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Lily’s got a head cold, probably has caught what her Daddy has… which means her tummy is upset too. I asked her how she was feeling:

“Mommy I have a frog in my tummy and he’s jumping around, and a mouse in my nose (that is the usual response for a stuffy nose) and a fly in my head.”

A fly in your head? Ewwww, why do you have a fly in your head?

“Cause the frog tried to eat it and it got stuck, so now it’s in my head.”

“But I want a big girl cup too!!” Is what Laurel told me when I tried to give her sippy cup to her after giving Lily a ‘big girl cup’. I’m trying to get Lily to quit using sippy cups, so we got some small cups for her. Laurel actually does really good with them. She’s only spilled hers once or twice. Lily is doing really good with them too, but she always fusses for a sippy cup first.

Bear has suddenly become ‘Baby Budge’… not sure on the spelling, but that is what it sounds like. She gets a ton more attention that she before now that she has her new name. She gets fed a lot of pretend food, put to bed, loved on…. and occasionally becomes a horse. You can hear the ‘ride ‘em coyboy…. gotta stop that when it happens, not sure Baby Budge can handle having two big babies on her back! But I know she loves the other attention, she’ll follow the girls all over the place.

We’ve been listening to some oldies. If you say “yakkity-yak’ Lily will say ‘don’t talk back’. Laurel like Chug-a-lug, and Lily likes Love Man…. can’t wait to explain those at church, LOL!!

Put the kids breakfast on the table to cool and went in the other room. When I came back down the hallway, I could hear the girls taking turns saying their prayers, over and over

Lily met a bumble-bee on the back porch. I chased it off, but she decided that they were scary. She wouldn’t go on the back porch over a week. Didn’t want to go out on the front yard either. That night I spent most of the night chasing pretend bumble-bee’s out of her room or trying to rock her to sleep. She slept in our bed for about 3 hours,clinging so tightly to my neck I couldn’t sleep. Then in GA she was picking flowers in the yard and out came a bumble-bee.  “Don’t worry about the bumblebee, Lily, he’s just looking for flowers!” says Nana.  *Lily throws flowers emphatically to the ground*

“Got it” with pointed finger, is Lily’s favorite phrase at the moment. It’s usually: “Mommy, *fill in story or ‘instructions’ here*, got it?” I’ve taken to calling her sassy-fras, which she tells me that she’s not, she’s just Lily. Her favorite nickname is sweat-pea-princess

I love giving Laurel choices, she looks between the two items and goes, “Uh, uh, uh…. that one!”  Sometimes it takes her a while, and lots of uh’s to decide which one she wants, but she’s always so pleased when she finally does.

Last night Laurel read me a story. She hopped on my lap and I gave her some blank blue construction paper that had been folded. She said: “Once upon a time, there was a little boy.”  She is learning so fast!

Lily loves the idea of having a bed room and a play room instead of Lily’s room and Laurel’s room. As soon as I asked her what she thought of the idea, she was ready to move everything right then! So we got out the twin size air mattress and gave it a try last night. I think it was kinda like having a sleepover for the girls, they had a blast. I finally ended up putting Laurel in her own room and crib to sleep. I think we will give it a try every night for at least 30 minutes so that they can start getting used to the idea.

I’m having a small beading party in a few weeks, and Lily is helping me with the planning. She was so excited when I was giving out the invites this morning that she ran over and told several of her friends that we are not inviting to this party that her Mommy was inviting their Mommy to have them over for beading! So looks like we are going to start planning the 2nd party now as well, she is so excited!

The girls were wandering around the house holding hands and randomly playing ring-around-the-rosies and skipping and having fun. At first it looks like Lily is leading Laurel around, but I discovered that Laurel does just as much leading around as Lily does!

We went and saw a train come in yesterday, the Amtrax. We barely made it in time to see the train pulling in, and the girls just loved it. They got to shake the conductors hand, and he shouted “All Aboard!” for them several times, and answered lots of the Mom’s (and Dad’s) questions. Made me think that the trip we are trying to plan to go out to NM will be by train, for four people, it is cheaper! And we are going to try to go to Jackson by train some weekend, I think the girls will get a big kick out of it, and it will cost about the same as what a full tank of gas would cost. It did make Lily a little skittish. She would not get in the pictures, and the few she is in, she is hiding her head on Mommy’s shoulder. She knew that after the train we were going to go to the park and play, so she just wanted to hurry up and go! She is usually the first to want to go get in a picture. The big train must have scared her some, though she seemed really excited about it, the loud noises of it leaving must have made it worse.

Laurel is the little darling of the pre-k classes. The 4 yr old’s love to drag her around and play games with her, and just giggle like crazy at her. Lily’s class, the 3 yr old’s, like to sing with her and have her play the ‘baby’. One of the cutest things they do is jump in big circles together, and it is so much fun to see Laurel right in the middle of it, jumping along with them. It also shows how much Lily and Laurel get along, that Lily doesn’t seem to get jealous, but loves to have her sister play too. I have such great girls!

Lily ‘My Grandpa doesn’t have a car, and he just likes to play with me.
Mommy: “Grandpa is a farmer, but he doesn’t feel good”
Lily:That’s ok, I’ll be his farmer! -this was part of a conversation that went on for a while about Grandpa and how much she wants to go play with him, and what a big helper she will be on his farm. I hope we do get to go visit them soon!!

Lily was in a great mood the last night and out of nowhere said “I think God is laughing.” You can imagine that I ran for paper and pen J The she started talking and making up a song, and this is the part I caught:

I think God loves me!

And God loves everyone

I love to play with them

I love to share with them

So precious! The last part was “God is very nice to me.” Which she repeated about 10+ times.

Made my night.

Laurel: “You’ll never find me! Hee-hee-hee, ha-ha!”
“I a pirate, yee-haw!” -with a white hat that looks like a fishing had, but w/flowers and dragonfly’s on it
“Apple-sauce, apple-sauce, flower, flower, flower, put them on the flower!” -she put my hands out like for a high-five, but both hands, clapped hands with me while saying this. Don’t know where that one came from!
Laurel was singing what Daddy calls, ‘metal ABC’s', singing them at the top of her lungs, the tune kinda choppy. She also likes to scream and screech at the top of her lungs now.

Lily: “bubble bake, bubble bake, put them in the oven, bake!”
“Am I gonna be grounded now?” After getting out of time out, pouting.
“But there are bugs outside!” When I told her we were going outside to play
Tonight we had to say thank-you for just about everything that Lily could think of during her prayers.
“He’s my favorite boy. He’s my cousin. He’s always doing no-no’s and in trouble” -talking about her cousin Hunter

Lalo (pretending to jump rope with a string, hop-dancing down the hall) “I’m a JUMP-A-RINA-BEE!”

Lily “banana shaped like a balloon… moon”

Lalo “I’m a little spider!” (trying to say ‘little sister’)

Lily “It’s ok, can come with me, Mommy” -after she told me she had to go potty

Lalo ” I can’t make up my mind” – choosing between 2 things to eat at dinner

Lily “I can’t listen to loud stuff, ’cause I have a headache just like you, Mommy.”

Lalo “I has a turn” talking on the phone, she’d been trying to get the phone from her sister, and just had to share

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)