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!
Thursday, September 24, 2009
six flags
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgSNukmV6rY
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....
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
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"
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"
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Ballet
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"
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"
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!!!
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
the rock ranch!
tom took off work last friday so we could go to the rock ranch...we had the best time! i made the traditional "Lopez" picnic, salami and swiss subs, bbq chips, and rice crispy treats, yummmm...we had so much fun!
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