Black Eye days 2 and 3

This is Lyla the morning after her self-inflicted black eye. It was pretty swollen that morning when she woke up.This is the same day but in the afternoon.

This is day 3, in the morning. She is tired of me taking pictures of it!

Cute Story by Grace

Grace wrote this at school. I just love to see her writing. She is now bringing chapter books home for her nightly reading! She is so proud to be reading a "chapter book"! I can't believe how her reading has just taken off in just a couple months of school. Anyway, I wanted to save this particular story because it is about Julie having her baby. The picture is of Jason, a pregnant Julie and Grace.

Our First Black Eye

This is Lyla posing with her fists up, like a boxer, with her black eye.

Lyla gave herself a black eye tonight. She hit herself in the eye with the metal leg of a doll highchair. She was obviously not using the highchair to feed a babydoll!

Quick Quote

Conversation with Lyla in the car on the way home from preschool:

Lyla: Mom!
Me: What, Lyla.
Lyla: So what DOES it feel like to be a boy?
Me: Well, I don't really know because I've always been a girl. What do you think?
Lyla: Well, I know they get sweatier than girls.


I'm behind on my blogging. I've been busy painting several canvases the last couple of weeks. I have another big one to do as well as my photo book that I want to complete with our Disney pictures. I hope to get it all done quickly so I don't get too far behind on blogging.

Bad blogger

I've been a terrible blogger lately. I don't know why, but I haven't been motivated to get it done. I have a few things I need to blog about but I just haven't felt like messing with it lately. I'm hoping to get some time to catch up this weekend!

"Jesus, can I have that?"

The girls watch cartoons and ask for every toy they see on commercials. They yell and yell and make me run to the living room to see the toy that they just have to have. They ask if they can have it and won't take no for an answer so last year I started telling them to ask Santa, not me. I told them to put it on their list for Santa and ask him for it. I also told them that Santa ultimately gets to decide what they get for Christmas! That helped some. Last year I would hear Lyla say in a quiet voice "Santa, can I have that" as she was watching a commercial.

Well, this year the commercials have already started and they're already asking for the toys they see. Once again, I've started telling them to ask Santa. Last week I heard Lyla say softly, "Jesus, can I have that?" I didn't say anything to her about it. I was just glad she wasn't yelling at me about the toy!

On Sunday afternoon, Grace and Lyla were upstairs for some "quiet time". Sadly, this is just a short movie on Sunday afternoons for us now. But last Sunday, they were watching a cartoon that I had recorded a long time ago and it had commercials on the tape (yes, we still use VHS). Here is the conversation I heard from the girls upstairs. I was downstairs cleaning.

Lyla: Jesus, can I have that?
Grace: Lyla, you don't ask Jesus, you ask Santa.
a few minutes later...
Lyla: Jesus, can I have that?
Grace: Lyla, SANTA, not Jesus!!!
a few more minutes later...
Lyla: Jesus, can I have that?
Grace: LYLA, SANTA, SANTA, SANTA!!!!!!

This cracked me up!

Disney

We're back from Disney. We got back a week ago. I just finished going through all of my pictures and am ready to try to put some of them on the blog. Here are two to start with. The first was taken at our princess dinner. They had their picture taken with Belle (Beauty and the Beast), and then met the other princesses at our dinner table where I could take their pictures. They also met Cinderella, Ariel (Little Mermiad) and Snow White. The next picture is of Lyla after she was inducted into the Pirate's League. She was given an official pirate name (Maggie Pillagefish), had her make-up done to look like she had a black eye and scar on her face, her fingernails painted black, and a pirate bandana put on her head. We brought the pirate outfit from home. It was a halloween costume from last year. After she was made to look like a real pirate she was "sworn in", given a sword and then taken on a treasure hunt where she found a"real" pirate medallion.

The trip was fun and exhausting. The girls were both sick. Grace had fever the first two days and Lyla had fever the last three days. We still did everything but with a few more fits, tears and frustrations. I think they still had fun though. I know a few families here that go every year. Eric and I both agreed that we don't think Disney is the trip we want to take every year (even if we could afford the crazy prices).

I'll try to put up more pictures this week.