but decided to get a Hello Kitty Smallfry to keep it company in addition to some new clothes.

The girls exclaimed our trip to be a super fun day! Molly's off of school today too, so we're headed to Pump It Up and an afternoon playdate for more fun with friends.