Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Happenings

This is what Bianca and Daddy do for fun!
From 2011


Bee's Bee Headband
From 2011


Naomi had 2 days off of school, so for fun she requested that we do her makeup and paint her nails. This was the final makeup product
From 2011


Bianca in a box!
From 2011
From 2011
From 2011
From 2011

Any guesses on her eye color? We can't settle on a color. Sometimes I think they are green, but Brian always says they are stone or slate, deep grey. Sometimes they do look like maybe blue.

Learning to sit up.
From 2011


Until she sees the remote.
From 2011


Posing with a dinosaur
From 2011


Tickle fest. Our friends David and Becky got her these cute outfits. This is one of them!
From 2011
From 2011
From 2011
From 2011

Something I'd like to do

I really want to make this! But I don't know if I have it in me! There are a ton of projects I want to do that I am sure if I have it in me, but this one is at the top of my list of "things I don't know if I can do".
Anthropologie Inspired Bed Cover

Friday, January 21, 2011

Ice Cream Trucks

You know how a lot of people are afraid of clowns? Well I definitely don't enjoy them! But I also do not like anyone who dresses up for a living. Halloween is a different story as everyone is dressing up, and I love it! The people who work at Disney - all of them are creeps, I know it! Its not so much the people. I am sure if I knew someone who dressed up everyday or was a clown I wouldn't hate them. However, when I see someone dressed up it freaks me out!! When Brian and I went to Disney for our honeymoon he did a great job of making sure I was walking as far away from them as possible. You know how they all like to come up and touch you or taunt you. I hate that crap! It is definitely worse if I can't see their faces. Disney princesses - not so bad. Mickey and Goofy - keep them away!

Today, I realized there is something that I dislike and distrust as much as people who dress up for a living! The ice cream truck! Its just creepy and ominous!! That tinkly sweet music that draws the children in. Makes me wanna hurl! They drive all slow down our street waiting for kids to run over to them. Its creepy I tell ya! And just plain wrong! This is odd considering how much I LOVE ice cream. Having someone deliver it to my doorstep should be wonderful! But its not! I gave the guy the eye as I drove past him today. You know he has ulterior motives! Perhaps I was just extra suspicious because he is driving the ice cream truck down our streets in January!!! For goodness sake!

It was just surprising to me how upset it made! I didn't realize I felt this way until today, but now I know, and I will be protesting ice cream trucks from now on. Just like people who leave their Christmas lights up and ON until February!! Ok I start yelling about it on January 2nd, but that is just me being crazy. I believe in a 10 day leeway to take them down.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Now let's all say Awww!

From Christmas Presents 2010
From Christmas Presents 2010

From Christmas Presents 2010

Her favorite toy!
From Christmas Presents 2010

Her legs are so long she can almost get her feet into her mouth!
From Christmas Presents 2010


So this little Bee is super long! She was above 95% long and was 25% for weight. So you can imagine. She's like all legs! She would still be in 3-6 month clothes but I recently noticed that all of her buttons were popping! SO I moved her up to 6-9 months clothes, but she is swimming in them. She loves her exersaucer! Its been a lifesaver. She is a really calm baby but really just wants to be held all of the time. So the exersaucer gives me 5-10 minutes here or there to get stuff done without the yelilng. She tends to yell for me instead of crying. When she does get to the point of crying she starts choking. Poor baby! I do love how her lower lip sticks out and quivers when she cries!

Naomi is still loving school. She really wants to be a reader like some of her friends so she is working on that. She struggles with it because she is a math person. SHe can do all of her addition tables and they haven't learned those in Kindergarten yet. She has been emotional lately when she thinks of memories or other people who might be having problems so I can tell she is becoming more socially aware.

Gwen has decided she only wants to do what she wants to do. We get a lot more 'tude lately. She has started drawing people which I will scan (now that I got a scanner for Christmas from my mom! and Ian got it working for me). She likes to nurse her dolls so she does that whenever she gets a chance. I've got some awesome New Year's videos that I am going to try to post of her dancing after the ball dropped!

Hopefully soon I will get to play with my scanner and scan the cool drawings and then get to the Flip so I can download and upload the videos.

Christmas Day

The girls wanted a picture of every present they opened so here is a little montage of presents. My favorites will be individualized.
I don't know who that man is.
From 2010

From Christmas Presents 2010
From 2010
From 2010

Best gift idea from my mom!


This is all of Gwen's booty, but its only about half of what she got overall. Grandmom and Mamu's presents hadn't arrived yet.
From 2010

All of Naomi's booty from Mom and Dad, minus all of the grandparent stuff.
From 2010

From 2010

Cute bracelet is from great grandma Oppelt.
From 2010
From 2010
From 2010

Christmas Decorations

It took forever for me to be able to get these pictures off of my camera. Pretty much everything I do lately is one handed so its always the short cut way to do it. So here is how we decorated our house for Christmas 2010.
From 2010
From 2010

The Girls and Brian decorated the tree this year. I just handed them ornaments. This is the first year I wasn't in complete control so I have so many little issues with where things are on the tree. Most branches have 3 ornaments on them and it looks a little sparse. But overall, I think they did a great job without any direction from me!!
From 2010
From 2010

Friday, January 7, 2011

Bianca knows what's funny.

This morning Bianca woke up while I was showering. So I hurriedly got mostly ready and grabbed her. She looked at me funny at first because my hair was wrapped in a towel. As I was trying to get everything ready to nurse her she was fussing and wanting me to hurry. She made sure, though, to pause before eating to look up at me and laugh at my head all wrapped up in a towel. She just knows when things are funny! Love it!