A Day At the Farm

This past Saturday I took my niece and nephew, Kate and Steven, to the farm at Thanksgiving point. We had a great time!! It was extra fun because they were having the "Baby Animal Birthday!" so they had all the babies out where you could see them up close, and touch and feed them!! It was really windy, but the kids were troopers, and even insisted on standing in line for 25 min. for the pony ride!!! But it was totally worth it!! I don't know that I've ever seen Katie smile so big for so long!!! They loved riding the horses, and feeding them too!! I cant believe that feeding the big horses didn't scare the kids half to death!!! We had a wonderful time! I love getting to spend time with just me and my nieces and nephews! Plus I love being able to give my brother and sister some time off!!

Snapping!!

So lately the girls have been obsessed with Mary Poppins!! Which I really dont mind, because I love that movie myself, and I feel flattered when they call me Mary Poppins! But to the real point of this post, Jade wanted to learn how to snap! She thought it was so cool on the show and she just couldnt figure it out! Well, I taught her how! It was really great to see her little face light up every time she got a good loud snap! I even got some pictures of her doing it!!

Fun Hair!

So Jade and I have decided to try some fun new things with her hair. It is long enough now that we can do some fun stuff, and even Ivy is getting in on the fun!!

I'll put more pics up as we do new styles!!

First Picnic

A couple weeks ago, the weather was so nice that we just had to get outside!! We decided that we would try a new park that I found close to work, only after a lot of persuading! "I think I like our old park best""does it have a slide like our old park" Jade had a lot to say on the matter til I told her that the new park had 5 slides, lots of swings, and tons of space and trees!! That all won her over!! Not only did we decide to try the new park, we decided to make it a picnic!! The first one of the year!! It was so much fun! Jade is really active, and loves to run run run all the time. She quickly found some boys to play tag with, and boy did she love showing off how fast she could run!! Ivy is a bit more tentative. She's a little scared to do things on her own just now, and the only way I could get her to go down the slide was to go with her. So I handed over the camera to my budding photographer Jade, and we went down the slide twice!! That's all I could get her to do!! And every time I tried to take a picture of her she would run the other way!! Little stinker!! It was such a fun day, and we were all definitely worn out!! I know its been a great day when my girls have that sweaty grassy smell!! I love it!!

Chuck E Cheese Cont....

So here are the pictures I promised you! You have obviously seen pictures of my girls before, but the other 2 little ones are Joclyn, 4, and Aiyana, 3, the little girls my friend Alle used to watch. We've gone places with them before, but sadly Alle is no longer working with them, so I dont think we'll be getting to play with them again.

My Computer!!

So I just wanted to tell everyone how excited I am! I have the most awesome big brother who is totally computer savvy! He built me my own computer!! I'm way excited to finally have my own, with my own settings, and my own stuff, in my own ROOM!!! I'm just waiting for the wireless card to arrive in the mail, and I'll be totally psyched!!! oh, AND he got me a 19inch lcd monitor!!! yeah!!!

Where a kid can be a kid!

So this past Wednesday I took the girls to Chuck E Cheese!  We met up with a friend of mine who is also a nanny and has 2 girls near the same ages of mine.  We had such a blast!!  It was great to get out of the house and the girls loved playing the games and having pizza for lunch!  They thought that was super awesome!! Ivy's favorite thing to do is drive, so we got her on the moving little car rides, but that wasn't enough for her!  So we put her on my lap and let her play a real car racing game! I pushed the gas and break and she steered, and you know, she wasn't half bad!! I'm not saying I'd let her drive my car, but for a 2 yr old she did pretty darn good! Jade had a blast trying to play skee ball, but it was a little terrifying for anyone near by!! It took a few minutes to explain that you roll the ball up the ramp, not throw it!! but at least now we know she could be a great softball pitcher!!!  We got tons of pictures, but I haven't had time to put them on the computer yet, so I'll put them up here in a couple days!!