yestarday we went to the children's museum...it's free on tuesdays so we go every tuesday. we met our friends there and had lunch. after we played in the water spray pad outside the museum...the girls and ruthie ran around in their undies..they had so much fun...i lost track of time and barely had time to lay kiera down for a quick nap before taking halle to ballet and tap....i don't know who was more excited me or halle about her first day of dance...probably me!! halle said she loved it and she looked so adorable in her little outfit!
today we went to peggy's house for 4 hours...it seems like we wore out our welcome, but times flies when your having fun!! we did slip and slide , swimming, dress up, coloring, tea party....we skipped kiera's nap and just kept on playing...the girls came home exhausted and went to bed before 7
the girls love sprinkles...we make cookies a lot, and we always use sprinkles, i also put them on a few foods, like, their oatmeal and pancakes...yestarday when halle sat down to eat eggs, she said she wanted black and white sprinkles...what?, i said, you mean salt and pepper? yup, thats what she meant!
halle has combinded the word hand sanitizer and calls it, "hanitizer"
since i say bless you after a sneeze, halle thinks another word for sneeze is a bless you. i haven't corrected her, because it always makes me laugh to hear her say things like, "kiki just bless you-ed"
kiki gets an M&M everytime she uses the potty, there is a cup full of M&Ms on the counter in the bathroom. When halle uses the bathroom,she helps herself to a candy too....everytime she goes, she gives me this speech: "if you go a little pee pee, you get one. If you go a lot of pee pee, you get two. if you go poop, you get three. if you go caca (halle's definition of caca is a nasty poop, i dont' know where she comes up with this stuff) you get 4. if you go diarriah, you get 5." and seriously, that speech is word for word, because i've heard it a 100 times!! it's funny to me that she sticks to this guideline that she created like its the law, you would think that she would just help herself to m&ms whenever she wanted, its not like i would even care or get mad...she is not even tempted to cheat and just tell me that she went a lot of pee and grab two of them...i'm not even in the bathroom with her..but she will come out and give me the speech and show me exactly how many she took...this kid is totally going to be a teacher's pet with her rule following...but her love of potty humor may not go over so well.
today at peggy's house, kiki heard the chair move on the floor, making a strange sound....she looked at me and peggy and said, "peggy farted"
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
Today
Today i almost bought a shih-tzu or hlasa/shih-tzu mix...they were the two cutest puppy dogs i've ever seen at the pet store, me and the girls played with them for an hour, right there on the floor of the pet store. i had to call my sister to talk me out of wanting to buy it. this is weird for me...i HATE animals. i like to look at them, but i am completly disgusted by them and NEVER touch them. lynn reminded me that they would pee on my kids beds, they stink and ruin stuff....but for that one hour, they were sooo cute.
another fun week of summer, this was last week:
Monday: went to payless to get halle ballet and tap shoes...sooo exciting for halle to be starting classes...of course i had to get kiera ballet shoes too, and since they're buy one get one half off, i let halle pick out a pair for me, i've gotten a lot of compliments on them, what a great stylist! payless is next to petsmart...a weekly stop for us...we love to see the dogs get haircuts and name the cats...how does someone who hates animals, love pet stores so much? i don't know, but i do....late afternoon trip to the park and FHE that evening, with 'GRINCH' ice cream for refreshments (green mint ice cream, halle renamed it)
Tuesday: tom got off work early, we all went to chuck E. Cheese...had about 6 photos taken and hung up in kitchen, we love that place! then out to lunch at our fav Indian resturant, the girls love indian food too....skiped naps...went to the museum that afternoon with friends, tom took the girls swimming that evening, exhausted at bedtime....i went to a girls night at my friends house, fun, fun, fun, stayed out till midnight, haven't stayed out that late in a LONG time!!!
wednesday: storytime, burger king, ruthie and peggy over to play
Thursday: tom took halle to walmart, i took kiera to kohl's...divide and conquer! me and halle have our "activity time" while kiera naps. babysitter, while me and tom go out to dinner!
Friday: tom has off, yea! go to wild adventures...amuesment park...pictures to come!
another fun week of summer, this was last week:
Monday: went to payless to get halle ballet and tap shoes...sooo exciting for halle to be starting classes...of course i had to get kiera ballet shoes too, and since they're buy one get one half off, i let halle pick out a pair for me, i've gotten a lot of compliments on them, what a great stylist! payless is next to petsmart...a weekly stop for us...we love to see the dogs get haircuts and name the cats...how does someone who hates animals, love pet stores so much? i don't know, but i do....late afternoon trip to the park and FHE that evening, with 'GRINCH' ice cream for refreshments (green mint ice cream, halle renamed it)
Tuesday: tom got off work early, we all went to chuck E. Cheese...had about 6 photos taken and hung up in kitchen, we love that place! then out to lunch at our fav Indian resturant, the girls love indian food too....skiped naps...went to the museum that afternoon with friends, tom took the girls swimming that evening, exhausted at bedtime....i went to a girls night at my friends house, fun, fun, fun, stayed out till midnight, haven't stayed out that late in a LONG time!!!
wednesday: storytime, burger king, ruthie and peggy over to play
Thursday: tom took halle to walmart, i took kiera to kohl's...divide and conquer! me and halle have our "activity time" while kiera naps. babysitter, while me and tom go out to dinner!
Friday: tom has off, yea! go to wild adventures...amuesment park...pictures to come!
putting the babies to bed
this is one of the girls favorite activities...they gather all the baby dolls from around the house, there are at least 10, and put them all to sleep, the extra bottom bunk has worked out great for this!
we have been getting better at family scripture reading and family prayer at the end of the night (nothing like a sticker chart to help us remember!)....the other night we forgot and the next morning halle had pulled the scriptures into bed with her and told me , "mom, we forgot to read last night, so i had to do it by myself and we forgot to say prayers, so i said it by myself" i was so happy, i asked her what she said and she told me the cutest little prayer. another cute prayer story: we usually take turns praying for meals and night, but kiki really doesn't care who's turn it is to pray, she is always shouting out the prayer right along with the person praying. halle just figures she wants it to be her turn, so she usually just offers to "whisper" in kiera's ear what she should say. its really cute. kiera's prayer by herself is usually something like this : "thank you, for day! thank you, for mommy, daddy, halle, thank you, food, JC, amen!"
girlies!
Halle told me yestarday, "mom, chew like this" and then she had her mouth closed while she chewed (obviously, she hasn't learned her manners from me)..."this way, not everyone will see the food in your mouth. When i am alone, i chew with my mouth open."
in the car on the way to church, i was "preping" the girls for church....when we get to church, we can't run, we use our whisper voices. We need to think about Jesus and how much he loves us and we need to be quiet, so that other people can think about Jesus....then kiki said, while holding up her ariel doll, "mommy, tell ariel about Jesus"
kiera is sooo sensitive compared to halle, she cries if you say no to her or use a less then cheerful voice to give her an order. this is her usual display: she runs off crying, lays on her belly with her hands in her face , cries for a bout 5 seconds and then runs back to me and says, "Hurt feelings, mommy, say sorry!" i apologive to kiki a few times a day.
halle doesn't like my voice to be at all stern either...she'll say, "your voice is hurting my feelings"
there is a stray cat in our neighborhood, our neighbor told me she took it in for shots and it had been nutered as well, she is taking care of it, basically, so i decided to let my girls play with it in the backyard....they were sooo happy. they played with it for over an hour. this cat was defenitly a family cat that someone got rid of, because it let the girls do anything to it. they pushed in on the baby swing, down the slide, in their toy cars, forcing her hands on the steering wheel and yelling , "drive it, drive it", then they wrapped in a wet blanket that had been left outside, cuddled with it, carried it around. it was pretty funny. i gave them milk and tuna for it, it had entertained them for over an hour, i guess it earned the food, plus i hoped it would come back and entertain them another day, it was such a relaxing morning. tom even took halle to the store to buy cat food for it (halle really has tom wrapped around her finger). halle named the cat candy cane butterfly flowers. kiki said, "its not candy cane, its kitty cat"..."thats her name", halle explained. later i asked kiki the cats name, "its candy cane and butterfly"....i had never seen my girls interact with an animal that much before, it was funny to see that they talked to it like it could understand everything they were saying. halle had full conversation with the cat, and kiera said , "you like ariel, kitty cat?" while she held her ariel doll in its face.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
thanks, kiera!
this is kiki's attempt to change her own diaper! thanks, kiera, this is so helpful! i had to take a picture to get some sympathy...poop was rubbed so deep into the carpet, thank goodness for carpet shampooers....this is not the only time she has done this, everytime she poops, she rips off her diaper, usually i can catch her in the act, but a few times when she is alone in her room for a nap, she has done this, gotten out wipes and tried to pick it up off the floor, which smears it even worse. we have been working at potty training, she always pees on the potty, but rarely poops...gross!!!!
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Kiki's birthday!!!
here's the cake i made....after halle's princess cake (click to view)....i thought i had learned enough beginners mistakes so this one would be easy....it still took me a LONG time...but it was actually really fun and kiki and halle were sooo excited to see it, i even let halle place the figures...and let tom talk me into using a peice of plastic for a giant wave...and then i used brown sugar and white sugar for the sand....now to start thinking about a tinkerbell cake for halle's party in a few months!!! thanks grandma G for the figures....what a hit!
the cake
halle saw me putting the boarder on and said..."i like the sea anemones!" she's such a smartie pants...i just learned what an anemone was about a month ago.
more cake
i guess i could have cleaned off the table to take a decent picture....i seriously used every bowl in my kitchen during the process of making this thing....what a mess!!!
lighting the candles!!
the cake was 4 boxes of cake mix and we ate almost the entire cake!!! there were over 50 people at the party...about 30 kids and 20 adults!!! who knew kiki was so popular!!! we have been lucky to make some really great friends here and they made this party soooo much fun!!!!
birthday bash
i made the poster board pictures and halle made the one on the right...it's an ocean , with fish...then i cut out fish and blind folded the kids and we played pin the fish in the ocean...it was fun...you always win and halle was happy that she made a game for the party....we also played mermaid races (aka...potato sack races, aka....jump in a pillow case races)... and while the kids were eating cake and ice cream , tom scattered candy all over the playground....then the kids went on a treasure hunt stuffing there pockets full of candy...this was really fun....like an easter egg hunt....there were kids from age 1-10 at the party, so this was a good game to play because everyone loves finding candy!
Opening presents!
all of the kids loved "helping" kiera open the present they gave her...kiera just kept opening peices of gum that she found on the treasure hunt...she is excited to have some toys of her own, that she knows are hers! halle asked if she could have the mermaid barbie and kiki could have the ariel barbie doll, kiki said yes and they were both happy!
presents!!
kiki got the coolest presents....i am sooo excited to have new stuff to play with too! what a lucky girl!!!
birthday girl #2
halle is so excited that her birthday is coming up!! she is already helping me plan her tinkerbell party and was inviting some of the guests to come back to her party in october, she even told tom's co-worker what she could bring...a tinkerbell barbie doll...i can't wait to use these birthday wings and headband at the girls parties for the next few years...our friend brought them for kiera....they say "happy birthday" on them...so cute!!!
birthday princess!
really, it doesn't get much cuter then this! kiki carried around the mermaid ariel doll for the rest of the party and then put on some of her other gifts...as soon as she woke up the next morning, she was asking me to put on her earrings and necklace!
decoration on a dime
these were the decor that i drew and hung up.....coloring with markers is somewhat theraputic and really fun...now to get working on my tinkerbell decor!
happy girl!
what a fun day!! thank you to everyone who came and spoiled my little girl and helped make her day special!!!
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