My beautiful little neice!

She is sooo perfect but I can't figure out how to fix red eye where my pictures are stored right now (I know, this keeps happening to me) and I REFUSE to post a picture of her without her perfect normal eyes. Did I mention she is perfect?
I call these next two pictures overindulgence. This is what my kids look like when you pack hotdog dinner, arcade, icecream, ocean, and toy store in about three hours.

Look at the sweaty hair, glazed over half cast eyes, inability to smile. He he he.

Goggles

Jacob's goggles going up his nose
Hannah closing her eyes even though she is wearing goggles

Honestly, I don't know what this is.

Sometimes I just want to remember the little stuff

Starting to think about unhappy things that are out of my control so here is a blog about the little people, who live with Jeff and me, who like to exert their influence on their enviroment in ways that make me smile.

Here are two little toys that belong to Hannah's friend. They stowed away in Hannah's box of fairies when H returned home. Jeff told H to put them on the window sill so that we would remember to return them. Apparently they are pining for their dear owner.

Jacob likes to roll my door mats into burritos. This happens mostly when he is in time out but some days I will come downstairs and find all three door mats neatly rolled in front of their respective doors.


I think we baby him. : ) Still feeling sad because I wish all kids had what my kids have. Food, a sense of safety, a home, love. Whew, sorry to make this so heavy, better stop here.

A really big bookcase

I found this incredible bookcase at Goodwill for 50 bucks and knew that it was just what Hannah's room needed. It was more than I wanted to spend but I knew we couldn't even buy the wood for that price. I must say that the young guy working the counter was super nice because I knew it would fit in my van (I measured) with about 2 inches to spare (I had to call my mom to pick up the kids, they wouldn't fit. I love you mom) and he dragged the whole thing out in the rain and when it fit he said a very strong word to express his amazement. So apparently he really didn't believe it was going to fit and yet he was nice enough not to say anything while dragging it around. In the rain.

After giving it a lot of sanding- priming- painting love, Jeff also felt that it would not make the corner to enter Hannah's room but dragged it up the stairs with me anyway- just to try it. I must say that he wasn't quite as quiet about his doubts as Goodwill Guy but then he also didn't say a dirty word when it fit.

Oh, I also found the bunk bed that is peeking out of the side of the photo at His House. The nice guys knocked the price down to $85 dollars after I asked if I could pass on the creepily stained mattresses that came with it. (Sooo gross). I will post new pictures soon because Jeff has painted her walls pink and I am working on the curtains. Just a side note, Hannah is such a deep sleeper. I totally put that bunk bed together while she was sleeping. She woke up just briefly when I moved her to the top bunk.

Was I really that bad?

The other day I was feeling a little irritable and I guess the kids noticed because as I was doing my hair, Hannah came in and silently handed me a lanyard that had a big fat smiley face hanging from it. I totally got the hint and wore it while we were in the car. Later that day I come across a picture that Jacob had made.

How sweet! He wrote everyone's name in our family!

And look at that... he drew a smiley face in the O in his name!
Wait, what?.... Not cool.

J for Jacob

I really need to teach Hannah how to tie her shoes but I just really don't want to do it. Not sure why, just don't wanna. (Honestly, I am kind of hoping that my mom will eventually do it. She played monoply with Hannah for crying out loud). But that wasn't what I really wanted to blog about, just putting it out there. I haven't pushed Jacob on learning his letters, he wasn't really interested but he has been watching Hannah writing words and now he wants to do it too. Funny thing, he likes to write the names of trains after he draws them. Unfortunately, there are no trains named Jacob. So most of the time he can recall how to spell Henry and Thomas but when we talk about how to spell his name, he is stuck after the J.

golfing and a make-over

Earlier this month, Aunt Stephanie hooked us up with some mini-golf which Jacob loooooved. Until he got tired and hungry and threw his ball in the water.
I am no golf pro but I think she should work on her form. The kids looked like they were playing hockey out there. Funny thing, when we went out for dinner, there was a hockey game playing and Hannah said: That's what we did today!

Nana and Baba gave Hannah part of an early b-day gift: a makeover at the Sparkle store. Jacob was rather curious about the whole thing.

It has been over two weeks and there is still blue sparkles stuck to Hannah's scalp. I can't get it off. I guess that's how the place gets it's name.

Hannah showing off her new look on the stage. Guess what? She has finally outgrown her allergy to kid makeup. Yeah, we weren't real sure how things were going to end up, but that was a risk she was more than willing to take.