some great stories

ok, i realize that i need to share some funny stories about my girls, mainly so that i have them written down for future laughter. As we all know i use this as a journal so here are some funnies from this week.
Jade now can get herself in and out of her room with ease, its a problem. This means that at 3am if she wakes up instead of going back to sleep she walks into our room, "Mama..." and she gets to snuggle bug with us until i take her back to bed. it also means that when we want her to take a nap or go to sleep we have to either hold the door closed or tie the door closed, as she can unlock it too...really we just need to get one of those door knob things that make it impossible to open the door. This getting herself in and out leads us into a few stories:
First: In the mornings i try to put jade in her room for 'quiet time' while i put alana down for a nap. This worked great pre-door opening. so, yesterday i put jade in her room and put alana down for a nap. i went down stairs to work my flab away with "Crunch" (yeah, its that annoying, but it gets me sore). As i'm squatting my life away i hear over the baby monitor, "is okay lana, is ok, is ok lana, is ok". Jade had heard alana grunting, had gotten out of her room (closed the door behind her) and gone into Alana's room where she had closed the door than climbed up onto the crib so she could see Alana. I walked into Jade telling Alana it was ok and Alana laughing at her. Yeah...this is why i'm a stay at home mom.
Second: Yesterday was a bad day for me emotionally. I realized that I am community property. Everything about my life is for the family. It started with Jade dropping my favorite pot of eye shadow on the floor, resulting in crumbs of gold sparkles... Now one may ask "Christie Anne, what the, aren't you the girl who tried her hardest to be a boy, a tough girl?" to this i replay, yes, i was this girl. but things have changed. I now really LIKE make-up. And i would not have been devastated except for the fact that its $15 a pot of this stuff. MAC is not cheap. So, first the make-up, then i was trying to do exercises and after Jade comforted Alana she came down to 'help' me work out....try doing lunges with a two year old in front of you, or those leg extensions, or when your on your side balanced precariously trying to follow the lady who you can barely see and Jade is pulling and pushing...yeah...then we took Cameron to school and waited...and waited...and waited...what was supposed to take a half an hour took two! and he couldn't call me since it was a flippin' final. yeah. two hours in the car with nothing prepared, right when they need to take a nap...i was grouchy. Anyway, there is my mood for you, i was very annoyed. and was realizing that the sooner i get over trying to do things for me, when i realize i'm community property the happier everyone will be. its true. Children force selflessness. if you try to be selfish you will pay, you will be punished. Anyway!! wow, so finally i got the girls down for afternoon naps and laid down (as i was ridiculous tired). about two hours later (yeah i know,i got a significant nap) my sweet jade came out of her room whimpering. She walked next to my bed 'mama..' i picked her up and snuggled her next to me. And, miracle of miracles we slept, both of us. What a tender mercy it was. To have my sweet daughter snuggled next to me. When i finally got up to get Alana i felt totally renewed. and i remembered that that is what being a mom is all about. Really really hard mornings and than amazing moments. A simple moment where you cannot hold in how much you love this little squirmy child. Anyway...It was good. The Lord loves me, i know this because He gives me little miracles when i need them most.
Now a little about Alana:
She is hilarious! honestly! She growls. seriously growls. like a monster, esp when she is eating. She could be sound effects in a movie. She loves Green Beans and HATES apple sauce. She is huge! and loves to be kissed on. unless you have facial hair to which she tries to get away from you. She likes to tease her sister. I know how does a 6 month old tease her sister. Well, she touches her whenever possible. When i move her so she can no longer grab at Jade she shimmies her way quickly back to her older sister. Wonder of Wonders! Alana sleeps through the NIGHT! i know. i couldn't be more stoked. honestly. She wakes up about 6:30 for a bottle than goes right back to sleep until 8ish. amazing, i know. life really is getting wonderful. I get to hear Jade pick up so many things like 'hi honey!' 'you're fine' 'is ok lana' 'i love you' etc. those are my favorites. being a mom is hard, i mean, really, you have to be community property and be ok with that, but once you get over that you get to witness miracles.
one last thing. my husband is amazing. I have heard from some that their husbands are hard to get to go to things, like they aren't very sentimental. think 'incredibles' "Its not a graduation, they are moving from the fourth grade to the fifth grade!..." my sweet man is not one of those. I wanted to take Jade to "The princess and the Frog". I didn't think he would care if he didn't go. I wanted to go during the day- get out of the house...so i made plans. than when i told him i really looked at him....he looked...disappointed. i asked, "are you sad you're not going?"
"Yeah, i wanted to see Jade at her first real movie." We went to a later showing and he took work off early so that he wouldn't miss her first movie in the movie theater. we went all out at the concession stand. He didn't want to miss this. Then he insisted on sitting next to her. I realized that i found a gem. A man who can see how important the very small things are. how important it is to make memories with your kids and be there for them. Who realized that going to a movie was more important than anything else he had to do that day. wow. i'm so lucky.
There are some thoughts for you!

girls are fun

man, it is fun to have girls. sunday night after the girl's baths i put Jade's hair up into curlers, she let me, and then painted her finger and toe nails! it was fun. I cant wait until alana is big enough to join in the fun. Alana is offically army crawling. she can get anywhere she wants its pretty funny. She still leans over on one side like she is a model lounging. this is instead of sitting. She loves to stand up. Our amazing Tina found her a activities center at the church for free. She loves it. She runs around and around it then if she wants to get somewhere she pulls it to the direction she wants, all over the kitchen. She can really move that thing! she also loves Jade. She loves to touch her (bug her), look at her, kiss her, grab her hair, grab her arms, grab her clothes, grab her feet. Alana is so big now. i cant believe it. I mean really! I have a six month old. wow. Anyway, this is fun.

boo boos again

how is that my child always has a bruise on her head, somewhere? well, yesterday jade was playing with her daddy in the kitchen. she had a towel over her head (peek a boo) and then she walked toward cameron. She tripped and face planted into the leg of on of our chairs. it looks bad. we were going to take family pictures yesterday, yeah that didn't happen. IT was horrible, we feel so bad. thankfully she is fine just a huge goose egg on her head. awesome

cowgirl boots!!

Grandma Marla got Jadie some great gifts for her birthday but my personal favorites were picked out by Dale...bright red cowboy boots!! they are awesome! and she loves them! honestly, the cowgirl just runs in her blood. man so cute!
oh very cute story i need to share:
yesterday we went to the byu utah game (yayaeh byu!!) at Lee and Mimi's house. Jade was nuts. Lee has these banana chairs that she adored. Cameron was sitting in one of them and Jade walked in front of him and looked at him. then she sat on a cushion front of the couch and said 'nuggles dada' Cameron heaves a sigh and gets down on the cushion to snuggle with her. Jade pops up and as soon as Cam is off the chair and onto the cushion she runs behind him and sits on the cushion, which was her plan from the get go. can you believe she is only two. wow. talk about problem solving...and lying...and manipulating your dad. she amazes us everyday.

embarrassing

well...for the first time ever i have embarrassed my husband. i feel terrible. we were at his aunt and uncle's house for thanksgiving. we had been there all day and the kids were nuts. i was ready to get home. i knew the kids needed to sleep and i couldn't wait anymore. Now Lee, has an HG projector in his basement with an amazing surround sound system. All the guys were watching Star Trek. i went downstairs and said 'its time to go'. he said ok so i went upstairs and started getting the girls ready to go. he didn't come up. so instead of calmly and patiently waiting for him, or going to talk to him again i went into pissed off FINE mode. i looked at his mother and said can you take him home?! Now, usually i keep my cool pretty well with his family, (this weekend has not been that way...i lost it a couple of times...) so this was the first time she has seen me showing my anger. As I started heading out the door Cameron comes up. i looked at him and i dont remeber exactly what i said but is was snotty and bossy...something along the lines of 'i'm ready to go home and if you aren't then you can go home with your mom and i'll just drive home myself because we arent waiting anymore!' i dont know if you have this happen, where it seems as though you have a cloud around you, and that cloud is red and angry. i had a tornado, i was so annoyed, i just wanted to go home! but as i got mad at him the clouds parted and i saw his aunt behind him looking at me with raised eyebrows...in fact no one was talking, no one. everyone was looking at me, was watching me scold my husband and treat him like he was a kid. it was not good. of course being my sweet husband he took it in stride and we left but the whole way home and ever since i have the look of his aunt stuck in my head. see, i just embarrassed him in front of his family. they now have a vision of our relationship--where i'm a shrew and boss my husband around all the time! honestly, i threw a fit, i might as well have stomped my food or thrown myself on the floor like Jade does...i just wanted to get home. its so stressful to be at events with kids..who haven't had naps...and the house isn't child proof...i just get stressed. anyway, there is my confession. i did a terrible thing. and there isn't really anything i can do to fix it. the damage has been made. but seriously this time of seeing his parents i have had the least composer...how do you spell that? anyway, i dont know why but i just couldn't keep it together. perhaps its the little amounts of sleep i got...hopefully next time i can do better.

naked

ok, i have to post this because i think it is hilarious. i put alana and jade down for a little nap when i got home from taking cameron to school. jade usually doesn't sleep in the morning but a little 'rest' generally helps her. anyway, i didn't hear anything from her for a while so i went upstairs to see what she was doing. the light was on in her room, so i thought oh great she has just been playing in there, i'm sure she wants to come out. i open the door and low and behold laying on her tummy, in all her glory is my naked daughter....completely and utterly nude. she took all her clothes off, and her diaper and fell asleep on top of her blankets naked. ahahaha. so funny. i should have gotten a pic but i didn't think about it. i was trying too hard not to laugh. i put a daiper back on her and which point she woke up and looked at me. i said 'its ok hunny, i'm just going to get a diaper on you and then you can go back to sleep' closing her eyes she say 'daiper, uhuh'. she is still asleep...oh my little nudest. i think that being part of the 'jaybird' club must run in the genes. ;)

Happy Birthday Jadie!!

Jade's birthday was great! The party was so fun and everything went so well. Everyone knows my stress levels about food and thankfully we had leftovers. I get so worried about stupid things, i mean honestly for the first time in my whole life i have a canker sore in my mouth because of this stinkin' party. we had over family and the neighborhood kids. Jade loved playing with all the kids and i think she really got it that this whole thing was for her. She stood still and smiled so big when everyone sang her happy birthday. We had an extreme amount of presents though, wow. There were so many presents the moment that she was done opening one i pulled it from her hands to give her another one. It was marathon. We dont even need to give her anything for christmas i think i'll just wrap up some of the stuff she got for her birthday. She truly loved all the presents though. Well, all the kids loved them. We had so many presents that i hid the two we had bought for her, so that everyone didn't have to stand around and watch her open that many more. All and all it was so fun and so good. My daughter is two. wow. She is a little girl. She loves to put on make up with me when i get ready for the day. It would be so endearing if she didn't put her fingers in my expensive stuff and the wrong brush in wrong powder. anyone who has multiple brushes and expensive make up will understand what i mean...it sucks to have your powder brush full of dark brown eye shadow. Anyway, it really is cute how she puts on make up with the brushes and takes chap stick and puts it on her mouth. She also LOVES purses. anything she can sling over her arm is a purse. She loves babies and her kitchens. Joel bought her a little kitchen for her birthday so now her kitchen is fully stocked. that girl could whip out thanksgiving meals like it was nuthin'--that or plastic speghetti and pizza with some plastic katchup on the side. She really is so helpful. She loves her sister and loves her daddy. Oh and she loves Tina. the next time she wakes up in the middle of the night crying for Tina i'm going to take her across the way and hand her over. ;)
At night i've been trying to teach Jade about saying her prayers. So, before bed we kneel down and i say each word and she repeats. We have now done it so often she knows which words come next and just skips to them. here is a transcript of last night:
ME: Dear
Jade: Father
Me:Thank you
J:Tank to
M: For
J: Four
M: Family
J: Famey
M: Thank you
J: Tank to
M: for
J: four
M: Jesus
J: Jesus, Amen
M: in
J: in
M: the
J: the
M: Name
J: Amen
M: of
J:.....
m: Jesus
J: AMEN!! (jumps into bed with a huge smile on her face.)
Of course at this point i cant help but laugh at which point she says 'so funny!' She really is so funny. Each night when i tuck her in she also has to roll her eyes at me. i think i'm raising a teenager in a two year old's body. Honestly, she rolls her eyes as far back as she can and keeps them there until i leave. She has this sly grin on her face like...na na na na whatever mom! so funny. Well, there are some jems on our baby girl that is now a little girl. love her.