3swins: 11/01/2012 - 12/01/2012

Now I know the answer to my question this morning.

This morning I got up early, before the kids.....at 5:30 am. And I made biscuits, a ham, sausage and cheese Frittata .....yum. We all sat down to breakfast. I thought getting an early start would help with the crazy running around before pre-school. Well, this is how the rest of the morning before school went. I try and get the girls in to take a shower, Ella refuses and runs to her room.......Ivy says she has to go to the bathroom and runs to the other bathroom, instead of using the one that's 5 feet away. The waters running, and I'm chasing kids around the house. I chase Ivy to the other bathroom, she's locked the door, Mark unlocks it and she has a reason for wanting privacy :) she likes it when she goes.....however, in all the excitement, she forgot to flush the toilet......then moved out of the way. I'm in there rushing around and putting tooth past on toothbrushes, put the bottle down and it rolls off the counter into the toilet! Into the toilet that wasn't flushed, nice! I leave it trying to get everyone dressed. Ivy stops in the middle of getting dressed to turn on a singing dancing bear that Grandma gave them....she's smiling and dancing! I finally get them dressed and out the door.....(more drama with shoes of course, but we're fixing that tonight :) And Ivy was dancing instead of getting dressed, with a huge smile on her face I had to laugh...really whats the big deal? But I asked Mark, after the toothpaste rolled into a toilet with poop in it if this was how my day was going to be. And I just got my answer! Well, now we have an excuse to make milkshakes and watch a Christmas movie instead of practicing our writing. I asked the girls if they wanted to have lunch, or have milkshakes and popcorn for lunch. Ella said YES of course, and I asked Ivy "do you vote for that Ivy"....and Ella said, "vote"? "vote for Romney'! So funny. We really only had the last election on the tv when they were up, never talked about it, but she picked it up that night listening to the debate, and at the time she said she liked Romney. And we do take them to vote with us. But still, pretty funny. The reason I'm writing all of the details about today is because the purpose of this blog was to eventually print in a book for the kids, kind of like yearbooks for each year. I would never remember half of this stuff if I didn't. I wish I was a better writer, but my goal is to document, and I'm doing at least that.

Seriously, Ivy knocked out a THIRD tooth!

I bring them home from Pre-school, go to the bathroom, and come out to make lunch. Ivy is standing in the hall crying and bleeding, I'm looking and I see a hole on the bottom row of teeth! Again :) And we can't find the tooth, nice. Apparently she was playing with Gracie, and then the next thing you know she fell on the carpet and poof, she lost a tooth. When I finally was able to look in there, the other one was already growing in.................BEHIND it. So pretty :)

Ella

I was just cleaning out scrambled eggs from the cast iron skillet, the kids were having a snack at the counter and Ella looks over and says, "when I grow up my husband's going to clean my pan for me"......"it's gross".

Tea Party.

The other day Ella asked if she could have a tea party and invite Noma. So she wrote her own invitation and asked her to come on Tuesday while the "kids" were at preschool. Then she said she wanted it outside, she actually wanted to buy a new table for it, but Noma offered to bring a little table of her own. She asked if we could make cookies, so we had hot chocolate chip cookies, tea, hot chocolate :) And sliced apples, which not surprisingly didn't really get eaten. She also had a lot of guests besides Noma, they're sitting on the bench.

Girls night out !We

The girls and I met our friend Kim, her Mom and Sister and all the daughters for a shopping trip to Charming Charlies. It's an accessories store with everything displayed by color and amount of bling! Of course the girls loved it and acted as if they've been shopping forever. It must be in our genes as females! This is a picture of Ivy and Emma, Deanns daughter who is 5 also.