Biker Gang

Need I say more? Little hooligans those three.

We like To Swing

Grandpa has been taking us to the park. We tell him we want to go on a slide and away we go :) but we mostly swing.

Where'd It All Go?

As our usual Wednesday outing the girls and grandpa had some ice cream...or did they? It looks as if they didn't know where it all went.
Hey girls...it's in your belly.

Schumthing Fo Daddy

On Friday we made "Schumthing Fo daddy". The item of choice, brownies! The girls had fun! They had just gotten clean clothes on, so they got to wear momma's shirt as an apron.
I'm not sure what the highlight was for the girls but they got to pour the mix, water, and oil. They also cracked the eggs! It is a skill we have been working on. Alex has been pretty good but often has a soft hand and needs some assistance in actually getting the egg to crack :) and kaylee needs a little help to get it to crack but she certainly does not have a soft hand- once the egg cracks it is practically scrambles by the time it hits the surface. Kaylee's got quite the grip on the egg :)
The girls love mixing still and I am excited to introduce them to more skills in the kitchen :)
Oh! And daddy liked the brownies...he didn't even notice that the girls ate some of the batter ;)

Too Cool

The girls were playing with momma's 'schun gases' while we were waiting for our paint to be mixed at the orange store.

I See You Playing

Lily took the tunnel to peek in on her sisters playing. They were their kind self and gave her a few blocks to play with as well :)

What's Up There?

I'm not sure, but I can pull myself up and find out.
Tisk. Tisk. Little girl, you are growing up too quickly! You learned how to go from your belly to your tush, from a creep to a full on crawling machine, and now you are pulling up and walking sideways....and often taking steps forward. I know you are in a hurry to catch your sisters, but mommy and daddy don't need you to be doing that :) we love you.

Who Needs A Housekeeper?

I've got 2! My little monkey see monkey doers :) I was steam cleaning the kitchen floor this morning and Alex was itching to help. Once I let her in on the fun of steam cleaning Kaylee wanted part of the action too! It took them awhile but they did get 75% of the hallway done and about 50% of the floor space in the living room done. I'll take the "free" labor.

Paintings

Here are the paintings they mad last night. As I did with their 1 year painting for their 2 year painting I used a number 2 sticker to block out some of the white canvas.
I don't really have a problem when it comes to the girls painting EVERYTHING but I did remind them that they had to 'hide' the number 2. And sure enough that was the first thing they did with their brushes. What good listeners :)
I'm also posting their 1 year paintings so you can see the awesome-ness side by side.
Kaylee's two paintings are posted first.

Orange You Happy

The girls needed an activity last night so painting was what sprung into mind. I have been neglectful in having the girls paint their 2 year old painting, so 2 months late the painting is done :) the only trouble is that it wasn't the same size as their 1 year old painting, but I guess my plan will change as the years go on. I was so amazed with Alex while she was painting- she was so thoughtfully putting the paint on the canvas, so cool to see! It is time to get something set up to stand up and paint!
The most exciting part of last night was that Liliana was able to join her big sisters in art making. She really loved it- she's a natural :) I think she loved the feeling of the wet gooey paint.
This time around I was too busy watching the girls in their moment. It was so wonderful to see them in real life rather than behind the camera lens. I did manage to get a few pictures but none of Kaylee because she insisted on being stark naked- oh my girls have a way about them.
Painting, bath, bedtime- a wonderful ending to our day.

Watch Me Cross

The girls and I met our neighbor at the park for a fun outing. When Alex saw her little friend Ben try and cross the red ropes she just had to try. She ran right up and brought her Elmo and snack...well we had to place the snack and Elmo at the other side as a "way to go!" for making it. Here she is working hard to get to the other side.

And she took off her shoes sometime during play. Kaylee found them and bright them to me, "mommy. Addy took shoes off. I bring to youuuuu!"

No Roooom

Kaylee kept telling the dog (and or me) that there was "no roooom for puppy dawg on the cooo cooo!"

I Want A Big Bed

When do I get mine? I mean, look at me I'm 7 months old and I can stand up/ pull up...I'm ready just like my sisters!

Sleep Well Little Ones

We took the sides off the crib in preparation for our summer vacation. We decided not to rent cribs on vacation because we thought they were getting old enough to make the transition to big kid beds.
The girls were so excited to have their big beds, jumping and running around like crazy! When it came time for bed time we did our normal routine and let the girls climb in on their own. We told them it was bed time and they needed to stay in their crib and sure enough they did....until they fell out.

I'm not sure who disliked falling out of the crib more, me or the girls. Sounds mean momma of me, but I hated hearing them scared and crying in the middle of the night. To be honest, they probably hated it most. But on a funny note here is a picture of the girls 2 hours into sleeping in their big girl beds.
The best part of the picture is that I took it about 45 seconds after Kaylee thumped out of bed....and she was sound asleep!

Hi,Bee

The girls love seeing bees but HATE flies. Go figure.
We did our somewhat typical walk to the mailbox and the bees derailed our venture.
A typical conversation with the girls and the bees...
"hi, bee."
Bzzzzzz. Bzzzzz.
"I sit with you bee."
"you. You. Youuuuuuu."
Bzzzzz. Bzzzzz.
"bye bee! See you later bee. See you tomorrow bee."

High of 79*

Wouldn't know it here.

Substitutions

Don't always work. I was giving Lily some chopped bananas with dinner last night and didn't have any wheat germ or ground oatmeal to coat them in. ( I coat the bananas and other sticky foods so it is easier to pick up) So rather than not feed her bananas I coated them in grits....ugh.
Then the older two wanted to join in the fun.

Typical Morning Mess

Alex finds the cloud dough and the play dough in her kitchen drawer...and away she goes! Kaylee joins her but spends much of her time cleaning Elmo off :)
Today they managed to make the goldfish snacks swim in the dough...and currently I have a pile of "Not good ones" by my side. At least they listened and aren't eating them.

Fresh Picked

On Saturday Alex, Kaylee and I headed towards the mountains for some strawberry picking with Gammom and Gampa. Greg and Liliana had some quality time of their own planned-reading and practicing crawling.
The weather was a little windy but once we got to the strawberry fields we didn't even notice.
Each girl got her own green cardboard pint to fill and each were proud carrying that empty container into the fields. Granmom showed Alex how to pick the berries and she went happily picking...until she picked a bad berry, then Ganmom said it was not a good one and tossed it- we'll Alex liked that and then practiced her ability to find and throw out the 'not good ones' :)
Kaylee worked with Gampa mostly and once he showed her were the berries were you'd see her lifting all the lever to find the 'biiiig ones'.
The girls managed to fill up 4 pints before eating any berries-I was really impressed. Once they (namely Alex) starting eating the berries ever other one picked was eaten...oops! Their little red faces were as happy as could be and were even given a sticker for a job well done by the farmers at Hartland Orchard!
To continue the fun we all headed to The Apple House in Linden for their famous apple donuts....so good! And then by request we went to the farm for a picnic. I'm not sure where they got the idea of a picnic but for the whole ride to the orchard they talked about having a picnic- simple enough request. So the girls showered Granmom with kisses of thanks for the picnic which was then topped off with some pudding.
It was such a fun a busy day! From strawberry picking, donut eating, picnic having, and even horse feeding the girls had a fun and full day!
As usual the girls wanted to stay at the farm and the only way to lure them away was to say we needed to go find Daddy and Liliana.

We can't wait until next picking season...blueberries in just a few short weeks :)

**so many good pictures from strawberry picking I had a hard time choosing which ones to post

Look At Me Move

I was near the couch but the play kitchen looked like fun. So I invited myself over to play. I crawled/creeped/moved in some way- it was a long way but I did it!

Watch out toys, I'm coming for you!