Drawings

Reese LOVES to draw. She asks for markers and crayons all the time. She usually draws animals or people. Heres a few she did today. One is a giraffe and one is a girl-she was practicing making bodies. I think she did pretty good! :)

bows

I got together with Aimee to make bows! It wasn't the easiest thing every but wasn't too hard either. And SO much cheaper than buying them at the store. The pink ones were my first and I think they are a little messed up. But I got it down HA! I plan on making some more and making them a little fancier next time. :)

Allie

Our big golden retriever Allie is really scared of everything but especially thunder. This day she jumped up in Saige's lap and kept nudging her hand for Saige to comfort her. It was funny! After a few minutes Saige said "get her down"

Babies

Saige loves babies. Real are even better for her. She adores Annie and really any other baby she can get her hands on. She even tried to pick up a 6 week old baby at chick fil a not long ago. I'm sure the parents were loving that! She will take Annie's paci in and out. I know Aimee loves us but I'm sure it gets old. I know it does for me. If we go to a play place and theres a baby she won't play but will sit by the baby the entire time. Its so funny/frustrating!

But she also loves her baby Abby (pictured below)!! She carries her everywhere and takes such good care of her. Its just precious to watch! She will be such a good mommy some day!

Oh the fits!

Two year olds are their own kind of beast. The other day Kara and I went shopping-looking. But we went in and out of 4 stores. By the time we hit the third store Saige was done with the stroller. Even her McDonalds lemonade wasn't going to make her sit. Fine. I held her into Ross and tried to put her in a basket. As I lifted her up she screamed about as loud as her little body would allow (it was loud) and then kicked her legs back and forth like a mull. People were staring. I wonder what they were thinking.

So I thought FINE! but she was walking. I was done holding all 28 pounds of her. I put her down and grabbed her little hand. She was having NO part of it. She threw herself down on the ground -crying-and threw her little head back. I heard a loud bang and then got a horrible look from some woman. I won't repeat what was going through my head at the moment bc of that look.

I held her and again tried putting her down. She threw herself down again but this time we were at the back of the store. Reese walked over to her and said "GET UP. WE DON'T DO THIS!" and Then looked at me and said "lets just leave her"! LOL!!

Finally I scooped up my two year old and we left. We still managed to hit Target but gave Saige a cookie to sit still in the basket. She did. Happily too :)


She is such a funny little thing. Even though there are days when we have fits in stores with horrible stares from people I wouldn't change a thing about her. She cracks us up and is really SO sweet! Just very very determined.

Prayers

I have been trying to teach Reese a bible verse of the week. Well, for the last two weeks anyway. But its a start. This weeks is


This is my command—be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9

We've talked about it etc. Well tonight we were in the middle of our prayers when the dogs started barking LOUD. I knew that meant Aaron was home but she didn't. It scared her really bad. She almost started crying. I told her to remember what we learned that we aren't going to be afraid because we know God is with us.

Here was her prayer seconds later...

Dear Jesus,
Thank you for the day. Please don't let me be scared of the dogs barking loud and thank you for mommy because she teaches me the bible.

MELT.MY.HEART!!

I love this kid!

Fun with friends

We went to the Discovery Green Park with Carrie and her crew. The kids all had fun. Saige and Reese kept climbing through one of the fountains-like under the water? I don't know how to explain it. But it was getting smaller and smaller and Saige kept trying to go under it when it was totally impossible. It was so funny! I wish I had a video of it. We stayed for a while until a LARGE group of daycare kids literally swarmed the fountains-all fully clothed! I left my camera but I was able to snag these off of facebook :)