and though she be but little, she is fierce

Well Lily has turned two and Lily at two is full of sass! If there is a conflict between my three children Lily is always the victor. She sets in place her determination and nothing can shake that. At a play date I found her trying to wrestle a baby stroller away from a five year old. I may or may not refer to her as Lilellzabub every once in a while. She also loves to burst into song and I often find her singing to herself, "happy happy haaaapppy!" while spinning in an artful dance. One of my favorite moments with Lily this year took place at her Aunt Julie's wedding. She spent the entire evening on the dance floor shaking her groove thing and even managed to keep up with a floor full of grownups doing the electric slide. Right now Lils does this cute thing where I start saying, "I love.." and then she yells "YOOOOU!" and gives me a big smacking kiss. On her birthday she received a princess dress with a matching Snow White doll and she danced and pranced and sang for hours! Lily is also going through a thorough mommy phase- if Grace or John dare to sit on my lap she lunges across the room to try to push them off while shrieking in her banshee dialect. But she does love her siblings and when the mood hits her she is the cuddliest cutest little monkey. Unfortunately her mommy obsession extends to Neil and if he trys to give me hug she is right on him pushing him away with all the strength in her cubby little arms. But Lily does have one fear. I discovered it today at church. I was walking with her in the hall today and we passed a little baby. She said, "hi Baby" and waved and then the baby started crawling after her. Lily started wailing! She had never seen something as fearful as a chubby little baby crawling after her. The baby was pretty fast and the only thing faster was Lily jumping into my arms!

Graceisms

"Mom we had better start making autographs because when the kids at preschool see these beads in my hair they are going to think I am a fashion star!"

Little Miss Five Year Old

Well yesterday was my five year anniversary of becoming a mom. Oh yeah and Grace's birthday! She had a mermaid pirate party and I was running around like a crazy chicken with its head cut off and didn't take even one picture! That was last week. Then yesterday we took cupcakes to preschool where I again failed to take any pics. Luckily we had a third family cake last night where I got this little gem. So Grace at five is full of funny comments, as documented on my face book page. She loves to play pretend and she loves coloring and getting pedicures and kissing boys! And her favorite snack of late is celery. Weird but healthy. In other news I have been refinishing a china cabinet and have the bottom half done. I kind of picked the color out randomly at the paint store but I have to say I like it. It has been strange. I just felt like I couldn't do any projects for like the past year because I was so overwhelmed with my kids. Then about a week ago I started working on somethings again and I feel so much happier. Lily is finally old enough that I can put on a Dora (parenting at its finest) and she will watch it while I sew, or paint, or read. And Grace and John will color for hours when I get their art supplies out. Lets just say life is sweet again.

Happy Birthday John

OK so this may be a few months late but John turned 3! John at three is suddenly talking up a storm. At the playland the other day he informed me he was a secret sneaky snake. Due to being born with a tongue tie he was a little late to the talking train. But apparently he likes alliteration. He is always explaining things to me by saying "because because because...." Lately John has liked to take on the role of a villan while playing. He loudly proclaims "I am choosing the WRONG Mom" or "I am a bad guy," should I be worried? John can also be very sweet though. On Valentines day I saw him grab two chocolates in one hand and two in the other. I asked him why he needed so many chocolates and he explained that two were for "Illy." John also started Primary this year and he hates it. He wants to go back to nursery. John is super smart with numbers and can count to 30. He could probabely go higher but his mom is too lazy to teach him..... And he likes story problems... whose kid is this? John has been going to preschool this year and loves his "preschool friends." John has lately been asking for spikey dinosaur hair dos- so obviously he is developing some fashion sense. Oh and his favorite book is Ghosts in the House. It is a Halloween book that I keep hiding and he mysteriously keeps finding. He also enjoys drawing spiders which is evidenced by the three large spiders he drew on the couch this week. John is a cute little man and we love him so much! PS apparently blogger has changes and now I can't find the spell check- so sorry for misspellings