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Laurel always gets a little upset that she doesn’t get to go play at church on Wed. and Lily does. We usually try to do something fun together, do the grocery shopping (she loves that) or such, something special with just me and her. Today we went to Chik-Fil-A for a lemonaide and to play in the play-area. She was all excited to go and play, but then realized she was the only kiddo in the room. She tried to pull me up to the tunnels with her by my finger, but had to explain that Mommy was too big. I ended up going halfway up with her and peering around the corner so she could see me, was the only way she would climb up. Finally got her in the tunnels, she mainly played peek-a-boo through the little windows with me, lol.

Got home and she wanted to play outside with her scooter, but talked her into getting her 4-wheeler out. We went almost down to the end of the road and back (the shorter end of the street) and she rode it all the way back to the porch. She is actually getting pretty good ast steering.

A few things from last night:

Laurel came to me holding out her wrist, this usually means she wants me to kiss her pretend owie on her arm. So I have her hand a kiss. Then, she pulled her hand into her sleeve, made a little ‘o’ of surprise with her mouth and said, “where’d it go?” I ooh’ed and ahh’d and asked where it was. She’d pull her hand back out with a little ‘ta-da’ and I’d kiss her arm again. This went on for a while, and she was doing it again this morning. Too cute!

Out of nowhere she says: “Ha-ha-ha. Very funny, Mommy.” Think Short-round from India Jones. No, she’s never seen that movie

While rocking her to sleep last night: Laurel, “I wanna drive a car!” Me, “You want to drive a car?” Laurel, “Yes! Drive a car!”

Favorite song right now is from Dora, “Arriba, Up! Abajo, Down!” Over and over. She holds my finger and pulls my hand up and down.

Before going to bed, while walking from the rocking chair to her crib, at the top of her lungs she sang her ABC’s.

Lily loves to make up stories. There for a while all of her stories started with, “once upon a time, in the beautiful forest…”. One of my favorites that she’s told was about a star with a pink rainbow

Yesterday she comes up to me:

“Mommy, I got some bad news. I been to jail. For 3 hours, I went to jail. I asked the policeman to let me go, but he wouldn’t! I was hours and hours! And I’m sad ’cause I was all alone. He put me in jail and he closed it and locked it, and took my kitty-cat watch away!Every day! I had to be alone. And the policeman went to church and tell everyone and I didn’t get to get out. But they didn’t get to hear! ‘Cause they all did bad no-no’s and took the chairs so they could go to jail. The end!”

Didn’t know it was a story till she said ‘the end’, and was trying to figure out where on Earth she had come up with jail! As soon as she said the first bit, I grabbed my pen and paper to write it down. Too cute!

That’s Barbie’s natural state is naked (Lily)

that 8-9=penguin (Lily)

that kisses make doggies okay if you pull their hair (Laurel)

that we must say goodbye to everything when we leave…”Goodbye house…dog…trees…mailbox…” (Laurel and Lily)

…Even if that something isn’t there (Laurel – saying goodbye to Daddy as we were leaving church – he was at work)

that Daddy never really leaves the house, he’s just getting dressed or in bed (Laurel)

That we must take the stairs whenever we see them, even if we are not going up (Lily and Laurel)

That if you say goodbye to one snack, it is okay to have another (Laurel)

that ‘doggie is a good friend’ (Laurel)

that magnets are the best thing ever (Lily)

That beanbags are for diving onto (Lily and Laurel)

So, I’m starting a new bootcamp and had to measure today, and Lily decided that she and Laurel were going to too! So here is what I got:

:                                  Lily(3 yrs 5 mo)               Laurel (20 mo)

waist:                          19.5                                     17.5
Hips                             20                                         19.5
Neck                            9.5                                          8.5
rt upper arm                 6.5                                            6
rt thigh                       11                                           10

Walked in from putting up groceries, the girls had been playing tea party, and heard Laurel shouting, “Oh no! Is coming!” and then both girls: “AAAAAHHHH!”

A short time later:
Laurel: “oh no, tea party is ruin!”
Lily: “Waaa, come on Lalo cry with me.”
Both girls: “Woohoohoo, waaaa.”
Laurel: “oh no, a tea party, tea party ruin… We go to tea party!”
Lily: “No, come on Lalo, cry with me.”
Laurel: “Okay… tea party ruin! (sreeeeeech!)”
Lily: still fake crying and telling Laurel to cry with her
Laurel: “What’s a-matter? Stop crying!”

While eating Daddy’s birthday cake, Lily asked how old he is:
Daddy: “There’s three candles, and your three, is Daddy as old as you are?”
Lily: “No!”
Daddy: “Daddy is 30, see? Three-zero (points to numbers on cake)”
Lily: “how is that?”
Daddy: “That’s ten times three, count to ten three times.”
Lily: “Wow, you are old!”

Lily: “I can wear myself out.”

Laurel saying goodnight on Christmas Eve:
“Merry Christmas Tree, Daddy! Merry Christmas Tree, doggy!”

Laurel saying Happy Birthday to Daddy:
Happy Birthday Cake, Daddy!”

Lily talked to her cousin Hunter again today She talked to him last time for about 10 minutes, and about the same this time. Today she was helping me get his present ready and broke down in tears, crying that she missed her cousin Hunter and wanted to see him. Wow. Took a while to console her, and she did NOT want to talk to him on the phone, she wanted to SEE him. Finally got her on the phone with him and they talked quite a bit. Lily told Hunter that she got him a monster, so now he knows a little about his present.

She wanders when she talks on the phone, and I overheard this part of the conversation;

Lily: “I just miss you….oh…can you come over for a play-date? A play-date. I want you to come and play with me.” She went on for a minute or two about this. Hunter said he told her that he’d love to but it might be a while (which is what I’ve been telling him) and asked me to see what I could do

Icing is sticky!

The girls had a blast decorating the gingerbread house. Now that it is done they can’t keep their fingers out of it! Laurel didn’t like how sticky the icing-glue-stuff was, but both girls loved how it tasted (ick!). I think next year we might try to make one from scratch instead of getting a box kit. Either way, hopefully this will be the start of a nice family tradition.

So many cute and wonderful things to get written down!

I always peek in on the girls before I go into the room to pick them up from MDO and pre-K, just for fun and see how they are doing with their class. Today Laurel went over to this little boy, Alex, and said, “I’m so happy!” and gave him a huge hug. He looked startled and hugged her back. Then she noticed me and came run-skipping to me squeiling “Mom-me!!” (emphasis on the ‘e’ sound at the end). The while I was talking to Lily’s teacher, we look over at the kids and Laurel is hugging one of the 4 yr old’s. The girl was looking at her like, “well, what do I do with this?” (she only has older brother’s). Adorable!

Lily has been so cute and sweet, she wants to play doctor for every little boo-boo. She tries to get onto her sister for doing no-no’s and then doesn’t understand when Mommy gets on to her. This morning I scolded Laurel for something and Lily gave me a big thumbs up and told me ‘good job, mommy!’ Oh boy.

Lily has been so intense with certian things every day. One day it was her magnet princess book, which she can usually play with for hours anyway, but this time she was soooo into it! She would come running into the room and so excitedly telling me about what outfit she put on her princess and which tiara with the pink shoes and gold necklace…. and them Mommy just has to come and help fix the gloves! It was so cute! Yesterday it was Santa. We watched this little show called Prep And Landing, about the elves that go into people’s houses and get everything prepped for Santa and then help with the Santa landing on the roof. She was jumping and shouting about how Santa is going to come for Christmas and he’s going to bring her toys! And we went on about Santa for the rest of the afternoon, lol. Then it was markers, we just had to color with markers, crayons would not do. I think we go most of the cards I had printed out for Christmas colored.

Both girls got to see snow last Friday and Saturday. We had a Christmas party, so they were at church daycare at First. We picked them up at 9 P.M. and it was snowing. Evan took Lily out to see the snow, and I took out Laurel. Laurel almost got scared of it as we were walking to the car, looking up into the dark sky with all that white stuff speeding down at her. They were so excited when we got home that they stayed up for another hour. Laurel was yelling “A snowman, a snowman”, or it could have been snowing, but it sure sounded like snowman. The next morning i got them bundled up first thing to go out and play, just in case it melted before we were able to eat breakfast. The has such a blast. I got video, but forgot to take pictures >_<  Laurel got over and splashed in the puddle before I could get to her, but she has good winter boots, so her feet did not get wet. Lily insisted on trying to make a snowman, she does not have gloves yet, so it was very cold on her little hands. After one snowball each the girls decided to go inside. Lily decided the she did not like the snow because it was so cold, which thankfully only lasted till she got warmed up and then she wanted to go out again.  This was the first time that either of them has gotten to play in the snow.

I don’t know what flavor it is, but it must be yummy. Both Lily and Laurel and back to the everything-goes-in-my-mouth stage. Evan caught Laurel yesterday trying to put her mouth on the bulb of Lily’s night light. Yes, she had taken off the cover and turned the light on. So it gets put up every morning now. Yikes.

Toys, books, things found on the floor (if I don’t catch them in time), rocks (didn’t make in time on that one), the table, chairs, fingers, toes, shoes…. Anything they can get away with putting in their mouth.

So now we are keeping an extra sharp eye on the kids with things they put in their mouths.

Trying to make sure they get plenty of texture and flavor from the things that they can put in their mouths. G.G. had sent some silly straws and we use those for any liquid medicine and they are small enough to go in the juice pouches. Varying flavors and such as those mini ice cream cones (Lily flipped out when Laurel started eating the cone, had to explain that it was supposed to be eaten) to brightly colored yogurt and pretzels and popcorn.

Who knew the world had so much flavor? LOL