{ PEYTON'S CAPTURED SAYINGS }

April 2011
(2 ½ years)

• Famous Phrases:
o “Are you happy?” “Is Daddy happy?” “You happy with me?” Asks this after she gets off a timeout, and tons of other various times.
o “You makin me sad!” (if she’s getting in trouble or wants something and I say no)
o “You makin me mad!” (If the first sad phrase doesn’t work, she tries this one next.)
o “I want it so badly!” (when she wants something. A show, candy, etc.)

• “Daddy, I wuv you SOOOOO much! I gonna kiss your marm (arm).”

• At Sea World waiting for the 3D show. “When will the melmo show start? When allbodys sit down?”

• “I just did a toot in my mouth!” (a burp)

• Says “farkle” for sparkle

• Hallie was practicing somersaults and was so excited to show Peyton that she had mastered them. Peyton of course wanted to try them too. She tried a few times but it wasn’t working out for her. I helped her and she was so excited when she could do them too! She looked at me with a big smile and said, “Am I four now?”

• Peyton and I hit the gas station one day to get a fountain drink. Peyton says, “Thank you for taking me to the drinker store.”

• We had a really cool spider web in our backyard and had been looking at it earlier in the day. I overheard this conversation on the monitor while they were lying in their beds going to sleep at night.
Peyton: “Are piders scary?”
Hallie: “Spiders don’t hurt us. They just make spider webs.”
Peyton: “What if I run into a pider web? Will it eat me?”
Hallie: “Yes. It eats you, but it’s okay. You won’t ever run into one. So don’t worry. They’re really sticky.”
Peyton: “Stinky?”
Hallie: “Yeah!”
Peyton: “How do you get off?”
Hallie: “We can’t.”
Peyton: “Will it cut our nose off? And eat our marms (arms)?”
Hallie: “No Peyton.
Peyton: “oh. Do they just play with you?”
Hallie: “Sure.”
Peyton: “How do they get off?”
Hallie: “Don’t worry. Its okay, you won’t ever run into one. We’ll get it in the morning!” “They can’t bite!!”
Peyton: “DON’T use MY shoe! Use Mommy’s shoe!!!”

• I think Peyton and Hallie have been playing puppies too much.
Peyton: “Can I pet Kyler?” Me: “Pet him?” Peyton: “You are Kyler’s owner.”

• “I berry wiked it.” (after eating a brownie)

• While I was gone, Aaron camped outside in the backyard with the girls. He said, “Thank you for camping with me tonight.” She says, “You’re welcome for not crying tonight.”

• Lying in bed: “Rapunzel you are great. You can’t go down anymore. Pinky promise.”

{ HALLIE'S CAPTURED SAYINGS }

April 2011

(4 ½ years)

• “How high up does Heavenly Father and Jesus live? Like how high up in the sky? I think probably on the highest floating cloud.”

• “It’s SO hot! I’m melting like a piece of chocolate!” (at Sea World)

• The girls love to get socks on their hands and feet and pretend they are ice skating puppies on the tile. I got my camera out to take a picture.

Hallie: “Ahhh!!! Hurry run Peyton! Moms gonna take a picture of us. That is so embarrassing!”

Me: “I want to take your picture so you can remember this.”
Hallie: “Mom, I will always remember this moment! ALWAYS!”

• My sweet Hallie showed a new side of sassiness. I was so tired of cooking different meals for my kids and having them be so picky (yes, I know. I am such a hypocrite :)) So…one night I made a meal, made sure there was a few things I knew they would eat and put it in front of them. Of course, they both said they were not going to eat it. I told them that if they didn’t eat it for dinner, they would have to eat it for breakfast in the morning. And if they didn’t eat it for breakfast, they’d have to have it for lunch. And if they didn’t eat it for lunch…you get the point. Eventually they would get hungry enough that they’d have to eat it. Peyton decided to eat it. Hallie on the other hand…decided she was going to eat it for breakfast in hopes that I wasn’t being serious or I’d forget. I knew she would be stubborn.

Well morning came. Peyton and I had purple pancakes. Hallie…attempted to eat her dinner from the night before. Took one look at it. “Gross! I’m not eating it.” I made her sit at the table with Peyton and I and she was not allowed to be excused until breakfast was over. She tried to pretend like she didn’t care at all.

Well, before lunch time she started to get quite hungry as you can imagine. She kept saying she was just going to take a little rest in her bed. She “wasn’t tired”. Just felt like doing that. (I had explained how your body gets tired from not eating). She later decides she wants to eat it. I get it all out, warm it up. And again…”Gross! I’m not eating it.” I leave the room for a bit and see that she has hidden it behind the microwave in hopes that I wouldn’t be able to find it and she’d get to eat something else. Ha ha. Next, I see her take it out of the fridge, throw the tin foil away and when I caught her she says to me, “I took it out so it will go bad. And then you can’t make me eat it!” Hilarious! She was killing me.

Well…I didn’t buckle…she continued to try and find ways to get out of eating it. She finally said, “I’m not going to eat this ever! It is disgusting!” When she realized I was serious about it, she finally caves after I told her she knows the deal and then continue to ignore her whining. She says, “Okay! Mom! Listen! Here’s the deal! It actually is yummy but I will only eat it if you pick all the little things off it.” Ha ha. My little negotiator. I say no. She just has to eat it. Eventually…she ends up eating the whole meal (after lunch time).
It was quite the ordeal. I knew it would be. But…it has been SO great ever since. She knows that she has to try new things at meals now. And if she doesn’t, she knows what will happen. Of course, I am giving them foods they like for mealtimes, but I try at least once a week (if not more) to have a new item for them to try. It’s been really good for us. And it is for sure a lesson she learned. Because anytime Peyton says she doesn’t want to eat something, Hallie will remind her that she’ll have to eat it for breakfast and that her and I will be having purple pancakes and she will have to stay there until we eat them all. Ha ha.


• We had a really cool spider web in our backyard and had been looking at it earlier in the day. I overheard this conversation on the monitor while they were lying in their beds going to sleep at night.
Peyton: “Are piders scary?”
Hallie: “Spiders don’t hurt us. They just make spider webs.”
Peyton: “What if I run into a pider web? Will it eat me?”
Hallie: “Yes. It eats you, but it’s okay. You won’t ever run into one. So don’t worry. They’re really sticky.”
Peyton: “Stinky?”
Hallie: “Yeah!”
Peyton: “How do you get off?”
Hallie: “We can’t.”
Peyton: “Will it cut our nose off? And eat our marms (arms)?”
Hallie: “No Peyton.
Peyton: “oh. Do they just play with you?”
Hallie: “Sure.”
Peyton: “How do they get off?”

Hallie: “Don’t worry. Its okay, you won’t ever run into one. We’ll get it in the morning!” “They can’t bite!!”

Peyton: “DON’T use MY shoe! Use Mommy’s shoe!!!”

• While Hallie and Peyton were playing:
Peyton: “Oh thank you sir.”
Hallie: “I’m NOT a sir. I’m a woman. You keep calling me sir.”

• “Mom, it’s not that I’m shy. It’s just that I don’t have a lot to say! I’m not shy.” (she overheard me tell Aaron that her teacher said she was shy.)

• I went to UT with Kyler while Aaron and the girls stayed home. Hallie had asked dad why we couldn’t all go to UT. He tried to explain that it costs a lot of money to buy 4 plane tickets, etc. Awhile later she said to him. “Can we go visit Mom?” Aaron said, “No silly. We already talked about this.” Hallie: “But now we only need to buy 3 tickets.” (because I was already there.)

{ PEYTON'S CAPTURED SAYINGS }

February 2011

(2 1/2 Years)



So proud of herself for getting this awesome attire on



"I a worker!" (found this scene alot this month. No pants, hat on, drilling everything in our house.)

• “You happy with me mommy?” (Says this anytime she’s doing something naughty and can tell I’m not too thrilled.)

• I potty trained Peyton right before Kyler was born. We were at the store and I hear Peyton say, “Oh cwap! My panties are all wet! Oh cwap!”

• “yous best mommy eber!”

“My daddy is the best daddy eber!”

• “Will you fix this for me? It bwake (brake)! Totawee (totally) bwake! Totawee mom. Totawee!”

• Talking to Kyler, “Yous so cute baby. You perfect!”

• “Perfect! Just perfect.” (says this about everything)

• “I doin a gweat job.”

• “You so sweet.” (In a little motherly voice to Kyler)

• “Gwandma, you a booger poop!” She loved getting a rise out of my mom and would say this ALL the time. She thought she was so funny.

• If I ask Peyton to do something more than once she says all annoyed while rolling her eyes, “OKAYYYY!!! I AMMMM!!!”

• “Go check on Hallie.” (She says this if she wants me to leave the room so she can do something I won’t like (eating candy, throw her food in the garbage, put makeup on, etc.)

• Peyton was all dressed in her pjs and was supposedly “in bed sleeping” (it was late). My mom walks in the room and she was anything but sleeping. She was standing in the middle of the room with nothing but panties, high heeled princess shoes and a crown on. She looks at grandma, twirls her hair and says, “I’m a princess!”

• Calls washcloths “livytaps”. “This is my livytap!”

• Calls toothpaste “toothstick”

And...POTTY TRAINED!!! No more diapers! YAY!

{ HALLIE'S CAPTURED SAYINGS }

February 2011

• “I have a good rememory! My rememory is always thinkin!”

• “Peyton! There’s a difference about pee pee and poo poos. Pee Pee is just slimy and poopie is not.”

• “That guy looks like a monkey!” (talking about Steven Tyler on American Idol)

• “Peyton! You’re irritating me!” (learned this word from Martha Speaks.)

• “This is the most beautiest picture of all!”

• “Mom, when Kyler gets bigger and turns into an adult can I marry him? Will he get married?" I tried to explain that you don’t marry someone in your family.. and "when you get older, you will find someone that you love very much and you can marry him.

“But…I really really really love daddy!”

• “Peyton’s a superhero. So if you need anything just call Peyton!”

{ WEEK 6 }

{ SILLY PEYTON }

This girl has us laughing everyday. She cracks me up and is full of fun!

She LOVES Kyler. Always wants to be so helpful. Sometimes a little too helpful. But it's so cute to hear her talk to him. Anytime I try to take a picture of Kyler, she jumps right down next to him and smiles. It's quite comical.



And she is determined to get him to like her pink blanet. So nice to share. She doesn't just share that blanket with anyone you know.

And so happy to have a baby she can put her doll clothes on. This is how I found Kyler. She was determined to get those pink shoes on him. And the hat.

She is also the most indecisive child you've ever met! Even when getting a diaper for Kyler. She lines them all up by Kyler, and decides that whichever one he touches is the one we'll use (they have different characters on them). And if it's just taking too long for Kyler to touch one, she'll grab his hand and force him to touch one. But changes her mind 20 times before deciding. ha ha.

This is the best. It was only a matter of time before she started feeding her own babies right?! Oh man! Good thing it's a phase.

 They are going to be good buds. (At least until Kyler is big enough to tell her no to the pink blankets and dress up clothes.)

{ LINDSEY Visit }

A couple weeks ago, I had such a great day! Why you ask? Well for 2 reasons. One of my bestest friends from UT was in Austin and I got to see her! And two, because I met her at the outlets and went shopping kidless (well minus 2 kids, but close to kidless). It was so much fun! I love Lindsey! We've been friends since 7th grade and I can't imagine life without her. She has been there through thick and thin and knows and likes me for all the good and the bad. We are so completely different, it's quite funny.But we never run out of things to say and can always pick up right where we left off before. She's the best!

We met for lunch and then hit the shops for a bit. Lindsey has NEVER liked to shop. I have visions in my head of us shopping when we were younger. I would be on a shopping high having the time of my life, and she would be 5 inches behind me just following me around like a puppy dog complimenting my purchases. ha ha. Her mom would give her money and beg her to go buy new clothes. I could never understand why the heck that bugged her! I would be in heaven! ha ha.

Needless to say...I was shocked when we went shopping this time! I must have finally rubbed off on her. This is what she looked like before hitting the dressing room. It is a historic moment. I had to document.

Way to go Linds! I am SO proud of you! You made my day!

It was so great to see her! And so nice of her to make time to see me. Thanks Linds! You're the best!

{ St. Patty's Day }

We had a fun St. Patrick's Day! We are Irish afterall, so we must celebrate! I LOVE getting my girls excited about Holidays. It was SO much fun making their imaginations go wild as I told them all about leprechauns. I loved the questions they were asking me. It almost made me wish I was a kid again and still believed in all of this stuff. How fun!

Well...the night before, we made our leprechaun trap in hopes to catch him. Hallie made him a picture that was "golden" so he'd get tricked. Peyton's is next to it. They were so excited to do all this. We had so much fun. The box was colored, the items to "trick" him with were great (green leaves, sour patch kids, clovers, pennys, ribbon, a ball and sparkles), and they were ready. Hallie wanted to get right to bed so the leprechaun would come. Peyton thought it'd be fun to come out of her bed 50 times and ask if I'd seen him yet.

We woke up and ran to the playhouse in hopes that we caught him. But...we didn't! Dango! He left a note instead.

So...we followed his footsteps and clovers to find his special surprise. They were excited!

A little disappointed that we didn't catch him, but totally over it when they found he left them a treat! Hallie is determined to catch him next year!

We headed over to the park and McDonalds and the kids played SO hard. They had a blast!

Aaron and Kyler weren't as excited as we were about this AWESOME holiday! (Had a LONG day/night of working). HAPPY IRISH DAY!!!

{ WEEK 5 }

Chunked out the cheeks

Smiling more

Loves being on his tummy (and already flippin the bird :))

Loves to cuddle on me. I will miss the day he doesn't curl up in a little ball on me. I could seriously sit and stare at him all day. Too bad I can't huh?! ha ha. I love being a mom. I'm so blessed!

{3.9-3.15}

{ WILD THING }

The girls had their little dance performance a couple weeks ago. They were so cute. Here's some videos of them. They are always a little more shy when people are watching but they still did a good job. I got to watch some of their practices and it cracked me up. Peyton and Hallie are totally opposite when they dance. Hallie is the little ballerina. So serious, so perfect and making sure everything is just right. Peyton is the sassy crazy girl. Smiles and laughs non stop, shakes it and doesn't notice at all if she's done anything wrong. They were so excited to show dad their dancing. I love my girls and seeing them have so much fun together!

Watch Peyton's mouth on this next one. It's hilarious. Not sure what she's doing. I think she remembers that she should smile but then decides not to.

{3.25.11}

{ AWESOME AARON }

Me: " Hi Hallie, what you doing?"
Hallie: "I'm just comin in to get dad a pop. We're playing puppies in his truck."
Me: "Where's Dad?"

Hallie: "Oh, he's just out vacuuming the grass. Bye!"

Me: "huh? the grass???!!!"

I thought she was kidding. Until I looked out the window and saw this...

Yep! That's my awesome husband! Vacuuming our grass. He's one of a kind! I'm beginning to wonder if he's been putting in too many hours at the hospital :). I had to give a little look around the neighborhood to see if any of our neighbors were watching. ha ha. (On his defense...he says he's vacuuming the acorns that fall from our tree. He feels that it prohibits the grass from being able to grow :)). I'll admit, I can see his logic, but I still think it's hilarious! I do know one thing. We are going to have the best lookin lawn in town!

Well, at least he's cute while he does it and has some cute little helpers to keep him company. They love to be outside with him while he works in the yard. Playing puppies in his truck is one of their favorites.

On another note, I really am so thankful for such a great husband. I'm so blessed. He works so hard, is so great with our kids and helps me out so much. He's the best!