Five Little Monkeys

Four little monkeys jumping on the bed

 

One fell off and bumped her head

 

Mama called the doctor and the doctor said…

 

No more monkeys jumping on the bed!

Three little monkeys jumping on the bed,

 

One fell off and bumped her head…

 

Mama called the doctor and the doctor said,

 

No more monkeys jumping on the bed!

Two little monkeys jumping on the bed

  

One fell off and bumped her head

 

Mama called the doctor and the doctor said “No more monkeys jumping on the bed!”

  

One little monkey jumping on the bed, she fell off and bumped her head

  

Mama called the doctor and the doctor said, NO MORE MONKEYS JUMPING ON THE BED

 

Oh there is that mischievous monkey!

Love getting Mail!

I LOVE shopping for the girls and lately I have tried to get my act under control. Since the holidays are around the corner I kept a list of things I want to buy and behave myself!

 

I walked by a calendar stand and thought, oh the girls would LOVE a Taylor Swift calendar. Also, Reese is not enjoying all the car rides to and from Brady’s preschool. So I thought I would get her one of those traveling lap desks to color in the car…

 

Well, Kim must have read my mind!!!! The girls and I got an AWESOME package in the mail yesterday. Among new books and more People mag., there was a Taylor Swift calendar and two lap desk (Color Wonder brand). Reese couldn’t wait to get in the car this morning, and that says  A LOT!!!

 

Well Brady really liked the calendar picture of Taylor singing in the rain…

 

So on the car ride home from preschool she drew the same picture (from memory no less). I know you can see the resemblance. ;)

 

THANKS BEPPA!

 

On an unrelated note, here is Reese in a cute Halloween outfit a friend gave us and the Giants ball cap. GO GIANTS!!!!

 

Wordless Wednesday: Chicken Little?

 

Our Experience at the Pumpkin Patch

 

 

Well, I bet you can guess we didn't quite make it to the pumpkin patch! The girls and I wanted to go to a Alabama pumpkin patch with our best friends. All of us loaded up in my van and headed for the 45 minute trip west. Well after 1.5 hours of driving we find out that the pumpkin patch/train ride isn’t open on weekdays…UGH! Well we decided to go to a awesome mall another 20 minutes west and have fun anyways. Brady made a Tiana Bunny and Reese (since it was well into her nap time) choose to sit in the stroller. Then the girls had a ball in the water splash gardens! I have been jealous of all my NC friends that have been talking about the State Fair….but I bet none of your guys can be playing in water ;)

ABC easy as 123

So we have Sesame Street flash cards that my good friend Rachel gave Brady for her 2nd birthday. Karl (just home from deployment) took upon himself to go through them every night with her to teach her to recognize her capital letters. We were amazed at how fast she picked up on them, and how much she loved being drilled. She would go get the cards throughout the day to work on. She learned the whole alphabet within roughly 6 weeks.

 

Now that Brady is in preschool she is being exposed to the kindergarten work of letter sounds. So we have gone through the same flash cards a few times noting the sounds, on average she would know 2-3, like P or H or T or K.

 

While going through them with Brady, Reese showed a lot of interest, so even though it was super early to work on letters with Reese we went ahead and would tell her the letter and then Brady the sound. Reese showed SO MUCH interest in learning her letters, it has now become our post dinner ritual. Like Brady, Reese seeks them out to practice throughout the day. We have been doing them for two weeks now, Brady still has 2-3 sounds each night that she knows.

 

Reese after the first week knew 5 letters!!! W, H, I, O, Y!!!! Well tonight, after two weeks of flashcards, she got 11 of them correct!!! W, H, I , O, Y, P, B, S, V, M, N!!!!

My little Forrest Gump

Do you remember this post where I walked a 5K and Brady decided she wanted to exercise all day. Well that desire never went away. She would randomly run and say that she is exercising! Well, now that I am trying to exercise on a regular basis and so is Karl she says it all the time.

 

On Monday (Karl’s day off) we all went on base to run on the sea wall. The whole time I had both girls in the double stroller, Brady was asking to exercise. So we let her.

 

 

We decided to get Brady some running shoes, so that she is running around in mary janes, since as you can tell she has the desire and skill to run.

 

She was VERY excited about her new shoes and wanted to exercise right away. That night Brady, Karl and Dewy went for a run.

 

Well Wednesday, her day off of preschool, the girls and I went exercising. Brady got herself ready…

I thought she looked more ready to join a roller derby, but she insisted this is the outfit she needed to exercise!

 

 

On my iPhone I have an AWESOME app that coaches me through interval training to work me up to running instead of walking to exercise. Well the app (MiCoach) also can track your speed and distance for a ‘free workout’. So today I tracked Brady as she choose the speed and distance.

For a Brady lead workout, we went 9.5 minutes, almost 1/2 mile, burned 69 calories (that is adjusted to my height/weight). That obviously equates to a 19 minutes mile. However, it tells you your pace the whole time, so during the times she choose to run she got to the speed of a 9 minute mile!

Taylor Swift Mania…

Kim, my mother in law, sends me all her old People magazines. I love getting to read these at my pleasure and it is always fun when they come in the mail. However, Brady gets just as excited about them too. She flips through every page to find pictures of Taylor Swift to put on her wall. She can spot the smallest pictures and will spend 30 minutes at a time flipping through all the old magazines hoping to find one that she may have missed. She also is very sweet and shares some of the pictures with her little sister. Here is the result of this obsession…

Well recently, due to her upcoming album release, she graced the cover of Glamour Magazine. Last night when I went to my good friend Kristen’s house for dinner, and sure enough she had the magazine there since she subscribes to the magazine. You should have seen Brady’s face when Kristen gave it to her to keep.

Well this Brady flipped through EVERY page to find SEVERAL Taylors! Again, she was very nice and shared with Reese. So now for the ‘after’ shots of the wall….

 

As you can see they both like to count their Taylors. Brady is now up to 38 and Reese has 8! Give us time and I think we may have an ‘accent wall’ completely covered in Taylors!

Bradyisms: The Final Chapter….

This is the final chapter because I don’t think it gets much funnier then this…

 

Today I went grocery shopping with Brady, while Karl was at home with Reese. We also stopped at the NEX to buy a couple things and looked at the magazines.

 

So when we got home Karl asked Brady what did she do with Mommy today.

 

Brady’s response: “Mommy was looking for a sister wife!”

 

OMG Out of the blue, that came out of her little mouth! I mean, I will have to say that is my new favorite show on TLC and I think I have discussed it with a friend or two in her presence. I guess she hangs onto every word I say! But it was not a topic of conversation the last couple of days.

You give an inch, and they take a mile…

Yesterday, the weather was so nice I decided to do something I haven’t done…let Brady take her “inside toys” outside. I told her she could set up the tent for Cinderella. Just so you know that would be a tiny 3 inch doll and a 6 inch doll house tent. That was the “inch” I gave her….this is the mile she took….

 

That green bag is one of those reusable shopping bags and it is FULL of doll house toys. And the red ‘market bag’ is full of the pretend food from her kitchen. She wanted to have a picnic.

Wordless Wednesday: Hand-thrown by me, painted by the girls…