Trip to the pet store

Wednesday night when it was time for dinner Saige wanted to sit on my lap and eat. I wasn't in the mood to fight her so I let her. She didn't want to eat and I encouraged her to do so. We ate chicken, potatoes and green beans. Nothing weird.

After dinner we hurried and got in the car to get some new food for Hannah. We've been there a lot trying new foods to help her allergies so the girls enjoy going. They get to look at lizards, birds, turtles. But on the way Saige started SCREAMING and holding her hands out to me saying "hold me. Get me out" over and over. She was nuts. I started thinking about her as an infant and when she screamed all the time. She then started gagging in the car. I tried calming her down by talking to her but she was having none of it. THen she threw up a little. I thought "see thats what happens when you scream and cry" I didn't say it but thought it. Then when we pulled into Petco she threw up everywhere. Chunks. Sick. Reese threw her own fit because it smelled. It did. I got Reese out of the car and had her stand on the curb (by the store) and got Saige changed. I had some towels from swim lessons still in the car and cleaned her up. She was wearing a diaper and new t-shirt. We went in to grab the food and left FAST!

I got her back in the car and didn't drive very far before the poor thing started throwing up again. It was a lot. I started gagging and Reese was covering her mouth and nose (smart girl). I cleaned saige up again as best I could, layed a towel on her and hurried home. She fell asleep on the way home...in vomit :( She was so sick. We took a quick bath and went to bed. As I was rocking her she said "please put me in bed" and out she was.

Luckily it was a bad bug and was gone fast.

Swim lessons

We started swim lessons this week. I was VERY nervous for Reese to start lessons. She developed this fear of the water last year. Nothing we did made a difference. She fell in a hot tub with me right there. I turned around for 5 seconds and turned back and my sweet girl was floating face down in the water. She was already a little fearful of getting in the water (deep-she would play in the shallow end) so nearly drowning didn't help. She wasn't under for long and she didn't cough, choke or anything. But this summer we decided she needed some lessons.

When we started it was Saige, Reese and another little girl. While the teacher was telling them what to do Saige was getting up walking around, checking out toys, getting in the hot tub. I'm sure the teacher was thrilled. Reese was playing with the toys and basicly just not listening. The other child of course was listening LOL!! But the teacher started taking one child at a time in the water and having them kick. Reese would scoot far back each time. Finally the teacher tricked her with a toy and had Reese come out. At first she tried to cling to the teacher and throw her arms around her neck. Then she wouldn't relax her legs. They looked like they were in a fetal position the entire time.

BUT by the end of the lesson the coach had Reese kicking AND putting her face ALL the way under the water. The teacher even said how far she came in one lesson. I was very proud of her but more importantly Reese was proud of herself.

We've had some sick kiddos so the lessons were 2 short so we'll make them up in a few weeks. I'm going to sneak a picture of my big girl.

Tea Party

Yesterday we got dressed up in costumes and had a real tea party. We made toast with butter and jelly and put lemonade in the tea pot and I let the girls pour their own glass. They thought it was the coolest thing in the world. I told them to get dressed up and Reese ran for this dance costume and Saige shouted in a loud bossy voice "I need my flip flops". That girl LOVES her shoes. They put a feather boa and a crown on me as well. I love how simple they are. We do so many fun things and this was the highlight of their day.

Best play costume EVER

Could she be ANY cuter???

This was suppose to be Reese's dance costume for her recital. We ended up leaving dance class because her teacher felt Reese wasn't as "seasoned" as the other dancers (who were 3-5 years old) She was very nice and I dont think she meant any harm but telling me that my three year old needs private lessons wasn't something that we exactly liked hearing. We wanted dance to be a fun, positive experience. Having someone think my child needs to "keep up" with the others in such a way wasn't what we wanted. Preschool ANYTHING should not be so competitive. So we quit and moved on to other things. But we got to keep the costume since it was already paid for. Isn't it the most adorable thing ever? She hasn't taken it off. She LOVES IT!!!

Beach

We took the girls on a last minute beach trip. We have never really done this with them so we thought it would be fun to go before the heat index gets to 120 and the beach is packed with summer kiddos. On the way down there Reese was very excited and kept talking about getting in the water. When she saw the waves she just knew the white caps were the whales tail. :)

But when we got out of the car the size of the ocean must of been a bit overwhelming. She instantly HID behind our car and started to cry. We just left her there to warm up to the idea of the beach and she finally came closer.





The beach was covered in seaweed. And then behind/below the seaweed was a ?ditch? of water. Ya know, the kind with the yucky stuff you don't normally want your child playing in. Well thats were Reese stayed the entire time. She did enjoy building sand castles, finding seashells and eventually she walked over and literally put her TOES in the ocean. She did not like the waves coming in and out and later told us the ocean was trying to take her away. I showed her how to write in the sand too. We fed the seagulls some crackers. She acted like they were scaring her but they weren't AT ALL! She kept throwing crackers closer and closer so they would come to her and she was smiling the whole time saying "shoo birds". She looked at me and one point and said "I really love the beach mommy don't you". So, I guess she had fun in her own way.






Saiges trip to the beach was totally different than Reese's. True to form she went right for it. We kept having to watch her VERY closely because she would just run into the ocean without either one of us. NO fear at all. She loved having the waves on her. The water would knock her right in the face and she'd say "do it again do it again" She wasn't out of the water much. I'm not a big water fan (or our water anyway because you can't see anything) so Aaron stayed in the water with her while I did the other stuff with Reese. One time Aaron said she was walking and a wave took her under water a little. I'm glad I didn't see that. :)






But heres a sweet one of the girls together.

Saige is always surprising me

My mom kept Saige for me this weekend. She does this all the time but usually has to bring Saige back to our house to nap because shes always been a "bad sleeper." She once cried from San Antonio to Houston nonstop. She didn't sleep through the night until she over a year. She would just cry and cry. So thats why we don't even attempt to mess with Saige's sleep problems. We have never even gone out of town. Shes a total mess :)


Well my mom decided to show off and try to get my hard/bad sleeper to nap at her house in her bed (no pack n play, no crib, nothing excpet some bedrails and a baby monitor) and she did it. She put her in there at 1:00 and she said she talked/played for about 20 minutes and fell asleep.

Heres the best part though. Saige LOVES her "baby". Its a security blankey she has slept with since maybe 6 months? and she still uses a paci. My mom forgot them at our house. She went to the store and bought her a new one and she took it? And slept for 2 hours. in a strange bed. with a strange baby. strange!!!

Julie and Chris's wedding.

We had a wonderful time. Reese was the flower girl so we got to go to all the events together. We got all dressed and went to the bridal luncheon, then later we went to Julie's penthouse suit and hung out. Reese got to take a bath in the BIGGEST tub ever. So fun! Later we went to the rehearsal and then to the rehearsal dinner. At the rehearsal Reese listened to the priest really well and did what he told her. By the time we got to dinner Reese was TIRED and HUNGRY!!!!!! She was AWESOME though! She ended up going home around 10 and was tuckered out.


The following day we got a hair done and Reese loved every second of it. They curled her hair and she drank OJ from a champane glass. She was in girly heaven. I swear she'd would love it if I mad her a pagent kid LOL! Kara stayed with us all day on Saturday as well. She helped get us in and out of the car. She helped with Reese while I was getting my hair done. I couldn't imagine doing that without her. Shes the BEST!


After the hair we went back to Julie's sisters loft and hung out. Poor Reese was tired, antsy and ready to do something LOL! I kept trying to make her stay still because her hair was falling. But she was so great.

At the wedding she rocked it. She walked down the aisle and stood very still. It was a long wedding so we sat and she went to sit with her daddy and aunt KK. At one point I looked at her to say hello and she held out her hands for me to hold her and made a face like she was going to burst into tears. Aaron ran out of the church quickly. He said they went outside and picked up leaves and dirt. :) She was so ready to move and play. By the time the wedding was over she didn't even want to take pictures but held out for another few minutes.

At the reception Reese begged Daddy to dance with her and rolled around on the floor LOL! Aunt KK took her home around 9 and she went to sleep in about 5 seconds in the car.

We felt so blessed that Julie wanted us in her special day. Reese was so well behaved and did a wonderful job!

Now heres a few pictures...


We did it this tight so that it would fall...it worked out great! But isn't she cute with the tight curls. Love her!!









I LOVE this one!















Heres Reese at the reception...DONE! Crawling around on the floor LOL