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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.

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.

The day after Molly's party, G'Mom and Grampa were planning to check out Molly's school. Their plans were thwarted by a Springtime snow day. We got very little snow during the winter, but apparently some of it was waiting for Spring to come down.

The snow was very wet, which made it excellent for snowballs. Despite her expression here, Molly really enjoyed throwing them at Chad.

Even better was when he could catch the snowball and throw it back at her. Direct hit!

Molly took to hiding behind his car to dodge the snowballs. And what better hiding snack than a little fresh snow.

Molly came home from school two weeks ago missing a front tooth. It had been loose for a while (the other 3 front teeth are loose as well). She was wiggling it before getting on the bus, and she just pulled it out. She got off the bus running to me with a purple box and a big smile!

Last week, another tooth bit the dust. She was playing at her friend's house when it fell out on the bed. Her speech was fine missing one tooth, but missing both bottom teeth is a bit more noticeable.

Maybe the next one she'll actually lose at home!

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.

In honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday, the Kindergarteners at Molly's school had a Wacky Wednesday. Molly was so excited to participate. Not only did she wear mismatched socks and shoes, I gave her a wacky hairdo too. She's got two cupcakes on her head to match the cupcake on her shirt.

Off to school and ready for a wacky day.

When we asked Molly what extracurricular activities she wanted to do this winter, she decided she wanted to try drama. So, we signed her up for a production of The Itty Bitty Beauty and the Beast at the Drama Learning Center. After 8 weeks of rehearsals, they put on two shows.

The kids were in kindergarten through second grade, so Molly was one of the youngest ones of the group.

Molly played Stanley, one of the villagers who tends to hang around with Gaston. There weren't many boys who signed up for this, so they had a large number of girls playing boy roles. When practicing her lines, Molly always scowled and spoke with a silly, almost angry voice as that's what she thinks a boy talks like.

Nice singing, Molly.

Molly's part was small (which was good since she was younger and new to this), but she still had some lines all to herself - both spoken and sung.

The cast or most of them, at least.

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.