The weekend and more

Sallie sang in church this morning at Eastminster Presbyterian Church where she attends the day school. The three and four year olds from the day school attended the early service and sang 4 songs in their worship service. It was so cute and Sallie did great. She sang loud and did all her hand motions. I was so proud of her. The sermon was focused on the children in the church and making sure that parents are fully equipped with what they need to teach the children. It was very good. The preacher told stories of the children in chapel on Wednesdays and what the kids from the day school do while they are there. He talked about how each class gets up and says their bible verses that they are working on for the month. They then close the service with a song. He said that on his first time doing chapel with the kids, he expected total chaos but it was so orderly. He went to say the Lords Prayer and heard little 3 and 4 year old voices reciting it with him. It was so cute and made me so proud of where Sallie and Anna attend school. We are truly so lucky to have such a wonderful school for them to go to. We planted a garden this weekend in the back yard and will hopefully have some yummy home grown veggies to eat around mid summer. Sallie has asked me on many occasions already where the vegetables are. She does not understand why they have not already grown. Anna slept until 10 am Saturday morning and I wanted to record this somewhere because this is truly a record. I really was worried and must have gone in her room 3 or 4 times. I had to wake her up at 10 am. She would have slept even longer. She went to bed a little later Fri night but not that late. It was probably 8:30. She is going to be my sleeper for sure. It was a rocky start with her sleeping but now she goes to bed at 7 and wakes at 8 or 8;30 am. I could not ask for more! Sallie on the other hand goes to bed finally at like 9 and wakes up at like 6:30 or 7. She does still take that nap though that I do love. When we tucked Anna into bed last night she goes straight for the corner of her crib and gets up on her knees with her knees tucked under her and her bottom in the air. She looks up as you leave the room and says "night night, lobe you". It is so sweet!! That is her new cute little saying. She is absolutely precious right now and I really could eat her up. She is talking up a storm and has gotten really good at talking on the phone. She makes me really question what I say on the phone now because she is like a parrot and will get on a pretend phone and say "yea, yea". I must say "yea" alot. She is also always talking to Peppy. Peppy must talk on the phone a lot too. Sallie always says "all right" and Anna now says "okay". These must be two words that are used a lot in our house. Anyway, between Anna and Sallie, they are keeping us on our toes and full of laughter.

Way over due

I know that a post is way over due so I am not sure where to start: The weather has started to get warmer and we are looking so forward to the summer. Sallie keeps saying that she loves the Fall but I am not sure she really means that. If so, I am not sure who she gets that from. Anna is a true little girl now. There is no trying to believe that she is still a baby. She is talking a lot saying Mama, Daddy, Sallie, Jack, milk, juice, all her friends names in her class, Peppy, Pops, Gracie, and the list goes on and on. She goes to bed at night like a dream now which is great and she sleeps until 8 or 8:30 in the morning. She is a great sleeper. Sallie on the other hand stays awake playing in her bed until like 9 pm and then is in our bed at like 5 am. She will go back to sleep until 7 but only in our bed. I know that this is a problem but not something that I am stressing about now. I do kind of enjoy snuggling in the am with her. She is a good snuggler. I do not let her in our bed anytime before 5. We had our first Easter egg hunt of the year yesterday at church. It was a lot of fun and Anna even really got into it. They found lots of eggs. Anna got a award from school last week for following directions all day. She got a coupon for a free ice cream cone at chick fil A so I was so excited. I wish she would do this at home :) Sallie and Anna have been playing together a lot lately and really having fun. Trust me, they still fight like sisters but have gotten much better with playing together and sharing. Sallie has her moments with Anna but overall is truly a sweet big sister and loves Anna. They love to play babies and push their strollers around the house. Anna does whatever Sallie says. The first thing that Anna says when i get her out of bed in the am is Sallie? She loves her big sister. I told Anna that it was lunch time yesterday and to go sit down. I did not think anything about this as I was just used to telling Sallie that. Anna is still in a high chair and can not get in her seat by herself. I walked into the kitchen and she had climbed up into her high chair all by herself. She looked really proud. It was really funny!!! We went to our first Carolina Baseball game last weekend. It was fun and the kids really enjoyed it. We parked at the Collesium and took the shuttle over to the stadium. this was Sallie's favorite part of the game. She told me later that night that she had a good time but next time she wanted to go to the Satchel Ford game which is the elemetary school up the street from us. I thought that was funny since that is on such a different level and it is free. This is about all for now.

1st snow

Ican not believe it actually snowed in Columbia, SC. We had so much fun in it minus the loss of power for about 2 hours on Friday night. Sallie loved the snow and Anna had no interest in it what so ever. Sallie and I went out Friday night late while the power was off and played, built a snowman and made snow angels. Saturday we went sledding and made snow cream. We enjoyed it while it lasted.

One fish, two fish...

Got some cute pictures of the girls in the bathtub last night. They were both like two little fish. They were having so much fun that I could not get upset about all the water on the floor. There are just some things that I have to let go and sit back and be thankful for and last night was one of those times. The laughter coming from that bathroom was a reminder of the good times to come with my two little fish!!

The things children say

OK, so I guess Sallie is now at that age where kids say anything that comes to mind without thinking twice about what she says. Last week we were in Publix grocery shopping minding our own business in our car grocery cart. This lady ahead of us was minding her business shopping and Sallie says in a loud voice "hey Mommy, theres a witch". This caught me so off guard that I did not know what to say. I wanted to laugh, cry, shrink inside my buggy all at once. The lady turned around and looked and kept on strolling. What do you say to that? This lady had black long black hair with streaks of silver running through it. I guess this is what Sallie has envisioned a witch to look like. Then we were at Publix again today and Sallie said "hey Mommy, look there is a pirate." It was a lady with a patch over her right eye. The lady looked at her and smiled thank the Lord. I did not know what to do other than laugh to myself. Sallie kept saying Mommy, why is that pirate here and I was just trying to get the heck out of there. It was so crowded and many people heard her. I am really not sure how to handle those questions other than just telling her to say things like that quietly. Anyway, I know that they all sound funny and if it was another persons child I would think it was hilarious however it is really embarrassing in a crowded grocery store. I thought I had a couple more years for these kind of observations. Obviously I was wrong and maybe we just need to stop going to publix.

Just Funny

I am not sure why this picture is so funny to me but Anna dressing up cracked me up. Sallie loves to dress up and has lots of dress up clothes now..thanks Whitney she loves them...but Anna wanted to dress up and so I dressed her up and she loved it. She chased Sallie around the house with her wand and thought that it was the best thing ever. I laughed until I cried and she thought that was even funnier. Out little princess #2.

Christmas 2009

We had a wonderful Christmas with lots of good family time over the holidays. Monday starts the work week and the end of vacation and although I am looking forward to getting back to the kids schedule and structure I am dreading working. We have really enjoyed sleeping later and visiting family and friends. Everyone was supper excited Christmas morning and there was no mention of the princess piano that Sallie wanted so bad from Santa. She does tell people that she got one from Santa when asked however she never ask where it was Christmas morning and has never asked me anything about it. She loved her princess bike and rides it like she has had one her whole life. She even knows how to brake which I think is incredible. She also loves her princess couch that she got and loves to sit on it and watch her show and has also taken a couple of naps on it as it folds out to a bed. Anna really liked her mega blocks and loves to get in her princess tent with Sallie. She was not a fan of the Rody that we got her so Santa came and picked that back up and took it back to the north pole. She was scared to death of that thing and wanted nothing to do with it. Ward and I gave each other gas fire logs which we will get next week and are so excited about. The best gift of all of course was our time with family that we look so forward to and after all the hustle and bustle of Christmas it is so nice to sit back and enjoy time with the ones that we love. I am so thankful this year for all my family and friends. I am so lucky and blessed beyond words and hope that 2010 is as good as 2009 was!! Happy New Year Everyone!!!