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Monday, May 31, 2010

Happy Memorial Day!

We had a pretty good day considering Steven worked the night before. When he got home he built the girl's a swing set! We bought them the swing set on Saturday for about $90. It is great because they had outgrown the one they had, but still loved it. This one we can pack up and take with us to our next base and they can use for many many more years. They were so excited to play on it.

I found these dresses at the BX a couple of weeks ago and thought they would be great for Memorial Day and the 4th of July. And they are great play dresses. It has been so hot here that the girls only want to wear shorts or dresses. Poor kiddos do not do well in the heat. They love the sunny weather and being able to go outside and play, but the heat is to much for them. Their faces get pretty red in a short amount of time, not burnt just red. Lilly actually had heat stroke today. She was only outside for a shirt amount of time and then she said her tummy hurt and she wanted to go inside. She wasn't even on the couch for a minute before she ran to the bathroom to throw and then she sucked down a Gatorade and some water. She felt all better in about an hour. Steve and I felt so bad. We all hate to be sick! You can tell in the photo that Lilly was starting to feel icky. We went inside less than 10 minutes later. And yes, they both were wearing sunscreen. We got some really cool, waterproof, SPF 70, spray-on sunscreen. It's so quick and easy to use. You just spray it onto their skin, you don't even need to rub it in. They don't seem to mind it either. They are sunscreen-ed up and ready to go in about 5 minutes. Thank the Lord because they can be squeamish and get bored pretty quickly these days. Apparently Mommy isn't that entertaining after all, ha!

It was so hot today, that Sadie even enjoyed playing in the sprinkler. She usually walks backwards towards it until she feels water and then she runs away squealing. She even got Daddy to play with her when Lilly went inside. It was pretty funny. She grabbed the caterpillar's ears and said, "I gonna squirt you in the face Daddy!" And then she aimed straight for Daddy's head. Then she aimed for the dog! She had a lot of fun but wasn't out there for too much longer after Lilly and I went inside. Living in England before this has made this climate change ridiculous. They fairly opposite in the weather department, and England was all they had ever known. Watch, it will take the whole tour here for them to get use to the weather and then we'll get orders to Alaska, ha! We need move somewhere where the weather is in the 60's to low 80's and sunny year round!
We had homemade coleslaw, homemade potato salad, hot dogs, and bratwursts for dinner. I even made my first batch of homemade baby food. I made sweet potatoes for Ruby and she LOVED them. So much so that we went out and bought a food processor after dinner so we can make all kinds of fruits, vegetables, and later on meats for her.
We did have a lot of fun today. Any day that we are all together is a good day. We always have a good time.
Hope y'all had a great Memorial Day too!
-K

The Girls' Bedrooms (warning: LOTS of pics!!!)

So we finally have Ruby's room done, but it can always use changes here and there ;) The only thing not in there is the glider, that's still in the living room until we find a replacement chair. Oh and I finally got the big girls' room clean long enough to take photos. They usually start playing again immediately after they clean it. The "L" on Lilly's wall use to look like Sadie's "S", but she decided to play with it and rip it. The only thing she had to say was, "I'll just tell people this is my bed since they can see the "S" for Sadie on her wall." Cheeky little monkey she is, ha! Enjoy!

Ruby has the biggest closet in the house!

I made all the paintings in both rooms so I am pretty proud of that :) And Sadie is posing trying to show her bed!

-K

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Bike Videos

Here are the videos of the girls riding their bikes! The password is bike. It was really windy just to let you know; there is a lot of background noise. ENJOY!

Untitled from kristen todd on Vimeo.

Monday, May 24, 2010

Big Girl Bikes

We quickly learned that the girls were a little big for their tricycles. Lilly looked like a monster on hers, HA! And Sadie's wheels were made of plastic so they would spin when she pedaled but go no where. She was getting so frustrated and angry. So on Sunday, we took the girls to the BX to pick out their big girl bikes! They were so excited and anxious to try them out on the street. They had so much fun that they wore their helmets at the dinner table to eat. They are doing so well. Sadie got a little nervous and frustrated and at one point wanted Daddy to hold her hand while she rode. Lilly fell once and decided she only wanted to ride by herself, no one around, because she "really doesn't like falling". But she quickly got over it. I will post videos tomorrow, right now I am trying to upload them to a video hosting website and it could take a little while. Miss Ruby sat in her stroller and strolled along with them. She loved it :)

The Kitchen and Dining Room

Here are some more photos of the dining room. but with curtains, ha! And here are some of the kitchen too. Ignore the dishes in the sink, the girls played with the dishwasher buttons and I can't get it to work now. Oh, did I mention that the labels on the dishwasher are in Turkish, yup that's why I can't get it to work. MUST learn Turkish! And the last photo is our bulletin board/calendar wall. The cat food is also there, on top of a cat kitchen mat the girls picked out :)