I got a question from the "Jolleys" (I assume it's April, but I'm not sure actually) in the comments about where the music on my blog has escaped to. Well, I wasn't sure that anyone liked it, so I took it off. Give me a shout out if you want the music back...:)
Hey ya'll! A big THANKS to April and Andrea who were the ONLY peeps to give me suggestions (awesome ones, I might add) for my iPod. I'm still accepting suggestions, by the way, so feel free to leave some in the comments :) I'm rockin' out these days every time I have a spare minute...hanging out at the hospital today with Mom (she had her gallbladder out), doing some laundry tonight, getting ready for bed, right now while I'm blogging, etc. I only have earphones right now, so I'm just cruisin' around the house with them in feeling like an antisocial teenager :) I'm going to have to take Andrea's advice and get a few docking stations so I can be rockin' 24/7! My new favorite band is Coldplay - if you don't know 'em yet, I highly recommend you become familiar.
Gracie attended a spring term of preschool at our neighbor's house. She learned a letter of the alphabet each time she went and she just loved it :) Honestly, I don't know how the woman puts up with EXTRA children being in her home, but hey...to each her own. She is such a sweet lady and loves the kids so much. Here are a few pics from her preschool program. They sang Safety Kids songs (is that a blast from the past, or what??!!) and did dancing also. Mostly, Gracie stood at the front center of the stage and just grinned at everybody in the audience. I don't know where she gets her "center of attention, please" attitude...I blame April ;)
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Here are some more San Diego pics. I know it's been forever since I posted the last ones but life has just been kind of hectic lately...and I've been reading the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer...and I've been busy daydreaming about Joe being a vampire...JK.
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Asleep in the stroller at SeaWorld
Aren't they cute??
Seaport Village...one of Heather's favorite places.
Yes those are QTips. She's on the couch watching Clifford :)
Heather and the limescicle :)
Loving the sand!
My sweet little girl is a year old today! I am so amazed that a year has passed by so quickly. She still seems like a baby to me, but she's definitely growing up faster all the time. She's pulling herslf all the way up to standing now, she can do patty-cake (including the rolling and tossing in the oven :)), she's weaning, she giggles and plays peek-a-boo with her sister, she can eat anything she wants to now, and it's all just awesome! I'm so proud of her. Happy birthday sweet Jane!
Everything's pretty much ready for her party tomorrow...well, kind of :) I still have a bunch of laundry on the floor to wash and put away. And I need to vacuum, dust, sweep, scrub toilets, cut up fruit, pick up the cake and food trays at Costco (I hope everyone comes with a gigantic appetite), etc. But it seems like it's well on its way :) We might try to go to the library for story time today too. Gracie digs it.
I'll post some pics later today unless a toilet swallows me up while I'm trying to scrub it clean ;)
I wish I could post a pic of Gracie sporting her side ponytail (think 1988 here) but I can't find my camera case with the spare battery in it! Sheesh! She looks so cute. It totally reminds me of the girl in Napoleon Dynamite. LOL.
Well, yesterday the girls and I got a bit of sun out planting flowers in our garden. It was a lot of fun! We got a clematis, a bleeding heart, some beautiful purple cala lillies and some coral carnations for the yard. I also got some carrot, radish and butternut squash seeds to start a vegetable garden, but I haven't figured out the logistics on that yet. It was so nice to be outside. Oh, and I cleaned out Gracie's sandbox and refilled it with new sand. Phew. It was a full day. It's nice to have days where you accomplish things, isn't it? Being a mom with babies, days don't feel very full of "accomplishments" if you know what I mean.
Janie woke up at 4:30 this morning throwing up. I'm not sure if it's something she ate outside yesterday or if she's got a bug, but she's just pitiful. I think she's on the mend now though. She ate some toast earlier and has kept it down, so that's a start. I just felt so bad for her this morning, heaving away. She's so little and so sweet. She doesn't deserve to feel icky. She's going to be the big "1 year old!!" on Friday. Wow. Time has really slipped away.We're having her birthday party on Saturday and I still haven't decided what to do for food...I better start thinking about that I suppose ;)
The girls are sharing a room now so Joe and I have an office!! Woo hoo! It's so nice. There's a big box of toys in here and Janie crawls around while Gracie draws and does stickers at my craft table. She's there right now saying, "Beware the jaberwocky, beware the jaberwocky, beware the jaberwocky." LOL. Joe's been reading that to her each night. I think it's kind of scary for a toddler, but hey, who am I to judge the literary preferences of Miss Thang?
Or NOT. I saw a lady in our ward out flying a kite with her kids and it looked like lots of fun, so I decided to buy one at the grocery store today for Grace and Jane. We took it out to the park behind our house and tried to fly it but everytime I'd start to run away Gracie would absolutely freak out. I'm talking serious, blood curdling tantrum here. It was SO weird. There was no one else in the park. Just us. It was so frustrating I finally just folded up the kite and dragged my poor kids back home. I don't know what got into her. We decided to do sidewalk chalk instead. Phew. I'm tired.
No pics today of our "fun" kite adventure, obviously (eye rolling smiley emoticon needed here).
