State Fair

Last night we took the girls to the state fair. Marc and I had never been and we weren't sure what to expect. We had heard many great things, though. The kids had a fantastic time.

The "Nemo" ride was a favorite.


The girls enjoyed seeing all of the animals and feeding the horse. Well Macy enjoyed seeing the horse, but she didn't want to have anything to do with feeding it.

The panda ride was the first one the girls went on. I wanted the first ride to be something where they could sit together because I wasn't sure how Macy would do once I walked away. It was a little jerk to start, but then she had the best time!

I love seeing the girls holding hands, especially when they do it by themselves without me asking them too. They are trying to decide which rides they wanted to ride on. There were only 4 or 5 that Macy could ride on because of height restrictions, and one that they both really wanted to ride was Dumbo. Macy LOVES Dumbo, unfortunately she is too small for that one. We tried to avoid the path that went by it. We were going to let Macy go get the cotton candy they wanted while Kayla rode Dumbo for her last ride, but then she decided it went too high for her and chose something else. Only after we were done did we realize that she could control if she went up or not.

Yummy caramel apples! My favorite! We also let the girls play one game where they were guaranteed to win a prize. They went fishing for sharks and they were both so proud of the little stuffed animals they won.

We will definitely be going back next year except we will be toting 3 kids around! The girls did great staying with us, and it wasn't really crowded until we were leaving. We also decided we will take our own dinner and drinks - boy was that all expensive. Of course we'll have to treat ourselves to the usual fair goodies - cotton candy, caramel apples, and a funnel cake!

"No, I Want to Be a Mommy and a Teacher"

Tonight after baths Kayla wanted to tell me the plan for tomorrow. I expected something along the lines of wake up, get ready and go to church, each lunch, take a rest, play with Nini, go back to church, come home and go to bed. Instead I received a 6-7 minute plan that included bathroom breaks, what we do while we wait for lunch to come, and how we'd get to Nini's house. About 5 minutes into this (yes, I admit I was trying to distract her from her speech and failed several times) I asked, "Kayla, do you want to be an engineer like your Daddy." Her very quick response was, "no I want to be a mommy and a teacher because you make all of the choices and I want to be able to make all of the choices." Oh the thought processes of a 4 year old! All week she has been complaining about how much "work" she has to do. We had a nice talk one afternoon about all of the work I have to do compared to how little she has to do. I also reminded her of all the fun things we get to do. Such a rough week for her!

She Has a Name!

We finally decided on a name for our little girl... Brooke Nichole. We spent the months before we found out we were having a girl trying to decide on a boy's name. We've always been able to come up with girl's names pretty quickly, but have never been able to agree on a boy's name. We thought we'd start early trying to decide on one just in case. Well we never could agree, and it ends up there was no need. We did have a harder time with this one, but we think Brooke is a sweet name, and Nichole is my middle name. I really liked Brooke Avery, but then her initials would be BAD. We couldn't do that to her! While we aren't ordering all of the monograms yet, we are pretty certain this will be her name. Less than 4 months and we will get to meet this little girl that made me sick for 10 weeks and tumbles around more than her sisters combined!

Laundry

I am up to my ears in laundry. A couple of weeks ago we hit the outlet mall to buy most of Kayla's fall/winter clothing. Most of Macy's clothes we already had from Kayla, but of course we had to buy her a couple cute new things and a couple of matching outfits for all 3 girls thanks to my mom. Well now it has to be washed, along with all of the clothes for Macy that have been boxed up for 2 years, as well as all of the winter maternity clothes that have been boxed up for almost 3 years. Phew! I can handle the washing and drying, it's the folding that I'm tired of. Thankfully I have a little bit of time before I have to start washing baby clothes!

Oh How I Love This Sound

Kayla thinks it is so funny to cross her eyes. Tonight was the first night Macy really noticed her doing it and this is what transpired. I can't wait to add a third girl into all of this fun!

By the way, Macy didn't even flinch after hitting her head on the table at the end of the video.