Fat Pizza and Sister the Tank Engine

Two notable quotes from Isabella:

While playing on the floor in her room with her sister Ella is talking (to herself) and Eric and I overhear her say, "And I'll take Sydney with me, and we'll go, and we'll go to Chunky Cheese!" I guess we should be happy she's taking her sister with her in her play pretend world!

Last night:

Ella: Mommy, Sydney's Percy!

Me: Sydney's what?! (b/c to me it sounded much more like Sydney's a pussy)

Ella: Sydney's PERCY!

Me: Why is Sydney Percy?

Ella: (exasperated) B/C SHE'S A TRAIN, MOM. (duh)

Sarasota April 07

Last month we took the girls to Florida to see their cousins, grandparents, aunts, uncles and friends. It was Sydney Sawyer's first plane ride and she did exceptionally well. Isabella was a bit rambunctious the ENTIRE trip, but she was just so thrilled to be seeing her little people and getting to do so many fun things. She ate chocolate, jumped on the trampoline, played with the 10,000 various toys her cousins have, went swimming, and took ZERO naps :)

It was also an introduction weekend for Sydney and the rest of the family. The kids all loved her and she was her wonderful, smiley, happy baby self the whole trip. We also got to see baby Madelyn again who is very quiet and sweet and very much a baby as Sydney is just so big it's hard to believe they are only 2 months apart in age.

It was great to get to see everyone. We miss our Florida family!

Isabella turns 33 months

Last weekend our Ella turned 33 months old. As you can see from the picture there is not much baby left and a whole lot of little girl! Right now her favorite things to do are to watch Dora the Explorer and to play with her sister. She has the whole house calling shows "Dancing"(with the Stars), "Singing" (American Idol) and "Numbers" (Deal or No Deal). She has gotten VERY independent and can do so many thing all by herself. She brushes her own teeth, goes potty by herself, picks out her own clothes and shoes, and is such a great helper with her sister. She likes to help feed Sydney and is always quick to come running to tell us, "Mommy! Sydney puked!"

The above picture was taken last weekend 4/14/07 when we drove to Canyon Lake to visit my grandmother's brother and have lunch with them. The live on a lake and Ella got to see the deer that roam freely and thought that was SO COOL. We could not get her to stop calling them Reindeer though, so they were reindeer. We had told her earlier in the week about our upcoming trip to Florida and so when we piled out of the car after the 3 hour drive to Canyon Lake, Ella asks, "Are we in Florida?!"

We love our big girl.

Sydney's first Easter

4/8/2007

Sydney's first Easter was rainy and cold but she looked warm and yummy in her bunny dress!

The Easter Bunny brought an Ear Infection

Eric's birthday, Easter weekend and the Masters. Sounds like fun for the most part but Ella got an ear infection and was MISERABLE the whole weekend long. Sunday about 4:30 we finally got her in her dress and jacked up on chocolate so we could get some cute Easter pictures. Not to worry, the whining started back up soon after. Poor kid was in a lot of pain, and poor us bc she told us all about it. Eric and I were both actually GLAD to head back to work on Monday. Happy 29th birthday Daddy!

Bunnies and Eggs

While driving the girls to school this morning Ella and I had a talk about Easter bunnies and the eggs that they leave for good little girls on Easter morning. It went something like this:

Ella: How does the Easter bunny get around?
Me: He hops.
Ella: He hops?
Me: Yep, he hops around and leaves eggs for good little girls to find.
Ella: How does he leave them?
Me: Well, he drops them.
Ella: He drops them?!
Me: Yes.
Ella: On the ground?
Me: Yes, on the ground for you to find them. It's an Easter Egg Hunt.
Ella: On the ground?!
Ella: With the dog hair???!!

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