A good Reason to blog at Night

Today I decided to redo the layout of my blog, just for fun.
I suddenly realized that the gentle cadence of little voices was not flowing from the play area but from the bathroom. Any mothers out there? You already know this does not bode well for our sanity. I was one of the lucky ones... this time.
Abby was simply spraying a down-to-her-diaper Ginny with the water bottle I use for their hair. Apparently they had begun this game while Ginny was fully clothed but as her clothes became increasingly sodden they were discarded to the corner. I assume they had been at it for a while since there were several water soaked towels laying about. Placing my hand upon my forehead in an attempt to stay the oncoming headache I carefully asked Abby what she thought she was doing. "Baptizing Ginny", came the reply.
Hey, at least we had a good discussion about baptism (immersion, who has the authority to baptize, etc.) And everyone learned something (the proper time of day to blog), except Ginny who looked a little confused and was anxious to have her wet (through no fault of her own) diaper removed.

IT'S A BOY!!!

Yes, we are expecting a BOY in August. I am very excited but a little anxious. I feel pretty good about the girl situation and frankly I've heard horror stories about potty training boys. Apparently they are never fully potty trained as they can't manage to concentrate on hitting the bowl for the full 15 sec. or so that it takes to urinate. NO DISTRACTIONS. Also, I am not looking forward to the inevitable moment when he pees on one of us during a diaper change... I'm crossing my fingers that it will be Brian.
Luckily (ah-hem) we are not rolling in the dough right now or Brian would be hitting the stores. We can safely say that the only clothes this child will own that are not affiliated with the Boston Red Sox, University of Utah or the Jazz (this last one I'm trying unsuccessfully to ban) will be hand-me-downs. Brian may try to slip in some Indians paraphernalia as well but I'm willing to let that one slide since they aren't in the same league (in more ways than one, hey this is MY post, I'm entitled to my opinion).

Natural History

When Brian came to visit at the beginning of the month we visited the Natural History Museum with the girls. The one nice thing about our current situation is that when Daddy is in town we have all kinds of exciting adventures to make up for the days we've been apart.
Ginny was so excited by the dinosaurs. We were looking at diagrams of the earth and its core when she spotted the dino's and she was off. Brian did a lot of reading and I spent most of the trip chasing Ginny around. Here is Abby pretending to be afraid of the Mammoth.
I thought this butterfly display was very cool. Not only to look at but it was also put together in the 30's (1937?) Another reason I should have posted about this that evening. After almost a month who knows... but it was very old.
Good thing this creature isn't around to squash my babies flat! Memory strikes again, but I believe this print was found close to Brian's families origins (Emory County? Wish I could remember). One thing I DO know... love Abby's signature fake smile!!!

Learning all about erosion, etc? Not really. Just learning that getting messy is FUN!!!
On the way out we grabbed some tiny dinosaurs to grow in water at home as well as a cute little frog. I'm sure they both had Bart Simpson delusions about the dino's growing to life size and terrorizing the neighborhood- I know I did. Three weeks later- we grew 2 of the dinosaurs and had some fun tub toys until they became gross and mommy tossed them out when no one was looking. The frog has just reached it optimum size and is very cool. I took some pictures but unfortunately forgot to download before posting. We'll most likely grow the remaining 2 dinosaurs in a couple of months (when it becomes exciting again).

8th Annual Puppet Festival

The girls and I went to the puppet festival at the Salt Lake City Main Library yesterday and we LOVED it. We drove past the Main Library after leaving grandma and grandpa's today and Abby asked if we could go to the puppet show again. I wish we could!
We got there at 11 am and stayed until 2 pm. I kept asking the girls if they were getting tired but they wanted to see more puppet shows. I was really sad that I didn't take my camera because some of the puppets were amazing. Especially the puppets in Freddie Spencer's show. If you are interested in seeing what they looked like or learning more about him go to www.spencermarionettes.com
We saw 4 different puppet shows but his was by far the best. He had a clown puppet that actually blew up a balloon and then popped it (the highlight of the day for Abby). We ended the day with a modernized Punch and Judy show which had the girls laughing like crazy. All of the shows were very well done. Libraries sure are great for these free activities.
The girls brought home supplies to make their own puppets with paper bags. They didn't quite compare in quality to the ones in the shows but the girls enjoyed them- and we added them to the many other paper bag puppets they have made at the Anderson Library.

Move over Al Bundy

Yes, this is our little girl - we are so proud. (Thankful we aren't using real beds right now since she also can't manage to stay on the mattress when she sleeps).

Comfortable for the pig????

Just in case you can't tell what's going on here - those are the pigs legs and bum.

Pile O' Fun

Any of you "face book" friends may have heard about this but... when Brian came to visit back in January the girls gave him a great surprise. We were busy chatting away upstairs with Betty. I kept nudging Brian intimating that the girls needed to be gotten to bed and the chat wound up afterward - but you all know Brian, Mr. Chatty Kathy (sarcasm intended). So when we finally made it downstairs it was about an hour past bedtime. We were welcomed by this... (see above)

The picture doesn't do it justice. You should know that this pile was about 3 feet deep. It consisted of every stitch of clothing that Abby and Ginny own. I became outraged as I opened their recently organized drawers one by one to find them completely emptied. When I found the large bag of clothing that had been set aside for the D.I. (part of the organization) equally as devoid of clothing I became outraged. About 2 hours of work had gone out the window here!

Also in the pile: Several pieces of my own clothing, every towel we own, every piece of dress up clothing, every stitch of doll clothing and several toys that I believe were Ginny's contribution. When asked why they thought this was a good idea Abby stated that they wanted to build a pile to jump into (thus my reasoning that Ginny had added the HARD, PLASTIC, POINTY toys).

This lovely gift welcoming daddy home only took us a little over an hour to clean up with the help of both girls. Though, Ginny being up 2 hours past bedtime at this point, was barely managing to walk a straight line. I can laugh about it now. I included a picture of the little darlings in this post to remind us how innocent they can look. Please note the slight crazed look Ginny has at the turn of her mouth.