a friend took this at her daughter's birthday party....kiki looks so happy, i'm bummed that her face isn't clean and she has a soda mustach....
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
sisters make the best friends
i know i ask my girls to share and take turns and talk nicely to each other, but halle has a level of sweetness in the way she treats kiki that i dont' know where she learned it. heres some cute examples:
i just joined a gym, i told halle and kiki they would stay in teh day care, while i went to class. later i heard halle telling kiki, "mommy is going to a class and you are staying with me. and i am going to protect you and take care of you, so don't worry." it was so sweet, i hadn't even told halle to do those things.
after dance class halle's friend broke a cookie in half and handed half to halle. without even a second of hesitation, or a word from me or kiki, she grabed her half , broke it in half and handed half to kiki.....i dont' know if kiki would have even asked for it or if i would have even told halle to do that, halle just thinks about kiki all on her own
in the car on the way to the gym, i gave them each a bag of cheese crackers and sprinkled like 10 m&ms in the bag. kiki ate out all the m&ms first and most of the crackers by the time we got there, halle hadn't. they put there bags in their seats and we went in. when we got back in the car and started driving, halle looked over at kiki with her empty bag. once again, kiki didnt' ask for any of halle's (she knows when things aren't her's) and i didnt' tell halle to share, i knew kiki would understand that she had eaten her's and i was ready to remind kiki....but with out any hesitation again, halle held up her bag to kiki and said, "what color m&ms do you want from my bag?" and she shared the rest of hers with her....i was so proud of her.
coming out of the gym, halle told me she took kiki to the potty (which is in the room, so i'm sure that just means she stood there with her) but halle loves to take care of kiki. kiki said, "halle took me to the potty and wiped me" (she also said, "i did poo poo and halle said, 'oooooo, yucky'")
yestarday me and halle went to pick kiki up from the nursery at church. as soon as kiki saw halle , she screamed, "HALLE, HALLE!!!" and she ran to her with open arms, she wrapped her arms around halle's neck and her legs around halles waiste, halle held her up like a little monkey and they spinned around the room, while kiki yelled, "i missed you, halle, i missed you!"....they had only been serperated for a couple hours, but even after one hour of dance, that is how they act when they reunite....it always makes me happy, but yestarday it made me extra happy because another mom in the room said she had never seen anything like that before and had never seen sisters so close at such a young age, she said her and her sisters never got along till they were adults. my sisters were my best friends from very little, through teenage years, till now....i am happy to see my girls so in love.
whenever kiki is upset, halle can't stand it (and vice versa) but halle tries so hard to make kiki happy, she will dance in front of her, make silly faces, tell jokes, remember things she said days before that made kiki laugh and say them again. its really nice...and sometimes it works
yestarday kiki hit her head, halle quickly grabbed a blanket and wrapped her up in it, while kiki laid there. then halle said, "mom, she looks like the baby Jesus, all wrapped up"...for the rest of the evenening halle called her baby Jesus and took care of her, fed her dinner, each bite, rocked her, got her dressed for bed. it was cute and kiki, who LOVES to be treated like a baby, loved it!
tom told halle he was just taking her to the see the nutcracker, halle was excited about their date, but i could tell she did wish kiki was going. she asked me if kiki could go and i said, it was too late at night, but i heard her telling kiki, "when your bigger you can go with us, would you like that?"
i think its really sweet how the girls are never competitive and halle never throws anything in kikis face, and could out smart her and be mean . she got a gift from grandma and told kiki she would ask grandma to mail one to her. she never tells kiki that so and so is her friend and not kiki's , even though they usually are older. even though she likes to take care of kiki, because she understands kiki has limitations, she treats her like an equal playmate and like a friend
i just joined a gym, i told halle and kiki they would stay in teh day care, while i went to class. later i heard halle telling kiki, "mommy is going to a class and you are staying with me. and i am going to protect you and take care of you, so don't worry." it was so sweet, i hadn't even told halle to do those things.
after dance class halle's friend broke a cookie in half and handed half to halle. without even a second of hesitation, or a word from me or kiki, she grabed her half , broke it in half and handed half to kiki.....i dont' know if kiki would have even asked for it or if i would have even told halle to do that, halle just thinks about kiki all on her own
in the car on the way to the gym, i gave them each a bag of cheese crackers and sprinkled like 10 m&ms in the bag. kiki ate out all the m&ms first and most of the crackers by the time we got there, halle hadn't. they put there bags in their seats and we went in. when we got back in the car and started driving, halle looked over at kiki with her empty bag. once again, kiki didnt' ask for any of halle's (she knows when things aren't her's) and i didnt' tell halle to share, i knew kiki would understand that she had eaten her's and i was ready to remind kiki....but with out any hesitation again, halle held up her bag to kiki and said, "what color m&ms do you want from my bag?" and she shared the rest of hers with her....i was so proud of her.
coming out of the gym, halle told me she took kiki to the potty (which is in the room, so i'm sure that just means she stood there with her) but halle loves to take care of kiki. kiki said, "halle took me to the potty and wiped me" (she also said, "i did poo poo and halle said, 'oooooo, yucky'")
yestarday me and halle went to pick kiki up from the nursery at church. as soon as kiki saw halle , she screamed, "HALLE, HALLE!!!" and she ran to her with open arms, she wrapped her arms around halle's neck and her legs around halles waiste, halle held her up like a little monkey and they spinned around the room, while kiki yelled, "i missed you, halle, i missed you!"....they had only been serperated for a couple hours, but even after one hour of dance, that is how they act when they reunite....it always makes me happy, but yestarday it made me extra happy because another mom in the room said she had never seen anything like that before and had never seen sisters so close at such a young age, she said her and her sisters never got along till they were adults. my sisters were my best friends from very little, through teenage years, till now....i am happy to see my girls so in love.
whenever kiki is upset, halle can't stand it (and vice versa) but halle tries so hard to make kiki happy, she will dance in front of her, make silly faces, tell jokes, remember things she said days before that made kiki laugh and say them again. its really nice...and sometimes it works
yestarday kiki hit her head, halle quickly grabbed a blanket and wrapped her up in it, while kiki laid there. then halle said, "mom, she looks like the baby Jesus, all wrapped up"...for the rest of the evenening halle called her baby Jesus and took care of her, fed her dinner, each bite, rocked her, got her dressed for bed. it was cute and kiki, who LOVES to be treated like a baby, loved it!
tom told halle he was just taking her to the see the nutcracker, halle was excited about their date, but i could tell she did wish kiki was going. she asked me if kiki could go and i said, it was too late at night, but i heard her telling kiki, "when your bigger you can go with us, would you like that?"
i think its really sweet how the girls are never competitive and halle never throws anything in kikis face, and could out smart her and be mean . she got a gift from grandma and told kiki she would ask grandma to mail one to her. she never tells kiki that so and so is her friend and not kiki's , even though they usually are older. even though she likes to take care of kiki, because she understands kiki has limitations, she treats her like an equal playmate and like a friend
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
pet worms
the girls caught some earthworms and for days treated them like pets. this is kiki pretending to eat one, just to gross me out....
some cute things halle has said lately:
on thanksgiving tom said to go around and say something your thankful for. halle said, "my family" kiki said, "turkey" tom said, "mom" and when it got to me i was thinking for a minute and halle whispered across the table, "say your thankful for daddy"
halle whispers in my ear pretty much once every day, "your the most beautiful mommy in all the land" or "your the best mommy in all the days"....she does it to tom to and to kiki (daddy or sister)....its really sweet
halle said, "mommy , quick come look out the window" she lead me to a beautiful pink sunset and said, "look what Heavenly Father made for me"
me, 'what happened when Jesus said, 'peace, be still' to the water?"
halle, "it was like he said, 'red light!' and it stoped"
halle asked me about the naughty boy at church...."is _____ on Santa's naughty list?" ( i said, probably. haha)
Halle, "mommy, last night i had a head ache when i was going to bed and i said a prayer to ask Heavenly Father to make me feel better"
halle, "i have daddy's belly button and kiki has mommy's belly button. and i have daddy's pirate teeth and kiki has mommy's teeth. and i have mommy's color skin and kiki has daddy's color skin."
me, "yes, halle, you are a little bit of me and a little bit of daddy"
halle, "I know, daddy already told me i have some of your genes and some of his genes"
the girls are totally in love with xmas music...i love it to, so we listen to it all day and in the car. halle said feliz navidad is her favorite song and both the girls love to sing it. i heard kiki saying the "bum, bums" in the little drummer boys song and i said , "is this your favorite song" she said, uh huh. and now everytime is comes on she yells out, "its my favorite song!"...i like to sing silent night to them before they go to bed, so when that comes on kiki yells out, "mommy, its your favorite song!"
Halloween
i never posted a picture of Halloween....i think i forget ....after a week of festivals and parties, kiki had finally had enough of being a witch (she had a matching costume to halle) and insisted on being minnie mouse.
Last week i had a Kids Christmas party for all of the girls friends...we invited all our friends, all of halle's friends from church and halle's ballet class....there were about 40 kids there! it was a ton of fun....i brought waffle cones and frosting and everyone brought candy to decorate waffle cones , turned upside down covered in green frosting, they look like xmas trees, i'll post pictures soon......
we played pin the beard on santa (big picture of santa , glue on beard, pin on cotton balls)
me and halle made a pinata, just filled a box with xmas candy and wrapped in xmas wrapping paper
and we played a xmas cake walk game for prizes, like ornaments and xmas straws and erasers
it was so much fun , i can hardly wait to do a valentine's day party.
playhouse
i have been wanting to get one of these houses for the girls for a while now, about 2 years...but even on craigslist they are expensive. i finally found one for 40 bucks, totally worth it....the girls love to play in it. the people even threw in a tiny kitchen and it fits the girls two tiny fold up chairs. (halle had fun cleaning it too)....
Bffs
the girls have really turned into the best buddies. they can play all day together. they don't care when they are the only two in the daycare at the gym. they can play for hours together , even if i have something i'm doing like cooking, they just play and play and i hear almost constant giggles. there favorite games. kitty and owner, where halle takes kiki for walks and kiki wrestles her and licks her all over, while they laugh there heads off. dancing together. mommy and babies, where they each put babies to sleep. hair salon, and make up salon. playing under forts. and hide and seek. and kiki hold one end of the jump rope, while halle holds the other and runs around the house. or we all play school or tea party.
Stone mountain
this is halle holding her letter that she wrote to santa. you can read that all she wrote she wants for christmas is lotion. actaully, she wants, purple sparkle lotion, and kiki told santa she wants pink sparkle lotion. thanks to targets dollar section, it was an easy order to fill. i'm sure their xmas lists won't always be so simple, but for now, i'm happy i can get them exactly what they want!
Uncle Bill
one of many pictures of my girls harrassing my brother. they were so obssessed with him. luckily he is still a kid at heart and played with them non-stop!!!
The twins
halle and trevor are little twins. they are about 6 months apart in age, but match up in size and cuteness.
Cousin love
I finally uploaded some pictures from our trip to UT back in April. This is halle and Aidan....halle talks about him all the time. They were best little buddies, 2 of a kind (2 little melanies, aka oldest child/mother hens). Some how all the cousins just know that there is something special about being cousins and LOVE each other so much. Even though they don't see each other often, halle always mentions them as her best friends and asks when she will see them again. When i told her a few weeks ago that the next day was Thanksgiving, she got excited and asked , "are your sisters coming?" (since we spent last thanksgiving together). it isn't hard to get pictures like this!
Sunday, November 22, 2009
bike babe
kiki can ride so fast on this little bike....i'll upload some video soon and she can steer really well too....if she takes a spill she just picks her bike back up and gets back on and keeps going....she even skinned her knees once and i shouted, are you ok, she shouted back, "i'm ok, just a little blood".....
yestarday we went to stone mountain park for their xmas celebration....its rated one of the top 10 places to see santa in the US....we were not disappointed...it was a TON of fun....live on stage music performance, dancing elves, storytime with mrs. clause, a xmas parade, xmas laser show on the side of the mountain, polar express in 4D, train rides, ect.....the girls had a great time, we were there for 5 hours and did not do everything there was to do....a couple funny things....
a few weeks ago tom pretended to throw kiki in a garbage can and she thought it was soo funny...yestarday i had her up on my shoulders and everytime we passed a garbage she yelled out , "mommy, throw me in the garbage can!" ....it sounded funny to people passing by
while we were waiting for a stage show to start kiki ran up on the stage in front of about 250 people....she had a BIG smile on her face and everyone started clapping ....well that just egged her on to give them a show, she lifted up her shirt all the way to her neck to show off her bellly and still had a big smile on her face, everyone laughed and clapped more...kiki was in heaven , until the worker grabbed her hand and led her off the stage....kiki is such a show off!
~mrs. clause story time was in front of a life size gingerbread house...halle said to me, "don't witches live in gingerbread houses?" (dont' read hansel and gretel during xmas time) i told her that maybe a witch lived inside and was going to come out and eat the small children....halle was pretty excited to see that and a little disappointed when it was just mrs. clause that came out.
Monday, November 16, 2009
updates for the past couple weeks...
-i caught a small tree frog on the side of the house....the girls and me are sooo excited....i let them reach there hand in and pet him....we went to the petstore and bought crickets a few times for him....a got cheap and started catching flies in a cup and puting them in the cage...we have yet to see him eat anything, despite spending long stretches of the day watching and waiting....annoying, but still fun to have a pet!
-one day we were sitting around brainstorming names for the frog, halle was coming up with the weirdest names that we would never remember and kept saying no to everything me and tom said, finally kiki spoke up and said, "i wanna name the frog, Bessy"....we all looked at each other surprised that kiki had actually come up with a decent name....halle actually liked it for a while , but its still trying to come up with a name of her own
-kiki is totally obbsessed with puzzles...halle never liked them, so this is fun to see kiera have a hobby all of her own (although her obsession with them has gotten halle interested and its become a very fun family activity)....i have about 10 boxes of 25 peices puzzles...kiki just dumps the box, does the puzzle, shouts out "i did it!!" and then "i do it again" , breaks it up and does it again....she can do this for a LONG time, like 30 minutes at a time gets up plays and does it some more....if you try to help she says, "don't do it, i do it myself" and if you put in a peice for her, you get a really dirty look.....her attention span is WAY longer then halle's was a 2, she can also color for a long time...its great that both the girls have about the same attention span...we can do some fun projects....cooking , crafts, puzzles, games, ect....
-halle loves to ask people, even random people at stores < "would like me to do a dance for you".....and she asked the mom at another child's birthday party if she could do a dance at the party and when we had a family over for dinner on sunday, she danced for the whole family....it makes me happy that she is so confident....she doesn't like to sing at church, i think its because she doesn't feel really confident about knowing all the words...but dancing, she is pretty good at it and she knows it and she will dance anywhere , anytime (and it helps that about half the time , she is wearing one of her leatards)
-halle is working really hard to cartwheel...she is doing pretty good at trying, her tumbling teacher said she will be able to do it pretty soon.
-kiki is a pro at riding her bike...i took some video of it, the bike is so tiny, it looks like a circus monkey's bike and she looks like a little monkey on it....the girls ride at least a couple hours a day on their bikes either in teh backyard or up in the parking lot at the playground...today we had about 10 friends join us up at the playground to ride, it was a lot of fun.
-today we got the flu vaccinations....the girls love to play doctor, so they were so excited about getting shots, they LOVED watching me get mine first and then they both watched themselves get shots...they didn't even flinch, these are some pretty tough girls
-i think halle has pretty good social skills for her age. she loves to introduce herself to people, ask people their names and give compliments.... kiera mimics everything halle does , so the other day at the playground a group of older girls were out there, kiki went up to one and said, "whats your name?" she answered....kiki said, "my name is kiki"...and then, "i wove (love) your tinkerbell shirt!"....it was so cute!
-for the past few weeks, halle introduces herself to everyone as isabella and kiki as abigail.....halle told me she loves those names and decided to change their names.... luckily , i love those names too (i actually wanted to name kiki , abigail, but tom said no)...so when she introduces herself to strangers, i don't even bother to correct her....strangers almost always say, those are very pretty names, which totaly makes halle's day!
-one day we were sitting around brainstorming names for the frog, halle was coming up with the weirdest names that we would never remember and kept saying no to everything me and tom said, finally kiki spoke up and said, "i wanna name the frog, Bessy"....we all looked at each other surprised that kiki had actually come up with a decent name....halle actually liked it for a while , but its still trying to come up with a name of her own
-kiki is totally obbsessed with puzzles...halle never liked them, so this is fun to see kiera have a hobby all of her own (although her obsession with them has gotten halle interested and its become a very fun family activity)....i have about 10 boxes of 25 peices puzzles...kiki just dumps the box, does the puzzle, shouts out "i did it!!" and then "i do it again" , breaks it up and does it again....she can do this for a LONG time, like 30 minutes at a time gets up plays and does it some more....if you try to help she says, "don't do it, i do it myself" and if you put in a peice for her, you get a really dirty look.....her attention span is WAY longer then halle's was a 2, she can also color for a long time...its great that both the girls have about the same attention span...we can do some fun projects....cooking , crafts, puzzles, games, ect....
-halle loves to ask people, even random people at stores < "would like me to do a dance for you".....and she asked the mom at another child's birthday party if she could do a dance at the party and when we had a family over for dinner on sunday, she danced for the whole family....it makes me happy that she is so confident....she doesn't like to sing at church, i think its because she doesn't feel really confident about knowing all the words...but dancing, she is pretty good at it and she knows it and she will dance anywhere , anytime (and it helps that about half the time , she is wearing one of her leatards)
-halle is working really hard to cartwheel...she is doing pretty good at trying, her tumbling teacher said she will be able to do it pretty soon.
-kiki is a pro at riding her bike...i took some video of it, the bike is so tiny, it looks like a circus monkey's bike and she looks like a little monkey on it....the girls ride at least a couple hours a day on their bikes either in teh backyard or up in the parking lot at the playground...today we had about 10 friends join us up at the playground to ride, it was a lot of fun.
-today we got the flu vaccinations....the girls love to play doctor, so they were so excited about getting shots, they LOVED watching me get mine first and then they both watched themselves get shots...they didn't even flinch, these are some pretty tough girls
-i think halle has pretty good social skills for her age. she loves to introduce herself to people, ask people their names and give compliments.... kiera mimics everything halle does , so the other day at the playground a group of older girls were out there, kiki went up to one and said, "whats your name?" she answered....kiki said, "my name is kiki"...and then, "i wove (love) your tinkerbell shirt!"....it was so cute!
-for the past few weeks, halle introduces herself to everyone as isabella and kiki as abigail.....halle told me she loves those names and decided to change their names.... luckily , i love those names too (i actually wanted to name kiki , abigail, but tom said no)...so when she introduces herself to strangers, i don't even bother to correct her....strangers almost always say, those are very pretty names, which totaly makes halle's day!
the birthday
one of the games i had at the birthday party was a treasure hunt, i buried a bunch of little toys in the sand volleyball court. the kids had to dig up the treasures....it worked out pretty well....except that they were all on the surface, so i felt bad when i saw some of the kids had dug a really deep hole and got nothing ......it was really the only game i could come up with for about 35 kids to play at the same time....halle wanted to play tag, red light, green light and duck duck goose at the party, which we did, but just with about 10 or so that wanted to play. after the games i yelled that whoever wanted to could go back to the club house for halle to open presents.....i heard halle's friends saying, "can i help you?"....halle said sure to all of them....everyone just dived into the presents and started tearing them up...in about 3 minutes, everything was open...i have no idea who got her what, haha...halle thought it was great and since she didn't care, neither did I....it turned out to be a great party and she is already talking about how she wants to do a tinkerbell party again next year!
crzy!!
these girls crack me up and each other up all day....they're so goofy!
last week we went to stone mountain park, in stone mt, ga....we had a lot of fun....we took the sky lift up to the top of the mountain and hiked the mile hike back down...the girls did great and we did it very quickly, the train at the bottom is supposed to take you back to the park....when we got to the bottom, their was a sign that said, "train is not running today" ....we had to walk 1.5 miles back to the park....we tried to make it a game by getting the girls to chase us back to the park...we ran most of the way, the last 10 minutes or so we had to carry them, they were exhausted! we also watched a 4D movie, journey to the center of the earth, played minature golf, and had a really fun day!
crazy hair day!
a few times in the past week halle will whisper in tom's ear, "will you tell mommy she looks beautiful" and then he will and then she'll whisper in my ear, "will you tell daddy he looks handsome"
it's so cute and sweet..
in primary at church the teacher asked how do you serve your moms? halle raised her hand and said, "I clean the bathtub everyday"....that night when she was bathing she said "look, mom, this is how i clean the bath tub everyday" and she was putting soap on her wash cloth and standing up to clean the walls...
sunday, while i was putting kiera to sleep halle started cleaning like crazy, tom said she was moving a 100mph around the upstairs, which was a disaster...when i came out of the room she was standing by the door jumping up and down, squealing with excitment, she held my hand and had me close my eyes as she lead me to each room she had cleaned (picked up everything off the floor and put in all in one pile in the corner of each room, for me, that is cleaning up because for the most part, the upstairs did look clean) she had shoved stuff in drawers and in closets....even cleaned my bedroom...it was unexpected and totally made my day! i kept telling her how happy i was and grateful...she told me miss becky (her sunday school teacher) told her to do it...she was very proud of herself!
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
halle's party
more bday pictures to come....but here's one....all the girls dressed up as fairy's or princesses (that's kiki dressed up as tink in the background). halle wore this ballet outfit with wings and of course wanted red streamers to match her! i curled her hair in ringlets...it was straight before the party even started...but halle didn't realize that thought it was curly....she did look beautiful!
party stuff
me and halle made the flower wands...halle sat with me one night and tied the ribbon on 50 of those wands and i curled them...it us a couple hours, but she was happy to help. we put them in a few vases and put them on the tables at the party for centerpieces....at the end the kids could take one home....the little bottle next to the box is pixie dust, aka rose bath powder...the poem attached says,
Fairy love and fairy light,
pixie dust in your bath tonight,
so sweet and pretty you will smell,
just like the fairy, Tinkerbell!
each of the kids got one of those too....halle was screaming when i put it in her bath the next night...i hope the other kids liked them too...
the box is our pinata...halle was dying to have a pinata at the party....always on movies, rarely actually done....i had halle help me make it, we got a shoe box, printed tink pics from online, colored and glued on cut up peices of crape paper and sequence...halle was really excited about it...it was probably her favorite part of the party...i glued it shut so tight, knowing that no one would be able to break it open...which was my plan....what fun is a pinata unless everyone gets to swing at it...everyone got in line from youngest to oldest and got a few swings...of course no one broke it, at the end tom whacked it a few time and it finally broke and everyone scrambled for the candy...making a pinata will definetly become a birthday tradition!
tinkerbell cake
this is the cake i made for the party...i didn't know my friend was going to make one, so i already made one....we served both, halle thought that was pretty cool....this was halle's request....a chocolate cake (of course) with purple frosting (you can' t see it that well in the picture, but it was really purple) and i bought a bouquet of these flowers and halle put them on the cake, i was going to just do 3 rings of flowers(its a stacked cake, hard to tell), but halle put them pretty much everywhere and was excited to help...the topper is the top of our bubble bath bottle...don't worry , halle asked me a few times if i washed it before i put it on the cake.
tink cake
this is the cake my friend made for halle for her birthday! it was soo adorable and halle loves the doll from inside....
kiki's grossed out face
i love kiki's face in this , she was sooo grossed out....i can' t wait to post pictures of them loving on their new pets, the earthworms that they dug up in the mud...seriously, they pet them and hold them for hours and pumpkins gutts grossed them out....go figure!
grandma's visit!
i forgot to post pictures from tom's mom's visit...we had soo much fun, i wanted to put all the pictures in one alblum before i posted...but here is one of my favorites of the week! the girls had the funnest week with her!! we went shopping (yea! winter clothes) and to the zoo, 6 flags, fall festival, and tons of resturants...the girls were spoiled sooo much!! thanks, karen, we miss you already!!
shot # 1
i like this picture because the look on halle's face only begins to capture how in love with herself she really is. this is her birthday morning, wearing her new dress from granny carol (her southern granny from church) and just knowing that the whole world revolves around her.
posing for the camera
this is one of halle's favorite poses for the camera...i like this picture because halle was trying to explain to kiera to put her shoulder up, hip out and head back...too much information for kiera and this is her best attempt at copying halle.
divas!
halle's outfit has sequence...when she stood in her room the first time, with the light shinning in and the room looked sparkly like a what a disco ball does, halle said, "mom, this is a magic leatard...you didn't know they sold us a magic one"
Halloween week
we had a really fun halloween week...by the time halloween came we were exhausted!
Tuesday was dress up day for dance class, halle wore a ballet costume (usually they have to wear a plain leatard), she looked fancy and was soo excited to wear make up and sparkles on her face! On wednesday, we went to another church's fall festival....this is one of the biggest churches in town, so they go all out for their FREE fall festival! this is the third year in a row we've crashed it. they had pony rides, at least 5 different bounce houses, carnival games, train rides, hay rides, popcorn, hotdogs, cotten candy, boiled peanuts. we stayed for over 2 hours, but it got dark and with hundreds of people....way to crazy for me to watch the girls at...it was fun and we saw all our friends there!
on thursday my friend had her annual (3rd year now) Halloween party at her house...she got pizza and everyone brought food as well....yummy food and lots of fun. the kids love seeing their friends dressed up and she had some cute crafts for them to do!
On friday evening we went to a high school football game....it was fun, the girls liked the cheerleaders, but we still had to leave early because the week was tiring them out!
On saturday we crashed another church's fall festival, our neighbor invited us to her church's party! they had a few bounce houses, carnival games (that gave out tons of good candy:) hot dogs and funnel cakes....the funnel cake just made my halloween one of the best ever! after that we came home and trick or treated around our neighborhood, then all the neighbors met back at the clubhouse for a party!
we had a really fun halloween week!
cute sayings:
halle, "mom, when you were little , did you used to say, 'when i grow up i hope i have funny kids?' and now you have them?"
halle, "mommy , aren't you glad you have silly kids?"
halle, "daddy goes to work to get money for my money jar"
halle, "kiki, if you eat too much candy, you'll get sick and your teeth will rott"
kiki tries to change her voice to sound like a boy (like me and halle can do) but she just sounds weird and nasely, and pretends she is prince eric..."hi, i'm prince eric, how do you do?"
kiki will eat candy in front of you and say..."you want some?" and you say yeah. and she steps away from you eats it as fast as she can and then laughs in your face and says, "its all gone, its all gone!"
me, "halle, do you like to share?"
halle, "i don't like to share germs."
Tuesday was dress up day for dance class, halle wore a ballet costume (usually they have to wear a plain leatard), she looked fancy and was soo excited to wear make up and sparkles on her face! On wednesday, we went to another church's fall festival....this is one of the biggest churches in town, so they go all out for their FREE fall festival! this is the third year in a row we've crashed it. they had pony rides, at least 5 different bounce houses, carnival games, train rides, hay rides, popcorn, hotdogs, cotten candy, boiled peanuts. we stayed for over 2 hours, but it got dark and with hundreds of people....way to crazy for me to watch the girls at...it was fun and we saw all our friends there!
on thursday my friend had her annual (3rd year now) Halloween party at her house...she got pizza and everyone brought food as well....yummy food and lots of fun. the kids love seeing their friends dressed up and she had some cute crafts for them to do!
On friday evening we went to a high school football game....it was fun, the girls liked the cheerleaders, but we still had to leave early because the week was tiring them out!
On saturday we crashed another church's fall festival, our neighbor invited us to her church's party! they had a few bounce houses, carnival games (that gave out tons of good candy:) hot dogs and funnel cakes....the funnel cake just made my halloween one of the best ever! after that we came home and trick or treated around our neighborhood, then all the neighbors met back at the clubhouse for a party!
we had a really fun halloween week!
cute sayings:
halle, "mom, when you were little , did you used to say, 'when i grow up i hope i have funny kids?' and now you have them?"
halle, "mommy , aren't you glad you have silly kids?"
halle, "daddy goes to work to get money for my money jar"
halle, "kiki, if you eat too much candy, you'll get sick and your teeth will rott"
kiki tries to change her voice to sound like a boy (like me and halle can do) but she just sounds weird and nasely, and pretends she is prince eric..."hi, i'm prince eric, how do you do?"
kiki will eat candy in front of you and say..."you want some?" and you say yeah. and she steps away from you eats it as fast as she can and then laughs in your face and says, "its all gone, its all gone!"
me, "halle, do you like to share?"
halle, "i don't like to share germs."
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Birthday Week!
Monday was halle's birthday....tom was on call that day, so we had most of the day to be together! We started out that morning opening some presents. Halle asked for dangle earrings. we got her some and an earring holder, a purple H throw pillow (and a K for kiki), and a tinkerbell lamp. Her Southern Granny from church got her a fancy blue dress that she LOVED! Grandma was in town last week to spoil her ahead of time and my mom sent a package early too, which we opened the week before...which had the only other 2 things halle asked for : a purple teddy bear and a tinkerbell shirt....grandma also sent a purple barbie, its weird looking, but halle sleeps with the teddy bear and barbie every night :)
after presents we went to the pumpkin patch and let the girls each pick out a pumpkin. then we asked halle where she wanted to go for lunch, she picked sticky fingers, which barely beat out the waffle house, me and tom were both happy about that!
that afternoon we colored the pumpkins, went shopping for party supplies and went to tumbling that evening, the class sang happy birthday, and ruthie brought her a present! tom also told them that daddy long legs don't bite and let them crawl all over the girls (there are quite a few around our house)....i had always told them when they see one they should just step on it, now it has grossed me out all week that the girls love to play with them....yuck
that night we had family home evening...the lesson was on keeping the sabbath day holy, we talk about this a lot since chucky e cheese is on our way to church....i just told her that it was closed on sundays because people go to church on sunday...this sunday halle said, mom, its not closed if there are cars in the parking lot :)
tuesday we carved the pumpkins, kiera couldn't stand getting her hands dirty..."i don't like pumpkin guts, its stinky!" ....we cooked the seeds and took them to ballet class for her friends to try. that night we left halloween treats on our some of our neighbors door steps, knocked and ran to hide and then watched them get it from our hiding spot...we left a cute poem that they've been hit by a ghost and a ghost picture to hang on their door and that they have to do it to 2 neighbors...we did it to 5 neighbors, assuming some might be party poopers...one of halle's friends across the street had the windows opened so we couldn't leave it :(....halle picked 5 people in the neighborhood, a couple friends and the lady with the most flowers, aka, prettiest house, according to halle....it was one of the funnest nights...halle was freaking out she was so excited and with the rush of adrenaline from running house to house, she was ready to burst. we will do it again next year! halle did manage to see a couple neighbors out on our walk the next day and ask them if they got a treat on their door step, so much for secrets......it was fun to see some of the ghost pictures on people's doors later in the week!
wednesday we went to dauset trails, a wilderness type zoo place of rescued animals, its free and fun, but 45 min away , so we dont' go that often....we stayed for about 4 hours, with ruthie and peggy and some other friends from church....the girls had a blast and we all came home exhausted!
today we went on a walk, visited our neighbor who has lots of cats, the girls loved it, hung out with our other neighbors, played at the playground, and got ready for the party tomorrow...one of our really nice friends made halle a tinkerbell cake for her birthday...it was kinda a surprise, so i still have a cake i made too....they are different so it will be fun to have two cakes at the party...the friends cake has a tinkerbell doll in it, so halle was thrilled! i took a picture, its really cute....i have some really sweet friends here!
tomorrow is the party, details and pictures to come!!
we got kiera and halle both a step ladder/stool so they can cook with me...they LOVE to stand on the stools and help me cook...they are good about doing jobs i ask them too and watching without touching certain things, its been a lot of fun. i bought them both a potato peeler and they LOVE to peel carrots and things...they love to smell the spices and guess what it is, halle is pretty good at it. and their favorite is when i have a lot of ingredients out on the counter and i give them a bowl and spoon and let them create something....halle will say stuff like "i make a greaaaaat soup".....if she can get a lot of sugar and oats in it, its edible (and yes, we all have to eat what she makes)....once she put in too much salt, water, and soggy bread crumbs....we all faked eating it....halle took a bite and said, "this one didn't turn out so good" and kiera sat there and ate it....i sorta wanted to throw up watching it , but it was sweet at the same time, just doing whatever halle tells her too. :)
i put kiki down for a nap, then i heard music coming from her room, i opened the door to find her dancing in the middle of the room, i said, "what are you doing?"...she looked up at me and said, "opps, sorry" and got back in bed. :)
i was telling tom about a playdate that went awry....halle overheard and said, "sometimes she's not a nice friend, when i am with her she always disappoints me"...me and tom both laughed.
i can remember when halle was younger then kiki, she used to ask me to repeat words so she could say them correctly, i would say look at my mouth, she would watch it very closely and mimic it...she spoke very articulate for her age. so kiki talks a lot, but often sounds like an alien to me ( some of this is the high pitch and volume she speaks in)....it doesn't bother me, but i thought the other day, i thought i would try saying "look at my mouth" to see if she would mimic me....i had a sucker, she said, "i wanna wick (lick)"...i said, "say lick" she said, "wick"...i said, look at my tongue, lllllick....she looked at me and "i don't care, mommy, i don't care"....so, thats the last time i try that, i'm sure it will work its way out.....
after presents we went to the pumpkin patch and let the girls each pick out a pumpkin. then we asked halle where she wanted to go for lunch, she picked sticky fingers, which barely beat out the waffle house, me and tom were both happy about that!
that afternoon we colored the pumpkins, went shopping for party supplies and went to tumbling that evening, the class sang happy birthday, and ruthie brought her a present! tom also told them that daddy long legs don't bite and let them crawl all over the girls (there are quite a few around our house)....i had always told them when they see one they should just step on it, now it has grossed me out all week that the girls love to play with them....yuck
that night we had family home evening...the lesson was on keeping the sabbath day holy, we talk about this a lot since chucky e cheese is on our way to church....i just told her that it was closed on sundays because people go to church on sunday...this sunday halle said, mom, its not closed if there are cars in the parking lot :)
tuesday we carved the pumpkins, kiera couldn't stand getting her hands dirty..."i don't like pumpkin guts, its stinky!" ....we cooked the seeds and took them to ballet class for her friends to try. that night we left halloween treats on our some of our neighbors door steps, knocked and ran to hide and then watched them get it from our hiding spot...we left a cute poem that they've been hit by a ghost and a ghost picture to hang on their door and that they have to do it to 2 neighbors...we did it to 5 neighbors, assuming some might be party poopers...one of halle's friends across the street had the windows opened so we couldn't leave it :(....halle picked 5 people in the neighborhood, a couple friends and the lady with the most flowers, aka, prettiest house, according to halle....it was one of the funnest nights...halle was freaking out she was so excited and with the rush of adrenaline from running house to house, she was ready to burst. we will do it again next year! halle did manage to see a couple neighbors out on our walk the next day and ask them if they got a treat on their door step, so much for secrets......it was fun to see some of the ghost pictures on people's doors later in the week!
wednesday we went to dauset trails, a wilderness type zoo place of rescued animals, its free and fun, but 45 min away , so we dont' go that often....we stayed for about 4 hours, with ruthie and peggy and some other friends from church....the girls had a blast and we all came home exhausted!
today we went on a walk, visited our neighbor who has lots of cats, the girls loved it, hung out with our other neighbors, played at the playground, and got ready for the party tomorrow...one of our really nice friends made halle a tinkerbell cake for her birthday...it was kinda a surprise, so i still have a cake i made too....they are different so it will be fun to have two cakes at the party...the friends cake has a tinkerbell doll in it, so halle was thrilled! i took a picture, its really cute....i have some really sweet friends here!
tomorrow is the party, details and pictures to come!!
we got kiera and halle both a step ladder/stool so they can cook with me...they LOVE to stand on the stools and help me cook...they are good about doing jobs i ask them too and watching without touching certain things, its been a lot of fun. i bought them both a potato peeler and they LOVE to peel carrots and things...they love to smell the spices and guess what it is, halle is pretty good at it. and their favorite is when i have a lot of ingredients out on the counter and i give them a bowl and spoon and let them create something....halle will say stuff like "i make a greaaaaat soup".....if she can get a lot of sugar and oats in it, its edible (and yes, we all have to eat what she makes)....once she put in too much salt, water, and soggy bread crumbs....we all faked eating it....halle took a bite and said, "this one didn't turn out so good" and kiera sat there and ate it....i sorta wanted to throw up watching it , but it was sweet at the same time, just doing whatever halle tells her too. :)
i put kiki down for a nap, then i heard music coming from her room, i opened the door to find her dancing in the middle of the room, i said, "what are you doing?"...she looked up at me and said, "opps, sorry" and got back in bed. :)
i was telling tom about a playdate that went awry....halle overheard and said, "sometimes she's not a nice friend, when i am with her she always disappoints me"...me and tom both laughed.
i can remember when halle was younger then kiki, she used to ask me to repeat words so she could say them correctly, i would say look at my mouth, she would watch it very closely and mimic it...she spoke very articulate for her age. so kiki talks a lot, but often sounds like an alien to me ( some of this is the high pitch and volume she speaks in)....it doesn't bother me, but i thought the other day, i thought i would try saying "look at my mouth" to see if she would mimic me....i had a sucker, she said, "i wanna wick (lick)"...i said, "say lick" she said, "wick"...i said, look at my tongue, lllllick....she looked at me and "i don't care, mommy, i don't care"....so, thats the last time i try that, i'm sure it will work its way out.....
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
halle's got the wiggles...
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Originally uploaded by Our Little One
halle did this with her body for a long time, so i decided to get some of it on video, she is so silly. you can hear kiki laughing while being tortured, i mean tickled by tom.... (video is the one above this post)
halle found a catapillar at the zoo, the next day it made a cacoon, we, me, as much as the girls, are sooo excited for it to turn into a butterfly we even brought it to dance class to show her friends....finding the catapillar was way more exciting then any animal at the zoo...halle said quite a few times, "this is the happiest day of my life!"
tom, "halle, what's your favorite holiday?"
halle, "christmas"
tom, "then what?"
halle, "Halloween."
tom, "then what?"
halle, "that one that Ruthie celebrates" (aka. haunikka)
kiki's cutest words:
flutterfly (aka: butterfly)
bed band (aka: head band)
we went to clairs today to look at earrings...kiki grabbed an arm full of jewlrey, comes over to me and says, "i want this for my birthday, my ariel birthday."
halle, "i need to accessorize before i go to bed"
halle, "when i grow up, i want to be a hair cutter"
kiki, "grandma is so nice"
kiki, "shreya, your hair is so boo-ful"
halle describing ruthie to grandma, "well...she's a big girl, with curly blond hair, and she's really cute."
grandma bought kiki sparkle shoes, she didn't take them off for 3 days, and nights, even when i convinced her to take them off, i would go in to check on her later and she would be sleeping in them, at least twice a day i hear, "look at my shoes, they're so pretty" or "they're so boo-ful" (beautiful)
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
kiki's got the giggles
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Originally uploaded by Our Little One
Monday, October 12, 2009
extra freaky!
this is my favorite picture i've ever taken of halle! she loves the freaky , scary side of halloween and i had fun getting her even more into it....her hair looked and felt fake!
Friday, October 2, 2009
Life size cabbage patch doll
some days, i can' t believe how lucky i am to get to snuggle with this little doll....and she is such a snuggler!
after this photo was taken, i bedazzled this outfit....its so stinkin cute!
halle and kiki
this is the stray cat that the girls tortured, i mean, played with....here it is wrapped in a heavy damp blanket.....Me, "halle, do you think I look like you and kiki?"
Halle, "no, because you have a football shape head and me and kiki have soccer ball shape heads"
halle, "daddy, tell mommy how beautiful she is"
halle, "mommy, Ruthie is Mormon."
me, "no, she's not, she's Jewish"
Halle, "she's a Jewish Mormon"
Me, "yeah, she is."
kiki dropped her bag of crackers on the street while we were getting into the car...in a parking spot, downtown, on the side of the road, i had to hurry to get the girls in the car, so i couldn't pick them up or explain to her that they were dirty, ....of course, my unsympathetic actions totally hurt kiera's feelings.....she whimpered the whole way home..."mommy, you hurt my feelings, say sorry"... me, "sorry, kiera" (she was tired, and not appologizing to kiera when she's tired can be ugly)....we did this back and forth for about 10 min...finally halle, who gets over stuff quickly, couldn't take it anymore, the next time kiki said, 'say sorry', halle said, "she said sorry already, kiki, she doesn't need to say it again!!!"
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
wild adventures
a while back , we went to wild adventures, it was a bout a three hour drive, so tom took a day off work so we could go on a weekday....
we had soo much fun, its an amuesment park, plus they have tons of animals like the zoo.
halle quotes :
halle, "mommy, why did you just call daddy, daddy? his name is tom."
me, "i can call him daddy"
halle, "no, you can call him tom, he's not your daddy."
halle often makes up words if she doesn't know something and teaches it to kiera, i think it makes her feel smart, but its annoying to me because kiera trusts her and repeats it.
after one incident:
me, "halle, that is not an fjkdasafkda;f ....don't tell her that"
halle, "yes it is a dfkajkfjdka;jk"
me, "no halle, its not"
halle, "yeah, it is mom, i looked it up online"
halle woke up and said this to me:
"mom, we are best freinds today, tomorrow and always"
(i think its a quote from barbie diamond castle, but it still made my day)
halle calls all the adults in primary at church her teachers. i asked her which teacher was her favorite.
halle, "sister bennion"
me, "shes not your teacher anymore" (was her nursery teacher a long time ago"
halle, "but i still really like her hair"
kiki, "i want to play puter (computer). i want to play barbie dot com"
kiki brushes my hair alot and then says, "you look buful"
Monday, September 28, 2009
spiderwoman
i bought superhero dress ups a few months ago at a yard sale, i couldn't resist for a dollar a peice, although i figured the girls would never wear them (boys come for playdates and like them)
halle finally gave in and put one on the other day....we have fashion shows in our hall, the girls go in the room, shut the door and then i announce them and they strut down the cat walk..."lets play fashion show!" thats what they call it.....
anyways, halle came out in this the other day, i laughed as she struted down the hall in heels (i guess she had to still feel like a woman)....at the end i told her to pause for a picture, her "mean" face cracked me up!
the twins!
halle calls them the twins, i told her 3 was triplets, but since she knows more then me, she insists they are twins....their names, angelina, alice and isabella...
she loves taking care of them, mostly they nap, like this, in her room!
ballet
another day of ballet! over the past 3 years of yard sale shopping i have accumulated about 10-15 different leatards....halle loves to wear a different one every time! i even started to bedazzle them and they look so cute!
ready for ballet!
this is the girls right before ballet....kiera likes to dress up for ballet too...but since there are no windows...we cannot watch what halle is doing, so kiera is not jealous....she actually enjoys our one on one time, i bring books or crayons...
seeing halle in ballet makes me so happy....its like a dream come true for her, she loves it so much and is so excited for her recital, she has been talking about being on stage in front of people and dancing and having people throw roses at her for over a year!
the bigger the better!
halle thinks the bigger the smile, the cuter the face, and the less likely i will be to get upset with her...its a great theory, it usually works! when she gets out of bed at night after i've put her to sleep...she comes and finds me and makes this face, it usually does make me laugh....sometimes if she asks for something and i say no, she'll make this face, and of course, i cave!
the zipper!
this was a kids version of the zipper...the cages didn't spin....the girls had so much fun, it was one of their favorite rides, they felt so cool in there by themselves, thats them in the very top one.
six flags!
we bought season passes to six flags , we went on saturday and monday over labor day weekend...we spent about 8 hours there each day....we are so excited to go back, the girls loved it and me and tom had a great time too!! luckily, it reopened quickly after the flooding since they have a lot of halloween stuff going on in oct.
the girls are both fearless and love rides! we even convinced our friends to buy passes too, so we can go with them and we all went on monday! the kids liked having friends...they have 2 boys, the same ages as our two girls!
sweet dreams!
kiera found this prince eric doll (who, at one time, had clothes) and held on to him for a few days, day and night....she fell sleep like this at 6 flags, i thought other people must think it looked strange...but since she thinks she is ariel, she is in love!
sleeping beauty
i put kiera to sleep, she snuck out of bed, took off her night gown and changed into this dress up dress, got back in bed and fell asleep....i found her like this and had to take a picture...this dress has the most poof of any dress we own...i had to strip her down in the middle of the night so she wouldn't overheat!
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