Last Sunday Night....

This is what we did while watching the 49ers put up a fight and then implode.

Never a dull moment.

Home Time

So we're nearing the end of our first month with Mommy not having to work and I'm still "blessing that I don't have to go to school" because I LOVE it. I get to play with my toys and destroy my house all day. However, Mommy seems to be going to the gym A LOT now. She keeps saying she's going to "teach". Do you remember a while ago when my Mommy posted about certifying to teach kickboxing? (Please feel free to reread the post as it has a video to remind you of what it is)

Well my Mommy is officially an instructor at Summit (her gym). She is teaching kickboxing on Monday nights at 5:30 and then again on Tues morning at 10:30 and she is also taking on teaching a lifting class that she will certify in but she teaches that on Tues and Thurs nights at 5:30. This meant Mommy went to the gym 8 separate times last week but only 4 days....she was beat but she seems really happy. However it makes it so when we're at home we have a lot more DOWN TIME.

This has lead to the following picture of Cara and I....



Can you guess what we are? (And no Mommy had no idea been using pen on my face.) I look kind of like a pirate but I'll tell you that I am a worker guy. Confused? I'm Adam Savage...from the Mythbusters and Cara is Jamie but she wasn't good at drawing the big thick beautiful mustache on herself. I drew a beard on my chin and everything but I think it's hard to see in the picture. Mommy overheard me telling Cara to draw her mustache to be the other worker guy and that's when we were busted....



Mommy turns this show on Netflix all the time (since she and Daddy got rid of the cable box in our front room...grrr) and she just keeps it on as background. As such, we have no started to pretend to be these worker guys. This morning I insisted I was the girl worker this morning though, Carrie.

Maybe Mommy should turn the TV off.....

For Grandpa

No words are really needed here but to be fair Mommy was darkening the words "Climbing" and "tree" they were already there and didn't need to be altered

Random post for Aunt Becca

Way back at the beginning of the year, before Aunt Becca had left to go back to Iowa, we had a girls night. We put this strange green stuff in our hair that Mommy made from avocados, honey, and olive oil. She and Aunt Becca have been reading this book about Curly Girls...girls with curly hair and it was one of the "wraps" it suggested doing to your hair. I thought it smelled like pumpkins.....

Mommy thought it felt really strange and squishy and we got to laughing very hard about trying to wrap up our hair and Cara had a minor melt down when we tried to rinse her hair without actually getting her in the tub. Thus the reason she has no green wrapped hair.



And in another shout out to my Aunt Becca, look at my neat new outfit that I picked out while thinking of her!



And in a final note, I'll let Mommy tell you a story:
Yesterday while doing random Saturday activities that involved making a bigger mess in two rooms while trying to "organize" (it's still a mess...) I noticed Siena and Cara's new suitcases and backpacks all lined up in their bedroom. Their room was clean and beds made so I ignored the backpacks and so did the girls. Well later on we decided to head to my parents to jacuzzi and I thought the girls would love to use their backpacks to bring their swimsuits over. I went in and started opening Siena's little backpack and she tells me "But there are shoes and socks in there" What? I open it and sure enough two pairs of shoes and two socks. It suddenly dawns on me that when we bought them, Siena had said the big suitcase was for her clothes and her backpack was for her shoes and socks. I open up her suitcase and discover that she has packed several outfits and has done the same in Cara's. Cara even had hair things in her backpack. Siena had packed for a trip to Disneyland which she was sure we were going on that day. She even picked cute outfits that MATCHED. Guess she's hinting at something!

Ahhh Shopping...kind of!

Seriously. Mommy claimed she did not get up today and intend to go to the store. We got into the car shortly before 1 pm this afternoon kind of aimless. She drove around for a bit, dropped some letters off at the post office, and then we magically ended up at a store, DownEast Home. After finding a couple of items at a steal (ones she wasn't necessarily looking for or needing), we of course had to wander in to Kohls. We didn't stay long (although we did make a purchase, again another STEAL but not one we NEEDED) because Mommy got a text that Target had their toys on clearance. We were at Target yesterday. We got a couple shirts for cheap, but now we needed eggs (which funny enough, we still need) and she come out with LOOT. AGAIN NOT ANY WE NEEDED. But come on. Look at this picture.



2 monogrammed mini backpacks
2 monogrammed rolling backpack suitcase thingys
1 full winter coat
2 large dolls
2 Tiana Disney Dolls
1 LeapFrog counting cake
1 set of Tiana twin sheets
2 leotards
2 TeaCup Piglets (yeah I didn't know either but they are cute)
1 Cinderella press night light
and 1 stuffed Kangaroo (not pictured)

Retail total according to price tags: $408
Here's where Daddy gulps and says, "Mommy better have a plan because she's not exactly nice when she goes over budget."

And here's where Mommy says:
Actual price paid at the registers: $91. The most I paid for one item was $13, and that was for the COAT (4 in 1 by the way....)

That's right. 22%, baby! It was a good day. Probably $95 dollars that could have gone towards retirement but now I don't need a coat next winter and we possibly have presents for birthdays.

Plus, those monogrammed thingys. Yeah one actually says Sienna (notice 2 n's but we'll let it slide for a $4.50 backpack) and the other says Cora but in cursive so it really looks like Cara and that one was only $2.99. The big black one has the initials CMR on them...yeah Cara's. And the other one says Arianna which means we'll be ironing on some flowers. :)

Mommy is kind of giddy. But she needs to go change for the gym. So we're going to log off....

My girls....

Guest post by Mommy:

I did it. I made it. And it flew by. What flew by? What did she do? I know. Pretty vague. I'm not talking about the holidays. I'm talking about my first week as a stay at home Mom. That's right. I spent all week playing with my girls, ignoring my girls while cleaning the house, running out to lunch with my sister before she went off to college, etc. And I didn't spend as much money as I thought I would. It's been a pleasure because my girls are growing up. And fast. (Not physically speaking of course, we're still runts over here...)

Some funny things about who Siena is now:

She is a big girl. And I mean this in she went from my slightly uncoordinated, not brave, cautious little girl to my "I know how to skip" run around the playground without Mommy and try all kinds of things that I never would have before and talk in long run on sentences about very complex things that happened two weeks ago. So I guess that is changing physically. She's thinning out majorly. Her little elastic band wrists are finally gone. And those chubby thighs have been saying good bye for a long time. I feel like all these changes happened one after another over night for the last two months. Her last daycare lady, Miss Michelle, was wonderful and taught Siena so much. She can write her name and recognize anywhere (that made presents fun for Christmas.) We were sad to be done there but hopefully we'll get to do preschool there or something.

And do you know what movie Santa brought her? Rango.



That's right. And when she saw it, she exclaimed "MY FAVORITE!!" We've watched it like 15 times (at even Cara's request. We've watched her Santa movie "The Lion King", once.) She quotes it, she laughs about it, she UNDERSTANDS IT. We even saw it in the theaters and she wouldn't stop talking about while the adults with her were a little perplexed and thought it was strange. She LOVES it. (I also feel I could devote a whole blog post just to this because now that I think about it, I like it. A lot. And it's got some distinctive, interesting, and just fascinating characters....) I love that girl. She's just really becoming a person. And it's going so fast I can't catch my breath.

Oh and Cara. Cara, Cara, Cara. I swear she's not growing. I can still put some (not very many) of her 12 month things on her. It doesn't help that she sucks her thumb and loves to cuddle. It's like I still have a baby but one that talks. A lot. And freaks other people out because of how deep her conversations go and she's just this little tiny thing. She also remembers crazy details with accuracy. She understands concepts and time passing. She plays pretend with Siena and says the most awesome things like, "Don't be shy" when Siena's pretending to be a dog and whimpering. They play for HOURS together. Also she finally figured out jumping off the ground with two feet. She doesn't do it often but every now and then magic. She's much braver than Siena ever was. (IF ONLY WE COULD HARNESS HER VERBAL ABILITIES INTO POTTY TRAINING. That child. No interest whatsoever. Come on, Cara, you're killing me...I won't have another baby until you are outta diapers. Wait...maybe this is her plan....)

Sigh...hopefully I'll continue to survive my stay at home momness. In truth, I will actually be teaching 3 group fitness classes a week at Summit Athletic Club so I'll still be earning a W-2 but that's only 3 hours a week. I love it though and I'm so grateful for the opportunity to smother my children all day long!

New Year's Resolutions

Hey there! Hasn't 2012 been wonderful so far? The weather has been scary beautiful here and Mommy is scared that it will mean winter will last FOREVER when it finally rears it ugly head.

Here are some of our New Year's Resolutions (whatever that big word means)

Daddy:
Travel 5,000 miles by his own power be it swim, bike, or run.

Mommy:
(The overachiever set 5 category resolutions and planned HOW to achieve them. I'm only posting one...)
Complete 5,000 squats...she wanted to do push ups but her dang carpal tunnel prevents that....

Siena:
Be able to write the whole alphabet upper and lower case

Cara:
POTTY TRAINED!!!! (Mommy kind of yelled that last one...)

We hope by marking these down we will show some accountability!

And as a side note, apparently Mommy's family loves Toyotas...check it out