"Wait!"

Kayden is turning into a bit of a girly girl. She insists on wearing her skort to school every day and must wear her head band. When she goes to school in the morning, her hair is wet and straight and I have placed her head band on her head. When she comes home from school, she looks like this usually.
Today I picked her up and she smiled a huge smile and said, "I made a picture for you again today, Mom." Her teacher said, "Let me tell you about that picture. Juan was waiting for his turn on the easel and I guess he was crowding Kayden. She turned around, put her little hand up, and said 'Wait. I have to write my name first' and then proceeded to take a marker and "write her name" on her picture" Too funny. When we got home and looked at it, I asked her to show me where she wrote her name. She pointed to the place where her teacher wrote it and said "Mrs. Alva wrote it here." then she moved her hand to some pink scribbles and said "I wrote it here".

I love them so much. Look at this big sisterly hug.

Prepositions

Today in the car while we waited for Keeley at carpool, Kayden thought she saw a spider. I never saw it, but she was convinced it was there.

When we got home we had this conversation:

Kayden: (very upset) "There is a spider on our car."
Me: "I'll get him out when you take a nap."
Kayden: very annoyed "No. Not in our car, on our car."
Me: "Oh. Sorry. I'll get him off our car during nap time." (In my defense, the spider that she saw was inside the car, but on the roof. I thought that I could say out and it would be okay. Apparently not.)

Geez! Grammar stickler at two!

Love my girls

Keeley had orientation days last week at school. Poor Kayden didn't know what to do without her around! Here they are on Thursday getting ready to go to school for the first time this year.
We certainly have our moments, but they are so cute and love each other so much! (Kayden needed her hair straight that day. Poor thing doesn't realize how many are envious of those adorable curls!)

Accessories

There were tears this day because I would not let her put in more bows or clips.

Here I come!

Kayden is a no holds barred, full throttle sort of kid. There really is no middle ground with her. I've had to laugh to myself now that she is out of her crib because I always know if it is her or Keeley coming down the hall. Keeley silently exits her room, enters our room, and stands three inches from my face until I wake up. Kayden flings the doors wide open and loudly enters our room telling us what she needs.

Friday morning I was awakened to our door being flung wide open at 5:50. Instantly I thought, "Kayden". As I opened my eyes, I notice two things 1. the hallway is bathed in light which means she has turned the light on in her room and, 2. she is clicking her tongue as she enters. About 2.5 seconds after the door opens, she says, "I want to wear the dress Katherine gave me for my birthday". Who knows how long she had been awake. It was certainly long enough to turn on her light, wake up enough to look in her closet to find something else to wear, and come down the hall experimenting with sounds. If only it could have been a little later!

Chick Fil A

Today and yesterday Keeley had a short orientation at school. Each day she was there for 1.5 hours. Yesterday Kayden and I went to the store and then to the uniform sale. Today I thought we could do something fun for her. As we were leaving the carpool lane I asked Kayden if she would like to go to Chick Fil A. This was our conversation:

Me: "Which Chick Fil A did you want to go to? The one with the helicopters or the car?"
Kayden: "Elicopers."
Me: "Okay. Do you want chicken or just to play"
Kayden: "Chickens."

We drive a few more minutes...

Kayden: "I don't want the elicopers. Car. Let's go car one."
Me: "We are already going to the helicopter one. If we go to the other we won't have much time to play. Why don't you look and see if the helicopters look like fun when we get there."
Kayden: "okay" (not convinced though...)

A few more minutes of driving and we pull into the parking lot of the one with the helicopters."

Kayden: "cars. Cars! Not elicopers!!!!!!!"
Me: "Kayden, we are already here. Why don't we just play here?"
Kayden: "But Mooooom! You said I could look and see."

She's 2. Isn't it a little early for this?! I swear I was expecting that in elementary school but not this early! I know I told her we could look and see. I suppose I was just hoping we'd get there and she'd decide it was okay to play at that one.

Because it was her special time, we drove to the other one. Turns out that it didn't matter that she didn't have much time to play. She was in the play area less than 2 minutes when she came out and said "I'm lonely without Teeley." She sat and ate her "chickens" and then said "Let's go get Teeley."

Grumpy

Kayden was up at 10 last night and then again from 1-3:30. She slept in about 45 minutes this morning. I fought with her from 12-2 to take a nap. She didn't nap. Keeley woke up at 2:15 so then I stood no chance of getting Kayden to sleep. I was not in the best of moods as, not only did I get no time to myself today, I also spent 2 hours fighting with an overtired child to go to bed (and lost). Keeley got angry with me when I told her she couldn't watch tv and then she went in her room. A few minutes later, she came out, hands on hips, and said, "Mom, you are so grumpy today." Yes. I suppose I am. Time for a mommy time out.

Calm Down

Keeley wanted to drag her baby on a spare pillow through the garage. I objected to that. There were tears. Lots of tears. We get inside and she is walking to her door when I ask "what would you like for lunch?" She looks at me, hand on the door, tears in her eyes and says, "I need to calm down first." Drama queen. Wonder where she gets it....

Enough

This morning I was giving Keeley lots of kisses and talking to her about getting up. She put her little hand up and said "That's enough kisses. ENOUGH!" :-(

Tea Party

The girls has so much fun at the tea party with my mom this summer that we decided to go again with Grandma. Because we would be going on a Saturday, the girls thought that Dad needed to come with us. Dad was a very good sport. The girls expressed a little more of their personality in their outfits this time!

Bowling

Kids Bowl Free was a promotion I stumbled across this summer and thought might be fun for us. Unfortunately, the summer slipped away and we just now used our coupons. The girls had so much fun! I wish that we had started earlier the summer. Kayden bowled a strike on her first frame. She was a little irritated that she didn't get to go again when the other kids did!
Keeley insisted on carrying her own ball. The other kids liked to use a heavier ball, even if it meant that Mom had to put it on the ramp thing.


For about half the game, all three of the kids ran the length of the lane and back. They took good naps that day!

Thinker

Keeley loves her tricycle. I know that we should be working on a bicycle at this point but she is so comfortable on the tricycle and so afraid of bicycles. So we haven't pushed the issue. She enjoys riding her tricycle around the house and likes to load up the little basket with random things that she needs to transport. The other day she decided she needed more than the little green basket would allow and came up with this...


pretty inventive I think!

My little dancer/dress up girl

Kayden isn't old enough for dance class yet, but she is obsessed with wearing her leotard and dancing in the house - just like big sister! She also loves bracelets, bows, and necklaces.

Splash Park

We took the girls to a new splash park the other day. While they had fun in the water,I think they had more fun rolling Daddy down the hill!

"like Keeley"

Kayden has curls. Lots of them. Every day I'm confused about them and what to do with them. They are adorable and get her lots of comments from everyone we meet. Unfortunately, she doesn't want them. She's been asking for straight hair "like Keeley" and little bangs "like Keeley" a lot lately. Breaks my heart. Keeley even tells her she likes "just like she is. even with curls."

Both the girls are also very independent. Here, they both fixed their own hair, with little bangs.

Sneaky

When we were planning Keeley's nursery we had a hard time spending the money on a glider/rocker that would be given away after it was out of the nursery. Our solution was to buy really nice lazy boy chairs that we would get after the "nursery" phase was over. That chair is awesome. When we found out we were pregnant with Kayden, we decided to get another since Keeley was still so little. Our logic was that we would each have one when the girls were through needing them.

Well, the girls are 2 and 3 and the really expensive and comfortable chairs are still in their rooms. The girls love to read and we spend about 30 minutes before naps and bedtime every day reading in those chairs so it seems logical to leave them in there.

Unfortunately, the girls aren't really babies anymore and are starting to not be as cautious with the chairs as we'd like. On Friday I walked into the girls trying to walk up the back of the chair that was in the reclined position. I told them that wasn't how we treated chairs and if I saw them do it again I would have to remove the chair from their room because they couldn't treat them nicely.

Fast forward three hours. The girls are having a "dance party" in Keeley's room with the door closed and I'm getting dinner ready in the kitchen. This is what I hear:

Kayden : "uh oh. I'll go get Mom."
Keeley: "NOOOOO!! Don't get Mom. I'll fix it. I'll fix it."

I gave her a couple minutes to "fix it" and then went to investigate. I walk into her standing next to the still rocking rocking chair. Keeley immediately says, "Mom, it accidentally...and I fixed it. I fixed it"

I swear I thought I had a few years to go before this started!!

Which is funnier?

Kayden makes me laugh on a daily basis. She has a very cute sense of humor and an adorably sweet little face. However, both of these I think are funny and she did quite on accident and ended up in tears.

* While eating a rice krispie-ish treat she all of the sudden starts screaming and crying. I'm quite confused because I know they are good and that she likes them. When I finally get her to calm down, I find out that she is crying because she bit her own finger! Maybe we should work on pacing her eating a bit...

* Today during "nap time" she came out of her room screaming and crying. When I asked why she said "I'm locked out." She had closed her door behind her when she came out and didn't think about the fact that she can't work the child lock to get back in. Who cries when they are locked out of their own room by their own doing?

The Circus!

Grandma got tickets to the suite at the AAC for the circus this last weekend. I was going to be out of town and Kelly wanted to know if it would make me sad to miss the girls' first trip to the circus. I told him no. Truthfully, I thought they would be too little to enjoy it and I would just miss out on the meltdowns and boredom. I was wrong though. They had a wonderful time. He said Kayden was riveted the entire time and that Keeley enjoyed it too, but not as much as Kayden. Here are a few pictures.
Kayden enjoyed the food. Keeley not so much. She is such a finicky eater!!

The left one

Keeley is very concerned about which item/seat/etc is hers. All the time. We are (still) obsessed with "the left one". Before you give her anything she will say "Is this the left one?" When she she walks up and sees something set out for her or for Kayden she will ask, "Is this the left one?" Even if the items are identical, she will ask if it is the left one or, "Which one is mine?" I long ago figured out it was easier to answer, "yes, that is the left one I gave you" or "this one is yours". What difference does it make?!?! An apple juice box is an apple juice box. Left, right, or center!

This week we headed to Mom's pool to swim for a bit. Monica and all her boys joined us so Mom made some cookies! I took one cookie for each of the "big kids" down to the pool. I had two on a plate for the boys and two on one for my girls. I showed Keeley the cookies and asked if she would like one. She looked at them and said "Which one is the left one?" I showed her and then smiled as I watched her try to reconcile her dilemma. She always has to have the left one. BUT, in this particular instance, the RIGHT one had bigger chocolate chips. What to do when you are three and the things you don't match up? You make it work. She quickly slid the cookies around the plate until the one with the bigger chips was on the left, looked at me, and said "I want the left one."

Thankfully, little sister was in the pool still and didn't witness big sister cheating her out of the better cookie!