Obviously I am NOT going to get good about updating this blog. I had some big plans to fill in a year of missing stuff...and ended up missing almost another year.
So just a quick post now to catch up on some of the cute things both my girls are up to. First of all girls, you are growing up WAY to fast.
Madi, you are getting to smart for your own good. You are pretty sassy :) Which is good and bad. You did pick on sissy a bit, and sometimes like to sneak in a little kick or hair pull when mommy isnt looking :) I guess you are just passing on how Daddy picks on you.
Emily Janey, you aer a baba addict. I dont know when it happened, but somehow in the last 3 months you became totally addicted to your juicy baba. As soon as you wake up from a nap you start pointing towrard the kitchen and chanting baba..juicy over and over and over again until you get a juicy baba. I am sure that by the time you can read this...alll of your baby teeth have rotted out of your head. If I were a better mother, I woudl end the juicy baba problem, but I CANNNOT stand to hear you cry. Either of you...which is going to be a problem as you get older.
You are both little mermaids! Madi, your swimming skills continue to grow. You have always been amazing in he water. I have put you in dance, gymnastics, soccer, but where I think we need to shift focus is to yoru swimming. YOu want to be in teh pool all summer, and you dive across the pool to search for dolly's you have thrown around. I am amazing with how fast you swim, and how long you can stay under the water. You cant really even touch the ground, but you are always trying to do handstands, backflips of the ladder, and can go for hours in the pool.
Jane, you are showing sure signs that you are goingto be the same way. When we first started putting you in the pool with just yoru floaty belt, you didnt want us to let-go. Fast forward only a week, you are kicking and paddeling around that pool like nobody's business. You dunk your own head, blow bubbles, and kick bacvk and float around on your back. Amazing for my not even 2 year old.
It is CRAZY how time flies. Madi you are almost 5, and Jane almost 2. I technically will have no more babies soon, but you will both always be my babies. I love you both more than I can ever express.
What you are up to now......
Madi - the bedtime routine is still long, but getting a bit shorter than it used to be :) You still require book, prayer, now narrowed it down to one song (used to be 6), and then as I leave the door I have to tell you a story, and you haev to have me turn the light on so you can show me with your fingers and toes how much you love me. You say "how much did I love you last night" I tell you, and then you count down, each night showing me less fingers and toes, but I know that you are really telling me more. It is like a countdown to you make it better. Example....we always count the number of sleeps until something exciting, and it gets lesss as the event gets closer. So that is why I think the fingers and toes of love decline ).
Then you have to say "goodnight and I love you, happy Christmas, happy valentines, happy easter, happy memorials day" and I have to repeat that back to you. if I mess up the order, I have to do it again. As holidays keep coming up, you keep adding them to the list. You had put in Mothers and faterhs day, but I convinced you that was enough :) Too cute.
You love to draw, play on your ipad, watch my little ponies on netflix, play with Tildy, wear dressup dresses, put on makeup, practice your writting, play under the stairs in your little secret fort, have picnics, and most of all, play with your friends and cousins. YOu are Uber loving.
Janie Poo (as we most frequently call you). You are as we speak yelling out "mama" at the top of your lungs. You do it ALL day long while I am working and It is hard to focus. I want to come up and hold you and play with you sooooo badly. You are just about as addicted to me as you are to your baba. I love it!! You are starting to talk so much, and will usually repeat anything we ask you too...as long as it is under 5 words. You LOVE to dance, do sumersaults, and you are a crazy dare devil., You climb up on everything, but worst of all, the kitchen counter. We have saved you from putting your feet in the garbage disposal and turning it on more than once. In fact, it is disabled right now for just that reason. You climb on stuff and balance and yell "tada". I swear, you are going to be gymnist or circus performer.
You are NOT great in the car, you bore easily. We almost always take the truck becuase you demand a "show" as soon as we get in any car. YOu are slightly spoiled, so we usually take the trcuk so you can watch a movie while we drive. We are about to do a 13 hour flight to Nova Scotia...not looking forawd to it. You do not like to be help in one spot for long.
I am trying to grow out your bangs, and putting in a clip constandly becuaes you keep pulling it out. So most of the time, you are walking around with hair in your face. Grandma really wants to trim it. You can clips and elastics"pretties" so I ask you nto to touch the pretty, but you do seconds after I walIk away.
You want to take a bath all the time. Usually when I change your diaper and you are naked you are reminded of this and start chanting "bath". You want a bath in the sink...and I almost always give in.
I have been working so much over this past 7 months on my Pcard project, and it has made me feel like a terrible mother. I have had to have people come watch you at night, I barely see you in the day, and I am tired and groucy when I get off work. For that I will be forever sorry. YOu two are the best things in my life, adn I want so badly to raise you to be happy, confident women. I hope that I am showing you perserverence, determination, and a drive to provide for your family. At the end of the day, I am doing this to give you Disney, dresses, college, etc...But I struggle wtih the cost at which those items come. I hope at some point I find the right balance.
I hope to read more with Madi, to play more with Jane; I will keep trying to be the best mother I can be.
Pleaes know how very much I LOVE you both. You are my world, my happiness; and I have told myself to start measuing the sucess of my day on how much I make you both laugh.
Love you forever and always. Hopefully, more stories and pics coming shortly. One step at a time! xoxo
