Happy Birthday, Girls!

Rylie is ONE!

Paige is THREE!

"Is it 'morrow, mom?"

Paige's birthday is "coming up." A fact that she will tell any person that makes the mistake of even glancing in her direction (for example: the cashier at the grocery store, random parents trying to pick up their children from her daycare, every person we pass in any store, the man leading story-time at the library last week, etc).

Unfortunately, she doesn't really understand the concept of a calender though, as I'll show her where her birthday is (May 7th), show her where we currently are (April 30th), we count the days until her birthday, and she'll look at me and say, "so my birthday 'morrow?" We have a count-down calendar hanging on our kitchen island, something I thought would help, but she just wants to fill all the boxes with stickers at once, so we can get to her birthday sooner. Which leads me to believe she doesn't get that either.

Since we'll be having her party this Saturday, I thought a good activity for us this afternoon would be to go to the party store to get stuff we "need" (as a side note, I could spend hours in that store). To say that Paige was excited for this trip is the understatement of the century. She was ECSTATIC. On the way there she started babbling on about presents, so I stupidly say, "what do you want for your birthday?" Paige responds with, "um....a car, like Mommy and Daddy's." And here I thought we had about 13 more years before I'd have to explain to her that she's not getting a car for her birthday, EVER. After I did a very drawn out, "oh reeeallly," she said, "and a box, to put my presents in." Now, a box is something a little more reasonable. I could easily get her 10 Xerox boxes for her birthday (one of the few perks of being a teacher). But Paige wasn't done yet, her final request was my favorite, a "sidewalk, a blue sidewalk." So to recap, Paige wants a car, a box and a blue sidewalk for her birthday. Great.

Rylie Walks

Pacifiers

So, Rylie really likes pacifiers. Unfortunately, for her, we have banned them from daytime activities, and they only exist in her crib and the car.

But she somehow solved the pacifier problem on her own....by creating pacifiers out of EVERYTHING she finds.

Like, puzzle pieces...

...and dolls from the dollhouse...

...and pretend shampoo bottles for Paige's dolls.

She also has been known to stand by the counters and put the knobs in her mouth as if they are pacifiers, but those moments are more difficult to capture because her desire to move outweighs her love of the paci.

Bad Dream

Paige woke up this morning and said she was "scared, because the moons are all gone." Well, in an attempt to make her feel better, I said, "no, the moon is not gone, it's outside," which caused her to go into total hysterics. Apparently I said something wrong...

Here's Paige's telling of her Moon Horror Story:

Paige: The moon is outside and coming to get me.
Dave: No, the moon is behind the clouds.
Me: It only comes at night, the sun is out in the day.
Paige (eyes wide): The moon is going to eat the sun? The moon has BIIIIG teeth.
Dave and me: (laughter)
Paige: The moon is going to get ebborybody [sic].
Dave and me: (laughter)
Paige: The moon is like a monthster [sic].
Dave and me: (laughter)

Paige is now identifying all the objects around our house that the moon will, "get." I asked if she's done being scared, and she said, "No, the moon is still in the sky." This could be a rough day.

P.S. Paige has now said that the moon will soon be "getting" my computer. Great, and I just got this for Christmas.

Rylie's New "Trick"

Twenty Twelve

Apparently (according to Ruthie), a video does not suffice as a blog post. So here I am, making a "real" entry. I can summarize what Izzy has been up to in about 5 words: eat, sleep, poop, sleep again. It's difficult to make her life interesting. She has taken to sleeping on the girl's couch and doll bed, which is incredibly cute, but other than that, she's boring. 

Paige and Rylie, on the other hand, have been up to so much. We enrolled Paige in a tap/ballet dance class, and are awed at her complete lack of grace every Saturday. Each class they do a little lesson (parents kicked out of the room), then invite the parents in to show us what they "learned." Well, today Paige discovered that her tap shoes can make a loud bang if she stomps her heal into the dance floor. So, while all the other girls delicately tapped their shoes and followed the instructors lead, she stomp stomped her heel and was SO proud of herself. I'm almost certain there is a divot in the floor where she was standing (as a side note, I was laughing so hard I started crying and had to leave the room). 

Rylie has learned how to crawl, clap, play peek-a-boo, stand, and get into mischief. Her goal in life is to find a hole in our child-proofing and show us what happens because of it. If the gate is off the stairs for 2.5 seconds, she'll be 5 steps up before you catch her. She thinks the oddest things are absolutely hilarious (head butting, pretending to drop her, etc) and has an infectious laugh that will make you continue doing these things to keep her giggling.