Dear B

Dear B,

You turned four this week! I can't believe how quickly the time has gone by since you were born. You took us by storm coming out (with daddy having to catch you) and you have been a great force in our lives ever since.You have been such a joy to have in our lives ever since you were born. You were such a smiley baby and that has continued as you have grown. You bring joy to our family every day.

You have always been full of enthusiasm for anything you have done. You seem to be fearless in all that you do. You are willing to try new things without worrying about failing. I have always admired that about you.

You have always been mama's little girl. You love being with me and I love that you love to be with me. The first day you were gone to preschool this past year I did get a little teary eyed because I missed my little helper girl.

When I look at you I see so much excitement in your future and am so thrilled with the little lady you are becoming.

This past year you started preschool. When most of the kids around you were scared and clinging to their moms, you ran right into school and told me you would be fine until I came back. Of course, I stayed a few minutes just to make sure, and you were right!! You have a personality that attracts others. You are silly and not shy in many cases! You are excited about going to kindergarten but even more thrilled that you have one more year of preschool!

This year you have grown to be quite a little artist. I am constantly amazed at the things you are drawing. You attempt to draw a lot of things that I think you won't be able to, and I am usually surprised by your talent. You have the patience to sit and work on a coloring page for several hours until you finish it! You have grown to love reading and learning about words. You ask me on a daily basis how to spell words and what letters words start with. You are also beginning to rhyme words and always laugh when you make a rhyme!

I love driving in the car with you. We have fun playing I Spy and singing songs. You love to tell me you will help me sing a song, and then you will tease me by covering you mouth and not singing! You think you are pretty funny...I guess I do too! You also love helping me at home. Your two favorites are helping with dinner and helping clean the bathrooms! I've made the mistake of cleaning the bathroom and having you discover it when I was almost done. Needless to say we started all over!!

Your favorite color is purple and you love anything with purple in it. You also still love ladybugs! One of your favorite birthday presents was a purple bike helmet with ladybugs on it!! You still also like The Little Einsteins but I think you would rather color than watch t.v. these days. You also love jumping on the trampoline, trying to ride your bike, playing with friends, and riding your scooter. You are constantly following your older sister trying to keep up with her and her friends. You always run a few steps behind, but you never give up trying to catch them! When you want to hear your favorite song, "I am a Child of God" you ask me to sing "Jesus of God" to you! You often want to hear "Jesus of God" before bed and after a time out! You also have come up with you own word this year. You are often overheard saying "Flubba Dubba" over and over again. We have all picked up on it and have started calling you flubbadubba!

You have always had brilliant blue eyes that strangers like to comment on. Your eyes tell a lot about you! You are very expressive and let us know how you are feeling! I love looking into your eyes everyday and knowing that the Lord has blessed me with you. I couldn't have asked for a more perfect four year old! I am excited to see who you become in this next year of your life! You have so much you are looking forward too. You are so excited for swim lessons, playing on the trampoline with the sprinkler and having a new little baby in our family this summer. I look forward to seeing what else you enjoy this year and seeing the ways in which you will grow. I love you BB and will always feel blessed to have you in my life.

Love,
Mama

Little Helper Girl

On the nights where I actually get dinner made, this sweet little face is usually right next to me on the counter making it with me! She has always loved to help me make things. M used to enjoy it more but has somewhat grown out of it...unless chocolate is involved! B however, loves helping do just about anything!!













Usually I don't let her help me cut things, but in pre-school they let them help make a few things, so now she thinks she can use a knife! I only let her hold the knife on her own for the picture...usually I help her!!










Here she is enjoying the fruit of her labor!! I do think having her help me cook has made her more willing to try more things! That doesn' t mean she eats it all, just more willing to try!

I am so grateful for my little helper girl! I don't always enjoy cooking meals, but her help always makes it a bit more fun!

A Little Preview

Tonight B had a dress rehersal for her upcomming ballet recital. (M had to miss hers because of her lovely pink eye!) I love watching three year olds do ballet. I think it is funny because it seems like their arms are barley long enough to raise over their heads to do some of the moves!


B has really enjoyed her ballet class this year. She really liked looking at herself in the mirror that was behind me while I tried taking her picture. I had a hard time getting her to focus on me for even a minute. I think she watched herself in the mirrow the whole dance! I guess there is something about seeing yourself in a tutu that is really exciting!!

Bendaroos

Have you ever seen those infomercials for bendaroos?? If not, I suppose you probably aren't watching too much kids t.v., because they come on all the time!! Every time they come on the girls get excited, and i f I were being honest I would say I do too!! Today, M had another round with pink eye. (B is jealous because she likes getting eye drops in her eye and M thinks it's the end of the world!!) For being good girls at the doctors office I told M and B they could pick out a surprise at the store after the doctors office!! M wanted bendaroos but I wasn't sure if they were sold in stores. Sure enough, we found a 500 piece set at our craft store and we couldn't be more excited!! They girls spent a couple hours on them once we got home, and I did get involved a bit!


Here is B's attempt at a ladybug...what else!! (We sometimes call her lulu the ladybug...cute book if your interested). I thought she did a great job all by herself.










M decided they would make a scene on our sliding glass doors. Her she is putting roots on her flower!



















Here a a couple of progress pictures but they are not done yet!! They have much more space on the window and probably hundreds of bendaroos to go!!!

Braids!!

While in Utah M wanted her hair braided like her cousins. I was actually pretty surprised because she is always complaining about me doing her hair, so I figured after a few braids she would be done! Well, she made it through her whole head being braided. I think it took them three to four hours to braid her whole head, over a couple of days! After she would have some braids put in I would ask her if it hurt. She said it hurt just a little.

Here is the finished product! She was so excited about her hair. I didn't know how long it would last, but it lasted for just over a week. She thought it would last longer, but I think she had fun showing all her friends at school and church!

This was pre taking out the braids...which took me two hours....crazy!

This is post braids! Taking all those tiny braids out was actually quite hard, but I only had to cut one knot out!! She had a lot of fun with her cute hair! Thanks to her fun cousins for spending all that time doing her hair!! I am sure she won't forget it any time soon.

Thanksgiving Point

We recently went out to Utah for a wedding and got to do lots of fun things. Since I haven't posted forever and have been overwhelmed by all I want to post I guess I will just start with one thing.

One day we went to Thanksgiving Point. While there the girls and their cousins rode the ponies. I wasn't sure if B would want to ride the ponies since the last time she had the chance she refused. This time she was so thrilled. She sat on the pony with this grin the whole time! It was so fun watching her on her pony. I think it also helped that she got the smallest pony.


M has ridden ponies before and she loved it as well. Maybe if they asked nicely enough daddy would buy them a pony. At least it would probably save us from having to mow the lawn, although other upkeep would come along with it!


We had so much fun seeing all the cool chickens, cows, and huge horses. It was also beautiful with all the flowers blossoming all over. We had a fun time. More pictures to follow in the coming days!

A Package!!!

The day before Eater the girls got a fun package in the mail from Aunt A!!! I can't tell you how excited they get for any mail...let alone packages!

They both got a cute dress, some bunny ears, and a few other fun things!






















Aunt A sent a couple little things for the baby and they girls were probably just as excited for that as they were for their own stuff!

Both the girls loved the new dresses from their aunt. They had to try them on that day!

M loved hers so much she probably danced around the room in it for a half hour. Every day this past week she has wanted to wear it! I told her she would have to wait a bit longer before wearing it outside because it is still a bit cold for it!!!

Thanks Aunt A for a fun package that lead to a fun night!! The girls were thrilled with your thoughtfulness! The only problem now is that whenever B sees the UPS truck go by our house and not stop, she gets pretty upset that they didn't stop to give her her box!! We love you!!

Easter!!

We had a fun Easter weekend at our house last week. The girls had been excited all week to decorate Easter eggs, and could hardly wait until daddy woke up Sat afternoon (he was on the mids shift) to decorate their eggs! As soon as he was awake, the painting began!

This year I bought a kit that you could roll paint onto the eggs, as well as the traditional dyes. My girls love coloring so I thought the paint rollers would be a big hit. They both enjoyed rolling the eggs, but B didn't like getting her hands dirty. Mommy helped hold the egg while B would roll the paint on. M did fine holding the egg and getting a bit dirty...I guess she has realized that she can wash her hands when all is done!!

We had some fun eggs this year. B was done before M so she went back and repainted most of her eggs! The colors didn't come out as brightly but I figured that her having fun was what was important. By the end B thought it was pretty funny to "accidentally" paint up onto mommy's fingers! She is a silly little girl!

Easter morning the girls had to wait for daddy to get home from work before they could see what the Easter bunny had left for them. Luckily they only had to wait about ten minutes! They were so cute finding their eggs. It was so fun watching them both get so excited for each other. M would help B reach eggs that were hidden high and they both just giggled the whole Easter egg hunt!

They both had so much fun finding all their eggs! The Easter bunny left a DVD for M and a Ladybug game for B, and they both got a little bunny. B decided to name her bunny "Honey" and carried it with her all day. R and I both laughed about that because he sometimes calls me Honey Bunny and B went around all day talking about her "Honey" bunny! I thought that was pretty sweet!

This year the girls were old enough to pick out their own dresses! M's favorite color is blue, so we went with that color!

I tried to get B to get the same dress as M but she was insistent she did not want to match M! She definitely has a mind of her own. I didn't dare buy the same dress either, because I knew she wouldn't wear it if I did! I do love the dress she picked though!

M looked so sweet in her dress. She is such a great little girl. She ended up coming down with a fever that day and has been sick for the past week. I am grateful she was at least able to have a fun morning before she started feeling sick! I love Easter and all the happiness it brings.

Silly Girls!

So the past few days both of the girls have said a few funny things I thought I would share!












B has really been liking jumping on the couch! I agree that it is fun, but our couches are getting worn out and I don't think it's a good habit to be in! This morning we had a conversations that went like this!

Me: "B, I don't like you jumping on the couch."

B: "I am not."

Me: "Than what are you doing?"

B: "Hopping!"




I thought it was so funny, I had to turn around so she wouldn't see my smile! She just gave me a huge smile and finished up her hopping!
















M has been funny too! Every time I want to take her picture she wants to give me the peace sign or do some funny pose! She is so cute!


Yesterday I made cookies from a mix...I know, crazy! I showed her that I was making cookies, which I know she likes. She saw the package and got more excited that there was a box top than the actual cookies! I thought that was pretty funny!

We've enjoyed a few sunny days in the past few weeks, but not enough! We are looking forward to more sunny days ahead so we can spend more time outside! I love these silly girls and the things they come up with!

Someone New!

Well, for those of you who don't know yet, we are expecting baby number three!! We are all pretty excited around here. Yesterday we all went to the doctors to find out if the baby would be a boy or girl, and we are excited to say it is another GIRL!!! And yes, we couldn't be happier! We like little girls around here!

All the girls in the family thought it would be a girl and daddy thought it would be a boy. B actually told me a few weeks ago I had a circus in my tummy and the baby would be a clown!! Thank goodness that isn't true...I don't want to deliver a circus!!


Before the ultrasound tech told us the sex, R whispered to me that it was a girl! He saw the little girl parts and knew right away! I asked the ultrasound tech if he was right and she went and looked, and sure enough, he was right!

Our little one is due to be born in August on M's birthday! She is so excited about that! I keep telling her most babies aren't born on their due dates, but she hopes this one is!

B wanted the baby to come out yesterday at the doctors but I told her she would just get to see the baby. I tried to warn the girls that ultrasound pictures weren't like pictures they are used to. I think they were still excited to see the baby, but got over the excitement before the appointment was done! The baby was so active that the technician had a hard time taking the measurements she needed! They took a few 3D pictures of the baby, but little Miss refused to move her hands away from her face! Every time she moved one, she put it right back over her face! I am so excited to have another little girl in the family! Only twenty weeks to go!!