New couch!

Our new couch just got here! yay! Now we just need to get some throw pillows for it.

Kiersten had to try it out.

I can't have a blog entry without pictures of my cute girls...

Here they are playing patty-cakes. Well, Kara was trying to make Kiersten play with her.

Kara loves her new Elephant, Bruce.

Here are the girls last night on the old couch with their furry friends. Those are also new blankets and jammies from the Disney online outlet.

I put Kara's hair in sponge rollers last night before bed. I guess I should have used larger rollers. She ended up with a big, fluffy fro when we took them out this morning. I used large rollers on the bottom, and those curls actually turned out nice. When I've used the rollers before, I only left them in for about an hour, and we didn't have this problem. She took one look in the mirror, and said, "hey! What happened to my beautiful hair?!?" She was so mad at me, hehehe. oops!

Luckily, we made it work and she liked having "ballerina hair". Another little girl at the gym had her hair done in a similar way. When I went in to pick them up, she and the other girl were pretending to be ballerinas. The babysitter told me that they were doing it for almost the whole 2 hours in there. I keep meaning to get her into a dance class, but there are so many options, I haven't made a decision yet. I guess I'd better get on that soon.

03/16/09

Kara was practicing writing her name while I was doing dishes, and she asked me how to write Daddy. I told her that D A D would spell Dad. (I wanted to keep it simple for her, so I just told her the 3 letters.) She came running over to show me, and said, " Look! I write Daddy!" I thought it was too cute.


Here is a picture of Kiersten baby eating cake at her party on Saturday.

We were at the mall since her party was at build a bear. So we just got an ice cream cake and ate it there. It was good cake. (until Ben didn't want to take the rest home, and I didn't want it to be wasted.) I was trying to scarf down the left over cake in about 2 minutes. It didn't really agree with me after that. I realize now that was a silly thing to do. I should have just thrown it out and avoided the stomach ache and the extra 10 minutes on the eliptical I had to do the next day.

Here's Kara making the birth certificate for her batman elephant. (at least she thought she was doing it.)

you can't see Kiersten's monkey, but in front of it is Kara's elephant prior to being stuffed with fluff. She chose a batman outfit for it. The salesman was impressed that Ben was able to get the elephant into the batman suit. He said the elephant is the hardest furry friend to dress. Someone might have told us that before we let Kara choose that one. Oh well. I realize now we'll have to get pictures of their furry friends now that they are stuffed and dressed. That is the girls' friend Evan behind Ben eating his gift card. He's a sweetie.

Kiersten opening gifts at the mall. She got a cute stuffed lamb, a baby einstein movie, and a pop up pals toy.

Here we are in front of build a bear waiting for Kiersten's friends.

The girls love singing into microphones. They both love watching american idol. they sing and dance along.

Kara feeding "candy". She loves this baby doll, and Ben hates it.

Silly Kiersten licking her plate. Kara did the same thing at this age.

Kara showing Kiersten how to care for a baby. Kiersten would rather just drag it around and slam it into the wall, but Kara wants to teach her how to be a good mommy.

Happy Birthday Kiersten!

This is what Kiersten's Birthday cake looked like before Kara got to it. She ate most of the frosting around the chin/mouth area, the little stinker!
Cute birthday girl eating pancakes. She ate 2 more than Kara, and was whining for more. I didn't want to make more, so she had to settle for a banana. She is such a big eater!

Here she is sitting on the stairs. she can go up and down with no problem. When I took this picture, she was on her way down with Kara's doll, but when I said her name, she stopped and cheesed it, the little poser!

I like to set up their gifts on the table for them to see the night before. She was so interested, but I don't know that she realized they were for her. Every time she went over to check out the table, she would look over at me, as if she expected to be stopped. She loved watching me hang ballons around the livingroom. She loved it even more when the ballons came down for her to play with.

At first, she had to be coaxed into opening the presents. The first few were clothes, so she wasn't too excited about it, until Kara showed an interest in opening them. That's when she realized it must be cool to get birthday gifts.

She was pretty excited to open this new puzzle!

This was the first one that she opened entirely by herself. Kara was good at cheering her on.

little sweetie!

she loved this awesome musical zoo toy. It's totally cute.

yummy cake time! Kara and I had to help her blow out her candle.

she knew just what to do with that delicious cake!

her face was a mess! It's hard to see because of the light colored frosting, but she was a sticky, icky girl!

Disneland Pictures!

Ready for a ton of Disneyland pics??? Here ya go.. the girls with Wall-E

Tigger

hugging Elasti-girl. Kara is the only kid she stopped for. She and Mr. Incredible were in a hurry somewhere.

meeting Winnie the Pooh. He had a really short line on Tuesday.

jumping

Kiersten got an early Birthday treat at the critters breakfast. She was very interested when the staff came out to sing happy Birthday to her.

Kara meeting Dale

Kara cried and cried when we had to take Papa to the airport on Monday. She kept begging him to stay.

We took the girls to the beach on Monday instead of going to Disneyland. They absolutely loved it.

Kiersten had so much fun playing in the waves. I think she liked it even better than Kara.

walking around downtown Disney.

Kiersten wandering around in her Minnie ears.

I'm not sure if you can see it in the picture, but Kara made a Mickey mouse out of smarties. She was quite proud of herself.

having fun on the King Triton carousel.

I thought Jasmine was so adorable!

Kara loved meeting the princesses. We had to stand inline for over an hour, but then she got to meet Sleeping Beauty, Ariel, Jasmine, and Belle. She was sooo disappointed not to see Cinderella. So we went to Cinderella's show in california adventure, so she could meet her afterward, but once she saw Mickey was there too, she wanted to stand in his line instead. She had already seen him a couple of times, but I guess he's just that great.

Here I am with Kiersten on one of our many baby friendly boat rides. She slept through more than half of the rides we took her on, but she liked this one.

Kara's favorite ride was the teacups. She had been talking about them before we went, so I'm glad she wasn't disappointed with them.

Here is Kiersten's first taste of a lemon.

Mickey Mouse!

Kiersten's first cotton candy! She couldn't get enough of the stuff!

Kara and Papa riding Dumbo!

Disneyland buddies! Kerry was so good about taking turns pushing the stroller, holding the girls, diaper bag, and camera. He was also great about going on tons of kiddie rides!