And Belated to Delaney!

Posting about Lily's birthday reminded me I'm a big jerk and forgot to give cute little Delaney a birthday post! (Actually, I was just distracted that day by Paige's stovetop incident.) :(

Delaney is my cousin Cullen's and his wife Nicole's little girly. She turned a year old just over a week ago. She's another petite one, like Lily. She's also beautiful, and if her parents' genes have anything to do with it, she'll be a genius. Happy belated birthday sweet girl!
Sorry, we missed your party too. Vomit incident that time.

Happy 2nd Birthday Lily!

This petite and cute little lady is Lily...
..and she's two years old today.

She was born 7 months after Paige.
They've been great friends ever since. (With a little fighting mixed in here and there.) They are opposites, in every way, it's so fun to watch them together.
Lily is a wild woman. She does everything fast, and on her tiptoes. She's also a smarty, and talks really well for her age.

Paige talks about her all the time, and they get so excited when they have visits. They used to just scream at each other when they first got together, as loudly and in as high a pitch as possible.

We're so glad Paige has a cousin so close to her age, and she is too. We love you Lily, happy birthday!

Tweez a Dentist, Amen.

Cason took a little spill in the dirt today, in the backyard. Completely fell on his side(body AND face), and was covered in dirt. He was trying to crawl to where Paige was digging. She looked alarmed, and goes "CASON!!??" He just sat up and smiled at her. I got this shot while he still had dirt, twigs, and a little bit of styrofoam on his head.
Don't mind the runny nose. It's never ending from his cold like 2 1/2 weeks ago.

Paige has been busy.

Washed our car.
Got her hair done, by Faith.
She's suddenly into counting and learning her letters. The other day we were leaving the park and she had Jess and I swing her by her hands. She was counting each swing, like we usually do. She goes "FOUR.....SEVEN.....FIVE......I!" Haha. Speaking of letters, I've been bad in the past about not teaching her enough. I forget that's part of my job, and just spend all day playing, and cuddling them. So since she's so into movies, we got her an alphabet one a couple weeks ago. They learn so fast, it's crazy. She's only watched it 2 or 3 times, and can already point out O, Y, Z, V, W, I, M, and sometimes X. She also likes to make L, M, N, O, and P one big letter when we say the alphabet. "Elmopee." I remember doing that.

She also had her first dentist appointment today. We talked about it all weekend, how it was going to be fun, and he would clean her teeth. I told her to open her mouth, and pretended to check her teeth, and told her that's what the dentist was going to do. Today I was nervous, but she did SO well, and they had an awesome play area in the waiting room. She's been talking about it all day. "FUN a dentist! A blue slide! Fun!" Then tonight when we said her prayers, she said "Coco, Gampa. Tweez(her version of please) a dentist! Amen."

Up(chuck)

We decided today was a good day to try and take Paige to see her first movie in the theater. Up is playing, and she's always gotten REALLY excited when she sees the previews, being a big fan of "bloons" and all.
Barby babysat Cason so we could go, so Paige wasn't excited to leave. She kept saying "NO UP! No bloons! See grammy. See Cason." Then she covered her ears so she wouldn't hear me saying how much fun it was going to be.
But it was the sweetest movie ever. We all loved it. In fact, it's a new favorite of Jess's AND mine, and it made me cry within 5 minutes. And again a while later. And again at least one more time.
I embarrassed Jess by taking a picture, WITH flash, in the theater before the movie started. But come on, it was her first time there! Actually, he was very nice, but he did laugh at me.
Paige liked it, until the last 15 minutes or so, when she got antsy, and was asking to go home. Then during the very last minute of the movie, she THREW UP. That's right. Everyone was looking over at us, and I had it all over my lap. Jess took Paige to the bathroom while I got our stuff and cleaned up a little bit. Luckily the couple who babysat me when I was like Paige's age, were sitting behind me and gave me napkins. And a nice young mom nearby felt bad for me and brought me a bunch of baby wipes.

Then I got up, almost slipped and fell in the vomit, and told the teenage boy working there about it so they could mop it up. He did not look pleased. He looked at me like he wanted to punch me in the teeth while I told him where we were sitting. Haha. I would've felt bad that he had to clean up puke if he had been at all nice about it. We're not sure if it was all the red vines she ate, because she threw up after eating those before, and has seemed fine all day since. In fact, this is her on the drive home, minutes after the incident.
But we're still playing it safe and staying home in case. We had a nice day though.

First Paige played the maraca and danced around the living room,
which sent Cason into a frenzy of joy.
He squealed like a guinea pig and shook his rock'n'roar dino ball.
Jess got some music going out on the back porch, mostly Ray, and we lit our cool lanterns.
Then we got a blanket to lie on and look at the stars, at Paige's request.

Hot and Cold

Today Paige and I had a dance party for a good half hour, to Katy Perry's "Hot and Cold". She sang "Hot. Cold. Up. Down!" and "Yike a girl..."

She also broke out a few new moves.
We had Cason on piano.
Also, I have harvested my first veggie from my garden. A delicious cherry tomato.
Jess got half to try, and Cason desperately wanted a taste, apparently. Look at the curly hair starting on the back of his baby head.
We also went out to Karl and Barby's tonight to meet Jess's great uncle Fred, who's road tripping it across the country! The babies did some relaxing on the hammock with Grammy.
This didn't happen today, I just remembered it for some reason, and wanted to put it on here. Probably a week ago, Paige was REALLY mad at me, and started yelling. Jess said "You STOP talking to mama like that." She ran into her room screaming "NEEEEEEEVER!" Hahaha.

Sweem Tricks

The babies did some wrestling in Cason's crib today. At one point they were holding still, looking at each other, and they both started laughing. Then it got quiet again, and after a second Paige said quietly: "You so cute a baby."
She's right.
A little while later she picked up a baby doll, and went down the hall. After a minute I followed her to see where she'd gone, and found her like this, telling the baby good night.
Then she decided the baby needed a new diaper. She carried it to Cason's room saying "I change you diaper baby. Change a diaper." She even used the changing table. I had to get her some newborn sized diapers we have left over from Cason.

Then she babytalked her, I assume because the baby had been upset about having her diaper changed, and needed a little soothing.

Cason supervised from his crib, while I got the diapers for Paige.
Tonight we were getting ready to go for a bike ride, and Paige said "I go on a sweem." So I opened the back door for her to go play on the swing while we got shoes on.

After a minute I heard her yelling "WOA! WOAWOAWOA!" It sounded like she was having fun, but I poked my head out to check on her anyway. She'd been holding on to the swing while running in circles, and then picked her feet up so she went spinning out of control.
She went flying off and landed on her bootie. She looked surprised for a second, and then started laughing and did it again.

Burns:(

Well, neither of my babies ever came close to being burned by anything, until the last few weeks. And now, thanks to yours truly, they both did.

A few weekends ago I was sewing something I can't talk about yet, (it's a future gift) and had to use the iron. So I put Cason in his jumper, because I needed to do it on the ground, since it's kind of a large "item". When I was done I turned the iron off, and after a while I let Cason out of his jumper, thinking it had had plenty of time to cool. So then of course he touched the iron when I wasn't looking, and it was clearly still hot. He cried for a while, and had little burns on 3 of his fingertips.

Now today, I was a genius again. I went to cook dinner, and Paige wanted to help. She pushed her Rock'n'Roar Dinosaur up against the wall, to use it as a stepstool, and started helping me stir. I told her it was hot, and tried to get her to stir in an empty pot, but she kept trying to really help me.

So I decided I'd move the pot to the far burners where she couldn't reach it. But instead of getting her down FIRST, I turned off the burner, and went to move the pot to a new one further back. As I moved it, she tried to follow and keep stirring, and lost her balance. So she fell with her left forearm against the burner. Luckily she fell right off, to the ground, instead of keeping her arm on the burner for more than a second. It was so sad. I put her arm in a bowl of coolish water, and she'd stop crying while I did that.

After a little while, she fell asleep. I looked closely, and it didn't have any blisters, but it looked like the outer layer of skin had peeled away, and her arm was really red around it. So when she got up we went to the emergency clinic. She hasn't acted like it hurts since she got up from the nap, other than to tell me she has an ouchie. Or that it was hot. :( But no crying or anything. They put some cream on it and wrapped it in gauze, and gave us a prescription for the same stuff.

Long story short, I'm incredible, and I feel great about myself right now. I'm not sure if it's better or worse that I was inches away when they each got burned.

Jess got her a Tiny Toons dvd to cheer her up. I couldn't even get her to look away for the picture. She just held up her arm for me, and kept watching. She also enjoyed some salt and vinegar chips to distract her. Yes, she loves them.
Anyway, I must include some sort of happiness, so here's some fun with a headband earlier today, preburn.
And a cute one of my boy.