Awesome mommy moments...

Cynthia has been 'wrapping presents' a lot lately. She will take her blanket or a box and put something in there for a present. For us or herself or Cynapoo. Well a few weeks ago she came up to me gave me a big kiss and a hug and said "love is the best present of all" (or something along those lines). I thought that was one of the sweetest things ever!

Today Cynthia is drawing a lot. She is making cards (she's been doing that a lot since she made me a card for Mother's Day), drawing pictures and writing books (pictures w/ letters and then she reads them to me and Meagan). Well she came to me and said

Cynthia: I don't know what color to use. It's confusing.
me: just use whatever color you want
Cynthia: but it's confusing
me: how about blue?
Cynthia:(very excited) Ok! I can use blue! Thanks!

Just a little everyday moment, but I got to be a hero in my daughters' eyes. :) (me beaming)

They just crack me up

I don't really have anything new, just the girls crack me up! For those of you that don't read my other blog:

Goodness! Goodness! It seems as if I've been gone forever! Here is where we are...

Computer crashed and unfortunately my wonderful friend wasn't able to recover any usable pictures. I am sooooo sad. There were so many pictures on there...my pg belly w/ Meagan, Meagan's 1st b-day, some of family I don't get to see very often, Cynthia's art work, Cynthia just being cute, Meagan being cute, pictures of us at Braums before they closed forever. I can't even remember all the pictures that were on there. Just irreplaceable pictures. I still feel sick when I think of it. MIL has a lot of pics so she burned some disks and gave them to me. I cried when I saw them. It was so nice to see them and yet I'm still sad about the ones that were lost. Here is one of my favorites:



Yes, I know. I don't have any makeup on and I just put it up there for the world to see. I'm over it.

So I ordered an external hard drive and as soon as it gets here I will post some pics from Easter. I have the pics I just don't want to put them on the computer yet. I know that doesn't make any sense but it makes me feel better. lol

Do butterflies have noses?

I love the questions kids come up with! Cynthia was drawing this morning and asked if butterflies have noses. I love the thirst for knowledge that she seems to have. She can't wait to start school. I think I am going to send her to pre-k next year.

btw: Butterflies don't have noses and lungs as we do. Butterflies "smell" with their antennae.

http://butterflywebsite.com/faq.cfm

Meagan's walking!

Meagan has been walking for about a month now. WOW! I was wondering if she when she was going to walk. Sure enough, she is practically RUNNING now. She goes up and down the hall and back and forth across the living room every day, it's like her laps. She's so funny! She learned tongue last night. She is always sticking her tongue out at me, so I told her what it was called. Apparently that's what she's been wanting to know. She was so happy to try and say tongue. The other night when I was nursing her she put her finger on my nose then on her nose. It was so cute! I said mommy's nose, Meagan's nose. She thought it was great!

While Meagan and I were at the store...

Scott and Cynthia were playing in the backyard. Building dams and lakes, watering the trees, each other. They had so much fun! Scott got a few pics, but not too many. Not while playing with the water. Maybe I can be here and take pics next time.

Another Cynthia joke...

Q. How did the spoon get in the Rankins yard?
A. It dug it's way...HAAAAAAAA

Scott, Cynthia & Meagan went to the Cowgirl Museum yesterday. The girls had so much fun! I'll go next time. He is Cynthia-her 1st time on a bronco. GO CYNTHIA!

Memories from the past:

I really wish I had gotten in the 'blog business' years ago. I am really terrible about entering things in their baby books. So here is my plan: I (and maybe Scott sometimes) will enter 'memories' in this blog entry. For example Cynthia used to call bugs mups. So this entire entry will be nothing but memories like that. Now to figure how to keep this on the front page...

Interesting side note: the same nurse delivered BOTH of my girls, in the same room! Dr. Whitfield wasn't on call that weekend, so Meagan was delivered by another doc :(

Cynthia

-Used to call bugs mups
-Cynapoo
-Bottom doesn't have to spit right now (that means going potty)
-Poo-poo bubbles (toot in bath tub)
-When Cynthia was pting-she was sitting on the potty and looking down saying 'on, off, on off' she was starting and stopping peeing!
-she uses her stethoscope to check her baby's (and everyone else too) brain!
-used to 'sneeze' flies away. if there was a fly buzzing around she would fake sneeze at it to make it go away :)

Meagan

-clicks her tongue when she wants to eat or taste what you have
-Calls COTT sometimes instead of DADDY
-'bocks' like a chicken
-loves her big sis
-she walks up and down the hall and back and forth in the living room practicing walking. for like 20 minutes at a time! lol
-she has the cutest 'cheese' face (for pictures)