Stories of a 2-year old

For April Fool's Day I decided that Leila needed a joke. But this has to be thought out carefully, because she is not going to get the fact that it is a one-day-only type of thing, so she will keep doing it I am sure. I decided the most harmless trick would be to tell someone that there is a spider, then say, "April Fools!"

Leila's first victim was dada - after I told her the trick, she runs out to the kitchen and says to dada, "April Fools!"

She forgot to tell him about the spider first. Oops.

We went to Duie's for lunch and she had perfected the spider gag, so she did it to Nana, Papa, and Duie. Then Nana decided to give her another trick - to tell people that mama has a baby in her belly - I DO NOT! :)

So when Aunt Lindsey gets there, Leila goes with the baby trick, and Lindsey bought it!

Especially since Leila forgot to say "April Fools!" for that one.

Tonight the joke was on us. Leila was saying - there's a bug in the family room...April Fools! And she kept saying it, so after a while we checked the family room, and there really was a bug.

Leila is the worst bargainer I have ever met. Whenever we are setting the amount of food she needs to finish in order to get dessert, she bargains higher. I tell her she needs to eat 2 beans, and she will say, "No - 3!" If I tell her to eat half of her sandwich she will tell me that she needs to eat the whole thing.

As you can see, Leila just got her pictures taken at Sears again. She did so great this time, I am glad we are over that crying through pictures hump. After the photo shoot, she was positioning me all day, she would say, "I need your foot here. Good, now stay there." This last one is the picture I went with. I had a hard time deciding!

Stella has been teething hard core the last few days - she has 4 nubs on the top through. She has been slightly clingy but not too crabby.

Jenna came over to visit while home from college. She brought a scarf for Leila with princesses on it! Leila thinks that Red Fred (her snowman that went back to the north pole...) will be jealous of her pretty scarf.

This was the same night of the Sears pictures, Leila was trying to pose Stella.

Put your arm around her...

No further down...not so tight...

Yeah, perfect...not choking your sister at all...let's be done :)

Stella is in to EVERYTHING! I can't believe how much more curious she is than Leila was. Leila also liked to pull down towels, but Stella is always opening and closing drawers and cabinets, testing the child safety locks. Good thing they are working! :)

Adventures in Babysitting

Leila hates bandaids. I mean hates. I have only managed to put about 3 of them on in her life. Her cousin puts on 5 for fun, but she wants nothing to do with them. She had some blisters on her heels from shoes that were too tight (I told her that they were too tight, but she insisted that they fit fine). We put bandaids on them before bed last night, after a bit of a struggle. This morning when Jeremy got her up, she said, "Did it rain last night?" and he told her yes, and she said, "I heard it raining with my ear. I heard it with my bandaids too."

Stella is really starting to smile for the camera, it makes it so much easier to get a good shot of her.

Everyone smiles when we play airplane!

On Monday I had all four little girls by myself for a workday. It was quite an adventure, especially lunchtime...when everyone needs something at once. It went surprisingly well, I am hoping that continues for the next time!

Stella found the toilet paper, and discovered how much fun it is to unroll!

She even tried to eat some.

Then made a clean getaway.

With the heat and humidity lately her hair is curling up and looks so darling!

Today we have just one extra cousin to play with and the girls had a blast in the tub! Norah is used to having a whole tub for herself so she kept switching places with Leila who did not think that was allowed.

No More Snow!

It is March and we have had about a week of 75-80 degree days, so I thought that I needed to update my blog, since it had a snowman on it. Stella has been sick, she had a fever, runny nose, and cough that pulled at the heartstrings.

She is over it now, which is so much nicer! Here the girls are helping me make cookies.

Stella woke up early from her nap, so I gave her a bunch of cheerios so I could finish up some work.

She is climbing up on everything now and starting to cruise.

She also is starting to get into a lot of stuff, so I need to make sure to pay attention to where she is at all times.

And she isn't the only one who gets into things, her sister likes to sneak jelly beans if they are out on the counter.

I love this picture of Stella, it looks like she has a funny secret.

The other day I put Leila down for nap with her head on the foot side and she thought this was the greatest thing ever, so most naps are now upside down.