Take the Stage

I know it's been a while.... okay, more like a couple months since my last blog post.... I HATE that I haven't written lately, because we have been doing so much as a family! Sometimes it seems like too much as obviously I haven't had time to post all the fun things we've been up to. Well, here's one of many blog updates....

Take the Stage...

Jenna has always had a passion for music, but she was just so stinkin' cute this morning as she draped her blanket over the picnic table and grabbed my hair brush to sing to the radio. It was too cute. I tried to get a video of her, but she wasn't as cute as when she thought no one was watching,... Here's a little video of her an Julianna rockin' out;

"Little Mommy"

I think girls are just born to be little nurture-ers. Jenna, for example LOVES to play house with Jayden as her little baby.... I catch her all the time like this:

Sweet little girl, that boy is almost as big as you!

Ouch!

This is what happened at Kroger while she was coming out of the bathroom and the door got a hold of her toe.

Jenna-Girl

My sweet little girl just gets more and more precious each day.....  <3

A Little Princess

 Jenna-girl has always been a mommy's girl. She used to be our "rough and tumble" girl - which she still can be, but she's really into princesses now. Last night I decided to give her a trim, but she kept moving and her hair trim turned into a hair cut....I think it still looks cute - and at least its even - what do you think?

 One of my students' parents' had given us some old princess outfits for the girls to play with. There's a little black ballet onsie, a sleeping beauty dress and the one Jenna's wearing below. She's playing in the playroom - gotta have the princess crown, the dress, the shoes and of course the bracelets on!

 My little princess has such a good imagination - I love watching her play!

Although when cleaning up, she really does think she's a princess and gives Josh orders as to how to clean up! That's when mommy has to bring her back to reality!

Sharing A Room...

I love the fact that the girls get along so well and that they actually enjoy one another. The problem comes in preparing for nite-nite time and getting them to understand that we don't climb into the crib to play; we can't stay up tickling for hours past our bedtime; and we definately can't play hide-and-go-seek with the blankets and each other when we are supposed to be sleeping. Here's a little video of what I catch Jenna doing almost every night....

The solution? I haven't really found one yet other than to make sure Jenna goes to sleep first. Sounds simple, right? It would be but usually Julianna is the one who needs to go to sleep first. We used to set up the pack-n-play in the playroom and then just put the girls to sleep separately, but being that a new little one will be needing that in a few short months, and we really don't want to ignore the problem, but deal with it, we decided not to go that route. Instead we usually have to give a couple spankings and keep a close eye out on "michevious giggling" until both are asleep. I have to say though that each night the time it takes gets shorter and shorter. Soon we won't have to say anything at all, but they will know bed time means bed time!