April 2, 2013

Birthday cupcakes!

Stu had another fun drive into day care this morning.  As he fires up the car,  Take a Walk by Passion Pit comes on. One of Teagan’s favorite songs!  And one of Ashlin’s too.  They both love singing along to the chorus.  Anyway, Teagan barks out a loud, urgent “Dada!” startling Stu. Long pause.  Eventually she follows up with her 27 ums, trying to get all the words that are swirling through her head out. “Um um um um um.  Dada, if this song was written by bunnies, it would be “take a hop” not “take a walk.”

Smart kid.

We had a great weekend.  Saturday was filled with the girls decorating eggs, dinner out (again!) and cupcakes.

We had each girl color eggs separately, first Teagan then Ashlin.  I was hoping to minimize the chaos!  Teagan did great, listened pretty well and had fun.  Ashlin had a blast coloring her set of eggs, though we needed to adapt a bit.  Getting the eggs out of the cups wasn’t too easy for her, and she may have dyed her fingers orange.  Still, she thought she was teh bomb, and really enjoyed it.

Yellow one

Lellow!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ashlin didn’t quite understand about the candle on her cupcake though, that maybe she shouldn’t try to touch the fire. She went and put her finger in. Poor baby.  She got over it quickly enough though, cupcakes totally take all boo-boos away.

Sunday, we had our egg hunt.  We hid eggs in pairs, and told the girls that if they found any, they could keep one and give their sister the other.  It worked pretty well!  Often they went together and Teagan would hand over one of the two eggs.  Ashlin was pretty happy to let her, though every now and then she’d go off on her own and find an egg, which she’d let Teagan come over and pick up.

There!

I’ll get them!

Breakfast was fun, lunch was better.  It was followed by a special cake my mom made.  The girls loved it!  Ashlin wanted to eat the entire ear!

I think they both had a good Easter!

Goof in a bonnet

Bunny cake!

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April 1, 2013 ~ Car Talks

Goof

This morning when Stu drove the girls into day care, he and Teagan had one of those talks.  One that when you hear about it, you really wish you had been there too.  This morning, it was scientific.  Teagan told Stu that there were two types of worms that come out when it rains.  One type the birds like to eat.  The other is a wiggly worm, but this one has feet.  The wiggly worms feet are so tiny that you can’t see them because they’re so tiny.  If you do see the feet, don’t tickle them! If you do tickle the wiggly worms’ feet, they will suck your bleed [blood].

Her mind works in the strangest ways, sometimes.  And often, blood is involved.

February 13, 2013 ~ it’s A Secret

After Teagan finished signing her valentines cards for day care, she joined Ashlin and I on the sofa for a lovely snuggle.. I like ending the day with a double snuggle.

Anyway, she told me that she knew there was a party at day care tomorrow for Valentines Day when i asked if she knew what tomorrow was. She also told me that they made hearts for us, but that it was a secret.

I love this girl.

I wonder what they did.

P.S. Ashlin “signed” her valentines day cards too,

November 2, 2012 ~ Teagan’s Cats

Cover of The Gruffalo

This morning on the way to day care, Teagan announced to Stu that we were getting two cats.  Announced, not asked.  Cheeky kid.  Teagan will pick one cat out and then she gets to name it.  She said that she was naming her cat Sandy-Storm something something* Sticky-Nose.  Ashlin is allowed to name the other one.  Knowing Ashlin, it will probably be named something like “app-i-cah” or “book-a book-a.”

Stu is Gruffalo-Daddy and is not allowed to eat the cats.  Of course.

I think it’s fair to say she’s not looking forward to a dog now.

 

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* To be filled in when Stu remembers.  He knew it was a six part name, but can’t quite remeber it all.  :D

August 22, 2012

Get the frog!

Today as I was getting Teagan into the car, she told me she had a boyfriend. O Rly?

Clipping Ashlin in, I asked her who her boyfriend was.  I knew who she was going to say, she told LaLa last weekend, and LaLa told me.

“A is my boyfriend.”

“Oh.  What do you do with your boyfriend?”

“We play together.”

“Oh, that’s nice.  What games to you play?”

“We play Legos.  And I hug him.”

“Oh?”

“Yes, when he gets a boo boo, I hug him, so him feel better. “

“That’s nice of you.”

“Yes.  And I hold him hand.”

“Oh.”

“Does he know he’s your boyfriend?”

“Yes.  We read together.”

“Oh, that’s nice.  Isn’t he older than you?”

“Yes, him an older boyfriend.”

Gotta love that logic.  I hope G isn’t too heartbroken.

 

PS.  Updated the Teagan’s Quips.  LOL!

 

July 17, 2012

Teagan’s new favorite song. And Ashlin’s too!

Stu noticed that Ashlin was rocking out in her seat during the drive to day care the other day. I’ve also seen her enjoy – with enthusiasm – this song. So cute. Much like the snippet of her rocking to Electric Guest, she’ll dance in her seat to Metronomy.

The song came on with all of us in the car, driving home from day care. Stu said that Ashlin liked the song, look at her dance. Teagan was a bit upset that Ashlin liked the song, she also like the song, and only one person can like it at a time. She wanted to like it, but couldn’t if Ashlin did. She started getting upset. Stu and I said that we both liked the song too. And that we were two people liking the same song. More than one person can like a song at a time. It could happen. Really. What about Bohemian Rhapsody? Lots of people like that one.

Teagan then declares that the song was her favorite, and Ashlin’s favorite, and Dada’s favorite and Mama’s favorite. All ones favorite.

Not bad.

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PS. My friend passed away late Sunday night. It’s sad and it’s unfair. He will be missed.

July 2, 2012

This is the best incident report we’ve ever gotten.  Ever.

To be fair, we haven’t gotten too many.  Maybe one for biting, one for hitting or throwing, one or two for not listening.  Most for not listening.  But this one tops them all.

Stu picked her up while I got Ash.  He was very strong, not laughing as he signed the form.  Not laughing as he told Teagan not to throw blocks at other children’s heads, that Captain Hook was a mean man.

I was not so strong when he told me in the car.  I laughed, though quickly smothered the giggles.  I’m such a good mom.  It is too funny though.

We did have a good discussion in the car.  We asked why she threw blocks, and she said she didn’t want to be good, she wanted to be mean.  But she understands that she shouldn’t throw blocks.  Especially at her friends.

Next time, she’ll pretend to be Wendy instead.  Even if her other friends are pretending to be mean ole Captain Hook.  She’s a good girl, not a mean, stinky pirate.

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May 31, 2012

I hidin’, mama

Driving home from day care last night, I told Teagan that we’d be seeing LaLa and PopPop this weekend, along with Aunt “Lots of People.” We then had a conversation something like this:

Me:  We’re going to have lunch with LaLa and PopPop.

Teagan:  Yay! LaLaPopPop!  And NayNay?

Me:  No, NayNay probably won’t be there.

Teagan:  Why?

Me:  Why what?

Teagan:  Why NayNay not be there?

Me:  She may have something else to do.

Teagan:  Oh.  Why we go LaLa’s house?

Me:  Well, we’re also going to get our hair cut with Mr. Wayne.

Teagan:  Yay!  I get my hair cut?

Me:  Do you want to?  

Teagan:  Yes.  And Ashlin get her hairs cut?

Me:  Maybe.  She does have that weird long piece of hair.

Teagan:  Yes.  Ashlin get her hair cut with at Mr. Wayne.  She not throwing up.  She get him hair cut.

Me:  Ok.  We’ll get her hair cut.

Teagan:  Red car!

And that was that.

 

 

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May 24, 2012

Budding  entymologist

I has a wiggly worm

Wiggly worm is her friend

Wiggly worm and ant

She has to play with her buggies at night.  They get picked up, stared at, fed leaves, petals and sticks, and finally put to bed in the big flower pot on the deck.  Why the flower pot? Well, because, of course, they just can’t go to bed in the house.  That would be silly, mommy.  Whew!  I am very glad that worked and we don’t have to fight her about bringing bugs in the house at night.

That also worked for her treasures, the rocks and pine cones and things she picks up on walks. I am not looking forward to her not being as pliable as she is now.  I do know it will stop, but maybe she can wait until she’s 30 to be headstrong :D

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She’s been doing very well in her toddler bed.  She’s gotten out once, maybe twice in five days.  Both times were to find a lost bubble, she’s not ready to give them up yet, although she did give them all to her sister.  I needed to find one or two that were hiding under the bed for her to keep.

Tonight, she was sitting on her bed, crying, because a bubble had fallen too far away for her to reach.  Stu went in and gave it to her.  She had stayed on her bed, didn’t give in to the temptation to go get the pacifier she could clearly see.

This could be a very good sign.

Maybe she’ll get an extra snuggle tomorrow.

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May 11, 2012 ~ Big As Trees

The other day Teagan was telling Stu how that she was getting big.  She then said she was going to get “bigger and biger until she’s as big as trees, so she can catch birds.”  This from a girl that is always looking down to see if there are any bugs.