No Title Comes To Mind

I just went to get a couple pictures of Paige from today, and realized we just passed 400 pictures of her this month. Haha. I'm ridiculous. I'm really organized with my pictures, and I've noticed I average a couple hundred of each of them every month. But I guess it was even crazier this time because of the trip to Disneyland.

Today was nice, it started out half way productive. Jess convinced me to finally organize my craft closet, and I got rid of SO much stuff I'll never use. Then we did nothing else productive after that. But we were happy.
We went for a walk tonight, and the sunset was beautiful.
Paige rode her bike actually, and after a while she wanted to bring it home and walk instead. She ran in the house to change shoes too for some reason. It took her FOREVER while we waited in the driveway. When she came out we'd given up because Cason was getting upset waiting in the stroller. We told her we could just play out front instead.

She wasn't happy with the news.
Jess got them hunting for snails though, and she recovered. Jess just poked his head around the corner and told me they're "filth-stricken", so I'm off to start a bath.

Cutie Pops

Last night Jordan came by to see the girls after he got off work. We had blankets and pillows on the floor for the kids to watch their movie. Jordan got down on the blanket with them, and Cason poked him in the chest and yelled "TOO BIG!" We were cracking up. Then he handfed him cheetos.
The house was ridiculous today. It rained in the morning, so I thought things would cool down, but instead it got even muggier in here than usual. It was actually a relief to step OUTSIDE, I'm not even kidding. I couldn't handle it. So when Veronica asked if she and Lily could hang out, we asked if it was okay if we did it at THEIR house. Ha. So we did. We just came home, and I was getting Paige out of the backseat. She sings a lot, sometimes actual songs, sometimes just while having a conversation with me. This time she sang "Carry me mama". So I said "Okay, come here cutie pie." She sang back as I picked her up: "Okay cutie pop!" Haha, cutie pop. I love that actually, I think I'm gonna make it one of my regular nicknames for them.

She was quite the cutie pop today, while Cason napped in the car. She wanted to take lots of pictures, so I let her do my belly one, since I'm a few days late for my 26 week pic.
Then she wanted to do lots of poses herself.
She wanted to be big and do her makeup using the car mirror. So I let her do her makeup(whiskers).
And here's the sweet lovey dovey boy cutie pop today:

Sleepovers and Swords

Paige asked the girls to stay over again. (Speaking of which, she's been asking for Lily too, Veronica, but I never want to ask you in front of Lily. So let me know if and when Lily's ready to stay over here some time)

On the way home we stopped at Safeway so Jess could run in for tomatoes for dinner. The girls and Cason and I stayed in the car. I looked back at him and he had his extra cute "about to dance" smile on. So I smiled back and he started doing the little wiggle he does with his shoulders when he's strapped into his carseat but really wants to dance. Then he goes "Shake da booty". Haha. We were cracking up, so he said it like 10 more times. Good man.

Their sleepovers are getting so cute. We walk in the door and first thing, Paige turns to the girls, twirling her hair, and says "Wanna go in my room?" So they all went to play in the bedroom, while Jess and I went to start dinner. After a little while Paige came in asking where she could find a brush so Alex could do her hair. I told her to look in the drawer, and didn't see them for a while. It was pretty quiet, so I sent Jess to check on them. He said Cason was leaning against the bed, Faith was sitting ON the bed, and Alex was braiding Paige's hair. It sounded like such a cute scene to me for some reason.

By the time I went to get pictures though, Cason was up, helping "do" Paige's hair.
Her first ever braid was really cute, but she made Alex redo it, so she'd have TWO braids.
The third attempt finally pleased her.The rest of the time I was cooking, they spent running screaming away from Cason, who was apparently spraying them with the spray bottle no matter how many times they begged him to stop. Then he picked up his sword, and stood in his tough guy stance in the middle of the room swinging it while the girls screamed and ran around him trying not to be hit.

Every time I blog I want new carpet. :(

Caso's Signature Face Caress

There are lots of little things our kids do that obviously won't last forever. One of Cason's is the backward one-handed face caress. When he's feeling lovey, but he's cuddling with his back to you, he reaches back and puts a hand on your cheek. Sometimes he just keeps it there, and sometimes he'll stroke your face softly. I love it, and it's one of "his" things. I finally got a picture of him doing it tonight, so I can make SURE we never forget about it.

Potstickers

Jenni gave us a little room air conditioner for the window that they've had for a while and never used. It's AWESOME. We put it in our bedroom, and now when it gets hot and humid in the house I can go in there and it feels like a hotel room. It actually gets chilly at night. Since the kids' room is sweltering we've just been letting them sleep with us. Last night we read to them in our bed, and after they fell asleep we left to watch Lost. They were kind of on opposite ends of the bed, but when we came to bed they were like this:
Now Paige woke up and watched Kai Lan, so she's obsessed with me making potstickers. Ha. I never have before, and we don't have everything we need, but she's marching around telling me not to wait for daddy to come home because "maybe we can WALK to the store!" Walking to the store sounds fantastic right now. Haha.

Dr. Seuss/Shorts

Today Paige was talking about how Dr. Schwartz is the one who delivered her. TONIGHT we were driving and she thought of it again, so she wanted to tell Jess. She goes "Daddy? Um, Dr. Seuss is the one who delivered me." It was SO cute. Jess was confused so I told him she meant Dr. Schwartz. He told her it was Schwartz and she said "OH, I forgot. Dr. Shorts is the one who delivered me." Haha. She's the greatest.

Little Gent

I was really tired and lazy today. But when I finally showered and got dressed, I came out in a skirt and this little gentleman:
Came up, touched my skirt and sweetly said "PRINCESS!"

He's gonna be quite the husband some day.