Field Trip

Lily's Kindergarten class went on a field trip to the local fire station on Thursday of last week. They got to ask all kinds of questions of the fire fighters, and Lily for one loved the trip. Lily calls them fighter fighters.

Cookies

Lily working hard, Annabelle eating the icing. 

Snowflake

Our elf Snowflake arrived today! She was here last year leading up to Christmas and has decided to come back and stay until Christmas Eve. She will report back to Santa Claus at the North Pole every night to keep him updated on Lily and Annabelle's (hopefully) good behavior. 

Caught Red Handed

Or the worst liar ever?! 

I was in the office with the door open and Annabelle was in the other room watching tv. She comes in and says, Hi Mummy, I'm not going to eat chocolate ok? Then goes out of the room and shuts the door. 

Then I hear rustling, of the bag of chocolate of course, so I go out and catch her eating the chocolate. Then I say, oh you are eating chocolate?! And she says no! So I say, ok, stick out your tongue, and she does and of course it's covered in bits of chocolate and she drools a big chocolatey drool down her top. Hahaha! 

These are the kinds of things that I find difficult not to laugh at and be serious, and tell her she shouldn't do that. It's impossible :)  

What are these?

Oh look, Lily says, the toilet paper rolls with treats inside! 

She means Christmas crackers! 

My farmer hat

Lily, mummy look at my farmer hat! Lily- it's not a farmer hat it's a safari hat. Me- it's cute either way let me take your photo! 

Practice run

Having breakfast getting ready for thanksgiving. 

Suspicious

Had there been some brainwashing going on, subliminal messaging maybe? Annabelle asked me to start calling her baby Juliette today. I'm not pointing any fingers but she didn't ask to be called Skip. :-) 

Naptime?

This is how I found her... 

First snow day 2014

A morning in the life of Annabelle

First, I can't find her, even Lily says she doesn't know where she is. I find her behind the couch eating a lollipop. It's around 9:00 am. 

Next, she decides she wants to learn to start writing letters. She decides on A since it is the first letter of her name. (Also the alphabet but to her that is way less important.) 

After that it's time to disappear again. She decided she would go get herself dressed. Wonderful! Keep in mind it's supposed to snow this afternoon. Yes those are leg warmers, sandals, shorts and a tshirt. You can't make this stuff up. 

Feeling breezy?

Annabelle climbing into the fridge to get yogurt.

Another game

Let's play match all the socks and sort who they belong to, and sort out who the underwear belongs to also. It will be so much fun! 

Word of the day

Sometimes Annabelle comes out with words and I wonder where she gets them from. Today the word is trespassing. 

Movember

Papoo is working on fundraising for Movember, so we are showing our support.. 

Trick or treat!

Fun times

Avoiding eating dinner... 

I wish...

Lily says... 

I wish I had a mummy and daddy that would say you can have a treat and a show no matter what you do, and even if you don't eat your dinner. But you don't say that. 

Well no we don't. 

Delicious

Daddy - Lily, do you know what's so great about corn? 

Lily - hmm, is it that it's made from cows? 

Daddy - eh no, it's that it's delicious. 

New haircut!

Walk-a-Thon

Today was the day for the Wild West Walk-a-Thon, Lily's school PTO fundraiser. I volunteered to go down and help out with Lily's class. Everyone had a really fun day, and Lily & her friends managed to walk 14 laps each! (And so did mum!) 

This is Lily, Genevieve, and Kade. Genevieve goes on the same bus with Lily, and Kade I think sits at her table, either way they are the names I hear the most from Lily. Funnily enough both of their mom's were there too so I got to meet them and talk to them too. 

And off we go! 

And now all the kids are really sad because it's over, but right after this we walked them back over to the school building where they got a snow cone, and then got to run around the playground so they cheered right up! 

Smoothie Yogurt

Annabelle just finished a smoothie yogurt and asked if she could have another one. Daddy says, you know Annabelle those smoothie yogurts don't grow on trees. Annabelle says, no daddy! They grow in smoothie yogurt boxes! 

Cousins

Too cute

Annabelle just looked the picture of cuteness today so I had to share.

New game

Come on kids! Mummy has a new game! We are going to do this a little bit every day forever and ever. Yes, it's so much fun, you will love it. 

Phone talk

Annabelle playing with a (not connected) cellphone: 

Hello, yes, I'm here, yes it's Rachel time. (!?) Yes, I can, indeed I can. Oh hi Rider! (Character from paw patrol show). Yes, it's Annabelle, yes I'll meet you too. We'll come back in a little bit. It is nice to meet you, ok bye bye. 

You can't make this stuff up. 

Umbrella

Lily and Annabelle are pretending that Annabelle is a little baby and Lily is looking after her. Lily says pretend your first word is umbrella. Annabelle says okay. Lily says no you can't say okay you have to say umbrella.

After bedtime

This was how Annabelle appeared downstairs after she was supposed to be in bed. How could anyone even be mad with this little fairy! 

Love how she picked all the coordinating blue items! 

First Day of School!

Chain of command

Lily says: remember Mummy I am in charge of Annabelle, Daddy's in charge of me, and you're in charge of Daddy. That's how it goes.

Glad to see that's all straightened out.

God the builder

Lily - God made everything. He made that building. He made our house, or did builders make our house? Does anyone know? 

Me - covering up laughing too much to give her any answers! 

Owls and eagles, oh my

Annabelle is worried that if we have Lily's birthday party outside, and put the presents out there, that owls and eagles are going to swoop down out of the trees to try to get them. 

I asked her what we should do about it and she says we should put them up high so they can't get them. Lily thought that would make the problem worse, and we should put them under the patio umbrella. 

We talked about this for a while, then Annabelle said 'haha, only kidding!' 

Well thank goodness! 

Indigo

Annabelle says - it's indigo mummy! 

Me - wha?! Where do you learn this stuff! 

Summer fun

Tell me you like my hat

Yes it's summer but she wants to wear it, and tells me she wants to keep it on all day.