Daily Antics

I think am should rename this blog “How I slowly drive my mother nuts: daily chaos by Reese”

Last week she was crying in bed because Maddax  wasn’t coming to marry her in the park (all while she’s wearing her bridesmaid dress)….and that the cake she had Ryan “order” wasn’t being delivered.

Yesterday I was about to hop in the shower, Reese was doing puzzles quietly in the kitchen and I thought to myself “It’s so nice that she can be trusted to quietly play alone while I’m in the shower”…I came out to find her standing on her chair “washing dishes”

Today while I was vacuuming, Reese saw an opportunity. I should start by saying Reese has a slight obsession with hand lotion, she LOVES putting on lotion. For this reason I rarely buy it. It’s just an accident waiting to happen. Most times she puts too much on her hands and I find the rest in my sink slowly going down the drain. I got some for Christmas and its been taunting her since. I keep it high up, she finds a way to get it. She’s too smart for her own good. So today while vacuuming she closed my bedroom door claiming the vacuum was bothering her. I should have known better but she was watching TV so I believed her. I finished and discovered said bedroom door to be locked. When I asked her to unlock the door she tells me “I can’t I have too much lotion on my hands.” Ryan and I were not at all surprised by this. The smell coming from my room would lead me to believe she bathed in it. Good ole Reese, my days would be sooooooo dull without her.

I will post pictures later, Reese is foaming at the mouth for me to let her out the door so she can get the mail.

Sit back and get some popcorn

As I uploaded pictures tonight I realized that I haven’t uploaded since Christmas. I should also point out that I am foregoing my usual routine of watching mindless crap on TV after the girls go to bed in order to get this blog post up. Mindless crap is how I regroup for the next day, that and falling asleep on the couch at 9 pm. Celebrity Wife Swap is a pretty good show.

We’ve been pretty busy around here, using the couch to hold all clean laundry, not mopping the floors, but playing with baby sister, learning letters, playing games, and other important things. You’d know it from the dried play dough under my left kitchen chair. We’re busy with little girls.

So back in December we headed to Kingwood for Christmas with Meme, Grampy, Leslie, Sean, Nana and Grandma. As always the girls got matching pj’s

Brynn riding Kobe the bull. He’s doesn’t make for a very rowdy bullShe lasted the entire 8 seconds

Brynn isn’t big enough to get to match but soon she will be.

obviously a reject…hi Dad

Last summer Reese found out Phineas and Ferb (a show she watches on Disney) was coming to Corpus for a LIVE show. Naturally she begged to go and decided it would be the perfect time for Daddy Daughter Date. Ryan agreed back in August sometime that it was a date. Then they announced that the Aggie’s made a bowl game and that time for the show and bowl game were at the same time. I was stunned that he skipped watching the game on TV to see the show. He taped the game but that’s a whole story itself. Here they are before heading off for their date.

The showAt intermission they had a dancer from the show come down and meet kids. Ryan said they got in line, and each kid smiled, snapped a pic and moved on. Until they got to Reese. He said that the dancer just talked and talked to her, to the point he was embarrassed that they spoke so long, because he was getting the stink eye from other people. After they chatted the line went back to snap and pic and go.

Brynn’s gansta leanSisterly loveNotice Brynn already knows how to lean away from Reese. I think the phrase “Reese stop laying on your sister” is used 200 times a day.Playing in the jumperoo for the first time

big smile!We have the exact same picture of Reese, it’s scary how much they look alike (these are both Brynn)

She prefers to chew her hands. We live in Drool City right now.

Reese had cowboy/cowgirl day at school. She wore the vest that Grandpa got me when I was about her age. I swear when you ask her to take her picture she goes right into model pose. I have to ask her to pose “regular” if we want a real picture. She’s entirely too much sometimes

Figured he needed to feel the love too

Brynn started getting rice cereal this week…

Like most kids when they first start out more ends up on her bib than in her mouth.and of course BIG sister had to help.

Reese was jumping around for Brynn yesterday and Brynn was cracking up. Just laughing at Reese, then Reese would run away and Brynn would look for her. When Reese would pop her head back around the corner Brynn would squeal. It was so cute, you obviously don’t get any pictures because I only have some many hands but like I said we’re super busy at the house lately doing fun things like that.

So if you happen to pop in, never mind that there is still a cardboard box containing my Christmas decorations in the living room, and baby toys ALL over the floor, just know we’re real busy making memories.