Another weekend...

Gwen went on the swings this weekend for the first time. She loved it! However when Uncle Adam took her up to go down the big slide, she cried the entire time. Mostly because she was with Uncle Adam I think. She only liked Adam right before bedtime. Naomi also is a swing junky. She is already learning how to pump her legs to do it herself. She wouldn't go down the big slide though. She would get all the way to the top and then decide to go down the second biggest slide. She doesn't like the covered tube slides for some reason. 

I made a cake this weekend and it didn't fall apart or fall in the center! YAY! 

Gwen knows what is "off limits" to her according to Naomi. This purse Naomi is clutching in her sleep is one of them. So Gwen knows when its her opportunity to steal them. She's very sneaky!

Naomi got to play in her tent this weekend. This was Brian's attempt at a surprise photo to see within the tent!

Gwen was spitting inside this cup. She loves to raspberry right now. She'll even raspberry your cheek.

Another shot within the tent.

Mommy's New Haircut

I got my haircut for my birthday - was it 3 weeks ago? Finally - A Picture! This is Naomi's handiwork...Brian has been gone the entire week with school work as its the last week before finals. He comes home after the girls are in bed - and sometimes after I am in bed. Of course he always wakes me up to tell me what he did at school - but not so much to listen to what I did. So welcome to single motherhood! Its not fun!

Anyone else have this problem?

Brian has distinctively taken on the role of "man with servant". We discuss this constantly...how to get him off his bum and helping with - ANYTHING! In 5 years nothing has worked - anyone have any suggestions? I've tried the leave it so he falls on his face and eventually he'll do it - he doesn't! I have seriously had the man take out 5 bags of trash from my tiny kitchen because he did not take it out. He just actually does not see anything that needs to be done - even after its pointed out to him that it is there to be done it will sit for another 2 -3 days or more because he forgets that i've told him. On that note he does do some of the cooking...although that generally leaves me with a mess that is huge that I have to clean up or leave for a week or two for him to get to. Seriously does anyone have any suggestions or are people just born with this ability?

The season of the bruise

Gwen decided to dive head first out of Brian's arms (while he was sitting down) and land on his guitar. He says she must have heard the term headbanging and taken it literally. Thus the horrible little bruise on her left eye.

Just being cute and clapping for me...

I know you can barely see it, but there is another giant bruise in the middle of her forehead where she stood up next to the tub and then headbanged it! We are not used to a standing Gwenie!

What a nice headshot! "I'm ready for my closeup!" Where's makeup when you need 'em!

What we do

A recent purchase of some hair ties leads to Gwen's new favorite toy. In the crawling picture above she looks like she was attacked by hair ties - they hit her everywhere! What you can't see is that she has one around her ankle too! Has anyone ever seen the movie the Labyrinth? Remember Ludo? That is what I see in the bottom picture!

This was our Conference Sunday. Naomi with playdough while Gwen sucks on something she probably shouldn't.

We went to Target.....

This is one of the outfits we came out with!

Building a Giraffe

Daddy played blocks with Naomi! It was so fun!  If Naomi had asked me to build a giraffe, I would have told her that blocks was not the kind of game to build a giraffe. Sometimes his creativeness astonishes me! Here is his giraffe along with Naomi's (I assume) city skyline!

Random

So we watched the DVD that we rented on our computer so that turned out ok. Until....Brian returned the DVD and....RENTED ANOTHER ONE! hahaha. We totally can't live without our DVD player huh? Funny thing is we haven't been renting many DVD's lately - and then the week it dies, we decide to rent two!! 

Naomi today was doing something - I don't remember what -so I said she was Adorable! And she says to me - "I am not a door apple!" Kids! 

Oh and for my cousin Rachel. I made my playlist at Playlist.com. Then went to the section that says add your playlist to your myspace or facebook. Instead of adding it to one of those there is an option to just get the code. I copied the code and put it in my layout under "add a page element". And its considered an  HTML/Java script.