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hotdog ‘octopus’ on a ‘sea’ of noodles with fish shaped ‘jelly fish’ sandwiches

Laurel was helping me (Lily was doing her homework) with dinner. After she threw away the box of noodles, she told me that the noodles were extinct. I asked her to explain. She said, “I threw away the box, the noodles are all gone, they are are extinct.”  She’s been watching The Land Before Time movies, and I’d just recently explained that real dinosaurs are extinct; they are all gone.  :)

Lily told me that she wants to be Queen of Everything – She’ll wear dresses everyday, and tiaras, and everyone will bow to her, except Momma, because Momma is a Queen too. But that is only for her family to know, it’s a secret from her friends, so she won’t wear dresses to school, because then they might find out!

This came after we played with yarn and her hair (didn’t have any spare ribbons) and she declared that she LOVES her hair. We found a site that has tons of cute ideas for little girl hair, so we are going to start having fun with it. This is the first time she has actually wanted her hair any way other than just brushed, maybe a hairbow in it. If I put it up, normally she would frump and say it didn’t look like her, but today, she decided it was fun and cute <3

~27 Feb~ Lily storms up to me, “MOM, why are there TWO white color pencils? One of them HAS TO GO!” Now imagine the toe-tapping and arm flailing and little frumpy scowl!

~24 Feb ~ Lily kissed a boy at school today! His name is Blake. We had a long talk…

~10 Feb ~ Lily had her first dance today – a Father-Daughter Dance. She told her Daddy that he had to wear a tie, got him to go change his clothes and everything!

~25 March~ Lily: “I don’t want to go outside, someone might see me in this outfit and think that I’m a rainbow fairy!” (has on pink outfit with rainbows and suns on it)

~21 March 2012~ Laurel hums a few lines and then says, “Momma, did you hear my tongue making cake?”

~9 March 202~ Laurel informs me that she’s not going to eat anymore. She wants to stay a little girl, and food makes you grow, so no more for her. Although cookie’s don’t count as food, so she says they are ok. Cupcakes too. Love my baby girl!! Why does she not want to grow up? She wants to stay with Mommy forever !

We are going to get the kids bunk beds, so I was showing Lily on the computer what a – as she calls it ‘bonk bed’-  look like, and were she would be sleeping. I was making a wishlist of things I want to get for home-schooling her for pre-K next year and for the office, and ended up telling her what a wishlist is…. so here is what she told me she wants for her birthday:

Tinkerbell – There are Tinkerbell wall decorations that she wants to put up around her ‘bonk’ bed, a rotating Tinkerbell night light, Tinkerbell bed-in-a-bag set for her new bed, Tinkerbell kids couch and chair set, Tinkerbell watch – basically, anything Tinkerbell!

Pink throw pillows and throw blanket

a clock for her wall

a new wristwatch – this is one of the two big ones that she was very insistent she was going to get

Roller States – this is the big one. She’s been going on about roller skates forever. We found some and she went nuts for them. She just Knows that she is going to get them.

The Wish List is on Wal-mart, if you like to take a look, it is under my first and last name in case you want to look at it, or I could send you a link. Please keep in mind when you look at the wishlist that it is the Wish List I’ve been using for things I want to get for their home teaching as well, some things I hope to keep them preoccupied with when I start school at the end of May.

If you get any of the larger items or ‘important’ items, please let us know so that we don’t end up buying multiples. I’ll post a comment on this site when we buy something (if I can remember) and of course, it will be marked off of the website.

A few other things:

For clothes, she is wearing a size 5, but the pants need to either have a belt or the adjustable elastic inside, most pants that are the right length don’t fit around her tiny waist.
Shoes, she is wearing a size 10
Anything out-door play would be great, even the messy and wet stuff. Gardening stuff they love as well, and help out a lot with the garden
Anything fun learning, like safety scissors (we go through those), playdough sets, gak, neat feeling stuff, color changing – whatever. If it is fun  and they can sit and do it, or outside, I’m all for it!
Music instruments. They have the basics for music time, music video’s would be great, especially ones that ask them to get up and dance along, are looking to get things like kids guitar, drum set, xyliphone, keyboard… you get the idea. Ask Evan about the guitar. Any will do, really.

She is already really excited about her birthday. I think we are going to have two parties for her. One here with her friends and (hopefully) one at Grandma’s in Jackson.

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!