Time flies when you're sleep deprived

I have been so bad about updating this! Here is the news:

Both Kenneth and Sarah are rolling. They are also both trying to crawl despite my insistence that they need to stay nice cute little babies for longer!

We took some awesome pictures when the inlaws were in town for Johanna's third birthday. They are so gorgeous I can't decide which ones I like best, and I don't have rights to the pictures so I can't link them yet. Once I buy some, I'll be asking about the legalities of posting them on the blog if I give the photographer credit. :)

Johanna has been doing well in gymnastics. Today she was front rolling (aka somersaulting) around the upstairs. I was able to convince her to stay on the carpet and away from the top of the stairs. That was about it for my parenting competence.

We're in the process of starting to prep the house for sale. We will be moving next year, and as you might have noticed from infrequent updates, we don't have a lot of free time. As such, we need a lot of lead time to accomplish ANYTHING. At this point I've managed to pack up some extra toys to work on keeping the playroom cleaner. We've boxed up some books that just looked messy. We're putting clothes that Johanna has outgrown but Sarah has not grown into and will not grow into before we move into storage. The garage storage areas are currently well packed. And I'm still working on getting rid of things.

I need to remember to start posting the cute stories as they happen. I forgot everything I wanted to tell you that was cute and sweet. Turns out that even coffee can't cure the type of sleep deprivation these sweetlings can cause!

The birthday obsession continues

Miss Nora came by yesterday to help out Daddy when Mommy had some errands to run for a lengthy period of time. Johanna had a lot of fun, and when Miss Nora was leaving, she decided to tell Miss Nora all about her birthday (which I keep telling her is later). There are going to be balloons, and cake, and presents, and apparently Miss Nora is going to be there. I hope her birthday can live up to her expectations!

Psst, don't tell her, but I did make sure to reserve the gymnastics place for the Sunday afternoon after her birthday. She's going to have a blast! And they will provide balloons for me. Woo Hoo!

Important Life Lessons

Birds are territorial about snacks. Johanna was playing with her zoo set last night and the polar bear was asking (quite nicely I might add) to have some of the bird's snack. The bird said no and pushed it down the slide. I found it very amusing.

Kenneth and Sarah are in daycare today for the first time. Daddy is in a class this week to get training on teaching AP courses. We'll see how this goes - it's good practise for when we have to get them all to daycare at the same time in the fall!

I am very tired at work today because I was up too late making sure we had everything for the daycare. And then forgot to make sure Johanna's bag was ready! Argh!

At least all three of them are adorable, that should help them get additional pity for their mother's scatterbrainedness.

Will you help me find it?

Johanna is very interested in the concept of Birthdays. Her friend from the neighborhood and daycare, Jay Jay, had his birthday party today. A friend's son Willie who she likes had his birthday yesterday. We had a small celebration of my birthday last night. So naturally Johanna wanted to know about her birthday. After I told her it was in August, Johanna asked if I could help her find it. At a loss, I told her to go ask Daddy to help. I just needed to buy some time for a better answer and she forgot what she was going to ask Daddy for on the way to the other room. Thank goodness!

It's just too fast!

Little Kenneth is doing something at 2 months that older sister didn't do until she was 4 months old. I want my babies to slow down!

Mommy, I have enough

So, last Friday I got home from work and there was the need to take care of dinner, and babies, and still pay attention to Johanna. Well, I found a chapstick in a flavour I don't care for and since Johanna likes taking my chapsticks, I thought she might enjoy it. So I gave it to her and reassured her that it was her chapstick. She's been very good with using my chapstick properly and was very happy to have her own.

A few minutes later, she emerged from her playroom and handed me a mostly empty tube of chapstick and said "Mommy, I have enough". I replied "Why yes honey, you do have enough" as I looked at the little sweet images you can see in the attached pictures. That is in fact even chapstick on her neck. I was in fits of giggles over her chapsticking skills, and luckily it came off relatively easily without a major tantrum at bathtime.

I guess everyone has to learn at some point that two year olds will not behave the same way all the time and you shouldn't give them chapstick and then let them play relatively unsupervised with it!

The song that never ends

Johanna has turned "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" into a song that never ends.

The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain,
and the itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out...

It's lovely until she uses it as a bedtime stalling technique!