Fairy daycare teachers

So awhile ago we had gotten a little craft kit to make flower fairies basically out of pipe cleaners and flower petals and LC wanted to make them yesterday so we pulled them out. Well I finished the first one and gave it to her and she decided it was Miss Jody (the cook at her daycare) and then we had to make a fairy that could be each of the teachers at daycare. Miss Debbie the director, Miss Wendy, Miss Bobbi, Miss Kari, and Miss Ericka all got designated as to what Fairy they were. Luckily there were 6 fairies to make in the kit and there are 6 people that work at her daycare. Then she procedded to have Miss Jody make dinner for everyone else. It was so cute!

Let's try again

I have been having problems posting lately. I have tried to post this several times last week and was unsucessful.

Lilly finally got a tooth!!! Last Tuesday the 20th we went over to my mom and dad's and we discovered that she had finally broken a tooth through. And she has been a much happier girl, it's been wonderful for her and mommy.

She is also trying really hard to talk lately. She's in the stage where if you know her and see her a lot (or are her mom :)) then you can understand quite a few things, but they aren't really clear words yet. Her latest word is shoes. She has decided that she is always supposed to have shoes on. I guess it just took finding the right ones, because I have never been able to keep any shoes or socks for that matter on her before. I got her some sandals and some tennis shoes and she thinks something is wrong if she doesn't have one of them on. The other day she fell asleep before she got jammies on so she was asleep in her clothes and shoes. When she woke up in the middle of the night, when I was calming her down, I took her shoes off and she got really mad at me. Crazy girl!

Other words she's saying now are night-night, bye-bye, momma, grandpa, grandma, Ericka (her daycare teacher) cup (or sometimes ba-ba still referring to her cup), and my favorite is still Colista. She doesn't call her LC which seems easier for a little kid to learn to me, but it's so cute the way she says Colista. I can't help but smile. And she says love you with hugs and an ahhh. It just makes my day. :)

...This is my sacred beauty.

LC has an amazing memory for music and songs for a 2 year old and lately the song she has wanted to sing is I Love to See the Temple. She does really well and can pretty much sing the entire song, but the was she does the last few lines makes me smile every time. It's supposed to be: I'll prepare myself while I am young, this is my sacred duty. She sings, I'll prepare myself while I am YUM, this is my sacred BEAUTY.

I love that little girl!

I need to work on this whole blogging thing...

So once again, I have not been keeping up on my blog. I'm working on getting better I promise. In the meantime, I thought I'd do a quick update about our weekend. It was Memorial Day weekend and we had a lot of fun. Saturday my plan was to just stay home and play and work on getting my house cleaned up. I had a very productive morning and then realized that I was wanting to put away the rest of the winter clothes, but all I have is boxes that are taken down with no packing tape to put them together, so I called my mom and asked if she had any that I could use and she said sure, come on over and get it. Well, we went over and then I was playing outside with the girls while my mom and dad did yard work and my mom mentioned taking the hose out and playing in the water, and we decided to run home and get swiming suits and get out the sprinkler and really have fun. (for anyone that isn't aware, I live a mile and half away from my mom, so it's easy to run over and back.) So the afternoon went to running in the sprinklers and it was really fun. I decided one of the best perks of having kids is you get to be a kid again and experience all the little fun things that you forgot about. Lilly didn't last very long as it was naptime right after we started playing, but she crashed and then I just played with LC. Then she watered Grandma's flowers and thought it was the greatest thing. The rest of the day and then Sunday when we went over to their house for Sunday dinner, she kept talking about how the flowers were thirsty and we gave them a drink and made them happy. Sunday was a pretty typical Sunday except I didn't have to worry about getting up the next morning since I had it off work. Monday we went to our ward activity which consisted of a short memorial service and then a service project. I didn't really do much but watch the girls, but I think they enjoyed themselves for the most part. I didn't like the trek I had to take for a potty run, but oh well, such is life. Then Monday we went to my mom and dad's again and helped then get ready for a BBQ where we had several friends over and had a pretty good time. So I had a great weekend, hope everyone else did too.

My baby's turning one!!!

Where did the time go? Lilly's 1st birthday is Wednesday and it seems like she was just born. She is such a fun baby. I love her beautiful red hair, and will never forget that is the first thing my doctor said to me when she was being born was to ask me if I wanted to know what color hair she had. At the moment I didn't care I just wanted her to be born and done with labor, but I have fallen in love with her red hair, and now that it's getting longer, it looks like she's going to have curls in the back like her big sister. Yay! I love it. I get to fulfill my wish that I have always had for pretty curly hair through my girls. It's for sure they didn't get it from me since my hair is very straight and while it will take curls very easily, it's a whole different matter to keep the curls from falling out for more than a couple of hours. But at least I get to enjoy my beautiful girls' curls. :) Lilly is a very busy baby and can crawl seemingly at the speed of light. She is at the point that she has taken a few tentative steps several different times, but doesn't seem very interested at the moment, she knows that she can go faster crawling and is happy with that and I'm not pushing it too hard, it seems like my baby is growing up so fast. Also her focus seems to be on figuring out how to talk. She is constantly babbling and making little baby sounds and I just love it. My favorite is when she tries to say her big sister's name (Colista), all that really comes out is a c sound and some kind of ta, but it's adorable. All you need to do to make her day is just sit and "talk" with her. She just lights up. She is also learning to communicate without words. She makes it pretty clear what she wants. This weekend we went to Michigan to my sister's new baby Susan's blessing and on the way there, she picked up the can of formula that was sitting next to her and threw it towards me in the front seat. That was her way of saying, "Mom I want a bottle!" She will point and grunt and physically make her wants known as well, or turn away or push what she doesn't want away. Holding little baby Susan made me really realize how much much she has really grown. Hopefully soon she'll actually have some teeth as well. She's following the same trend LC did who didn't get her first tooth until she was 13 month old and now at 2 1/2 still has her eye teeth to get in. My Lilly's not really a baby anymore, she's toddler. It has been a crazy year and I am so blessed to have such an amazing little girl in my life, as long as her basic needs are taken care of and nothing it wrong, she is pretty much the happiest girl on the planet. She has such a sparkle and glow and brings such joy into our home and lives. I can't imagine life without my little Lilly and am so glad she's mine!

Easter and Misouri

Over Easter weekend we went down to Missouri to my Grandparent's house and it was way fun. Here is LC dying the Easter eggs:

I'm not sure how much time I'll have to post and I want to get some pictures up while I have my mom and dad's computer available to do it, so I'll just be putting lots of pictures with little detail and hopefully will be able to post some more info later.





Those were all from the Easter egg hunt we had on Saturday. My cousin who lives close to my Grandparent's came over and we had an egg hunt with all of our kids. It was fun.

I've been neglectful.

Life has been a little crazy the last little while and I haven't really posted anything for awhile. Both LC and Lilly are growing like crazy. Somedays I swear I blink and they are bigger or acting more grown up. Lilly is trying to talk now. She is trying to say Colista. It's so cute. LC is not a morning person and I hate waking her up in the morning because she is always crabby. So one day I just let Lilly wake her up and I guess she's been watchiing me, cause I'll sit next to her and say Colista, Colista, LC, etc as I'm waking her up. Well, Lilly basically climbed on top of her and said her little version of Colista. Pretty much a C sound and then TA, but it's cute and she knows what she's saying. (or trying to say I guess).

One of the reasons I haven't been posting as much, is I told myself that I was going to keep this blog upbeat and about happy things about me and the girls, and the last few weeks have had some difficulties in them. But just in the last little while, things are taking a turn for the better, my divorce is final, so no more dealing with the courts and paperwork and red tape, and I bought a car! I'm so excited. The airbag light wouldn't go off, so the dealer is getting that fixed and he'll call me when it's done. Hopefully Thursday will be when I get to take it home. It's a good day. Yay!