When I Grow Up...

Carolyn loves to dream and talk about what she is going to be when she grows up. She's always adding more things on her list of "I want to be...", but here are 5 of the things she regularly says she wants to be...

1- Construction Worker - Honestly, she probably talks about being a construction worker more than any other career dream - this girl wants to build (and even promises building me a house). She has this one all figured out...she tells me that she will only build in the mornings before her kids wake up and that I get to go over to her house every morning really early and babysit while she's out building :)

2- Nurse - This one has been fun - since she has expressed a desire to be a nurse we have been studying our bodies in preschool! It's been so fun and fascinating! There are some great nonfiction books for kids about bodies with fun information and activities! Last week we learned a lot about our hearts, lungs, veins, etc!!

3 - Fire woman

4 - Dental Hygienist - Inspired by her aunt! She loves the dentist and begs me to floss her teeth regularly.

5 - Piano Teacher

I Love You

One my favorite things about Angela is how she just loves to tell everyone she loves them...and ALL of the time. Throughout the day, Angela will randomly say to Carolyn or me, "I love you, Carolyn"..."I love you, Mama"....and when Andrew is home, she's always saying it to Dada, too. The last time we were at the park, Angela was on the swing and Carolyn was playing several yards away on other play equipment and Angela kept yelling as loud as she could, "I love you, Carolyn!! I love you!!" I love Angela's constant reminders to me that she loves me.

An Interview with Carolyn and Angela

Here is sorta how my interviews with the girls went today...

Mom: What are your favorite things to do?
Angela: watch a show, go to park, play with Emily, play with Carolyn, dates with dad, puzzles, eat lunch, babies, lip gloss

Mom: What's your favorite color?
Angela: Yellow

Mom: What is your favorite animal?
Angela: Tiger...the baby and the mama (at our zoo there are baby tigers so Angela's favorite animal to see at the zoo is definitely those cute babies and their mom).

We are huge puzzle people at our house...in the last few weeks, Angela has become somewhat obsessive about them...here she is with one of her favorite puzzles to do (she can do some pretty tricky ones by herself)...

An Interview with Carolyn:

Mom: What are some of your favorite things to do?
Carolyn: Heheehe - running, exercising and making my body healthy, praying, reading scriptures, going to church, and doing preschool.

Mom: What is your favorite thing to do with dad?
Carolyn: Go on dates and eat ice cream with him.

Mom: What are your favorite books to read?
Carolyn: Dragon and barbie books

Mom: What is your favorite thing to do with Angela?
Carolyn: Go to the park, do preschool with her, and play.

Mom: What is your favorite thing to do with Emily?
Carolyn: Play with her....be soft with her...feeding her bottle, reading to her, giving her toys..

Mom: What is your favorite show?
Carolyn: Princess shows, barbies shows, and "Jake and the Neverland Pirates."

Mom: What's your favorite thing to do with me?
Carolyn: Give you 100 kisses because I love you so much (I swear I didn't bribe her to say that...I am glad I am recording this answer so we can always remind her of this:)

Mom: What's your favorite color?
Carolyn: blue, pink, and green

Mom: What's your favorite animal?
Carolyn: Alligator, cheetah, and butterfly.

Carolyn loves reading her books to Em....

1 Month Emily!

Today Emily turned one month!! I know I already put this picture on the blog, but I just love it of her little cute smile! We are getting to see her little smile more and more everyday...and today she started making little "coo"ing sounds as I was chatting with her...very cute :) Big Yawn...(I realize that the quality of these pics aren't great, but they still show a little cutie)..
Our little Em is a great eater so she's packing on the weight really well...look how cute and chubby her little cheeks are getting...oh, how I love the chubs!
I love how cute Emily looks in her little hat when we go out...
The girls are just in love with Emily. Luckily, I am not dealing with any jealousy issues (Andrew jokes that I am the only one with jealousy issues because Emily is always stealing my kisses and hugs from Carolyn and Angela :) ), we definitely have our share of "issues" - but I am glad that the girls just love Emily. Just about every time Emily wakes up from a nap or the girls see her for the first time after like 10 min, they act like they've never seen her before...they get so excited. They just can't get enough of Emily.

Bottle Time

I love finding things Angela can do to help with Emily....Emily doesn't get the bottle too often, but when she does, the girls are thrilled to help!

Our Little Snuggle-Bug

Sometimes I wish I could just snuggle this little girl all day long...

I think Carolyn and Angela sometimes feel the same way...

The biggest argument in the home right now is who gets to hold Emily/snuggle her...and my full-time job right now is protecting Emily from Angela treating her like her baby dolls.

...And Carolyn's quote of the week, "Mom, my brain needs a show...he's tired of thinking."

February Preschool Highlights

This month's biggest preschool highlight was our sandwich bag books! I found the idea online and think it's fabulous! I stapled a bunch of sandwich bags together and put paper inside for Carolyn to write/illustrate her own books...I love the sandwich bags because they keep the pages from ripping and such - and Carolyn can go back and change the ending to the stories...or make whatever changes she wishes. She has fun reading them over and over again. You can also use gallon-sized bags for bigger pages. This is something we do all the time and will continue to do so. You'll see the in the picture I wrote the words, but Carolyn is getting so great at writing stories all on her own (she'll ask me how to spell words and such). I made these for Angela. Just shapes/colors on bottle caps.
She can match the shapes/colors on this sheet here...or I give her directions to put the bottle caps in buckets, etc.
"Spots on the Dog"...I copied a picture of a dog and put it in a clear paper protector.
What I do with this is I write a number at the top...the girls have to draw that number of spots on the dog. They use a whiteboard marker so I can erase the number/spots and do it all over again.
And this is just random because I love this picture Carolyn drew this month. She made a bookmark for our family scriptures - it's a picture of Jesus with Carolyn, Angela, and Emily.