KK's last music class

KK had her last music class today. I think it has been her most favorite activity we have done. She likes it much more than gymnastics. Her favorite part has been playing the violin with the teacher. She lets the students that want to move the bow while she does the notes. KK loves moving the bow and it is fun to see when she goes fast and when she goes slow. Here is a picture of her with her teacher:

























Aly has been getting herself into quite a bit of mischief lately. Her newest thing has been to sneak things. Today she decided to sneak candy so I told her the new consequence was that we were going to throw away what she sneaks. Prior to that she decided to sneak some paint and made quite a mess at the table and on the chair. The chair is covered with off white speckled fabric. Luckily the paint was washable and I was able to get it off.

Here is the cute picture I took with Aly yesterday:

New Haircut

I keep forgetting to say that KK has only woken up one time each night for the past four nights. YEAH!!! I am definately feeling more rested. I am sure you are wondering if I have done anything different. I did try turning the nightlite off in their room. I only have one in the hallway. So maybe that made a difference? I also kept being consistent about putting her back in her bed everytime she came in my room. (I only had that one relapse that night she came in 5 times) So hopefully KK will continue sleeping better and someday not even get up at all. It is amazing what a good night sleep does to your patience level;-)

Yeah, lucky me, I was able to get a haircut today. I just went to the local cheap beautician but I think it turned out great. I will say though, I was pretty nervous when I walked in because the hairdresser that I had looked like a 50 year old biker chick. I am glad it turned out well. Hope you all think so too. I was able to get a cute picture with Aly too but I don't want to post too many pics today so I will post it tomorrow.









BTW the curl you see in my pictures is natural thanks to my second pregnancy with KK.

Movie Day

Well today was my lucky day! I was able to go see the movie Licensed to Wed with a friend. It was a really good movie. You know how with some movies you are just sitting there wondering when it would be over? Well that never happens with this movie. It keeps your attention the whole time, has a sensible storyline, and keeps you laughing. If you have the chance, this movie is a must see!

After getting home from the movies we had a family water gun fight. Well, mostly hubby and I were chasing eachother around and Aly was trying to squirt us. She took my big water gun over and traded me for her simple little gun. That made squirting Daddy really hard for me. We all enjoyed it though and it was a good way to cool off from the heat. Our clothes pretty much dried within twenty minutes.

Family dinner at the table was a nightmare. KK just wanted to sit on my lap, which I no longer allow her to do. So since I wouldn't let her sit on my lap she screamed the whole time and skipped dinner. Aly didn't want to eat anything but the corn on her plate so she was constantly trying to negotiate what she could eat and getting upset that we weren't giving in. Dinners like these make us question why we are trying so hard to have family dinners. We certainly don't have these problems when we let them sit by themselves at their little picnic table.

The Developing mind of a 4 year old

Well first off I have to start by telling you a funny comment we heard today from Aly's friend Nick. We were watching him for a few hours today. He brought some cheese puffs and when I handed him the bag he said, "Each one you eat goes right to your butt and it gets bigger and bigger and pretty soon your butt will be too big to fit on the toilet seat!" He is only 3 by the way, very funny.

Now I have to jump to something Aly said to her Daddy tonight. They were coming into the house after playing squirt gun fights outside. When she came through the sliding glass door and into the kitchen she wispered to her Daddy, "Daddy, Let's just sneek some icecream sandwiches and not tell Mommy." Pretty funny that a four year old would say this to her Daddy. She has recently started sneaking things from the pantry. #1 Clue I know, I find her hiding under the kitchen table eating something. Daddy has found her with a wrapper up her shirt. I guess eventually we will have to get more serious on the subject. When I have found her sneaking candy I have just put it ontop of the fridge. Perhaps I need to start throwing it away or something more drastic.

Check out my outfit!

I have to start this post out by showing you a picture of the outfit Aly chose to wear yesterday evening. She has recently became independent and finds her own clothes and matches them according to what she thinks goes well together. Well, the cutest part about this outfit is the frog socks that she just had to wear. My friend Amy bought them for her for Christmas and didn't realize at the time that they were for adults. Aly doesn't care, she thinks they are knee socks. The other thing that makes the socks so funny is that they are thick furry fleece socks. Yesterday it was 100 degrees out.

Today we got a phone call early this morning asking if we could move our satelite installation appointment up to today. I was really happy because we weren't suppose to get it until next Wednesday and today hubby was off so he could help figure out where to put it. Well the satelite guy arrived at 10:30 this morning. Guess what time he left? Can you believe he didn't leave until 4:30? I couldn't believe he was here for 6 hours. I felt so bad for the guy. First he tried the roof of our three story house, then he tried the tree that my Dad originally got us our satelite signal from, and finally he found a signal on the RV carport next to our house. He kept telling us the whole day, "I will not leave until I get you a signal, I have never failed!" Boy was he right. We are now enjoying much more service for much less of the price! If you live in my area you should definately request this guy!

I just have to add this last photo I took of KK yesterday. It was so cute and I couldn't resist!

Fireworks in Placerville

I can't believe what a waste of time the Placerville fireworks were. I swear they only lasted five minutes. I am so glad we didn't pay the ten dollar fee to go into the fairgrounds. We went up to the Placerville library parking lot and watched for free. I couldn't believe how quick and simple the show was. It was not worth the thirty plus minutes it took us to leave and get on the freeway.

Earlier in the day I took the girls to the Pollock Pines parade. I would say 70% of the parade was cars or trucks driving advertising their businesses. It was pretty funny. Quite a country bumkin kind of parade. They threw candy to the kids so KK and Aly really enjoyed that.

Hubby was off work and spent all day between yard work and pimping his jeep. I have been with him since 2001 and this was the first time in six years he has washed his jeep. He even shampood the seats. It looks pretty nice now! He said he wants to eventually lift his jeep and get bigger tires.

Kids do the darndest things

Yesterday I ran into Raley's to get one of their yummy Tri-Tip sandwiches. I am waiting in line looking at the chicken strips and when I look down KK has taken off her shorts and diaper and is half naked right there in the middle of the store. I was soo embarrassed. I couldn't believe she had done that. I guess I had it coming and it was only a matter of time. She does it at home all of the time. Her diaper was wet so I couldn't easily put it back on. I had to put her shorts on with no diaper. Of course once I got to the car I put a new diaper on her. Hopefully this won't happen again. I better keep a constant eye on her in public.

Today I spent time making a photo book for Aly for her first year of life. It was so hard to dig up all of the disks that we had her photos on. KK will be much easier because by the time she was born I had taken over burning photo's and most of them are on DVD's. I think her entire first 15 months of life are on one single DVD. I know the rest are still on my computer so I am guessing that book will go quickly.

Some exciting news came today. My brother was able to switch weekends for our trip to visit him so we can go to hubby's company party at the State Fair. I am so excited. We went last year and had a great time. I am guessing now that KK is older it will be more fun for her as well. I am glad that hubby is willing to go. Normally he doesn't like to go to company functions. This week marks the 5 year anniversary for him at his company. The good news is he now earns and extra week of paid vacation. The bad news is he really doesn't like his job.

I hope to post some more pics in the next week. My goal eventually is to post pictures to go with one or two posts a week. Hopefully we will be doing enough things during the week to be able to post pictures about them.

Here are some recent photos I have taken.

Well a few weeks ago I tried to get some nice photos of the girls in our backyard. Aly was pretty easy but I never ended up getting a good one of KK. I will post the best one of her I got. I also got a really cute Adam and Eve pic of Aly and her friend Nick in our backyard. I thought it was cute!

KK did it!

Yeah, for the first time KK held her pee and let me take her to the toilet and she went right away. We were soo happy! We did the potty dance and gave her a couple of M&M's. I am not sure if she got our excitment. It has been nice over the past two weeks to see her learn how to realize when she needs to go and learn how to hold it. Now I just need to get her on the toilet at the right timing and go from there.

KK got up twice last night. I didn't sleep well anyway. I had a hard time falling asleep. Too much on my mind. It will be nice to fast forward to the day when she is sleeping all night and not waking up. Aly sleeps all night in her bed and doesn't wake up.

Yesterday was just filled all day with chores. Very boring. Saturday was mostly the same way except for the fireworks show but we didn't even leave for that until 6 p.m. I sure hope the whole 5 days off that hubby has for the 4th of July weekend won't be the same. It is not good for the kids or for me. It makes things pretty lonely if you know what I mean;-)

KK has her playgroup today and Aly will be going to a friends house to play. It is nice for her to have time with her friends away from her sister. Since she is out of preschool for the summer she misses that time with other kids away from home. I have been rotating her around to different friends houses each week that KK has had her playgroup. So far she has played with Maya, Nick, and Nathan. KK's playgroup ends I think in two weeks.

The fireworks were AWESOME!

Last night we went to Cameron Park Lake for their summer spectacular. They always hold it the saturday before the 4th of July. We got their around 7:15 and found a spot shortly after 8. We had the most perfect spot ever! I felt like the fireworks were being displayed right to us. The show was amazing and Aly was in heaven. She absolutely loved it and said she wanted to go again as soon as possible. KK liked parts of it but at times she seamed scared at the noises that it made.

We didn't get home last night till 11:00. Aly fell asleep in the car but KK was still bright eyed when we got home. She actually protested going to bed. Last night she only got up once though at 5 a.m. so she must have been really tired. The two nights previous she has woke up twice a night and I brought her back both times. Hopefully in time she will sleep through the night and not need to wake me.

Yesterday I finally charged the video camera and we taped Aly signing, "You Are My Sunshine." It was really cute. I was trying to tape a joke I do with them but it didn't work out so hopefully Daddy will have some time to hold the camera while I do the joke.