Cozy Coupe

One of Vi's favorite birthday presents was her new Cozy Coupe. You know, the car that's been around forever that little kids drive with their feet.

The gift (from Poppy & Moo Moo) didn't come assembled, so crazy Mommy decided that the day after the birthday party she was going to put it together ALL.BY.MYSELF. (I spend too much time around a three year old.)

I found, and then googled how to work, J's cordless drill. I managed to strip several screws.

I put the wheels on backwards, google it. had to take them pry them off. Googled it. And put them back on again. Watched the how-to video about seven times.

Most of this time Vi was sleeping. But Lily got to witness the whole thing. Once I started I felt like I couldn't give up. I became worried that if I couldn't put this darn toy together then she'd get this complex that girls couldn't do things boys could. And I just kept telling her, "You can do anything you put your mind to. Just try, try again."

Phooey.

I spent twenty minutes trying to ram the top blue piece into the white piece with every ounce of my body weight just like the video. Googled it. Tried again. Sat on it. Yelled at it. Tried again.

Finally, after THREE HOURS of hammering, screwing and trying again and again. And lots of googling. I managed to put that stinking car together!

It was totally worth it.

We won't mention that two days ago one of the pieces fell off that J had to put it back together again.

You Can't Make Them Smile

You can put six kids in their Halloween costumes and try to take their pictures... but you can't make them do anything else you might have been hoping for.

To see the rest of our attempt at a photo-shoot in our front yard click here.

Pumpkin Picking

I'm going to compare. You can't stop me.

I've been trying really hard for the past nine months to not write posts comparing my girls. They are their own people, and I'm really trying to let them be... I might talk about it, but I figure if I don't write about it, then it won't be permanent. But this time, you can't stop me. They both have cute little friends that are three months apart, and I just can't stop myself from posting these pictures. So there.

Here's Bug and her BFF Sarah on one of their very first playdates... I think we figure Bug is about 10 months old and Sarah is about 7.

Now here are the baby sisters... Abby is about 10 months old here, and Vi is about 7. You can certainly tell both sets are related, but I sure think there are a lot of differences.

 Lily & Sarah

Vi & Abby

Sitting Up (with a little help from sis)

Bug says: "Say cheeze-bu-ga, Bi."

"Cheeze-bu-ga!"

Leaning... leaning... but sitting up all by herself!

still leaning... and now she's on her tummy.

BabyAwesome seems to spend a lot of her life with this concerned look on her face. She's been mostly terrified of her whirlwind-of-a-big-sister, and probably because she's constantly being squealed at and poked. But lately, she's finding Bug to be a lot more entertaining than scary, and we're seeing some happy-smiley moments between them.

Overheard

Scene: The three month old is laying on the activity mat under a blazillion toys, and making screeching noises that are just on the verge of hysterical - somewhere between happy cooing and I’m going to loose it any minute now. The two year old is leaning over her face ascloseasshecanget without smothering touching her.


Mom is just out of eyesight, and overhears:
“What Baby? You love me? Ah, I love you too baby.”

Sisters

It goes a little like this:

Lily: "Lily hold ja baby?"

Mommy: "No, sweetie. The baby is happy right now, lets just leave her alone."

Lily: "I wanna hold baby!"

Mommy: "Alright, but be very gentle."

Lily: "Ah, come 'ear lil sista."

Lily: "Ah! Baby likes me!"

Violet: (moment of contemplation) "WHAAAILLL!!!