Boys....ALREADY?

Had to share this funny story :)

Last night, on our drive to gymnastics, I was telling Victoria all the things that we would do there that night…trying to get her excited about going. “We will get to do somersaults, jump, walk on a balance beam, meet new kids, play….”…she then interrupted me and said…”and boys, there will be boys!?!?”…..

Ted buried his head in his hands….I LAUGHED AND LAUGHED!!! :)

Smarty Pants

Had to share a picture of my little smarty pants J

Want me to Help?

This is a common phrase that comes from Victoria’s mouth these days.  You can be doing anything and she asks “Want me to help?”  The other weekend, 2 weeks before Halloween, I thought we should make some Halloween Funfetti Cupcakes, and “she could help”.  Victoria got this adorable toy cupcake set and loves to pretend making cupcakes, so she was all for helping me make these.  She did everything from stirring, mixing, pouring, frosting and of course sprinkling.  They were delicious cupcakes J

Our little pumpkins

During October, we made a common family field trip to the Apple Orchard to pick out our pumpkins.  Victoria just loved running through the 50 yard sea of orange.  She would stop about every 5 pumpkins and say “this one, we need this one”.  In the end we found 4 perfect pumpkins for our family of four.  We then went inside and checked out all of their other goodies.  The apple orchard in Jordan has SO many fun things inside to browse.  We ended up buying some different muffin mixes, brats, salsas and hot sauces as well.  All homemade and delicious J

A Monster Princess and a Ladybug

For months after seeing Toy Story 3, Victoria kept saying that she wanted to be a Cowgirl for Halloween.  She wanted cowboy boots, a hat and she kept telling us that cowgirls say “yee-haw”.  I thought I would get ahead of the game and got her an adorable plaid shirt, boots and a fun cowboy hat.  Then she changed her mind to a princess, then more specifically a princess in a castle.  This summer I had bought a cute little Barbie princess dress at a garage sale, so I thought ok if that’s what she wants to be, no biggie, I got it covered.  Then she started mentioning “monsters”.  It’s her new obsession.  Her game is to say “I’m scared Mommy”, I then respond with “Don’t worry, Mommy will protect you”.  When I ask her what she’s scare of, she says “the monsters, they’re scary!!!”  Then she cuddles in and I “protect” her.  J  When I kept asking her what she was going to be from Halloween, she settled on a “monster” and there was no changing her mind.  So, the Friday before Halloween, 45 min before we were leaving for daycare, she decided that no other costume would do and that she had to be a MONSTER for her daycare Halloween party.  I had no idea what I was going to do for her costume.  I had nothing monsterous for my little girl; we only have pink and flowery things. Finally, I remembered pictures from a friend’s son’s monster birthday party… I decided that I could make her a monster crown.  I found a pink bag, cut it up, added 3 eye balls and wolla we had a monster crown.  Added some cute leggings and a big pink tutu and she was a monster princess!  I thought it would pretty dang cute after I put it all together.  Of course, she insisted on also wearing her leotard and two more tutu’s and she ended up looking like a silly two year old that dressed herself, but she was happy and so was I….we could now leave for daycare…

Our beautiful Miss Marlee was a cute little ladybug.  She didn’t mind her costume one bit, and put up no fight J