A message for Daddy

Me: E, do you want to video tape a message for Daddy? You can tell you we miss him, and you wanted to tell him that we made hearts the other day?
E: Yeah.

And here's the message....



And a message from M.

So big!

Fall 2010

This evening...

As I was making dinner, E seemed to be taking an unusually long time in the bathroom. So while things were boiling and simmering, I ran back to see that she was okay. As I opened the door, I saw her squatting over a puddle, using my hair brush to "clean up" the accident. She shoved the door shut and yelled, "Mommy, don't come in here!" I had to finish with dinner, so I let her continue to "clean" without saying anything, and when dinner was on the table, I went back into the bathroom. She'd moved onto cleaning with a bath time sponge; "Mommy, I'm just cleaning." She started screaming and crying when I put her into the bathtub, and I made a comment, "Your dinner is all ready. Peanut butter meat, sweet potatoes, and peas." She stopped crying, was quiet, and then in a completely calm, normal voice, she said, "Pee pees. Peas....". (excitedly), "They rhyme!"

And so it begins...

September Smiles

Birthdays

Me: Daddy's birthday is on Friday.
E: What number is he going to be?
Me: 31.
E: Thirty - one. I'm going to be three in November.

They just keep growing...

My favorite question of the morning

Mommy, does God go to the potty?

Our lunchtime conversation

E: You are my mommy. Daddy's my dad. And M is my sister.
Me: You are my daughter. M is my daughter, and daddy is my husband.
E: Yeah. One day, she's (pointing to M) gonna grow up and have a husband. And me, too. And we'll all dance in a castle. And I'll be Cinderella. I'll wear a white dress. I think M will wear a green dress. I think she'll be Tinkerbell. And you'll dance with Daddy, and then I'll dance with him....


And the conversation goes on and on, but I wasn't quick enough to write the rest of it down, and my memory stinks.

Sick days

An evening conversation

After getting home from work, Matt asked E about her day.
Matt: Did you go to the park today?
E: Yeah. I pooped in my underwear.
Matt: I heard.
E: (completely serious) You heard me poop in my underwear?

Mat

While reading the BOB book titled Mat, E said to me, "We have a friend Matt. You call him Matt, and I call him Daddy."

Eatin' Time

This is M. when she eats. I'm not doing anything behind the camera. She simply loves food. She's definitely one of us.

My wonderful life...

Fabulous

All She Wants To Do Is Dance...

In her princess dress-up clothes. True story.

Steve Concert

Princess PJs

This post's for me...

Lying in her bed, right after waking up from a nap.
E: Mommy, I love you.
Me: I love you, too.
E: You're my mother.
Me: I love being your mother.
E: I love being doggy's mother.

Finally...She sleeps.

This girl's got some fashion sense

The face of one who has just rolled over for the first time.

In our World of Pretend...

Three days ago, E came into the room and addressed me as, "Hey, Maleficent." (the evil witch from Sleeping Beauty). Yesterday, I kept hearing, "Hey, Stepmother". (from Cinderella). Finally, today, I have been referred to as, "Honey.", and I even got a "You're my best mommy." It seems I'm out of the doghouse. For now.

The Girls

Despite the pink princess bibs or pink stripes on her clothes, pretty much every stranger thinks M is a boy (which is 100% understandable, given she looks exactly like her Uncle Mark). Today, a service man asked E if she helped mommy with her little brother. E gave me a confused look, looked back at him and said, "It's a girl."

Visiting our cousins....

I completely forgot about this picture until E and I were looking through old pictures this morning. It's from about 2 months ago, but it cracks me up. Dave didn't want the girls to get the babies sick.

Conversation With My Favorite Blue Elephant

Princess Hide 'N Play

This toy has multiple uses. Sometimes it's a carriage, other times a princess castle. It can be flipped and turned so many ways to be a boat or train, or as in this picture, a great book stand to enjoy a nice Posey book.

Smiles

Goodnight Compliments

Giving good night hugs, E says to me, "You're a beautiful lady, mommy." She then turns to Matt and says, "You're a beautiful grandpa, daddy." Followed by, "You're a very nice man."

She is always cracking me up...

Our oldest daughter sometimes likes to pretend that she is Mary and pink doggy is baby Jesus. She informed me today after her nap that she was Mary and baby Jesus was sleeping. Then she said, "I picked him up, and he spit up all over the hay!"

Not 5 minutes later, she comes into the living room.

E(fake)whining: I hurt my, my, my...(thinking)...my finger.
Me (laughing, because she's obviously just trying to get my attention): How did you hurt it?
E: I hit it on....(thinking, thinking)..my other finger.

2 months

Sisterly love

Do we look alike?

I think there's about 2 months difference of age between when the pictures were taken, so maybe it's not a very fair comparison. But I think they're looking pretty different.

4.5 weeks

3 weeks old

2.5 weeks old