Crazies

This week Seneca met her future husband. My friend Chanie and I were trying to get pregnant at the same time, and when we found out the gender of the babies we naturally went to work on an arranged marriage. Unfortunately they moved to Illinois right before he was born.

I think the long distance thing is taking a toll on their relationship...

 I was making lunch the other day and I told Amari we were having grilled cheese sandwiches, she excitedly said "I love grilled cheese, I want extra grill!" Then when it was served she sticks her fingers in the cheese and said "Ahhh, that's some good grill." When Zeke was complaining about his food Amari told him "You get what you get, and you don't get maggots." Pinkalicious quoted just a little wrong. My other favorite is when she says lasagna it is "Buzzagna" love it. 

She loves to play pretend, but it is always hilarious to listen to her describe what she is being. "Pretend I'm a tiger, with blue stripes, and I'm feisty. And my name is feisty and when I'm sad I breath fire, and when I'm confused I breath ice, and when I'm mad I breath rainbows." Ok, will do. Or how about the fabled Poodlecorn "Pretend I'm a pink poodle, with rainbow wings, and a horn and when I'm mad I..."

 Pantera and Zeke playing run from the camera. They love this game, I do too but would love it better if they stopped playing every so often.

 Pantera got new glasses this week, super exciting. She is majorly into comic book heroes right now, so she leads the kids in these wonderful games full of villians and adventure.

 Whenever Jess leaves for work, Zeke says "Do you have to go home now Dad?" I then have to explain that dad actually lives with us, not at work. This brought on a nice conversation "Mom, where is dad's work?" "It's in _________, but sometimes he goes other places." "Oh, I thought he worked in Outofgascar." Great Zeke quotes "When I grow up I'm going to be a vampire or a butterfly catcher."  "I'm a vampire, an awesome vampire." "Everybody don't dance now, do do do do do do do do."  The last one was meant as an insult to me when he was throwing a fit...classic.

Katurah insists on wearing the "Abby" or Mike  costume all day everyday. I had to hide it. She thinks if she covers her eyes you can't see her, so now when she is doing something she is not supposed to she just covers her eyes and does it anyways.

Pretzel jacking

 Here are a couple cute pics of a very sweet little girl. She was 2 months yesterday. She is still just a cuddle bug who hates to ever be put down. She is also super smiley, if she is awake and being held, you can get her to smile.

 I'm excited to see how much she weighs, she sure is starting to fill out nicely.

 Amari wore this sweet croc costume all day yesterday. "Mom you be Captain hook and I'm tick tock Croc and Zeke is Mr. Sleeve."  The other day her friend "Bivian" was over to play. After she left Amari approached me with her head hung low and said "Knock knock." I replied "who's there" she said "Sadness" I said "Sadness who?" She said "Sadness because Bivian is gone!" Poor thing.

She and Zeke argued the whole way home from preschool today. I guess Amari took Zeke's snack and it made him sad. She just said "I didn't steal Zeke's snack, I stole Matalia's. What? I was hungry." Little fart.

 The kids were all playing a game together and when they were pretending to go to sleep Zeke said "It's time to get some shut up." Shut up, shut eye, same difference. There was a game he wanted to download on my kindle and he said "I want to get me some of that action." What?!? Almost as good as his explicit version of Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree, lets just say it involved a certain male body part popping on the tree instead and a certain mom and dad trying not to lose it when they told him that was inappropriate.

I had parent teacher conference for Pantera this week and I couldn't be more proud of that little girl. She has made quite an impression on every one of her teachers so far, but this year she has really tried to be more mature and has even toned down her talking in class. Way to go Tera!!!

Katurah's 2!

 Katurah turned 2 on Sunday. I made her an elmo cake, cuz she kind of loves him a lot.

 She had her favorite guy over for her party, you guessed it-Papa! She just loves my dad SOOO much and gets so excited to see him every time he comes over. I love it when the doorbell rings and she runs to it saying "Papa, Papa!" over and over again, she always hopes he's the one on the other side of that door. But why wouldn't she, he knows her so well and rocked the house with a sweet baby Elmo and she reacted with this face...

 She is also quite the Daddy's girl and loves it when he is home in the mornings especially. She crawls right into bed next to him and talks his ear off. And when Dad gets home from work he gets an earful from her as well. Speech therapy starts next week so he may even be able to understand her soon:)

Katurah, you are just precious. You have the most lively, beautiful brown eyes and the wild personality to match them. You make me smile and laugh everday. I love you so much little girl!

Pantera's 9!!!

Pantera turned 9 last week! She told me the night before her birthday "For my breakfast in bed, I would like blueberry pancakes and chocolate milk." Come again child? It made me laugh pretty hard that she just assumed I would be serving her a special breakfast in bed. The only problem is she was up WAAAAYYYY earlier then me so I had to "yell" at her to go back to bed so I could bring her breakfast.

 She is getting big so fast and teaching us a ton all along the way. The younger kids can thank her for my patience and composure during their temper tantrums, cuz nothing they can do could beat hers as a young child. They can thank her for me letting them ride the school bus in the future, I would never have been brave enough without Pantera's extra push. They can thank her for breaking us in basically.

 Pantera you are a wonderful girl and a light to all those around you, please always remember to let your light shine. Happy Birthday!!!