Sleepover

Pretend sleepover in mommy and daddies bedroom. Can you not see the excitement ?!?

I have been preparing the girls for "sleepovers". Well, if you haven't heard yet Jemahl and I are expecting again! We are happy to announce that Kaitlin and Sarah will be having a little SISTER! Another girl! Girl power, in this house...poor daddy! Hahaha, actually lucky daddy!

As I type this I am 23 weeks pregnant. I'm doing well! With Kaitlin I was nauseous from 7 weeks till about 13. Sarah was a little longer and with this little girl I still wake up some mornings feeling incredibly yucky, but happy to say this happens fewer mornings. My belly is expanding and this baby is growing and kicking!

So back to sleepovers....I have been preparing the girls! We have been talking about it and looking forward to the day that they would move in together.

Together we picked out a theme for the room. For Sarah we picked little birdies. SO sweet! I then gave Kaitlin three choices. Butterflies, cupcakes or frogs. She picked butterflies! PERFECT!

With my moms help we found the perfect pink paint and set out making the room "whispery and calm, yet fun". After trips to the fabric store and online I sewed new duvet covers for each of them and added lots of fun bold colours, branches, birds and butterflies.

With a few projects left to do the girls are happy in their new bedroom and doing SO well sleeping together! What a relief!

I will post a finished post soon....just a couple more things to do!

One of a kind

Kaitlin LOVES playing by herself and is so imaginative and UNIQUE. Here she is playing mommy and helping her teddy bear and baby go down the slide. See her attire! Yep, she is unique.

She had a Hawaiian day at school on this day and since I remembered about it last minute that morning I looked in my drawer for something beachy for her to wear. She went to school wearing a waves tank top, skinny tights and my old sarong. It was a very interesting outfit, but totally suited her.

Now here comes the silly part, as soon as she walks in the door off goes the cloths. She always wants to be naked. She would correct me though if she were to read this...."I'm not naked. I'm wearing panties." There was no way I was gonna let her outside naked so she kept "mommies shirt on" and added her jacket then snuck outside. Little booger. Such a sense of style...

Firsts

First time walking down to our local frozen pond
First time putting on skates
First time skating as a family
= Loads of fun, smiles, laughs and big chills.

Blocks

Yeah, Im that far behind......So unhappy with blogging. But here I go again.

This is one of the girls new Christmas toys. My deal of the holiday season. I found a coupon for 25% off any Melissa and Doug toy. I waited and waited for these fantastic cardboard boxes to go on sale. No way was I going to pay the $50 for these simple blocks. Finally 2 days before
the sale coupon expired they went on sale. I got them for just $19. Whoo hoo! Yay, couponing! Even better, the girls LOVE them!

On her own

Alone and entertaining herself is one of Sarah's new little skill. Many times I will have to look on all three floors of the house before I find Sarah. The other day she was being naughty (by the way - my favorite word right now describing the girls BAD attitude), screaming, pushing and just plain unpleasant. I put her up in her room and told her she needed to read stories and calm down. I went to the basement with Kaitlin and Brock turned on the monitor. She was whimpering around for a few minutes. Then started reading and then I heard her little voice singing "Jesus loves me". I melted. A few minutes later I went up to release her. She did not want to come back down. Kaitlin went up to get her.
How is my 2 year and 2 month old this independent!

Hard at work

Prior to this winter I would take the girls outside even in the cold. This year being outside has not been for me. Brrr. Thing is we have had such a mild winter, but I am so over winter. On our way to pick up the big kids after school we got busy shoveling and running around the front yard. It will be so great to get back outside and enjoy even nicer weather.

It's a train

We live just houses away from a train track. Have I ever mentioned Sarah loves trains. Here we are watching the train.