Ariana Can Ride Without Training Wheels!

Ariana has been riding Alexis bike with us holding on for the last month and today she decided it was time for us to let go : )

Happy Valentine's Day!

I love Valentine's Day. I don't think it has to be all about your significant other. I think its a great chance to take a moment and let your friends and family know how much you love and appreciate them.

With Justin off in California we decided to send him a "love package". We mailed it Friday hoping it would get to him today. It did but he didn't get home in time to pick it up from his apartment office. Inside his package is a brand new (hand made : ) ) rice hot/cold pack, his favoite candy and valentines from all of us.

Julie Morton and I were going to have a little party with our kids tonight since both of our husbands are working out of town but with Alexis still being so sick we had to call it off. I still tried to make it a fun day for them. In the morning I made heart pancakes and even offered to make them pink. Ariana thought that was a fabulous idea Alexis thought "pink doesn't sound good for my tummy." (having a sick kiddo isn't very fun!) Alexis even turned down chocolate milk. Not Ariana though. She ate all the pancakes and had pink chocolate milk. We also made sure Alexis had valentine's for her class. She is starting to miss her friends a lot but is having such low energy that laying down is all that sounds good so I let her have a day full of movies with little interuptions of homework. For dinner we had subway and watched Alpha and Omega (horray for free red box codes).

These are the chocolate lollipops I made for Alexis valentine's. Ariana had fun taking pictures of everything so from her height this is what they looked like.

My poor sick baby

Alexis has been so sick for a week now. She has had a high fevers along with headaches and being very lethargic. She has also has now developed a running nose and little cough. When Justin called to say good night tonight Ariana took her turn and then went to find Alexis and couldn't. I soon found her curled up like this with her thumb in her nose in the side that won't stop dripping. I guess when you can't find a tissue and are to tiered to get up your thumb will do.

Ariana's New Sippy

Saturday in San Diego all the girls went to Burlington Coat factory and while looking around the baby section Ariana spotted a type of sippy cup that she just had to have. Nice thing about when this happens is that I can tell her that's fine she just has to use her allowance money to buy it. Well today she still wanted to buy it so off we went to our Burlington Coat factory and Ariana is now the proud owner of this sippy cup. She thinks its the coolest water bottle ever and I love that she choose to save and use her own money to buy it. I think our allowance system is working well.

Little "Boy" Friend

(she had just woken up and asked for her necklace to be back on when I took these pictures)

Ariana has a friend that she just adores and loves. His name is Isaac Earl. They have been buddies in preschool for the past two years and Ariana is absolutely attached to him. He is the only boy her age that she regularly asks to play with and she loves to write him notes and during preschool she is all over him. She MUST sit by him, hold his hand around the yard during recess etc., etc. Isaac and his family got to go on a trip to Hawaii and Ariana missed Isaac a lot. While he was in Hawaii Isaac bought a little present for Ariana and gave it to her when he got back. She loves it and while she is not very nice to most of her jewelry this little necklace is getting royal treatment from her. I think the whole story and necklace are really cute (we'll see if I think things like this are so cute when she is a teenager and can date ; ) )

Alexis Tooth #3

Alexis finally lost her third tooth today after it was flapping around in her mouth for a week. She was so excited because she wanted two things for this tooth and she got them:
1) She wanted to be the one to pull it out (I pulled out the first one and her cousin Derek pulled out #2)
2) She wanted to loose it at school so she could go to the school nurse and get a little tooth box.

She got her wish today when Miaja told her to "just twist it out" while they were in P.E. She did and out it came.

Time With Daddy

Its starting to get a little rough for the girls having Justin gone for most of the week while he is on temporary assignment in Palmdale, CA. The one nice thing that has come from this is the girls treasure every moment he is home now. Friday night they had a "sleep over" with him in the loft and I woke up Saturday morning to giggles and pillows everywhere.