Cell Phone Pictures

Time - again - for me to purge some cell phone pictures onto the blog.  Luckily, my awesome husband helped me figure out how to hook my phone up to the computer and get the pictures right off of it, rather than emailing myself the pictures...yeah, I never claimed to be too tech saavy.

Anyway, we've been busy cleaning up the house and yard (HUGE thanks to my sister Emily and her handyman husband Dave!) but have managed to have some fun as well.

Enjoy the pictures!

I came out one afternoon and found Molly and Brielle all snuggled up on the couch.  Molly was happily watching Brielle play a game on her tablet.

We have an old office chair in the garage that we need to take to DI.  The girls have discovered it though, and for some reason like pushing themselves around on the driveway on it.

Molly being cute while playing outside

Then Molly wanted to push Addison around in the stroller

We were going through clothes and sorting them, so we had stacked up the bins as we finished.  Addison and Molly thought they were a great place to sit and eat a snack.

Marty tried to make lemon bars.  He accidentally used baking soda instead of baking powder...they were not successful.  HOWEVER he tried again a couple days later and they were perfect!

Addison was being cute and asked me to take her picture.

 Long story short, Brielle had to have this molar extracted because of an infection.  It's the same molar she already had to have a little root canal and cap placed on.  Poor thing did it with basically no numbing medicine either.  The numbing medicine wouldn't take becuase of the infection, and the dentist office didn't have any sedatives or laughing gas. :(  She was a trooper.

I got to go on a girls trip with my mom and sisters.  I was treated to a pedicure and a haircut/dye.  It was great!

Four cute girls eating lunch during spring break

Molly is obsessed with getting her hair done in two piggy tails lately.  So one day she kept going in my bathroom, dumping out all the elastics and bringing me two to do her hair.  Then she'd take them out of her hair, go in my bathroom and pull them all out again and bring me two more.  The elastics have been moved now.

Molly ended up getting sick a few days ago, so we entertained ourselves by taking silly pictures. 

(You can also see my new hair color)

Apparently during Spring Break, my girls took to spying on me.  I found this awesome note.

Mother

- Looks everywhere

- buys stuff from Malaysia (apparently our barstools say "made in Malaysia" on the bottom)

- picks up bread weird (didn't know there was a proper way to pick up bread)

And that is all!

Master Bedroom

Okay, the master bedroom was a nice transformation.  As soon as we were under contract on the house, I started planning and plotting exactly how I wanted this room.

Marty worked on painting the walls gray before we moved down.  We changed out the ceiling fan for something a little cooler, added curtains and decorated. We also had plans to eventually replace the carpet, but didn't get to it.

We had to make the room a little bit of a multi-tasker (bedroom and office) but I love how it turned out!

Before:

After:

 

 

Master Bathroom - Finally

So, I realize that we have lived in this house for almost a year, and now I'm finally getting around to posting these pictures.  And it's also sad that we've got the house looking all perfect just in time to move. :(  Oh well...here is the master bathroom!

We didn't change much in here other than the knobs on the cupboards and put our own towels and decorations up.

I really love this big bathroom though, it has been so nice.  The kids (and I) love the huge jetted tub, and two sinks is heavenly.

Before:

After:

Addison Funnies

Addison is really starting to come up with some HILARIOUS things lately.  She has us laughing all the time (well...when she isn't making us want to scream)

These are just a few of the random things I happened to remember to write down.

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When we were up north visiting and were at Marty's parent's house, the girls' were doing something that happened to kind of gross out Marty's mom (oh how I wish I could remember what it was!).  She said something about not being able to watch when people do that.  And Addison said to her, "Well, you don't have to watch us."

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Addison was singing 'The Sun Will Come Out' song from Annie, although her words were a little better:  "The Sun Will Come Out...TOMORROW....but your bottom....[thinking]...won't."

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Addison was learning about the letter R in preschool, so we were asking her what she wanted to take for show and tell.  We started listing things that started with R, and she decided to take a rabbit.  She has a hard time saying her R's sometimes, especially if it's at the beginning of a word, although she can easily make the R sound...anyway, we had this little conversation.

Me:  So what are you taking for show and tell?
A: A wabbit!
Me:  A Rabbit?
A: Yep, a wabbit.
Me:  Not wabbit, Rabbit.  Say rrrrrr...
A:  rrrrrrr
Me:  abbit.
A:  abbit.
Me:  Good, so rrrrrrrr abbit.
A:  rrrrrr  wabbit.
Me:  No, don't pause, just rrrrrabbit.
A:  rrrrrr wabbit.
Me:  OK, try one more time.  rrrrrabbit.
A:   rrrrrabbit.
Me:  Good job!  You said it!
A:  Yeah!  Wabbit!

Then Marty jumps in and says: "This conversation is getting ridiculous.  Can you say ridiculous, Addison?"
Addison:  widiclious (our favorite is instead of 'ulous' she says 'lious' so funny)

We gave up.

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Molly slept in one morning, so Marty and I said something about her probably not getting a nap that day.  Addison said, "What?  No nap for Molly, but then she'll be FWEAKING tired!"

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When I was picking Addison up from preschool one day, she wanted to swing for a minute (her teacher has swings in the front yard hanging from a tree).  So I was pushing her and she kept yelling "Mom, do the one!  I want you to do the one!"  I wasn't sure what that meant, so I kept saying "I don't know what the one is, what do you mean?"  She got more and more frustrated and was yelling "THE ONE MOM!"  I still had no idea what she was saying.  So she finally said, "Mom...you know...with your feet!" and used her fingers like legs and ran across her hand with them.  I finally caught on.  She wasn't saying ONE, she was saying RUN.  This whole not saying R's makes for some funny conversations.

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Addison say's Brielle's name "Bee-elle".  It was bothering Brielle the other day, because she assumed Addison was doing it to be annoying.  The three of us had this conversation:

Brielle:  Addison...my name is NOT Bee-elle!  It's BRIELLE!
Addison:  I know, Bee-elle.
Brielle:  NO, Brielle...with an R.
Addison: Yeah, Bee-elle!
[this goes on for a few minutes]
Me:  Brielle, you know she can't always say her R's.  She isn't trying to tease you or be mean, she's just saying your name how she can.  Remember how we tried to get her to say rabbit and she couldn't?
Brielle:  OK.
Addison:  Yeah Rabbit (completely pronouncing the R better than ever before)
Me: [looking in disbelief] Seriously?  You're going to throw it out now after all that?

She just laughed.

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[This was a Facebook status recently]
Addison keeps bringing me papers that she has folded and claims are "birthday cards" for me, even though my birthday is over a month way. I told her thank you, and she said. "I had to make them, because my boss told me to. He said it's almost your birthday, so I did what he told me." I asked her who her boss was, and she said "A ghost. He lives in a hole in our house. He's kind of dark so I can't see him good. You knock on this tile to talk to him."
................uh............she's a little creepy.

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While I was doing Addison's hair one morning, she was looking in the mirror and making faces.  Then she said, "Look, I can make my nose look like a burrito!"  She then opened her mouth up big into an O.  I asked her how that made her nose look like a burrito, and she said it was because her mouth was in an oval shape.  I said, again, I wasn't sure how that made her nose look like a burrito and she said, "Because...my nose is JUST SO FLEXIBLE!!" 

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Addison: Mom, I know it's you, but you look kind of different today.
Me: Oh really?
Addison: Yeah, like it's still you, just different. Did you maybe forget to put your makeup on today?
Me: Nope.
Addison: Well, it looks like you did. So you look different.

Thank you, Addison, for the self esteem boost on my makeup skills.