Sweet Sisters

Lately Alley has been very helpful with Dresden.  She has been giving her baths, which is a huge help to me and she says Alley gives her "gentle" baths...I guess that means mine aren't so gentle...??  :)

Last night Dresden was in my bathroom while I was putting on a little make-up before going to our church small group and she said something about Alley helping her with something, I can't remember what it was now, but I asked her if she thanked Alley and she said, " Yes, Alley is a nice, nice, nice, nice girl."  She said it slowly, like she was saying several different things about Alley but could only think of "nice"!  It was very sweet!

Alley has also been reading The Babysitters Club books that I read when I was about her age and so she is trying to "practice".  I have told her it will be awhile until she is really old enough to take on the big responsibility of babysitting officially.  She did keep all the little kids, including Megan, entertained in the basement of the house we were at last night for small group and she did a great job.  She is growing up MUCH too quickly!

25 Random Things About Me

Okay, my sister tagged me for this so I'll give it a try!

1. I have 2 sisters and if you take the numbers for my birthday (3-19) and my next sister's birthday (8-4) and add them together (month with month and day with day), they add up to my last sister's birthday (11-23).

2.  I made it to 30 years old before losing a grandparent.

3.  I read Little Women in 4th grade.

4.  I have lived in six states, some multiple times.

5. I have lived in Europe.

6.  Even though I lived in both New York state and California in my childhood, I did not fly on an airplane until my 24th birthday.

7. On my 24th birthday, I flew to Germany to move there.

8.  I was the first baby born on St. Joseph's Day in St. Joseph's hospital in Kansas City, MO and I had my picture in the paper with nuns to celebrate!

9.  I could eat Italian food every day!

10.  My favorite movie snack is Junior Mints and I'm not a fan of popcorn.

11.  I have had one baby without pain medication. (and three WITH pain medication!)

12.  I have no musical talent whatsoever.

13.  I enjoy reading, writing, and proofreading/editing...anything to do with words.

14.  I got engaged and married exactly one year apart.

15.  I have never been hospitalized for anything other than having babies.

16.  I have two fake teeth to fill in spots left after braces.

17.  I like to watch 24 and LOST with Michael after they come out on DVD (yay for Netflix!) so we can watch all the episodes in a short period of time instead of watching them with the rest of the world on TV! :)

18.  I went to Paris for 19 hours and did not see the Mona Lisa or go up to the top of the Eiffel Tower.  I did see the outside of the Louvre and I stood underneath the Eiffel Tower.  Awesome.

19. I enjoy rubber stamping as a hobby.

20.  I drink my coffee black.

21.  I hardly ever wear lipstick.

22.  I love homeschooling my kids and watching them learn new things...I learn new things, too!

23.  I like keeping up with old friends on facebook/blogs.

24.  I collect "grape" things for my kitchen and Eiffel tower/Paris things for my bedroom and plates from the different countries we have visited.

25.  My sisters are two of my best friends...we've shared so many unique experiences over the years during all of our moves and I talk to them both at least twice a week even though we live far apart.

I'm going to tag Alley, my 10 year old daughter, to do this on her blog.  http://alleygator.zooblogs.com.  She can consider it a school assignment!  :)

Baby Book Entry

I was talking to my sister this morning and was telling her a couple of funny things that Dresden has said lately and so I remembered that I should put them on here so we can laugh at them in the future. :)

In a recent post I mentioned that Dresden was saying things like "pink one room".  Well, she just stopped saying it one day and I miss it :) but she has now begun talking about her "great great grandma".  As far as I can tell, this is a fictional person she has made up, possibly like an imaginary friend, since she has never met any of her great great grandparents.  One day a few weeks ago I couldn't find a pack of my gum.  I finally found it in the refrigerator and asked her about it, assuming she did it.  She said, "My great great Grandma put it in there."  Since then she has told us that her great great Grandma is a "big giant that reaches up to the ceiling" and various other unbelievable details.  Today, Michael mentioned a documentary about sharks that he was going to watch and Dresden said, "My great great Grandma likes sharks!"  Who knows how long this phase will last...she is our first child that has had an "imaginary ancestor" so this is all new to us!

We also sometimes tell her she is silly after she has said or done something silly.  She ALWAYS-without fail- responds with, "I'm not silly, I'm funny!"  She might come downstairs with a silly-looking outfit on and we'll say, "You're silly!"  not even thinking about her usual response but she always remembers.  The other night, Michael was taking the Christmas boxes down to the basement and she was talking to him about something and he told her she was silly.  She said, " I'm not silly, I'm funny!" and he said," No, I'm funny and you're silly."  And she said, "No, I'm funny and you're silly!"  And he said," That's what I said, I'm funny and you're silly!"  This went on for several more rounds and it's probably one of those you-had-to-be-there moments but it was cute (and funny and silly) and I wanted to remember it.  She is quite the character, to say the least!

Megan isn't entertaining us with cute words yet but she is keeping us on our toes!  She has been crawling since right around the time we put our Christmas tree up and has just been getting faster and faster.  She is also now pulling up on everything!  She does say one word...if she sees her reflection in a mirror or the car window she usually says, "hi".  It's very soft and sometimes it isn't any more than just the "h" sound but sometimes it is pretty clear.  She will also sometimes say it back to us if she is in a very happy mood, like when she first wakes up in the morning.  So sweet.

She is currently on two different antibiotics...one for thrush which she takes once a day and one for a bad ear infection that she developed last week which she takes twice per day.  She hasn't done too bad taking it but it is alot to keep up with for 10-14 days.

I'm going to try to get my Christmas pictures uploaded and a post about our holiday festivities posted very soon!  Hope you are all enjoying 2009 so far!