Day 3 at VBS

She had so much fun! I'm really glad she's having fun. She is having some trouble paying attention and listening and sitting still. Same at home. I think that's pretty normal for a 4 year old. I think they may be expecting a little too much from the little kids. They have 4yoolds to 6th grade all in the same class! They are supposed to learn a Bible verse. Okay. But in one day?! It's the same one that the big kids are supposed to learn. I think that is a little much for her age group. So we (Scott & I) will give her rewards for trying. (They get prizes for memorizing verse). If she really tries to learn it she gets something special. Not a toy or candy necessarily but something she doesn't normally do. For example she tried really hard to learn her verse and behave last night so if the weather clears up she gets to go swimming today. (maybe tomorrow-just heard more thunder) And I bought doughnuts. But that's cuz I wanted them not just for doing good at VBS.

The weather was crazy last night. Big storms. Lost power a couple of times for several hours. We have white noise machines in all the bedrooms. We use them to sleep. Meagan can sleep through almost anything! They other day the power went out and her fan and sound machine were off. She didn't stir! Then last night I put her down with just her mobile music and no fan or sound machine. She went to sleep just fine! When the power came back on, I went in there to turn her stuff on and she didn't still! Glad she sleeps so well.

Also, Cynthia has decided she needs to carry a purse-just like Mommy! :D For those of you who don't know Cynthia is a HUGE daddy's girl so when she does stuff like that it is really special. She also wants a new camera so she can have one like Mommy's. I told her when she gets older maybe we could get her a new one even if it's not exactly like Mommy's. She has a Fisher-Price Kid tough camera and I have a Nikon. Not really a comparison. lol

VBS

Cynthia went to her 1st VBS tonight. That is the 1st time I have EVER left her with someone that wasn't family or a REALLY good friend. It was so scary! (for me) I sat out in the parking lot for about 30min talking to Scott on the phone. I kept looking in the rearview mirror expecting to see a little red blur running toward the car. She did fine. Better than mommy did, that's for sure!

She seemed to have fun. She was SOOOOOO tired! It is over at 8:30pm which is way past her bedtime. She said the grownups forgot to let them play. lol I explained to her that school is for learning. Sunday School is for learning about God and Jesus. VBS is learning about the Bible. School is for LEARNING. She didn't really get it.

It was pretty funny. I bet she won't be out of bed for anything tonight!

Pictures

I got pictures! As you know my computer crashed and I wasn't able to save any pictures. BUT---we were able to get a ton off of Scott's iPod! Here are a couple


Pregnant Mommy just days before Meagan was born:




My two beautiful girls Cynthia & Meagan



Cynthia 'nursing' her baby


What great pictures! (if I do say so myself)

Cynthia's 4th birhday

Cynthia turned 4yo this month. I can't believe she's already 4! And she is so grown up sometimes. We had her birthday party on her birthday this year. It was only the 4 of us (I canceled it because apparently I'm a freak and I was afraid we would all die of the swine flu). She woke up on her bday with a low grade fever and not feeling very good. We still had a really good time.


Here is her the night before with her new bed and bedding


Here she is pretending to be asleep for the camera (she said cheese under the covers lol)


Here is her George cake that I made


Here are the Curious George decorations (and a half naked Meagan in the high chair)


Here is the birthday girl in her pretty dress


She is seeing the decorations for the 1st time


This is the bubble popping sopund thing (didn't work she chose golf clubs from the store instead)


Her magnifying glass (she loves Sid the Science Kid)


Her new bucket and shovel (Sushi chewed up the other ones)


And her skates


In her skate attire


BALLOONS!!!!!!!


We had a really fun time. Thanks for looking!

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