Playing soccer in our Princess Dresses. Because that's how we roll...

The girls were outside playing in their princess dresses when they decided to engage Daddy in a soccer game.

Craig teaching Sophie how to kick.

Hannah is actually wearing one of Mom Mom's skirts rolled up and tied at the waist with a purple tutu on top of that.  And a piece of organza as a shawl.

Having a blast.

I love the attitude in this picture.

Hannah thinks it's football.

No Hannah, that's not a "fumble".

Love.

Typical Sophie.  Issuing instructions.

I love this picture. Also typical Sophie.  She stopped playing to sit down and watch the leaves blowing in the wind.

It kind of reminds me of this picture.

And another personal favorite.  Yes, she is holding a bouquet while playing soccer.  She eventually decided it wasn't practical and asked me to hold it for her.

Sing, Sing a song...

Okay, I just saw this post that I had saved to write up at a later date.  I wish I could remember what all of it meant.  I wrote it several months ago.  I know the dark song is a reference to Craig making a comment that one of the songs she was singing was kind of dark.  I think it might have been the Adele song Someone Like You.  Later while she was having a snack she told me that she's going to sign a "dark song".  Then she proceeds to sing a song about night time and the dark.  It's really cute how they take things so literally at this age:)  I wish I knew what the Cinderella reference was about.

The Hello Mama Loves Baby is from the song I would sing them at bedtime.  It's a song by Solange from Yo Gabba Gabba called (what else) Momma Loves Baby.   One day I walked into the kitchen and Hannah said "Hello, Mama Loves Baby!"  Silly girl.  And I said "Hello, Baby Loves Mama."  What a hoot.

Anyway this was dated November 2011, a year ago:
Hannah is really into singing...
Dark song
Adele
Cinderella

Hello Mama Loves Baby

Bedtime Songs

Tonight after I finished singing the girls their bedtime song, they clapped and shouted "Bravo! Bravo!" Where do they get this stuff?!

Lately their bedtime songs are Christmas carols. They love them. Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer, Deck the Halls, Jingle Bell Rock. These girls haven't met a Christmas song they didn't like. They used to love Hush Little Baby. That was their favorite for almost a year. But now all they want is a Rudolf or Deck the Halls( or as they call it "the pudding song").

And speaking of bedtime.  Hannah does not like to go to bed.  She will stay up and find anything to do as long as it doesn't involve sleeping.  The other night I tucked her and Sophie into bed and went downstairs to watch TV.  An hour later, Hannah comes sauntering down the steps.  She walks up to me and says "Can you believe Sophie is asleep already!?!"  What a piece of work.

Then there was the time she had worked on a mosaic craft during the day.  She liked it so much that she decided to hang it up over her bed (even though it wasn't finished).  Maybe an hour after bedtime Craig and I heard her crying.  Really crying.  We rush upstairs thinking she's hurt or had a bad dream.  It turns out she was trying to finish her picture.  While it was hanging up on the wall.  She was holding up her glow worm as a light.  She was crying because she was getting frustrated.  I had to promise her I would help her finish it in the morning.  Oy.

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Happy Halloween Festivities!

Halloween Party at the YMCA

Sophie gets to sit in a fire truck!

Hannah too!

Daddy and his girls.

The little kids haunted house.  The bowl of the green stuff was "rat tails" or spaghetti.

Putting their hands into a bowl of "eye balls".

Crafts.

Love.

Halloween Party at Preschool.

Dancing.

Hide and Seek.

Hanging with the boys.  Logan is the boy in blue.  The other two are Ethan and Eirnan.

Logan is around the corner:)

Trick or Treating in the neighborhood.

Mom Mom as Minnie Mouse and Aunt Leigh as Pippi Longstocking.

Mommy as a butterfly.

They had the best time and loved all the decorations.  Whenever someone gave Sophie a piece of candy, she would hold it up to us and shout out what she got.  Such as "MOMMY DADDY I GOT M&Ms! LOOK!" And we would have to look and say "Wow.  That's great."  She would do this at every house, haha.  There is was one house that had a whole grave yard scene that the girls absolutely had to go see.  It was pretty scary but Sophie and Hannah loved it.

Oh and we went to a pumpkin patch with Pop Pop.

Chasing each other in the hay bale maze.

The petting zoo.  Horse tushies are soft!

Sophie and Pop Pop.

Sophie and Daddy.

Mom Mom and Preschool

Mom Mom volunteered at the girls' preschool today and this is her description of her day:

The girls really like school. Throughout the day they would each come over and give me a hug, say I love you Mom Mom or tell me I am the best mom mom. I hated that…:) I was amazed at how confident each seems. And H played very independently from Sophie and with other kids. She would just do her thing, and the kids seemed to just gravitate to her. The teacher’s aid told me to stress table manners with the kids and that she always uses S & H as examples of good manners. Sophie is kind of in her own world. She seems to tune out the teacher, and I have to admit the teacher is not very animated or exciting.I saw her share her toy with a boy when he very nicely asked her if he could. I told the aid how affectionate they are, and she told me they had to talk with them about hugging because they hug the kids a lot and sometimes the kids complain that they hurt them. BTW, every once in a while Sophie and I would lock eyes and she would give me a thumbs up. What a riot! They are separating themselves by not having to sit next to each other in the circle or at lunch or during free play. I thought that was a good thing. Another funny thing that happened in the circle - some boy next to Sophie made a yucky cough and Sophie gave him a dirty look and got up and moved to the other side of the circle. Of course two boys got up and followed her to the other side of the circle. It was great to watch them interact with the kids. Everything was great until right before lunch when they were having free play. I helped a little boy put on a Cookie Monster costume, and about 10 minutes later I saw him crying and trying to get the costume off. I went over to help him, and then he vomited all over my jeans. Poor kid. The teachers had to evacuate the kids from the room while one had to clorox the rug. First time in all my teaching days that a kid vomited on me. Just lucky I guess.