Excuse us for our once again delayed blog. But let's get real, that's how things are going these days. We are too busy stepping out and about in this crazy world to stop and take pictures let alone write blogs. Actually, luckily for you mom still takes a lot of pictures and as you can see in this blog - a TON of videos!
I get to go first this time. As you can see, a good head massage can get me to sleep - anytime, anywhere. But as you know I have been getting grief for sometime that I'm lazy, unmotivated, etc. Well after the physical therapy lady came over for a while and prodding from everyone I finally decided that full time walking is the way to go. Oh yeah, I'm steppin' everywhere! Perhaps I should have listened to them more, I am finding keeping up with big sisters much easier. I really like to do anything they do. Sometimes that is coloring, reading, playing outside, or perhaps drinking some tea in honor of the new Prince in the UK (check out video below). Whatever!
She rarely annoys me, so I'm ok with her tagging along for the most part. Amelia...she does try to pass her off when possible. Dad asked me if I will still be nice to her when we are older and I'm in high school and she is little. I told him, of course...I could always take her in as one of my kids. I do plan on having 10. Dad says not when I'm in high school, but he appreciated the love. Ok on for my big updates: Well, after last blog the big news is after 6 weeks and 12 bottles of antibiotics, one last blood draw, I finally got cleared and life got back to normal. A few weeks later I went back to the ortho and she cleared me for full activities. I was so excited, I jumped...and jumped...trampoline...anywhere that I could. Which is everywhere. Yeehaw! I got cleared faster than expected so I don't have any Spring activities planned so I signed up for some summer t-ball. In the meantime, I am gaining kindergarten readiness skills.Yep, I am SO ready to go. So much so that I decided I would check some things off the list. I taught myself to tie my shoe and in the past couple weeks I started reading. Yep, mom says I have always been like that. Once I decide I am going to do something, I just do it. Watch out world! I told mom that those kindergarten teachers are going to just put me straight to 1st grade when they meet me. 
While Heidi didn't get into any Spring sports...I did a late add and am playing my first year of soccer. Yeah, mom totally missed softball sign up during all the Heidi craziness so I'm trying out something new. Our neighbors play, like all the time, so I thought it would be fun to try. Only had 3 games so far, but I scored goals in all of them - so that helps me like it. Jury is still out on all the running, I may need a little more action. I also showed my skills at bowling. My friend Olivia came over and we had a fun day and my first official sleepover! So fun! Speaking of action, check out some of the highlights since last blog:
Spring break - again, delayed in making any plans so we stayed around here. BUT, my godfather, BJ and family came down for a visit. It was so much fun having them here. Tess and Norah are so fun to play with, and believe me we did a lot of it. We definitely were wore out, but had fun them sleeping upstairs with us too! Yeah, we had a lot of fun with all of them. We had a BBQ, went downtown to Union Station, P&L, & rode the street cars, watched a lot of basketball (We got into it this time because dad said we would win a lot of money for our Disney fund and I was winning for the 1st couple of rounds...but I ended up out of $ in 6th place. Our cousin Jason won it all, I guess he could use the money too). Oh and we also went to Top Golf. It was a lot of fun! I did pretty good! Now that it is finally getting nice here, I am going to try and go out back with dad and practice more too. I wish that they lived closer to us so we could hang out with them more. But...dad did say that we are going to see them again soon at graduation time. Can't wait!!  |
| Amelia filled her bracket all pretty. I decided #'s were much easier |
We had a visit from Elmo and mom surprised us with a day out to Disney on Ice! We saw so many princesses, it was a ton of fun. I think Elmo liked all my singing along. She stayed through Easter so she got to join in on our neighborhood egg hunt with us in which Lena was deathly afraid of the easter rabbit. We tried to explain to her it wasn't the real one (we could see her hair sticking out), but Lena was still shaking with fear. Mom says I was like that too so I can't make fun of her. We also got to look for eggs Easter morning (which was yet again cold and icky) before church. We of course are still working through our candy stash. I mean we are still working on Valentines candy too. This is not by choice. I would eat candy ALL the time if I could! 
Let's be real...here are some pictures of the Lena we often see.
Nana and papa came down for a visit (or maybe a break from all the snow they get). They brought us
some more meat, you know we got to have the best! They were here for some good weather, so we enjoyed walks, yard work, and papa got lots of golf in. And they even took us out to ice cream. Which you know none of us could ever turn down. MMMMMMMM.....
We continued our dates for the month. Heidi made a new dog bowl with mom at a pottery place and dad took both of us to the family dance at my school. I can't wait till we have more!!
Let's be realistic, I will likely not get another blog out before summer time. Here is a video of me reading a story before bed. Steffen sisters OUT!
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| A typical attempt of getting a group photo. No it is not easy |
