Monday, September 8, 2008

Cora Says the Funniest Things

Today I had to go back to the hospital where I worked, b/c I had still not finished all my exit interview paperwork. I haven't worked for a year, the last day was the day that Maddy was born...how convenient to work at the hospital where your kids were born at :) okay back to my story...so we had to drive over a bridge at one point, and Cora shouts "Look Mommy, there's water down there! We're crossing the moat, the magic moat. I get my wand!" That was just soooo cute! I had to laugh for a long time after that :) First Cora was obsessed with being a princess, then it was being a ballerina, now it's a fairy, hence the comment "I get my wand!"

I can now officially call Maddy a "Walker"!! She still crawls a lot, but she is now walking everywhere! Literally all around the house....she'll walk across the room, then do a 180 and turn around to walk the other way. I have to laugh at her when she walks in these funny zig zag lines, like she's just going where ever her legs are taking her LOL LOL!

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Maddy's One Yr. Photo Shoot

I should have done this earlier, but I kept forgetting about it. Last Saturday (Aug 30th) was Maddy's actual birthday (we had her party a week early), so I scheduled for 1st yr pictures for that morning. This was the first time that we tried out Kiddie Kandid, in a Babies R Us store. The pictures turned out okay, but I wasn't impressed with the photographer...which has been our problem for the past couple of yrs. It seems like there are only these very young women with hardly any experience in taking pictures of little children (we've been to JC Penny's, Picture People, and now Kiddie Kandid) where it's agonizing to watch them try to get the kids to smile!! I was so frustrated with the photographer! I had to do all the work and was running around while sweat was literally dripping off my face (and I HATE to sweat LOL). Maddy didn't smile once the whole time and refused to stand up! Don't even get me started with Sam and Cora!!! That was horrible!! Sam kept crying b/c we would tell him to leave his pants alone, or to stop sucking on his lip, etc! and Cora kept doing these CRAZY poses with crazy facial expressions! I just never want to take professional photos again!! Maybe next time I'll check around for actual professional photographers (not one from a store). But anyways...here are the pictures from the shoot.













That evening Jeff and I took Sam and Cora to Medieval Times Theatre! We left Maddy with my aunt to babysit...isn't that terrible of us to just ditch Maddy on her birthday?? I didn't bring my camera, b/c I though that in a place with real horses that it wouldn't be allowed to take flash photography...but when we got there, there were TONS of ppl taking pictures during the show...so next time I'm defiately taking my camera! It was so much fun to see Sam and Cora's faces during the show :) We took them once before, I was pregnant with Maddy at the time and the kids were barely two yrs old then. Cora didn't appreciate it too much, but Sammy's eyes were GLUED to the horses the whole time, with his mouth hanging open! But Cora really enjoyed herself this time! She taked about the horses a lot, especially b/c now her "favorite" thing is her My Little Pony horse! It's so funny b/c Jeff had asked her once what kind of pony she was, and asked her if it was a Pinto...and ever since then Cora has been calling her pony Pinto!! It's too funny!!

Well, tomorrow is another Monday, and another week! Sam and Cora have been sick this weekend, so I'm crossing my fingers that they are well enough by Tuesday, so they can go to school!!! PLEEEEAAASE let them be well!! LOL

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Flower Picking

The first thing Cora said this morning (well, I suppose it really was yesterday morning, since it is now 12:15am LOL), was "I pick flowers for you, Mommy. You are a princess for Halloween, so I pick flowers for you, Mommy." Now I have no idea where she came up with the idea that I am going to be a princess for Halloween! I was so touched, and told her "thank you for thinking about me!" and she had a huge grin on her face =) During breakfast, I called Jeff to tell him the news and he wanted to talk with her on the phone. He asked her if she wanted to wait till he got home, so they could both go out back and pick the flowers. She seemed very excited about that, and kept talking about it all day. When Jeff got home and took Cora out back, Sammy, Maddy and I opened the sliding door and took some pictures of them both picking flowers...wild flowers that are growing behind our property. These pictures were all taken up on the balcony area while Cora and Jeff were on the ground lvl...i just cropped and zoomed in.


















This morning after breakfast, I had to use the bathroom, and when I came out, I noticed that I had forgotten to put the gate up on the stairs...and I groaned...I knew exactly where Maddy was. She LOVES to go up the stairs and into Cora's room and climb into Cora's bed! She has the BEST time there LOL...such simple things in life! So, when I climbed the stairs, sure enough, what did I see?...

















Another thing that I got a good laugh from today was Maddy trying to put her shoe on her foot! I FINALLY went out and bought her some shoes today! Poor Maddy has never really worn shoes before, I was just too lazy to get them. Sam and Cora had shoes soooo early and they were the cutest shoes that I've ever seen, I got from www.pedipeds.com (I just had to give them a plug LOL). But poor poor Maddy!! Anyways, back to my story...after I took her shoes off, she decided that she wanted to put them back on.



hmmmm, I seem to always have more picutures than I do of actual post!! I just can't decide which pictures to use, so I end up putting up a ton of them! Oh well LOL

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Cora and Sam's 1st Day of Preschool

okay, first off, I just realized that if I maximize my blog page, it throws EVERYTHING off, like photos are all in strange places and the wording is all squished in some places, etc...does anyone else see it that way? What do some of you guys who blog do to not have this problem?

So today was the first day of preschool!!! Yesterday was orientation, so the kids played there while Jeff and I had a short orientation, for about 45 mins. Cora threw a fit yesterday when I tried to leave, she was on the ground kicking the teacher and screaming and crying that she didn't want me to leave...oh boy, it wasn't pretty, but I left and she stopped in about 5 mins. So, needless to say, I was a little worried about a repeat of yesterday's actions! But I was so happy when cora walked in with sam and they both stood in front of the guinea pig, Wilbur's cage to watch him for a bit. I gave them both a kiss and told them that I would pick them up in a couple of hours, and Jeff and I were OUTTA THERE! (Jeff took off of work yesterday and today just for orientation and 1st day of school). I kinda felt bad that I wasn't more "sad" to see my babies going to school for the fist time...actually I was GIDDY!! LOL...Jeff and I went out to eat breakfast at the Golden Corral, with Maddy of course! It was so nice to be able to go somewhere with just ONE baby! I've never experienced that before...it was so nice!

Here are some pictures of Sam and Cora right before we left this morning:













Sammy and Cora being such big kids and walking into the school and into their classroom:

















Everytime I would ask Sammy if he had a good time, he would get the hugest grin on his face and say "yeah!" It was too darn cute!


I also just wanted to share some pictures of Maddy feeding her baby! I just couldn't believe how she's learned to do this already! Everytime she finds the bottle on the floor, she has to look for "baby" and feed her.