Skating with your Mer-Mer

Bibby,
Your sweet "Mer-Mer" took you ice skating for the very first time. You had been talking about it since Thanksgiving and I don't think I have ever seen you so excited to do something. You adore Mer and think she is the coolest thing going.....especially now. You were so brave. I was really surprised. You stepped right out on the ice and for the first while she held you from behind (I know her back is killing her). You then decided to try one of the "helpers" that you push and loved it. You were zipping around with poor Mer grabbing you every time you started to fall. You laughed and laughed. Then, being very brave, you pushed that thing aside and took off on your own. When Mer would try and hold you, you would push her hands away.....really she kept you from face planting several times but you had an absolute ball. Thank goodness we got there an hour before the session ended or I don't think you would have ever gotten off the rink and Mer might have been wheeled out in a wheel chair. You have asked me to go back everyday. I can't tell you how much fun it is for me to watch you two together. She adores you and you her. I can't wait to ruin her little ones one day.

I am afraid you may have sealed your fate......

Virginia,
I promise you I had just posted the last post when I turn around and you had done it again!!! You are so proud of yourself and I can't help but laugh at you.

Hope this doesn't land someone on the naughty list

Virginia,
One minute you are coloring like such a sweet little angel then I turn my back for just a second and you have tatooed your entire body. This has happened twice this week. You get so proud of yourself and think that you have put on "makeups." If you weren't so darn cute and funny.....

You know your dad is a hunter when......

This is what you wanted to play with in the bath tonight!!!!

You did it!

Bibby,
I don't think I have ever been so proud. The Sunday before last the children's choir performed during the 11 o'clock service. You have been practicing for weeks but when it came time to get on stage you completely balked. I mean you had an out-of-body come apart. You cried, you clung to me, you were having no part of it. So Sunday when you were supposed to do the handbells during the hanging of the greens service I was really skeptical if you would do it. Dad talked to you a lot about commitment and if you tell someone you are going to do something you need to do it. Well, you marched over to that table and rang your little yellow bell perfectly. You were so precious waving and the whole entourage that was there to watch you. You seemed so little with all of the bigger kids. Dad was so proud he stopped at the store and bought you a big ice cream cookie sandwich. We'll see how the big choir performance goes on the 16th but you kept saying you just had to watch and see what it was like and you would do it next time.

You are my sunshine....

My only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are grey...

You'll never know dear....

How much I love you.....

Please don't take my sunshine away...

The art of playing dress-up

Bibby,

Today you BEGGED for Emily to come home with us. I got to school a little early and you two had congured up the plan for Em to come over, which I honestly never mind. You two play really well together and she is never a minute of trouble. After school her mom brought her over and you both wanted to dress up. You got your outfits all completed. It is so funny to watch you and Emily told you that princesses always wear their hair down so of course your ponytail immediately comes down. You then tell Em that she really needed a hat with her outfit and of course she put one on. I can just picture you two getting dressed 10 years from now talking about what purse will complete your outfit. Anyway, you then wanted the "real" make-up. Not the pretend stuff that doesn't really stick. Of course Momo and Birdie have stocked us full of "real" make-up that I strategically keep above the washer and dryer so their is no possible way you can get in to it (today I was reminded why I do this). You started putting the make-up on each other after envisioning what my rug was going to end up looking like I took on the role. You did do your own nails. You also gave sleeping beauty a lovely new look. You were so precious and very much in to me taking pictures. I loved it because you were so dolled up but wanted to dig up rocks and dirt in the back yard. I love the innocence that you possess. I love the excitement when I tell you we CAN get down the REAL make-up. The was you have to put make up on the sleeping beauty doll because she is your "sister." Thank goodness Virginia was still asleep. I love nothing more than watching you use your imaginations. Virginia, you are really starting to use yours as well. Tonight you were the mouse chasing Tinkerbell (well, that is the story according to Bibby) and you were on your hands and knees squeeking. At lunch today it was a kitty cat. Your personality grows daily. You have a hilarious, quirky side that is keeping your father and I in stitches. I am having a hard time getting on to you because when I try you cut your eyes or do something really dramatic then look up and start laughing.

The Chief and her little squall(er)

Girls,

We are all suffering today from a candy hangover. You two had an absolute blast last night and were the two cutest Indians I have ever seen. Virginia, you finally got the concept of taking candy and putting it in your bag and continuing on. At the church trunk-or-treat you would get a piece of candy and immediately want it open and if we wouldn't open it for you (because you already had a sucker in each hand) you would fall on the ground and have a mini come-apart and the get back up and go to the next car only to repeat the process. Bibby, you were really timid at first about going to the door and especially didn't want to get on the hay ride but of course by the end of the night and with some great coaching from dad you became a trick-or-treating pro. I decided at the beginning of the night that all your dad and I were going to hear was, "Can I have another piece of candy?" We let you know that it was a free-for-all, that on this one night only you could eat as much candy as you possibly wanted......and you did! We had a ball. We went to two parties and didn't get home until 10:00......only after daddy and Virginia went on the longest hay ride ever....led by Mr.Jason from MoMo's house past Eastwood to Pointe Mallard waterpark and back. You loved it! We had to explain to you, Bibby on the way home from church why we couldn't go up to peoples houses again tonight and trick-or-treat. You were ready to go again........Mommy and Dad need a year to recover!

Fall Festival

Bopper,

Today was your last fall festival. You have been really excited and wanted so badly for Virginia to come. I thought it was so sweet how you had been building the day up to her. You still talk in a baby voice when you are explaining things to her. I love to watch you do that now because she listens so intently to you and answers you back. She was such a booger at the festival and once she got her hands on some pink playdo all she wanted was to sit and pinch it off and wipe it on the concrete. When I would move her to the next activity she would yell, "Playdo, right now!" Bibby you had a big time and when you would win a prize you would pick one out for Virginia as well.

Donuts with Dad

Bibby,

Last week was your LAST donuts with Dad. I can't believe it and neither can your Dad. He said he really thought that you knew it was your last one as well because you were unusually shy. You both had a good time and Dad said you drew a great picture of him that your teachers are going to put in a book at the end of the year. Of course he is not byassed but he said your drawing was one of the best in the class. Is it bad that I had to choke back the tears because it was the last one??