My Little Instigator

Sissy, I love you.  Lately you have shown your Daddy's colors.  You've been such a little instigator.  When you steal Acey's trucks, you hold them tight to your body like a football receiver and pump your other arm to run as fast as possible to my lap.  The entire time you have such a look of guilt on your face. You KNOW what you are doing.  Sure enough, when Ace comes screaming for his truck, you throw it at him and hop up to run steal another.  Although it reduces your big brother to tears, Mommy can't help but laugh.

You want pretty much whatever he has but the same is true for him.  You love to try and insinuate yourself between me and Ace when he is in my lap. 

I love your squeezy face.

You make me smile

Ok Missy, you are still not saying "Mommy" BUT somehow, you make me smile anyways.  You are such a jabbermouth. You say Ace, Dada...I swear you said "sock" the other day. I think that you say "thank you" because you love giving me things and I always tell you "thank you."  But no "Mama."  Your sweet little voice just melts everyone that hears it.  You have so much to say.  My favorite thing to do with you right now is just to sit in your room and watch you toddle around being busy.  You are really into giving High-fives.  You make me so happy that it catches in my throat when I think of you.  You are the definition of precious.

So much Yuck

Lillies you have had a stomach bug since last Thursday.  It's been SOOOO yucky: throw up on Friday, poop all weekend and Monday you finished it off with a bang...throwing up an entire bottle of milk all over the back seat of Mommy's car.  I set you on the floor of the garage, you got up on your chubby baby legs, wobbled over to me and just wanted to be held...and mommy held you, covered as you were in milky throwup.  All you've wanted is to be held and snuggle. I'm so sad that you've been sick but I've enjoyed the lovin'.  As another bonus, you've only wanted ME!  You are always ALL about Daddy and Ace and Mommy gets the leftover loving (which is wonderful, don't get me wrong...it's just fun to be the one you want for a while).

No more sickness for a while, ok?

October One Means Halloween Fun!

Wow, this new way Blogger has of loading pictures is wierd. Not sure that I like it.

ANYWAYS, what I do like is that it's finally OCTOBER.  We looooove Halloween in this house. My sister introduced me to Pinterest (love her, curse her - it's so addicting) and I found all sort of fun Halloween things.  All I needed were some willing subjects. Cousins Aubrey and Brynley came over last night.

We started out with face painting and they turned out way better than I thought. Everyone was so still! Tear, they must be growing up.  After face painting, I gave them each a bowl full of candy and made them separate it while I mixed some cookies together.

Everything went into the cookie mix while they ate dinner.

Dinner courtesy of pinterest: Banana ghosts, pretzel and fruit roll up witches brooms with worms, an apple jack-o-lantern, grape witches, buggy pigs in a blanket and ghosty cheese sticks. You can see that B brought the kids some spooky goblets to drink their water from in the photo above.

 Sweet Brynley...and I mean "sweet." She is after her Aunt Kelly's heart with all of the candy she ate.



After dinner, we made pumpkins. I get aggravated that pumpkins start to decompose as soon as you carve them and then they are all moldy and stinky by Halloween.  We got these potato-head-like things a few years ago and Ace loves to change his pumpkin up throughout the month. (Then, we can just turn them around and they're pretty for Thanksgiving.)

 Everyone did a great job.

We did some serious dental damage trying to make candy necklaces. I found a cool skeleton candy necklace kit at HEB but these kids were way more interested in cracking their teeth on all of it.

We sampled our monster cookies and were thrilled with the result. We baked Sweet Sugar Belle's September recipe for "monster cookies".  Yum, yum, yum. (Will definitely chop up the candy corn next time.)

I thought we could make ourselves into mummies with toilet paper.  Let me just say that it was off within 30 seconds of me finishing and we clogged the toilet several times because of this bright idea. Can't blame them for putting toilet paper where it's supposed to go.  Next time...crepe paper.

Of course, Jonathan will make me admit that the night was all about me and what I wanted to do.  Truth be told, I had so much fun.  I always think to myself, "It'd be so fun to get the cousins together for fun crafting and activities" but then I get drowned in a schedule of cleaning, laundry and activities.  It was awesome to take a few hours out to just ENJOY these precious little lights of mine.

Off to dream up the next party!

Anything for your laugh

Oh Ninnies, Mommy would do anything to hear you laugh.  My favorite time with you right now is when I'm putting you to sleep and you lay on my chest.  If you lean on one should or the other, I can tickle your neck with kisses and get giggle.  If I put my hair in your face, I get a laugh that shows your teeth.  If I blow on your tummy, I can get a squeal.  If I let you splash in the tub, you bounce your entire torso with a belly laugh.  If I  throw a blanket over your face and pull it away, you give me more of a smiley coo.

I'm still working on a big, continuous laugh instead of the small ones you dole out right now.

Walking

Lily Kate, You have gone from a wobbly-penguin to a drunk!  You don't waddle as much but you still weave around.  Your head has hit more furniture and walls in the past week than I thought possible.  Yet, you are TOUGH.  You get that from your Daddy.  Gabby tells stories about Daddy getting hurt but not making a sound and you are the same way.  I try not to jump when you bowl yourself over.  You just right yourself and get along your merry way.  You tumbled down the stairs the other day and I caught you on the second-to-last step.  You rolled head over bottom and came to a sitting position as I caught you on that step and thought you were a seasoned acrobat.  You smiled, turned your hiny around and went right back to climbing.  You don't understand "No" but totally respond if I spank your hand with a spoon.  Your fire engine cry can be heard around the entire neighborhood if we get between you and something you want.

You are your DADDY!  And I love you to the ends of myself.

Mish Mash

Mommy has a few things to write you about this morning:

First Day of School: Your first day of school was Tuesday. You were such a big girl: no tears or even a whimper.  You looked like a million bucks and I'm sure you melted your teachers' hearts.  You melted mine when you were happy to see me when I picked you up.

Pierced Ears: We pierced your ears.  It was so hard to hold you still and broke my heart to hear you cry.  You cracked me up grabbing for the sucker that consoled you afterwards.  Daddy doesn't like your earrings. He thinks they make you look too old. I love them.

Walking:  You step, step, step and launch yourself.  We are up to about six steps right now before you decide to crawl. You crawl SO FAST!  I love your laughing giggle when you walk and your wobbly legs.

Bathtub Time: Um...you have discovered that Ace has a toy that you do not and you are quite obsessed with getting it from him.  Luckily, your brother loves you and hasn't hit you for your attempts.  You both just laugh wildly and run from/ after each other until I can get undies on him.  I shouldn't laugh or record this but Mommy forgets things and I never want to forget how hard you make me laugh.

I love you Lillies.