March 7, 2010

Day 66, 299 to go

So, today I (once again) attempted to get Dylan's 11 month pictures done with the bear. Neither of the girls were very cooperative. In fact, they were both in pretty whiny, clingy moods all day. It's something about mommy that brings it out in them. If I was upstairs folding clothes or something, they were just fine playing downstairs with daddy watching. The second they heard my foot on the stairs, however, they screamed until I was sitting right there on the floor with them. I don't know if it had anything to do with it but (TMI warning) they were both super-messy-diaper-makers today. I changed 9 poopy ones today. 'Nuf said about that.

Since I really want to get these invitations out Tuesday, I had to get a good picture today. Here are a few of what I got.

This is the one I ended up using (I cropped it for the invitations)


Cute picture, but I wanted to show her size next to it. :-)


Scout insisted that they needed to sit on the couch together. Neither would look at the camera.


Scout wanted a picture with her bear.


Scout tried to show Dylan how to do it!


So, they both went to bed about 30 minutes earlier than they usually do. I'm now sitting here watching the Academy Awards and feeling very old...

March 6, 2010

Day 65, 300 to go

It was an absolutely beautiful day today. Mid-60s and a nice breeze... gorgeous! So, we took the girls to the park to play. They had a great time and so did we! Daddy and Scout went down the slide...


The girls had a great time on the swings!






Dylan is picking up some really cute expressions :-)


Wonderful day!

March 3/4/5 2010

Whoops! I've been so busy living life that I haven't been blogging about it. How'd that happen? Ha!

Wednesday:
Day 62, 303 to go

Scout singing to Dylan when we got home today


So, tonight Dylan decided she wanted to taste the bubbles in their bath. This led to an impressive bubble beard which made both girls laugh. Then Scout put her face in and came up with a beard herself. Both girls were cracking up and giggling. Then Scout said, "Come here, mommy," scooped up some bubbles, and put them on my face. So we all three had bubble beards!


Thursday:
Day 63, 302 to go

Tonight I tried to take Dylan's 11 month pictures with her bear, but it didn't happen. Dylan didn't feel like sitting still, and Scout kept taking the bear and saying it was her's. Maybe Saturday... I did get some smiles!


After Dylan went to bed, Scout and I made English muffin pizzas. Scout painstakingly put one piece of grated cheese at a time. The knives in the background are cracking me up now, looking at them!




And then she got to eat it!


Yes, I dressed the girls alike today. I don't do it often, but I thought it would be fun and Scout told everyone that she and Dylan matched. :-)

Friday:
Day 64, 301 to go

Tonight I almost forgot to take a picture! Right before I put Scout into her PJs, I remembered and told her to say cheese. This is what I got.


She then says, "See Scout? See Scout?" She's learned that she gets to see the pictures on the other side of the camera. She doesn't always let me take the picture before she wants to see it. Silly Scout!

March 1/2 2010

Is it really March already???

Monday:
Day 60, 305 to go

Today when I picked Scout up from daycare, I heard my two-year-old utter these words: I go to timeout, mommy. Jay Jay put me time out. Upon further questioning, She admitted that she "hit Claudi right here!" (pointed to her cheek). Her teacher, Miss Jay Jay was gone for the day, so I sent her a text message and asked her about it. I was pretty sure Scout was saying that she hit Claudi, but it could have been that Claudi hit her. Some of her words are hard to understand. :-) Jay Jay confirmed it... my child hit another child and was put in time out. *sigh* I'm glad she told me, but disappointed that she is hitting.

Tonight, the girls had the same things for dinner. Green beans, ravioli, meat sticks, and cereal. It didn't start out that way... Scout had green beans and ravioli and Dylan had meat sticks and cereal. But, both girls threw fits because they wanted what the others had. Go figure!








Once the girls were in bed, I had a huge mess in the kitchen to tackle. Micheal had cooked a bunch of food for his rehearsals (they have dinner on stage and they use real food) and this is how he left things:

Oh, joy. And now you see why I didn't have time to post this on Monday!


Tuesday:
Day 61, 304 to go

Micheal is feeling sick today, so he canceled his rehearsal, came home, and went to bed. Poor guy. I had the girls all alone, and boy am I tired! Dylan had her first real banana tonight and she loved it!



It was a beautiful day. Even the trees and flowers thought so. They seemed to think that it's spring!




Right now I should be cleaning in the kitchen again, but I'm just too tired. Or lazy. Not sure which.

February 28, 2010

Day 59, 306 to go

We had another busy but great day today! Noa came over to play while J & M went to see Circ de Soleil. We had a circus of our own with the three girls. :-)In a good way, of course. All of the girls were tired but they played nice. Scout and Noa took turns a lot and were very vocal about whose turn it was.

"Now it's Noa's turn!"


"Scout's turn!"


"Puppy's turn!"


They took turns rocking





So sweet! We went to Target with all three girls and that was a trip! We all survived and got everything that we needed. When J & M got back to our house, we all went to an Italian place for dinner. That's right... we went out to eat twice in one week! Dylan loved the spaghetti - though a lot of it ended up on the floor. Scout ate some pizza and some spaghetti, too. When we got home, Dylan went straight to bed. Scout stayed up a little longer to call SuSu (grandma) and tell her happy birthday. Then she went to bed with no problems at all. I got all of the girls' stuff ready for school tomorrow, hung up all of the laundry from the day, and got myself ready for tomorrow. Now it's a few minutes of computer time, and I'm off to bed! G'nite all!

February 26/27, 2010

Friday:
Day 57, 308 to go

Well, today was payday for Micheal - and we got our tax return, so we decided to buy ourselves a new mattress! I've been okay with the one we have, but Micheal's back has been bothering him when he wakes up... our mattress is 8 years old or so and it's memory foam. I would not recommend it to anyone. It was great for the first couple of years, but it got soft quickly and there were craters where we usually sleep because the foam didn't pop back the way it's supposed to. Anyway, we were looking for a cheap one - but firm. We met after work at Sams and they had one king size mattress to choose from. Hmph. We went to a mattress place across the street from Sams and their cheapest was out of our price range. So, we went home because by this time, it was time to pick up the girls. We got them from daycare and went to a catfish place in the town just north of us. It was so yummy! The girls behaved themselves (for the most part) and we had some good family time. Scout kept the whole place entertained with her constant play-by-play of what she was doing. "I'm eating a fry. Sister has a fry. Mommy eating fish. Dip dip dip my fry in the ketchup..." It was great. The other diners were mostly senior citizens, and several stopped at our table on their way out to talk to Scout. She loved the attention!

Anyway, when we got home, I put Caillou on for Scout and got Dylan ready for bed. Caillou is a recent discovery in our house. We record Barney on the dvr and the Caillou intro song is usually at the end. Scout has been excited about it, so I finally set the dvr to record an episode. She sat mesmerized through the entire thing. I think we have a new favorite show!




Saturday:
Day 58, 307 to go

Today was a busy day for us! Micheal had a lot of errands to run for school - he had to find furniture and props and stuff for his show. He left early and was going to be out all day. So, after the girls took their naps and had their lunch, we went out. I took them to the grocery store and let Scout push her own buggy. We didn't get a lot, but it was fun.







Then we went to the dollar store and met Aunt Sarah. She is going to Honduras next weekend on a mission trip and we wanted to see her for a while first. She went with us to IKEA where we met Micheal and got a mattress! Yay! After the girls went to bed, the real fun began. We had to figure out how to get the mattress up to our room. The old one barely fit up our narrow stairs and we had to squeeze and squish it to do so. We didn't want to do that to our new mattress so... we took it up the balcony! M had borrowed Jacob's truck to get the mattress home, so we backed it up to the side of our house, strapped some tie-downs around it, and hauled it up. I wish I could have taken pictures of that, but it was dark and there was only the two of us, so that would have been difficult.

February 24/25, 2010

Wednesday:
Day 55, 310 to go

I don't have much time to post today... this was Scout today trying on mommy's gloves.



Thursday:
Day 56, 309 to go
The girls took a bubble bath tonight and Scout was very concerned when her toesies disappeared. Then she found them and all was well again. :-) As you can tell, Dylan was thrilled with the whole thing.