I Haven't a Single Picture to Show for this Day

Also, sometimes I can't decide which words in a title are to be capitalized, and which aren't? I don't capitalize "a" or "to", but for some reason I couldn't decide on "for" and "this". I opted to leave them lower-case. Am I wrong? Probably. It's one of those things I know, but feel like I don't know, at this very moment. Like when I suddenly don't know how to spell a word I've spelled correctly 738 times, like "beautiful", and no matter what I write, it looks wrong at that moment.

Aaaaaaanyway, Paige has been wanting me to HUM her good night song, instead of sing it. I agree with her that my voice is LESS unattractive when humming, as opposed to singing. But I forget and start the singing, until she lifts her head off the pillow, moves her finger like a conductor, and goes "hmmmmmhmmmmmmmmmmmhmmmmmmmmm". She doesn't know the word "hum" so she shows me what she wants. Then I start to hum the tune to "You Are My Sunshine" and her head is back on the pillow and she's heading for sleep again.

I realized that my blog is a year old today. By "blog" I mean my online journal where I describe my days, keeping COUNTLESS readers on the edges of their seats. But you know our babies are cool. Happy birthday blog!

It's also been brought to my attention that I have neglected the "Interrogation Station" for quite some time. The move had us distracted. We'll be back in action next week, assuming our subject does her job.

Oh, and I didn't lie, I really didn't get a single picture today. But I hate posts without pictures.

Chef

Cason is rolling all over. He still has a harder time from back to belly, but he still went back and forth this morning. I wasn't expecting it, because when Paige first rolled, she didn't do it again for weeks. Cason went one day, and then the next day he went the other direction. Now today he's doing both. Of course, I don't know which of them rolled earlier, either. I decided a while ago not to even check her baby book for things like that. I don't want to get into comparing them. Baby competition is not going to be my thang. Luvin's the name of the game 'round these parts.


Squaidz helped me cook her dinner, a grilled broccoli and cheese sandwich, although the broccoli was a surprise to her. Ha.


She kept looking at it suspiciously, but she still ate on, so it must not have bothered her too much. This is quite a feat, I don't think she's tasted a vegetable in quite some time.

Roll Numero Dos

Here's your closeup of the mailbox, Aubrey.

We babysat Lily for a while tonight, and the girls took off their shirts for some reason. Then they got "cozy". Which means they walked around with blankets on their heads.

Less than a minute after Lily left with her parents, this boy rolled over the OTHER way for the first time, belly to back. It was clearly easier for him.

While I was still at the computer after posting this, Paige came and sat in my lap to play with her turtle and My Little Pony. She's starting to really pretend when she plays, and had these two facing each other. She made them take turns, the pony would move around and scream "TUUUURTLE!" like she was afraid of him, and then the turtle would do the same thing, but scream "IZA HORSE!" Haha.

Thanksgiving

We decided one of our many new year's resolutions for this year would be to take more time to be thankful to God for our blessings, which are plentiful. Not that we aren't thankful for them, especially each other and our babies, but we want to take more time to REALLY think about them all, and pray.

Like THIS, for example. Jess is greeted by this lady, when he comes home from work.


It wasn't that cold out, and she was excited, so yes, I let her run out barefoot and in a onesie. But her ears were sure warm, I'll tell you that much.

Yes, I DID paint our mailbox, which is NOT weird, or nerdy, in the least. It's also not weird that it was inspired by the plates. You know, THE plates.

Another of our blessings would be this boy, who conquered the rollover for the first time today. He was on his back hanging out on a blanket, and all of a sudden rolled to his side with ease. The other half of the roll took about a full minute, and was so painful to watch. I wanted to end his struggle and help him SO badly. That's supposed to be the harder way to roll, the belly to back is the easy way. That's how Paige did it. But Cason and Lily went the hard way. Here he is, victorious.

Also, my mom made us chile rellenos for dinner. All I had to do is make some rice and heat up beans. Delicioso. I realize this is not quite on par with our angel babies, but whatever. They were really good.

How Now, Brown and Lavender Cow?

My poor bebes are sick with colds. Neither one of them seems to feel that bad, they're just a little needy and are coughing a lot. In this post-bath picture, Paige is HOLDING, instead of ENJOYING, the smoothie I lovingly prepared and sneakily added carrots and her liquid vitamins to. She can sense that it has SOME form of nutritional value. So she refuses it. But she's still wearing cow pjs, so all is forgiven. They're also watching Dumbo, which Paige calls "ELFENT!" and recently "ELEFANTE", like she speaks spanish.

Joker

Paige loves cinnamon toast, so I made some for her this morning. Jess said she looked like the joker after she ate it. But cuter and less creepy.

Lots of Unrelated Happenings

Jess is still on his Christmas vacation, which has been nice. We've just been hanging out, and doing some projects on the house. We painted the kitchen, and Jess put down tile in there, and did a very nice job, I must say. Here he is working hard for me.

He took some of the stuff out of the fridge when he moved it back into the kitchen. He went to put it back in, and Paige had lined them all up, like she loves to do.

Paige had an appointment with Dr. Casodilla.

She also fell asleep in the football toy box today, and napped in there for a good hour and a half.

This guy is talking a TON. He's been yelling and squealing really loudly when he's happy. Last night he woke us up at least 2 or 3 times yelling happily. It was pitch black in the room, and he was wide awake and squealing.