Wild Tutu Party!

So Monday Maddie asked me to do her hair "all wild" and then she wanted us to play dress up. She made sure Brooklyn got in on our wild party!


 And believe it or not M picked out her own outfit and accessories! I think it truly reflects her wild personality!
 I actually thought the pictures turned out kinda cute.


Oh how I  love my girly girls! I get to play "dress up" with them every day! What a lucky mommy!

Maddie's Prayers!

Maddie just said our lunch prayer and she said, " Heavenly Father you are a cool man, and Jesus is a cool man, an Daddy is a cool man, and G'pa is a cool man. Bless my food that Mommy put in the oven and Mommy has her soda..." It was so hard for me to keep a straight face! She has been getting quite independent and wanting to say payers all by herself, and I love seeing how her little brain works.

This was Maddie at about 1 years old, sitting on her lil horse and folding her arms for prayer.

 A couple weeks ago we got a bunch of our concrete poured and Uncle Aaron was there with his crew. Maddie kept yelling at him: "Uncle push me in the swing... Hi Uncle.... Uncle I like your pretty boots..." She was so excited to see him working outside her window that she couldn't go to sleep at nap time. I went out front to check on the progress of the sidewalk,(thinking Maddie was asleep) only to see her standing in the window, banging on the glass saying, "Uncle come get me!!!" .....So that night in her prayer she said, " ....Thank you for my Uncle Aaron he say hi to me. He said...'hi-iii'! Like that!"

I just love this sweet picture of Brooklyn!

Love Those Rolls!!!

Oh how I love this face!!! She gets so excited and opens her mouth so wide she looks like she's going to eat you.




I had to post these pictures, because I just love all the rolls. I find a new roll on her all the time. The other day I found a roll on her heel?? Maddie introduces everyone to B as, "This is Brooklyn. She's a really chubby baby!" Yesterday Maddie was looking at Brooklyn's belly and she looked a little perplexed. She said, "Mommy, Brooklyn have a baby in her belly?" I laughed my head off!!!

We're back!

After a very long and tiring drive.....

We made it home! And the girls were sooo happy to see their Daddy.(And so was I!!!)

I have a million pictures of our trip to Cali, to be posted soon. I've never felt so torn....So glad to be back with Ster and at our house, but I'm having major family withdrawals. We got spoiled down there! Thanks Mom and Dad for putting up with us for so long!

I'm Learning...

K so for any of you that know me I am really not a morning person. I desperately want to be! I want to be one of those people that just pop right out of bed and start getting things done. I've tried going to bed early, and I have even tried "The Secret."(send your wish to the universe and it will be granted!) Wink! But.... try as I may I have failed.

With that said, my sweet little Maddie has been helping me learn to have patience and find humor in the morning events, even if I am not a morning person. One morning she woke up particularly early, and when I asked her quite grumpily? why she was awake, she replied with the innocence only a child can, "Mommy, it's morning. I had a good sleep." How can I argue with that? Then the other morning I had a mommy moment I'm not proud of. Maddie woke up at a normal time, but Brooklyn had had a horrible night and I had gotten very little sleep. So, I decided to give Maddie a bottle,(I know she really should've been off those like a year ago, but what can I say. She loves her "milky bottle") and send her back to her room. Within just a few minutes she's pounding on her door wanting out. So I angrily opened the door and told her (not very nicely) to go sit in the rocking chair and watch cartoons. She was crying and I felt bad even as I said it. So shortly after, my guilt was getting the best of me, and I went over to apologize to her. I told her she had not done anything wrong, and that Mommy is just grumpy sometimes in the morning when I haven't gotten enough sleep. So I asked her to forgive me, and the first words out of her mouth were, "Mommy you go lay on the couch and I will 'nuggle'(snuggle) you!" It seriously brought tears to my eyes that she could be so forgiving of me when I had just been so mean to her. Sometimes I just look at her and am completely amazed that my 2 year old is actually setting the example for me.

Look at that little angel face!

I feel so blessed to be a mommy of the 2 most amazing little girls ever. I really think they are day and night. Maddie is wild, outgoing, and has had a great sense of humor from the very beginning. She's such a people person! And all though we are still getting to know little Brooklyn and seeing  little bits of her personality emerge here and there, she's just so easy going. I've been able to get little giggles here and there out of her, but she has been a lot harder to make laugh, and I think it is because she is just a really content baby.  Maddie introduces her to people as, "This is my sister Brooklyn. She's a really chubby baby!" And you know she's a chunk when everyones comments are, "Wow! She's really filling out isn't she!" Just today an older man stopped me in the store and said to Brooklyn, "You poor baby! Nobody feeds you do they? You're just wasting away!" We sure thinks it's cute, but we don't want her to get a complex, so I bought her this baby so she wouldn't feel so big!

Just kidding! What a scary looking doll huh?

Picture Overload!

My cousin came up a couple months ago to take Brooklyn's newborn pictures, and she did an awesome job! She got some really cool shots! She has started her own little photography business.

I love our rings on her cute little toes.






The family pictures were really hard. Maddie never held still, and had a million tantrums. So I was actually shocked that any turned out! I love Maddie's face where she is hugging me. I just hate my smile in it. Aubre can you do a head swap? Haha.



My cousin drove 2 hours to take these pictures. I hope we didn't stress you too much Aubs! You did a great job. Thanks again!

My Day.... So Far!

Sometimes I wonder why I can never seem to get a single project done. I swear from the time I get up til the time I go to bed I'm constantly doing things, multiple things, but yet my house is still a disaster many-a-day. I feel like I go from one mess to the next. To nursing the baby, to taking M potty, to making a meal...and blah blah blah. Sterling's Aunt said when her kids were little she asked, "Why God? Why do they have to eat 3 times a day?" And she said plain as day she heard a voice say, "Oh you'd be complaining even if you only had to feed them once a day!" I laughed my head off, and I think related all too well to that .

 Today has been one of those days, where I'm just trying to stay afloat. Both girls have had a little cold. Maddie's not so bad, but poor Brooklyn wakes up all the time with her nose clogged and needing to be suctioned out. She hasn't been eating well either. So after day 3 of being a bit too sleep deprived I think it all caught up with me. My day started waaayyy too early. Ster spelled me for an hour before he had to go to work. I woke up to Brooklyn screaming and Maddie awake (45 mins earlier than ususal) I am far from being a morning person, unfortuantely, so I was a bit grumpy!

 I decided to put in a movie for Maddie and try to get a little more sleep on the couch. Maddie had to go potty right as I was dozing, and I was feeling really lazy. I thought, She's been potty trained for a while now. She knows the procedure. I'm going to really let her be a big girl and do it all by herself. That was not the best idea I've ever had! I learned that as we were running out the door to grab a quick breakfast at McDonalds, that I thought surely would put me in a better mood, before Maddie's dance class. This is what I found:

That's right. That brand new roll of toilet paper I had just put on last night was now in the toilet. I decided it would still be there when we got home and I would deal with it then. Now I was really looking forward to my McDonalds breakfast(A little comfort food. Wink!) So we rushed out the door, it was 10:20 and they stop serving breakfast at 10:30. I get to the drive thru at 10:29 and the breakfast menu is still up. Yes! My day is turning around!!! I order and the mean little man in the speaker says,"We're no longer serving breakfast." What??? Me:"But it's 10:30 on the dot and your menu is still up." Mean Man: "We're coming out to change that right now." I asked very nicely and he refused, so I left very sadly. And this is where we went instead. We showed McDonalds. Ha!

So...we return home after dance, and I grab a bunch of plastic bags and some gloves to tackle the toilet, when I happen to look over at Maddie who is standing RIGHT by the bathroom door and is half doing the splits and saying, "Oh man Mommy! I going!" I look down and there is a huge puddle on the carpet. She was barely a foot away from the tile! Seriously??? So this is what I do with her:

After I finished the toilet fiasco. I bathe Maddie of course, because ewww! While she's in there she starts drinking the water which she is not allowed to do because that's disgusting. So I take her out and put her on the counter while I clean the tub. Parents be advised this next part may not be suitable for young children to read:  She finds the rectal thermometer that we had used to take Brooklyn's temperature. (It was clean) And when I look over, SHE is trying to take her temperature rectally. I had to try really hard not to laugh. So this is what I did with her:

I told her she had to fold her arms and not move while I finished cleaning the tub. My dad used to always make us fold our arms when we were in trouble. I love that face, lucky for her! That's the look she gives me when she knows she's really in trouble. The good part about all this.... my bathroom is sparkling clean! The bad part... it's only 3...I wonder what else this day has in store for me!