Songs

That's "Row, row, row your boat" at the beginning.

There was a big issue with keeping focus in this video and everything is presented in the order in which it happened.

At the very end Arielle says "baby awesome" which is something she has said for a while, but I'm afraid any day may be the last day I hear it, so I had to get it on video.  I think it was originally intended to be 'baby wants some' but now she'll use it as a self descriptor and for other babies as well.  Couldn't you just eat them both up?

Moments

Eden: "I want to get my princess dress and play with the light on in my room"
me: "You can get your princess dress and play in here in the sunroom."
Eden: (throwing a fit) "I don't wanna play in the sunroom!!"
me: "You can play in your room if you want to, but be kind to Arielle"

A few minutes later Arielle comes back into the sunroom, whining, trying to get away from Eden with Eden following close behind.  Arielle finds a spot to sit and enjoy the toys she's brought with her and Eden starts to hover.

me: "Please leave Arielle alone and let her play while you go back in your room to play princess."
Eden: (throwing a fit) "I wanna stay in the SUNROOM!!"
me: "Not to long ago, you stood right over there and threw a fit saying you did not want to play in the sunroom."  I re-enact her moment from earlier.
"Now, you are sitting right there throwing a fit to stay in the sunroom"  I re-enact the recent fit.
Eden: (covering her ears) "You are too loud, Mommy!  I don't like that."
me: "Oh, really? 'cause I'm just being Eden.  Look at me, I'm Eden."  I start whining again.
Eden smiles slightly.

Unfortunately, although I thought this was a bit of a breakthrough moment. The same ol' plague of desiring only the opposite of what I request and desiring only what the sibling is playing with has continued throughout the morning and I think it's time to break the cycle by going somewhere.

More fun than a Polaroid.

Eden's favorite face from the last set of pictures we took.

and below, her favorite from the pics we took today.

There's that squinty-eyed face again!

Here are a couple from the day we took the video in the last post.  Eden was waiting through the whole video for a chance to take pictures.

aaaaaaand the squinty-eyes make an appearance again.  hahaha!

My two little hams.

Twinkle and Say Cheese!

Christmas in July

I was lamenting to Chuck the difficulty all the "Christmas in July" sales and ads have made for me.
"Try explaining to a three-year old." I said, "why there is a huge Christmas tree in Hobby Lobby and pictures of Christmas ornaments and stuff in stores all over town when it's not Christmas time."

It's been a repetitious couple of weeks telling her it's tooooooo early. I tried to explain the stores having sales so that people could start getting their presents etc. etc.

Chuck decides to take a crack at it over dinner and says to Eden, "Three things need to happen before it's even close to Christmas. We need to go to DC for a month, Arielle needs to have a birthday and it needs to get cold."
He looked over at me and, somewhat jokingly, said, "I think I made an impression."
After about a minute, he turned to her again and asked, "Eden, what three things need to happen before it's close to Christmas?"

She replied, "Um, something about decorating. And a Christmas tree!!"

He made quite an impression.

Where is Everybody?

Arielle's vocabulary is expanding by leaps and bounds. Her little brain is going all the time and she asks questions to keep tabs on everybody.
Over the weekend, Chuck got up with the girls and I stayed in bed. Arielle asked, "Mommy seeping?" Cute, right?
She will also ask, "Daddy work?" on most days.
The other day, Eden napped longer than usual in the afternoon and while Arielle was having her snack, she asked, "Eden work?" I had a good chuckle and then told her that Eden was still sleeping.
She responded "Oh, Eden seeping. Shhhhhh."

Director of Photography

Computers add such an interesting new dimension to life than our grandparents had, don't they? Eden was pretending to take pictures of me... telling me exactly how to pose, then letting me "look" at them. I decided to pull up Photo Booth on my Mac so we could really look at what she was asking me to do. She was thrilled and wanted to get some pictures of both of us together. She directed the poses in every shot below. I just did what she asked. :)