What a Day

I knew today would be full of fun already at breakfast. Jayden would not leave Miya alone. She kept standing up by the highchair, grabbing the tray, and pulling. She had to reach on her tip-toes to grab it; almost to the point of hanging from the tray. After she would white-knuckle the tray both girls would start laughing until Jayden fell down. Then it would start all over again. Jayden so wants to be just like her big sister (and her big sister can't seem to leave her alone these days). The next event for the day was laundry. The girls decided to do the laundry for me while I was doing something in the kitchen. Once again I noticed it was very, very quiet...except for Jayden's giggle every once in a while. So I grabbed my camera and went to check it out. Jayden was sitting in the middle of a pile of clothes that Miya was pulling from the 'clean, FOLDED' laundry basket and throwing on the floor. I asked her what she was doing and she said "I help you fold laundry mom". I replied with "thank you for your help Miya" One of the pictures below shows Miya just after she whipped a shirt into the bathroom!!

**Photos have been removed due to an forseen (by me) necessity that need not be seen by others! :)**

While I re-folded the laundry, Miya started a new trend. I know it will quickly catch on in all of your households too! I'm not sure who was the first to sport the halo of stickers, but I couldn't resist the cute photo op. Just so you know, there were no tears pulling Jayden's out. The verdict is still out on Miya...she wanted to wear them for her nap :)
What will they think of to do AFTER their naps??

Happy 50th Birthday Dad

The 19th will be my Dad's 50th Birthday. So we decided to throw him a SURPRISE party this past Friday. It worked (barely), he had no clue. I think it was the first time he didn't know something. I have a video of him but it's very hard to see because of the lighting. If anyone knows how to lighten it up please let me know. I would love to show everyone the SCARED look on his face as he entered in the house! Thanks to everyone that came to the party and waited forever....

Sleeping

This is a picture of Jayden sleeping durning her nap today-might I add her very, very, short nap. She didn't want to sleep today and was determined not to fall asleep. Well, she ended up falling asleep for about 30 minutes, sitting up in her crib. After her nap she stood up by the railing and called (cried) to get out. I guess when she's tired enough she'll fall asleep anywhere!

Five Minutes

I was folding laundry in the laundry room for no more than five minutes this morning. Just before I went in there Miya went running into Jayden's room because she had just woken up from her nap. I told Miya to play nice with Jayden and then went to fold the laundry. I was bringing the folded clothes to Jayden's room and noticed it was very, very, quiet. I figured there must be something going on. At first glance, all appeared to be fine. On second glance I could see Miya's guilty face and a couple of air heads (candy) in her hand. On third glance I noticed Jayden's mouth was completely red. A more in depth look showed that Jayden was enjoying a cherry red air head. It was all over her face, pj's, sheets, bed, pretty much everywhere. I asked Miya what was going on and she said it was snack time because the timer went off; which it had because we were making cookies. So she was sharing her snack with Jayden. I couldn't get mad at her. She was sharing one of her candies, which is very precious to her, with her sister. They were having a great time eating and playing in Jayden's crib. The joys of motherhood!

Little Jayden

So tonight little Jayden decided that it would be fun to try to climb into the bathtub. At the time she was the only one in the bathroom (Miya couldn't be left out and quickly jumped in the tub to be in the middle of it all), Jeff looked over at her and saw her lifting up her leg...like a dog. She kept doing it. She then started to climb up on the wipes container before lifting up her leg. Her goal was to get into that empty tub, especially when Miya was sitting in it.

What will she try next??? Riding a bike?

M-I-Y-A

For some reason I'm unable to upload the video of Miya spelling her name. I'll keep trying. In the meantime here are some pictures of the girls.

When in the kitchen, Jayden's favorite place to play is by the stove. She sees her reflection in the door and gives it kisses. She LOVES giving kisses. Especially to the younger girls at church (Brylynn, Brittany, Anika, and Riley)...they think it's great too and keep coming back for more!

Miya with her Daddy!

As you can see, Jayden is a go-getter around Miya. Whenever Miya is reading books Jayden wants to try too. However, Jayden prefers to eat the book, not look at the pictures. Only board books for Jayden!

Miya always to tries to hold Jayden like this, actually she tries to pretend Jayden's her baby. This is one time that Jayden actually played along without screaming for help!

As you can see by the clothes, all these pictures were taken on the same day. They were not poses, I promise. I've been trying to good pictures of the girls playing and they both happened to have 'good' days on the same day. :)

That's all for now. Thanks for checking out our blog. It really is fun to do if I can stay on top of it. If anyone else wants to start one it's really easy and I'd love to help you...Glenda, Tonia, Marcy, Sandee, Dawn (I could keep going but I won't). I would love to see pictures and hear of what's going on in everyone elses life.

Saying Prayers

After reviewing our blog I noticed that we don't have many videos of Miya lately. So we did some catching up tonight. These will probably have to be in different posts due to the size of the videos...if they fit at all. The first is of Miya "tucking Daddy in" on the kitchen floor and saying their prayers. She usually says them better but I know everyone out there understands....kids won't do their normal thing when the camera is on. The second is a video of Miya "coloring" as she calls it. She tries to spell her name as she doodles (thank you again Uncle Kyle for the cool Christmas present). FYI this is Miya's normal (if you can call it normal) Saturday night attire...nightie (complete with fleece and footie's) and of course, curlers for that pin-straight hair.