Yesterday I was playing dinosaur with the girls. I was Mommy Dinosaur, Kiersten was Baby Dinosaur and Annika was Big Sister Dinosaur. We sat around roaring at each other with Mommy Dinosaur smooching on the little dinosaurs. We've played this game before...Kiersten loves dinosaurs. So when I put Kiersten to bed several hours later she said, "Goodnight Mommy Dinosaur" and I said "Goodnight Baby Dinosaur". We went through the same routine a little later when I went back up to fulfill some need that she had. :) ANYWAY...the cute part is that when I went to get her this morning the FIRST thing she said was "Good morning Mommy Dinosaur!" At least *I* thought it was cute.
A few minutes ago she crawled onto my lap and wanted me to sing Rock-a-bye Baby to her. So I sang (and Annika accompanied me on the drums). Then she said that she wanted to sing to me. "Rock-a-bye Mommy in the tree top..." *So* cute!
Kiersten is into dinosaurs, Oskar is into Space (he wants to be an Oskar-naut) and Annika...I guess she's into princesses. After I typed that sentence I just said, "Annika, Kiersten loves dinosaurs, Oskar loves space...what do you love?" She responded, "I love princesses Mommy." Oskar informs me that he loves "strong rangers that are good" too.
I'm down here in the basement trying to get cleaned up (AGAIN!). Oskar is generously letting me borrow his computer for a sec. :) That boy is OBSESSED with his computer. Seems that he's going to be following in his Daddy's footsteps. Okay...must go take the roof (a.k.a. a blanket) off the fort so that Kiersten can get to the treasure chest (a.k.a. the dress up container).
Tuesday, September 23
Tuesday, September 9
Eggs-actly...
The other day I was cleaning up after breakfast and got distracted. First there was a phone call that lead me into the computer room and then I was IMing back and forth with a friend trying to help her out. When I walked back into the kitchen, this is what I found.
Yep, Kiersten had discovered that eggs can break and it's oh so delightfully messy.
Yep, Kiersten had discovered that eggs can break and it's oh so delightfully messy.
Friday, September 5
Tuesday, September 2
Grandma Van Belle
I've been thinking about things that I wanted to blog about...but with my Facebook addiction to tend to, I never get around to it in a timely matter, and then I forget what I was going to write about. Although...I think my few loyal readers are all on Facebook anyway so I think that's why I haven't worried too much about staying current here. But let me see if I can remember any of the things I wanted to write about.
I got home from Michigan yesterday. I had a really nice visit at Aunt Barb's house. I loved being able to just enjoy the kids and not worry about much else. I played with them on the beach, in the water and took them for a walk around the canal. Although we only went to the playground and then came back because Oskar informed me, "my bottom is worned out".
Other amusing things they said:
When we were walking around one of the sand bars in the lake, Annika was looking at the rippled sand and said, "Mommy, is this a zebra?"
While we were working on our second sand castle, Annika asked me to build some steps. I built some miniature sand castle sized steps and then some Annika sized steps. Oskar said, "Build me a ramp, Mommy so that we can bring a stroller."
I've been remembering Grandma a lot. Mom and I shared a lot of funny anecdotes and memories during our trip together. Grandma was such a character. That's the word I always come back to. We were laughing about how Grandma always had various different cases that she'd lug around with her - several briefcases loaded up with papers of all sorts. She was forever collecting clippings. She'd have a case for jewelry, a case for make-up. Come to think of it, I'm a lot like Grandma.
Grandma used to give us rolls of quarters and then she'd discipline us by taking away a quarter. If Danny and I would run to her with a squabble she'd tell us that if she wanted her to arbitrate, we'd each have to pay a "court fee" and then we'd have to accept whatever decision she came up with. This was usually enough to end our disagreement. We didn't want to put our money where our mouth was!!! :)
I got home from Michigan yesterday. I had a really nice visit at Aunt Barb's house. I loved being able to just enjoy the kids and not worry about much else. I played with them on the beach, in the water and took them for a walk around the canal. Although we only went to the playground and then came back because Oskar informed me, "my bottom is worned out".
Other amusing things they said:
When we were walking around one of the sand bars in the lake, Annika was looking at the rippled sand and said, "Mommy, is this a zebra?"
While we were working on our second sand castle, Annika asked me to build some steps. I built some miniature sand castle sized steps and then some Annika sized steps. Oskar said, "Build me a ramp, Mommy so that we can bring a stroller."
I've been remembering Grandma a lot. Mom and I shared a lot of funny anecdotes and memories during our trip together. Grandma was such a character. That's the word I always come back to. We were laughing about how Grandma always had various different cases that she'd lug around with her - several briefcases loaded up with papers of all sorts. She was forever collecting clippings. She'd have a case for jewelry, a case for make-up. Come to think of it, I'm a lot like Grandma.
Grandma used to give us rolls of quarters and then she'd discipline us by taking away a quarter. If Danny and I would run to her with a squabble she'd tell us that if she wanted her to arbitrate, we'd each have to pay a "court fee" and then we'd have to accept whatever decision she came up with. This was usually enough to end our disagreement. We didn't want to put our money where our mouth was!!! :)
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