Techie Tots

A few weeks ago Eden was sleeping and Chepe realized that Lily was not where he left her. So, he went on the hunt for her. Turns out she crawled into the playroom, turned on the TV, and was sitting in Eden's little couch watching Winnie the Pooh. Cool with Chepe because this gave him a break.

Tonight we are gearing up for bed time and Lily crawls over to Eden's radio and pushes play to start the lullabye CD without any help. I do not know why I am surprised because we bought that radio/cd player for Eden when she turned one and she quickly learned how to control it back then, so it is right on track for Lily to know what buttons to push. Seems as though Chepe's techie-ness is a bit genetic. Cool with me because it sometimes helps give me a break too.

Two Steps!

I think it is official that we have a walker on our hands. Today Lily got up the courage to let go and took two steps towards me. It was super cute because the look on her face showed just how excited and proud she was of herself. I felt bad that Chepe missed out on it, so I ran to get him and tried to get her to do it again. She sort of did it again, but you could tell she was on to us and would lunge toward our hands. I missed Eden's first steps and Chepe saw those, so I guess we are even now.

Throughout the day I saw her take a few more steps here and there. Always about two before she would loose her balance and either grab on to something or squat down for safety. Eden saw Lily take a few steps and insisted they dance to celebrate. A few ballroom style steps later all ended with a bonk on the head for Lily.

Give Lily a few weeks and I am sure she will be prancing around the house with big sissy with no problems at all. Oh, Momma! Soon we will be a house with two toddlers...should I pull my hair out now or later?

Eden's Mary Had a Little Lamb Show!

'Take one' was hilarious! The 'encore' still funny, but I really wish I was able to capture it on 'opening night'.

Ladies & Gentlemen...

Band-aids

The band-aid stage has hit our house :o(

These days if Eden pinches her finger in her sunglasses...she needs a band-aid.
If she gets a paper cut...she needs a band-aid.
If she bumps her hip on the corner of the couch...she needs a band-aid.
If she is tired...she needs a band-aid.

Funny because before she was scared of them, then just generally disliked them, and recently would pull them off after a few minutes, but now they are a necessity to be able to function throughout the day. Yesterday she told me she had a fever and needed a band-aid ASAP. She was fine and most certainly did not need a band-aid; there was no fever, no illness, and no owie that needed attending.

I have tried to explain to her that band-aids only help certain types of owies, but she seems to think that if the wind is blowing in the wrong direction a band-aid will come to her rescue and redirect the gusts.

A few nights ago I thought I would teach her a lesson. She had a scratch on her ankle that was a few days old and already scabbed up. She was insisting she most definitely needed a band-aid even after I explained that scabs were natures band-aids. So, instead of getting her a regular one I got a big ol' gauze patch out with a roll of medical tape and I taped up her entire foot since it the gauze patch was so big. I thought she would freak, but instead she gave a sigh of relief once she was mended and turned in for the night. Ha, the joke was on me! My plan totally back fired and then kept back firing throughout the night. Apparently I did not do a good enough taping job and as it started to come unstuck in her sleep Eden would wake up just enough to cry about her band aid coming off and how she needed it so desperately to stay on. Simply ridiculous in my book!

So, for now we are going with the band-aid phase as long as it is a owie that will benefit from the aid. I have had to resolve to pick my battles with this one and leave it up to Chepe to divvy out the band-aids. And, we absolutely will not have fancy ones with princesses or Sponge Bob in our house to complicate things any further in regards to this newest three year old trend.

Houston, we have 'poop'!

Last week I started working with Lily on letting us know when she has poop. Before changing her poopiness I would point to her stinky booty and say 'poop'. Then while changing her diaper I would say 'poop' and talk to her about her poopie diaper. Moments ago she crawled over to me with a diaper and said 'poop' clear as day. I asked her if she had poop and she pointed to her bottom and said it again. If you ask Chepe he will say it was him who made this happen, but now the *bloggerdom* knows the real honest truth of the matter. So there! :o)

Happy Halloween Little Mermaid Style!

Last year the day after Halloween she proclaimed that she would be Ariel next year. She did not waiver one iota, so we followed her lead and dressed as Prince Eric, Ursula, Ariel, and Andrina. She had wanted Lily to be Flounder, but I directed her to having a sister mermaid instead.

Since I do not sew I tried to push for store bought costumes, but Eden insisted that they were not quite right and wanted a 'real tail' and 'purple boobs'. Thank goodness for a nifty product called Mighty Mendit, it was the answer to my costume making prayers. That stuff is awesome and I now joke that it is my duct tape and need to do a testimonial for the product. There is not a single stitch in any of the parts we made in these costumes.

Eden had full creative authority on the costumes and helped create them all. She chose the material, helped me dye the 'skin' with tea, beaded each of our necklaces herself (I only held one end & tied the knot), painted her own seashells (two coats even to get it just the right purple glittery shade), and quickly proclaimed when something was not correct looking (and told us to look it up online to be sure how to make it look).

After looking on the internet for ideas on how to create tails and tentacles we did it 'purple boobs' and all. This homemade costume means a lot to me because I am not domestic at all, but with the help of a determined three year old I think we pulled The Little Mermaid theme off pretty good. And, most importantly it was exactly what Eden wanted.

Sure, I wish that she did not pick Ursula for me since that meant I had to be a big ugly octopus witch, but hey! Maybe next year I will actually be able to be something nonfat that requires no bold blue eye shadow (I was Mimi from the Drew Carey Show last year since I was hugely prego with Lily). Also, I thought Eden would want Chepe to be King Triton, but she had her mind made up with him being someone else, Prince Eric.

It was really cute when he protested and she said, 'but Papa, I need a Prince.' That melted my heart but, the cutest moment was when Chepe was ready and she grabbed his hand and said, 'dance with me Prince Eric.' Wonder what she has in store for us for next year?

Five Little Pumpkins

Just one of many Halloween songs Eden learned at preschool.

Monk Monk!

Could not resist buying Lily a Monkey costume since she is my little monkey. I added a bow to girlie it up a bit, and in true monk monk form she pulled it out, tried eating it, climbed up the slide, and then tried hiding under the slide when her sissy came out to see what all the hub bub was about. That is my monk monk for you. We joke that her terrible twos switch was flipped about two weeks ago, so what we thought was monkey business before was just practice for the real jungle that we are heading into full speed ahead.

Happy Anniversary Honey Bunny!

Despite today being one heck of a day it was wonderful because it marked us being together for nine years. You are correct in saying it was the best decision I could have made in marrying you, especially since no one but me got the joke from what we can tell. I get you and whether you admit it on facebook or not it was your best decision too.

Love you 'this much'!

Halloween Picture Parade

Bats & Cat

Grrr!
Ditto the 'Grrr' because she was so done posing for pictures.

Eden really wanted to wear last years Jojo Circus costume to Tumble Time this week. I stayed up late finishing up her mermaid costume, but I should have known better. Eden informed me that mermaids do not climb ladders. Chepe said I should have known better because it is clown school afterall. Good thing I knew which box it was in.

Silly bats!

Spider Hat that she took to show and tell for black week.

Eden say Lily is married when she puts it on.

Level 1 Human

Refusing to change out of her Esmerelda nightgown, even for pumpkin pictures.

Posing with the pumpkins Dyetha (my dad) grew for the girls in his garden and one tiny green one we grew in ours. Oh...and Eden's tiny ceramic jack-o-lantern that is her 'bud'.

Look a GREAT standing pumpkin! Yep, standing all by herself for about 20 seconds and I happened to catch it 'on film'.