My Tulips!

When we moved in last fall my mom gave us a big bag of tulips. I planted them and they looked SO cute this spring!

But sadly, they are done blooming. The last big wind storm blew all the petals off in one night. This is the last tulip from the yard...We decided to enjoy it in the house for a while (because Lucy picked it, for me...)

Thanks mom! They were great and will be again next year!

Lydia is 3!

Happy Birthday Liddy! We love you!

Wisdom of Children

Lydia was spinning and spinning and then stopped and said, "Whoa, I'm busy."
(2-23-11)

At dinner Lucy said, "All this food we eat comes out poop! He he he" Then Lydia said "Mine's not poop. Mine's sparkles."
(3-7-11)

Lately Lydia has been waking up with just a knotted tangled mess in the back of her hair. Like a brids nest back there. One morning Mike and I were kinda laughing about it across the room while Lydia was eating breakfast. Aparently she heard us, cuz she turned around whith a dirty look on her face and said "Don't talk about it!"
(3-10-11)

On Sunday we sat behind a family that had a one year old baby. It kept turning around and wanting Lucy's little toys that she brought to church, and then it would cry. Lucy said "I think we shouldn't have a baby because all they do is want things, and cry."
(3-13-11)

The other day the girls were just eating lunch and I was cleaning up the kitchen and Lucy said, out of nowhere, "Mom, do you like it when someone bugs you all the time?" I said, "No, I don't like it when anybody bugs me." Lucy said, "Then don't bug me, Mom." WHAT! Where did that come from? She's going to be really fun when she's a teenager!
(3-24-11)

The girls were staying at my parents for a few days while we went to Arizona. My dad asked Lucy if she missed us and she answered "no" really fast. My dad asked if she was sure and she said, "Well, if you just miss your mom, then you'll be sad. If you don't miss her, then you can be happy. You should be happy." Pretty good reasoning for a 4 years old!
(3-26-11)

Lucy to me: "Sometimes when mom's are having a baby, they get fat." Gee...Thanks for the reminder...
(3-29-11)

Lucy told me tonight that she wants to be a "circut girl and balance on the rope" Oh...she wants to join the circus. Great... She asked how old she had to be to join the circus, then said, "You have to be 7 don't you..." So I guess when she's seven she's going to leave me for the circus!
(4-5-11)

We're happy to announce.....

IT'S A BOY!!!!!!

I know I bla bla bla-ed about being ok if we had a girl, but we are SO glad it's a boy! I don't think we could have handled any more princesses or dress ups or drama in this house. Let's hope our little boy will be ALL boy. We could use some change around here!

Mike was all grins when we found out. He really started to get excited about this whole baby thing. Mike is sure he'll be a sports star just like his daddy!

Gotta have some bubble bath pictures!

Sporting the bubble beard...

Playing Frisbee with Dad. (No actual pictures of dad...sorry.)

Reach!

Nice throw, Lucy!

And, Lydia stopping to smell the flowers.

Just some silly girls...

The ultimate new fashion in hair accessories:

Eating "dirt" on April Fool's

Lucy was skeptical from the begining and soon figured it out, but Lydia really thought it was "special dirt" and was fine with it. Hey, it tasted good...

It's raining...in the house. Hurry! Get under the table...I mean the bus stop.

Easter 2011

Lydia was NOT happy about getting silly stringed.

This was the only picture I got from Grandma Mathis' egg hunt. It was intense! Lucy just took off and got all her own eggs. I could only help Lydia be faster! So sorry about the lack of pictures!

I'm Pregnant!

Yep! It's true. I'm due October 6th. I'm just getting over the really sucky part and starting to eat again and not lay on the couch while my girls watch TV ALL day. I'm only 14 weeks and I'm already having a hard time hiding my fat gut belly. We get to do a gender check on May 2nd! We're REALLY hoping for a boy, but we are really good with girls and a girls would be cheaper! So either way, we'll be happy!

So that's my news!

Wisdom of Children

Ever since Lucy's birthday she has been saying things like this: "I'm too grown up for that." "I'm grown up now to have a big girl cup. I won't even put my hands in it" "I'm 4 now. I can do that." or "I'm not a little kid anymore." In the tub she said she was too old to play with our tub toys. But then after a day of being "grown up" she said she didn't want to be grown, because "Mommies don't get to play with Barbies." So she's decided it's okay to still be a kid.
(10-19-10)

This morning I woke up to hear Lydia in her room saying "Oh my gooness" to her self over and over again. I never did figure out what she was talking about.
(10-20-10)

The girls favorite treat from halloween are tootsie rolls, except they call them "Mint-see rolls" (Lydia) and "Tit-see rolls" (Lucy)
(11-2-10)

Lucy keeps asking me "Is today tomorrow?" She's really confused about how the tomorrow thing works.
(11-6-10)

Lucy was asking what day it was because she really wanted to go to church. I told her it was Friday and then Saturday and Sunday. Lydia heard and said "It's Sunday!" Lucy said "No! It's Fraturday!"
(11-12-10)

Lucy was talking to my dad about not having any hair. He said he has a little hair...Then Lucy said, "I have an uncle that has NO hair. His head is shiny. It's like golden!"
(12-27-10)

Lately Lydia says she has to go "poo poo" about three times before it actually comes out. SO, Lucy made up a song that goes "What do you do when you have to poo." Such little ladies I have...
(1-7-11)

Lydia was playing dress-ups the other day and I told her it was lunch time and to go take off her dress and put it away. She put her hand on her hip and said, "the princess doesn't want to." Such attitude!
(2-4-11)

Today Lydia was looking for me. She yelled "Mom! Mom! Anya! Anya! Come out come out where ev you are!"
(2-8-11)