Snug as a bug

Tonight Ken watched the baby while I went out visiting teaching. Daisy was a little fussy for a while and had a hard time getting to sleep. This is one position Ken tried and she fell asleep that way. It looks a little uncomfortable, but she's out cold snoring. So cute!

One other cute thing unrelated: Lucy picked a little weed flower yesterday, sniffed it and said, "Oh it smells tiny!" She's my girl!

A sad story

Yesterday Ken made a quick video assignment for school. We had a baby Daisy and baby doll stunt where the doll falls off the balcony. Boyd saw that part of the video while Ken was working on it and flipped out! He was completely hysterical, crying that baby Daisy fell down and was hurt, Mama dropped baby girl, Boyd's so sad! It took a good hour to convince Boyd that Daisy was okay and she didn't fall. Boyd wanted to hold and hug Daisy for a long time, then he held the baby doll for the rest of the night. He was sad for the doll, too. This morning he told me again, "Mama don't drop Baby Girl!" The poor guy's not going to let me forget that one. At least we know that Boyd loves his sister, but that was so sad when he thought she wasn't okay.

We love Snow White

Walt Disney was a genius! Ken's said this a bunch of times and its true. Who knew that 80 years later, Snow White would still be so charming and so re-watchable. Boyd and Lucy were so enthralled even in the first few minutes. That's actually a hard thing to do with Boyd. He usually has a hard time with new movies. He was sooo not interested in Cars, Ratatouille, or Wall-E to name a few- they don't have the same sweetness and charm as the old classic Disneys. They want to watch Snow White everyday, and sometimes Pinocchio too ( Boyd calls it "Yoki-yo"). There is ONE slight problem with the Snow White movie though... the dwarves say "SHUT UP!" And guess who picked up that little phrase around our house? Its so horrible... that's naughty talk here. I'm not really sure how to handle that one- it makes me cringe. On the up side, Lucy's soooo cute singing "Heigh ho" and "I'm wishing" around the house all day.

Cutest one in the tub

Daisy looks just so cute in her little whale tub. She loves baths and is just so content to hang out and have a nice soak. She even does happy little splash kicks. Once in a while I'll put her in with the big kids, but they're a little too excited to have her in and "wash her." Its a good thing they are so sweet!

S.T.A.R.

I was so proud of my boy yesterday, especially last night for dinner. We have had some serious battles over food in the past. We are just thrilled if we can get Boyd to eat a poptart or a chicken nugget, let alone any real food. Last night I had just started some dinner and Boyd told me he was hungry. He ate some apples and strawberries while I was cooking the chicken and rice. He said, "Mmmm, smells so good!" Boyd ate about 4 plates full, asking for more of everything including his peas and corn. I don't think I've ever seen him eat so much! He sat at the counter for an hour and a half eating, it was crazy! I always make the same amount and we almost didn't have enough for us.

Last week we had his parent-teacher conference. We are just so glad Boyd is doing well in his school. He has just been happy so much more often than ever, and making some good strides in development. One of the things his teacher works on is learning control. They have this song and saying they do to try to calm down- STAR- Stop, Take a Breath, and Relax! His teacher told us he might do that for us sometime, and we were all yeah right. But, Boyd totally did that to me the other night when I was getting him dressed I was in a hurry and being a little stern. He put his hand out and said, "Stop, Take breath, and ReeeeMax!" It was so cute, what a funny kid!

What a night!

So, the last couple of days Lucy has been sick. If we thought she was dramatic before, I was terribly, horribly wrong. Yesterday we also tried to do a couple of household projects. We had a coupon thing to Lowe's and thought we'd get everything under control around the house in a couple of hours no problem. Well, as most everything spiraled out of control in our small home repairs, add to that an attention starved, sick, and very whiny 2 year old. Ken and I were so patient and nice all day. We took the kids to McDonalds, played on the swings at Grandma's (Lucy totally fell off mid-swing and that was horrible), then we went to the park because it was such a pretty day. Despite our efforts of avoiding a traumatic day, Lucy was a terror.

Around 10:30, she was finally in bed asleep. I thought, "oh I'm so glad she is finally down for the night." I got the baby to bed an hour later, got myself to bed not long after that and very soon Lucy was up again. Ken took care of her for a while, attending to her every whiny demand. Then we thought she was asleep again about 2am when Ken came to bed. So it was my turn to take over and did just about everything I could think of to get Lucy to sleep. We changed her pajamas a couple of times, had medicine and warm milk and cold milk, watched Mickey Mouse, hugged, layed down with her, moved into mom's bed and back into hers 42 times. Lucy finally ended up in my bed asleep at 4:30am. I had to move to the couch because she is an insanely crazy sleeper. Just as I was dozing off, Daisy woke up screaming for food. I fed her, but fell back asleep without burping her, so 2 hours later she is crying again with a tummy ache. Then, it was time to get Boyd up for school. I did get a couple hours of sleep while he was gone before the Lu was up and at it again.

Hope the rest of the day goes a little better.

Daisy smiles

Daisy is such a sweet little girl! Its so fun to see her getting a little personality now. Daisy loves to be in the middle of things already. I can't just put her in the swing to look at things while she is awake, she wants to be where the other kids and I are playing, or she hollers at me. She's got such a cute little smile with funny squinty, smiley eyes to go with her gummy mouth. This good little girl slept almost 8 hours the other night! Woo hoo! That makes her mommy so happy to get some good rest in one stretch- well mostly. I did wake up a few times wondering when the baby is going to wake up, listening for any baby noises to make sure she's breathing and all that crazy mom anxiety I get. I hope she starts sleeping that long more and more often.

Lucy

Lucy is such a funny kid! Very sweet, very weird, and very dramatic.

She loves to pull faces at us just to make us laugh. She also loves to sing- mostly made up songs or her own version of a real song. One of her favorites is "buff-why" (butterfly) song that includes a swaying dance.


Part of her tantrums (about every 5 minutes) includes a full body flop, face down with a very high-pitched scream that hurts your brain. This one is about the clothes I put her in- she wanted to wear green "nammies" (pajamas) instead of her cute new clothes. She was totally fine after about 1 minute, back to doing her other weird things, like stacking washcloths on the cats. The cats actually like Lucy's attention for some reason.

Lucy isn't quite sure how she feels about her new baby sister. She loves the baby stuff, the diapers, small socks, and blankies, but she knows some important mommy time is being taken away from her. Sometimes she kisses "Baby Saisy" and once in a while likes to hold her, but mostly she tells me to "put it in crib now" or "go put her away," or just simply pretends Daisy isn't here and tries to trample across her.

One of the sweetest things Lucy does is give tiny, pointy lip kisses, thoroughly thought out. She never misses a "Cug and Tiss" before daddy leaves and is so enthusiastic about his coming home as well- she squeals and shouts like crazy. Lucy also loves her big brother, tries so hard to be his boss, and is very often sweet to play and share with him.