Goodbyes Are The Worst

Oh, how I hate saying bye to these two. They hold a special piece of my heart. 

At Grandma's

Brett gave Layla is old electric guitar. The kids were all pretty fascinated with it. It made Layla quiet the popular one with it.  Jack has learned how to get around with his splints. It is pretty pitiful but very hilarious to watch him drag himself across the floor. Poor guy.

Valentine pjs

My thoughtful sister, Mandy, and her family sent Will a Valentine package. He got some cute new jammies that we love and some cards. Layla, and Olivia, he loved your cards so much he tried to eat them! Thanks for thinking of us!

Sleep Over

We LOVED having Layla and Olivia visit for a week. It was so good to see them. They are getting so BIG. I wouldn't be surprised if Layla is taller than me the next time I see here.

One of the fun things we did while they were here was a sleep over at Rocky River. Mom surprised us all with pajamas under the Christmas tree there. All the children had matching jammies. It was pretty cute.

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I'm gonna miss them

Sugar Sugar

Layla and Olivia came over a little unexpectedly one day. I asked them if they had any ideas of fun things we could do and not surprisingly they wanted to make cookies...for their mom. Layla suggested Lemon Whipper Snappers - so tasty and so easy! Still it was not without the mess. The part where you roll the cookies in powdered sugar, oh man what a mess it made, but the girls had fun and so did I. I made them take their clothes off and stay in the kitchen so I could take them (the clothes) outside and shake off the excess. Luckily, Will slept through the whole thing.

Once Will did Wake up, the girls were happy to entertain while I finished tidying up the kitchen. When I walked into the living room I found Will's play pen made into a cage and all three of them in there having a grand time. So I had to snap a picture.

An Apple a Day...

Layla and Olivia came over for a couple hours today. We were finishing up with lunch when I got Will's very large jar of applesauce out of the refrigerator.

Olivia looked at the jar and said in a confused tone, "That's Will's applesauce?"

Yes.

Much more solemn and matter-of-factly, "Oh man. He's gonna die"

What? Why?

"If he eats all that he's gonna die."

I laughed. I'm not going to give him all of it. Just a little at a time.

She seemed satisfied.

Liv

This morning Will and I had a visitor. Cousin Olivia came over to play for a few hours. Will was pretty happy she was there, and Olivia was more than willing to try and help take care of "Baby William." When Will would spit-up, Olivia was quick to remind him that he didn't need to do that to his mom. And then she would tell me, "You gotta get rid a that bay ba!" It was pretty funny.


A little later while Will was napping, she and I went outside to play. She stayed pretty busy taking my picture with her plastic Disney Princess camera and talking on her Hannah Montana cell phone to Patrick. She paused for a moment to sit beside me on the deck and asked if I could identify all of the princesses on her camera case. I did, and when I got to the last one, Sleeping Beauty, she asked, "Why is she sleeping booty?" I told her, "No, not booty, beauty." She said, "booty" I said,"No. Beau, beau, beau," she said, "boo, boo, booty!" I gave up. I think sometimes its better not to try and correct them. It makes life so much more interesting and funny.


One more thing. When Mandy came to get Olivia, I told her, Olivia, that "someone is here." Olivia was laying sideways in the recliner and said very desperately, "Ohhh I hope it's Patrick!" She and Layla are quite taken with Patrick. He always plays with them and pays a lot of attention to them. When the rest of us get tired they can always count on Patrick to keep playing with them. Anyway, she was very disappointed to see her mother come through the door. Sorry, Mandy.

This picture was taken back in Februay. Olivia was singing "Hush Little Baby"

The girls had come over to play on the slippin' slide. Unfortunately they didn't bring swim suits so their clothes got wet and only Olivia had another clean shirt. Layla is wearing one of my t-shirts. This was actually taken in 2006. Just goes to show you that even after all the slippin' slide play, Patrick is still willing to entertain them. Last summer (2007), Olivia was on a "Best Friends" kick. She would hug you around the neck and say "Best Friends!" It was so cute and sweet. She is a major stinker but we can't help but love her! We love this picture. Olivia looks like the happiest girl in the world