KIKI and Halle

kiki puts the blanket on as a cape and runs around saying, "look at me, i'm superman"
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"