Isn't She LOVELY

If you can't tell, I think my daughter is the most beautiful baby ever. That is why I take a million pictures of her, because every outfit looks cute on her since she has just the right amount of baby fat and adorableness. (I'm sure that's a word)

These are part of her 2 year old birthday pictures. Her hair is naturally curly, but I like to enhance it with curlers every once in awhile. I always grew up wearing curlers, but everyone always comments that they never see little girls with curlers anymore. She is very accustomed to them and she can even sleep with them in. But, where the beauty ends, the attitude begins!

It was crazy trying to get her to take pictures. She won't sit in one place for more than 3 seconds, let alone trying to get her to smile or pose. She always has an idea of what she wants to be doing and will gladly throw a humongous fit if she doesn't get her way. Even though I am very consistent with not giving into her fits, she keeps them coming. I am sure her strong will should help her out in life and she will never get walked all over, so there's the bright side.

This is my favorite one. We got the cute Baby Phat sweater while we were in Yellowstone of all places and it was rediculously cheap for designer, so I had to get it for her. I can justify the price, since we got her skirt from a garage sale! She usually tears out her headbands, but she was kind enough to leave them in for her pictures.

Now a little bit about Aisy - She LOVES mirrors and talking on the phone. She just sings all the time. She likes itsy bitsy spider, twinkle little star, lion king songs like "hakuna matata" and "I just can't wait to be king", and "I like to move it move it" from the Madagascar movie. It's funny because she just always has a song in her head and inline with that, she is always dancing.

She likes to eat with her hands. She knows how to use utencils, but prefers her hands. She loves pretties of all sorts, necklaces, bracelets, hair pretties, ribbon, and make-up. She speaks very well and is the best talker in her pre-school class. The teacher says she also acts as an interpreter because she can understand what the other kids are saying and then tells the teacher what they are saying. She doesn't mind being dirty, having food all over her face, or dirt between her toes.

She listens much better to daddy than mommy. She likes to sing "digging up bones" with Dad and she loves to cuddle cheek to cheek. Instead of saying "Mommy hold me" - she says "Mommy, I hold you" and she will give me the biggest hug and just cling on like a monkey. She loves her brother. Everywhere she goes in the house she says "C'mon Mike" or "let's go play upstairs, K?" Much credit to him, he goes along with it most of the time and just lets her be the leader. What a big personality for such a little girl.

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!

The Annual Flag Football Tournament
for Drake Law School Students was the last Saturday in September. The rule is that only law school students and their significant others can play. It is 8 on 8 and single elimination. Here's our team below, made up of most of my best law school friends and 2 spouses.

Back Row: Chris (spouse of Cholla), Cullin, Matt Sease, Justin (my spouse), and Craig
Middle Row: Miguel, Stephanie, and Matt Kaufman
Bottom Row: Wendy & Aisy, Chris, Natasha, Cholla, Megan & Mikey, Rick

Since Rick doesn't generally like playing football, he was kind enough to watch Mikey and Aisy during the games. They love him and he is soooo much fun it is probably a let down to have to go home with mom and dad and not uncle Rick.

We had shirts made for the game. Our team name was Bills of Attainder. It's a legal term that we were tested on last year even though nobody had it in their notes and I think the teacher may have mentioned it once, MAYBE. We each came up with our own "Bill" name. I was Bill Mama, Justin was Bill Doe, there was an Un-BILL-ievable, Farmer Bill and others that were pretty great. We had lots of fun together, which was good since it lasted from 9AM - 3PM and it was a HOT HOT day.

Justin was the star quarterback. You can see me on the far side of the line with the awesome green knee socks that game me a really nice tan line. I also have some sweet sticky reciever gloves on, even though I only got one pass and I didn't complete it! ooops, let's just say I'm better on defense. We won our first two games. The second one was intense and there were some questionable calls by the Refs. But we won by a point. In the championship game against last year's reigning champs, we killed them mostly because Justin had an amazing pass to Craig that was almost the entire length of the field and Chris Kemp had a great run back for a touchdown. SOOO, moral of the story, it's nice to have fun, but it's always MORE fun when you WIN!

These are the Days

Most people who know me understand that I am not a home body. I have to be on the go doing something from morning until night. So, when my kids are with me - they get to come along and I am always trying to find fun things for my kids to do...but these are their favorites right now.

Earning a quarter by being good, so they can take it to the mall and get some candy. If you notice, they are getting the same thing. Because although they have their moments, for the most part my kids are two peas in a pod. They play together everywhere they go and their relationship works mainly because Mikey does what Aisy says.

"I want to ride Marty" is another favorite. The carousel ride at the mall happens about once a week and aislynn always gets to ride Marty the Zebra and Mikey is just happy to ride alongside her. What a great brother.

Here they are standing on top of their fort in the basement. When we do stay inside it is always an adventure and I thouroughly enjoy playing make believe with my kids. To the point that Buck has to tell me to not be so realistic and talk about scary dragons and witches because my kids may have nightmares, what can I say, I have a flare for the dramatic.

Here we are at the playgound at the zoo. What one does, the other must as well. This only becomes problematic when there is only one of something and they haven't quite grasped the concept of taking turns. We are working on that, along with asking nicely for something back when the other steals it!

Here are Aislynn's pretty princess slippers. I had to include this because Grandma Becky gave these to her for her birthday and these are the only shoes she MUST keep on. Everytime we get into the carseat, she takes her shoes and her socks off immediately. She got the fat hobbit foot gene from me and so is inhibited by uncomfortable shoes. However, she thinks these are so pretty it is a task to get her to take them off. Good find Grandma!

As I got these costumes over a month before Halloween, they are getting their use. We try to use them at least once a week during imaginative play time and sometimes they like to sleep in them as well. It makes me feel better that they get so much use since I probably spent way too much money on them.

That concludes our fun adventures for now. But I have more to come shortly! I am just in the middle of a couple mid-term tests, so that is eating up LOTS of time.