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"
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
wild adventures
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!
Thursday, September 24, 2009
six flags
fast foward to about half way for better scences
6 flags flooded in atlanta.....we just bought our 2009-2010 season passes a few weeks ago....just our luck....the halloween fright nights were supposed to open this weekend.....now what are we supposed to do...tom thinks it will still reopen in oct....i don't think it will.....i think the rides probably got ruined.....some of there rollercoasters are so scary, i don't trust them now....
Saturday, September 19, 2009
KIKI and Halle
i put kiki in a jean/denim jumper, that was shorts, really cute, but the first time she wasn't in something pink/purple/flowers, girly...she said, "look at me, i'm a boy"
halle has all our halloween costumes picked out, she loves the scary side of Halloween and insists on being a ghost, tom a pirate, me, a witch and kiera a vampire (due to her "compliments"on her sharp K9s)...everytime halle brings it up, kiki says, "no, i be ariel for halloween"...the other day, she said, "i be ariel, daddy be king triton, and mommy be ursala" (thanks a lot , kiki)
kiki gets up every morning and puts on our ariel dress up dress, even when i put her in pjs for naps or bed, she'll sometimes sneak out of bed, take off her pjs, put on her ariel dress and get back in bed...i've had to change her out of it late in the night when i find her like that, so she doesn't over heat.
kiki's favorite sayings when she's upset:
"be nice to kiki"
"say sorry!!" (everytime she's upset, its somehow my fault)
"listen to me!"
"you're not listening to me!" (halle says this a lot to her, halle gets frustrated that kiera ignores her or doesn't do what she says)
"no, i don't!" (in response to anything you ask her)
any time i break out in singing, which is often, i am always playing the primary songs while we are eating, we have tons of tapes in the playroom and i know a ton of songs from movies, ect....the girls will both tell me, no singing, please stop!....am i that bad??
halle's favorite things right now:
she loves to have you make books out of paper with her and then she dictates a story and likes you to write it and then you tell her the story back and she draws pictures for each page....then she likes to be read her stories at bedtime
she loves to draw...she draws all the time....i got her a clipboard, and she also draws in the cheap 15 cent notebooks from walmart, she fills them up with pictures...she loves to draw people and monsters , witches and pirates...she draws our family and then melanie's family and lynn's family the most...its fun that i can actatually tell what her pictures are now and she has improved sooo much over the past few months....she probably draws for a couple hours day, broken up. she usually draws to wind down in bed at the end of the night
she loves to write names of the people or animals she draws, she writes her favorite letters under the picture and then comes and asks me what the name is...its usually something like ello, or hohoa (fav letters are ones from her name)
she LOVES, LOVES to cut things with scissors, she cuts confetti all the time (of course, she never says its confettii, to her its invitations to her party, or letters to friends, ect)...its a messy hobby, but easy to clean up and i think its good for fine motor skills....
she has a GREAT imagination...she gets in what i call her "zone", which means a story is going on in her head, she gets a serious look on her face and starts moving quickly...and she starts organizing a whole scence, like filling a shopping cart with items for a campout and packing her babies up for the camping trip and then creating with blankets a camping scence...or she's imaging some sort of ball, sometimes i'm in on her schemes and other times she's playing by herself or getting kiera to go along with it...i am glad she has such a long attention span and good imagination
she loves older kids....she loves all the kids at church, a lot of them give kiera and halle attention, and they eat it up...halle and kiera know most of the kids at church by name...halle thinks she's got tons of friends and is really cool for knowing all them...one time she was surronded by a group of 10ish yrs old girls and i said what were you guys talking about and halle said, "they were just all talking about how cute i was"
she loves playing store and mommy/baby, where i am the baby and she's the mom, or kiera is the mom and she's the baby...this is one of my least fav activities....she'll put you to sleep, make you lay down, put a blanket on, read you a book, sing softly and just when you are actually dozing off for reals...she says "wake up!"....its torture
she loves her dance class sooo much!!! she especially loves to practice what she learned in tumbling...she loves to practice skipping, cart wheels and head stands, which she can do against a wall, by herself, its soo cute!
she likes to play uno and so do i!
she loves to get a laugh, she always says the funniest things, loves to tell a joke, make a silly face, dance like a weirdo, will moon me (who her taught her that?), before she puts her undies back on after using the bathroom, she'll never miss the opportunity to run out of the bathroom and say "hey mom!" and shake her butt at me.
she still loves purple, make up, earrings, doing her own hair, doing my hair, being naked, dancing
she is really excited about her tinkerbell party next month, she asked me dangily earrings, a tink shirt, and a tink toothbrush....easy requests to fill!
kiki's favs:
still ariel, the purple sand that i got for our sand table, making monster faces, reading books, dancing, singing (but not with me, only by herself),
loves to introduce our family (got this from halle, halle loves it too), she says, "my name, kiki. dis, halle...dis, Lori....dis, tom" to everyone they meet
loves to demand things in a growl voice and i say, "say it nicer , please" and she says, "please" in the sweetest voice.
halle is her whole world and when they are apart for church class or ballet and then reunited, kiera can't stop hugging her and sayin, "i missed you , halle, i love you, i missed you"....if halle is crying , kiki is rubbing her back, "you ok, halle?"....if halle is upset, kiki will say, "say sorry mommy, you hurt halle feelings" (halle will do the same if i get upset with kiki)
kiera still pushes other kids, and is so used to time out, she'll even impulsively push and then go sit herself in time out against a wall.
she loves to snuggle, play playdough, do puzzles...she likes when i teach her things and then will be the "teacher" in return...."mommy, whats this" and then you say it and she says, "very good, mommy" (loves to mimic all of us)
very similar interests to halle so they play well together...but very different personality, kiki is very dramatic and intense, i have to try hard to be very calm and patient with her at times....
very , very silly....loves to be loud and weird to get a laugh out of us, loves to talk , non stop, very loud, loves to say, "look at me!" and do something to get you laughing
loves to fart and say, "i got the farts"