Cutie Pie Updates

I thought it might be a good idea to journal some of the things that Bree and Sophie have been doing that are sorta milestones in their lives. Maybe just maybe they will be happy one day that I spent time blogging rather than playing hide-and-go-seek at this moment but I highly doubt it since they are both doing a funny Indian dance around me chanting who knows what, but it sounds like "mahmah buh buh lah lah", and I think it means play with us right now! I just know that I will keep putting this off for days and then something else exciting will come along and there goes my memory of the things that they have done in this past week or two.

Bree you are 4 1/2 and so cute and I seriously can not get enough of you, I love this age/stage. You go to school three days a week for 3 1/2 hours and you love every second of it. I have been really lucky because Nana has been picking you up every day on her way home from work and I think that both of you really enjoy being together even if it is a short amount of time. Your dad and I just had your parent teacher conference and we both already knew everything that they told us about you. They said that you are very creative and love to do projects for as long as they will let you. They also said that your attention span is amazing and that it is really rare for 4 year old to be able to focus for as long as you do. You are also a very good cleaner and both your dad and I laughed because we know it is true. We are so lucky to have a child that begs us to clean the house and the cars because if it weren't for you neither of them would get done. You are also learning your last name right now and you are just amazed that mom, dad and Sophie all share the same last name. You have loads of friends, and you are even nice to the boys. I was shocked to hear this because you came home one day and you were telling me that the boys were icky. oh well dad and I were celebrating early and praying that you wouldn't like boys again until you turned thirty. You are also taking dance once a week and you love it so much and it is great to see you twirling on your toes and learning all your ballet positions. You also love to repeat all the bad words that I say and it just sounds so terrible coming out of your mouth. Showers are your new favorite thing and you refuse to take baths anymore which is nice. Reading has become a big deal to you this past month and so we bought some Dr. Sues books and those seemed to be good but then your aunt Stink let us borrow some of these books and you can read them all. It is amazing and I know that most of the words are small it still is shocking to think that soon Dad and I won't be able spell out your Christmas presents with you around. You are very independent and you think that you can do everything and so I let you try and sometimes you can and sometimes you have to ask for help. You also had your first dentist appointment where you did not have a cavity. Your dad and I were doing the happy dance because you saved us a hundred dollars or more!! You love to go to Costco and your favorite restaurant is Wendy's and I am not sure why but it is. I also love it when you love my food you tell me over and over again how much you love it and how much you love me it is the best of both worlds for a mom that sucks in the kitchen:) You tried and tried for days to snap your fingers and you finally were able to. You walked around snapping your fingers for days and you were so excited to show all the kids at school your new talent. You kept coming home from school and telling me that your friends just wanted you to show them how you could snap all day. I get a kick out of you every day and I love my shy little girl.









Sopie bear is in her own little 18 month old world and she is loving every second of it. You follow Bree around every where she goes and you have to do everything that she is doing as well. This means that when mom and Bree are working on reading so are you and it is so funny because you will repeat everything that I say. You love to sing the alphabet and your favorite game right now is ring-around-the-rosie and you sing the song over and over again until we all fall down literally! I was cleaning out the linen closet in your bathroom and I pulled Bree's little potty out and you ripped your diaper off sat on the toilet and went. Both Bree and I were shocked because we weren't expecting anything to be in the toilet but there really was pee in there. I am still in shock because it was so easy. You are not potty trained but you really want to be. One day you wore three pair of Bree's undies aroung the house and somehow smuggled them all the way to Costco to our suprise. You are a little wild so the thought of you having a Big Girl Bed just scared me because that would mean that you could bug me whenever you liked. Tom decided that it was time to atleast try and I seriously was worried but all we did was tell you that this was your big bed and if you got out we would put the bars back on. You have been in your Big Girl bed ever since and you only get out if it takes me more than five minutes to get you out of bed after you take your nap. What a relief that you understand us and that you stay in your bed! You hate sitting in any type of high chair so you have now converted to a bar stool and you think that you are so big. You love Brocolli and chant it when you see me making it ( I serioulsy am so lucky), and you love any type of fruit or veggie which is weird for dad because he gags watching you and Bree eat your veggies and fruits. You are able to say anything and it is really weird because you will name an object that I don't ever remember telling you the name of it. You can say complete sentences and you are able to tell me most things that you need and want. You love to go through all the books and name everything and maybe this means that your big sister and you study or you have a really great memory. You love to jump and skip and wrestle with daddy. You are just barely getting into movies and your favorite is Tinkerbelle all the others you only last 20 minutes. You also enjoy taking showers like Bree so for now our house is free of bath taking. You love Kindermusik and playing with all the other kids, but most important is that you will sit in my lap the majority of the time. You love to pray and you can bless the food and say amen.Sophie you are such a joy in our home and I love how you make us luagh with all your funny words and dances.

Playing in the Snow (Last week)

When we woke up last Monday morning there was snow everywhere and I just could not resist getting the girls out to play and build a snowman!! Sophie loved it so now we have to go buy her snowpants and Bree is a pro at building snowman all by herself. Here are some pictures that I tried to take without Bree throwing snowballs at me. Bree can make a mean snowball so watch out!!

Lake Mead (Back in October 2008)

MUSTACHES Anyone???











See that boat in the background, that is the boat that crashed five minutes after this picture was taken. Weird thing to add is that Tom and Bree were out in the row boat and one of the girls on the boat who obviously was drunk stood up once she saw Tom and Bree and yelled there is a boat over and over again. Then she danced her top almost off for Koby. Scary group of young people:( I am just glad they didn't run into Tom and Bree in this picture.


Better late than never right? I have been so lazy with blogging and just realized that I forgot to blog about Lake Mead. Usually that would not be a big deal, but I plan on using my blog as a journal/scrapbook for my girls and they might enjoy knowing 20 years from now that their parents were semi-cool and took them on these crazy fun trips with loads of crazy fun people!!

The first couple of days down in Mead were chilly but we watched lots of fun movies and played games and jumped in the water(that was as warm as bath water compared to the air temp)and then we would hurry and change into the warm clothes that we brought. The last couple of days the temp went up and we were able to play in the sand and swim, ski, and wake board. My husband, Drew and Koby all decided that it would be funny to have a competition on who could grow the best mustache. It was really funny but the weird thing was when Tom didn't shave his off when we got home. It took funny looks and seeing old friends to actually get him to shave it. Yeah for no hair on the face (It hurts to kiss)!!

1. Bree trying to ski and laughing so hard when both daddy and uncle Sean fell in the water and laughing even harder watching them get back up on the wave runner.
2. Bree crying really hard because she is done trying after being pulled two times (Barbie Laptop was not a good enough bribe for her).
3. Massacre Kevin killing all the fish in the Lake with his spear. Seriously, the boys all swam around with this spear and killed so many fish it was disgusting, but they loved it.
4.Stickum Balls was a fun game that Viper made and brought just for this trip. Lets just say I liked it alot more than horseshoes. Drew winning the Stickum Ball tournament (even though Tom and I forfeited because we had left with my brother on his boat), and then sending Tom to exile island for the night. (Drew didn't end up making Tom and Bree go but it was funny).
5. Tom giving Bree too much water before bed and lets just say that Tom and Bree were soaked one early morning:(
6. Sophie and Ty hanging the entire time, and loving every second of having loads of people to play with.
7. Having neighbors in the little canyon over that blasted their techno music. Those same neighbors also were drunk and literally ran into a mountain and totaled their $60,000 boat. Watching Drew and Celeste tow them in on a wave runner and a guy pulling a gun out while they were there and pointing it at them. Same crazy neighbors were not watching all their stuff and we watched their nice tub float past our camp. They were reckless and I was happy to move camps just to get away from them.
8.Sophie loved to make mommy and Emily hang her over the side of the boat to splash with her feet.
9. Swimming Tom, Bree and Sophie in a little row boat with a rope around my waist all the way to exile island. This ended up being the workout of the trip and it was not easy. We had to do this because of all the amazing food we were eating.
10. Having to drive almost the entire way home with the light on in the car because Sophie would not cry if she could see. Weird right. I think everyone in the cars driving next to us probably thought we were nuts because we also had to repeat the song "Shake It" over and over again to keep Bree happy.
11. Getting home and sleeping next to my husband after 9 days of sleeping with Sophie, and sleeping in my own bed!