The girls

My mom just got back from a really long trip with my grandma.  They were gone nearly a month taking a road trip to West Virginia to visit relatives.  My great aunt got the girls some West Virginia University shirts so I snapped a picture today while they were both wearing them.  Jordan was so excited to wear hers today!  She's so goofy in pictures lately.  She gets a funny grin like she wants to smile but she's nervous to.  In some other pictures I got I asked her to smile big so she opened her mouth really wide, then got distracted watching TV and forgot her mouth was open.  It was quite comical.  

Amélie was having a blast taking pictures.  I took a massive amount of pictures and in all of them she was looking at the camera with a big grin.  She's become a little crawler in the past month.  It's fun to see her moving all around exploring...until she finds cords plugged into the wall or the dog toys (gross!).

My little sweetheart.  She looks and feels so much better when her hair is pulled back, but I'm usually too lazy or she's too much of a stinker!  :)

And this one here is getting some hair that needs taming on a daily basis too.  I'm going to be busy doing hair from now on!  I'm seriously SO thankful for all the hair tutorials available online.  I've learned so much!

Giveaway winner

And the winner is....

#3 - Kelley

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silly girls

Giveaway!

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Oops, I did it again

I just couldn't seem to get that last hair style to fix correctly so I went back and had her change it up for me a bit.  Here is the result:

Quite a bit shorter but I love it!  I'm still working on figuring out how to get it as perfect as my stylist did (ha!) and thanks to Kate at The Small Things blog, I think it's going to happen.  She has a similar style only a bit longer and some really good hair tutorials!

Someone got a haircut

ME!  I've actually been sporting the shorter style for a couple months now but last night it got a tad shorter and I realized that most of you haven't seen me with my new short style yet at all so I had Brandon take some pictures...and we got a little carried away.

Cookie monster

 Apparently Cookie Monster is in disguise because Jordan claims these banana pieces are him.  Here are the body parts as she explained it to me.

Kid's imaginations make me chuckle.  I love seeing their creativity and how clever they are!

To be honest, at first I was a bit annoyed that she was making a mess on the table and was about to tell her to stop but before I got the chance she told me that she was making Cookie Monster.  It wasn't until she said that, that I decided to let her go ahead with it because it really isn't hurting anything; I was going to have to wipe the table up regardless and it wasn't intended to make a mess.  This is what I try telling myself when I get too uptight about things.

some fun things we've been up to lately

I saw this cool bubble blower thing in an issue of Family Fun magazine last year and we finally got around to doing it a few weeks ago.  It's a really cheap project.  Take an empty water or soda bottle and cut off the end, rubber band on a wash cloth (I used a baby wipe), wet the wash rag down then dip in dish soap and blow!  Super easy, super fun.  Here's a video of us doing it, the bubbles can hang on for a long time but she kept stopping and wiping them off.  

This was a fun project I recently found on the blog hands on:  as we grow.  Start by pouring baking soda onto a cookie sheet and let your kid play in it if they'd like by drawing shapes and letters with their finger while you dye vinegar with some food coloring.

Then using a medicine dropper, turkey baster, spoon or any other thing you can come up with squirt colored vinegar over the baking soda and watch it bubble and fizz.  This kept us entertained for about 45 minutes.

We got pretty lucky with this next project.  The people who lived in our house before us left behind quite a few things and this peg board with colored pegs just happened to be one of them.  I used this to keep Jordan entertained one day while I was cleaning up and when she said "ok, Mama, me done."  I looked over and found this:

Why I haven't worn make-up in a week

This little munchkin found my mascara and went to town with it all over her face, arms and...

...the toilet.  Yes, my mascara that I had just opened and used for the first time that morning took a dip in toilet water after being rubbed all over someone's face and all over the toilet seat.

 Here she is with her "masterpiece."

Someone got a hair cut

I can't say I was completely ready for it but we decided to get Jordan's hair cut for the first time and even up all the natural layers.  We had it cut to the top layer which means it is pretty short...I'd say she got about 6 inches got chopped off!

She was such a good sport sitting there.  I was very proud of her for sitting so well.

All finished (this was the best picture I could get at the time) and she got a "prize" and a balloon.  She and the dog were quite entertained by the balloon the rest of the day.