Three to the clerk, one in the bag!

HI I'm Anabelle and I know my mommy talks about me alot on this blog, but this time its MY turn to tell a story! TOday was a BIG BIG BIG day for me! I love my pipeys, and I mean ALOT, more than even apple sauce and milk!! Earlier this week my they turned up broken, my daddy and mommy didnt know how it happened, but it was really sad! I still held them at night time, but they didnt do much good. Then mommy started telling me about how I can SELL my pipeys for a toy! I thought alot about this and today I decided that since they were broken, and I had had a couple sleeps without them that I wanted to sell them. SO>>> after supper, we put them in a bag and got in the car... See, here they are!

Then we went to Target and went straight for the toy aisle! My sissy and i looked at lots of toys, it was a very hard decision! Then I found a little dolly that made me giggle! It plays peek-a-boo with me and talks to me and calls me "mommy"! I LOVE it! Yep, this is the one! Then I marched up the the checkout and paid the lady with my pipeys! I have never seen mommy do that, she doesnt have pipeys, she usually pays with a little rectangle or green paper...I guess I'm just lucky!
This is the dolly I picked, I know you cant see it very well, but I was so excited by all it can do, I didnt really want to hold it up for mommy who takes WAY to many pictures!


I'm a big girl with my new dolly and no pipeys!



i hope i will sleep tonight.......

Goggle Me!

This summer it seems that the heat has necessitated that we spend every waking moment we can in the pool. As result, Sabrinas hair is green, Anabelle lives in swimmie diapers and our fingers and toes are almost perpetual prunes! Its a beautiful thing!

Another lovely outcome of the summer of fish living is that the girls rarely fight! They have so much fun in the pool together that there is rarely a piercing shreik (Sabrina) or a tantrum (Anabelle) to be spied in the pool area! One of the only things that could turn pool time sour in a hurry was goggles...those little yellow buggers stole both their hearts and when one would pull it out of the box of pool toys, the other would go nuts! SO after reffing round after round of knock out drag out fights, the lighbulb went on and to target I went! (Yes I know this teaches them a terrible lesson about sharing and learning to take turns, but FYI, for us the teaching oppertunities for this subject are endless these days!)

Enter the Dora and Kai Lan goggles, one for each and made for little noggins to boot! Lets just day, they were a hit! They ran around the house with them on, and checked them out in the mirrors. OH GLEE! However, it was naptime and alas, they had to wait till after for their first swim. (I had to pry them from Anabelles hands while she was kicking and screaming, she wanted to wear them to bed!) After naptime, we got our apples and went outside, geared up for goggle time!
I must say, they looked cutely silly in them and i couldnt resist snapping away!

Testing them out...(I just love wathing them discover the world together, they have such a bond that just melts my heart! Reminds me of MY sissies and all the fun moments we have shared!)


This summer we have seen such a change with the girls and their relationship with the water, Sabrina has totally embraced everything h2o and in the last months has gotten brave enough to jump in on her own (without swimmies in the shallow and with a floatie in the deep) and has even learned to swim unassisted accross the length of the pool and willingly goes under water to find things on the bottom! We're so proud of her courage to try new things in the water and her determination to master what she learned in swimming lessons!
Her "horsie"
Swimming on her back

Jumping in the "deep"

Proud as a peacock!

Anabelle also has embraced the pool in a new way, last year she was limited to floating in a tube or being held...now she can really splash about with much more independance using a variety of floaties! She loves to use her noodle to swim after things for her big sis.All this makes pool time more fun for mom and dad as we dont have to be constantly holding or assiting one or the other and we can enjoy floating the day away too!

Two!

In the space between this and the last post, much has happened! All great stuff that has kept us crazy busy (hence the lack of posts and glut of pictures just dying to be see the light of day!)

One of the big things that happened was that our sweet "Miss A" has turned 2! Its so nuts to me that she's two already as she still seems like my baby!
She was a little spooked by everyone singing to her :)

We had three celebrations for Anabelle,all which were so much fun! Anabelle really loves Minnie Mouse so her parties were all "minnie" themed :)

The Iverson party was on Fathers Day and she also shared her party with Great Nana Beemer. We first ate a delicious meal at Grammie and Grampies and then everyone came to our house for a Minnie Luau by the pool!
Papa Beemer, Grampee Iverson, and Daddy with the girls
Dressed up in her luau gear :)
Opening gifts :)

The Hoogland Party was at the cottage, what more could a girlie ask for that a fun week with her extended family! Her daddy bought her minnie stickers for her to use at her party which she passed out to everyone as a "ticket" to get into the party!


On her actual birthday, mommy tried hard to make her day fun! She had princess cupcakes for breakfast, then Nana and Jay joined us for some fun at crazybounce, McDOnalds for lunch and swimming in the pool till naptime! Once daddy got home, it was time for the dinner she had chosen which was pizza and pop tarts! (Seriously, we do eat healthy otherwise!! hehehe) After supper, we headed to the barn where she got to see her present! (which she will be sharing with sis).


All in all I think it was a great birthday for this little honey :) We head to the dr on Tues and will see where she shakes out on the charts! We love our little Anabelly and so treasure her cuddlebuggy nature and her fun personality. She is always suprising us and making us smile. Thank you God for sending Anabelle Rose to us 2 years ago! We are so blessed!

Its Showtime!

The last two days have been crazy busy, but so much fun! Sabrina had her first dance recital with WE Dance Academy which involved alot of makeup, hair curling, running her back and forth and finally the big day! Sabrina really loves dance and has been talking about this day for quite some time! In my (totally biased) opinion, she did great! I was so proud of her and i must admit, the tears did flow :)
First Position
FOcused on her teachers instructions
The girls in her class, top to bottom, l tor: Reece, Sabrina, Brooke, Lily, Ava, Sofia, and Shea. Sabrina has LOVED meeting all these girls and has already said she will miss seeing thim every week!
Ava, Sabrina and Lily
Post performance with the ballet bear Brad and I gave her. :)

SHe has already asked when she can do it again! :)

Memorial Day

As we are

If you ever run in to us out in about, generally my girlies are dressed and hair done, not always perfect, but usually they are reasonablly clean and "put together". What you may not know is that once they know we are heading home, they yank the bows out and the minute we walk through the door they (mostly Sabrina) run to get ther "comfies" on. (most of the time an odd mix of jammies and other odd pieces) The are also really awesome (like most kids) at getting dirty. :) We practice this skill often here...here are a couple "as we are" shots of Anabelle from the last couple days messy face and hair in her eyes, just like we like it!

Princess and the Parents

Tonight Brad and I took Sabrina out to Beauty and the Beast the Musical and I must tell you, it was so much fun! For the last couple months, Sabrina has been telling anyone within earshot that she is going to the Beauty and the Beast play. For all the anticipation, we felt we totally got our money's worth before we even got there! She had decided she wanted to dress as Belle for the play and really got into getting all dolled up this morning. She even asked me to repain her nails and fingernails because "thats what princesses wear". Brad and I were a little nervous how she would react to the whole thing because a) she's terrified of any "character" in costume she meets in person and b) not every scene is "happy" in this movie but once we got through the first scene, (the beggar woman freaked her out) it was grins giggles, and dancing the rest of the time! The production was incredible, for sure, but the best part was seeing it all through Sabrinas eyes. I even got teary at the end when she was booging at the end and clapping like crazy at the ovation...(what a sap, i know). Afterwords, we took her for a special dinner at Max and Ermas and indulged in freshbaked cookies and the icecream bar (a little piece of kiddie heaven!). Sabrina is definately not our sleeper, but on the ride home she crashed out from all the excitement! It was awesome having some special time jsut with Sabrina and she basked in all the attention! I feel to blessed to have had the oppertunity to do this with her and hope the future brings more oppertunities like this for both our girls.