Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Now this might be a nightmare...

Some of you may know of my past aversion and or fright of clowns. You just never know
1)who is under there (if they have make-up on),
2)what embarrassing thing they'll do to you, and
3)what sort of person would want to be a clown? Honestly.

Well, now, as you can see, my whole family is turning into my worst nightmare...
This weekend, we're going to a special Olympics, where Shann does clowning every year. So I have to endure my aversion / fright being aimed at the love of my life. Its a bit of a challenge. :)
Only Juline was a clown under duress. She was just trying to figure out what was going on, poor thing. Everyone else was happy to be 'in clown' as the people in the business say. Help!

Monday, June 16, 2008

Nightmare

Early this morning, Shann ran to Caden's room, having heard crying. After Caden calmed down, he told Shann that he'd had a bad dream. Shann asked him what it was about. He said,
"Alyssa drank my orange juice!"

Oh the horror.

Friday, June 13, 2008

Miscellaneous ways to stay patient

Yesterday, Caden and Alyssa changed and went in and out of our baby pool several times. We had clothes strewn about the house in varying stages of wetness from playing near the pool or drying swimming suits. I think they both fell into the pool in clothes sometime during the day.Then Alyssa 'did the dishes' for me for awhile, soaking her fresh dry outfit (and the floor).

Food and drink were spilled as well, although this is nothing exceptional.

While putting away the silverware, they had a fight about who should be saying 'I forgive you'.
"Me say 'I forgive you'"
"No, I say 'I forgive you'"
"No, me say 'I forgive you'"
etc., etc.

Then Alyssa got out of her bed during her nap and I found her diaperless, and trying on clothes from her dresser. A double spanking offense, one for getting out of her bed during nap, and one for removing her diaper. (A few days ago, I found her out of bed during nap time, and she was naked, except for pink patent leather shoes, And she had completely emptied the wipes one by one into the trash).
Well, when I came out of her room having dealt with her, Caden said to me,
"Little people are hard to work on, huh, mom."

You have no idea. :)

Getting to know each other

Early morning kisses...

She loves bath time! Shrieking happy noises!
Bouncy seat - this is where I feed her all sorts of things that she despises. :) We're working on that! You can see she is a bit worried about what is coming!

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

On the pier


a few more pics from our Ohio weekend

Grandpa and Alyssa finding things on the beach. My mom and I
Trying to reach a leaf
The wonders of an Aunt
Woodland Lissy

It Begins...

Several times recently, when being corrected by Shann, Alyssa has cocked her head and looked up at him with a pout and said, "I love you, Daddy." And while she still gets corrected, it does diffuse his irritation, so I guess she knows it works on some level.


Interesting she hasn't tried this with me.