Sailing With Love

It's becoming a hard reality that I only have a few months left to call Lauren my preschooler.  Here are a couple of songs she has been working on with her class for the end of the year program.  Say it isn't so!

[You will need to pause the playlist in the right column of the screen to hear the video's audio uninterrupted.]

 

A Date With Abby

Today I had a date with Abby.

We shopped for books....

Picked out a few toys....

Grabbed some essentials....

Held hands....

Skipped through parking lots....

Hung out at the coffee shop.

Nothing beats spending the day with my girl.

{Kickin' Back with Fox in Socks}

{I ♥ Drawing}

Dirty Picture

I sat down on the couch in the living room to discover a dirty picture sketched on the back side of Lauren's easel.

The structure on the left is a rocket.  I'll let you interpret the rest....

Flashback Friday

This is my FAVORITE picture of the girls.  This picture, like no other, displays their personalities to a T!  Just a random picture from my cell phone on our last night of our first visit to Washington.

July 3, 2009

{Abby's Bra, Lauren's Bare Butt}

Thank You Thursday

1. I'm so thankful for the sisterhood of friends in my life. You know who you are.  You like me for who I am.  I love that about all of you.

2. I'm thankful for my slumber party with Abby and her elephants last night.  I'm also thankful Lauren never found out.  Next time, Tiny!

3. I'm thankful for little people hugs.

4. I'm thankful for the personality that oozes out of Lauren.  She makes everyone around her smile.  What a great human being to have in my life!

5. I'm thankful I joined the book club. I used to take forever to read a single book and now I power through them in weeks. What a great feat to conquer.

Let Me Translate, Part Deux

One of my favorite things about watching the girls grow up is seeing how language goes in their minds and comes back out.  Allow me to translate:

Abigail

Round of a Clause: Round of Applause

Tawana: Chiwawa
Taco Club: Taco Bell
Thoughting: Thinking
Lip Loss: Lip gloss

Presidential Mishaps

Habraham Lincoln: Honest Abe
Thrankan Rosabell: FDR
Tomer Jeffernson: The guy on the nickel

♫♪♫♪Lyrical Fopas♫♪♫♪

"Take me out to the bowling....": Played during the 7th inning stretch

"Oh Sally, you always know....": From her favorite 80's tune, Steve Perry's Oh, Sherrie

Lauren

Refessor: Professor
R-Sternaut: Astronaut

Eraser: Electric Razor

Bookeye: Buckeye
Kitar: Guitar
Caboost: Caboose

Unside My Pants: Turn my pants right side out

Bodily Harm

Flat Poop: Diarrhea

Nail Pits: Armpits
Hairy Heinie: Do I really need to explain this one?!

State of Confusion

Thanks to her well-meaning father, Lauren has been brushing up on her state flags.  She knows the flags of all of the states we have lived in, and has taken liberties with a few of the others.

The Cabin Flag....

President Obama Flag....

The Moon Flag....

The Stars of America Flag....

The Clinton Flag....

Minnesota State Flag....



{Lauren's favorite because "I like the ice cream and stuff."}

Ten On Tuesday--Special Edition

The I'm-Pretty-Sure-I'm-Not-the-Only-Mom Edition....

I'm pretty sure I'm not the only mom who:

1. Picks up one of her children's tissues that looks unused then uses it herself before throwing it away.

2. Launders her children's bedding much less frequently than her own because doing so just invite a night of vomit.

3. Takes a shower on the weekends just when the children are about to ask for lunch.  "Daddy!"

4. Forgets she took a privilege away from her child until well after the child has bitten into the forbidden fruit.  Or watched the entire Scooby video.  Whatever.

5. Looks at her jagged fingernails for several days before actually filing them.

6. Counts a trip to the grocery store as "alone time" and then comes home refreshed, especially when Daddy's already taken care of the kids' night time routine.

7. Puts on a movie for her child so she can get chores done in peace.

8. Doles out snacks to the children, then quietly digs into the cookie jar--which reminds me, they could make Girl Scout Cookies easier to bust into in secret!

9. Is grateful the slumber party was at someone else's house.

10. Loves her kids more than anything in the world and wonders if she's taught them half as much as they've taught her.