Today while we were driving to gymnastics after school, we were talking about the owl craft that she made and here's our conversation:
Belle: Mommy, owls are nocturnal.
Mommy: That's right!
Belle: That means they are awake at night.
Mommy: That's right!
Belle: We're turnal.
Mommy: Huh?
Belle: Turnal means you're awake during the day. But if you're awake at night, you're not turnal.
Just now we were watching Yo Gabba Gabba and they had twins in the transition segment where the kids dance around. She said "Hey! They're the same so they're boring."
Sigh. Another lesson that we need to teach her. Why do people have to be so complicated? :) Oh yeah, so that we won't be boring!
P.S. I did explain to her that although they looked the same, the twin girls were very different and had different things that they liked to do, so they really aren't boring.
I guess I need to pronounce "grilled" better. :)
So... Monday morning and afternoon, Nikki spent some time cooking nearly 50 brownie bites using her new brownie pops mold. She brought them, the other materials, dinner, and her kids over on Monday evening. The daddies came to eat too, then we got started on our treats. We tried to get the girls to help us, and they did for a little while, but they quickly lost interest. I guess it was the combination of doing the same thing over and over again 20 times, hearing the daddies playing on the Wii, and the long waiting periods of bordom in between their "jobs" that made them decide that they were "done helping". Annabelle and Halle both came back to the table to help a couple of times, but that didn't last long. So, Nikki and I were left to make the treats.
The spiders turned out absolutely adorable, but my witch's hats... no so much. I used cookie icing to make the ribbon and buckle around the base of the hat, and that wasn't such a great idea. It was too runny and just went all over the place. The only good thing about it was that it made it look like the kids really did make them. :) While I was waiting for the witch's hats to dry, I started playing with some of the extra brownies to see what else I could make. I had a bunch of leftover eyeballs, tons of orange (runny) icing, quite a few cookies, and time, so I made a monster, a ghost, and an owl. I made a couple more, but then got back to helping Nikki with the spiders. We finished up the spiders, put them on the creative spiderweb paper that Nik made, then called it a night. As I was cleaning up, I decided that I really didn't like the witch's hats but I really liked my little monsters and ghosts, so I used the few undecorated brownies that we had left and made more of the monsters and ghosts. They were so easy to do, and I've got a thing for orange and green monsters right now anyway, so I loved them and had fun decorating them. :)
Here's a couple of pictures to demonstrate one of the times that Annabelle came back to "help". She helped Nikki with putting icing on the brownie to glue the brownie to the cookie for the witch's hat. So... here she is helping...
And, seconds later, here she is noticing that something exciting just happened on Mario Baseball.
Immediately after that last picture, she once again proclaimed that she was done.
Last week we went to Pump It Up with Corgan's school girlfriend, Sydney. As a double-bonus, Grammy & Papa came too! It's crazy that the kids were all big enough to go on everything all by themselves without needing assistance. Of course, this doesn't mean they didn't ask for us to go too sometimes anyway. Pump It Up during the school year is awesome because we pretty much have the whole thing to ourselves (and sometimes we really do)! It's great!
One of the funniest pictures that I got during this visit is this picture of Sydney:
During this visit, I was just telling Sydney's mom, Emily, about the crazy picture that I got of Annabelle playing at Pump It Up when she was about Sydney's age (see below). She was jumping so gravity did some crazy stuff to her face, and gave me an idea of what she might look like when she's 80. While Sydney's picture isn't quite as extreme as Belle's was, it's funny that I was just telling her about that and managed to end up with a similar picture of Sydney in the same trip! Also, looking back at Annabelle's picture, she really was within about a month of Sydney's current age. Crazy!
In case you didn't see it or have forgotten Belle's "old lady" picture, here it is:
All of the pictures from our day of Pump It Up with Sydney (with a Grammy & Papa bonus) are up on our photo gallery.
About a month ago, I all of the sudden had this thought of "Did Corgan already have his 2 year checkup?" I honestly could not remember if I'd scheduled or even taken him to one yet! I had to call the doctor's office to find out that I hadn't. So, I scheduled the appointment, and today, nearly 2 months after his 2nd birthday, he finally had his 2 year checkup. :)Everything went smoothly. He's up to 36.75" and nearly 32 pounds. All milestones seem on track. Corgan was a good boy (despite the relatively long wait from the time that they took us into the exam room until the doctor came in for the exam), and our doctor continues to impress me with his ability to relate to the kids... even a generally hostile-towards-strangers kid like my Corgan.
The doctor told me that he's still on the fence about the H1N1 flu shot, but that if he decides to recommend it to his patients in a couple of months (after he's seen more results from it), then he'd highly recommend it for my kids because they've got the nebulizer. But he said that right now he wouldn't even give it to his own kids. That's kinda refreshing to hear from the perspective of all doctors not jumping on the H1N1 vaccine bandwagon and knowing that he won't really recommend it until he really believes it.
P.S. Isn't my Corgan so adorable reading the Curious George book in the doctor's waiting room?
Annabelle's favorite part is the "rainbow soap" (the soap comes out in pink, blue, and yellow stripes). She gets so adorably giddy about it, while Corgan cries away in fear. It's crazy how they can have such different reactions. :)
Keith: "Awe, Buddy... what happened?"
Corgan: "I throw up."
Keith: "Where?"
Corgan: "My mouth."
:)
Grammy and Corgan loving flying high with Dumbo:
Kelson loving "It's a Small World":
We caught a Main Street parade which featured lots of the characters, then took in the Country Bear Jamboree, which I haven’t seen since I was a kid. Although I was bored by the bears, Corgan really liked it so it was worth seeing them. :) We rode the Haunted Mansion. Annabelle actually got a little freaked out in this one because of the dark parts. Keith and Annabelle did the Stitch ride, but she wasn’t a fan (I’m told Stitch has stinky breath). We also went to Tomorrowland to do the Monsters Inc show. I was surprised, but Annabelle was getting into the show so much that she was raising her hand and yelling “Florida” over and over again when the Monster asked where everyone was from. I’m sure she would have clammed up if the mic had actually been put in her face, but it was really cute to see her excited about the possibility of attention like that because it’s so outside of her personality. Uncle Jason did actually get picked on to be a part of the show so everyone was excited about that. Even though I’ve been to it before, I think the Monsters Inc show is one of my new favorites.
Annabelle on her favorite ride at all of the parks:
We ended up calling it a semi-early day at Magic Kingdom because we had a long night ahead of us. We had our tickets for Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween that night, so we headed to our respective Disney homes to get naps for the kids and get them into their costumes.
Kelson and Annabelle were both adorable little Minnie Mouse characters and Corgan had a last second costume change and ended up wearing his Spiderman pjs. The kids were all excited about trick-or-treating at Disney and about getting to see the park at night. Kelson really got into the character dance parties, and even got Annabelle to join in a little. The highlight of the night had to be the kids discovering their love of Goofy’s Barnstormer. The girls went on it 3 times, but Corgan had enough after two rides. I’m sure the girls would have just kept on going if we would have let them. If you’ve never been on the Barnstormer, it’s actually pretty crazy for a small kids’ roller coaster. We were comparing it to a miniature version of Thunder Mountain, but our little thrill-seekers loved it! We finished the night with a wet ride of Splash Mountain. One of the big benefits of paying for the extra “Halloween” hours was the fact that we could pretty much walk right on to every ride. It was great!
Enjoy more pictures of our day at Magic Kingdom and our night at Mickey's Not-So_Scary Halloween.
Around 4:30 am she woke up and we found her sitting at the bottom of the stairs in the hallway crying. She said she had thrown up, but I think it was more drooling than anything (none of the other kids with this virus have thrown up, and there was hardly anything there). She was really upset! She kept saying that the bugs were getting her. There weren't any bugs though. When we had come home from the mall last night, a bunch of bugs came in the front door with us, so I guess that's why she dreamt about that. But then it got worse.
She said she wanted to come sleep with us. Since she wasn't feeling well and had just woken up clearly disturbed from a nightmare, of course I said yes. As we were walking toward the bedroom, she stopped me at the door and said "What is that line?" with fear in her voice. I didn't see a "line". I turned on the light for her, and she continued into the room. I brought her into my bed and left her with Keith while I went to get her some water, fever medicine, and her blankie. When I got back, she was sitting up in bed, pointing at the bathroom, and talking to Keith about seeing someone looking in the window in the bathroom. Then she started talking like someone was actually inside of the bathroom. She said "Why is that guy peeking out at me?" Keith and I both said that we didn't see anyone. She pointed and kept saying "He's right there." She said something about him walking past the door. Then she said "He's going up to the window [in the bathroom]." At this point she wasn't acting like she was scared as much as she was frustrated that we didn't see "him". We kept explaining to her that she was just seeing the plant in the window. She still insisted that someone was in there, so I told her I would go in and turn the light on. She was scared for me to do that, and honestly I was kinda scared at that point because she was so adamant about seeing someone in there! I went in and turned the light on, showed her the plant (from her seat on the bed), and decided to go ahead and use the toilet while I was in there. She got all freaked out that I had disappeared since she couldn't see me from the bed when I was on the toilet. When I got back in the bed, we told her she was safe, I turned on the security system to show her that no one could get in our house, and we turned on the tv to distract her and provide a little light. We also got her new pjs to wear because she kept insisting that bugs were biting her inside her footie pjs.
After watching a couple of shows, she went back to sleep and seems to have slept off most of her virus. She hasn't even had any medicine yet today, and seems to be feeling just fine now. She's still a little warm, but just like with Corgan, no eating issues or anything so I think she'll be 100% before we know it!
