No Free Rides

You have to earn your keep around our house!  You want to eat?  You want to play?  You want to watch tv?  You want the iPad or iPhone?  Clean girls, clean!  I think I need to create a chore chart for them.  They may be more motivated if they see stickers on a chart for a job well-done!

Sunshine

We had almost forgotten what the sun looked like!  We've all had colds this week and cabin fever was setting in.  Luckily, the sun came out and we took off to the park.  This weather is slowing down the completion of our new swing set.  It's been raining way too much lately.  Just when the ground gets dry enough to mow and move the swing in place...it rains again.

The Life of a Ch-Ch-Chia

Well, I think we have a defective Hello Kitty Chia!  I'm 100% certain that she will NEVER look like the picture on the box.  These pictures were taken over a 2 week period.  We have more chia seeds, so I will try it again.

Let's Bake

Addison has been asking to bake cookies, so Blake went to the store and picked up some dough. The girls thought it would be a great idea to use some of the 10,000 cookie cutters that have.  They each got to pick out 3 cookie cutters.  Alyssa chose a dinosaur, car, and moon.  Alyssa chose a puppy, dog bone, and duck.  I left Blake to the all the baking duties, so didn't witness this beautiful disaster in the making!  The cookies may not be pretty, but they sure are delicious and the girls had a great time!

Breakfast

Addison asked what I was making for breakfast.  I told her that I was trying a new breakfast recipe.  She then tells me that she will only eat chocolate cinnamon rolls or chocolate cinnamon rolls.  Agh, this is my child!  For the record, we aren't having chocolate cinnamon rolls unless the new breakfast is a disaster!

Happy New Year!

Monday night I woke Addison up to go outside at midnight to see the fireworks.  When we first walked out and she saw them she was excited.  After about 2 minutes she was done and asked to go back to bed!  I didn't wake Alyssa.  I still follow the rule of 'never wake a sleeping baby' with her!

Our family had BIG changes in 2012.  We moved in May from a place we called home for 4 years to an apartment in a new town.  In September, Blake transitioned to a new office.  In October, we decided to buy a house.  In November, we closed on our new house and moved again.  I'm done with moving for a few years.  I'm very disappointed that Addison isn't in Pre-k or a MDO type program.  I never thought it would be so hard to find a place with an opening.  There are many kids that skip Pre-k and go straight to kindergarten.  It isn't the end of the world that she missed out on Pre-k, just not how I pictured things going (I repeat this daily to try and convince myself that...it's okay).  She's a smart girl and will do great when school starts this year.

Snuggles

Occasionally, I get to wake up with this sweet baby in my arms!  I enjoy every second because it's rare that she is still long enough for snuggles.