Day off

I am now off one day a week. I volunteered at work for a cost cutting program to reduce my hours. I now only work 32 hours. We have enjoyed some Mommy time with crafts and books etc. I am still getting used to being home--even just one day--and had a bit of a panic attack when the first paycheck showed up. : )

Ali has a cold so she is not feeling well and I feel so bad for her. Our furnace broke this morning so I had to call a tech out... always an adventure! Thank goodness it just needed a cleaning!

Here are a few pictures from our Mommy Days--yes Sammy likes her pajama mornings!

Last week we made a tree house for Sammy's Thumbelina fairy dolls that she got for her birthday!

This was supposed to be our project while Ali took her morning nap but she decided she didn't want a nap so that was fun trying to stop baby godzilla from destroying the "tree house."

This week--we had to move everything out of the way for the furnace guy to fix it!

At one point I had to grab the phone so as I took Ali upstairs to talk to Nana on the phone I could hear Sammy telling the poor repair guy her life story and showing him everything she could drag into where our furnace is. She is definitely my talker....yikes.. I even heard Andy tell her while they watched the bulls game..can you be quiet for maybe 2 minutes...and she just kept right on talking...

WOW SO BEHIND!!!!

So I am sitting at the kitchen table while Sammy colors with her dot to dot paints and Alaina is napping...so I figured I should attempt to blog sine I haven't in FOREVER. My baby is going to be 1 in 6 weeks...Sammy turned 4 a few weeks ago...
SO I may just have to go back a few weeks and then catch up on the rest someday...or just post the pictures and not try to write.

halloween--finally-

Still catching up on old posts.

So this year I figured Sammy would want to be Snow White or Belle (which we had a dress that Grandma had made from her birthday) but to my surprise she started telling everyone that she was going to be an orca whale...really an orca...I know she loves marine mammals but oh boy...so I started looking for an orca costume and could not find anything for kids..that wasn't WAY more than I wanted to spend and on ebay....then my Mom said she would make something but I was not sure that was a good idea...so one night while I was on ebay Sammy saw a dolphin costume and decided that would be good..so I started bidding ..but again everything ended up way more than I wanted to spend... so I found a PENGUIN at Gymboree..and I took her there to try it on and she agreed...phew..penguin it is...until the day before Halloween when she said OK I will be Belle...what...then no I want to be the penguin...

Luckily Auntie Laurie had found Ali the cutest Mermaid costume and she is still too young to tell me what she wants to be.

Then of course I bundle up my girls like it is going to be 40 degrees and raining--like it always was when we were kids--and it was 60 degrees. Poor Sammy was sweating, but still enjoyed her trick or treating adventures! And she Loved giving out the candy this year.

Auntie Janice got us a book of Disney pumpkin stencils so Andy agreed to make which ever one Sammy chose... she chose one of the hardest ones but Andy held up to his promise. I of course had to gut the pumpkin cause Andy won't touch the "goo" but I thought he did a great job!

Here are a few other shots from Daycare.

I got the cutest treat!

NEW CRAFTY ADVENTURES--RELATIVELY SPEAKING

My cousin Kelly and I have decided to go into "business" together and create fun personalized kid stuff!
Kelly bought an embroidery machine and is VERY creative and talented.
I just come up with ideas and procure stuff... HE HE.
We plan to try the craft fair scene in the summer and fall but we wanted to put out some of the ideas we have come up with on blogspot.
Go check out our new site! http://www.relativelyspeakingclothing.blogspot.com/
We are looking for feedback so tell us what you think when we post new items and we will start taking orders soon!

Tea Party at Daycare 10/22/2008

They got to bring a favorite stuffed animal to daycare to have a tea party. Sammy was thrilled! She would rather play with her animals instead of dolls anyday! And we don't let her take stuffed animals in the car so she was so excited to be able to take her 'Sheepy' in the car.

Triplets???

These are the twins that have been at Daycare with Sammy since we started there and sometimes when they are out and about people ask if they are triplets.

Alaina Reading...or chewing...10/21/2008

We realized right away that Alaina and Sammy have very different personalities... Sammy would sit still for long periods of time for me to read to her even as a baby... Alaina as you can see likes the books too but she would rather eat them and does not do well sitting still for even a few minutes...

Slater wanted to read to her...

Alaina's 'Squiggy Look'

She has already found her feet and rips any socks off her feet and sucks on her toes...

My Little Princess 10/19/2008

Sammy has gotten more and more into dress up so I added a few of my old dresses to her collection of dress up clothes. I came down the stairs and she had gotten herself into this dress--backwards-- but she was so cute checking herself out in the mirrors and playing!

(This is my 8th grade graduation dance dress that my Mom made)