Half to the Bottom

In total shock the other night at supper Ryland said to me "huh! mom, look,.. Bia's bowl is half to the bottom and mine is half to the top!!" what? i said, and he repeated that hers was half to the bottom already. and I wanted to dig a little deeper into this horrifying moment my son was having. I kept probing a little more and then showed him 2 cups on the the table and said if they both have this same amount of water in them how is one 'half to the top' and one 'half to the bottom'?? "Well mom, remember when I went to the bathroom?...(just minutes before) well, she was still eating then so that makes hers half to the bottom already" "Oh" I said, "well, then that does make sence". and that was that. And he then sped up his eating so she wouldn't 'win'. Everything is a race, always! I think boys are just born that way:)

Sleepover

Sunday night we were out a little later then anticipated, due to my children not wanting to leave grandma and grandpas house. 45 minutes later I had them all buckled in the van and started the horrible drive home, blowing snow, poor visibility and it was now bed time for some and past for others. Lexi thought that since I had brought her pj's with she was having a sleepover at grandma and grandpas and had two fits leaving. I bring pj's with all the time! what was she thinking?! even at home when she saw me packing them she asked if she was sleeping over and I said no sweetie not tonight, mommy is just bringing them with incase we want to stay till close to bedtime. and she was fine with that, until we got there and she wanted to put on her pj's and she asked again and I said no sweetie grandma and grandpa are working in the morning so if you'd sleepover there would be no one here in the morning with you, okay, and once again she was fine. When the time came to actually leave for home the fits started, for some reason how I explained it to her she understood that she WAS having a sleepover there. it took a few talks with mommy, a talk with grandma, a call to daddy and 45 minutes to get her okay with going home! ahh! next time i won't be so confusing for the poor girl:)

Well this isn't actually the sleepover I was talking about in the title, now that the kids had come home in pj's it was super quick for me to get them in bed, I told the girls to go in their room and wait for me...they ran there so excitedly, Lexi got there first and jumped on her bed, Bia followed laughing as she ran thinking this was a game...sleeping isn't usually this exciting. With their door wide open I could hear them talking "Bia, do you want to sleep in my bed with me?!!" (and then I'm imaging Bia nodding very excitedly) "yeah?!!!, okay, i'll go ask mommy" "MOMMYYYYY..." and now she is racing out of her room, "can Bia sleep in my bed with me tonight?" sure sweetie, "huhhh, yay, Bia you can!!!" as she ran back to their room. I think had I not heard their sweet little conversation I probably would have said no, at this point I was discouraged at how late it was and no one was sleeping yet, and I hadn't totally calmed down from the mayhem that occured at my in-laws with getting the kids home (oh, i didn't mention that Bia refused to come home also, I think she was a little mad at the fact that grandma and grandpa didn't have a Dora movie, she kept asking for them to put one on for her and cried when every time she asked they had none to put one on! thankfully they had Dora playing cards and she was able to take one home with her which she was very excited about). They were both so excited and I didn't say anything to them but I figured this will last about 2 minutes, then Sophia will realize she can get off the bed and that's all she'll do, on off on off, then i'll come in and put her in her own bed and they'll finally go to sleep. although it will take longer now because they'll be all rialed up and even more over tired. I was thinking about it as I was listening to my girls visit and laugh in their little sleepover and I thought I remembered asking for things when I was young and having such a hard time when the answer was no. "what does it matter to you" I always thought, it's just a sleepover (or whatever it happened to be that time). I now know everything my parents had to do for "just a sleepover" when I thought it didn't make them any difference. But we had no plans Monday and so if the girls had a little less sleep and were cranky they could easily relax more or have an extra nap so really it would mean more to them this time then the extra work it would be for me. I listened at the door a couple of times and it was so so sweet their little conversation, a 1 and 2 year old conversing may sound a little silly but Bia lost her lala (soother) and Lexi and her looked for it, Lexi heard cars going by and asked Bia if she thought too that that sounded like a car going by, Lexi suggested 2 times that they go to sleep now, she always says the best part of the sleepover is the sleeping! and after 10 minutes and 2 suggestions they both fell asleep! perfectly! they slept till 6:43 the next morning! Bia is always up at 6:30, always, so she slept in. and then when I went to get her she didn't want to get out of bed, she asked for more n-night and so I heated up some milk and she was in bed till just after 7 and then Lexi woke up too. It was so wonderful, the girls had such a great time, they were still super excited in the morning when they woke up together and it didn't even mean all that extra work I thought it would be for me. ahh, I can still hardly believe it. I'm so glad I over heard them plan this or it probably wouldn't have happened.

Sugar Cookies

This will be short and sweet, I haven't done this in a while so I thought I'd post a short little blog about the new cookies I attempted this year. Sugar Cookies, I was watching Martha Stewart and they were making Santa sugar cookies and decorating them with royal icing, doing the hat and boots and then waiting 10 minutes for that color to dry and then doing the white and waiting another 10 minutes so I thought I would love to do that. I went out in search of things I saw and came up short, no Santa cookie cutters (I could only find big Santa faces, not the whole body) and no luck finding those little silver balls for sticking on the icing either. If anyone knows where I can find these things please help: ) I did find other basic shapes, candy canes, snowmen and snowflakes and I had a ton of fun decorating them though. I'm not to excited about baking them and really try to get that out of the way really quick so I can get to decorating. I was so excited to get going on the decorating I couldn't wait till I had peace to do it (all the kids sound asleep in their beds!) so I sadly rushed into it and had my pants tugged on and was interruped numerous times. I'm happy with how they turned out but think next year they'll be better... I won't rush into them and I'll do them when I have the kitchen to myself!

So here are my snowflakes..

and here are my little snowmen..

and next year when I have that much more practice I'll post the other shapes:)