Beautiful Weather and Drawer Fishing

The Adventures are coming soon. I finished the other post, but I need to go to bed now. Good night!

OK. So soon is a relative term. I meant in relation to say... glaciation or maybe soil formation. Anyway. I don't know what I was going to write about. We had some beautiful 70 degree days that were amazing. The girls loved being outside and Mom and Dad and I took them to the Horicon Marsh and went for a walk. Isabela brought along Oberon's portable dog dish and work it on her head and then tried to pick up one of the many snakes that were out basking. Not a great idea, which I think that we finally got across to her. She was still excited to see all of the snakes. Mom, not so much.

Maya keeps going in my drawers. At least she has also finally figured out how not to pinch her fingers in them. No drawer is safe since she has a big sister to help her break into them. They make quite a pair. It makes me worried about what the future has in store for me and Jake.

Anyway, that is the short and dirty version of the Adventures for these pictures. Sorry I am not more detailed this evening. Have a marvelous night!

Monkey Jungles and Tents

Busy, busy around here, but not much of interest to anyone but me. So on to the main event....

Isabela and Maya's Adventures

Isabela worked for a week on a huge yarn tangle that she calls her "Monkey Jungle". When it started she was just using yarn that she had tangled when she was really little and I had never gotten around to untangling (go figure). That wasn't so bad, but then she started to incorporate untangled balls of yarn. It was one of those things that I probably should have stopped right away, but she was working so hard on it and it was keeping her busy and quiet for long periods of time. She said that she was building it for Andrew and Kristin. A lot of her projects revolve around them for some reason. The picture doesn't do it justice. It was a huge mess, but she was so proud of it. She looped it around furniture and toys. Wow! It took me a while to undo and there I finally gave up on some of it and used a scissors, but I still think that overall it was worth it, both for the pleasure it gave her and for the quiet time it gave me! She has tried to build several other "Monkey Jungles" since her cruel mother destroyed the big one, but so far they have not been as successful, mainly due to lack of proper material (I hid the yarn).

She has also been very into tents. She tipped her "house" on its side and had me put a blanket over it for one tent. That has been a mouse cage, a frog house and a puppy bed. She becomes very distressed when the blanket comes loose.

Oh dear....Maya started crying, and while I was putting her back to bed I realized I had forgotten to do a couple of other things, then she started crying again. Very restless night for her I guess. Anyway, it is now too late to continue. I try not to stay up too much after midnight. So good night to all and I will finish this post tomorrow. Sorry! Enjoy the pics for now.


OK. Back again. Maya is restless again tonight. I don't know what is going on with that, but hopefully she is good now for the night, or at least until early tomorrow morning. So, I was writing about Isabela and the tents. She had Maya in one of them and wanted to keep her there. Maya was happy for a little while and then wanted out (wise girl). Isabela put up a few more tents too. There was one in the living room for a day that kept falling down and one over Maya's crib that I made her take down so I could put Maya down for her nap. That was not a popular decision.

Cinnamon, my parent's dog, was staying with us last week too. I walked into my bedroom at one point and she was curled up on my bed. Isabela was thrilled. I was not. As you can see from the picture, Isabela decided the best approach was to join her. After taking a couple of pictures, I decided the best approach was to shoo her off.

Well, that is all I am going to write for tonight. It is still fairly early and I am going to bed. The girls let me have a two hour nap today (Yipee!) and I am not going to waste it. I am going to post some more pictures from last week when it was beautiful out, and I will write Adventures to go along with them soon. Good night all!

Laura and Busy Bela Boo and Missing Maya (Man, I hardly wrote anything about her, I will have to remedy that!)

Noise wars and Dead pigs

G'day!

I hope everyone had a marvelous, fantastic weekend! I am loving the nice weather, especially since it is supposed to continue for at least the beginning of this week. Mom, Dad and Andrew are visiting us this week, so I will have to be sure to get some pics of them together up on this site. Other than getting ready for their visit, we didn't do too much this weekend. But we did enjoy the wonderful weather! And now for the main event...

Isabela and Maya's Adventures

On Friday we went to pick up a half hog. Isabela loves going to farms and she had a lot of fun seeing all of the animals there. When she exited the car she immediately ran after some cats and picked them up. The farmer's dry remark was, "She isn't afraid of anything is she?" Nope. She saw turkeys and baby pigs, mommy and daddy pigs (she was still telling us today how HUGE those were), calves and kittens. Heaven. On the way home she kept asking us where our "dead pig" was. We told her that it was in the back of the car. I think that she expected it to look a little more pig-like. :o)

Saturday, Isabela and Maya were pushing each other's buttons during naptime. Isabela was much more upset by it than Maya. Maya was playing in her crib and making "AHHH!" sounds and Isabela was telling her to be quiet to which Maya would respond with louder "AHH!" sounds. Isabela had numerous things to say, such as that she was trying to go to sleep (yeah right) or that she really meant it. It made for highly humorous listening on the monitor end. Mom called and I had a hard time paying attention to what she was saying since I was so enthralled by the theater upstairs.

Isabela has a lot of lines. One of my favorite that she uses quite often is: "few couple minutes". This line is always trotted out when she really wants to do something for longer. It really makes me laugh. Another line that she brought out the other day is copied from what Jake and I say to her. Jake had taken her downstairs for breakfast and Oberon was scratching at the door. Jake sighed, but didn't say anything. Isabela asked if that was Oberon scratching at the door and when Jake said yes she put on an attitude and said, "That has to stop." Funny girl. Some of the other lines she likes to use are brought out at supper time. She always has reasons why she can't eat right then (when the vegetables are on the table) and she uses them all most nights:

I'm tired.

My belly is cold.

My mouth is tired.

This is too hot. I'm going to wait for it to cool.

I'm really not hungry anymore.

I'm cold.

None of these work anymore due to overuse. I guess that she will have to become more creative in the future, and I sure that she will.

Well, that is all for tonight. I am tired and my belly is cold, so I think that I shall go to bed.

Goodnight all!

Laura and Maya the Motormouth and Isabela the Adventurous