Monday, December 31, 2012
Welcome to our new home
After almost 1 year of not posting and seriously reviewing our cash flow, I've decided to move this blog to a new location that is much easier on the wallet. I've sent out an invite to Maria to see if she'd be interested in posting as well. We'll see! Could be a great opportunity to get some good content up here for the family to see.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Putting Lucy To Sleep
Lucy USED to be a great little girl to put to sleep. She will race you to her room, help you turn on all the fans (yes, we live on a loud street and have 2 fans for white noise and another for a heater), and just hop in your arms to sing prayers and lulliby's. A couple of nights ago, we picked up a "No, No, Yes, Yes" book. Each spread has one page that says "No, No" and has a picture of a baby doing something wrong and on the opposite side a picture of a baby doing something related the right way with the words "Yes, Yes". One spread depicts the baby tearing pages out of a book on one side and reading nicely on the other. This particular night, Lucy begged for that book and started frantically flipping pages yelling "Book! Book!" When she found that spread regarding the books, she punched the sky with her right fist and yelled "YEAH!" like her favorite baseball team just hit a home run. Such good times!
We erected a playscape in our back yard last weekend. It was picked up off of Craigs List for free as the playscape is 5+ years old and the owners were moving. We've probably gotten no more than 5 minutes of play on it and already 2 sets of tear inducing splinters. Maria, after seeing the playscape, now believes that I can build one even better. Someday she'll believe me when I tell her that I can do things!!! ;)
We erected a playscape in our back yard last weekend. It was picked up off of Craigs List for free as the playscape is 5+ years old and the owners were moving. We've probably gotten no more than 5 minutes of play on it and already 2 sets of tear inducing splinters. Maria, after seeing the playscape, now believes that I can build one even better. Someday she'll believe me when I tell her that I can do things!!! ;)
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Christmas was.... AWESOME!
Christmas has come and gone this year and it has been a ton of fun. We've definitely been blessed. The kids spent the first 3 weeks of December sick making it a very interesting week before Christmas.
We finally got our Christmas stockings this year. Santa left some great gifts for the kids including a doll house full of furniture, some Cars matchbox cars, a couple of soccer balls and many other things. Molly and Lucy can tear through gifts at an embarrassing rate. We visited one of my aunts and Molly had 3 gifts open before she could get her camera! If you're not careful, opening gifts can be nothing short of chaos and this year was a lesson learned. Molly and Lucy left reindeer food out for Santa's "crew" as well as a plate piled high with some cookies and a half glass of almond milk. Molly was so excited that Santa polished off all of those cookies and the food bowls for the reindeer were emptied and not in their original location. The magic of Christmas was alive in our house! Lucy said "WOW!" after pulling the paper off of every gift whether it was a generic brown box or the gift itself.
In that time, Lucy's vocabulary has shot through the roof! She's beginning to fill in the missing words when you sing with her, though her missing "word" for the alphabet song is always "No!" I guess she just doesn't like that song very much. Disney's Choo Choo Soul has a neat rendition of the alphabet song and she's a bit partial to their "Choo Choo" opening diddy, so maybe that's what she wants. Little Lucy is getting better at telling us what to do to make her happy and is also getting more upset when she doesn't get what she wants. For instance, we've had to move the dog treats because she's made it very clear that it's her job to give Jack every treat from the bag at one time. Her name for Molly right now is "Nonny". It's ridiculously sweet. We're starting to see some really cute OCD behaviors form lately. For instance, she knows that Molly isn't very good at drinking her juice, so when she comes across Molly's juice, Lucy stops what she's doing, picks it up and takes it straight to Molly yelling "NOOOOOONY!!!" Lucy must keep her bear (named "Baby") and pacifier (named "Binky" sounds like "beenkee") together at all times. If she loses one, she will look for it: "BIIIIIIIINY!!!! WHERE ARE YOU?" It's very sing-songy and adorable.
Molly has been nothing short of perfect. She's been so much fun to hang out with. Her personality is really starting to form, as is her sense of humor. She loves to dress up, cook, help, and learn. Boy does she like to learn! We spent about 5 minutes watching Star Wars today right after she got up from her nap. It was the 5 minutes of R2D2 and C3PO going to have their chat with Jabba the Hutt. We're not ready, yet. Both kids stopped what they were doing and wouldn't respond to any of my questions while it was on. My little girl is definitely growing up, but she's not Star Wars grown up, yet.
We finally got our Christmas stockings this year. Santa left some great gifts for the kids including a doll house full of furniture, some Cars matchbox cars, a couple of soccer balls and many other things. Molly and Lucy can tear through gifts at an embarrassing rate. We visited one of my aunts and Molly had 3 gifts open before she could get her camera! If you're not careful, opening gifts can be nothing short of chaos and this year was a lesson learned. Molly and Lucy left reindeer food out for Santa's "crew" as well as a plate piled high with some cookies and a half glass of almond milk. Molly was so excited that Santa polished off all of those cookies and the food bowls for the reindeer were emptied and not in their original location. The magic of Christmas was alive in our house! Lucy said "WOW!" after pulling the paper off of every gift whether it was a generic brown box or the gift itself.
In that time, Lucy's vocabulary has shot through the roof! She's beginning to fill in the missing words when you sing with her, though her missing "word" for the alphabet song is always "No!" I guess she just doesn't like that song very much. Disney's Choo Choo Soul has a neat rendition of the alphabet song and she's a bit partial to their "Choo Choo" opening diddy, so maybe that's what she wants. Little Lucy is getting better at telling us what to do to make her happy and is also getting more upset when she doesn't get what she wants. For instance, we've had to move the dog treats because she's made it very clear that it's her job to give Jack every treat from the bag at one time. Her name for Molly right now is "Nonny". It's ridiculously sweet. We're starting to see some really cute OCD behaviors form lately. For instance, she knows that Molly isn't very good at drinking her juice, so when she comes across Molly's juice, Lucy stops what she's doing, picks it up and takes it straight to Molly yelling "NOOOOOONY!!!" Lucy must keep her bear (named "Baby") and pacifier (named "Binky" sounds like "beenkee") together at all times. If she loses one, she will look for it: "BIIIIIIIINY!!!! WHERE ARE YOU?" It's very sing-songy and adorable.
Molly has been nothing short of perfect. She's been so much fun to hang out with. Her personality is really starting to form, as is her sense of humor. She loves to dress up, cook, help, and learn. Boy does she like to learn! We spent about 5 minutes watching Star Wars today right after she got up from her nap. It was the 5 minutes of R2D2 and C3PO going to have their chat with Jabba the Hutt. We're not ready, yet. Both kids stopped what they were doing and wouldn't respond to any of my questions while it was on. My little girl is definitely growing up, but she's not Star Wars grown up, yet.
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