Happy Holidays 2011

Thank you Grandma B for the adorable outfits...And Nana G for the pictures

A fun 10 minutes...

The girls playing with their dolls..

Friendly: Awww sweet baby Moses.
Roo: NO A! It's Jesus!! We're playing Jesus..

Near wrestling match ensued.

It was decided that Roo's baby would be Jesus and Friendly could Mama Moses.

When we had finally worked that out and the girls were playing nicely.. Roo was tucking "baby Jesus" into his cradle. Friendly was kissing and rocking Moses. It was all good. Then Ryan came into the mix. Charged in on all 4's snarling like a rabid animal. Roo squeaks,  "AAAH! It'sa Crwazy donkey! AAAAH!" ????  Not sure where the "crazy donkey" thing came from...I guess she was so stuck in her little Nativity re-enactment she had to make the rabid beast fit some where!

Roo: "NO Donkey! I'm Mary! You have to stop and take me and Jesus to Egypt! NO!!!" He grabs "baby Jesus" up in his mouth and charges away. They take chase, rescue Jesus...He takes chase. Charging around the house on all 4's (and we wonder why he is ALWAYS wearing holes in his jeans!). It eventually ends with a wrestling match, in which he has them so wound up that Friendly, in a fit of laughter, pee's on him! 

She pauses, and then hops down, strips off her underwear, throws her hands in the air above her head, and strikes a broadway pose: "ACCIDENTS HAPPEN! But IS OKAAAAAAY!" 

Always for the comedic ending! 




And I will say, I prefer peeing because she's laughing so hard- to passing out...Which is what happened a few weeks ago...He got her so wound up that she fell backwards: hit her head, wound up to cry: and passed out (she was thankfully only out for a couple of seconds!).


Our sweet Friendly. 

Status Gems...

Favorite quotes from the girls today: 
Roo  dancing ballet (to her own music): "Okay A- can you say Brava! Bravo! Brava!"?
Friendly: "Bravo Rocco!!" :0D

And (they were playing house) RJ: Oh my A, it looks like you have a very sore froat. Looks like you're going to have to stay in bed for FIVE weeks."

That's a serious sore throat.


Me: A, please don't hang onto the hamper like that, it might break.
Friendly (in HIGH singing voice): I hanging onto haaaaaamper and stomping my feet! I wike da haaaaaaamper. I wike my feeeet."
sorry kid, singing a cute song will not distract me from what you are trying to do.

Roo Stuff...

Oh funny little Roo...She's growing so very fast! It is hard to fathom that she'll be FOUR next month!! How could 4 years just fly by? She is almost the exact same age that Ryan was when we met, now that is weird.


A few Roo things lately...


Learning Letters:
Roo is starting to recognize that different shapes make different letters. She really loves to practice writing them and making LONG words (especially long one!).  But Mama can't show her...NO WAY. If I even attempt to be educational she will shoot it down "I can't write THAT one! It's not squirlgylafd enough!" 
That's her other funny thing...When she needs an excuse for some thing she just makes up a word for it. Practical she is.

One of Roo's many "words"

As with so many things I'm finding with this child: she has to do things and get to things in her own time. And that's just fine.

I love that Roo is starting to see letters in every thing around her... Today when I was helping 

her after she used the bathroom she looked before flushing and said "Look Mama, it kind of 

looks like the letter A." Yes, TMI but it was true!

Time and Numbers...

Roo is starting to understand that clocks (digital) use numbers to tell us what part of the day it is. She has learned that in the morning she needs to wait until 6 o'clock before coming in and waking us up. She takes Ryan back in her room and points to the clock and says "Look, it says "6" I can get up now, right?" 


 This morning she called Ryan in at 6:06 and she said, "Look Daddy!!!! It's TWO sixes!!!!!!!!!" 
she was so excited.
When she doesn't want to do some thing,  "Well no...We need to 
wait until after 5:11 to do that!" 
It's so amazing to watch and see how some of these concepts are clicking!


ART...


She loves it. She seems to thrive on time to just draw and create...Our home cannot contain 


all that she  wants to MAKE. LOVE it.

A drawing she made of "Mommie and Daddy" back in September.  As Ryan put it, "I don't know how you came out looking like a mermaid angel and I cam out looking like a grumpy old man!" ME either, but I'll take it!

"Angelina Ballerina" a recent drawing.

She loves to paint! First, she paints some body (this is a picture of "Miss Piggy"). And then she tells this whole story while she covers them all up in paint until the entire page is filled and just "globs" (to an adult eye)...But to her it's a story...And I guess that's what matters.

Fun things...


She also loves to "read" to her sister...Especially out of big important looking books (from Daddy's bookshelf) Books with no pictures on the front or any where in them. 
Today she found my Bible, opened it up and started reading to Friendly...


‎"Once upon a time in candycane land there was me. And then he Called me. Raised me. And saved me when i was sad." The story went on and on and on in the most sermon-tone of voice I have ever heard.


This really floored me. She doesn't hear many sermons, I guess in a few of her Bible DVD's Jesus speaks in a similar tone of voice but ...REALLY? Where did she get "called, raised, and saved" from? Still scratching my head over that adorable little story time. Another story she's been telling today..."Once there was a boy. He was big and 6 years old 
and he was borned in a great place." It went on but had different variations that I didn't catch.

It is so much fun to watch her grow into this little kid!

Autumn Happenings...

October was a strange month...Going out with a bang in the form of a bad snow storm. We lost power for 48 interesting  (and chilly!) hours! Here are a few random pictures that need to be put there there! :0)

See our snow man?

Our jack o lantern ended up being a great little light in the dark evenings!

The candle light was pretty!

More pictures to come of the snow man building and fun times we had when I get the "real camera" hooked up and uploaded. 

Other October Pictures....

We get lots of vitamin D in our wonderful sunny home!

This poor pumpkin has gotten so much LOVE.

October Road near home...

gorgeous sunset

Roo and Marley

Girls playing..