The Sisters… An Update

Grace just posted a life update on her kiddos… Got me thinking it might be a good idea. I'll try not to get too sappy.

M - Mother, why am I here???

E - Mother, seriously? Another picture?!?!

E
- Loves school and is missing it during the summer
- Sings Christmas songs pretty much any day of the week - mother's daughter in that regard
- Loves to swing super high and sing random songs from school
- Screams bloody murder at the sight of a dog
- Builds Legos almost everyday
- Claims she wants to do ballet but then at the last second changes her mind

E instructing R on how to trace bodies

And it is not going as planned

R
- Call her sisters Bill-lis and Mon-Ka (one of them is not a fan and the other thinks it's hilarious)
- Hates peanut butter but loves peanuts
- Not a huge fan of showers and really not a fan of the sprinkler much to big sister's annoyance
- Commandress of numerous bumps and bruises and scrapes but generally no worse for the wear
- Mostly potty trained but her laissez-faire attitude to wet undi-wears is not helping her cause
- Loves playing with E but does not like getting yelled at by her so she will stick with M who is happy to get the attention

Flower child

Girl has the craziest way to sleep

Sisterly love

Except when you pull my hair

M
- Sleeping through the night some times - making me really love the mornings she actually does
- Eater of lots of food - those little squeeze food packs are awesome and she's the first Kibbe to use them
- Loves throwing her sippy cup on the floor. Repeatedly
- Not much into sitting up or crawling or growing hair
- Best naps are taken while at work while in the bathroom with the fan on - nothing like a cool dark room with white noise , ya know
- Sometimes will hold her breathe for no reason. Maybe she'll be a swimmer one day

Haha, nope not crawling today

So stinking cute

Hello : ) 

What are you looking at?

Giving Gymnastics a Go

It is that time of year to start thinking about what spring activity E wants to do. She has been given the option of gymnastics or soccer. The Y in The Mount lets you do a trial class so that's what we did this morning.

I did not have my expectations set too high - or at least I did not think they were. There were six girls in the class and two teachers. E has fun warming up and doing the different stations. 

Then all the kids got to take turns bouncing on the trampoline which was a big hit. 

Overall I thought the class was a bit disorganized for there being two teachers there. But then I was thinking about how 3 yr old soccer looks and it is super disorganized. Any how, I was not overly impressed and now I am kind of hoping that E will choose soccer or swimming over gymnastics but we shall see… 

Five Favs - Open to interpretation

Here's some written riddles (or not so riddles) of recent

1. This is what my Monday morning pulling out of the driveway looked like

2. This is how our Monday evening ended...

Anyone who does not already know what E penned, please try and guess. There are six words in this note and I think most of the letters from all six words are there... I will reveal the words next week - and give some explanation.

3. Hanging out at Nursing Mothers of Wilson

Because breastfeeding is not always easy and there are 10000000 things/questions that come up so talking to other moms about it makes what M has on much easier. (and seeing other older infants there totally made me want to soak up my time with my 2.5 week old : ) 

 

4. In 2018...

After our anniversary dinner Lee and I both filled this 5 questions for 5 years from now little survey I made. It is silly I know but we did not share our answers and signed the back of the envelope and threw it in the safe for a little comedy/competition on 11/1/18.

5. True Story  

So it has not happened yet but I am SURE that it will. I spilled some pumped milk when E was little and it brought tears to my eyes. Then I was over it but then the same thing happened with R. Third times a charm for not crying... I doubt it : )

My Morning in Pics

This morning's meltdown brought to you by the color brown : )

NO BROWN SHIRT! MY LIFE IS RUINED!!!

Yesterday E was obsessing over wearing brown... She NEEDED to. Well her brown leggings were in the dryer so those were out. Shirts with brown - also in the dryer - and would not be ready for school. So she grabbed the brown tights (from last year that maybe slightly small) and ran with them - and her navy/glitter tutu dress - which did not match in the least but then I realized I have bigger problems that my 3 yr old wearing something matching to preschool. 

Blast forward 2.5 minutes - 

Me - E, why do you have to wear brown?

E - Because we are not learning about Sammy Square anymore...

Me - {puzzled} Was Sammy Square brown? 

E - No...

Get to school and talk to teacher... Apparently brown is the color for November AND in circle time the kids are asked to point out the color of the month - clothes, shoes, hair, eyes... SO by wearing brown E guarantees she is going to have an article of color to point out {she's a smart one}. 

Which totally makes sense because the past few weeks she HAD to wear orange (October) to school - but that did not always happen. 

So anyways, today E was wearing an orange shirt with brown owls BUT the girl decides to spit toothpaste on it... and not just a little so the pic is her realizing the consequences of said tooth cleaning actions... And the fact she does not have another brown shirt to wear... 

Oh preschool you complicate my LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! {Sometimes}

Maybe I should just get a brown hairbow she can wear everyday? Brown shoes?

If you don't think I don't already know next month's colors... think again. I got the inside scoop - they are black and white. 

7QTs - This post is brought to you by... 3 yr olds and all the ridiculous antics I can fit into one post

{Nani says I'll miss stuff like this}

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Yesterday morning E was not being a super cooperative 3 yr old. Have you met any? Specifically in regards to getting dressed - by herself - which she can do. Nothing matched. She wanted to wear a jumper like R. Then she had to wear a sweater but she did not have any clean jeans and then it was back to the jumper but the purple tights did not match the pink jumper and then the jumper did not have white in it so it did not match the jumper ei-der and then the white shirt did not fit because it was too small. All in a span of hmmm... 3 minutes. I sent her off to the brown chair to pout in her fashion woes by herself. 

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We managed to leave the house at the time we were supposed to be at school. The dishwasher was not loaded - no surprise. My bed was not made - shocker. The girls room had blankets and animals everywhere - did I mention we're doing a pre-Christmas purge? And to top it off the darn humidifier that we got for the girls room is not working! Oh and I'm 39.5 weeks pregnant. 

So instead of focusing on the morning and how I should have been making the bed and loading the dishwasher before the girls got up - instead of loading pics for this post. I'll make a mental note of better decisions I can make and remember E is 3. 

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Along with the other silly 3 yr olds on her soccer team. While we are forgetting recording for memories sake about soccer how about Monday was picture day and E REFUSED to take an individual pic or be in the team pic. I am seriously going to call the photo people and see if I can get a copy of the pic of me holding her in the pic and her screaming. It would totally be worth the $10 bucks, right? I think so! Side note: And if you think she got her juice box and snack at the end of the game... think again. 

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Moving forward to the game portion of the evening... E was very mad that we were not on our usual field and had to be on the one right next to it. Sometimes I do think she is mildly OCD. 

I told her before the game at home, if she scored a goal we would go get ice cream. I am no stranger to bribes... How do you think we got through potty training?!?!?! So this idea movitated her to be out on the field longer than normal and actually kick the ball a few times. But as soon as the other team came up she would have nothing to do with the ball. {There was one girl on the other team who was a ROCKSTAR and probably scored at least 7 goals}. Now that was impressive. But as the game went on... she stayed out there but then would not kick the ball at all. She had a half way open lane to the goal and I put the ball in front of her and said one, two, three kick it. Its your turn. I got a resounding no. No. No. On

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Oh but the Caterpillars... we were doomed from the start because of our mascot right? Ehhh... I have no idea really but at one point I think I was standing out on the field after the other team scored a goal and there was only one lonely Caterpillar out there with me {there's supposed to be 4 players on the field}. It was just a hiliarous scene I am sure. One overly pregnant soccer coach begging for kids to come play. Hopefully I am not the crazy soccer coach who has scarred this kids for LIFE : ) They are just 3, right? So they will do... or not do whatever they want whenever they want. Even the coach of the other team came up to me during the game and asked "Do they normally do this... just run off the field"... My response, "Oh yeah, this is very normal for us" : ) Oh well... I hope there is some fun being had by these kids. Maybe they won't look at their first soccer trophy and think man we lost every game - like I do when I see my YMCA Blackberries trophy. I was 5 then and we did lose EVERY SINGLE GAME... There's hope though. I totally stuck soccer out for the long haul despite the epic season of the Blackberries. The Blackberries? And you thought the Caterpillars was a silly mascot!

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Okay enough with the lack of photographic evidence to present my case....

This is E last night... Pink tutu... Hello Kitty pajamas... swim class with her animals in her room. Now let's discuss what matches my dear child. I did not need to take any pics of her room because... well she had done something similar a few night before. 

So around 8 we go down the hall to check on the girls and this is light shining from the crack of the door. Not a surprise but the nightlight USUALLY does not give off that much light. Open the door to this. Big overhead light on. Animals lining the room. Blankets spread out. R fast asleep. Supposedly E was 'organizing' her animals... Okay great... but you may not turn on the big light because that might wake up R. 

If you look hard enough you can see R is in the crib most definitely... asleep

Solution to big light problem... Flashlight. 

And that was the problem last night when she was out in her tutu... She could not find it and was FREAKING out about it. Fortunately we convinced her to use Papa's 'dirty-ish' blue one

Both nights have ended up with her asleep amidst the mess her animals 

Hey as long as R does not wake up I really have no problems with pre-bedtime organizing/playing/whatever-ing as long as it is QUIET!

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In case you missed my September update, here's a G-E-M from the beach that I totally forgot about...

E- What are you doing?

Uncle Kevin - Digging a hole

E - A rabbit hole?

Grammy - He's digging a hole to China

UK - To get Chinese food.

E - Oh, don't forget the cookies

And Uncle Kevin had his iPad at the beach and instead of being clobbered by E CONSTANTLY... He download this free drawing app... Here are a few of the more telling pics of the week. 

Uncle Kevin and E on the boat 

Uncle Kev, E and R on the boat except E was responsible the water, hair and faces.

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E's 3rd Birthday Recap

Better late than never...

E and R were sick on the day of E's planned party so we had to move it to her actual birthday - which worked out really well. Here's a few pics of how the 3rd birthday went down. E was on an Ariel kick at the time so everything was Little Mermaid - even though she had not seen the movie or anything like that!

Birthday Balloon

Birthday waffles

R giving them a whirl

Going to school...

No princess party is complete with take home cups and crowns!

R diligently working on E's bday card

Feeling way big with a crown and crayons

Hi... I'm 3

Oh the unspoken attitude!

Post nap / pre party excitement!

Not walking but wearing a crown!

The big girls siblings!

Checking out the presents

And opening them too

R taking a break from the present opening

The Little Mermaid cake was a HUGE hit!

Little Mermaid Cake!!!

Getting ready to blow out the candles!

3 yr old bliss!

Cake, cake cake!!!

Birthday Ballerina!

E's birthday was a success for sure. The food was great and I was so happy with the way the cake came out. HT did not have a Little Mermaid cake option so the baker said to bring the figurines and he would make something up - hats off to him! E and her friend had a great time. There was not a herd of kids to crisis manage and break up squabbles which was nice. E scored some pretty great presents. We were so happy that our family and friends could help celebrate E's 3rd birthday : )