Art project

The other night Jaxson told me that he wanted to pretend to be a scientist and do a project. I asked him what kind of "project" he wanted to do and he said "I want to draw circles on a paper, but Mom I want you to cut dem out, and den I want to draw other stuff on another paper and glue da cirles onto da paper dat I draw other stuff on. Ok Mom?" He said that he needed EXACTLY 4 pieces of paper. He got out his crayons and his glue stick and got right to work on his project. When he had drawn his circles on the paper he told me to cut them out for him. He watched me the whole time I was cutting them out, I asked him if I was doing it right and he said "Uhh...well...sort of Mom...well I guess your doing a pretty good job Mom." When I had cut out all of the circles he started gluing them on and coloring all over the paper. Of course Ella had to get in on this project too, so she sat in her highchair and colored too. When Jax was done with his project he held it up and said "Mom, my project is done. I'm going to call it the conductor one hundred forty five." Who knows where the name of the project came from, but he took it very seriously and was very proud of himself when he had finished.

Hide and Seek

Jax thought it would be fun to play hide and seek this morning, Jax has his own rules for playing hide and seek...for instance, from his hiding spot, he yells "Mom, don't come and look under my bed until I say you can." This is because he doesn't want you to find him too soon. He doesn't care that you know where he is, he just wants you to find him when HE decides it's time to find him. Then it was Mommy and Ella's turn to hide, if you could consider getting into Jaxson's tent with Ella laughing and giggling the whole time hiding, then I guess you could say that we found a great spot to hide. Then Jax decided that it was time to play hide and seek downstairs. From his hiding spot he informed me that I could come and find him now, then 2 seconds later, he told me that he didn't want me to find him yet. He started telling me where I could look for him...which was hilarious. Then after a few minutes he told me that I could look under the table in the dining room because that is where he was hiding. Oh how I wish he could stay this young and innocent forever.

Movie time

Last night Jaxson decided he wanted to watch his dinosaur movie in his playroom (he has been really into dinosaurs lately) when his little sister saw him getting comfy on his elmo couch, she decided she wanted to join him. Jax got up to get "Giraffee" and before he could sit back down Ella had plopped herself down right in the middle of the couch. I was anticipating a fight when he saw her on his couch, but I was wrong. He looked at her and smiled and gently moved her over to one side of the couch, sat down next to her and gave her a kiss and said "Is sissy gonna watch da dinosaur movie with brother?" She grinned and then started jabbering something in her own special language...which nobody understands. It was so cute seeing the two of them cuddled up on the couch watching a movie, I knew Ella wasn't going to last long, she isn't too into movies lately so lucky I took some pictures before she got bored.

Lil Mama

Ella has really been into her baby dolls lately, one of her baby dolls has to sleep in her crib with her, along with her teddy bear named munchie, her stuffed ghost named ghosty, a bunny rabbit, and a monkey...oh ya, and her blankie...this doesn't leave much room left over for Ella but don't even think about putting her to sleep without the whole crew! The other day Ella walked over to her highchair with her baby and put her in and looked at me and said "fork fork fork FORK" I think she may have wanted a fork, what do you think? I got her a fork and then she said "bowl bowl BOWL!" Once princess FINALLY had everything she needed she walked back over to the highchair and pretended to feed baby, then when baby was done eating she walked into the bathroom, got some toilet paper, and walked over to baby and started wiping it's nose. Then it was time for baby to get out of the highchair, which resulted in a mini princess tantrum because baby wouldn't come out of the highchair as easily as Ella would have liked. Once she decided to actually let me help her get the baby out of the highchair the fit ended. Not a moment too soon either. After her baby had eaten and it's nose had been wiped, she kissed and hugged the baby, then dropped it on the floor and decided it was time to clean up. She took the bowl and fork over too the sink, stood on her tiptoes and dropped them into the sink. Then she looked at me and said "wipes" which means she wants a wet paper towel. I gave her the paper towel and she proceeded clean the floor for me, then walked all around the house looking for stuff to throw away in the garbage. I'm hoping to have her cleaning the entire house by the time she is two...that way I won't have to do the cleaning anymore!

Da water in da tub is green!!

Wanna know how to make bathtime even more fun?? Make the water green...or whatever color happens to be the favorite color, in Jaxson's case it's green. My mom gave Jaxson these watercolor tablets that turn the water in the bathtub different colors. I was a little worried that it would turn the kids skin colors too, and that I would have to send Jaxson to school this morning with green skin. This was not the case though, thank goodness!! Jaxson could not wait to use them in his bath last night, when I asked him which color he wanted to make the bath he instantly said green, because this is his favorite color. When the kids got into their green bath last night they were both grinning and looking at the water like it was the coolest thing they had ever seen. Ella kept putting her hand under the water and staring at it, and Jax looked at me and said "Mom, can we drink dis water?" I told him that we don't drink our bath water, it's gross, and he said "but MOM...dis water is green!!!! It's different den normal bath water...DUH!" I told him that just because it's green that doesn't mean that we drink it. He just rolled his eyes at me and proceeded to splash water in his sister's face, she didn't think this was funny at all, so she splashed him right back and then grinned at me. Jax was not too happy when he had to get out of his green bathtub and he informed me that next time he wants his water to be orange!!

Aquarium

Janelle and I decided to take the kids to the aquarium the other day. We both wanted to get out of our houses and we knew the munchkins would obviously have fun. Not to mention the fact that I get to see my BFF (that was just for you Janelle) and we can have an adult conversation...or at least try to. It's difficult when the kids are saying mom every two seconds. Jaxson ran around to each exhibit as fast as he could while Gavin and Ella wanted to sit and look at each of them for a minute. Jaxson was a little hesitant when we came to the one that you could put your hand in the water and touch the stingrays, he kept saying that he didn't want them to sting them, so he looked at me and said "Mom, you put your hand in der first and if you don't get stinged, den I will put my hand in der." I put my hand in the water and touched the stingray, then I told Jax it was his turn and he said "Maybe later Mom." Apparently he changed his mind. After we saw all the fish we had lunch and then Jaxson thought we should go back and look at all of the fish again. I told him we would have to come back another day because Ella and Gavin needed naps and it was time to go home. This did not make him happy at all and he threw a bit of a fit that resulted in me dragging him out of the aquarium to the car, luckily the tantrum only lasted about 30 minutes...it was such a pleasant drive home. NOT! However once he calmed down he said he was glad we got to see the fish and that he couldn't wait to go back.

Big girl

First of all let me just say that the ONLY reason this post has a title is because of you, Janelle. I am finding it more and more difficult to think of titles for these...so you better appreciate this one Janelle!

Now that princess is officially 18 months old she has decided she REALLY doesn't need mommy anymore. Sad. She even tries to dress herself lately...let me rephrase that, she tries to UNDRESS herself lately. If she doesn't have shoes on she will try to take her pants off, then she will throw a fit because she can't get them back on. Don't try to help her though, this will only make princess throw a bigger fit! I know her grandparents may find it hard to believe that she would throw a fit, if you don't believe me I will gladly let you take her off my hands for awhile so that you can witness these "princess tantrums."

In addition to trying to dress and undress herself, she has also figured out how to use a fork. If you try to hand her a banana that is not cut up and served to princess on a plate with a fork, she will throw one of her wonderful "princess tantrums" for you. TRUST ME I learned this the hard way. The day before I learned about her fork expertise it was acceptable to hand her the banana whole, in fact princess even preferred it this way. How was I supposed to know that she had changed her mind overnight?

Ella also thinks it's really fun to sit on the potty, she even has her own hand-me-down potty. However, I learned the other day that if she decides she wants to sit on the potty, you will be in the bathroom with her for a minimum of 30 minutes while she sits on the potty, then gets off, grins, pulls her pants up (without her diaper on) then pulls her pants back down, sits down on the potty, grins and repeats this process 200 more times. Then try putting her diaper back on her and telling her she is done with the potty for a little while...just when I think she couldn't possibly have another princess tantrum in her to throw, she surprises me yet again with another one. Then she puckers her lip and looks at me like I'm horrible. Like I have said before, I have no idea where she would get this little attitude of hers from...certainly not me.