Naughty Little Lady Loves Me

Still no camera.

Neely has been SO feisty.  She's really hooked on saying "MINE!" to everyone.  She tells people everything is hers, and doesn't really think she should have to share with her brother or sister, or that they should be able to have anything at all, really.  Ha.  Most of the time, she gets her naughty look, says "Mine." and then tries to look all tough, trying not to smile.  So usually she's doing it just to get a reaction.  She's even crossed her arms and given me a "hmmph", while very sloooooooowly turning her head away from me and slowly closing her eyes.  My my my.  I guess our girls will be our stubborn ones.  So far Cason is by far our most laidback child. 

Neely's still sweet sweet sweet though, too.  Tonight I was hanging out on the couch with them, and she was sort of climbing all over me.  She got kind of on my back, put her arms around my neck, leaned around to look at my face and said "Mama.  I wuvoo."  :)  She got a thousand kisses for that one.  She's known how to say that for a long time, but refused to say it to ME.  I seriously think she knows how much we want to hear those things, so she withholds them, building their value.  So naughty.

She's still telling me she "Wikes" everything.  While waiting for Paige in the school parking lot today she saw a lady holding a baby.  She leaned way out of her stroller, pointed and yelled at me, "I WIKE A BABY, MOM!"

Cason played me a song he wrote today.  It goes "Mama, I love you.  I love you so much, maaaaaaama!  I love you....." and so on.  :)

Paige has the day off tomorrow, for parent teacher conferences.  She's of course disappointed that the weekend is here early and she won't be back in school for four days.  Ha.  I'm wondering how our meeting will go tomorrow.  I know overall it will be good, but I'm curious because I know Paige and another girl had to swap seats.  I asked if it had to do with anyone chatting too much in class and she smiled, looking a bit embarrassed.  She claims it was all the other girl, and that she even told her to "stop" with sign language but the girl didn't listen.  We'll see what Mrs.  Arnold has to say.  Paige definitely doesn't hate talking.  :)

She Knows Her 55

Today my dad sent me this cute pic of the first kindergartener to get her name up for knowing all 55 popcorn words. Her little popcorn kernel up there above her head has her name on it.  I didn't even notice until Jess pointed it out that she has her finger up to show she was 1st.  Haha.  So cute.  So proud of her.

Bonkahead

Welp, while I posted last time, I believe Neely must have stolen and hidden my camera.  I had it plugged in to the computer, getting the pictures off of it, and then immediately blogged.  I didn't even leave the computer until I finished the post, and when I did, I noticed the camera wasn't plugged in anymore.  Still haven't found it.  :(

So I don't have any new pictures, but I did remember something I meant to write about like a month ago.  Neely likes cuddling up and pointing out the parts of my head and face, and telling me what they are.  She used to point to my nose and say "NOSE!" and then to my ears and say "Eawws", and my mouth and say "Mouse".  Then she'd point to my forehead or top of my head and say "Bonkahead".  Haha.  A month or two ago she shortened it to just "bonk".  Ha.  I love her.

A Smorgasbord of Topics

Paige and Lily played against each other on Saturday, which was cool, we could watch both girls without sitting through TWO games in the heat.  :) 


They were cute, during a break Lily walked up and said "Good job Paige!" 

The other kids played and ate snacks and paid no attention to the game.

I took several pictures of the babies playing in the dirt together, until I realized they were pretty much sitting on an anthill. 

Other than that and the birthday party we've mostly hung out at home.  

Caso's been cuddly.

He's also very into his daddy lately, he tells me he misses him MANY times during the day, and asks how long until we pick him up.

I got him new AWESOME Halloween pajamas.  They're covered in cute bats and little stars, and I LOVE them.  I made him pose for me in them last night.

Neely's been playing with Gia a lot.  Here she was putting heroes on her back and telling her "Wahoo!  Gawwop!(Gallop, I think, although Jess said it might be an attempt at Giddeup too, so who knows)

 She's had a sudden explosion of her vocabulary.  She already knew the words, but now she's putting them together more often and speaking in sentences.  We're having full on conversations now.  One of my new favorites has been when she tells me "I RIIIIIIIIGHT back, mom!", and then she walks out of the room waving goodbye to me.

Whenever we see a picture of someone she tells me "AAAWWW!  So cute mom."

The one she probably says most often is "I wike...(insert any object)".  In church I gave her a sucker, which she calls "hot", and she started saying (loudly) "Wow!  I WIKE HOT!"

In the car yesterday there was a fly buzzing around the backseat.  She was looking up and said "Where you going bug?"

She sings to herself, just humming or saying "Dooodooodoooooooo".  Jess was pushing her around on her little tricycle in the backyard and he said she was singing "Irideabike, ride a bike....".

Today is Silly Sock Day for Paige, at school.  We tried like 5 stores before we found socks that were long enough to show above her shoes AND were her size.

Yesterday her friend Bella gave her a Best Friends bracelet.  :)

 

Today I let the other two sleep in a little longer, so Jess was taking Paige to school this morning.  Caso and Neely woke up right before they left.  Neely was in a good mood until Paige wouldn't let her use her lunchbox.  So I got her the one Grama gave to HER, and she carried it around happily.

Paige said goodbye, and it was time to go.

 Neely walked her to the car, lunchbox still in hand, and was NOT pleased when she found out she wasn't going with them.

We came inside and she yelled at me about it for a bit. I was asking them what they wanted for breakfast and Caso told me "All I like is quinoa."  Haha.

Party for "The Casons"

The Cason/Kayson party was of course Spiderman themed, and we had it at the park.  The boys seemed to love everything.   

 

 Opening gifts was CRAZY, so hard to keep track of what was going on.  (So when I send out the thank you cards, please forgive me if I forgot part of your gift, 2 boys opening gifts at the same time a couple of feet from each other, while all the other kids "help" gets a bit crazy)

The party was great, right up until the time that Brooklyn fell on the playground and broke 2 bones in her arm.  It was so sad, and so obviously broken.  Poor baby.  Last party I throw at a park.

Then Kayson and Bayleigh spent the night, and Caso was in heaven.  When Kayson left the next day Caso told me "I love Kays sooo much.  I love him all the way to God.  I'm gonna miss him soooo much."

Decadence

 I have a birthday party post in the works, but right now Caso wants me to play with his heroes with him.  So here's a quick one from a few weeks ago.  The kids somehow talked me into cookies WITH WHIPPED CREAM for an after school snack.  Ha. 

Death of a Robot

First of all, my last post made a few people worry about Paige, because it sounded like she was still sick when I posted it.  She wasn't, those videos of Neely were taken on Saturday which was the 2nd, and last, day that Paige was sick.  (I'm just lazy and it took me a few days to put the videos on the blog) Paige felt pretty good on Sunday, and fine on Monday-she didn't have to miss any school.  Thanks for worrying about her though.  :)

The other two got the cough and fever too, on Sunday and Monday, but they never got it as bad as Paige had it, and felt better by Tuesday.  We colored together while Paige was at school, and Cason spent the most time coloring with me that he ever has.  Neely spent a while coloring too, but only a few seconds per picture.  :)

Once Caso lost interest, he went and buried himself in toys in the playroom.  He always does that, pretending he was caught in a toy avalanche.  I went to ask if he was okay and he groaned "Yeah, but call Grama and see if she can pick Paige up."

 Alex and Faith were going to spend the night last night, and they were playing this restaurant game.  It was the cutest.   Everyone had aprons, and they were pretending it was a very busy restaurant, so everyone was all stressed, running around and yelling orders back and forth.  At one point, Paige was talking to Cason, and I heard Alex, who was the cook, shouting at Paige that she had like 10 people who hadn't even ordered yet.  Paige gasped, said "OH MY GOSH!" and went running with her little notepad.  Faith looked just as genuinely stressed, trying to keep up with all the orders.  Neely went in and ordered too.

 

Caso was playing, but whenever I heard him say anything, it wasn't too relevant to a restaurant.  Like "Hey, pretend you noticed a robot died."  

 

They all just let him add his weird spin, and tried to keep their game going around it.  I was in the room for the dead robot moment, so I said "HEY!  There's a dead robot in here?  That's a health code violation!"  Alex didn't even hesitate and just said "HE JUST DIED!"  Haha.  He must have been an employee until his untimely death.

Paige got to spend the night with THEM last night, so it was just the other two and us.  We read books to them in our bed, since Caso didn't get to spend the night.  Sleeping with Caso is always like this:  Heads lovingly smashed together.