Happy Halloween

Lily and Sophie spent another fun Halloween with cousin Paige(and new baby cousin Sarah)! The night was a success- no major meltdowns, Lily didn't break her ankle in her high heel shoes, I think I heard the girls say trick or treat without being prompted once- I think, and we got by with only one horribly mortifying moment. What was that moment you ask?- Well, little miss inquisitive Lily asked a somewhat older woman if she was a man!!!!!- AHHHH! I still can't think about it without cringing, but oh well, I still consider the night a success overall- obviously my standards have lowered considerably somewhere along the way;)

Craft time!

Lily, Sophie and I had the best time over the weekend making cool crafts! I let Lily pick out a couple of craft ideas out of her Angelina Ballerina step by step craft book and, amazingly, we had most of the items for the crafts she chose- unheard of at our house! Best yet, both crafts were fun, very cheap and turned out great!- to us anyway:)

The first craft was a ballerina skirt. We used some mesh material that was left over from the curtains that I had to shorten for the girls' bedroom, cut into petal shapes. Prior to this, Lily used her paints to create a watercolor design on the material. Then we glued the petal shapes to some leftover birthday ribbon and voila!- a beautiful watercolor skirt!

Next, we made our own jewelry from scratch:) First, we made the dough from flour, salt and water and created our own beads and other various shapes. The craft book suggested the use of mini cookie cutters, which we do not have, but then I remembered the girls' play dough ice cream shoppe maker. The ice cream shoppe has cute little indented molds all over its base, which are used to make the ice cream toppings. They worked perfectly with our dough to make the cutest little trinkets for our necklaces!

Here are our cute creations, which included hearts, teddy bears, roses, bunches of grapes, watermelons, pretzels, and beads of course:

Finally, I used a tooth pick to poke a hole through the dough and off to the oven they went for 2 hours

The hardest part was waiting for our creations to finish baking:

After they were finished came the fun part: painting and stringing the beads. The downside, of course, was cleaning up the huge mess that we created- this part made me remember why we don't craft all too often;)

 Here is Lily modeling her beautiful necklace:

Unfortunately, Sophie painted the holes shut on her beads- didn't know it was possible to do that with watercolor paints, but all things are possible with Sophie! Anyway, she got to model my rose necklace:)

This teddy bear necklace is my favorite- can you tell I was kinda into this craft:)

Q & A interview (29 things you’ve always wanted to know about Lily and Sophie)

 Lily

What is your favorite. . .

Letter: O

Number: 12

Color: purple

Food: macaroni and cheese

Dessert: red velvet cake

Holiday: Christmas and Halloween (she couldn’t decide between the two)

TV show: Olivia

Movie: Peter Pan 2 (with Jane, Wendy’s daughter)

Disney princess: Aurora

Thing to do: Play in bathtub and painting

Season: Winter

Thing to wear: dresses with long twirly skirts

Place to go: kids n motion

Animal: deer

Name: Charlotte

Toy: hair salon with ponies

Thing to play with Sophie: [Toy] bricks

Sound: cats meowing

Smell: fresh roses

What is your least favorite food: fish

What is the best thing about you: That I am smart and listen to my teacher

Who is the funniest person you know: Paige

Who is the loudest per son you know: Sophie

What do you want to be when you grow up: a Snow Queen

What do you like better:

Morning or night: morning

Apple or orange juice: orange juice

Sweet or salty food: sweet

Breakfast or dinner: breakfast

Favorite breakfast: pancakes, eggs and sausage





Sophie

What is your favorite. . .

Letter: B

Number: 2

Color: green (likes blue a lot too)

Food: French fries

Dessert: cookies!

Holiday: Christmas

TV show: Team Umizoomi

Movie: Cinderella

Disney princess: Cinderella

Thing to do: Play babies

Season: Spring

Thing to wear: Cinderella dress (cuz I like blue)

Place to go: McDonalds

Animal: Simba (from lion king)

Name: Cinderella

Toy: tea party

Thing to play with Lily: tea party

Sound: radio

Smell: corn

What is your least favorite food: oatmeal

What is the best thing about you: I don’t know (Lily says: she is good at singing songs)

Who is the funniest person you know: me

Who is the loudest per son you know: me

What do you want to be when you grow up: Ccinderella

What do you like better. . .

Morning or night: night

Apple or orange juice: apple juice

Sweet or salty food: sweet

Breakfast or dinner: dinner

Favorite dinner: ketchup



If there’s something else you want to know, Lily and Sophie have agreed to take more questions- they’ll do anything for their fans

P.S.- Lily and Sophie would love to hear your answers, too!

Fun Fall Four Day Weekend!

Yeah! Pictures are making a comeback!- Here is the saga:
-Lost memory card for camera found in spare bedroom weekend before last
-Lost battery charger found in box in basement on Saturday
-Lost black thing that the camera sits in to be hooked up to the computer found yesterday under the couch
Back in business!

On Friday I took the day off because Lily had no school. We went to Potomac Mills where I bought Lily a couple of fall outfits for a great deal at H&M. I was feeling quite generous, so I let Lily and Sophie pick out something from Claire's. Lily was set on a pair of dangly heart clip on earrings. Sophie, of course, followed suit and decided on a pair of dangly cupcake earrings. Of course, after 15 minutes of wearing them, their ears were bright red and they cried and whined as I pried them off ever so gently- 10 bucks down the drain- oh well! (No pics yet)

On Saturday, after Lily's gymnastics class, we went to visit Lily's friend Sophie back at the condo community. They were so happy to see each other again- what a great time they had(and little Sophie did too)! (still no pics- bah!)
Later, back at home after the battery charger was found, I finally got to take a picture of my beautiful girls after 1.5 long months!!!:

 (We love our nightgowns- thank you Grammy!)


On Sunday, we went to cousin Paige's 4th birthday party at Burke Lake park. Perfect weather for a train ride and a carousel ride:) Against my better judgment I let Lily wear her earrings to the party. She had so much fun that she forgot about them until we were back in the car; more crying, whining, and mommy prying them off her ears ever so gently- never again! Aside from that, Paige had a wonderful party and all had a great time:

On Monday, Will finished building the swing set that Grandpa Bill so lovingly bought for us- Thank you Grandpa Bill!! It took a total of 20 hours to build all together, including one day with 3 laborers (Thanks Cecelia and Dan!). Well, it was worth it because it looks great and the kids LOVE IT! Another bonus is that the girls can ride on the glider together, so I don't even have to push Sophie:) Here's to happy swinging!

Random musing -bonus edition

Lily: Mom, I decided where I wanted to have my wedding.
Me: Oh really, where?
Lily: You know, that place with all the lights.
Me: What place is that?
Lily: You know, I saw it on Wonder Pets- it is a big city with lights. I think it is Las something.
Me: Las Vegas?!?
Lily: YES!!!! That's it, mom! That's where I'm gonna get married!
Me: awesome. (said sarcastically)
Lily: I know, that's the most awesome city ever!

p.s.- the memory card has been found! I will post new pictures very soon, as soon as I can get Will to put it back in the camera from an undisclosed location- apparently for its own protection;)

random musings and conversations of lily and Sophie over the course of 24 hours

Friday 3:40pm Lily: "Mom, Mrs. Estevez was much nicer today!" Said right in front of Mrs. Estevez:)

Friday 4:00pm
Sophie: "Mom, why we wear underwear?

Friday 5:30pm
Lily: "Mom, will we eat dinner in heaven?"


Friday 7:00pm

Lily: "mom, are all people bigger than mushrooms?"


Saturday 8:03am
Sophie: "Lily, you still sleeping?"
Sophie: "Liiiillllyyyyyyy- you still sleeping?"
Lily: "Yes"
Sophie: "Lily, why you still sleeping?"
Sophie: "Lillllllyyyyy, its morning time. Its not nighttime anymore. Its daytime outside."
Sophie: "Liiiiillllllyyyyy. . ."
Lily: "what?"
Sophie: "you still sleeping, Lily?"
Lily: "No, you woke me up!"
Sophie: "No I didn't!"
Lily: "Mooooooommmmmmmm"- and so my morning begins;)

Saturday 8:15am
Sophie: "Mom, why I cute?"

Saturday 2:00pm

Lily:"This is nice"
me: "what's nice?"
Lily: "clipping coupons is so relaxing don't you think?"

Another school year begins!

      Lily, started K4(kindergarten 4) on Tuesday. It went well! Sorry, no pictures of her first day this year, as the memory card in our camera mysteriously disappeared a week or so ago. Very suspicious. . .  Anyway, just picture her like this except a bit taller and with shoulder length hair- we actually got a mommy and me cut at Cartoon Cuts over the weekend. It was actually a bit awkward because when it was time for my hair to be cut, Will took the girls to look for school shoes and I was left sitting there by myself watching Dora the Explorer. I got a few strange glances(haha), but oh well, at least my hair is finally cut! But I digress.
      One really great thing was that Lily was actually keen on the idea of being dropped off in the kiss and ride area at school so that I didn't have to park and walk in with her (and Sophie)- Huge time saver! I could tell she was loving being doted on by the older girls and sweet Mrs. Lanford who ushered her into school, so I didn't feel a bit guilty either:)
      When I picked her up from school she was in a very good mood (even shared her leftover teddy grahams with Sophie) and eager to tell me how she had learned what God did on each day of creation. She was espcially fascinated by the earth pushing itself up from underneath the sea to create land on day number 3, I think?- better ask her again tomorrow:) When I asked her what her favorite part of the day was she quickly replied, "Nap time because Mrs. Estevez had some beautiful sleepy time music and my mat was cozy". Yikes!- what happened to my daughter! Her next favorite part of the day was coloring. Sounding more like my daughter, but I felt the need to ask again just to make sure. Her third and final best part of the day was eating- that's my Lily!
      Well, here's to a great year!