Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! :)

Well, Grandma sent some ADORABLE Halloween Costumes just in time.
(They arrived
Halloween day
at about 3 pm!)

So glad they did, the girls were

such Beautiful Princesses!

Mia came in yelling, "Mommy, mommy, Kaylee needs to fly up in the sky!"

My other favorite of the night was watching Kaylee's inventive way of trick or treating. . .
no need to wait for anyone here!

My Girls Rock!

Today, might be the only day that you hear me say Arizona rocked! Where else can you go water skiing mid October on a beautiful afternoon 95 degrees! Yep, and all the other fellow Arizonians are such whimps (I mean the water was only 75 or 80 degrees) that there was hardly anyone on the lake! :) We got beautiful water and beautiful weather. (At least for a Washington girl.) So here is the real reason for the post. My girls 3 years and 1 1/2 years rode the tube with me!:) And I have pictures to prove it! They rode for about 10 min or so and did
GREAT! I must give Kaylee

(the youngest) the credit of being first though. Then her big sister decided to join us when she saw her little sis do it. :)

The unfortunate thing was that at some point my leg got a cramp. Mia wanted to lay down on the tube and I thought it would be a great idea if we all did. Well, Kaylee laid down, Mia did and then as I went to get myself comfortable (because of the slow speed) our tube did a nose dive in the water and acted more like a submarine than a tube. So I am trying to pick up two girls out of the water, and lean back myself to try to get the tube out of the water, it was sinking deep. :) Of course now they go from having a ball to crying hysterically. :( But I don't care. I don't think there are many kids who have the guts to do what they did at their age! I have never been prouder of them! :) (I know most of you wouldn't understand- but being a water baby myself, loving water skiing more than (dare I say) life itself, I just can't stop beaming of how awesome my kids are! Sure they didn't get on the tube again after that, but I am hoping that in a 6 months or so when we go again, the submarine saga will slip their mind and only the happy pictures here will make

them want to go again. :) (I can't help but be proud, their boy cousins that are slightly older haven't even gone on the thing! :)
OH YES KAYLEE IS STANDING ON THE TUBE!
NATURAL BORN SKIERS!

I need to give some props to My In - Laws!
Especially my Mom-in-law. I love her to death and she just rocks! Anyways, she got on the tube with her hubby too! I hope that we are the fun grandparents that they are! :) What a fun, fun day!

Some Randomness

So Mia asked her dad for a Popsicle, and upon finishing it asks him to throw it away. Mind you she only had to get off her chair, and take 2 steps to the can, Dad is across the room. I said, "what's the matter Mia, are you legs broken?" she looked up at me in all seriousness, "No, they not broken." and waited till her dad waited on the princess. (I have no idea where she learned this from. :) )

I saw a TV show with a scene that optimized my sister. ;) I will just tell is as IF my sister did it, because, it could happen any day now. :) Upon an argument with a family member she walks to the door, opens it and turns to say "I would walk right out this door right now if I had any money or a place to go."

I was folding laundry or something and I should have realized sooner than I heard the beeping of buttons being pushed on the stove that my girls were being "too good for too long" so they had to be up to something. I see them, cooking on the stove, plastic bowls of fish crackers on each burner. Luckily they were only trying to turn on the oven, because there is no beeping to catch the attention of an unsuspecting mom on the knobs for the units ! :) So I explain that they can play on the Toy kitchen we got them, but not on Mommy's kitchen because you can get burned etc. ;) Not five minutes later my 1 1/2 year old Kaylee is standing on the counter cooking something in the microwave. . . I guess they listened ?!?

I am still deciding if I am a bad mom or a good teacher. My 3 year old gets into the freezer and gets out an ego and puts it in our toaster oven by herself. My 1 1/2 year old can run the TV, VCR and DVD and know the differences for each. She even holds the DVD with one little finger i the whole in the middle, and sometimes I will catch her wiping it off on her shirt like I do to clean it. :)

Mia has now discovered super mommy spider ears and will often hear her baby crying, from in the van where she left her. Her baby also tells Mia that she needs to sleep in Kaylee's crib when she wakes up and that she needs certain night lights on.

As I stare at the mess of a house I am procrastinating cleaning by typing this, I see the Foosball table. Which my daughters also love to bring chairs to stand on to reach and play with. On day Kaylee learned her lesson. She decided to crawl up onto foosball table. Again I would have had no idea except that she started screaming because her sister decided to whack her legs with the men instead of the ball, she stood, screaming and trapped as her sister whacked away.

I am afraid that this did all happen the same day. Wow what a day! :)