Her Favorite Spot

Boo has a favorite spot: these two little stairs off the kitchen. She has been fascinated with stairs ever since she started crawling and at first she would just crawl up these two and shake the gate and yell. :) But then she discovered that the stairs also made a wonderful spot to sit and read, play a game, or just have a little quiet time away from your rambunctious and sometimes overly loud sister. :) I often come around the corner to find this...

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Perfectly content in her favorite spot.

"Laugh With Me!" - Part 10

I found the ones from November! And one from October and December too. So here goes...

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October 30th

Having another funny conversation at dinner.

Daddy: "So who will you marry?"

K - "A husband."

Daddy: "Oh ok, and then what?"

K - "Then I will have babies and live at N's house."

(N being our renter in our old house...she knows that we lived there after we got married and that we had her when we were in that house).

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November 2nd

K was doing her United States puzzle. She got all excited and held up the state of Kansas. "LOOK MOMMY! This is my friend that is coming today! Candace!"

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November 14th

K is such a girl! We were playing with some dinosaurs and I was telling her the names of some of them.

Me: "This one is a triceratops, this one is a brontosaurus, oh, and that one is called a tyrannosaurus rex! I don't know what that one is called though."

K takes the dino out of my hand and says matter-of-factly, "That one is a mommy."

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December 28th

We were in the car singing.

K: "Mommy can you sing the one about the floody floody?"

Me: "Sure. (start singing) The Lord told Noah..."

K: "No, no! You have to do the commotions too!"

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Okay, now I'm caught up. I'll have to do a January post soon, but for now we are off and running.

Goodnight Kisses

Several people have asked lately if Boo blows kisses. She gives kisses she just doesn't blow them. :)

Saturday

I think Saturday has to be my favorite day of the week. Especially when we don't have anything on the calendar. There is nothing better then sleeping in a little and then having both girls pile into our bed for a little family snuggle time.

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Or silly time.

Funny faces.

I think it's Bug's favorite day of the week too.

And Boo's also pretty fond of the extra Daddy-time. :)

Boxes

Yesterday, while Bug spent the day with Noni, I cleaned out her room. I think I got half a sack full of old papers that I tossed out. Other than that it was mostly tidying up...and removing boxes. I knew she had a few in there but I didn't realize how many! She's a box hoarder! Most of these had a stuffed animal or baby doll tucked in with a blanket around them. Some had toys and some were just empty. The girl loves boxes.

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Although to be fair, she does come by it honestly.

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Busy Busy Busy

I don't know how it happened but our schedule has gotten out of control lately! Mostly just the mid-week part of it. The girls have been seeing T about a total of 3 hours during our Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday slot. So when they go to bed on Monday I feel like they should say, "Bye Daddy, see you Friday!"

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I think it feels out of control lately b/c of baseball season. T tries to make it to practice everyday so instead of being able to come home for an early dinner before all our usual evening activities he just meets us wherever we are.

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Tuesdays we have bible study (at our own house at least), Wednesdays are Awana, Thursdays are gun club for T and worship team for me since I have recently started playing the piano at church. Combine that with Wednesdays management team (so he doesn't get to come home for lunch) and Thursdays where the girls and I usually go to town for groceries/errands/appointments and there you have it...crazyiness. :)

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We do have Tuesday lunch with Daddy which = 1 hour, Thursday T picks the girls up from worship team which is another hour for the three of them, and then we have 5-10 minute transitions (like morning and bedtime) for the 3 days and that gives us a total of about 3 hours. I think this bothers me more than the rest of my family since one of my love languages is quality time. I feel like we're definitely not getting much quality time these days!

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Okay, I'm done complaining. :) On the plus side we usually get to spend Thursdays with Noni and sometimes Mama. Since Noni has Thursdays off I always schedule appointments on that day and we save all our errands for that day. We didn't go to town today since I've been feeling like I should try to stay home more because of the ridiculous gas prices. I can't believe how fast they went up! I guess I notice it a lot more in an SUV than I did in my little blue car.

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But when we do go to town we try to do something fun with the girls. More often than not it is just the little playground at the mall. They love it!

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I love whatever the mall playground is made out of. I have no idea what it is. It looks like plastic but its a little bit squishy.

Although who needs a playground when you can play with the wonder that is your sister's shoe?

I love that they are starting to play together more. It's so fun to watch them.

Bug is so funny when we go here. She is pretty shy around strangers...like 99% of the time. This is the other 1%. I guess she just feels like it is a safe place. She will go up and talk to every single parent in the play area. She tells them her name, about her sister, asks their name and all about their kids. So funny. She would never do that in any other place but I guess the mall playground is free game!

On a mission!

Still lovin' that shoe!

"Let's go down the slide together!"

Love Boo's expression on this one.

Again, again! Wait for me!

Sister fun.

Well, since its Thursday we'll soon be reunited with that person we call Daddy. One good thing is that it does make us appreciate the weekends a whole lot more!

Little Picasso

So the easel that T so thoughtfully and painstakingly created for Christmas has been sitting in the garage gathering dust since...well, since we came home from Christmas. Oops. :{ I have thought about getting it out several times but I was just not looking forward to the mess. Alas, one of my friends inspired me to get it out and allow K to get in touch with her inner Picasso. She was so excited.

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Of course, being the perfectionist that she is, she started out with four colors. Red, yellow, blue, and green. Why, you ask? Because she had four paintbrushes, in...you guessed it, red, yellow, blue and green.

She delicately applied each brush stroke with precision.

A masterpiece in the making.

But then, the child in her started to come out and she got CRAZY. She put the red paintbrush in the yellow paint, the yellow paintbrush in the red paint, the blue...you get the idea. Sheer madness!

Madness which apparently unlocked the true artist within...

Then we got really crazy with it and got out the rest of the colors. She painted three pictures in about 30 minutes, and yes, it took me about that long to clean up the mess left behind.

But you just can't put a price on artistic expression!