"I'm Ready"

As I was eating breakfast this morning Bella came up to me and told me "I'm ready".  This is what she looked like:

Yup, coat on upside down, hat, and diaper.  She then realized she was missing something and said "SHOES!"

Of course!  The fairy rain boots is what she was missing.
She then jumped up, threw her arms in the  air and yelled "I did it!".



I love my quirky kid!


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The Valentine's the kid did this year:

I tried to do the mustache with Bella too but she did NOT like that so I just used an old picture of her

Calla was here and here is an out take of her and Jack, they were both so proud of their mustaches

and because Jack is a complete ham

This is what happens when I pee....

I took about 2 minutes.... silly me.
Then Jack was done and I cleaned him up and Bella thought she needed more


She was so proud of herself....

I never even finished Christmas....

I know, I know, I never even finished putting up the Christmas pictures, I promise that by Summer they will be up (probably....)
As usual things are busy around here, the kids are keeping me on my toes.  They keep testing and testing and testing..... Yesterday we were at Speech Therapy and while I was talking to their therapist Bella tried to pull the fire alarm 3 times ( in a 5 minute span).   Jack is also an expert on telling me what I *should* be doing.  It was a 15 minute process just putting on his pants this morning... he wanted help, then yelled at me for helping him, then cried and cried and cried when I let him do it.   After the crying was done he put his pants on and came out with wet cheeks from crying and told me how handsome he was.... at least he rebounds quickly (On the other hand, I am considering spiking my coffee ~ not really but it would be nice). 
But then Jack comes up to me and puts a necklace on me and tells me I am as pretty as a princess and all is forgiven, all Bella has to do is say "Momma, your back!!" and run at me with such excitement when I enter the room and I melt.  I guess that is what being 3 is all about... 
Okay a couple of pictures before they tear the house apart:


This morning, Bella putting on her chap stick... I wish you could see just how all over her face it is, but she just loves this stuff

Jack is "so sad" because he does not have Woody scissors.  We have never had woody scissors nor do I ever remember seeing them in the store but he is heart broken over it

Here are my fashion icons:
Bella was upset because I put her in pants so she ran out to the living room to pick the right accessories

Jack... as handsome as ever

this is my person favorite

Christmas season recap...

We went to "Christmas Magic" which is a huge light show at a local park:
 


Jack saw Santa but Bella wanted nothing to do with him:
 
Then we went to go pick out our Christmas tree:


Decorated it:
 


We visited Grandmom Newman (and had the BEST time)



Well at least most people are facing the camera...

We decorated a gingerbread house
(Bella got a little hungry and bit the poor snowman)


and I have more but I have to run so I will put up some more pictures of actual Christmas tomorrow

"Decorating cookies is delicious"

At least that is what Jack told me this morning.  We made some cookies for Santa (and while it was messy and they came out a little wonky looking, it was a lot of fun).
*I promise Bella does wear clothes but she started to get undressed and I was not going to dress her just to make the cookies as she is often quite messy and the last thing I need is more laundry to do.

They decorated the cookies with m&ms and colored sugar.  They of course needed to sample the m&ms but I put my foot down when they insisted they needed to try the sugar... the last thing they need is to eat sugar straight!


Here is the final product (I hope Santa has a sweet tooth as the sugar came out super quick!)

These are the cookies that they chose to give to Santa tonight.  Jack insisted that was enough and that he needed the rest.  (you can see his hand creeping into the picture)



Merry Christmas to everyone :)

5 minutes....

Molson is doing well.  Poor pup still needs to be tranquilized daily as he would run and jump if we let him, even with the pills.  It is crazy the amount of energy this dog has so soon after the surgery.  I really thought he would have been laid up for a bit... nope, Molson is super dog and nothing stops him.  He was always very active and would just roam around outside for hours each day.  Now he has to be on a leash and can only go outside for potty breaks.  I has him out the other day and was gone for 5 minutes...
My kids found stickers.  This was under the dining room table (please don't mind the crumbs we had just finished snack and I don't have the neatest of children in my home)

Jack's foot (again he dressed himself)

The little girl I watch had them all in her hair, and she has a full head of beautiful hair.  You can see Jack has them on his back too

Now I think they spent the majority of their time decorating Bella's back (there are about 50 stickers piled on top of each other)

5 minutes to go and about 30 minutes to clean up
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Every morning Jack comes out of his room and it takes him about 15 minutes because he has his "animals" that he has to carry with him.  We were cleaning up the toys after lunch one day and he lined up some of them

he is very proud!

Christmas trees :)

I did not think that the kids would be ready to make gingerbread houses yet so we decided just to go with trees.  The kids had such a great time.  I  took ice cream cones and icing that I had dyed and gave them to the kids to decorate. 

I told them that they could eat a couple of the candies so I am shocked that so many made it onto the trees
I tried so hard to get Jack to smile and this is the best I could do

Bella "smiling"

Calla showing off her missing teeth

the finished products:

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Poor Molson is home from his ACL surgery and doing well.  He was doing "too well" according to the vet and he was very rambunctious.  Jason ended up having to build a pen because he was trying to run and jump too much.  Not bad for a quick fix!