Week of March 9 to March 15

Today we did Calianne's hair curly. I have a picture of Mariah's hair done this way when she is about Calianne's age. (Of course, when I did it for Mariah, she had asked if she could have her hair "bumpy." Funny, huh?) Calianne saw it and asked if I could do that to her hair, too? I said yes about three weeks ago, but she didn't forget! She has continued to ask me until I finally remembered to buy the little black rubber bands that I would need and agreed to do the job last night. She was so excited and wanted Cheyenne to have curly hair, too, but Cheyenne declined. To do this little number on hair, you take sections of hair (while still wet) and twist them until they fall in on themselves. Then you wrap it around itself like a tiny bun and put a rubber band around it to hold it in place. For a little more staying power, you use spray gel on the strand and again on the bun. The finished product is rather a cute hairstyle in and of itself. So, here is Calianne last night before bed:

I should have taken a picture of the back, too! Oh well! And here she is after church today, saying, "My hair is so pretty!"

She has just been so pleased with herself all day! It is fun to see her be herself without any concern that her twin isn't doing the same thing. Of course not. She is the most confident little Skinner we have met thus far! I love her to pieces.

We are doing pretty well on our sewing projects, if any of you are interested. We are working on a shirt for Savannah, Sarah finished two doll shirts and some doll pants, Megan is just about done making a baby doll the same size as the ones I did for the twins, and Mariah has made a little dollhouse doll with movable limbs and another mini doll like the ones from our first week of sewing projects.

We had Enrichment this week and it was that time of year for the Relief Society Birthday Party so we had a sit-down dinner and a nice talk. I was kind of in charge of that, but it wasn't very hard since the whole presidency works on it. It turned out well and I think everyone had a nice time.

Also, I got to play basketball this week! We have a stake team and got to play in our first game for the regional tournament. There were exactly five of us there, so we played the whole time and had to almost hold our breath everytime there was a grapple for the ball so that we didn't foul out. Still, we won by eight points. Not bad, huh? (Not that I helped much. I will work on it.)

Saturday the weather was wonderful so in the afternoon, Sarah, Calianne, Cheyenne, Beth, and I went on a walk to the park. I watched them and thought of when Sarah was the size of the twins. It made me nostalgic, as it always does, I suppose. Sarah spotted me, though, and said, "Mom, why do you have that worried look on your face?" So, I had to laugh and tell her how silly I was and just enjoy the sunshine and the day.

We hope all is well with all of you! Keep in touch!