Pickle-Cakes Funnies

Daddy: "MayLee, what does a chicken say?"

MayLee: "Cluck-a-doodle-doo!"

Last Year - False Accusation

Last Year - I'm going to keep you

Last Year - 5/5/12 - Yay-Yay-Yo

Last Year - 5/28/11 - Tap Dispenser

Last Year - March 3, 2011 -" Like, a octagon"

You're just telling me this NOW?

What do you mean we have a dog?

For more than a week now.

And I haven't posted about her here or on Facebook.

It's not because I'm not excited.  I am.  We love our little puppy.

It's not because I don't think you want to know.  I know that you're completely absorbed with every tiny inconsequential detail of our lives.

I don't even have a decent picture of her yet.  With or without the girls.

This is the best I can do.  She's darn cute.  Her name is Snickerdoodle, because her coloring reminded us of the cookie.

We adopted her from friends.

She's now 7 weeks old.

She's a mix: Miniature Pinscher & Shelty/Pomeranian

   That's right folks.  We have a sweet, small yappy dog.  That will be an indoor dog.  That Erik thought we'd never have.  (I win)

The funny thing is though, that it was Erik's idea to bring her home.  I've been very apprehensive about bringing a dog into our lives at this point - when we already don't really have time to keep on top of the house and have hobbies and children and jobs, etc. etc. etc.

But one day, he was on the way home from work and called to say that he was going to stop and pick up something furry before coming home.  

Check back tomorrow for more.  Maybe I'll even have a picture.

Scootie

Today:

Alyson was happily counting to herself.

Alyson: "...8...9...10...scootie..."

Erik: "Scootie isn't a real number."

Alyson: (laughs) 

 

January 25, 2011 part 2 - My belle

Happy 8th Anniversary

I'd pick you again honey.  I love you.


"Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there's plenty of room at both ends."

January 21, 2011 - Cleaned up Christmas

January 16, 2011 - A single person experience

January 10, 2011 - Blocks are not books

January 9, 2011 - MayLee claims a kiss

January 8, 2011

On the phone:

Daddy: Whose birthday is it today Alyson?

Aly: Isabell's (and indeed, we were getting ready for Isabella's birthday party)

Daddy: And whose else?

Aly: (silence)

Daddy: Mommy's birthday!

Aly: It's not Mommy's birfday, it's Isabell's.

Daddy: Say "Happy Birthday, Mommy!"

Aly: (to me) It's not ore's birfday Mom.

Today - January 6, 2012

MayLee was running around this morning with a cinnamon stick wand trying to say Wingardium Leviosa.  Which of course is the spell for making things float.

You can hear her saying it at about 30 seconds in the above clip.  And then she flops herself over.  Kind of ironic considering the intended outcome of the spell.


Eventually Alyson broke in and said:

"No, it's Wing - Gar - Dee - Um  -- Leh - vee - OH - sah."
I only wish I'd caught that on video as well.  My little Hermione.



Oh yes.  We're great parents.  I am for introducing them young and early to the magic of imagination.  Erik is for playing along.

Christmas Part 1

For your viewing pleasure, the unedited pictures. (better story to come later)

Here, the girls are seeing the tree decked out with gifts for the first time Christmas morning.

Inspecting the loot

Getting ready to open Santa's present

So excited she had to remove her socks

 

MayLee showing mommy her new puzzle

MayLee opening Santa's present

Santa even got the girls a floor puzzle to share - they got to open it together

Some of the felt food made by mommy

The smoker we got for Daddy that was supposed to be a surprise

Merry Christmas everyone!

Fluttering By

Last night, Alyson acquired two wipes that she promptly used as wings.  She happily ran around with them in her hands flapping merrily.

Alyson: "I'm a butterfly!"
Daddy: "Oh.  Well tell me when you turn back into a girl so I can have a kiss"
Alyson: "You can have a butterfly kiss."
Daddy: "Okay."
Alyson: "In just a minute."
Daddy: "I'll wait."
Alyson flap and dances and twirls: "Ow, I just flapped my wing in my eye!"

Dose 5 - the Aftermath

When we were at the Cosmosphere, Erik picked up a fancy little contraption in the gift shop.  It's pretty much a wing on a stick.

 The next day, Erik and the girls tested it on the hill next to my parent's house. 

All you do is put the stick between your palms and drag your hands in opposite directions.

Think of how cool it was when we all used to "Give a five, and let it slide".  That's pretty much what you want to do with your hands - but vertically. 

After the wing is free of your fingers, it spins up and away from you.  And then you have your children bring it back to you.  Because it's hot and they feel more like running around than you do.

My little Pookle

 I'm not sure why, but I absolutely love these two blurry pictures.

We all had a blast.  And then the girls needed a bath.  Exhibit A:

MayLee's hobbit-ish feet

Dose 4 - The Roadtrip within a Roadtrip

In addition to hanging out in town, we decided to go on a mini roadtrip while we were in Topeka.   The girls have never been to the Cosmosphere space center and it's been years and years since we've been.

Before I give you the meat and potatoes though, here are some appetizers.

Grandpa C on a walk with the girls

MayLee playing at Aunt Amy's house

Alyson playing at Aunt Amy's house

MayLee with one of her cousins

Here we go now...


To be honest, we double dipped.  On the way to Hutchinson, we stopped in Abilene to see the Eisenhower Museum.

We waited for a while before our tour of his boyhood home.

At the Cosmosphere, they have an entire HUGE airplane in the lobby.  I can't believe I didn't get a good picture of the whole thing, but here we are at the tip of the airplane. 

It's cool - there are no ropes - you can touch it, take pictures with it...

...or even sit your kids on it.

MayLee is looking at what we soon found to a lunar module.  Pretty cool.

Alyson was kind enough to share her chapstick (tap-stitch) with Grandma C

The girls got to learn about Mars explorers

Aly got to sit in an ejection seat

Grammy, Grandpa C and MayLee next to the Apollo 13 space ship command center.  Uh yeah.  I said the Apollo 13 command center.  The one they made a movie about.

MayLee fell asleep in Grammy's arms

Grammy and MayLee (asleep) in front of a the Lunar Module

We had a blast - an awesome, exhausting and memorable day!  Thank you Grandma, Grandpa, Grammy, Grumpy and Aunt Rachel!