Locks of Love X 2

I cannot believe that I haven’t blogged about the single most important event that has happened in our family this past week! Let me just do a picture rundown and then I’ll give some details.

 

Not done yet…

 

 

Is there really much left to say? Not really. I will add that the girls were SOOOO excited to cut their hair so that another little girl that is sick and doesn’t have hair could wear it. Melted my heart to hear their excitement. I love their short hair. It has saved me 30-40 minutes a day of brushing and braiding. Truth be told, I think they are the cutest regardless of the length of their hair.

120,000…million

When you don’t feel well you don’t enjoy a whole lot of stuff. I feel like I missed out on months of enjoying my kids but since I’ve been feeling better I’m appreciating their cuteness again. Maya is my girl. She is 100% a momma’s girl and I love that. She always wants to snuggle and give me hugs and kisses. She loves it when I hold her hand or just any physical contact when we are sitting, watching tv. She tells me several times a day that she loves me. Not only does she say that she loves me but she says, “Mom, I love you always.” Recently, she started trying to tell me how much she loves me and she came up with the biggest number she could think of which is 120,000. Then, Rich taught her that a million is more than 120,000 so now she tells me that she loves me 120,000 million, and folks, that’s a lot! I am so lucky!

A few weeks ago she drew her first stick figure person and I loved it!

Rich thinks it’s creapy but I love how unique it is. I also love how she framed it by coloring along the border.

We also recently bought a playset and dome for our back yard. It has been such a blessing because the kids LOVE playing on it. It’s given me the time to get stuff done without all 3 of them following me around. Anyway, the other night I went out to tell the girls to come in for dinner and when I looked out, I almost lost it!

It’s not even like her pants slipped down and she stopped to pull them up either. I watched her for about a minute, laughing uncontrollably, and she just kept on  swinging! I love my funny girl!

Accident Prone

My girls are so accident prone! It sucks! Maya, especially, is always getting hurt. The scary thing about it is that she gets hurt even when she’s not doing anything remotely dangerous! My poor girl just attracts pain:( A couple weeks ago we went to a friends house and while playing with their dog, an adult who will remain anonymous(not Rich), picked her up and put her on the dogs back. The dog obviously did not like that and snapped at her, scratching her cheek. There was no blood but it scared the daylights out of her, and me.

A few days ago, at the same friends home, we were enjoying a bbq with friends. Maya was sitting in the grass just playing and minding her own business when a little girl walked up to her and threw a lemon sized rock at her head! What the heck! My poor girl is just constantly being chased by physical harm. This past week, however, Maya was not the one getting bumps and bruises…it was Arabella.

Last Sunday we were all hanging out in the back yard. Arabella was on the deck rolling around on a little ride on toy and the rest of us were in the grass when we heard a big tumble. Arabella had rolled off of the deck and landed forehead first on the pavement. When I picked her up the bump on her head expanded super fast and she had a nasty cut on her finger. We freaked out, called a friend to take Aidan and Maya and headed to the ER. On our way there Arabella kept nodding off which was so scary. Thankfully, by the time we got into the room the bump had already gone down a lot and she was starting to act a lot more like herself.

Feeling and looking much better.

After a CAT scan we were cleared to go home and she was just fine after that. Nothing but a bad bump and cut.

4 days later, the kids were watching cartoons while I made their lunch and when I called them over Arabella tripped and fell down our stairs. I screamed and ran down to get her and after a couple minutes of crying she was ok. Agh! I had forgotten to close the gate and will never do that again! So, my poor babies have about had it with injuries and I’ve about had it with the constant stress and worry! Here’s hoping next week is a safer one.

My Birthday Girl is 4!!!

Here she is, my big 4 year old!

Maya has grown up so fast into such a big happy, helpful girl. She says the funniest things and is just such a joy in our lives. A few things about my 4 year old Maya:

*Loves animals and has a melt down if there is one near by and I don’t let her interact with it.

*She is in pre-k and loves it! I love picking her up because she is always excited and runs to me with a huge smile on her face. She is most proud of knowing how to say “hi” in Chinese.

*She calls an overpass an OGREpass. Cracks me up every single time! And pancakes are panacakes.

*She’s so friendly and kind. She makes friends easily.

* She has always been my “easy” child but has suddenly found a strong, stubborn little personality within herself. She can be tough but I’m pretty sure I know who she got her stubbornness from;)

*LOVES HER BUNNIES! That is what we got her for her birthday!

We bought a momma and one of her babies, both girls. Maya was beyond excited! She even paid for one of them herself with the money Nana Jackie sent her for her birthday.

She has decided to name them Max and Ruby, after the cartoon. Even though they are both girls, that is what she wanted. The momma is Ruby and the baby is Max (Maxine?).

Maya is soooo obsessed with her bunnies! All she wants to do all day every day is play with her bunnies. It’s so cute!

 

Baby Max

 

How old are you, Maya?

Lighting the candles!!!

Singing happy birthday!

Blowing out the candles:D

Maya didn’t get a crazy fun party this year but she did get the gift that just keeps on giving…

Maya Is In School?!?!

What on earth is going on here? I feel like all of a sudden my babies are, oh I don’t even want to say it…….BIG KIDS! Eeeeek! Still trying to figure out if I like it or not. Usually, I don’t. I’m just grateful they will still kiss me on the lips. It’s gonna be a sad, sad day when they are too cool for mom:(

So, I was saying, Maya is in school! I know, it’s crazy(depressing, devastating, heart-wrenching)! She has been begging to go to school ever since Aidan started VPK in Florida. One day Ms. Michelle even made Maya’s dream come true by letting her sit with the big kids for a little while. She was in heaven! Two days ago her dream really, really came true when I dropped her off for a whole 2 1/2 hours to go to her very own class!

My two big kids clothes set out for the morning:

My Pre-K girl!

I love that sweet little face and those big brown eyes!

Aidan felt like such a big brother taking her to her class (which is right next to his) by her hand.

She was so excited she was bouncing off the walls!

When I went to pick her up, she was one of the only kids that looked like this:

She said she was Chester the raccoon! She wore the mask the whole drive home (10 min.) and was so proud to show everybody how cool she looked. My girl LOVES school! I LOVE my girl.

Workin’ It!

Lately, Maya has been a little dancin’ machine! I LOVE IT when she dances! The other day I was organizing their room and I had some music playing when Maya came in and asked me for help putting a piece on Mr. Potato Head. I told her I would totally help her if she danced while I put the piece on. I’m such a mean momma;) She got right to it! It’s always the same move but I love it!

We went out to grab a bite the other day at this place called Zupas, which by the way has THE MOST DELICIOUS veggie sandwich I’ve ever had!

Utahns sure know good eats. There are sooo many delicious restaurants out here! Anyway, I digress…soooo we were eating at Zupas when Maya decides she likes the song that’s playing. She stood up and started workin’ it! You can’t really hear the music but it would speed up and then get slow so she was moving with the music.

This video makes me so happy:)

The Mean Man

I’m a crazy mom ya know. I always think of worse case scenarios and worry about things that could happen to my kids. Maybe it’s natural. I get up in the middle of the night to check on the kids all of the time because I have this fear that somebody is going to take them through their window. We even have an alarm on their window but of course in my crazy “worse case scenario” mind I imagine somebody taking a glass cutter to their window so that the alarm doesn’t go off. I’m nuts, I know!

Ok, so where was I going with all of this. I hate instilling fear in my kids because I don’t want them to have to worry about scary things yet. The other day I had just gotten out of the shower and was completely nakey when there was a knock at the door. What do the kids do? Run to the door to open it! Um, hello! I yelled for them not to open it and they kept running towards the door. I had to use my evil voice for them to listen to me. It was time. I got myself dressed and sat Aidan and Maya down for a little chat. I tried to teach them of the dangers of opening the door for strangers but they weren’t really understanding so I had to take it a step further. I told them that if they open the door without mommy then a mean man can take them away and he will be very mean to them. They had so many questions which I answered in the scariest way I could think of. I felt so guilty but I know that it was the best thing to tell them because it was urgent.

Good news is it worked! The next day there was a knock at the door and both Aidan and Maya took off running to open the door but then Aidan stopped and said, “No Maya! The mean man can get us!”

This morning, Maya was eating her yogurt when she came to me and said, “Look mommy, the mean man!”

Apparently she imagines the mean man has a mustache. Hahaha!

Maya Lately

Maya threw up today. She was taking a nap when suddenly she started screaming for me. I ran in and she was freaking out because she said she was going to throw up. Seconds later, plehhh! Lots of pukage over and over again. She handled it like a champ, though. When she had finally emptied her stomach on the carpet in my room she just looked at me and said, “Can you clean me mommy? I’m all yucky.” Sweet girl!

My sweet little Maya has been little miss. attitude lately. She has discovered talking back and is often blatantly disobedient. Oh yes, she will look me in the eye as she does the opposite of what I have asked her to do. She gets mad when I start a countdown, you know when you tell your kids to do something and they have 3 seconds to jump into action? Well, when I start the countdown she screams, “Stop counting!!!!”. The other day we were at TJ Maxx and she was sitting in the basket with Arabella and she had nothing but complaints.

“Stop looking at me like that, Arabella!”

“Stop singing!”

Oh boy, their teenage years are gonna be F.U.N.

Of course she’s still awesome! She is so sweet most of the time. She knows Arabella likes to hold hands when we are walking around and she doesn’t mind doing that. I love it when they hold hands by choice!

She’s can also be random and very funny. Lately she’s been asking me the strangest question. Example:

“Mommy, does the food have a mouth? It can’t talk?”

That is her main question. What has a mouth and what can talk? I just love my little Nena and her confidence, stubbornness, sweetness and yes, even her randomness.

Here is a video I took of nothing super exciting except some freakin’ awesome Maya moves;) haha!