B.S.C.

Jamega

The girls and I went to church this morning. It was, once again, a great service.   Our interim pastor rocks.  I was even able to use the message from today to explain something to Annie about an incident that happened last night--she was having a hard time getting over it. 

Anyway, with Daddy heading in to work and then flying out for a business trip later today, I decided to take the girls to breakfast.  And if there's one thing they love to do, it's go to breakfast.  

When Annie was 3/4 of the way through her toast, she noticed the jelly packs.

If there's another thing she loves...it's jelly packs.  This particular jelly pack was marionberry and not a generic brand like the photo above.  After I spread the jelly on the toast, she proceeded to lick the little pack clean. A feat she accompliashed so fast, I didn't even notice, let alone have time to stop her.  

Upon leaving, she got real sly and sneaky-like and whispered, "I'm taking one home to have on toast later today."

She put it in her pocket.  Which, in this house, is a scary thing based on what I've run through the washer. 

On our way to the grocery, Annie proudly pronounced that she was naming her jam "Jamega."

To which we all laughed. 

And then she said I'd better not take a picture of it and put it in project life.  

She's on to me.

It's a good thing she doesn't know about my blog.

the prize

Annie came into my room this morning and snuggled up with me in my bed.

 "I just love this blankie," she said, getting under my big, soft, blue blankie.  "I know you're thinking 'but she just left her blankie to get in mine.'..but this has another prize...YOU."

snuggle, snuggle. melt, melt.  

 

hilarious

Annie started a little art class today.  It's after school for the next few mondays.  When she brought the paper home a couple of weeks ago, she was SO excited about it. She wants to be an author/illustrator so she HAD to take the class. 

When it was over, she came skipping out of class, all smiles. The assignment was to draw Skipper (as reported by Annie) , you know from the Penguins of Madagascar.  If you know our family, we LOVE the penguins.  If you don't think they're funny, then you have no sense of humor. 

This was her drawing.

"I drew him with the coconuts and hula skirt because I thought it would go with the background."

"Did you get this idea from the instructor?"

"no"

"Did anyone else draw skipper like this?"

"no"

HIlarious.

follow through

Every night, when I get in to bed, the first thing I do is put my feet on Eric's legs. My feet are always freezing.  Even more so now that I wear my indoor flip flops all the time.  No more socked feet for me with my foot issues. 

I'll be honest, it's not a habit he loves...but he endures. 

A couple of nights ago, I hopped into bed and put my feet on his legs.

"WHAT IS UP?!"  He asks questioningly.

"HUH?" 

"Your FEET. They're so SOFT."

"OH. It's my new year's resolution...keeping my heels soft.  I just filed AND moisturized."  

So anyway, I'm making good on a resolution.  Nothing a belt sander and extra strength moisturizer can't help.  

I'll leave you with this.

and then this

She spent roughly 50% of her day doing this.  I think she peed 10 times last night.

misunderstanding

We had just left the mountain on sunday when out of the corner of my eye I saw Annie lean over to Gracie. I heard her ask in a soft voice, "I've been meaning to ask you this since last year, but can you tell me what it was like to fall off the chair lift?"

Oh boy.  

Annie has been adamant about not going on the chair lift EVER. EVER. EVER. 

A: She's nervous about the "big hill"

B: I guess she thought she might fall off the chair lift

On Gracie's first time on the chair lift last year, she waited too long to hop off so the instructor grabbed her coat and pulled her off.  Not being experienced at all, she fell as she hit the snow.  Apparently, Annie misinterpreted this to mean that she fell many, many feet from the chair lift. Uh, no.

Hopefully, we've ruled out point B as a problem and maybe she's one step closer to making it to the chair lift. 

I have my doubts.  

oh annie

That girl is DEFINITELY feeling better.  I feel like for the end of November and all of December, she just wasn't quite herself. Not my sparkly, cheerful Annie. 

This week we saw a return to the Annie that I knew was in there.  She was perky every morning and took great joy in getting ready for school.  The kid LOVES mornings--she even said at sunday school today that that was her most favorite time of the day.  She loves picking out her clothes, picking out her headbands and she finally started taking care of her own hair.  She even made her own lunch a couple of times this week. yippee for me. And she's been full of funnies and her usual quirkiness every day.  

This morning I went into her room to check on her progress in getting ready for church and she was setting her dolls up, taking pictures of them with her instant camera so that she could scrapbook them. 

she took a picture of Isabella making money as a street musician

At breakfast today, she couldn't decide between sausage and bacon...can't I get both?  Yes, one of each. NOOOOOO, I want two of each.  She agreed to one of each on the condition that I would order more bacon if she wanted it. Fortunately, she ate Gracie's left overs and I didn't have to order more. 

What do you love most about your breakfast Annie?

ALL OF IT!

She got home from the neighbors tonight and busted out with 

"I'm gonna take my pants off!"  

WHY???

She was hot.

Duh.

But this morning during sunday school, which I had the pleasure of helping with, she really got me.

The teacher asked the kids to draw a picture of one thing they would ask for from God. While most kids were drawing cats, dogs and cartoon network, Annie was drawing a picture of a person.

After she finished drawing, she came up to me and whispered in my ear.

"I would ask for Grandpa back"

 

December Daily Day 2: Annie's Birthday

done.  see previous post for a run down of the day.  it was a fabulous.  

sparky is currently putting up the exterior illumination. the roof is slick. i just called to make sure the life insurance policy was updated. 

have a fantastic saturday. 

December day 2: Annie's birthday

Busy, busy. And Annie is still sick, sick.  101.6 her fever was (this evening).  She made it through the day ok though.  

Frost doughnuts and a PJ party at school on top of a half day.  Her class collected 40 pj's to donate to a local organization.  Very cool!

Then she had her party right after school, for which Gracie played hostess. She had all those girls sitting and coloring, then she dmonstrated the craft and helped them all, herded them to the out room and made sure they cleaned up their toys when they moved on to something else.  

I see party planner in her future.  

Annie picked red robin for her birthday dinner.  We surprised her with Kanani and the grandparents gave her some Kanani accesories. I think she had a banner day, save the high fever upon coming home from dinner. 

At dinner I asked Annie if she had made a wish when she blew out her candles.  She said she forgot but that her wish came true, "I'm right where I want to be."  

uh, excuse me while I go bawl big, fat baby tears.  I love that kid.  

Having a hard time with this birthday.  7 seems so much older than 6.  6 to me, is still little.  7 is not.  I can't even talk about it because it makes my heart want to leap out of my chest. 

Annie at school on her birthday/PJ day!

No december daily pictures. I think I need to be a day behind.  So look for day 2 tomorrow!

just pray about it

Last Sunday, we were on our way to church and out of the blue Annie asked me how she was going to have time to spend with her children if she was and illustrator.  I told her how it would be a great job to have if she had children because she could work from home and do her drawings during nap time, late at night or while the kids are at school.This seemed to satisfy her.  

Then of course the girls started arguing about what they wanted to play when they got home.  Annie didn't want to play the same thing as Gracie. So, I told Annie that she could pray about that at church.

As we were exiting the car to head into church, Annie says "I'm not going to pray about what to play." Me: "Oh, really?"  Annie: "Yeah, I am going to pray that I don't have four children because I couldn't take care of them all."

success

the first day of 1st and 4th grade was a success!

the girls woke up to a little morning first day celebration.

and then they were very patient while i took some pictures

and i fell in love with them all over again in this dreamy light

miss gracie wore a shirt from the nordy's sale, tractor shorts and purple converse

and how cool are her shoes?  i want a pair.  unfortunately she picked a scab right after she put her shoes on.  we had a little blood to deal with.  she was freaked out that it might get on her new shoes.

she was so cheerful and independent this morning.  it was a little bittersweet.  and i was very thankful that they were so excited to take pictures.  i think it was the sign.  she was so excited about it that she wants to save it for her scrapbook.  

once home, she reported having a great day.  her cheers at dinner time was to a great first day of school.  she, DID NOT, however want me going through her back pack.  she emptied it out on her own.  cleaned out her lunch bag and gave me the papers i needed.  i don't know how long that will last, but i sure liked it!

this one woke up first this morning.

she came out of her room dressed and went downstairs to look for me-i was drying my hair-when she saw me she said that she saw the decorations downstairs already, but she could pretend to be surprised when we went back downstairs.  ha!  i assured her it wasn't that serious.  i think she had flashbacks to the christmas morning the flip recorder wasn't on...

anyway, she was so excited this morning that she was practically bouncing off the walls. miss annie chose to wear a cute little plaid number from crazy 8 complete with a matching headband.  she had matching clogs but they are still a little big.  sadly, the cute pair of shoes from nordy's that she decided to wear turned out to be not very comfortable.  grrreeeeaaaat.  that's money well spent. 

3 things about that picture 1. there's that dreamy light again 2. when i see that sweet, happy scrunch face i want to cry 3.  what are we going to do when annie stops wearing headbands?

when annie got home, she reported having a great day, loving her teacher and making a new friend (her locker partner).  success!

this one was really giving me a some nice smiles today.  

the bus was a little wonky. it came from the other way and the kdis all scrambled to get to the other side of the road so all i got was this.

they had a great afternoon and evening playing with friends, going on a little bike ride (annie is finally motivated to ride her bike and realizes she's the only six year old in the world who still rides with training wheels), a nice dinner with mommy (that i have to report with joy...EVERYONE ate and i didn't cook anything extra...unabashed bragging here...my girls asked for seconds of broccoli. BROCCOLI.) one 1/2 hour show and then reading before bed. 

happy new school year!