Trading Spaces

Paige's new bedding got here today. Since she and Caso will share a room for a while I tried to find one with a cute girly print, but not overly girly colors. It's the cutest bedding ever. She's pleased with it.
Cason liked it too.
Cason's toddler bed came today too, not that he'll be sleeping in it yet. We figured we may as well start having him nap in it and get used to it first. So lucky Jess came home from work, ate dinner, and got right to work putting his bed together. Then we moved it into the room, moved Paige's OLD bed out, and realized they were going to actually need to switch ROOMS to fit everything well. So then he spent the rest of the evening taking things apart, moving them from room to room, and putting them together. It even included a 10 pm trip to Walmart! He's so happy he married me.

Babysitters

We got Rylee for a couple of hours today, while her mom and dad went to a movie. The kids were so excited. Paige spent the first 10 minutes making her laugh. Cason stood by, grinning.
Then we put her on a blanket for some tummy time, and Cason got down with her. He even put his arm over her shoulders. So cute. Don't worry Jenni, his hug wasn't nearly as rough as it appears.
They were both so good with her. They're gonna be an awesome pair of older siblings.
They even happily shared all their toys.

Bible Shows

Tonight after dinner we did a toddler friendly bible study/show. Jess performed the story of Noah's arc, and they listened attentively, with dirty faces from dinner.
His story even included rain from a spray bottle, which delighted Paige.
Cason really liked the show too, but he got upset he couldn't grab all the "actors".

Paige was really excited, so she had us move our chairs to the playroom...

...so she could do a repeat show for us.

When it was over, she said "THE END!" and we clapped and she looked bashful.
Then we got her to bow.

THEN she told me it was my turn. I wasn't prepared, but lucky for me Jess already had a whale and some warrior toy to use as Jonah. So I did the story of Jonah and the whale. This was my version of Ninevah:
Two citizens. She got the point though.

Hobby Horse Jockeys

Both are complete, and Paige is very into having horse races. She on her grey horse by the name of Purdita, and Cason on his black steed with no name.

Speaking of funny names, the other night Paige named mother and daughter My Little Ponies: "Brandi Porkadadada" and "Paige Porsadadada".

I Can't Think Of A Title

One and a half hobby horses down, half to go.
Paige loves it. She also loves her new twin bed. She walked back and forth across it today, singing and performing for us for a while. It was like Broadway.
Meanwhile Cason wrestled Jess on the other bed. When he saw me taking pictures he initiated this one himself.

Her Best Brother

Last night I noticed Jess must have taught Paige to use a crayon as a rolling pin when she uses play-dough.
Also, we overheard Paige tell Cason: "Cason, you're my best brother." while they tried to smash themselves into the football.
AND...this morning they painted with watercolors while I washed dishes. I kept peeking in to check on them, and one time when I did I saw this:
I went to get the camera and Paige stopped painting him. As I took this picture he was telling her "more" and pointing at his head.

Paige has been talking about how she wants her own computer. Today her cousin Alex came over to play, and Alex DOES have her own computer. So that fanned the flame again. I remembered seeing this idea somewhere, so I made her a paper computer, and it was a hit.
She "typed" for a while, and then folded it closed like a laptop, tucked it under her arm, and told me "Bye, I'm going to the park with my computer."
Tonight I was making her a hobby horse out of a sock. I got the stuff to make 2, and she wanted to start on Cason's while I worked on hers. She was so cute, watching a movie and stuffing his horse for him, like a good big sister. She picked out button eyes for it and made me sew them on too.

Briar Rose

Jess once claimed Sleeping Beauty wasn't a good movie. Psh.

WRONG.

Best Disney princess movie actually. Prettiest movie, best princess, best prince. This prince doesn't look like a girl with lipstick on like a lot of them do. AND he fights a dragon for her. We just got it so Jess finally watched it all the way through, and had to admit he likes it a lot. How dare he not even watch all of it and claim it isn't good? Paige and Cason know the truth.
Cason can't stop "baking cookies" even while he watches though. Ha.

This morning Cason and I went to wake Paige up in her room. He's always SO excited when he first sees her in the morning. He crawled on top of her and put his head on her stomach. She put her arms around his neck and smiled at him. Then she said "He's like a baby. Like I'm a mama." I just smiled, and a second later she said "I WANT TO BE A MAMA!" I said "You probably will some day." Then she just smiled proudly at him, like she already was one. His. Ha.

Then we got right to work making mini pumpkin muffins for our breakfast. She loves helping, especially since I made her a new apron yesterday. It's my favorite so far, and looks so cute on her.
She slipped it on over her pajamas and we played music and she danced while filling the muffin pan with little mini-liners.
While we baked the little guy found one of her birthday crowns I made her, and put it on upside down.
Apparently nesting's gonna begin immediately this time. I've got even more projects in my head than usual, and lots of room sharing plans. I've even been on an organizing kick. I noticed Caso's shirts were getting snug and most of his pants are high waters. So I moved him into size 2T. Which meant boxing up all his clothes he just grew out of, which always makes me sad. Partly because he's growing up and partly because I'm sad to not see him in some of his cute clothes anymore. But every size has new cute clothes to see him in. I bought a couple things for the room sharing business last night. Like a toddler bed for Caso, a twin for Paige, and some bedding. I think Jess is worried.