Little Ellie Lou Who

Another great thing about being a mom....you get to do this kind of stuff to your kids...=)

Drama Queen II

Last night, after Ellie had been put to bed, I heard her crying. It was the "I'm distressed" cry, so I went to her room to make sure she was okay.

I found her at the doorway of her room, with a pink receiving blanket over her head (like a shawl), and her lower lip puckered out. She looked so pathetic, I had no choice but to pick her up. It did not go unnoticed, however, that as soon as I reached out to pick her up she broke out in a big grin. She didn't lose her yentl scarf though. She held on tight to that.

She is so funny.

I could just 'eat her up'....

I don't care who you are or what you think....that's a cute kid!

Pumpkin Farm

On Friday we went to the Pumpkin Farm to pick a pumpkin. They also have farm animals, so we got to look at those too. Since it is a learning farm, we also picked dried beans, dug for worms, and learned about making compost. I kept thinking, "Why are these parents letting their children climb on the piles of rotting garbage (which compost is). Nothing against those into the 'green' or organic movement, but... ewww... Anyway, here are some pics....
Claire's reaction to the chickens... I kept thinking chicken fajitas for dinner sounded good.

Claire waiting for her class picture to be taken. She loved the wagon!


Claire picking beans...Ellie just chillin'.

I would show you the adorable pictures of Claire picking her pumpkin in the field or of Ellie carrying this perfectly-sized and round pumpkin, but the settings on my camera were wrong and the pics were overexposed. I was not a happy camper. But I didn't realize it until we got back to the car and no way was I carrying two pumpkins and two crying, very tired children back to the field. That was not going to happen.

The interesting thing about this pumpkin farm is that the farm was given to the county by a man (and his wife) who said that kids can come pick a pumpkin for free, but they have to carry it out of the field. It only applies to a certain age range, but it still is pretty cool. They have been giving away pumpkins for 35 years. I wasn't sure if they were going to let Ellie have hers since she was underage, but the lady said since she carried it all the way out, that it was hers. Good thing; I'm not sure we could have pried it out of her hands. All in all...a good day.

Winter has come....

It snowed last night and on the way to school this morning, Claire said, "Look Mom, it's winter!"

The girls played outside this afternoon for about 5 minutes, and when they came back inside, Claire announced that it was cold outside and they would need hot chocolate. They both loved their 'hot chocolate' (room temperature chocolate milk).

Sisters

OK, sometimes they scream at each other, but tonight they are being such good sisters.

Claire is playing a computer game and Ellie is watching. They are both sitting in the office chair at the desk. Ellie sits and watches, while Claire is actually playing the game. Claire says, "Yeah...I won!" and Ellie claps. So cute. Claire just bent down and gave Ellie a hug and kiss.

I would take a picture of this precious sister moment, but I'm afraid it would ruin the karma they have right now. So....I will just keep this story in my pocket and pull it out when I put each of them in their "naughty place", aka time-out. We have two....one for each since they are both in time-out at the same time.

Ok, good sister moment is over (just that fast). Claire is yelling at Ellie to sit down and Ellie is screaming. Nice....

Claire-speak

I love when Claire speaks. Something really cute always comes out of her mouth.

Sanks, Mom! = Thanks, Mom!

furfing movie = Surfing movie (Surf's Up!)

frowing - throwing (as in up or down, aka puking)

tc - T.V.

DDD - DVD

C is for Claire, D is for Daddy, E is for Claire...(no, E is for Ellie) No, E is for Claire! (M is for Mommy) No, M is not for Mommy. C is for Claire. (she has a one-track mind)

The results of not listening.

I am working and Claire is watching a Winnie the Pooh movie of some variety. She runs in my office and starts chattering about Tigger and Pooh and something else (obviously, I am not really listening). I respond, "That's so funny." Claire says, "That's not funny, Mom. That's sick." Since she has returned to her movie, I wonder what was so sick about Tigger and Pooh. Oh well...

Mommy, I'm frowing up!

Claire has a stomach virus of some sort. She showed up at my bedside this morning at 3:34 AM with puke on her hands. Thus started my awake night. She acted like she felt fine, so I went to bed about 5:30. She watched a movie and fell asleep at some point...only to wake up puking at about 7 AM. John dealt with her while I got some sleep. She fell asleep again and woke me up crying at about 9:30. Luckily, John could stay home and help me. I did an unknown quantity of laundry all day. We knew she was feeling better when she would not stop talking.

At one point at this evening, she had on her "dancing shoes" (purple sequined dress-up shoes) and a red t-shirt (and nothing else). She just walked around and talked about puke. Nice.

We are on the countdown for Ellie's first puke. Stay tuned. =)

UPDATE: No more puke in our house...for now. Today at lunch Claire told Ryan that it wasn't "frowing up", it's "frowing down". She has a good point; at no time was puke going up. Smart girl.

Equal time

No story, just cute. Do you like how the girls have trashed my office? Nice...

So cute.... UPDATED WITH PIC

I know my girls are the cutest things on the face of this planet, but this is ridiculous. I ran errands today, with the girls in tow, of course. We went into the bank, and several women pointed at my kids and smiled. One even laughed out loud. They ARE so cute, aren't they? Then we went to Kinko's FedEx to mail a package. Again, my girls were the recipients of lots of smiles. No laughing this time. I went to Starbucks to ...well, get coffee...duh....and several people smiled at them. Even a guy...which is a little unusual. Usually it's just women that say something. Anyway....the barrista laughed as we were walking out. I'm sure Claire or Ellie did something really cute.

So we get home and I unbuckle Claire from her car seat and help her jump down from the van. Then I notice....she has these bright pink butterfly sunglasses on backwards and upside down. So her glasses are hooked on the front of her ears with the lenses upside down on the back of her head. Now that IS funny! Ellie was just being her normal cute self.

So sweet....

Today we took apart Ellie's crib and put a twin "big girl" bed in her room. She is 17 months old and we decided that she would be okay in the bigger bed. I think she is ready, but Mom certainly wasn't. I cried the entire time...=) It's all good.

Ellie took a short nap in her bed, so I figured she was probably mostly okay to be put to bed with no problems. Riiight. Not. She cried, so I sat in her room while she laid in bed. Every time I tried to leave, she would cry. Claire came into the room and climbed in bed with Ellie. She kissed her and put her arms around and told her, "It will be okay." It was so sweet....

So I decided Claire could stay with her until she went to sleep, so I left the room. Ellie started crying and Claire...started to panic. "Ellie's crying!! Mommy, she's crying!! Aaah!!! She's crying. Ellie, stop crying!

If I wasn't already so tired, I'm sure it would have been hilarious.