More on Annie

I have already expounded on the dangers of Annie in a previous blog, but now I have to tell you about the adorable (almost on the verge of annoying) part. My girls LOVE Annie. If they had their way we would watch it at least 3 times a day every day but there is no way I could take that so we watch it slightly less. The other evening after watching Annie (which they begged to watch again immediately) they decided they would just put on their own Annie performance. Now remember they are only 2 1/2 so their Annie performance mainly consisted of singing the line "tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya tomorrow. You're only a day away" from the song Tomorrow over and over. They also sing the line "dumb dog, why are you following me?" from the Dumb Dog song over and over. Then they proceed to pretend our dog Ferris (a beagle) is Sandy (the dog in the movie) so they call him and drag him around by the collar calling him Sandy. Believe me it is all very cute, but after about an hour of the same two lines of a song it can become wearing and the dog just wants to lay down. So I was in the middle of making dinner and decided to call their Nana to let her hear them sing for a while. Usually when you put them on the phone they don't talk much, just answer yes, no, and say I love you but that night I told them to sing and boy did they ever sing. Over and over and over and over, until I'm sure even Nana was getting a little bored with it. Then Nana put Paw-Paw (grandpa) on the phone and they sang for him, then Joey called his mom and they sang for her, then he called his dad and they sang for him and his wife. I still can't believe how long they kept singing the same two lines and that night in the middle of the night one of them was singing it in her sleep! Needless to say I went out and bought the Barbie Fairytopia video yesterday just so I wouldn't have to watch Annie again.

Mud Babies

It's been raining in my neck of the woods the last couple of days so when we went over to a friends to BBQ I knew my girls and their almost 3 year old girl would probably be playing in the mud but I had no idea just how much fun it would be. They started out making mud pies in the planter surrounding the tree in the front yard. Well the 3 year old is totally into being naked so when she took her shirt off my girls had to follow suit. They immediately proceeded to rub mud all over their bellies and then they rubbed mud on each others backs. From there a mud flinging contest was started, which turned into the three of them chasing each other around the tree with mud. Once they wore each other out doing that they discovered the big rain puddle at the end of the driveway. At this point Jenna stripped down totally and the girls again followed suit. That was fine for Savannah who just had a little pee-pee in her diaper, but we soon realized Sydney had poo-poo. Luckily we caught it before any mess ensued and were able to rinse her off and confiscate the diaper. While we were busy doing that Savannah was dunking her diaper in the water and soaking up so much water that the diaper became a huge sopping ball. She and Jenna then proceeded to put their wet shorts, Jenna's undies, and Savannah's diaper in the mailbox. I feel sorry for their mail man.

The Dangers of "Annie"

I recently purchased the movie Annie for my girls. I remember loving this movie as a kid and I knew there was a lot of singing and dancing in it, which they love. As expected they love it and want to watch it all the time. They have even started singing some of the songs on their own, like in the back of the van when we are driving somewhere. The other day though I discovered a down side to Annie. My girls have started telling each other to "Shut Up". Now this is not something I say ever (not because I'm super mom and don't ever yell or anything, just because it's not something I really have to say . . . yet.) So I'm racking my brain about where they could of picked this up when I realize it was Annie. It really is a sweet and cute movie and I love Carol Burnett playing the drunken Ms. Haddigan who oversees the orphanage, however, she does yell at the kids several times in the movie to "Shut Up" and this is where my girls picked it up. So now I'm having the discussion about not being ugly to each other but frankly there are a lot worse things they could have picked up so oh well. We will continue to watch Annie.

Car Accident

Savannah got run over, well, not by a real car. The other evening we took the girls over to a friend of ours to hang out. They have a little girl (Jenna) who turns 3 in September, so it is fun to get them all together to play. A month or so ago Jenna got one of those little motorized kid cars that can go about 3 miles an hour. It is a really cute Volkswagen Bug one. She is really good in it already, she cruises all around their culdesac and up on the sidewalks and everything. Whenever we go over the girls take turns riding with her (it only fits 2 kids at a time). They are so cute! So, Savannah was watching Sydney ride with Jenna and we were sitting in the yard chatting when all of the sudden Joey goes "oh shit" and jumps up running down the sidewalk. My view was blocked by the neighbors' RV, but when I ducked down to look under it and see what was going on I could see Joey lifting up the car and Savannah was under it! AAGGHH! Jenna and Sydney had run over Savannah! The thing that really scared me was that she wasn't even crying. Once Joey picked her up she started crying and she had a few small scrapes but otherwise she was fine. Thank goodness! I know it wasn't on purpose, I think Sydney and Jenna cried more than Savannah. So that was the girls first car accident.

Baby Dolls

Just the last couple of weeks my almost 2 1/2 year old twin girls have started being little mommies. First they started wanting me to tuck in their teddy bears at night when I tucked them in. Then they would bring their teddy bears down to the living room with them and lay them down on the couch, cover them up, turn off the lights and say "Shhh! Nap time." Next they even started wanting to make Lego beds for their little plastic Care Bear figurines and use washclothes as blankets for them to go "night night". At this point I decided maybe we should get some baby dolls. Nana had bought them Cabbage Patch dolls around Christmas, however they are kinda big for a 2 1/2 year old to play baby doll with so off to Toys R Us we went. I couldn't believe the number of dolls available and I immediately became overwhelmed and the girls just started grabbing everything. One thing I found strange was that none of the smaller dolls had clothes you could buy seperate for them only the larger (read: bigger than I wanted) dolls had different outfits you could buy. So we ended up not buying anything there, I figured I'd check out Wal-Mart and compare prices.

Well, the next day we went over to a friends house who has boy/girl twins the same age as mine for a play date. Sure enough the little girl had a dolly and upon discussion with her mom I found that she had seen the same problem with the dolls not having extra clothes. She suggested the Fisher Price doll as the one she thought was the best. The whole time we were there Sydney monopolized the dolly and was upset when we had to leave it behind. So, off we went to Wal-Mart on the way home. They had the Fisher Price doll and they even had two that came in a set as twins. Perfect. That very night the girls wanted to bring the baby dolls to the table to eat dinner with them, which I do not allow for many reasons, but my girls were adamant that they had to have their dolly's so we compromised by letting them bring the chairs from their children's table into the dining room so that the dolly's could sit next to them. So now I'm tripping over what seems like a million chairs in our already small dining room, but the girls are so cute with those baby dolls . . . feeding them bottles, sharing their food, shopping with them in their little play shopping cart . . . that it makes me remember that they are already growing up so fast and this too shall pass.