happy happy joy joy

Himani is sooo talkative now. Shes making sentences and just saying what is on her mind. Today she was allll about saying things were happy or sad.

All day long she asks where people are. wheres mama, wheres dada, wheres meme, where papa, wheres sta(me), wheres lilly (yes she asks where my dog is who she hasnt seen in a very long time) wheres josh, wheres gigi, wheres bebe and after she gets through the list of people she starts over. But this morning at breakfast she was going through her list and then saying if they were happy or sad. The kitchen chair was happy. Lilly was happy and sleeping. Bebe was happy and sleeping. And josh was sleeping and sad. I'm not sure why but she always says Josh is sad. haha.

While we were at the open gym today she wanted to go potty twice. She didn't go potty either time. But the second time she wanted to go when she saw a mom take her son into the restroom. The mom and kid was in the next stall over and the mom was yelling at the boy i guess because he was acting up. To me he was acting like every other kid that age there. Not sharing the toys and telling the kids NO when they got close to a toy they just got done playing with. But she was sitting on the potty and said "bebe sad" and started to pretend cry I told her lets not worry about the other kids lets worry about going potty. then when she didnt go she got really scared by the automatic flush. haha. Then when we came out of the stall the mom looked at Himani and said sorry if hes scarying you (b/c he was crying non-stop)

Heres some pictures from lately of Himani and Addison




walking in my boots




pretending to sleep with her valentines presents from me, a new book and a princess blanket


i think she looks like a cabbage patch doll here


In the words of Himani "Where'd go" ha it took us a while to see where her hands went

The Potty Training Begins!

Lina and I had been talking about potty training Himani and 1 day last week I decided to sit Himani on the potty and she went #2! I was like whoa. ha wasn't expecting that. But ever since then she looooves sitting on the potty. I put her on there when she wakes up in the am and then every hour after that and whenever she asks to. Then she likes to sit and not want to get off the potty for about 30 minutes before and after nap time.We haven't had to many fake outs and during the day her diaper really doesnt get wet. Most the time she says Potty or pee pee she goes when I put her on there.

And I haven't had to clean 1 dirty diaper all week! I know its only Wednesday but so far 3 days is awesome to not have to.

We went to the open gym today down the street and she said she had to go potty twice. Well I think she either just wanted to check out the potty or she had stage fright. B/c she didn't go either time. But the second time I think the kid next to her was scaring her. More about that story later!

Did I mention she always asks for a book when shes on the potty

They either love me or hate me...

... and Wednesday night the Twins hated me! ha. or at lease they didn't like me very well that night. I got there in time for dinner. After dinner we watched Aladdin. Which I know like every word to every song. And boy they didn't like me singing to the songs. After the movie was over Kelly asked us to bake a cake. They love to help bake. So they did a good job with that but they really wanted to decorate it. Kelly said we wouldn't have time to frost it. (which I'm not the best at anyways) But I told them if we took a quick bath and brought the bedtime stories downstairs and that would be the last thing we would do before bed time.

When brushing Lindsay's hair. She screamed "OUCH THAT HURTS. MOMMY AND DADDY DON'T BRUSH MY HAIR LIKE THAT." I told her I was sorry. But believe me I still hate when people brush my hair and it hurts ( hairdressers) I had my fair share of people tugging on my hair as a kid. So knowing how it felt I don't think I was brushing to hard.

Well when we got downstairs the cake was ready to come out. We had an hour to bedtime. So we were reading stories from the books I got them for their birthdays. I wrote a message in them that said "I hope you enjoy these new stories. (then I drew a heart) Stephanie. Lindsay pointed to the heart and said "what is that suppose to mean." I said "its suppose to mean Love like I love you." She said "well I dont love you." Then Gabriel comes back downstairs from getting his elephant. I said "Gabriel do you love me." He said "Yes I really like you." ha.

So 45 minutes later we get ready to decorate. I found other things to decorate the cake with b/c they said we needed more sprinkles. Well I frosted it. And then it went downhill. They started fussing with each other and who got to do what. And getting in the drawers around us. And I dont remember which 1 but some1 put a big glob of green dye on it. I told them that was enough and time to go to bed I would finish it. Well they stomped upstairs and Gabriel said "NOBODY LIKES STEPHANIE!" i followed them upstairs to see if they got in bed and when I went into their rooms they just grunted at me. And that was the end of that. I tried to spread out the green glob as much as possible.

I guess I can't be liked all the time.

Claire's Photos

Claire is a girl I grew up with that lived down the street. Her sister who is my age were best friends for several years. Claire does photography now. She did Addison's new born and 3 months/christmas photos. I figured I would show them off. This is her website. http://www.clairejreynolds.com/ I have been meaning to find a reason for her to do pictures for me. Maybe I should ask her to take photos of my dear Lenny. I think a nice big portrait of him would look nice over the fireplace. Also she is looking for a nanny! If you know anyone that wants a nanny job or any good websites for her to look at let me know so I can inform her!

Addison's hair

Here is addi a couple days after she was born. Tons of dark hair.


Now 6 months later. She is left with a natural mohawk.

She has no side hair. the only hair she has on the back of her head is on the very bottom by her neck. It's almost like a bad comb over. Aww poor Addi. Your still sooooo cute.

A day with Addison

Addi was brought to me bright and early at 6am. I put her in bed with me and josh. She decided to do her happy scream for about 5 mins. She hardly ever cries but she screams really really loud when she is happy. Finally she fell asleep. We got 2 hours of sleep and then got up. She took about 4 30 minute naps through out the day. My friend Abbey came over about 3ish. She was really surprised how good Addi was. She didnt cry at all during the whole day. Then we decided to go to the Salsa Grill just down the street from my house. Addi hadn't said anything allll dinner she just looked at me the whole time. And I looked over and saw her pouty face i grabbed her and went to the bathroom and she would not stop crying . I went out asked Abbey to pay for hers and then come in the bathroom so I could pay for mine so we could leave. Once we got to the car she stopped crying. I think she was having stranger danger. Or her tummy was upset because she threw up majorrrrr once we got her out of her carseat at home. We watched "this is it" the MJ movie. and Addi was so dang tired but she kept watching. I guess she saw greatness once she saw him and refused to fall asleep. Then finally she passed out at the very end right before it was over. She is so independent. She doesn't want to be held but she doesnt want to lay down. She wants to sit up like a big girl.

When we pulled up to Salsa grill there was a car next to us and 3 kids were inside crying without a parent in the car. As I was getting Addi out I told Abbey that those kids were left in there with no parent. It was like 6 so it was after dark. When we walked out almost an hour later there was a cop car pulled behind it and was holding 1 of the kids. The mom and grandma came walking out of the laundry mat. The cop asked why they were in the car by themselves and asked for ID. The mom chuckled and said they were sleeping so they went in to do the laundry. She said they werent in there long enough to have someone call on them. Which is crap. If we had guts we would of told the cop they were crying in there an hour ago. But didn't I didnt want to start trouble. But i said before we went in if they were still in there when we came out I was gonna call. I should of called before we went in. Hope the cop did something about that. My brother-in-law says most likely since it was in JO the mom would of been taken off to jail.

Heres some pictures of todays day with Addi and some pictures of Himani from the past week.

Get Well Grandpa!

My grandpa has been in the hospital for almost 2 weeks now. Hopefully he can come home by next week. But we will see what will happen. He still has to be able to stand up by himself before he can. Everyone has decorated his room with pictures so I figured Himani and I could make him something. I got poster board and let Himani color it.

^ I dont know if she can get any cuter

This is the finished product.

^ I wasn't able to rotate it.

Heres some other pictures from today

^They are building a new house in the neighborhood. She is pretty interested.