"I have to buy that"

Well, I'm gonna have a busy week ahead of me, it's Juliana's 1st birthday on Saturday and I've got lots of things to do. I'm going to make 2 cakes (we have 2 parties on the weekend), plus buy and wrap her presents, make lots of cards (March seems to be the birthday month in our family), on top of all of my other things! But I love when I have a busy week, it seems to make things fly!

Kayla's been in this funny stage lately, any time she sees something that she likes she says "I have to buy that". She'll be looking through a magazine and see a toy or something like that and say "I like that, I have to buy that" or if I tell her to be careful with something she'll say "If it gets broken we'll have to buy a new one". Last night as I was changing her for bed, she was playing with her 'belly button hole' and I told her to not push too hard or else it will hurt. She says "I have to buy a new one then" LOL!!!!! I told her that she can't buy a new one and that God gave that one to her so it's the only one she's gonna get! Another thing she keeps saying is "I have to invite ______ to my birthday". She was watching tv the other day and she says "I like Poko, I have to invite him to my birthday" Last night at supper she says "I like honey, I have to invite it to my birthday" Everything gets an invite!!! So far we have about 100 things and cartoons coming!!!! Too funny!! She is at such a fun age, she makes me laugh all the time. Of course there are the temper tantrums at this age too!!!! I am certainly blessed with those 2 little girls in my life!

Juliana's getting to the age where she's really understanding things. If she has something we don't want her to have we just ask her and she brings it to us! In the bath the other day, I was playing with a toy and making it walk along the tub and saying "doo da doo da doo" and she grabbed the toy and did the same thing, tilts her head and says "doo doo doo doo". Last night when I was changing her I kept saying "mama mama" and she tried by saying "ma". Before I know it, I'm gonna hear the 2 of them in the living room chatting up a storm!

I thought I would post some more pictures for you guys!


Juliana was playing with this toy phone and she started tilting her head and cooing. It was really cute! She must have a good role model to copy!! LOL!!!


I put Jeff's touque (sp?) on Juliana the other day and couldn't resist taking a picture. I like the look on her face too, so serious with attitude!!! (The picture isn't messed up I just blurred the patch, who knows who reads these things!)


Kayla wanted me to take a picture of her since we were taking pictures of Juliana so she was all smiles! She's eating her "animal chicken"! Isn't that such a photogenic smile??


This morning the girls were hiding beside the couch being really quiet so I went over to see what they were up to and they were just sitting there reading books! (You'll have to excuse Juliana's finger up her nose, she's been doing that a lot lately, just sticking it in there! Every time I look at this picture, I just start giggling!!!)

We're a bunch of sickies here :(

Juliana ended up getting a cold yesterday. Luckily I caught it before she went to bed so I was able to get some medicine into her. I also plugged in the vaporizer and a Benylin Vapour plug. If any of you get stuffed up with a cold or have kids that do, those things are life savers! I used to use a warm humidifier and put the liquid stuff in the little well but when Kayla started sleeping in a bed and I was worried about her getting out of bed and touching it, I found those in the store. There is a little pad that has the menthol stuff on it and you just place it in the plug thingy and it heats it up when you plug it into the wall. It's pretty strong too, so it works really fast. They aren't cheap though but it's worth it in my mind considering there's no risk of the kids burning themselves on hot steam, since there isn't any. Jeff started to get stuffed up last night too. Only once I would love to be the only sick one so that I could get the babying and be taken care of. Whenever we are all sick, I'm the one taking care of everyone else!!! Oh well, I guess that comes with the territory of being a mom!!! This morning Jeff got a call around 6:30 so he didn't get home until after breakfast. He had smashed his thumb with a wrench so I got to be the "mom" again and bandage him all up! I always tell him he could do it himself but he says he likes the attention (and honestly I like to baby him!). I don't think he needs stitches, it wasn't too bad, I just hope he keeps a band-aid on it so it won't get infected.

I have an exercise video that I do called Walking Away The Pounds. It's basically just walking at a brisk pace but then there are arm movements that you do and you use hand weights too and also kick, knee ups and side steps sometimes too. Anyways (yes I ramble a lot!) while I'm doing it, Kayla usually sits there and watches me and I'll ask her to do it with me but she usually doesn't want to. At the end of it there is a part where you stretch and she'll do that with me. Last night while I was doing and during one of the times that Juliana woke up before Kayla went to bed, I was just in my way into her room and I looked back at Kayla and she was standing in the living room doing the exact stretching movements that I do! It was so precious!!! I love how kids copy you and learn so much by just watching what we do. Like when Kayla would say thank you for something I would say "No problem", well if anyone ever says thank you to her, she always says "No pwablum"!!! On the other hand, if they copy us for something we don't want them to, that's not so good! LOL!!! For example, sometimes if I get frustrated with something I'll go "ugh" sort of loud. I noticed once when Kayla got frustrated that she did the same thing!!!! Kids are certainly good for a laugh!!!!!

Anyways, Jeff just got home from a meeting so I'm gonna go spend some time with him. Have a great night everyone!!!!

(I know I just posted pictures yesterday but I find that so many things happen here during the day that I'm constantly taking picture!!!! If I post too many, just let me know and I'll try to cut back :P)

This is how Juliana fell asleep during her nap yesterday!!
She looked so cute that I just had to take a picture :)
(note how her soother is on her neck!!!)

The other day I was taking close up pictures of me to show
someone my new hair cut and Kayla wanted in on it too. I took
a bunch of them in a row but this was the most precious one!
She was doing her typical crazy dance!!!