Top Five Saturday Laughs :: 8.25.12

Happy Saturday!  I feel as if I'm cheating since I wrote these early so that I could guest post for Melissa from The Mommyhood Chronicles, but at least they're actually on the blog and not just a note on my phone!  Sometimes, I can't seem to keep up with my life.  Either that or I need to learn how to function on less sleep?

I actually captured some photos to go with our post this week.  Of course, they're not with my awesome new camera that my husband surprised me with for our anniversary/birthday/Christmas/valentines day (for the next three years).  However, they were on my phone. I did Instagram them so that has to count for something?

5.  Much to her talkative's sisters disapproval, Natalie is finally becoming more vocal.  Claire enjoys speaking for Natalie and likes to be the center of attention at all times.  Now when Claire wants Natalie to be quiet, she attempts to put her hand over Natalie's mouth.  This is followed by Natalie licking Claire's hand and hysterical laughing from both girls.

4.  Claire has this new fascination with trying to wink.  I was able to capture her "practicin' her winkin'" at the dinner table.

3.  We live next door to Ryan's mom and step-dad.  They own an ice cream truck (yes this is very bad when you're trying to lose weight).  If you ask Natalie if she wants to go to Grandma's house, she starts smacking her lips while nodding her head. It makes me think she may want something?

2.  Once we go to Grandma's house, Natalie will stand with her arms behind her back with the ice cream obsessed look in her eyes.  When we ask her if she would like some ice cream, she responds like this:

Every. Single. Time

The excitement is just adorable!!  She LOVES popsicles, devouring them in no time flat.

1.  My mom and I had a dance party with Claire on Sunday.  Claire yelled sung a made-up song with lyrics such as "We are cool girls.  We are rockstars.  Watch us shake our booties!  No one can stop us now!!"  We even had pretend rockstar costumes to wear while she had the real deal.  First she would dance with my mom while I cheered for them, then she would dance with me while my mom cheered and finally my mom and I would dance while Claire cheered for us.  We seriously laughed so hard making up crazy jumping, flaring, booty shaking moves.  

I hope everyone has a great weekend!!

Top Five Saturday Laughs :: 8.11.12

I'm having such a hard time realizing that it is Friday since I've been off of work since Wednesday.  What a great problem to have!!  We took the kids on a mini-vacation to a hotel/waterpark in Frankenmuth.  More on this later, but here are some of our laughs from the past week.

5.  On our way to Frankenmuth, Claire was a little tired since she hadn't napped in the afternoon.  I caught her beginning to dose.  A minute later, she strikes up a lively conversation to try an keep herself awake.  It was funny to see her figure it out, but seriously, why don't kids like to nap?!

4.  Natalie does absolutely everything that her sister does.  She's a little copy cat.  Claire was having a tantrum, so Natalie crossed her arms in front of her body and began to pout.  When I asked her if she was going to have a tantrum like her sister, she grinned and shook her head yes.  Thankfully that was as far as the tantrum went, this time.

3.  I had asked Claire to be quiet, which happens often in our world.  This particular time she was upset so I stuck my tongue out at her to try and distract her from being mad.  She waved her arms like an umpire calling a base runner safe at home, looked me dead in the eyes and said, "not funny mommy, I'm upset!"

2.  When you ask Natalie what sound a monkey makes, she exclaims "OH, ohhh!"  It is so stinking adorable!

1.  Claire and I were playing Cinderella.  She was Cinderella and I was the fairy godmother.  I had just transformed her into a beautiful princess and told her that she had to be home by the stroke of midnight.  She replied that was much too late, her bedtime was at eight o'clock!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!  I appreciate you reading my laughs :)  If you want to enjoy more laugh posts, check out Melissa from The Mommyhood Chronicles and all the other funny posts.

Top Five Saturday Laughs :: 8.4.12

Happy work free weekend (at the office anyway) for me!  I hope everyone has some great fun planned for the weekend. I am so glad to have two whole days to spend quality time with my girls!

I didn't document many of our laughs this week and at this point, I honestly can't remember them.  Oh well, I did write down a few so we will go with that.

5.  Natalie is the queen of non-verbal communication.  She grunts, babbles, points, walks you to what she wants or moves you out of the way.  This week she's started to fake eat whenever she's hungry or wants a snack.  I often ask her if she's hungry just so she will smack her lips together.

4.  Claire's newest phrase is, "I can't believe my eyes!"  It's just funny to hear a three year old say silly things!

3.  Last week I talked about Natalie's obsession with Claire's boots.  The obsession has carried over to this week, however she now wears one boot backwards.  Our nanny sent me a photo one afternoon after a day of turning the boot around to just have Natalie turn it backwards again.

2.  I am thankful that Miss Grace sends me things via text or I wouldn't have enough laughs!  I received this text: "A few minutes ago Claire was holding three babies hostage and wouldn't give one to Natalie.  I told her that we needed to share and she said, 'I'm sorry Miss Grace, but I need all three babies and we need to make an exception just this once and that is FINAL' Sass alert!"  Oy!  That girl can be sassy which is not appreciated, but how do you not laugh at the shear ridiculousness?!

1.  We took the girls swimming at my sister-in-laws this week.  Natalie was out of the pool walking around when she grabbed a wipe, squatted and peed on the cement.  Then she clapped when she was done, we all cracked up!  Now if she'd just go on the potty as regularly as she does in a bathing suit :)

Check out Tracy's laughs as she guest posts for Melissa from The Mommyhood Chronicles while she is at BlogHer12 in NYC!

Top Five Saturday Laughs :: 7.28.12

**It is Sunday night and I just realized that I never posted this from yesterday, if someone locates my brain, please send it back to it's proper owner**

It doesn't feel like Saturday to me today since I worked this morning!  However, I am loving the absolutely gorgeous weather that followed the much needed rain yesterday.

I had a hard time choosing my laughs this week, my kids were in good moods and very silly!  Here's to hoping for many more weeks of the same.  

5.  One morning I actually had to wake Claire up.  When she woke up she was shaking her arm since it had fallen asleep.  She was looking at it strangely and told me that her hand was wrinkly.

4.  Natalie has become obsessed with wearing Claire's winter boots.  She would wear them all day and everywhere we went if I would let her.  However, nothing is sillier than a diapered baby in boots much too big.

3.  Before I went to work the other day, the girls and I played some board games.  When Miss Grace arrived, I was quickly replaced in HighHo Cherry-O.  Each color of 'cherries' has a character associated with it.  When Claire looked at the actual cherries, she realized that the character was a dog.  She then asked Grace, "How's a dog supposed to carry cherries?!"

2.  Claire has claimed Ryan's old iPhone 3 as her phone.  She has some games, books and movies that we have loaded on for her.  She decided to text Grandma.  When we told her that Grandma doesn't text, she told us that it was okay because she was the one texting not Grandma.  I don't think she understands the true concept of texting yet.

1.  Yesterday was  big day in our house.  Natalie asked (signed) to go potty.  She loves to sit on the potty, so this was nothing new.  However, she went #1 twice!!  After the second victory, I told Natalie to run out to the kitchen to tell Daddy what she had done.  She ran to the kitchen to cheers from both Ryan and Claire.  She got so excited that she pottied all over the floor.

I hope everyone has a great weekend!  Head on over to The Mommyhood Chronicles to read lots of other laughs!

Top Five Saturday Laughs :: July 21, 2012

I have been a mega blog slacker these past few weeks.  I wish I could find the time to blog more often, but I can't seem to fit it in my schedule :(  I am glad to be able to write our Saturday Laughs this week!  I should have titled it, Top Five July Laughs since I haven't posted yet in the month of July!!

5.  We had taken the girls to a couple of Fourth of July parades.  Since that weekend, they march through the house with their instrument of choice making their own parade.  Sometimes, Ryan and I join in and the girls get a huge kick out of the family parade.

4.  My nephew has recently started solids.  Claire is obsessed with helping feed him.  My sister was feeding him pureed squash when Claire offered to get him some bread.  When my sister told her that Tyler didn't eat bread yet, Claire said he was pointing at it and really wanted some. The rest of the day, whenever Tyler got upset we figured it was because he couldn't have any bread :)

3.  Natalie is a little climbing monster.  She will climb up on her little chair, then over the back onto the couch, then across the couch to the end and over the arm of the couch to the floor.  She does this many, many times a day and is proud of herself every time.  I can't say that I love the furniture climbing!

2. Claire had croup a couple of weeks ago.  She would cough so violently that she would actually vomit.  We kept a bucket by her bed just in case.  One day, Ryan went to check on her after her nap and she told him that she went potty.  He checked the bed and it was dry, but then saw that the bucket was full.  She had gone potty in the bucket!!

1.  We were hanging out in our room one night.  Ryan let an extremely vile toot that filled the room.  Claire announced that she smelled something stinky and proceeded to go into the closet and pick up Ryan's shorts that he had recently changed out of.  She examined them very closely, while stating, "Daddy, I think you pooped in your underwear!"

I'm glad to be joining Melissa at The Mommyhood Chronicles and her Saturday Laughs blog hop!!

MIA

Working at night = no blogging

At least I can have a glass of wine :)

Top Five Saturday Laughs 6.30.12

I am happy to report that after today we are finally out of Hand Foot and Mouth Quarantine!  It has been 10 days since Claire's symptoms started and all of her spots are faded and nearly gone.  To celebrate, we are going to our little town's independence day parade.  Claire is actually going to be pulled in her wagon by her grandma (who owns the coolest ice cream truck) while Natalie and I watch.  Later in the evening, we will be going to all the fun activities for kids but skipping the fireworks.  The fireworks are notoriously horrible and with a fireworks extravaganza that grandpa puts on next weekend, I am not ready to keep kids up way to late two weekends in a row.  I am excited to get out the house with the girls.

Since everyone was feeling much more 'normal' this week, we have some good laughs to share.

5.  When Natalie gets excited about something, she will march in place really fast while squealing.  It is quite funny and you can't help but catch her excitement.

4. Claire was being extra silly one night after bath and told me that she was a rapper girl.  She then proceeded to do the most ridiculous booty dance I have ever seen, it was hysterical!  I asked her why she was a rapper and she informed me that it was because she was wrapped up in a towel.  Duh, mom!

3.  I think I have blogged about my husbands obsessive love of the Detroit Tigers before.  One night we were watching the game when he told me that the average life of a baseball is three pitches.  In my major math-geekness, we then proceeded to figure out approximately 243,000 baseballs used in the regular season.  When we got done we couldn't help but chuckle at our combination of his love for the Tigers and my love for math.  And yes, I did just admit to this.

2.  We have spent lots of time playing in the girls inflatable pool during our quarantine time.  One night we allowed Natalie to go in totally naked.  She had a little piddle accident on the deck and I told her that she had gone (trying to get her to remember what it feels like so we can start potty training in the near future).  She caught on to what was happening and decided to squat down every thirty seconds to squeeze out a tiny bit of pee.  She was so proud and would giggle in delight each time!!

1.  I know that Claire's love for the manger scene is something that I have shared before.  She decided to bring it out this week and set it up on her little table.  I was not totally paying attention to her when I heard, "Oh Jesus!" and whipped around in disbelief at what she had said.  I then realized that baby Jesus had fallen off the table.

I hope everyone has a great weekend!  Remember to check out the laughs from the blog hop hosed by Melissa from The Mommyhood Chronicles.