Family Fun

Uno out on the deck...

and still enjoying his new blocks.

Words of Wisdom from Madeline

Here are some of the latest jewels from Madeline:

1. While we were watching the Hannah Montana movie in bed: "MOM! Did you know that Hanna Montana is REALLY Miley Cyrus! But no one at her school knows cause she wears her regular brown hair there and her blond hair (like mine) is her rock star hair! THIS IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER!!!"

2. Infomercials. She loves these. She has had a fascination with Smooth Away for months and months now. That stuff is in every check out line it seems because every time she sees it she yells 'They have Smooth Away!!! Can we get some???"
One day she gave me a sticky note where she had paused the DVR, went and got the notepad and a pen and wrote down the 800 number for The Snake drain unclogging thing. She thought that was a NOVEL idea and that we should definitely buy one of those.
Then tonight she came and told me that we needed to go to Command.com and buy these great stretchy things that let you hang pictures on the walls WITHOUT nail holes and proceeded to pitch the product to me. Too funny! I'm going to be in trouble when she gets old enough to use the phone and discovers the Home Shopping Network.

3. Tonight she and Matthew were taking a bath together and she yells "EEEEWWWWW!!!! Matthew just PEE'D in the tub! He just stood up and I saw water come out of that thing!!!!"

4. She's been on the green light at school for the past few days but today she was on yellow. Again for talking, it's always talking. She says "I was on yellow light for talking. Mommy it's just how I'm made."

Guess what she's doing today??

Surprise Mom, I wearing one of my best dresses to go outside and jump rope in! Sigh. The child has plenty of play clothes in her closet but they were not fancy enough to twirl in or jump rope in.....

She's jumping rope like a pro but this picture looks funny when you can't see the jump rope!

Brother decided he was going to get in on the action, but all he could do was jump up and down while lashing the jump rope around. He thought it was fun though!

Anything Sissy does is high fun to him!

Playing

Today we were playing in Madeline's bed for a while with one of her Barbies. Matthew combs the hair while Madeline and I dress her and 'do the acting'. Then she ran and got a bag of Cheetos and Matthew decided that was worth hanging around for.

Right now it works out pretty good. Madeline plays cars and blocks with Matthew and Matthew combs the dolls hair and pushes the doll stroller for her. ha ha He would probably do anything that Sissy wanted to play!

He stayed even after we had left. He figured he had a good set up going and was going to keep eating Cheetos until I took them away.

Big Boy Pillow

Matthew slept with a pillow in the crib for the first time last night. I haven't let him have one before even though Jeff says he uses one when he naps in our bed. Last night he kept squirming around and trying to wad up stuffed animals to use under his head, so I felt bad. He obviously wanted a pillow to lay on.

Kid's Market finds

Saturday morning was my day to shop Kid's Market. I found some great things and some great surprises to keep the kids occcupied on our drive to Disney. One of the finds was this pink canopy for Madeline's bed. She was so excited she immediately grabbed her princess book and got up in there to read!

I found a Disney activity table for Madeline to use in the car on our trip, she of course is breaking it in now!

Had to put this picture here for Aunt Nancy. I found this skirt for Madeline and knew she would love it. It has sparkles on it too, they just don't show on the picture.

I found Matthew a large container of Mega Blocks. His teacher told me that that is his favorite thing at school to do. At Wal-Mart they were $19.99, I got these for $5. =)

Princess Castle

Madeline has a cough and runny nose right now, so the last 2 nights she has been using her princess castle humidifier in her room. It's pretty cool, the vapor comes out the top and when the lights are off it glows with a blue night light. =)

Who says doll strollers are just for girls?

Matthew was quite content to use Madeline's babydoll stroller as a seat for himself!

Curly Q

Madeline likes for me to put lots of braids (plats as Dee calls them) in her hair after it's been washed so when she wakes up her hair will be wavy. Of course she always asks to leave them in and go to school with 8 braids!

Right now they adore each other..... wonder how long that will last.

The Mad Mom

On our way home from visiting Dee today we got into a bit of heavy traffic. Madeline was looking out the back window and here was our conversation:
"Mommy! There's a mad mom behind us!"
"A what??"
"A mad mom!"
I'm thinking there's some woman in the car behind us making obscene gestures or something.
"How do you know it's a mom and what are you talking about??"
"You know, a mad mom, like on tv."
"I have no idea what you're talking about Madeline, I don't see anything back there."
"Those mad moms with the fire sticks!"
"What?!?"
"Like on Phineus & Ferb."
"Oh. You mean a mad mob. And those were torches they had on tv."
She meant there was a lot of cars coming up fast behind us.
ha ha ha ha

Possible Haircut Remedy #2

so just combing his hair into a little mohawk to sleep in last night didn't work. He woke up still looking like Julius Caesar. We ran into our babysitter at WalMart and she said "oh, he got a new haircut" so obviously it needs some help. This time I put some mousse in it to mess it up and I'm going to let him sleep like this to see how it looks in the morning. Hopefully this mousse will add some texture and fluff after it settles.....
sigh.


I guess I'm going to have to learn how to cut boys hair..... $10 plus tip to look like a Three Stooge isn't working.... she cut the bangs WAY too short.

Wish us luck for how this looks in the morning after it relaxes....

The ongoing haircut saga

Boys haircuts are so hard to get done correctly, or at least I just can't seem to figure out how to tell them what to do. I don't want any kind of fades or buzz cuts, just plain scissors and a regular boy cut. That's it. Matthew went today and to put it nicely he came out looking like Moe from the Three Stooges, or Jim Carey's character in Dumb & Dumber. The last haircut from the same place was really good. Go figure.
I put him in the tub and washed it and combed it up into a little mohawk to get it to dry fluffy. We'll see how it works..

Tried to get a before shot of the haircut before the bath but it didn't work.

Out of the mouths of babes

Madeline says some very sweet things..... today at Panera Bread she was eating some of the honey wheat/oat rolls which had some multigrain seeds in it. She was picking some of them out and said she wanted to take them home to plant a bread tree. =) Then on the way home she was laughing so hard with her hand stuck out the car window in the wind and she said it felt like God was tickling her hand. So cute!

Trying it on

seeing what still fits and/or might still be fitting by the time we go to Disney. We love all the preparation that goes into our trip! =)

First Day of Spring

A Day At The Park

Today was such a pretty day we decided to take the kids to the local park. This is the same park that Madeline had her 2yr birthday party at. Matthew LOVED the slides. I think he would have done this all day.

Before long he discovered he could climp UP the slide and that was even more fun!

I see you!

While Matthew and I were playing, Jeff took Madeline on one of the woodsy trails.

She likes to pick 'dandys' (dandelions). They aren't weeds to her.

She still loves to slide! It's always been her favorite thing at the park.

Then we all went to walk the trails.

It's finally here.

Last night I was in line at the local WalMart to get my New Moon DVD as soon as it was released. The police were there too to watch the crowd and there was red punch and cake for everyone in line. Lots of 12 yr old girls showed up in their pjs to get in line, but I was not the oldest person there by a long shot. Can't wait to watch it and be able to rewind my favorite parts!!

Doesn't Get Sweeter

Pooh Bear

Madeline is loving preparing for the Disney trip even though it is 7 months away! I got her a Pooh sleepshirt at the Disney store and she couldn't wait to get it on and pose with her Pooh. Not sure why she's loving Pooh right now, we'll see how long it lasts before she's back with the princesses. =)

The Great Tooth Fairy Mishap

Madeline has lost another tooth! It came out at the Y yesterday and she could not wait to get it ready for the Tooth Fairy.
I asked her if she had managed to keep her tongue out of the hole this time and she said no. She said she has decided that she doesn't want a gold tooth anymore, she wants all of her teeth to be white so that means she can put her tongue in the hole whenever she wants!

It was a bad omen when Jeff accidentally threw the tooth (in a ziplock bag) away in the trash. He and Madeline had to dig all through the kitchen trash bag to find it- but they did!

So here's what happened. When the Tooth Fairy arrived she thought it would be great fun to leave Madeline's $$ and a special note up in her lamp instead of back underneath the pillow. Looking back, this was not such a good idea. At 12:45a.m Madeline came into our room and woke me up to tell me that she could not find her Tooth Fairy doll where she put it under the pillow (the tooth goes into the little purse the doll holds) and the Tooth Fairy had not come. I told her to back to bed and wait until morning. The next morning Jeff woke her up and she immediately started to pull pillows off the bed in search of evidence that the Tooth Fairy had been there, but there was nothing to find under the pillows. Jeff came to ask me if the Tooth Fairy had not come, he was afraid there was about to be a panic. I told him to have her look in the lamp. Disaster narrowly avoided. Next time the Tooth Fairy will go along with the norm and leave her evidence under the pillows! Sigh.