HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY LILY

My day didnt end up being so good today...let me explain.

First: I accidently threw my keys away in the dumpster, taller than me, panicked no way to leave or get in the house, best thing to do, throw your daughter in there! Took almost a hour and lots of coaxing, and, bribing and helping from a neighbor we finally got them out.

second:We finally headed to lilly's bday party, angelina and lei lei loved the pool so much, when it was time to get out a meltdown of high mangitude, so bad we had to leave.

third:we had a family party all the way in Eagle Rock, which we drove in over a hour! of traffic to go to, to find out his family left already?! really couldnt let us know pick up the phone, we tried calling them several times no answer, I guess we should took it as a sign.

I did save the night and made lots of muchies and homemade monster cookies and popcorn, Bear got to spend the night, we watched pooh's heffalump's halloween, first movie of 7 nights til halloween count down, lots of halloween things for the next 6 days!

maddie and angelina

pool party fun

(pictures courtsey of jill's blog!)

LUNCH WITH SOPHIA (FRI)

We had lunch with becci and sophia on friday at shakey's pizza buffet. Always fun eating lunch with two toddlers! We let them play for a mila second in there game room, then headed to their house for playtime for the girls. Now with eddie at work and angelina at school Leilani and me have time to ourselves, hopefully we can have more playdates too!

TOT SCHOOL TIME

We did several sheets and tracing names and letters, shapes and colors. We did a dot art tree for fall. This week was a transistion with Eddie starting a new job and getting up at 5am every morning, wow what a change. So we didnt do as much as I wanted, but next week will be better.

TANAKA FARMS (WED)

We took the girls to Tanaka Farms in Irvine, and met our friends jill and monick there too. It was hot and dirty. urgh. I'm the type of girl that like the fake pumpkin patches..lol All the pumkins there were dirty and beaten up and rotten, slim pickings! The girls had fun as usual, and then even went through a corn maze lead by angelina. Overall it was good times!

best picture we could get of all 4

corn maze

cheese!

can I have this one?

HUGE PUMPKIN PATCH

PUMKIN'S MOMMYPICKED! LOL

FUNNY PICTURE OF THE DAY:

MY LIL MULAN

Angelina has been changing her mind for weeks on what to be for halloween, I really wanted her to pocahantas but she decided on Mulan. Her dad dropped it off tonite he got her the matching crown and shoes too. She loved it and so did I.

SHE'S OUR LIL KITTY

I finally got lei lei's costume in the mail the other day, she's being a black and white kitty, OMG! she's so freakin' cute in it and didn't want to take it off! I bought it on ebay.

HERE'S OUR KITTY

SPOOOOKY GHOSTS

I was so tired but still had to get up and get going! I've been selling on ebay for the past two weeks so usually now on mondays I ship, nice extra cash for me! Angelina had a good day at school , after was grocery shopping and some supplies for our craft tonite.
We made spooky ghosts, simple but fun. Angelina has become hands on, and lei lei well she wasnt interested until they were finished. I got this I idea from a blog I follow. The girls ran around the house with these making noises and chasing the cat. For some Tot school time I made a laminated card of numbered pumpkins. Sized largest to small. What I had angelina do was copy my pattern on her own piece of paper, also we counted the pumpkins, and I would ask which pumkin was bigger and what number? She liked it, I love anything themed halloween!

items i used + tape forgot to add to picture

A SCREAMING GOOD TIME

On sunday nite we headed over to disneyland for the new screamin' fireworks. Hands down my favorite so far. Leilani's face was so funny! and angelina would jump up then hide in her sweater..lol So many people but so worth it. After we headed for some rides, Eddie took angelina for the first time on Matterhorn ride. yes she's finally tall enough, I thought it would be too scary for her, but I was wrong, she loved it and still today was talking about how much she loved the ride, and its her favorite, she did say she was scared of the white monster with red eyes, but she also said he couldnt get her with daddy and they were super fast! We went on the safari cruise at night for the first time. I liked it, felt 'more" real. Finally it was time to leave, so tired from all the rides, we headed towards the exit, eddie stopped in and bought the girls these disney babies doll ones boo for lei lei (looked just like her) other tinkerbell baby for angelina, eddie never buys souviners but the girls were so good! Long fun late night.

theres us!

firework faces

tea cup spinning

oh no! lei lei is the typical women driver, eyes arent on the road!

I love this chair, its in the castle.

heres the dollies

IGOR AND PIZZA

Today in we were lazy bums, seriously our pj's just chillen...lol I did get one motor skills activity with lei lei. she had a jar of glass marbles(dollar tree) cocktail tongs (target) and a paint that is divided(walmart). She still gets really impatient with the tongs but she's getting better. Even daddy helped out. After that we showered and got dressed, headed to my moms to visit bear and take him to target to pick out his birthday present. I thought he would pick out some elborate toy, but he didnt he picked hot wheels track for only $12.99?! I tried to show him other items, but it was a no go...lol After that we picked up pizza and bread sticks and brought it back to grams and had a pizza party, we watched IGOR, very cute movie, I will be buying this for the girls. We loved seeing bear, and will miss him so much when he leaves in November.

his pick

playing with it

jack ears!

3-D MOVIE NIGHT

Instead of going to mickey's house we stayed home for a 3D movie night, we just bought them CORALINE, came with 2 pairs of 3d glasses, we needed of 4 of course! Leilani wouldnt wear hers anyways, but she wanted to wear her sunglasses, go figure!
They actually both sat through the whole movie. SHOCKING! After angelina's dad came to get her for the weekend, leilani through a fit this time, she wanted to go, hmm how will I explain this one?! I let her do a activity to get her mind off of it. I hoping for bedtime soon, but since she actually took a nap, of over 2 hours! lil shocking. Her new word for this week is "pease" meaning please. and her other word that she gets from daddy, is "YeAaaaa. Kinda hard to type how she says it.

SCRAP PAPER PUMPKINS

Me and the girls did these really cute scrap paper pumpkins, got the idea of this website :http://www.allkidsnetwork.com/crafts/fall/paper-pumpkin.asp.
I did some of the pre cut work, but angelina was insitant on tapeing her own, leilani wasnt that interested and I ended up finishing hers. It was angelina's idea to add the glitter, and she did it too, hence the glitter all over the place now.

A BETTER DAY AT PRESCHOOL

Angelina did awesome at school, and apoliged on her own to the lil boy and her teacher. Im so glad she's out of that funk. Eddie's mom offered for the girls to come over and spend the night for the first time. We drove them over to long beach , and in the car we did some Tot school time, with singing our ABC's and naming things that start with letters A-E. We also counted to 12 in english and spanish, why only 12? well she said that all she knew! Leilani joined in on the fun too! After me and eddie headed out to disneyland for a date nite. It was crowded but we got all on the big kid rides, and used fast passes. We even got a romantic boat ride alone on pirates of caribbean. We stayed til midnite. Super fun nite.

NOT SO GOOD DAY AT PRESCHOOL

It was raining hard when we woke up, meaning no Tanaka Farms for pumpkin picking. I picked up angelina from school, to find out angelina had a bad day, her teacher told me about her attitude when she doesnt want to do something she says she doesnt want to be at school, plus she stabbed a boy in her class with a fork for being by her. NOT OK! I think angelina has too much on her mind for a 3 yr old, with gramas being in the hospital, her dad not being active and steady in her life, and bear being taken out of her day to day life, its finally caught up and taken effect on her. We got to see big grama though she had aunt sheila bring her down to a few doctor appts. She's doing better and staying at sheila's for lil bit longer. That perked her up lil bit. We sat down tonite and had a long talk, she told me how she felt. I called her dad and let her talk to him and I talked to him, hoping this would help too. I'm sure things wont be better overnight, but maybe improve a little? Please pray for some peace in her trouble little mind. To make her feel better I made rice krispy treats(eddie's favorite too). Today I found this awesome site for kids :
http://www.kidslearningstation.com/. So many ideas and activities for preschool, and other links for crafts. Tonite we did a few pages from the website I printed, I put the sheets I printed in page protectors, so we could reuse them over and over. We have moved on to the letter "D". She colored a picture of a dog, i was impressed by her improvement on coloring in the lines.

angelina's "A" is the bottom "A"

coloring is getting so better!

LOVING THIS WEATHER (TUES.)

I'm loving this weather, the rain, the cold. LOVE IT. Angelina got to wear trench coat to school today since it was sprinkling. She looks so old to me in it. Today was any other day, housework, cooking, dealing with the attitudes and tantrums of these two toddlers. Tonite for some Tot school time we did matching letters, which she did perfect on, I just used 6 foam sticker letters from the alphabet. Second I put out 5 large foam flowers and spilled some buttons on the table, I had them match the button color to the flower, lei lei did ok and angelina did great, but she did agrue that dark pink button didnt belong on the pink flower..lol