Mini Mommy

Tonight I'm in the kitchen making dinner and Sylvie is calling me from the family room where she's sitting. I go in there and say, "What do you need Sylvie?" She replies, "Gummy sacks! I feeding my baby in the wocking chay-ah. I cannot get up." omg, are you kidding me?! So I get her the snacks and give them to her. Clearly her hands are occupied feeding her baby and she says, "Can you open 'dem for me? I cannot hold 'dem. I have my baby. She hungry." It was like a flash-forward 30 years from now. LOL! Love it! When Brady was this age, he probably saw me like this with newborn Sylvie. But for the Littlest Luhring, this "model to mimic" is not present...she had to come up with this all by herself. I love it!

Faux-hawks

I'm not sure why I've never done a bathtub faux-hawk before...b/c they are hilarious fun!!! The boys bathed like rock stars tonight with crazy hair! :p

Happy Valentine's Day 2012!

Our sleepy superheroes had breakfast while transfixed by an episode of Dinosaur Train-

Pretty Valentine

Super Sleepover!

Brady's friend Colton's twin brothers were born on Friday night. Yay! (or double yay!!! Yay, yay!) They surprised everyone and were ~6 weeks early. So we've been lucky to have Colton come play with us this week. Now that's a triple yay! YAY! YAY! YAY! :) We picked him up from school today and decided to have him spend the night. We are all loving this!
At Colton's request, they started out playing with costumes. Brady was Spiderman and Colton was a space man with the "super cool" motorcycle helmet.

The boys' version of dress-up is fun for little sis too! She insisted on being just like her big brotherS...seriously she LOVES Colton as much as Brady does and wants him to be in our family too! :) Now, I still think Brady was a super cute Buzz Lightyear, but we may have another edition of "Who wore it best?" going on here.

Game Faces. Yeah.

Here they are after baths, camping out in Sylvie's princess tent with her Percy flashlight.

Oh, these boys are so darn cute. They were doing their "Poppy preschool assigned homework" and looking for letters in the dinosaur book. (Colton loved Brady's Buddy footie jammies, btw!)

Brady insisted that they could fit in the same bed- either in his Spidey bed or on the air mattress. He was trying to convince Colton here that it would work. :p

There's a whole bunch of these picts too b/c the two boys were Cracking.Up. This book is Not a funny one (it's a Nat Geo book from the library on dinosaurs). But they both had the giggles and were feeding off each other. And that really was funny! :p

The excitement of having your best bud right next to you was overwhelming for these boys. I heard their little voices giggling and chatting until 10:30 PM! (and I'm back-blogging so can tell you they were up together @ 7 AM...which is early for Brady. But Ms. Chadney reported that they both did great at school the next day despite the limited sleep and sugar from Valentine's Day!)

Twosome

This was how our twosome was watching golf today- LOVE them!

Valentines 2012

We finished Brady's Valentine's Day cards and crafts this evening. Brady is getting Really good at writing his name. I started having him write his name on cards about two weeks ago and in just that amount of time, I've seen a real improvement! His last hurdle of making "a good Y" was overcome...they no longer look like an upside down three-pronged Poseidon's trident. :p This year, the Poppies (his preschool class) were tasked with making their own mailbox for their Valentines. Ms. Chadney's instructions were "be creative!" I went through our recycling and pulled out the Goldfish box. Since Brady LOVES dinosaurs this year, we decided to make a triceratops box for his collector. He came out pretty cute!

I took a few picts so I could remember what our 2012 valentines looked like and how great Brady wrote his name! (You can see the in-progress "Y" on Colton's and Hannah's valentines in these picts...so cute!)

Happy 4th Birthday Brenden!

We celebrated Brady's friend Brenden's birthday today with a fun preschool party. Sylvie dressed herself. She insisted on her "big socks" (which is what she calls legwarmers) over her jeans. Awesome- an 80's lover, just like her mama! :p

Fancy Do

Sylvie came home from daycare today with a fancy hairdo that resembled a bun. It looked adorable, even though my picts don't do it (or her) justice. I cracked up that she didn't find it the least bit odd when I said, "Turn around and look at the wall for a minute so I can take a picture of the back of your hair." haha- I take so many pictures of them and she's a fairly obedient 2 year old. :)

I took these picture to remind myself of Sylvie's consistent habit of making all the crayons in our house nude. :p For some reason, at first this annoyed me and I'd say, "Sylvie! Please do NOT peel the paper off the crayons!" But then I realized it makes her happy to do this. She told me so when I asked her why she did that- "I LIKE it! I happy!" :) and I figured, really what's the harm?

Superbowl Sunday

We invited ourselves over to Grandma and Papa's house so we could again watch the Superbowl with them this year. ;p Grandma made us a super yummy dinner that we ate "indoor picnic style." She had a blanket and even pretend bugs for our meal. Brady was Grandma's helper and had the job of placing the bugs all over the picnic blanket. Sylvie identified a need for her own job and promptly followed behind him, flinging all the bugs off the blanket saying, "Buuuug! Go away!" when she'd find one. When Brady caught on to what she was doing, he scolded her, but it didn't deter our little exterminator. I was laughing so hard that it didn't occur to me to film it until they were almost done.

Brady set up his favorite seat in the house for the game...Papa's stepstool.

These pictures are going to seem so odd, but I was really impressed with Sylvie tonight. She put her jeans on all by herself...which is something her big bro just learned not too long ago- lol! She sat down, put one leg in each pant leg, and wiggled those skinny jeans up completely independently...even over her diaper booty!

Yeah girl...hike those skinny jeans up!

Friends at the Firehouse

We had breakfast with friends today at the firehouse. Art projects, pancakes, firemen, firetruck, and friends- can't think of a better way to start the day!