I just LOVE seeing Katie’s art work and notes.  I have many more I need to post but here are a few for now.  :  )  A couple are Hannah too.

I am catching up on my blogging.  Cold in January Hannah & I made it out at least once to the museum.  This is absolutely Hannah’s favorite museum. She could probably go everyday if you let her.  She calls it the Boo Boo Dinosaur museum because there is a big TRex and Diploducas and they show a film where the TRex bites the Diploducas’ leg.  Hence the boo boo dinosaur.

I had explained to Hannah that morning all the different holidays and what we do on them.  Of course I explained St. Patrick’s Day and told her it would be the next holiday we would celebrate.  In this discussion I also told her that you MUST wear green or you will get pinched.  Poor baby, after she woke up from her nap the first thing she did is start pulling out all her clothes going “I can’t find anything green! I’m gonna get pinched!”  Don’t worry. Mommy found her something green.

It is the wee hours of the morning as Hannah is still an early riser.  We are in the living room sitting on the couch trying to decide what to play and she looks at me and says with a little smirk, “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?”  My response.  “I don’t know.  What are you thinking?” Hannah, “I’m thinking let’s have a party!” And we did.  ;  )

Well Santa was good to the girls as usual.  It’s always so much fun to see what they get excited about.  Grandpa’s jeep was the biggest hit  and the 2nd biggest hit was the huge diamonds in their stockings.  But really it was a tough call.  They got a lot of fun things.  We LOVED the marshmellow guns we got from the cousins although I am not sure who liked them more the kids or the adults. But more on that on my next post.  For now it’s Christmas morning!

B’s Christmas party

We saw Santa at the fun factory but we determined he was actually an elf helping Santa as you will see the REAL Santa in a later post!!!

Katie has been wanting to have a slumber party since last year.   She was so excited.  She must have made her guest list a 100 times, hand wrote personal invitations (several times) and finally the big day came.  I have to actually work that morning.  And as luck would have it I worked with Santa that morning.  As it turns out Santa knows magic but disguises himself as a man named Jingles.  Well Jingles graced us with his presence at Katie’s birthday party.  I have never seen girls laugh so hard my whole life!  In the middle of his show Katie shouted out “This is the BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!”.  Who knew?!

Oh my big girl.  They are just growing up too fast.  Little Hannah from the time she was 5 months old has LOVED horses.  I remember bringing a stuffed horse animal home for Katie and she cried that I hadn’t gotten the horse for her.  From then on she has picked out horse after horse after horse when given the option on toys.  Well for her 3rd birthday she got the real deal.  Unlike Katie she showed absolutely NO FEAR.  She was the first to get on and ride. And she didn’t want a pony either.  It had to be a REAL horse.  Here is my big girl on her special day…

Katie is of course her most talkative while laying in bed avoiding sleep.  Tonight was one of those nights.  Katie starting asking me questions about how I met Daddy.  I told her how we met at a conference and how I immediately thought Daddy was the nicest man I had ever met.  She got so tickled.  Then I told her I knew Daddy was the one when Daddy noticed I was cold just by seeing I had goosebumps in the car and how thoughtful and kind Daddy was… Of course using this opportunity to tell her to marry someone who is nice to her like Daddy.  Then she asked if I had ever broken up with anyone.  SO funny.  I said it had been so long I hardly remembered but that anyone I dated that was ever mean to me I broke up with them.  Then she starts throwing out names “Did you ever date a Tyler? Did you ever date an Aiden?” and so on through the list of boys in her class.  Then she ponders who she will marry.  She comes to the conclusion she hopes it is Tyler in her class. She LIKES Tyler.  Then she says she tries to KISS him in school!!  OH NO!  I think John fainted when I told him.

I bought the book elf on the shelf last year to share with the girls. Neither of them had any interest what so ever in reading it so I put it away till this year.  Finally some interest.  I read the book to Hannah one night before bed. Afterwards I said that I didn’t know when the elf would be coming to visit our house but I thought it would be soon.  Poor little thing.  She looked at me with big tears in her eyes and said, “I on the naughty list?”  It just about broke my heart.  I responded NO HANNAH.  You are definitely NOT on the naughty list.  If you were on the naughty list Mommy would know it.  Then I promised to talk to Santa and tell him that the elf didn’t need to come to our house.  Poor little thing.  You just never know do you?

This year Hannah being almost 3 could totally get into Halloween.  Hannah picked out Little Red Riding Hood and Katie wanted to be a flapper.  Before trick or treating they started off with a ghoulish dinner then they trick or treated with their pre-school friends.  I think they had as much fun handing out candy this year as collecting it!

Wow!  I am a little behind on my posts.  Catch up time!

Katie, Hannah and I have always had a tradition to stop by the local convenient store on our way home from pre-school to get a ‘smoothie’.  The last two times there have been pan handlers there so I have rushed Hannah to the car.  Today Hannah asked, “Is he an icky man?” I explain that there is no way to know if he is an icky man or not.  He might be an icky man or he might be a nice man but since we don’t know we shouldn’t talk to the man.  Hannah’s response, “Yep, he’s an icky man.  You see his icky mustache? That means he’s an icky man.  He’s an icky man mamma.”  Watch out Daddy, the icky man’s mustache was what you look like after a long weekend without a shave!

It was a Hannah Mommy day.  The day where we do whatever Hannah wants to do just the two of us.   This day she picked the Airport to watch the airplanes take off and land. They have a little playground with a sand box and lots of wild flowers as you can see.  My sweet sweet girl…

Katie  “Mommy?”