Libby's Dreams

Libby has started telling me her dreams in the morning. On Friday she told me that mommy, daddy and the elders were getting pedicures. Hmmmm.

Fashionistas

Auntie Ray Ray is here and that means my girls get their Fashionista on!
Libby LOVED shoe shopping at Nordstrom Rack. Sarah really enjoys wearing Rachel's beanie.
Sarah isn't sure about having Rachel sleeping on the couch though. She came into the living room this morning and said, "What a terrible mess!"

A Pinkeriffic Halloween

Trick or Treating with Grammy at work. My favorite because it is INDOORS :)

This year for Halloween I knew Sarah had to be Pinkalicious. It is her favorite book and she looks so much like her! Then I thought it would be perfect for Libby to be Fancy Nancy, our other favorite book character. The awesome thing about Fancy Nancy is that Libby could wear whatever fancyness struck her fancy at the moment. But at some point Libby became opposed to the idea. And, when Libby is opposed to something, LOOK OUT! So I decided to have her be a ballerina. It worked out because another favorite book character is Angelina Ballerina (who is actually a mouse, but who cares).
So Libby was Angelina Ballerina.





Sarah was Pinkalicious



Libby amazed the crowds (and her parents) with her ballet skills. She has actually been taking ballet for 2 months. She could do turns, walk on tip toes, do a great plie and sashe. She added pushups and leaps as we went along trick or treating at Grammy's work.
It was a blast. I had a hard time deciding on a costume for last night. Finally I decided to be a sad Husky fan, which was appropriate because while we were trunk or treating the Huskies were being shut out by Stanford.

Pregnant???

I decided to announce my pregnancy with the sidebar ticker...and many of you actually noticed! Good job! It has only been up for a week and I have had at least 5 people notice. I feel very loved. So if you haven't checked it--notice the sidebar and you will see that I currently feel low on energy and high on nausea. I doubled our restaurant budget for the next few months so the family won't starve while I don't feel like cooking. This cute baby let me know he/she was very excited to come and play with his/her sisters and I needed to get on with enlarging our family. (This is when I was praying hoping that I didn't really have one more up there.) So come June we will have 3 kids. I will have more gray hairs I am sure. But our little family will be complete :) (I really hope!)

A little bodypump halloween party (I am the one without the gorilla suit, in case you were wondering!) I hope to get the Minnie body back after baby #3.

Libbyisms

Libby is into having a snack in bed. I was so good at never putting them to bed with a bottle or anything, but now I am too tired to care. I just want her to get in bed and stay there. So if a snack helps, so be it. Anyway, the other night she said, "Can I have a snack?"
Mommy: "What do you want Libby."
Libby: "I would like some pretzels in a bowl so they don't spill. And some milk. That will be fine."
Mommy: "Ok!"
(P.S. If you see a random pretzel hanging around our house, don't pick it up and eat it. It may look fine, but Libby "eats" pretzels by licking the salt off and putting them back in the bowl.)

Mall Escapades

Yesterday was like the 10th rainy day in a row, or so it seemed. The girls were crabby. I decided to take them to the playground in the mall for a diversion. It ended up being quite an adventure.
Libby declared before we left that we HAD to get our PICTURES taken before we went to the playground.
Then, when I drove to the mall and parked, I parked in a different place. She totally FREAKED out that we weren't at the mall. She is so spatially aware it is crazy.
At the playground, Sarah tried to bolt. I caught her and herded her back in. Then I got distracted watching Libby jump off one of the high toys and do an amazing crash landing.
After a couple of minutes I noticed that Sarah was missing. I sent Libby around looking for her in the play area and then I went in looking. I then checked the stores in the area. Finally, I loaded up the stroller with one of two seats full. A double stroller with only one kid in it was a good way to signal that I was missing someone. Immediately a mom came up and asked if I was missing a daughter. She sent me in the right direction where I found a security guard who took me to Sarah who had, in the words of the guard, "gotten a long way." She was 1/2 down the mall hanging out with the Clearwire girl. Sarah was 100% calm and enjoying the situation. I was also calm. Irritated was my only emotion. Probably because I knew she had run away--but maybe I was too calm. We went back to the playground and enjoyed a few minutes of fun. Thanks to Mrs. Field's Libby got her caloric deficit back in check and we went home. (After one trip back from the car to the play area to get Sarah's blankie.) Sarah took a nap. Whew. All's well that ends well, right?

Learning Letters

Aunt Leanne sent Sarah some tubby toy letters and numbers. I dumped them in the tub and asked Sarah to find the S and she did it! She also found R, I, and a couple of others. She would hold it up and I would say, "what is it?" She says, "I don't know, R!" "I don't know, I!" So cute. I had no idea Sarah knew letters. She knows about as many as Libby. Thanks Aunt Leanne!