The Routine

When it comes to our house we try to have a routine about things. Now it doesn't always go as planned and what time we do it during the day isn't always the same but at least the kids know what we will do and they have come to love it. We have coloring time(above) we do arts and crafts. We play outside with chalk and washable paints (thank heavens for Crayola). We have reading time and music time. We love to learn our colors and numbers and how to write our names.
While we are doing all this Cecely is either on the floor or in her little jumper. My mother in law gave this to us when Bailey was a baby. She tended to be a little fussy, and this would usually do the trick. Well, Cecely loves to jump up and down and laugh and giggle. She is getting so big. She loves it!!
She is also practicing on how to roll over. She can do it, she just doesn't do it all the time. She has her friends in the corner cheering her on. She loves to talk to them and laugh. I know they are having the greatest conversations. I mean really who wouldn't love to talk to a hippo and frog?
So, the girls don't take naps anymore. They usually have a quiet time though, that is not so quiet. With them being in the same room I have come to realize that quiet just doesn't happen. So yesterday I went in to check on them and this is what I found. Aislynn was hiding in her dresser and Bailey was jumping on the bed. Notice that all the sheets have been pulled off and the mattress has been ripped from the bed. Books are everywhere and it is quite the disaster. Bailey must have noticed the look on my face when I walked in because she ran up to me and said " It's okay mom, everything is going to be alright".

We also go swimming in the morning before it gets too hot!! Notice my two cuties after a fun filled morning of swimming. We love our days together. Sometimes it can get pretty hectic, and things are rarely quiet, but we wouldn't have it any other way!!!!

My Monkeys!!

Here is our cute Peanut! She was just hanging out on the couch. She was basically talking to herself. She does that quite often if no one is there to entertain her. She usually has Aislynn or Bailey who are constantly playing with her. They do a good job of getting her toys and talking and singing to her.
She loves her tongue and of course her hands. When she isn't sucking her thumb she is sucking on her hand or sticking her tongue in and out. She makes cute little noises as she does it. She is a very happy baby and we get lots of compliments on her everywhere we go. We are so blessed to have her in our home.
As I said earlier, Bailey and Aislynn are very good at keeping her entertained while she is having some floor time. She eventually will get a little "over stimulated" from the girls and start grunting and whining. I am sure they will teach her so much. She is very blessed to have two great big sisters. I never had sisters. I have a great brother though. Still, I often wonder what it is like. I hope they will always love eachother. We will teach them that sisters are very special. I know because they are close in age there will be plenty of fighting over clothes, BOYS, dare I even say that word, and other things but deep down I know they will love each other very much.
This is after a very adventurous toddler day. Aislynn fell asleep mid sandwich. If you look towards her neck you will see the remnants of a sandwich. She had a busy day of birthday parties and swimming and cake and ice cream. What a great day!!!

We are doing well. It is very hot and very humid. It's too hot to take the girls outside after noon. We have fun crafts and things to do inside. The girls are all getting so big. Adam stays busy at work. He has lots of projects to keep him busy. We love and miss our friends and family very much. Hope every is enjoying their summer!! We are that is for sure.

The peanut has rolls

I can't help but take pictures of Cecely when she is sleeping! She is just so adorable. This is how we frequently find her. She can't get enough of her thumb. I mean isn't she just so cute!
She smiles really big and I was trying to get her to smile, but as soon as I put the camera up to her face she gave me this look like "what the heck mom". Oh well she is still so cute. I love this little outfit she has on. Before we even had kids we bought these adorable outfits. They are from "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" books by Eric Carle. We bought them in versatile colors so that they would fit a boy or girl. Aislynn never wore them and Bailey was born in the fall/winter so she didn't either. It's so nice to have new clothes even if people can't tell if she is a boy or girl.
This outfit I love too. I put it on her when she was about 4 weeks old and it was huge. I put it on now and it still a little big up on top, but now it barely buttons around her chubby legs. She is getting so big.
Bailey decided that she wanted to get into my makeup and make herself look like a cat. She was meowing and everything. I have to give her kudos for being so creative. She even did the whiskers on both sides.
Sometimes in Florida it is just too hot in the summer. Hot and humid. SO we decide to bring the outside play toys inside. We actually found this at Target for quite the bargain. It's sturdy enough for two toddlers and will hold up to the "Cecelynator" when she gets bigger. The only thing we can't bring in is the pool. But, at least the water stays cool for a while before the Florida sun heats it right up.

My laughs for the day

Everyday my girls do something that just makes me laugh. They are at such a great fun age. Somethings they say just blow me away. I am amazed at how smart they are. I try to remember every night the cute little things that they have said or done. I really should write these things down because then, when I go to blog them I sometimes forget. Here are some of them to give you a laugh for the day.....

To give you an intro into this story I will tell you the following: Here in Florida we have a huge problem with ants. They are everywhere. So when the girls eat their food sometimes they will drop some on the floor, like sandwiches, cheerios, stuff like that. So I tell them that we need to clean up the mess or else the ants will come and eat their food. The other day the girls where playing with their blocks and it was time to clean them up. I told them that we needed to clean them all up and Bailey, with a very serious look on her face says "momma we need to clean them up or else the ants will eat them". (who knows they might try)

A very dear friend of ours in our ward let us borrow a doll house that she has. She only has a son for now so it's not being used. The girls love it. It comes complete with furniture and dolls and babies and everything. It is wonderful. Well, on the fourth of July we were over at our Bishop's house for a party and Adam was chasing the girls up the stairs of the Bishop's house. In doing this he stubbed his toe and actually broke it. Instead of swearing, which probably would have happened if we were at our house, he just let out a huge cry of pain and carried on. So when we got home Bailey was playing with the dolls. She took the daddy doll and preceded to make him run up the stairs and said " oh ouch ahhhh my toe". Then she looked at Adam and said, "Daddy the daddy doll hurt his toe on the stairs". At that moment we looked at eachother and were so grateful that their wasn't a swear word that came in there somewhere.

The other night we were getting the girls ready for bed and I asked them which book they wanted to read. I proceeded to name a couple and Aislynn picked one that she liked. When I brought it down for her to take to our special reading spot she looked at the book and said, "um mamma we can't read this one, this book is not my special friend". I have no clue what this book did to her, but obviously she hasn't forgiven it yet.

For some reason lately the girls have really gotten into thinking that when they go poop it takes on some sort of shape. They are the ones that decided to do this together. Believe me, I really did not start this. So just to let you know big poops are daddy ones, little poops are babies. Well the other day Bailey went to the bathroom and she came out to me and said, "mom I went a lady bug poop". I had no idea what she meant and frankly I was very scared. So I went into the bathroom and looked in the toilet and lo and behold if her poop didn't look like a lady bug. I never thought as a parent that I would ever see shapes in the toilet caused by poop.

When I was at a Primary activity this Saturday Adam watched the girls for a couple of hours. When I came home he told me that while the girls where playing with the doll house they did something very funny. I guess one of the dolls did something very bad and Aislynn proceeded to say " You are not supposed to do that, that was very bad, you get to go to time out in the horsey house. The doll house comes with a horse stable and apparently that is a very good place for a time out.

There are so many more things that happen in our house everyday but of course I can't think of any right now, plus I need to make sure my house is still in tact. My girls make me laugh all the time. It is so wonderful. We are very blessed indeed.