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.

Leila's First Snowman

We kept on waiting for the snow to come back so that Leila could make a snowman. She really wanted to make one and for some reason this winter was not cooperating. We finally had some snow again, so Jeremy went out with Leila to build one.

The conditions were not perfect, but Jer managed to roll up enough snow.

I got to look for items in the house for him to wear and make up his face.

Here Leila is holding his hand.

Here are the makers and the snowman, which Leila named Red Fred.

Unfortunately Red Fred keeps losing his face and buttons due to melting, and Leila is pretty upset about it. "Poor Red Fred!" We keep putting him back together again, but there will be a point when he is too far gone.