To See is To Believe

I haven't uploaded a video in a while- here is proof of just how mobile Miss V is! (I tried to edit it but then it saved in the wrong format, so you'll just have to deal with some dead time!)

The Adventure of Crawling

How did this happen????

Sisterly Love?

"Give her back that toy- she was playing with it."

"Don't lay on her."

"Get your blanket off her face."

"Do NOT pick her up."

"Please don't feed her that."

"Don't put your feet in her face."

"Don't yell in her face."

Repeat these phrases 10-15 times in any order and that pretty much sums up my day. It's a good thing Violet is learning quickly- she's gonna need the extra defense. As of this morning she can pull herself up to a standing position while holding on to something. In no time she'll be able to run away from her sister's abuse/smothering love.

Not Looking Forward to the Teenage Years

Last night for Family Home Evening, with the Super Bowl on the mind, Kaylon gave a lesson about sportsmanship- about how to be a good winner and a good loser. So we were roll playing some situations and how we should and shouldn't act. Moira had been on a bit of a hyper jag for the past hour, and she was very excited to take her turn. So Kaylon pretended to have just lost a game to her, and we asked her how what she should say to daddy to be a good winner. In a sugary sweet voice through an equally sweet smile she said, "You go poop in your panties."

Life will never be dull with Moira around.

Let Her Eat Cake!

Happy 3rd Birthday to my Moira! Here's to hoping that you had the terrible two's and that three will be better than two! (I wish I were kidding, but these last 6 months have been quite difficult for us both.)

This birthday's focus was on CAKE.Not presents, or balloons, or attention. Cake- with pink and purple flowers. Lucky for her, Pop came to visit in the morning so we had cake after lunch to include him. Pink cake with purple icing, and pink and purple flowers. She happily blew out her candles and then ate the icing off her cake. Kaylon and I wonder if we just shouldn't hand her a tub of icing next year...

While her stubborn streak and somewhat defiant nature are a daily challenge, her positive characteristics outweigh the "challenging" ones. She is smart, passionate, curious, loving, funny- above all funny. We have to constantly keep ourselves from laughing when she's supposed to be in trouble. I love big, beautiful eyes, that have not quite settled on a color (right now they are a bluish green). I love how simply heartbreaking she looks when she's disappointed or hurt- I know that sounds cruel, but you should just see her shoulders slump and her big eyes drop- I promise you, you'd want to give her the world to make it better. (This picture is more angry than sad, but it gives you an idea...)And as much as it frustrates me now, I love to imagine the strong woman she will be some day because of her "challenging" traits- she will not be someone to mess with!
So Happy Birthday Moira. Mommy loves you!

Tooth Fairy

The tooth fairy has been a bit flighty at our house. So flighty that she has never come on the night that Grace lost her tooth. Yeah, I'm pretty sure she forgot, although maybe it's true what we told Grace- that she was just so busy that she didn't get there in time. Luckily Grace was understanding and she was prepared 2 nights ago to awake to a tooth instead of money in the morning (again). But the tooth fairy must be doing better since she left Grace a gold dollar on the same night that Grace lost her tooth! Or maybe she made her husband set an alarm so that she wouldn't forget. Whatever it was, I'm happy that Grace's tooth, small paper blanket, and note were retrieved on time, this time.

Passive Aggressive

Moira doesn't know how to spell yet, though she does know the names of most letters. She likes to pretend that she does, though, and she often yells out or types random letters to 'spell' words. She just told me that she was going to type Violet's name into her MobiGo, which I thought was pretty sweet. Then as I walked away I heard her type the first three letters:

P...O...S

hehe