Interview II

Jessie

Question: What is your favorite thing about yourself?
Answer:Playing with my puppy.

Question: What is your favorite thing that we did this past year?
Answer: Papi and me played soccer and he was the goalie and trying to get the ball in our goal.

Question: What is your favorite clothes to wear?
Answer: My wave my flag shirt (from school).

Question: What is your favorite song?
Answer: Wave your Flag.

Question: If you could go visit one place right now what would it be?
Answer: Little Owen's house. (It's a good thing they live close).

Question: What is your favorite story?
Answer: Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Question: What is the scariest movie you've ever seen?
Answer: Veggie Tales-Larry Boy and the Fib (never thought it would be a Veggie Tale)

Question: What is your favorite game to play?
Answer: Chutes and Ladders (the princess one).

Question: What's one thing that you would like to learn this year?
Answer: Spanish reading.

Question: What is your favorite thing to do with Mommy, Papi, and Tegan?
Answer: Mommy-homework (how boring am I), Papi-play, Tegan-play when it's bedtime, but I don't usually play because I'm too tired sometimes.

Question: If you could pick the name for our little baby girl, what name would you choose?
Answer: Taylor Jess.

Question: What is your favorite color?
Answer: Red.

Tegan

Question:What is your favorite thing to do?
Answer: Play with my horsy.

Question: If you could go anywhere, where would you want to go?
Answer: In the bath.

Question:What is your favorite food?
Answer: Peaches, blueberry, and banana oatmeal. And I like strawberry.

What do you like to do with Papi, mom, and Jessie?
Answer: Play a game with papi, get decorations up and my birthday up (mom), and play a game with Jessie.

Question: What is your favorite movie?
Answer: The pirate movie (maybe Backyardigans??)

Question: What is your favorite outfit?
Answer: A skirt and a dress (all girl).

Question: What name would you pick for our baby girl?
Answer: How bout Kelly...

Question: What is your favorite song?
Answer: Wonder pets, wonder pets.

I love seeing how their answers change.

In other news, this is what we've been up to lately.



Tommy is resigned to a family of all girls, so he's working on figuring out how to teach these princesses a few sports.
A fort and a movie has become a Friday night tradition for the girls.

Tegan's favorite part of cookie making, smart girl!
We decorated our sugar cookies for Valentine's Day and Jess worked on her valentines for her class.
I have a hard time figuring out service projects the girls can get involved in. This is one we're doing in YW's. Since it was easy we decided to do this at home too. They made a blanket for the Humane Society. The girls were excited that a cat or a dog could use this to keep warm.

It's a Girl

Tegan won this battle. She was insistent that it be a girl, just as insistent as Jess was that it be a boy. So when we broke the news to two very eager girls we got yahoos, hugs and kisses from one girl and a full blown tantrum from the other, but after a little talk Jess came around and she seems on board again.

Tom and I only laughed when the ultrasonographer zeroed in on what gives the sex of the baby away. We knew it! There was a moment where Tom may have wanted to drop down and throw a tantrum too, perhaps when he was envisioning 3 teenage girls living in our home, but we can't help but get excited about another little girly running around.

So bring on the dolls, dresses, and drama...we can't wait!!!

Tomorrow and a Lesson Learned

I was hoping "tomorrow" (see previous post) would be a better day. I can't say it was better or worse, just crazy. This is how my day started... Because of our van issues I had to move the car seats from the van to our sedan. I was trying to multitask and talk to Tommy on the phone at the same time. After starting up the car and getting out to go in and get the girls I saw out of the corner of my eye our sedan not so slowly rolling down our very steep driveway and heading for our almost as steep street. I yelled at Tom to hold on and went bolting after it. There was no way I was going to catch up to it, but the car took a turn and started rolling backwards down the street and up the curb between our yard and our neighbors. It stopped for a millisecond and then started rolling forward toward our neighbors house, fence, and lamp post. I ran toward it, grabbed the door handle, and jumped in inches before it rammed into the curb.

Oddly during all of that I never let go of the phone, what does that say about me? So Tom heard screaming and footsteps and had no idea what was going on. Luckily, there were no cars parked along the street like there usually are, when the car did jump the curb it somehow did it at the perfect spot clear of lamp posts, fences, and utility boxes, and lastly I was somehow miraculously able to swing the door open and squeeze my not so small belly into the car to slam on the break before any real destruction was done.

The lesson learned was that cell phones really can be distracting, so distracting that I forgot to pull the break up before heading in for the kids. I won't be doing that again. After that the day went from just another day to Doctor's appointments (somewhere during the car chase I managed to fall although I don't remember where or how), babysitters, and lots of driving. I'm just glad everything turned out alright. I only wish I had a video of all of this. Still, every time I think about it I bust up laughing.

Today

Yesterday was a good day. It was sunny and beautiful outside. We went for a drive up to Portland as a family. We got to see one of our friends get baptized. We had our 2nd annual fondue night with friends, I ate too much...it was wonderful.

Today has been different. Today Tegan woke up hacking her lungs up and I feel crappy. Today Tom left on a business trip. Today Tegan peed all over the floor and I'm really not sure why. Today our van we just got maintenance done on is having problems. Today I cried one of those terrible cries, my eyes got all swollen, my face got all red, and my girls looked baffled, and I couldn't stop. But then I felt a little better. I'd say it's been one of those days, but it hasn't completely. There's been some good too. I made a yummy dinner. I got a big sympathetic hug from Jessie. We took a family walk out in the sunshine. I learned how to navigate a little bit on the family history website. And I get to watch Downton Abbey tonight, so it hasn't been all bad.

I'm still hoping tomorrow will be better.

Slime Time

My girls love a good project. I found this easy slime recipe while browsing around (my new favorite hobby) on pinterest. The girls were a little grossed out by the idea of making it, but it literally took 2 minutes to make. They were pretty amazed by the process of watching how it all came together, as was I. They played with their pink slime until I ripped them away for dinner. I love quick fun projects like this.





What could be cuter than a little family of slime people.