Little funny

Today, after Andrea and I were making Lumpy (Pooh Bear's baby elephant friend) sounds, I asked Andrea what Roo says. "Bouncy, bouncy, bouncy." I laughed out loud, told her "Good!" and gave her a big hug. I wondered who else would she surprise me with her answer? I don't remember the order I asked, but here are some of her answers: Tigger - "Bouncy, bouncy, bouncy." Kanga (Roo's mommy) - "Bouncy, bouncy, bouncy." Pooh Bear - "I like honey!" (Made me laugh!!) Rabbit - "Carrots!" (Made me laugh!!) Eeyore - not the answer I expected and I can't remember now what she said. I can't remember what she said for Christopher Robin. I couldn't make out what she said for Owl.

Tonight my mom turned on the movie "The Sound of Music." I was excited to see it, but did not think we would be able to watch it long, thinking the girls would get bored. They did so well!! They loved the singing (especially Andrea) and loved the dancing (especially Andrea, who kept asking for more dancing).

Fun pictures!

These are not in the right order, but they were all taken in December.

A game the girls love...



This time with Grandma!



The first big snowstorm! Greta helping Andrea get a snowball:



Andrea not really knowing what to do with it:





Cheering for Andrea. "You hit the window!!"



Playing the computer.



Showing off the birthday poster she made to share with her class.

No guesses?!

Fine.

"Mommy ict ah ahm" = Mommy licked my arm
"Uh oo Tuh" = Love you Greta ("Tuh" used to be "Tuh-tuh")

Last week (or was it the week before??) she asked me to read the "Polar Bear, Polar Bear, what do you hear?" story. I might have been too slow to start reading and she started doing it herself. She had me rolling! But she did so well. And I was so surprised.

"Po (not to be confused with poo. It's Po, like the Teletubby) Beh, Po Beh, wuh oo he-uh. I hee uh ____ (usually "peatot". She loves the peacock picture) uh uh e-uh." (Translated is "Polar Bear, Polar Bear, what do you hear? I hear a ____ (peacock) _____ (whatever sound they make, which she doesn't usually say) in my ear.") She knows all the animals in the book. Her current favorite book is an oldie Golden Book, "Donald Duck and the One Bear" - AKA "Pizza book." I'm not sure if it's all the pizza that makes her love the book, or if it's the story, or Donald, Daisy, and Donald's nephews.

Greta is doing better, but still very hoarse. When I got home from work Monday I walked right past her lying on the couch. She didn't tell me she was there, and the sounds of "Mommy!!" is usually where they both are. Her grandma had told her she needed to get lots of rest so she could get better, so she was. I asked her how she was doing. Her response: "Not well." She is mostly surviving on popsicles, because right now she can get away with it, but she did eat her whold corn dog from Dairy Queen yesterday. Her outfit today.... yikes!! I need to take a picture. There was a day several weeks ago that I took her picture, then took her out in public. LOL! She's a kid, and she can get away with it. At least she's happy.

What I wouldn't give...

To have a webcam on Andrea all the time! She is the funniest kid! She had my mom and me rolling tonight during dinner while she ate "neddles." One of the funnier things she said was "Mommy ict ah ahm." Can you figure it out? And she is the loviest kid. I come home from work or school and get "MOMMY!!! MOMMY!!! MOMMY!!!" and HUGE hugs that go on, and on, and on. Just a little bit ago I overheard the girls playing with Greta calling Andrea "Annie" and Andrea saying "Uh oo Tuh." Makes me laugh trying to spell how she sounds, but she makes perfect sense to me! ... Most of the time.

I tried posting a few pictures of the girls from Andrea's birthday dinner, but I had them sized huge in photobucket. I'll fix it... later. Now I'm going to read bedtime stories my little sick-os (Andrea has a runny nose, Greta sounds like a little man with her hoarse voice).

Should have been embarrassing, but....

The night before Greta's birthday as I was tucking her in and kissing her goodnight she asked me to give her a surprise party. Um.... Okay.... I started thinking that maybe I could call my sister and see if she would mind if I picked up her 4-year-old daughter on my way home from work and I would take the two girls to McDonald's for ice cream cones. After telling my mom she suggested having people meet at McDonald's instead. Okay. That would work. On my way to work Wednesday morning I called my sisters and sister-in-law to let them know about the surprise party. After work I called my mom who mentioned what a nice day it was, and that it was too bad we weren't going to have the party outside. ......Okay. I was stopping at a store to pick up balloons. She called and changed plans with my sister and sister-in-law while I changed plans with my brother-in-law, then called and left a message for my sister. But then we didn't have snacks for the party. Luckily there is a Wal-Mart between work and the park. We had a great time (even with the locked bathrooms - what the heck?!).

The next day, Andrea's birthday, I wanted to do something fun. But what?! I had picked up Chick-Fil-A for our family the week before and the girls loved it. I suggested getting it for dinner again, thinking Andrea would have a fun birthday dinner. My parents and the girls met me after work. We ordered the same exact food, only this time neither girl touched her chicken. I was shocked!! All Andrea had was her lemonade. The next day was the first big day of her cold, so maybe that's why. ??? While sitting in the food court Greta commented on a worker at a hot dog stand's hat (is it Hot Dog on a Stick??). I had my back to that restaurant so I wasn't really paying attention to what was happening. Out of nowhere Greta yells, "THEY'RE OUT OF THEIR PEN!!!! HE'S OUT OF HIS PEN!!!!" I started laughing, guessing who she was talking about. I turned to check, and it was the hot dog worker. She was on the outside of the restaurant, washing counters. Kind of makes me want to take her out like this more often. Seriously.

Happy birthday to my beautiful girls

We had a busy day for Greta's birthday. Now I'm up too late and it is Andrea's birthday. There are a lot of pictures that I would love to share and remember. Here are some that were easy to share.

I love you princesses! I hope your special days are extra special.

Nov 19, 2003

Nov 20, 2006 (pict taken Nov 21)

Nov 20, 2006

Nov 18, 2008

Nov 19, 2008

Uh-oh.

Here are the girls after a Fall/Halloween party/carnival thing at the church on Wednesday.



Andrea wasn't wearing her cute tutu anymore.



She loved her cute curly hair!!!

Greta has been asking for this for awhile.





She loves it!



The two girls today.

Goat food snacks at school yesterday!

When I got home from work last night I asked my mom how school was for Greta (Greta was off playing and didn't want to tell me herself). She said that Greta told her they had goat food for snacks. Goat food = Frosted Mini Wheats/Spooners. When Greta told her teachers that's what it was they asked if she had goats. "We did at our other house, but not at this one."

Who taught her this?!

Yesterday I asked Greta how she became friends with one of the girls at school.

"Were you both nice to each other?"

"No. She was the most beautiful."

Lots of pictures!!

9/16
Greta ready for school.



She came home singing "Tuda Toda." That night Grandma finally got her to sing it for me, as well as a "Welcome to School" song. YAY!



Andrea playing also.



What Andrea was begging for just before bed - chocolate milk.



9/17
One of the coolest toys ever - a "Roly Poly Playground." When I was watching the potato bug didn't do that well. The ladybug we had in there the week before was fun! Climbing all over the bubble, up and down the toys, everywhere!





9/18
Andrea had her cousin eating grapes!





9/25
Thursday was the day Greta's teachers had asked that the kids come to school wearing yellow. The night before, just before I left for school, I had the great idea to make yellow bows for her. I got home after 9pm and was up till almost midnight. I got home from school Thursday morning to find Greta dressed up and getting her hair curled. What a pretty girl!! Not sure about her wanting to wear dresses to school pretty much every day, but it sounds like I did the same thing when I was her age.





After Greta got home from school (I was at work) the girls had fun with their Grandma and Aunt "Haha."







9/26
Thursday night I made a tutu, hoping that the girls would like it for pictures coming up. Neither girl seemed interested in it. Greta was busy wearing a fairy outfit for Halloween, and Andrea wasn't sure about stepping into the huge pile of fluff, so I wore it for awhile.



Then we put it on Andrea. She wasn't impressed.



I put it back on, wore it for awhile, even considered mowing the lawn in it (I didn't). Greta told me that it was an ugly dress-up thing. I almost cried.

Andrea had humongous (is that spelled right? Blogger's spell check isn't showing it's wrong) crocodile tears, so I pulled out my camera.



I don't know what she's eating. She had been eating the anchors from Marshmallow Mateys, but that doesn't look like a bunch of anchors. I loved the facial expression (she has a lot of fun expressions!) which is why I shared this picture.





9/27
With all the fun we seemed to have Saturday morning, it's really no wonder I ran out of time and had to rush to get the three of us ready for an appointment at 11:00am.









This was hard to get a picture of! I asked Andrea to show me her hands, then asked her to turn her hands around so I could see the messy fingers. She turned her body around instead. I'd get her the right direction, give the instruction again and she'd turn around. That happened a few times, and I finally just snapped a couple pictures.













I can't believe that I didn't get any pictures of Greta in the tutu! I was busy making another one (had to make sure that the girls approved of the white one after the fiasco with the original tutu) while they had a lot of their fun.





Now as I am hurrying to get this mostly together the girls are upstairs shouting at each other, and Greta said that Andrea made a mess with the toilet paper, pulling it all of. As far as I know that's a first for her. At least it only ended up on the floor.

Today I pulled out some flash cards that I had hoped would keep the girls busy while I made lunch. I don't think they hardly touched them. After dinner Grandpa started showing them to Andrea. She now uses quite a few words!! Swing, pink sock, boat, bed, pup (cup), rarr (lion - lol!), puppy, apple (not the right word for the picture, but it was red and similar in shape), moo (cow), eeeee (horse, and she says it high pitched). She said table, but I don't remember how she said it (close enough to know). She says red (when you ask her what color something is that's what she says - red), what, potty, wet, show, tootie (cookie), why, NO, bubble (also a nickname that Aunt "Haha" tried to get Andrea to call Uncle Chris. It sounds like she only called him "Bubble" once or twice), "Twis" (Chris. Only started saying this yesterday), Jean (Grandma's friend), yeah, yes, "teet" (drink), "tee-tee" (I don't know if this is kitty or blankie, because she has a kitty blankie), owie "tee-tee" (owie stinky. She is still copying Greta. Luckily Greta is over that one). She is even trying to immitate words a lot more the last few days. While reading a story tonight I asked her to say something and she did really good!