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Monday, August 23, 2010

End of Summer Happenings

I can't believe that our summer has officially come to a close. It's still unbearably hot outside and the sun still sets around 9:30 pm, but school has started and in my mind, when school starts, summer is over. We did have a really great summer though.




















Mikayla and Gweny spent a lot of time with this little guy. One of Mikayla's birthday presents was a block of plaster with dinosaur bones stuck inside of it. She had to carefully dig around and find the bones while Gweny brushed the plaster dust off. It took almost 4 weeks to find all the bones and then she had to clean them and assemble her T-Rex. Anyone who knows Mikayla knows how fascinated she is with dinosaurs and this was the perfect thing to keep her busy this summer. She loved it.







She also went to soccer camp. That was fun for her and the girls spent a lot of time in the backyard this summer. The swingset slide with a hose taped to the top and pool of water at the bottom was just the thing for hot summer afternoons.




Tuesday, August 3, 2010

A Little Morning Sunshine!

I woke up and found these happy faces today.









I can't figure out why this picture is upside-down. It's saved the right way in my picture file. I promise. Blogger is starting to make it's own decisions. BWA HA HA.


Little Wild Animals

Here are some pictures from our trip to the Hogle Zoo. We had a blast. Gweny's favorite animal was the goat??? and Mikayla's were the baby and mommy elephants.





Wednesday, July 21, 2010

4 Months

And already I have...
-more than doubled my birthweight
-rolled over
-been to 5 different states
-seen Old Faithful
-sat on Santa's lap
-tasted the cream in an Oreo cookie
-had a ride on an old steam engine
-been camping
-seen lots of baby bears
-grown legs too chubby for my Bumbo seat















Happy Birthday to Mikayla!

Mikayla turned 6 yesterday!
Happy Happy Birthday!
We love you!












Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Some Gweny-isms

*Gweny is by-far THE least graceful child on the planet. She is constantly falling down, smashing her fingers, and running into chairs, door frames, door knobs, pretty much anything will do. She is famous for a scenario that routinely goes like this:

Me: Gweny, go get (shoes, pants, my phone...whatever it might be)

Gweny: OK!! (Gweny turns quickly to run and get whatever I asked her to and SMACK!..right into the wall. Yep, happens all the time.)

Well, a few days ago, she asked if she could have the dollar she found on Josh's night stand. He said, "I'll make a deal with you. If you can go all day without bumping your head, you can have the dollar." She came back that night and yelled at him, "I didn't bonk my head!" Then she pointed at the dollar and yelled, "So give me that dollar!" Then we went to the grocery store and she threw the dollar and a Kit Kat at the cashier who laughed as he rang up her proud little purchase.

*Gweny is potty trained, but I don't know how. She still has the tiniest little bladder and she has to go potty every 20 minutes. So, I took her to the bathroom as soon as we got into Costco the other day. We started shopping and wandered away from the bathroom area and she started squirming and said very loudly, "I have to go potty!" I said, "Gweny, hold it. I just took you." She put her little hands on her hips and tilted her head to the side and had an exasperated look on her face as she said, "Mommy, do you want me to pee in my pants? If you don't take me right now, I will be very mad at you."
*Gweny told us that she broke her grandmother's glasses and that grandmother got very mad at her. We were worried and we called Josh's mom to see if we needed to replace the glasses and to say that we were very sorry if her glasses were indeed broken. She told us that her glasses were fine and that she has actually never been mad at Gweny. We found out later that it was all just a dream...
*Speaking of dreams...Mikayla very often tells us true stories of things that happened to her at school or at dance class or at a friend's house. When she is finished with her story, Gweny pipes up with, "Well, in my dream"...and then goes off on some random thing that may or may not have really happened.
*Gweny refers to all buildings as houses. Some examples...the movie theater is the popcorn house, the gas station is the drink house, Taco Bell is the cheese roll-up house, the doctor's office is the doctor house, the airport is the plane house. Even if she knows what it's really called, she simplifies it and puts the word "house" after it.