Working

No pictures. Sorry! I have been leaving work a little early, but even with that by the time I get home with the girls it is almost 5pm. By the time I get changed, fix something and feed them, it is almost 6pm. I was pushing bath time back and letting them play longer, but I went back to their old schedule today. This morning was the first time ever I had to wake them up in the morning. Leeza was still very tired. She layed on the bathroom rug while I was trying to get them to go potty and tried to go back to sleep. I think they are getting a lot more exercise running around at day care. Their day care is in a former school so it has a large gym that they go in twice a day and run around and play in. They both were clingy and tired tonight when they got home which also means they were cranky. It probably didn't help that lunch was chili which has beans which is a vegetable so neither ate any. They get breaksfast, morning snack, lunch, and afternoon snack so they still got to eat several times. I am also feeding them breakfast before they go since they do eat a lot more than normal 2 years olds. But skipping most of their lunch still ended up with 2 tired hungary kids tonight. They were a little better after I fed them, but even though I put them to bed about 30 minutes earlier tonight than last night, they were a sleep within minutes.

Leeza is loving daycare as she has a lot of kids to play with now and lots of attention. Sasha is doing fine, but she has cried 3 of the 4 mornings I have left her. She stops within minutes of me leaving, I also watch her through the door to the gym(they are in the gym when I pick them up)so I know she is having fun, but she still wants her mama. She is so much smaller and one of the younger kids in her group so she just has a little growing up to do.

Back to Work

I go back to work tomorrow and the girls start daycare full time. I think they will like it and it will help them run off some of their energy! I'm not so certain I will like being back at work although getting a paycheck again will be nice.
This is the girls first gingerbread house. Aunt Debbie helped the girls to build it. Although I kept hearing her tell Leeza, one candy for Leeza and one for the house. I kept seeing one candy for Leeza, one candy for Leeza, take one candy off the house and have Leeza eat it, and then finally one for the house so it is a good thng we bought some extra candy to help decorate it.

Notice the extra purple coloring onthe car today? The girls made good use of the crayons. They colored their cars, their dolls, their faces, their trays and probably a lot more places I haven't found yet. During naptime, I switched them back to the color magic markers!

Sasha is really liking coloring although she doesn't bother to stay in the lines or even on the page. Leeza colored for a little while and then had fun putting the marker caps on her fingers.

Bye Bye Debbie and Niki

Debbie and Niki left early this morning, but not before the girls gave Niki one last workout. They were tired today as they have had a very busy last few days. Debbie and Niki's visit was short, but I am very glad that they got to met the girls and the girls really liked meeting them.

I pushed the girls around in their cars for a little while today, but they need to learn how to move the cars themselves. Since she couldn't get mama to push her in a circle all day, Sasha spent the morning figuring out new ways to get in and out of the car. This one is going in feet first through the back window. They are also good to use as a fort and store all of your stuff inside of them.

This one is just kind of hanging out the back of the car.

And then there is always just go inhead first and see what happens!

Leeza just sat in her car with her baby and watched some TV. She was tired today.

The girls are really developing their plan of attack for destroying the Christmas tree. SO far they are just touching it and seeing if I say anything, but I caught them talking here and plotting against me and the tree. The cup in Leeza's hand "accidentally" fell inside the fence area about 5 seconds after this picture was taken. Leeza wanted to go in and rescue it, but I stopped that plan.

Vroom vrooms(Sasha's word for car)

The girls got to play with their new cars today. Niki and I put them together. After deciding that the instructions were horrible and the cars should come pre assembled, it took a while to get all the parts together, but we got it done before nap time was over.

Sasha needs a few extra things for her car- a few books, some stickers, her baby doll, a plastic bag, some paper etc

The girls have had fun with their visit from Aunt Debbie and cousin Niki. They will miss them when they leave. I will miss having someone to help push the girls cars around and around and around.

Visitors

The girls Aunt Debbie and Cousin Niki are here for a visit this week.
They put our tree up for me and surrounded it with a playyard fence. We tried to get some pictures of the girls dressed up.

This one looks like they are discussing decorating the tree. When they really are talking how to undecorate it!

They think the decorations are very pretty.Leeza looks so grown up here.

One of the better pictures of the two of them. you cannot get 2 two year olds to both smile in a picture. It just does not happen.

I started to give them ornaments as bribes to pose, but that didn't help much.

Leeza did pose well for some gum drops.

Sasha liked the dresses.

If only Sasha would be looking at the camera, this could be so cute.

We also spent some time playing on the slide. It is so much easier when there is more than one person.

Sasha had to have company to slide including her stuffed rhino and 2 plastic cups.

Wheeeeeeee! Frosty is starting to wonder when the fencing will ever stop. Now the living room is gated from the dining room. She is on one side and the girls are on the other. They are getting better, but Leeza is still too rough for Frosty.

Pudding is good!

The pictures really don't need much explanation. They like pudding!

Old pictures

I've had some pictures stuck in the camera memory for a while. I finally got the cable and down loaded them.

This is Leeza first haircut. I think this was their 2nd day home. Uncle Dan cut Leeza's bangs so she could see.Leeza always likes when you fix her hair.

I also realized that these are the pants that Sasha is wearing today. Back then, a whole month ago, I had to roll up the pant legs since they were too long. They fit fine now without rolling them up any!