Harper with a handful

Harper likes to get to the very bottom of her yogurt by using her hands as a scoop so since she was covered in yogurt, I had taken off her clothes and she was running around in her diaper. Girls were upstairs playing while I cleaned up and Harper comes up to me in the kitchen with her hand up to me which I then noticed was full of poop.
Me, "Oh Harper,did you touch anything"
Harper, "My poop"
Yeah, I see that...

Silly Lily

Conversation with Lily today...
Lily, "Today is Elle (her friend) and Marting Luther Kings Birthday"
Me, "Really, who is Martin Luther King"
Lily, "He made the law and some dreams"
Me, "Ummm...kind of. He helped make laws that say everyone, no matter what the color of their skin, they get treated the same as everyone else"
At this point she just kind of stares at me like I don't know what I'm talking about, unfortunately, these looks will continue to get more frequent the older she gets.

Scabby!

I know, I know I'm behind. I have no excuses except Christmas, broke my foot, traveling, Mom & Dad here and you know, those 4 little girls of ours! I will catch up, hopefully this week but had to get this down before it slipped my mind.
When we were down in LJ, Lacy noticed a picture of a food pyramid on Mammy's fridge, we explained when she asked that it helps you learn what foods you should eat. She then said we should get Lily one since Lily doesn't eat her fruit & veggies. So, Lily again didn't eat much of her dinner and Lacy was still chomping away while I cleaned up.
Me, "Lacy, I love how you are such a great eater"
Lacy, "Not like Lily, we should get her one of those fruit calendars"
Me, "A fruit calendar?"
Lacy, "You know, like Mammy's fruit calendar"
Me, "Oh, the food pyramid"
Lacy, "Yeah cause I'm going to grow up big and strong and Lily's going to be SCABBY"
If you don't know, Lily is a horrible picker of mosquito bites and any boo boos she has access to & we're constantly on her about picking, not picking, leave her scabs alone but apparently, this is because she doesn't eat a proper diet!

That crazy girl...

Harper is still learning the rules of our house as she transforms from little toddler monkey to little girl and we're working on getting consistent (well,really me) with her as she's so darn funny & cute, it's been easier to let some thing slide. This week, she's big into pretending to be an airplane. While standing on her chair, arms spread out, yelling, "I airplane, Mommy, I airplane"
Me, "Harper, sit down"
Harper, "No"
Me, "No is not one of your choices, sit down."
She sits down for two seconds, back up again, "I airplane, I airplane"
Me, "Harper, sit down. If you get up again, you're done with breakfast"
Harper, "Ummm...no."
Lily chimes in, "That crazy girl needs to learn the rules of our home"

Harper is TWO!

Where did the past two years ago???? I've never been sad about the girls birthdays but I was a wee bit sad that my toddler is now becoming a little girl. A very opinionated, super charming, everybody loves her, class clown of our group two year old. I will always remember Harper as my best birth, I wasn't wacked out on drugs during my C section, I was able to nurse her and hold her right away, lots of visitors, cuddled with her on Thanksgiving watching the Macy's parade, nursed her while going through Black Friday ads...good times! Yeah, I'm ridiculously cute and I'm TWO!

Uhhhh...maybe I could open my own presents????

Elmo cake, first cake I've decorated. It didn't come out too horrible and since she's two, she thinks it's awesome. And Lily told me I did a perfect job so it must be all right.

Sporting her new Elmo backpack!

Family Pics

Soooooo....I'm behind on blogging. We had our family pictures done a few weeks ago and I LOVE them. Now that our family is complete, I've been itching to get pics done. The girls did great, had great help from our sitter/hairdresser/friend Kelly to wrangle the girls & Mia, our photographer was super impressed with how well the girls did. I know it's prideful but I feel so good when someone comments on the girls behavior like, "ok, we're doing something right". It's those moments when I have all of my little people and Jason together & I get overwhelmed with how unbelievably blessed I am to get to raise them & share it with our rock star of a Daddy.

Our new pet...

We have captured a "woolly worm" aka caterpillar! Girls found him out on the playground and my neighbor made the great suggestion that they put him in a jar. I wouldn't really mind except we already had some cups with elder box bugs that Lily was keeping as pets. Soooo...we now have a pet caterpillar, he lives in a big tupperware container, the poor caterpillar curls up into a tiny ball every time Harper squeals because she gets VERY excited when Lily takes him out to "play". Tonight, I asked Lily what we should name the caterpillar.

Lily, "Elle" Elle is her best friend at school
Lacy, "We should name it Lacy"
Jason, "How do you know it's a girl caterpillar?"
Lacy, "Daddy, because it has eyelashes!'