I Don't Think You Are

I saw a really cute step stool on a blog that read:

This Little Stool is Mine
I Use it All the Time.
To Reach the Things I Couldn't
And Lots of Things I Shouldn't.

Jensyn has several step stools around the house and I thought it would be fun to either paint that on one or....yes, you guessed it...use my Silhouette to cut it out in vinyl (or paper and Mod Podge it on.) Well, I have since abandoned that idea, since Jensyn has taken to using everything as her step stool; the kitchen chairs, the coffee table, the bed, the toy bins, stuffed animals, shoes, etc.

I watched her push the chair over and climb up onto the counter to get a glass. What you can't hear is her saying over and over, as she does it, "I being carefully, I being carefully." Umm, yeah, only NO you aren't!

Toothless

Leighton finally let Dee pull her tooth out. (Not with pliers, but a damp towel.)

She was thrilled to have it out. I was too, random strangers have been offering to yank it out.

Now I have to make her first appointment for the orthodontist. $$$$$$$

Beauty Parlor

Carly has been begging for a hair cut for a couple of months and I finally caved and had Britain cut her hair (pretty short.) She has had so many compliments and it is very easy to take care of.Leighton wanted very short hair and this is such a good cut for her. (It would look better, if she would let someone yank that hanging down tooth. It is hanging on by a thread.)This baby is very far off from getting a haircut. Her hair just keeps getting curlier, not longer.

She's a Comic

Jensyn has decided that she should go to school like the big girls and since she doesn't, she has made up her own class and teacher. Her friends all have names like Nina, Bina, Tina, etc. Her teacher's name is Miss Snot. I thought maybe I was misunderstanding her, but she corrected me. She enunciated, 'Miss SSSNNNOOTT!'
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The teacher across the hall from Miss Potts is Miss White. Jensyn really likes her and will walk into her classroom like she owns the joint. The other night she brought Snow White to me and said, 'Read Miss White tonight.'
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Jensyn came downstairs crying. I was doing laundry and had my head in the dryer and hadn't heard her calling me. She came around the corner and I asked her what the problem was. She stopped crying and sniffled, 'I couldn't find myself.'
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Leighton was going to share her bagel with Jensyn. She threw it down on the table in front of her. Jensyn was disgusted. She screamed, 'Not like a doggie! The doggie is out there. I want a plate!'

A Quick Fix

I was so sick of buying shampoo, conditioner and body wash. It seemed like I would put a new bottle in the girls' bathroom and the next night, it would be empty. Not just empty, but emptied all over the walls and bottom of the shower. Jensyn's baby wash came in a pump and it gave me an idea. I took some empty soap dispensers (okay so I bought some 79 cent soap dispensers of my favorite flavor at Kroger), cut out letters with my handy dandy Silhouette and put them on the front. I filled them up from the original bottles. I told the girls they could have 6 pumps of each.
They are lasting forever. I can even buy the more expensive stuff now that I am not buying two bottles of each every shopping trip.

Not Today

Now that Carly is in 4th grade we have made the switch from these.. to these..


She doesn't really have anything, but like my sister-in-law Megan says, all girls in 4th grade need to wear something. Carly was reluctant at first because she wanted one of these...
It took some convincing that they were actually bras and that she needed to wear them.

I must have done a lot of convincing because the other day as I was putting on her undershirt, Jensyn complained to me, "Mom, I don't want to wear my boobs today."