Little Teacher

Emily sat down in her computer chair and told Linda to sit in a chair. Linda pulled up to her computer while holding Mia. Emily pointed to the computer and said,

" This is a computer and this is how we play! "

A Picnic for Two

Recipe for a Picnic for Two

1 sub sandwich cut in half
1 sub slice for a little person
1 cup chips
2 sodas
1 sippy cup
1 pink picnic table
1 little person
1 big person
2 dandelions

Take the big person and little person and set them on the pink picnic table to bake under a warm sun. Place one plate with 1 sub sandwich and chips with a coke in front of big person. Place 2nd plate with sub slice and chips and a Peach coke in front of little person. Eat. Let little person run around and pick dandelions. Stir in a bug. Little person is ready to back inside.

Emily told me, "Let's go back and be normal inside!"

One bug flying around was enough for her.

Daddy Date

Rich got home from work. I was sleeping on the couch and Mia was sleeping. Emily had been wide awake since 2:30 am. Rich got emily dressed and off they went. They went out to eat at BK the one with no playground. Emily said she got to see the ducks. Rich took her to Milikin to see the waterfall and talk to the ducks. Then they stopped at Big Lots and Emily came home with a big My Little Pony house and all these little accessories. She played and played with them until she came down with the "I wants". Now I think she is ready to sleep.

I want

Emily has a bad case of the "I wants". In about a 30 second window she had a huge phrase of I wants.

I want to take my shoes off. I want some coke. I want some chocolate milk. I want to watch scooby Doo.

Outside

This afternoon around 3 pm, I took the kids outside to enjoy the weather. I bought Emily a new Kailan lego set to go with her previous set from her birthday. I put them all in a basket and she wanted to take them outside to play too. I took Mia and a blanket, some crayons, pen and notebook. Rich got the tent tarp out and laid it on the grass and we all got on that. Mia played with toys and Emily with legos. Rich brought me out a pillow later, and I tried to take a nap. Mia found a crayon and never ate it, she just looked at it and watched Emily with her crayon. I put the notebook in Mia's lap and she tried to color. I think we'll have another crayon artist in the future :)

Little Cook

Emily was wound up one morning. I told her if she was really good, she could help me make brownies. I had gotten some Pillsbury brownie mix from Target and had been craving them for sometime. Emily got on her stool and wanted to help with every step. She held the measuring cup as I filled it with oil. Then we added water and eggs. The she tried to stir them. When I was scrapping the bowl into the pan, she said "Mama, that's my job." So handed her a spatula and she scrapped. Then into the oven they went for 20 minutes. Those have been the best brownies. Definitely will be going back to get some more Pillsbury brownies soon.

Funny

This morning, Emily has been saying the funniest stuff.

"You don't know how to cut, you're too little"

I cut her up a stack of flashcards, after going through all of them she said, "I'm going to sell them."

Some of the flashcards had words and pictures. Here's her response to each of the flashcards.

(Dog) "Dog sits in the chair"
(Cow) "Cow says moo and the sheep ba ba"
(Spoon) "Spoon is for eating noodles"
(fork) "I eat noodles with a fork"
(Spoon) "Spoon gives me noodles and you feed me"
(fish) "Fish digs holes"
(dog) "Dog climbs up the chair just like Tabi and Elijah doos"
(cup) "Cup finishes noodles in your plate and scoops them up and digs holes"
(cat) "Look at the Cats, They dance"
(#1) "A number it digs holes"

Entertainment

Lately, Mia is Emily's new entertainment. Emily want to sit next to Mia in the basket. Emily loves to get in the crib with Mia and read her books, play trains together or just lay there and try to mimic Mia talking Baby talk.

Recipe

Emily funny explanations on how things work:


" Rest-a-pee is how to make a pie to eat."

Spring Nights

Emily woke up this afternoon. (we stayed up all night) and told me that she needed to put her shoes on, becaue Dadoo was taking her to the store to buy catfood for Patches. She made is all up. Rich was outside working on the truck. So anyways, I got her pants and shoes on, got mia dressed and my shoes on and we went outside to watch him work on the truck. Later that evening I dressed Emily and Mia in bathing suits and we put them in the kiddie pool. The water was way to cold. So after 5 minutes, we moved them both with their bathing suits still on to the bath tub to play. We'll have to wait until it gets a little warmer to do an evening in the swimming pool.

Its Spring

Tim and Sophie brought over the cutest matching nighties for the kids. After Mia had her bath yesterday we dressed her up in the whale. I put the whale bottoms and then she wanted to wear the butterfly wings. They had 2 easter buckets, but i wanted to get pictures outside. So I grabbed a quilt, the camera and the Easter buckets, each grandparent had a kid and we went outside. 117 pictures later, Mia didn't smile once, she just kept cutting her eyes over at Emmy looking at all her bucket contents wondering why her bucket was empty. ( I had dumped out the green grass and candy out of Mia's bucket so she wouldn't eat it and just gave her the empty bucket and shovel).

Spring is Here!

Enjoying today weather! Tim, Sophie and I took the kids to the park. Mia fell asleep in the car seat on the way there and slept most of the time. Emily played and played. She ran around making new friends. She got on top of one of the plastic dinosaurs and told a little boy that is was a "triceratops" then she went on to explain that the spots on him where to keep him warm. Where did she learn this?? Computer?? Maybe Diego or Dora, I've dinosaurs on those 2 shows? She had a name for the other dinosaur too. She was correct for both of them. After about an hour, Emily had me on the slides. She said "C'mon, lets climb up the stairs. I'll show you how!" Around 4 pm it was really starting to warm up, so we convenced Emily to go see the ducks by telling her we were going to get some french fries. She left was out a meltdown. We saw the ducks and turtle then left and went to BK. In the car, I kept asking Emily is she wanted some Fries, she just kept mumbling "I just want a coke." I got a coke and a chocolate milk shake. When Sophie and Tim left, we all crashed out for about 3 hours.

Tea Party Time

Linda brought over a set of play food the other day. The plastic tea party set she got for her birthday. So the other night, she said, "Let me show you how to cook." She got her barbies and her food and wanted to set them up. I told her we had to find a table cloth. So I went digging around in my fabric bin and she picked out the pink one. I spread the fabric over her lego table and we set up the tea party. Notice her barbies were guest at the party and I had to have their own tea cups full of coke. During the party I kept asking if I could have chicken. Emily said no and gave me the carrot and said that I had to cut it up like this (she showed me how to use the knife and fork, and would get upset if I stopped cutting). We played for awhile, when Mia started making alot of noise to irritate Emily, Emily had a melt-down and that was the end of the tea party.

Where do I belong?

I was getting Mia out of the walker and Emily started this dialong. Where do I belong?

Emily: "Dadoo belongs in his office. That is where he belongs?
Me: Where does Mama belong?
Emily: "Mama belongs in the mama room.
Me: Where does Emily belong?
Emily: "Emily belongs in her bedroom on her bed with her kitty cats"
Me: Where does Mia belong?
Emily: "in the car."

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Mia has just started this new thing. Fighting Sleep!!!. Instead of laying in her crib and drinking a bottle and going right to sleep, she fights it. She cries and cries. The only solution I have found. Is just to hold her in my lap at my desk and play music for her or to watch internet tv.

Mia drank out of cup this morning. I had a little bit of orange soda in my cup and she guzzled it all down. Her new food she loves is yogurt, she couldn't get enough of it.

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Thoughts for my birthday. Is having a couple date night and going out to eat and leaving the kids at grandma's, even Mia!!

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Today!

Is already starting out long, it started at 3 am this morning. Mia played in her bumbo awhile then it was crib time and then the walker. Its 7:10 am and Emily has having a meltdown, because I won't let her dig through some of my office drawers. When she is getting less attention, she starts acting out. She got up around 4:30 am and was playing good until now. Now Mia is fighting sleep and fussing and Emily is bawling.

I have to go run errands this morning when stores actually open, because by 3 pm I'll be asleep or a walking zombie.

Target for shampoo
Sams for formula

Butterfly wings

• 2 days of partying
• Toys galore (James & Waterspout train set, barbie doll, tea set, pajamas, new clothes, new books, wooden blocks, butterfly wings, minnie mouse headband, purse with money, lego table, kailan lego set, and much more.
• Lots of cake
• Boxes everywhere
• Emily searching through presents looking for more
• Mia enjoying the boxes
• Emily taking toys away from Mia
• Delicious snacking food

Yummy Cake

Presents

Mia was enjoying empty boxes at Emily's birthday party with glee.

Mmmm. . . they even taste good.

Emily setting up her new Kailan lego set. Right after she got the box open, she was shopping on the box. She was picking out other sets of Kailan and was pouting because she didn't get them too.

Happy 3rd Birthday Emily!

Costume

Emily has quite the imagination. She is talking about costumes tonight. She said, "We are going to print out costums. I'm going to be a James (thomas the train) and you are going to be a Thomas. " Then she said we are going to a spooky swap.

Yesterday she said we were going treak or treating in a spooky swap with frogs. The frogs were sad and had hurt knees.

Then she takes ribbon out of the ribbon drawer and drapes it over my arm and says that I'm going to be the little prince and she is the princess.

Conversations

Emily: (playing computer games) "Where is Dora?"
Me: "I don't know where Dora is?"
Emily: over and over asking "Where Dora is?
Me I finally look over at the computer screen and its blank.
Me: "You have to start over."
Emily: "I can't find the Start Over Button."

Last night I got 5 chocolate milks for Emily. She woke up with sippy cups everywhere. She was sitting at the end of the bed and I was on the couch holding Mia trying to rest my eyes, because getting up all night running errand for Emily.

Emily: "I need some Chocolate Milk"
Me: "Look at all the chocolate milks next to your bed"
Emily: "I guess I drank alot of Chocolate milk"
Emily: "I think I need some Coke."
Me: "I don't think you need anymore to drink today"
Emily: I think I'll just go lay in my bed now"