Our Girls

Tehya:
-turned 5 on November 28th
-talks constantly... and I do mean constantly!
-is very into the "preteen" music like Hannah Montana, The Jonas Brothers and the Naked Brothers Band
-is very creative and artistic. She loves to draw and color, and painting is even better. She loves craft projects and working with beads and ribbons and other things of that nature.
-likes Polly Pockets, Littlest Pet Shop, My Little Ponies, Barbies and anything Disney Princess.
-is a fantastic big sister. She grumbles every once and awhile about Ada getting drool on a toy, but otherwise is usually the first to offer to share or show her little sister something.
-is in her second year of dance lessons. She gets to see what her recital costumes will look like this year next week and we are very excited about that!
-is turning into quite the young lady. She is very stubborn and has a bit of a temper when she doesn't get her way, but is also very compassionate and aware of other peoples feelings around her. She wants to learn to read very badly, so we are spending lots of time with books and practicing our letters.

Ada:
-turned 1 on August 21st
-is growing her vocabulary by the day. Words she currently uses are: mommy, daddy, kitty, puppy, buh-bye, hi, more, thank you (although she says it tant-too), and yeah
-is very affectionate. She loves to give kisses and does running tackling hugs from time to time that make us all giggle.
-has become very good friends with our cat Ellie. They play tag most days. Ellie usually tires of the game before Ada does.
-has the reach of a long armed ape. It doesnt matter how far in from a table or countertop edge you put something....she somehow seems to get it.
-is a foodie. She loves to eat and will chow down on anything you hand her. She also likes to be in the kitchen and recently has started "helping" me unload the dishwasher.
-adores her big sister. Anything Tehya does grabs Ada's attention right away and usually results in a very amusing imitation.

Ada Learning to Eat...Sort of

Ada has become intrigued with silverware lately...which makes some meal times quite the show! Yesterday at our lunch of mac and cheese she succeeded in eating most of it off of her spoon all by herself! Tehya was quite the cheerleader saying "Good job Ada!" after every successful scoop!

Look at Me Mom!

Uncle Jake followed Tehya's wish list for her birthday and got her a new dress coat. It is gorgeous and she absolutely loves it!
This is Tehya blowing Uncle Jake a kiss as a thank you....

And then following it up with the double thumbs up approval!

Happy Birthday Tehya!

Tehya is now 5 years old!

I can hardly believe that she is this old and grown up acting already, but she is and she is loving every minute of it!

Ada got her big sister a MP3 player for her birthday present. Tehya thought that was a really cool gift.This is Tehya's first reaction to her present from Mom and Dad....

A big girl bike!

We were thankful for nice weather that day as we spent it outside with Tehya zooming around on her new wheels!

Thanksgiving at Grandma Sue's

We celebrated Thanksgiving day at my mom's house this year. We also celebrated Tehya's birthday this day as the next day she was turning 5!!Tehya and her new best friend Mona (Jake's girlfriend) checking out the ads
Four generation photo


The turkey must have kicked in for Daddy!
Ada enjoying a cookie for desert.

This is also the very first day she had a pony tail in her hair!


Tehya quite excited about her new makeup kit from GG and Papa Charlie

A New Play Room for the Girls

Recently Tehya decided that she wanted to move back upstairs and share a bedroom with Ada. We moved the bunkbeds upstairs and Ada is now in a big girl bed! The first project was to turn Tehya's bedroom downstairs into a playroom for the girls. Above is the before picture with Grandma Sue helping me get a game plan for the day of hard work ahead of us!

This picture is the after look. A wallpaper border was added, some fun girly paintings were hung and all the toys were sorted organized and put away. We turned the closet into dress up central and now the girls have a closet full of fun dresses and coats and such to play with. I have a couple of long mirrors that I need to hang on the one wall and then the room will be complete!

Caught In the Act

One of Ada's new talents is pushing the buttons on our dishwasher. She has figured out how to turn on the steam dry option, as well as turning the knob to start up the load. It is quite amusing when she turns the dishwasher on because we get these two looks shown above, which I cant believe I caught on film finally. One is the "What are you talking about mom, I didn't do it, really" look and the other is the "Ok you know I did it but I am really sorry please dont make me cry" look. I think both are adorable of course!