Cogan's Song

The girls love this keyboard. (especially the volume slide) Tonight, after dinner, they were jamming away singing "happy birthday to you". They sing that phrase over and over and over while banging on the keys and bouncing up and down. :) 

Bean in pink and Bell in green

 Then they just get silly. They kept saying, "I playing cogan's song". I have no idea who or what cogan is, but they're always talking about him/it and now he/it has a song.

And, yes, I let them stand on the chairs to play. The chairs are soft and the ground isn't far away. :)

A video of this will be posted at some point soon.

less weird, please

Yesterday morning:

I found Bell with my deodorant, lifting up her shirt and rubbing it all over her chest.
I found Bean on the kitchen table with about 8 cookies in front of her, all with one bite missing. (Bell was in on this too, but not sitting on the table)
Both girls threw a huge fit about not wanting to eat breakfast. (maybe it was the cookies)
Both girls threw a huge fit about going to the library for storytime, which they love.
Luckily, both had a nice long sleep last night. Hopefully today is a little less weird.

Just felt like putting this up.

my fault... oops

I am really enjoying this book I'm reading, "The Help". (thanks for the recommendation Rachael) So, I decided to come up with a "good" (meaning mommy doesn't need to be totally focused on children) activity for the girls this afternoon, so I could read a little. I had a bunch of foam Halloween stickers and some fall paper and I figured I just let them stick away. I showed them how to peel off the paper on the back  and stick them to the colored paper. (not onto the couch, walls, floor, television, dog, or random body parts)

I sat down - right next to them mind you - and began to read.

(but first, I snapped these nice pictures showing what a clever idea this was and how nicely the girls were playing)



Bean learning how to peel off the paper.




Bell - sticking on stickers




Bell and Bean thoroughly engaged in this fantastic activity

I'm thinking, "perfect" as I take this.



I sit down to read



And then at some point, I'm sure it was only minutes later, I look up from my book....

now i'm thinking - "oh crap"

 

Because of my intense love for reading and tendencies toward completely loosing myself in a good book, no one really knows how long it took for this to happen. I suppose it could have been more than a few minutes. However, if it kept them busy, it was worth the clean-up.

My fault...Oops.

All About Balance

Life is all about balance.

You work some

You relax a litte

 You work a little more

And relax a little more

 

You finish little parts, but the whole is never done

But you relax anyway

If all goes well, you have a "comfortably cared for" place to live and some time to enjoy it.

Our Father

Because nothing could make me feel more proud of these girls, or of their Daddy... who said often that the Lord's Prayer is better than any "watered down kid's prayer". So, we've said it every night, for a long time. This makes my heart smile.

Through the work of the Holy Spirit, the girls were introduced to their Heavenly Father by their loving earthly father.
Bell is on the left and doing most of the talking. Bean knows it just as well, but I think she was a little confused as to why we were doing the Lord's Prayer after dinner. :o)

hip hop hunies

The girls had some "slammin" outfits on today. I thought they were hip-hop worthy, so we jammed a little bit this morning. I'm sad to say they're not showing any naturally-hip tendencies and I take full responsibility for that. Ballet, however, is still a viable option. What do you think?

bitter sweetness

A few minutes ago:
I hear Bell is awake and fussing (after sleeping for a couple of hours)
she's wearing those zip up jammies w/ the snap over the zipper at the top

I walk into the room and as soon as she sees me she says, "zip, mommy, zip - zip, mommy, zip"
So i begin to zip her jammies and she starts saying, "snap, mommy, snap - snap, mommy, snap".
I snap her jammies, and as i cover her up with her blanket she says, "tank too, mommy" and even giggles a little.

As I leave the room, I can't help but smile at the sweetness of such a moment.

I just wish I was sitting on the couch telling Darin about it, instead of typing it here on this blog.

Grandad's birthday bash

Last weekend we celebrated Grandad's birthday! It was a nice weekend with family, but I never posted about it. So here are a few pictures from the weekend.

Grandad with his grandkids!

Grandad again with his very cute grandkids!

Lena and Grandad

Great Grandma tried on the Bears helmet.

And here are a few from the previous weekend as well:

The wind completely uprooted this tree in the backyard. It provided a fun photo-op!

Fun-glasses and Boots

Kim brought over some Elmo fancy fun-glasses along with dinner on Monday. (thanks!)
The girls were very excited!

Bell in her fun-glasses

Bean in her fun-glasses

 In addition, I found two pairs of winter books in their size on clearance at Land's End Inlet! We tested them out!

Belle posing her purple boots!

Bean in her snazzy boots!

Inside Fall

We had a nice morning playing in the leaves... inside.



Bell



Bean

We also went to chapel and had a picnic in the park afterwards.

Bean

 

Bell

What a gorgeous gift of a day!