When Life Gives You Lemons

At age 6 and 4 and this is their first time tasting lemons.  I had to get a video of it!  Their reactions are hilarious!

Morgan's Top 4

We were sitting around the dinner table eating chocolate cake. Jaden said, "Mommy, you make the best cake ever!"

Morgan decided to add to what Jaden said and came up with this:

"who makes the best cake? Mommy!

who makes the best maccaroni and cheese? Jaden!

who makes the best toast? Daddy!

who makes the best hugs and kisses? Morgan!"

She Cracks Me Up When She Cracks Herself Up!

Morgan has a laugh that always gets me laughing. Watch her eyes- that really cracks me up!! The thing she says at the end of the video is priceless- Kids just say what ever they want to!

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The Great Protector

This is Jaden and Morgan's favorite game~ Jaden pretends to be the mommy & Morgan pretends to be the baby. They play it so much that I don't even respond to "mommy" being called out any more. When Morgan says it, she is usually referring t her "other" mommy.

Now, I have to share this little tidbit with you... Jaden asks some off the wall questions. I think it is a game to see how many questions she can come up with in one day! Yesterday's off the wall question was:

Jaden: "Mommy, If a mommy has twins in her her tummy. Then, does a mommy have a baby in her tummy and then the baby has a baby in HER tummy?"

Then, a couple of weeks ago, when she saw the mobilized shopping carts inside Target, she was fascinated by them. Like most kids, they look like cool cars, and she wanted to ride in one. I told her to get off of the cart because the carts are for people that can't walk. She looked confused. She got off of the cart, and said, "But, Mom, if they can't walk, how do they get to the carts?!"

Where does she come up with this stuff?!

Carmex and Dolls do not mix!

A two year old with a jar of Carmex can only lead to trouble. When Morgan asked me for the Carmex, she was so convincing when she said she would use it sparingly and only on her lips... A few hours later, Jaden brought me an empty Carmex jar. Hmmmmmm... Where did the Carmex go? Well, Jaden and I went in search of baby dolls, and sure enough... She had put Carmex ALL over the baby doll's lips and insode her mouth! YUCK!!!

Random thoughts in my inbox

These Random thoughts came to my e-mail. I can totally relate to some of these:

Random Thoughts for the Day:

1. I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.

4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.

5. How the heck are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

6. Was learning cursive really necessary?

7. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on #5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

9. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.

10. Bad decisions make good stories.

11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.

12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection...again.

13. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.

14. "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this thing I have-- ever.

15. I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Damn it!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?

16. I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.

17. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

How many people/things can you fit in a car?

Jaden & Morgan did this while playing dolls. They wanted to get their "picnic" from one side of the house to the other, so they just packed everything into one car!!

Multi-tasking

Morgan has the multi-tasking talent down, as you can see. She has Jaden's dog carrier on one arm (she was dog-sitting) and she is holding her phone with the other. Where does she get this from?!?! LOL!!!

She is a TRIP!!!

From her funny faces to the silly things she says, Morgan has me cracking up several times a day. Here are some of her famous saying:

"You just scared me to death!"

"You know how you are busy and Mommy is busy, now I am busy!"

Instead of saying "already", she said "almost". For an example, I will tell her it is time to take a nap, and she will say, "I almost took a nap!" It's quite funny when everything is something she ALMOST did. LOL!!!

Her biggest thing these last few months is to do everything that Jaden does. If Jaden has sand in her eyes, then, Morgan must have sand in her eyes!!

And, she LOVES shoes!! She comes into the house with shoes on, and then, while still in the house changes to another pair of shoes. She would wear them to bed if I let her!!! Her favorite shoes at this point are the ones she calls her "ballet shoes". You can see the pink & orange shoes in most of her pictures (courtesy of Aunt Roxanne)- those are for ballet (so she says)... And she will twirl and flip and kick, and you have to make sure you are far away from her when she decides to dance :0)

AND, I could never figure out why I can't get her to keep her pants on... I found out earlier this week. I was struggling (once again) to get her to put her pants back on, and Morgan said, "No, Mom, If I put pants on, I'll be a boy!!!"

Where does she come up with this stuff?!

Mexican Treats

This is what Jicama looks like (above) & drowned plantains (below)

I cut up the jicama and put lime juice on it. It was so delicious! Jaden liked it, and ate a lot of it... Morgan, however, was not so sure of it - see the video below

Spending Time with Family

Jaden & Paige

Morgan, James & Grandma Leslie

Jaden & Morgan

Jaden playing in James' room

Eating the delicious food: BBQ, corn, watermelom, salad, strawberries, rolls, KeyLime pie, and ice cream!!

Aunt Amy & Paige laughing at LeCount's story

Paige & Morgan

Paige & Grandma Leslie

We were invited over to my brother's house on labor day for dinner. Grandma Leslie & Grandpa Lyale were there, too. As you can see, everyone had a lot of fun!

Picasso

My little picasso Jaden told me that she needed some tape. She had a picture that she wanted to put on the wall. I gave her the tape, and the next thing I knew, the art gallery had grown to 9 pieces!!! You may notice that all 3 of the large pictures are of our family. There are 3 people who are one color and one person who is a different color in EVERY picture. I asked Jaden who the person was who wasn't the same color. She said, "That's Daddy!" She said it like I should know that he is the one that needs to be a different color. So... I thought to myself, "Does she think that Daddy is one color and the rest of us are a different color?" So, I asked, "Why did you make Daddy a different color?" And she said... "Because HE'S A BOY!! And we are girls, Mommy!!" Duh!

Mini Uno

I showed Jaden how to play Uno. We had fun playing (as long as I was the loser). We had to play with our cards showing so that I could help her pick the right card. At one point she thought she didn't have anything to match the card, so I told her to look at her hand again to make sure... I guess I didn't think about what I was saying when I asked her to look at her hand. She looked down at her empty palm!!! I said, "Oh, when I say 'your hand', I mean your cards"!

Invention suggestion

One day, someone will invent a bed for wild sleepers!! The bed will be a square, and the covers can follow the sleeper as they flip from one end of the bed to the other... horizontal to vertical to hortizontal again... and then vertical. It's like one of those spinners in a board game... you never know where or when the spinner will stop :0)

We made it to China!

We live in the middle of no where. A town of very few people. Every time we do something (shop or visit relatives and friends) we have to drive quite a distance. The girls are pretty used to it now, but Morgan gets car sick some times (still looking for a safe remedy for that). Yesterday, I had n sudit to do that was 150 miles away. First, I had to get the girls to Andrea's house, so that she could watch them while I worked. The ride to her house takes a little over an hour in rush hour. By the time we got there, the girls were ready to get out of the car. As soon as I parked in front of the house, Morgan screamed, "We made it to China!"

Playing with Grandma Frances

We spent the weekend with Grandma Frances. We all had a great time. Jaden and Morgan just love Grandma Frances' reaction to their teasing. This time, they decided that they would trick her by asking her which hand a ticket was in, and then, switch hands, so that she always picked the wrong one. She playing along, and got them both laughing.
Grandpa Bonnie and Uncle Damon came by for a little while, too. They brought a bike for Morgan (last year's Christmas present). When we get it put together, I will post that later.

Morgan's animated scream

This is why I LOVE to scare Morgan!! She is so animated!!! Now that I have this on video, Morgan wants to watch it over & over (and she gets scared every time she hears me scream in the video). Too funny!!

A few hours with friends

We had fun yesterday playing with friends at Peter Piper. I got to visit and catch up with my friend Tiffany, and the girls each had someone to play with. Christopher (Tiffany's oldest) is just 2 months younger than Jaden, and Emmanuel (her youngest) is almost exactly 1 year younger than Morgan (his birthday is on the 21st, and Morgan's in the 22nd). Now, I wish I had gotten a picture of Emmanuel. He is so sweet... Well, both of them are! Here is the video of Christopher and Jaden playing air hockey. Jaden thought that she was supposed to get the puck in her slot to win... So, between Christoper nailing the puck in her slot and Jaden putting the puck in her own slot, she kept losing. LOL!!! She laughed with excitement everytime it went into her slot. I was laughing too hard to correct her for awhile. Then, she finally figured it out. Maybe next time she will win. Is anyone up for a challenge?

The Cha Cha Slide~ (The "Bored With It" version)