Funny Sayings

Some of McKenna's recent sayings - worth notating:

- She cannot pronounce some "v's" resulting in some funny words like "glubs" aka gloves.
- She is very disappointed that we cannot seem to find princes for her princesses. This forces many princesses to dance with other princesses at the ball. Oh well, perhaps this can open up some conversations that families come in all types :)
- She HATES her hair in her face...to the point that she will hit her head and scream "AHHH my HAIR is in my FACE!!" I suppose it is annoying....?
- Similarly, she HATES it when her shirt rides up. This usually happens when entering/exiting the carseat. If you don't "pull her shurt down" (yes pronounced shurt) then she gets incredibly upset!

Snow Days

FINALLY - after weeks and weeks and weeks of snow, it has been warm enough to go outside and play. We haven't had a full week of school since before Christmas break because of the freezing temps, ice and snow. The poor kids are going to have to go to school a week and a half later into the summer.

--mommy and kenna playing in the igloo--

--John (our neighbor) spent 4 hours working on this...sure his kids were happy--

--the neighbors dug into the big snow hill in the cul de sac--

--daddy, kenna and rylee sledding in the backyard (we have a GREAT hill!)--

--Zachary and mommy hanging out inside--

--close up of the cutest face ever--

--kids anxious to go outside!--

First Word

We have officially decided that Zachary has said his first word "Daw-he." Zachary LOVES Rylee. Ever since he was born we have made sure that he knows to treat the Doggie gently, and we often say, "look, doggie!" Always in a sing-songy voice and always with big smiles. Apparently it is contagious because now everytime Zachary sees Rylee, he points and says "Daw-he!" SOOOO cute....he is growing up so quickly!!!

Poor Walley

All Winter our Altima "Walley" has been buried in snow. We got the acadia before the first major snowstorm...so there really was no reason to dig the other car out. Lately McKenna has become very concerned. As we got home the other day she asked me if she could talk to Walley. I said, sure, and got her out of her carseat. As I was getting Zachary out of his, I heard her talking to the car. She said "poor walley. I'm sorry that we can't drive you. This spring I promise that we will go driving." Then she patted the car's door and gave it a little hug.

You have such a sweet heart little one!

It All Started With Eggs

So, I gave Zachary a few bites of eggs a couple of weeks ago, and he handled them like a champ, so when we were rushed to get to Kindermusik on Tuesday I thought, great, scrambled eggs for dinner, scrambled yolks for Z. He ate had a great night and went to bed. When he woke up the next morning, there was puke all over his bed - gross....So I gave him a bath, and washed all the sheets.

In my mind I was thinking...no more eggs for a few months!

Then the call came, Eski calls at 1pm telling me that Zachary is throwing up, and we needed to come get him. I called Josh and told him that I couldn't get out of my meeting. So he starting driving to Eski's. In the meantime she called again saying that Kenna threw up all over herself. So Josh got both kids home. Zachary had diarrhea and Kenna kept throwing up. I got home at 5 and took over.

--poor thing was so tired--

Needless to say, 24 hours later the kids are both great! Josh has it now and is quarantined to the basement. I may jinx it by saying I haven't gotten it yet...time will tell! Seems this flu hits us all once a year...yuck!

Whacha Doin Sis?

Normally the kids take a bath together, but Zachary usually annoys Kenna after about 10 minutes. So I get him out, dressed, lotioned up while Kenna plays.

He usually ends up back in there seeing what sis is up to :)

Sleeping Beauty RIP

Josh was working downstairs, and Kenna was playing with all her dolls down there with him. I was working upstairs in the office when the saddest little sob comes walking up the stairs. Kenna peaks her head around the corner and looks at me with the saddest face I have ever seen.

"Mommy.......I was trying to take off sweeping beauty's dress, and I pulled too hard and her head came off. Daddy can't fix it, will you make it better?"

After digging out the needle nose pliers, superglue, tweezers....I was unsuccessful. I tried the distraction tactic and sent her downstairs, saying I needed some time to fix it. She would come up every few minutes to "check on her." Finally I told her that I didn't think I could fix her.

She started to quietly sob, it almost broke my heart. Then she said "but mommy, I love her!" So, I shed a few tears and promised her that in the morning we would go out and buy a brand new sleeping beauty. Normally we do not replace toys that are broken - but this was a special case. Sleeping beauty is her favorite!

--this is the scene I came down to in the morning. Kenna said all the princesses were "really worried about her"--

Needless to say, we have a new sleeping beauty, may the old one rest in peace :)