September

One Friday in September, I dropped Keith and the kids off at the Children's Museum and then I went to a doctor appointment. While we waited for the museum to open, I sat the kids on this wall to take a couple pictures, and then I left the camera with Keith and went to my appointment. Any guesses how many more pictures were taken on this outing? :)

 Yep, that would be it. Keeley can be quite mischievous, and on occasion she has been sent to the corner.

Why is it just so cute to see her sticking her nose right into the corner? Even funnier is when she puts herself in the corner for no reason at all.

One day, Finley was lying on the floor and KeeKee came over and laid down right on top of her and gave her a hug.

 It was so sweet and cute! Love those girls.

Keeley and Markers

Seriously, this girl loves climbing up and getting the markers and as soon as she does--she immediately colors all over her face with it. She is so proud.

 She just looks so silly!

I'm sure it's my fault for taking her picture when she does things like this, but how could you not with a cute little face like that?

Net Nown!

 My little KeeKee girl climbs and clambers and gets into everything.

 One of her favorite things to do is to climb up onto the table, and then shout, "Net Nown!" (get down.) It is really so cute and silly. And it's pretty helpful when you're in the other room--if I hear, "Net Nown!" I know she is climbing up somewhere dangerous and I go and get her.

 Love this cute little bug!

 She has also been using a fork for a couple of months, which is pretty cute.

Ice Cream Dream

 Don't kids just crack you up?! Who eats an ice cream cone like this, and doesn't even notice the stickiness that is completely covering their face?

Cute Finley girl, that's who

Looking Sharp!

Keeley decided she liked shoes. In early July, she started trying on other people's shoes and tromping around in them.

So cute! Cousin Rhys is visible in the above photo, and he had to leave later this same day.

 A closeup of her cute little toes.

She was very determined to wear them.

A little later, she got hold of a sharpie marker and colored all over her face with it.

 Such a silly little face!

She really was quite pleased with herself. Even when we held her in front of the bathroom mirror, she just grinned and didn't seem to notice anything amiss.

That sweet little face. But oh so mischevious. Anytime she gets a marker of any kind in her little hands, she immediately goes to color all over her face with it.

 Love that girl!

We went swimming right after this occurred, and poor Keeley had to go out in public like this. I thought maybe it would teach her a lesson, but while at the pool we made the discovery of the century that the stick sunscreen will actually remove permament marker from skin. So she didn't have to be embarrassed after all.

Celebrating at the CMOP

We went to the Children's Museum on a random friday in June and discovered after we got there that they were celebrating their 5th birthday and admission was discounted to $5--not my first choice for visiting. But they had some fun special events going on, like face painting.

Finley was in a strange mood and wouldn't sit down to get her face painted. Then when I sat down with Keeley, she changed her mind. You can see in the photo below how happy she was. Keeley was really cute and leaned very still on me while they painted a little fish on her cheek.

Then Finley came over to get her face painted, but was still throwing a fit and pouting, so it was a little embarrassing.

Isaac chose a spider dangling from a web, and he wanted the spider right on his nose.

Sareny picked a unicorn.

Keeley's little fish looked so cute.

Finley didn't pose for a picture by herself, but she got a dolphin.

I took the girls to the art room, where Finley told me she didn't want to paint on the rocket.

Except then she guessed maybe she did, but she did it with a pout on her face.

Finally, when we moved over to one of the craft tables, she was in a normal mood and was pleasant to be around. Keith took Isaac to the fort room, because he isn't that into arts and crafts.

Isaac tried to ride this trike, but was not too happy when the girls jumped on for a ride. He was trying really hard, but it was just not going anywhere and he was a bit frustrated.

I took Keeks to the baby room, and she had fun. She was blowing/vibrating her lips.

Then she decided to blow on her hand.

Then she smashed her face up against the net.

She quite likes this fan that blows straight up from the ground when you step near it.

She kept coming back to it.

While Sareny and Finley prepared us some delicious food, Isaac and Keeley serenaded us with these pipes.

Despite being crowded, it was a fun day. My favorite activity was the special photo booth they had set up on the first floor, but I can't find the cute picture we got of the three kids who were cooperating--I'll scan it in when I find it. Any guesses who was in a grouchy mood and wouldn't get in the picture?

funny kids

The kids are always saying some pretty silly or strange things--here are a few of them.

Isaac adds endings onto nouns to turn them into adjectives. For intance, he has said, "that shirt is pretty Halloweeniful." 

Isaac knows how to say first, but if he is trying say an ordinal number that comes after that, like second or third, he will say "the twof," or "threef." At least he's aware the word should be different, right?

At Christmastime, Isaac's class had to color a picture of Santa stuck in the chimney and write what they would do to help him. Isaac's paper said, "if santa was stuck in the chimney--I'd jump on his bottom." That made me laugh.

On the drive back and forth from Grammy Jo and Bampa's house, there are a lot of empty stretches of road. The only real cities we pass though are Kingman and Wickenberg. On our last trip, after passing Hoover Dam and driving for a bit, Isaac asked, "Are we at Kingberger yet?"

One day when I was in my swimming suit, Isaac looked at my tummy (which admittedly is rather large, unfortunately) and said, "Maybe one of your eggs is trying to hatch."

When Sareny was younger, she had a lot of strange ways of saying things. Here are a few of them.
pretend--tootend, Hannah Montana--hanna tana, Hair-do--hair stu, Excuse me--weesies. She also didn't like sleeping in her big girl bed and always wanted to either sleep in our bed or have us lay with her until she fell asleep. She would say, "I'm too lonn," meaning I'm too lonely.

The other day, Sareny was asking us, "Who's that scary guy bampa is always talking about?" It took some detective work, but Keith figured out she was talking about when Bampa tells them spooky stories about Injun Joe from Tom Sawyer. Sareny said, "Engine Joe--I knew it started with a train, like Train Joe."

I have taken some flack over the years for mishearing the lyrics to a song from The Parent Trap. Apparently the line says, "A gruesome twosome we will be." And I mistakenly said, "A busta-chusta we will be." What is a busta-chusta, you ask? I have absolutely no idea. We've decided Sareny is as bad as me at mishearing song lyrics. The other day she was singing along to a song by One Direction that says, "Baby just shout it out, shout it out, yeah." And she was singing, "Baby just sha-vida, sha-vida, yeah." She didn't know what shavida meant either.

Finley is well known around these parts for her wicked temper tantrums. One day Keith and I were eating drumsticks, and Finley came in and saw us and wanted one. We had two kinds of drumsticks in the freezer--the kind with nuts and some with a cookie topping, and Finley only liked the cookie kind. I told Keith "Go find out if we have any of those cookie kinds left, or if Finley is going to throw a fit." When he came in, she said "Is I'm going to throw a fit?"

Finley had the spotlight bag for primary, and she was supposed to bring in some items that she liked. She packed the bag by herself, but not knowing that she had already put a watch in, I put in a pretty one that I knew she liked. When she pulled the first watch out, she said, "I like to wear watches." Later when she pulled the second watch out, I was wondering what she was going to say. Apparently, she's a fast thinker, because she said, "I like to know what time it is."

One day I heard her playing piano with her friend. Finley was playing the lower notes and the friend was playing the higher notes. Finley said to her friend, "I'll play the bad notes and you do the good ones."

A few months ago, she had to go to the dentist for some fillings, and it took two appointments. At the second appointment, she asked me, "Are my lips going to be yum again?" Since then she has said a couple of times, "Remember when I went to the dentist and my lips were yum?" When we left the dentists office, he said she should eat soft food and listed a few things, including scrambled eggs. When we got home, that is what she wanted to eat. Later in the day, she said, "I want some more rotten eggs."

Pretty much everytime she says a prayer, she includes, "Thank thee that keekee will stop biting mommy's boobies." I think we're all looking forward to that day...

One Sunday she was getting ready for church and said she was going to wear her boots and put on perfume because, "I want to look 'tacular."

The other day, Finley's friend Sydney said, "Keeley still looks cute, even though she had to get her beautiful helmet off."

One of Keeley's favorite things to do is pinch me repeatedly (rather hard, I might add) and say "Ow!" with each pinch.

Another of her favorite games is dropping her sippy cup repeatedly on the floor and saying, "Uh-oh!" each time. You, of course, keep handing it to her, and she starts dropping it practically before you even let go of the cup. She also likes to walk around the house holding various items (phones, remotes, crackers, whatever is handy) up to her head and saying, "Hi!" repeatedly.

I love these cute and silly kiddos!