Bicycling

Emily has officially mastered the balance bike. She rides in circles with her little legs sticking straight out! And man is she fast!

Andrew has also made progress with his bike.  For the past few weeks he has been stopping without falling over (finally) and as of today he can push off all by himself!

The time I botched his hair...then shaved his head!

A long time ago I used to cut Andrew's hair.  We took him to a salon for his first haircut around his first birthday.  Every hair cut after that I did for about a year and a half.  Then he decided that I couldn't cut his hair anymore, he said I "cut ears"...I have never once cut his ear!  So for the past year or so Andrew has been going to get his hair cut with his dad.

Then a few days ago he came to me and said he needed a hair cut and he wanted me to do it.  We set up in the garage, as soon as I started cutting he started screaming. And not just a little fussing, I mean screaming like I was beating him, I was a bit surprised none of the neighbors called the law.  And he wiggled too.  I should have just aborted the mission, but I persevered and he ended up with a pretty terrible hair cut.  The funny thing though, when it was all over, after all that screaming, he turned to me and said "that wasn't so bad mom!"  Ha yeah right!

Well, we lived with the terrible hair cut for a bit, but then I just couldn't take it anymore and buzzed all his hair off!  Andrew LOVES his buzz cut so I guess that is all that matters, and turns out he really likes having his hair cut with clippers. The new do was a big hit at preschool today too.  His dad hates the cut.  It is growing on me, he does have a nice big and perfectly round head for it! And the way this kid sweats, I bet it feels good to have no hair on his head!  I do miss his hair, but it is only hair and it will be back in a few short weeks!

Funny things they say

These two keep me giggling all day!  I always try to make a note when they say funny things so I can remember them when they grow up :)  Here are some of the funny things they have been telling me lately

The other day Andrew was playing with a toy T-Rex and he told me...

"Mom, I am kind of scared of dinosaurs.  Are dinosaurs like this alive?"

"No, Andrew, dinosaurs are extinct"

"They are NOT stinky mom!"

"Not stinky...extinct"

"Why are you calling dinosaurs such mean names, mom?"

"I am not calling them names, extinct means they don't live anymore"

"Oh........so they are all dead!"

Emily, she really is 2 going on 16 I think.  She is so full of attitude sometimes.  Both Andrew and Emily usually have really good manners, always say please and thank you, but sometimes Emily just doesn't want to.  The other day she climbed up in a bar stool in the kitchen, crossed her arms and said.

"Dad, get me some chocolate milk!"

"Can you say please?"

"........yeah..........."

"Are you going to?"

"Nope!"

Sometimes, their interactions with each other make me giggle the most.  Several weeks ago, they were sitting at the dining room table.  Emily started screaming because her brother was looking at her, "He is LOOKING at ME!!!!!"  to which Andrew replied "Sister, I am just looking at you because you are so beautiful"  HA!  She didn't even know how to respond, but she quit screaming!

Em totally turned that one around on him though.  A few days after that, we were getting in the car and Andrew was upset about something and was fussing.  Emily was looking at him because he was crying and that upset him even more, "Quit looking at me!!!!"  She quickly responded with "I am just looking at you because you are so handsome!"

Back to my 16 year old daughter.... We were in the store the other day and she saw some sparkly pink jelly shoes.  She ran over and grabbed some "OH Mommy! I NEED these shoes!"  She sat on the floor, pulled off her shoes and socks and started trying on the jellies.  Emily loves shoes, but she would hate jellies.  They are pink and sparkly, which is just her style, but she hates when she gets dirt in her shoes or when her feet sweat, so she would hate jellies.  I told her "Emily, we are not going to buy those shoes today".  Her response..."OH mommy, I will DIE! I will just DIE if I don't get these shoes!!"  We didn't get the shoes, and she is still alive today.

T ball champ!

Andrew's last T-ball game was last Saturday.  He isn't really a T-ball champ because there are no winners in 4 year old T-ball, but he is pretty awesome...and he got a trophy :)

Aunt Jenny came to see Andrew play his last game.  Emily was pretty happy about that!

Emily also got in some balance beam practice while she was there.  She is pretty much all gymnastics all the time, always doing backwards somersaults off my couch and straddles in my dining room.  Both Andrew and Emily are back to doing Saturday morning gymnastics now that T-ball is over.

Here are some photos from his T-ball season...

It was so cold every single morning the whole season long, Emily was such a diva about the cold!  Andrew, he never complains about being cold, I am half convinced he can't feel cold!!