Dragon Tales

Hopefully I didn't get people's hopes up for something really hilarious, because really it's just funny to us probably. But Grama and Tyra cleaned out Grama's office the other day and found some pretty good stuff from when we were little kids. Including this edition of "Dragon Tales", the school paper at Manzanita Elementary. Please click on the above photo, to enlarge it and read Christopher's article: An Interview with Santa's Reindeer. I'm assuming the author and illustrator are one and the same. Haha. What a nerd.

4 Pokes for The Bwitz

Poor little Bwitz got 4 shots today. And he was so sweet and smiled at everyone in the office. (Bwitz is what Jess calls him. Actually, THE Bwitz. And usually it's said "Hi Ho the Bwitz. Nobody knows what it means.)

But look at his cute shoe.

Tonight Paige wanted some bread, so Jess gave her a slice and told her to say thank you. She walked away with her bread, and goes "Cank you Jess." Haha. "Cank" is how she says "Thank", not that you couldn't have figured that out. He hates when she calls him Jess. Except that it's funny.

P.S. Anyone who wants to laugh at Skifter, stay tuned for tomorrow's post. I want so badly to put it up right now. But I'm also SOOOO tired, and don't want to stay up scanning things. So wait for it.

Well Then

I walked up to my daughter tonight, carrying a fresh diaper and pajamas. She looked up and realized I was planning to get her ready for bed. So she tilted her head and gave me a look that made me feel like I was five, and she was my kindergarten teacher, and patiently (and a little bit condescendingly) said "nope."

Wristy Rolls

Not sure why I didn't blog yesterday, I just didn't. But here's what we've done the last couple days:

Painted with Lily. Then bought our own paint to do it at home too.

Took naps.

Made pumpkin cream cheese to have on bagels.

Posed for pictures that show our first teeth.

Just were awesome. Oh, and turned 6 months old.

Maintained sufficient bodyfat levels to sport well defined wrist rolls like this.

"Squissed"

We were relaxing in bed after dinner, and both boys fell asleep.

Paige kept trying to get Jess to "squish" her before he fell asleep. She was trying to get under his legs, and going "Squiss! Squiss!" Here she is, squished and happy about it, with her whisker remnants.

Earlier today, we were driving to see Lily, and Paige was wearing a bracelet. She got it off her wrist and was playing with it. After a while I heard her go "TA DA!" So I looked in the backseat and she had the bracelet undone, and each end was held between her toes. She was holding her feet up in the air so the bracelet was stretched out between them, and her arms up in the air, you know, in the traditional "Ta Da" pose.

Renaissance Festival

Cason was devouring this dinosaur tonight, like a kid at a renaissance festival, with those huge bird legs. Whatever kind of gigantic bird they're made from. That's all. Good evening.

8 Stacks and 20 Pounders

Today Paige made this tower, and came running to get me and show it to me. So proud.

She also made this face.

I THINK I felt Cason's 2nd tooth JUST starting to come through on the bottom, right next to his first one. Also, I hadn't weighed him in a while, so we did yesterday, and according to our scale, he's a 20.5 pounder now. But his appointment is next week, so we'll see then.

Dance Floor

Maybe you thought cutting mats were for cutting fabric.

Maybe you should think again.

Office Space

Veronica, Paige, and Lily formed a hair-styling train this morning.

Paige can run the dvd player entirely by herself. She's been able to for many months, but then we moved the usual one to our bedroom, and that one out to the living room, which threw her off for a while, with the buttons being in totally different places. But then she started to get the hang of it, and THEN we switched them on her again. Poor girl. But she's got it down now. We also have our movies in 2 cases, hers are in one, and ours are in the other. Tonight we were getting ready for a bible study and Paige asked me for some prunes. So I gave her a plate with a few of them, and a few minutes later we looked in the living room, and she'd set herself up to watch Office Space. Here she is waiting for it to start, with her plate o' prunes. Haha. We didn't let her watch it. She saw Rescuers Down Under instead.

Now that I look at this, she doesn't look as excited as you'd expect for such a funny movie. Thanks Skifter.

Tupperware Face

Today I was cutting up some chicken, to make quesadillas for lunch. Paige got really excited and ran to the playroom. She came back with a plastic knife from her kitchen, all ready to help. I didn't get a picture, so here's one of her with a tupperware face.

Cason started scooting a little. He only made it 2 or 3 inches, but he gave it all he had.

Jumpin for Joy

And look how cute sleepy Gia is.

Happy Day o' Love

Happy Valentine's Day!

These are mine! :)

My beloved made us the cutest cards, my favorite being one of Cason's. It has spiderman on it, and says "You're caught in my web of fatherly love." Haha. I love him. I was going to scan it in for all to enjoy, but I'm lazy. So just imagine how cute it is.

The First Tooth

It has arrived. Bottom left incisor. I've been expecting it for a couple weeks, and as of today it's here. Not that you can tell from the picture. But he's cute, so...

Dinostack and an Egg Party

stacks with Daddy.

Also, sometimes she has tea parties with her dolls. Other times they sit down to enjoy an egg together.

Cereal

We finally fed Cason some rice cereal tonight. I expected it to be like Paige's first attempt, with most of it dripping down her face. Then we waited a month or 2 before we tried again. But this boy was more than ready for some grub.

Paige helped feed him some, and was also our cleanup crew. Although she did most of the spilling really.

Then Cason got tired of all the waiting, and took matters into his own plump little hands.

We're also noticing that despite his sweet and mostly laid-back personality, he DOES in fact have the capacity to fly into a rage in certain situations. Much like his sister, and mama.

Global Warming

Our second snow of this winter. Probably only the 4th or 5th of my life. (Not counting up in the Hualapais)



A good day to play for a little while and then come in and read books in a rocking chair.

I like plump little birds.

I LOVE plump little boys.

Massage Therapy

Paige has been giving us massages all weekend. I have no idea where she got the idea, but she just started rubbing Jess's shoulders, and will randomly decide we need massages.

This boy was supposed to try his first food today, rice cereal. Instead, Paige gave him a little something better. I let her have a sugar cookie today, and left the room for a minute. I walked back in and she had moved over next to Cason. She saw me walk in and sweetly said "EATING!" I looked at Cason, and he had cookie crumbs on his lips and cheeks, and looked pretty pleased. She probably smashed it mostly on the outside of his lips, so luckily he wasn't choking on it or anything.

Lucky fellow.

Buckin' Bronc

Her whinny is spot on too.


Whiskers still happening daily.

Valentine Window. Or "HEARTS" as Paige yells when she notices them.

J and B Flooring

My Grama hired me and Jess to lay tile in her laundry room, and I must say we did a pretty nice job. But we thought we were botching it every single time we put a tile down. Then it would turn out alright. So we came up with our company name:

J and B Flooring

GOOD, not great

We left our sweet girl one with my mom, and Cason came and hung out with Grama. Speaking of the girl one, she's into talking about jungle animals, or her cousins and aunts, randomly. We'll be driving and suddenly she'll yell "ZEEBA! Liyon! Naraffe(giraffe)! Monkey! EEPO(hippo)!" Usually she'll have a tough time remembering hippo, so it takes a minute and comes out "ee...ee...ee....EEPO!" Her voice sounds awesome when she says "Naraffe", it's indescribable. When she talks about relatives it's usually Alkex, Faif, and Lily, but she'll sometimes throw in Meesy(Misty), Teetee(Tyra), Wewonka"(Veronica), and sometimes all her grandparents. This is a fun age. So far they all are though.

Charlie Chaplin

Right when we walked through the door, after story time, Paige goes "KITTY?" Which means she wants me to draw her whiskers. I said "Oh YEAH, kitty." and kept walking, hoping she'd get distracted by her toys or something. But a few minutes later Jess asked if I'd done her whiskers, because she had some. So I went to the living room, and she'd pulled out my makeup bag and drew them herself. Not bad really.

Whiskers

Last night I went over to my Grama's house to get some photo printing paper she had for me. She had a lady over who was helping her fix a leg on her couch, and we talked for a while about our new house. A little bit later I was washing my hands and looked in the mirror and saw I had whiskers on my face. Paige is still on a "kitten" kick, making me draw whiskers on her face, and sometimes on mine so we match. Grama didn't notice, so hopefully the other lady didn't either. Awesome.

Anyhoo, today is my Grama's cousin Vinnie's birthday. She's one of the coolest ladies of all time. I doubt she'll ever see this, and I can't find a picture of her, but happy birthday anyway Vinnie. We love you!

Happy Belated Birthday Nicole!

I'm REALLY continuing to slack on the birthdays. Yesterday was Nicole's birthday, and I meant to put it in my post, but forgot until late last night. SO...happy belated birthday to my cousin Cullen's beautiful wife, and wonderful mom to Hailey and Delaney.

(I stole this from your blog, hope you don't mind.)

Jess=Stylist

I love when Jess dresses our children. They always look so cute, and HE'S always cute and proud of how well he did.

I also love how Cason thinks there's nobody as hilarious as Paige. Everything she does makes him laugh, or at LEAST grin.

Including pressing her face against her plate of cake.


She thinks she's pretty big, making the baby laugh.