Well we finally got around to taking the kids training wheels off and taking them to the park to learn to ride them. Last year we never got around to getting them bikes that were big enough for them and this year DH has been working so much this was the first chance we have had to both take them. This is one downside to having two kids learning to ride at the same timewith a 2 year old to keep track of too. It really takes mommy AND daddy! lol Anyway, they did great and in an hour and a half were...

Assignment : Tell about a very important person in your life, and explain why that person is important. Be sure to use transition words.

(She says that she picked Andrew because she didn't want to hurt Daddy's feelings by picking me or my feelings by picking Daddy.)

I am going to type it exactly how she wrote it. When they hate each other 10 years from now, I am going to whip this puppy out and make them read what she wrote in first grade.

A very...

Julia - "Why you sit on that stool while me go potty?"
Me - "Because it is easier or me to get up"
Julia - "Why it easier for you to get up?"
Me - "Because I am getting old"
Julia - "Why you getting old?"
Me - "Just something that happens to mommies"
Julia "Well we just need go buy a new mommy!"

Guess I am replaceable! lol

In case this is not a common reference in places without mountains ... a "fourteener" is a mountain that is over 14,000 ft.

Alyssa was talking about her kindergarten teacher and how she wanted to make her a card at the end of the year. She thought she could draw her rock climbing. She says "Mrs O loves to rock climb and stuff. She said that this summer she wants to climb 4 weeners. I don't know that what that is but I hope she gets to do it!" When dh and I realized...

Boring to everyone but me, but I want a place to keep track so that I won't lose it.

My little late talker is finally adding some more words to her signs. I am wondering how many so ...

up
out
eat
bite
momma
dadda
Nana
hot
Aka (her monkey)
Wait
night night
more
Brobo (brother)
Meow (her kitty)
please
off
Baby
Oh
Ummmmmm (while thinking)
...

I just found a picture that Alyssa had made that is labeled "A masterpees of a famis ilistrater. It is a links named Lilly" Good thing she labeled it, because I am not sure I would have known that was a lynx! lol

Julia is finally replaceing some of her many signs with words. She has over 60 signs but I am not sure how many words so going to try keeping track here for a couple days.

Mama
Dada
Nana
Bow
Ball
Bye Bye
Baby
Night-night
Ow
More
meow
woof-woof
Doddle
banana
No
Bubble

Hmm, that is all I can think of right now. So perhaps signing is still her major mode of communication....

We have only had the little fur babies for a week and Alyssa's guinea pig, Butterscotch, is not acting right. We haven't seen him eat or drink and he breaths hard all the time. He doesn't run aound like patches does when they are out of their cage. I called the pet store where we got them and they had us bring them both back and they are taking them to the vet tomorrow. The kids are both upset, but Alyssa is CRUSHED! Through her sobs she said "we got guinea pigs so that we could love them...

Just realized as I came to blog that Julia iwas 16 months yesterday. How fast time goes when you are having fun! I just needed to jot down the signs that she has added this week. She is on a roll! She points to things in books and looks to me for the sign. I have started reading to her with her facing me on my lap so that it is easier to show her the signs. Yesterday she found a cookie ornament on the Christmas tree and signed cookie. I think that I had only showed her once. She is such a little...

Two molars broken through in the last few days. Bringing her to a grand total of 9

Still now many spoken words but is a signing maniac. Signs that she is using ... eat, hungry, drink, milk, more, all done, please, light, fan, on, night night, bath, Barney, mommy, daddy, Alyssa's name sign, Andrew's name sign, baby, banana, apple, cheese, grapes, book, bye bye, help, ball, brush teeth, wash hands, cracker, ...ugh, will have to come back when I think of more.

She...