More Random Quotes

During tax season we would often see people dressed up as the Statue of Liberty waving signs in front of the tax place. The girls loved to see them and always wanted to see them again and again. The other day the girls saw one of those big vertical windsock sign things blowing around in front of a cell phone store. They both ran towards it saying, "The Statue of Liberty!!".

Before Ryan left for a business trip the other week, we tried to explain to Lola and Ava that dad was going on a trip to California. After Ryan was gone for a while I asked the girls if they remembered where dad went. They answered, "Costco?".

Ava had a fever and I asked her if she felt sick, she said "My belly button hurts.".

Lola: "edgie"= wedgie

Below are three random pictures of Lola and Ava. (One is a little inappropriate, but I couldn't resist...as usual.)

Tulip Festival

My girls look way sweeter in these pictures than they are in real life...just kidding. But I'm not kidding that Ava is a rock-star and that they are the only two-year olds I know that can chew gum without swallowing it.

Creepy Unicorn

If anyone saw a unicorn post on here complete with a 3 minute unicorn montage and description about how much I love unicorns, it was NOT posted by me. I just figured out who did it. This person also used to do prank calls with me (a long time ago..haha) that consisted of this: call a pizza place, ask them how much a large pizza is, say "WHAT A RIP OFF", and then hang up. If anyone wonders, I have no interest in unicorns. Nice april fools NATALIE.

Putting the beds to use

Please don't judge me because my kids are never wearing pants. I swear that they wear pants most of the time (just not in pictures..haha).

Little Girls Room

Since one quilt is finished (yay! thanks to ryan's mom!), I really wanted to do a picture tour of the girls' room. (I know I'm going to take another year to finish the next quilt.) I think I'm so proud of this room because I made, designed and/or picked everything in it. We painted the walls a pale pink, I picked and sewed the curtains and the quilt, I painted the green shelf, I made the name boards above their beds, I put together the wall collage, and of course painted the little table and chairs. All I have left to do is get bed skirts and finish the other quilt.

Lola's out of Prison and Ava finally came out of the closet

I didn't want to jinx it so I waited several nights before bragging about my girls sleeping in their big beds. They did it all on their own (with a little encouragement). I wasn't going to force them because it was really nice just putting them into their "cages" at night and not worrying about them. My biggest fear was that they would wake each other up at night or would have a hard time falling asleep, but that doesn't seem to be a problem. I'm just so happy that Ava will not be sleeping in our closet anymore (I was desperate for some sleep when they were 6 months old and I just couldn't move her after that...don't make fun...I'd like to see you deal with two babies that keep waking each other up at night). She'll always be known as the closet baby, or the evil twin, or the experiment child...just kidding. I wanted to have the girls' quilts done for this post so I could show a picture of them on their beds, but no such luck. Ryan's mom is quilting the first one as I continue to sew more hexagons onto the second one. I never want to see another hexagon again after this project is over.