Lovin' It

So, Mattie loves the swing... and Liliana loves pushing her in it.  The clip explains it all.

Carnage

Our house has become a house of carnage.  It's a morning and evening ritual, especially on the cool, wet days and evenings - sometimes as a family, other times as individuals - we stalk our prey and protect our garden boxes from being ransacked by slugs.  I won't provide any pictures of our "kills" as we try to maintain a modest G to PG rating site, not to mention they are pretty disgusting.  Yes, every morning and evening, we go outside with our salt shaker - it's a good thing that we bought a 50 lbs bag (yup, we bought a lifetime supply) and have plenty of salt to put on these suckers.  Even the kids are involved - Liliana loves to spot them out for us and Mattie desperately tries to grab for the salt shaker, trying to get it to her mouth.  

For those of you not familiar with this method of disposing of these creatures, it is a secret carefully guarded and passed down from my older brothers down the chain and now I pass it on.  Good luck to those of you who suffer the same problems as we do!  

willing response

Well Jacob was on call tonight so LIliana and I were doing scriptures just us two. She grabbed the regular book of mormon (as opposed to the picture book of mormon) and I started to read the first verse, "I nephi, having been born of goodly parents..". After I read that one line I (with a smile on my face) turn to liliana and ask, "do you have good parents"?, She did not even have to take a second to breathe her answer was out to quickly, "no, you didn't give me a Popsicle when i asked today, you did not let me wear my black dress when i wanted to today, etc...on and on the list went"
I was just sitting there in total shock. I mean, I was expecting a "yes i love you mommy you are great response (or even her normal response, which is, I love mattie, or i love daddy, she still thinks she can only love one person at a time)..but instead of being a 'goodly' parent i was the one who had all these things worth complaining about...it was just a hilarious moment..to think my 3yr old had just a quick response to my question...what did i do, you may ask...
well, what any 'goodly' parent would...i pretended i didn't hear a word she said and just kept on reading the scriptures...
also another funny thing she said
She bumped her nose on her chair pretty good and was crying. She told me what happened and I said, "you tell that chair not to bump your nose anymore!"...she looked and me with a straight face and said, "I can't, it doesn't have a face".
true, true, you are right there...

Translation, Please!

Liliana is trying to learn a new word: squirt.  It all started yesterday morning while enjoying an orange together.  As she would bite into the orange, the juice would squirt at her.  I was laughing and asked her if the juice was squirting onto her.  She replied that it was and we finished our orange.  

She choose to try her hand at this new word in the middle of the night.  She woke up and was fussing a little.  I went to see what was going on.  When I asked her what the problem was, she replied that she had "air squirting out of her tummy".  Not knowing if I had heard her correctly (I'm not exactly the swiftest of the bunch when awoken at 1:30 AM), I asked her, again, what the problem was.  She repeated her problem "I have air squirting out of her tummy".  Not knowing what to do with this problem, I asked her what she wanted me to about her problem.  She told me that she wanted a blanket on, so I readily complied and went to back to bed.  

The next morning, I asked her if she still had air squirting out of her tummy and she told me "no, not anymore, I'm awake now".  She then explained that when she has air squirting out of her tummy, it means that she is cold at night and wants a blanket on.   So much for thinking we both speak English!

 

Growth

There has been alot of 'growth' around the ol homestead.
Both girls have grown taller and heavier just in the last month.
jacob and i have been growing even closer together as work takes so much time that when we have time, we really relish it.
and then,
there is the garden...our new pride and joy. we inspect it every day, to see the amazing way that it just grows, slowly and surely.
We are doing "Squarefootgardening" this year and love it. Iwould recommend it to anyone, there is a website that goes along with it. It is seriously the easiest way to garden and still get loads of vegetables. We even grew all of our own seedlings this year (a first for us). So we just bean when we look at it.
We have already harvested our first batch of radishes, lettuce, spinach, and swiss chard...
These pics were taken a few days ago and already the garden looks twice as big...

exercise (in patience)

Well tonights plan was to get the children to bed and be a couple...so...after dinner, we get ice cream cones (FHE around these parts)
then we are off on a walk (i.e. " you are getting very sleepy, just relax and close your eyes")
Mattie is out in the first 10 mins of walk and liliana is complaining about everything (her normal for when she is about to fall asleep and is fighting it)...but, she is a fighter, so we keep walking. We walk farther then we have yet to ever walk, and she is still carrying on about how tired she is and when are we going to get to her street with her house on it (she wants to fall asleep in her bed). We of course just want to arrive home with two sleeping children and transfer them, and then go about our QUIET evening...well we arrive home, mattie still asleep (mind you she has been sleeping for 30 minutes now in the carrier on jacobs back), liliana stays in the stroller (plan B, jacob will now go running with her as the method to get her to sleep and his exercise). so we carefully take mattie upstairs and the minute we hit her bed she wakes up, I try giving her the 'sleepy' juice, but to no avail, she is up and ready to play (afterall she just had a powernap). I told jacob not to come home from running this liliana was asleep. Well after being gone an hour i hear the door open...liliana comes bounding in and Mattie starts squeling in delight at the return of her noisy sister..tired jacob comes in a little bit later, he has just run over 6 miles (not just any 6 miles mind you, he had to listen to a 3 year old jabber his ear off with "why" questions all the way home).
So I take my 3yr old and get her into bed. I then try to nurse baby to bed and her way of letting me know what she thought about said plans was to give me three bites in a row (oh, the things one endures!!!), I quickly close shop ("I will show her"!), and place her on the floor in my room..she is a happy playing clam (Its 9pm), jacob enters the room and says that he will take her on a walk (again)...so I am hopeful that the baby will return asleep, although I wonder if this is just the children's way of making sure we get some exercise:)

Surfaced

well it has been awhile since I have gotten on to post. I have surfaced (come up for air) and thought I would put up a brief post myself.
Liliana has spent the last 8 or so months getting together every Tuesday morning with her friends for Craft morning...(the kids would participate in a craft, have snack, and then play-us mommies would have snack, take personality test and die laughing about one anothers results, chat about our changing mommy bodies, etc...)anyway...as I was writing this, well in under 10 minutes i have gone from happy surfacing mommy to, " I have nothing nice to say to any of my children" mommy...I going to get a bowl of Ice cream and go to bed..but before that, here are some quick pics of her end of the year craft morning party...