My Little Helpers

I love to cook and it has always been my dream to one day have my girls help me in the kitchen. We made cookies the other day and if managing to get sugar everywhere, and then flour and get that all wet, then they are great helpers. It was a serious disaster but I would have to say it was a lot of fun and they really loved being there with me and licking the beaters too. Notice my counter ape, that is my Lizzy as soon as I go in the kitchen she is right there on the counter.

Fashion Show

we are going to Wichita next weekend with the cousins and the hotel we are staying at has an indoor swimming pool, the girl's swimsuits from last year don't fit anymore so when we were at Target and saw these darling swimsuits we just had to get them. As soon as we got home Lizzy had to put hers on, so I decided to put Nellie's on too and do a photo shoot. Lizzy loved to pose and cheese it up while Nellie was as you can see a little less than thrilled. Kevin's only hope for a tomboy is Nellie because it just isn't gonna happen with Lizzy, she is the prissiest little girl.

"Are you seriously making me do this Mom?"

Flour Angels

The other night I was on the phone for a total of 3 minutes, but in that time the little monkeys managed to get flour all over the floor and proceeded to make flour angels. I walk in there and Lizzy says "Look mom, it's pretty." Of course they had to do this when they were already in their jammies and ready for bed. Those little stinkers, I had to just laugh because it did look quite funny.

Nellie decided that the flour tasted really good. Nasty.

Monkey

Yes I have a monkey at my house, well actually two of them. I was hoping after the first one started climbing out of the crib at 18 months that maybe I would be able to have another baby that would stay in a crib for longer. You may be thinking who cares if the baby sleeps in a crib or a bed, but the problem isn't sleeping it is the time before sleep when they can't go anywhere if they are in a crib so they decide to give up the ghost and go to sleep. Things get a lot more complicated when you have to lay next to them and pretend that you are sleeping so that after 20 minutes of playing around they finally decide that they will go to sleep, and hopefully you got enough sleep the night before because if not you are toast and all that fake sleeping made you fall asleep too and you get nothing done that you were going to get done while your crazy child was finally asleep. Yes, I have had a lot of experience with this.

It wasn't too long from the time Lizzy got into a grown-up bed that she was no longer taking naps, shortly after two years of age to be exact. That's right Lizzy stopped taking naps ALTOGETHER when she was barely TWO. I am starting to see a pattern developing with my younger monkey that is looking very similar and it scares me to death.

So monkey #2 has decided that she needs to try and climb out of the crib, so that means a lot of practice climbing all over everything else so she can perfect those climbing skills. She climbs up onto the table all the time, I always will find her on the table or under the table trying to get up on the chair to get onto the table, or she likes climbing on the toilet too. One day I hear her crying and I run into the bathroom to find her hanging out of the sink because she climbed onto the toilet and thought "I'll bet I can climb up into the sink too". Another new thing she does is climb up on the couch and jump from the couch to the ottoman and back again. Oh well she sure is a cute monkey.

Some Hair!!

I was starting to get a little bit worried that our little Nellie was never going to get any hair. Today I finally was able to stick a little barrette in it. Yay! By the time Lizzy was Nellie's age she had hair down to her shoulders, so I was starting to get a bit nervous, but in the last month or so she finally started to sprout some hair!! I am hoping it will continue to grow at the rate that it is right now, so by the time she is two she will have a normal head of hair. See the tiny barrette that is barely staying in? I will take whatever I can get at this point.

I had to take a picture of this outfit because it was one that I wore when I was a baby. I found it a few months back in my hope chest and thought that Nellie would look darling in it. I think it even looks like it is in style.
It really is growing, in this picture you may not thinks she has much hair, but in real life it looks like more.