Friday, April 1, 2011

She's a "Cooker Girl"...

Cora's latest pastime has been working on her culinary skills...
she trains with the best chefs at the Foodnetwork Culinary Institute

...located right in our very own living room...




sometimes even Bobby Flay is her instructor...

Mmmmmm... Tortilla, Carrot, Pretzel, Noodle goodness...

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

birthday girls...





monsters.

they had a great day... {two months ago} 
about an hour into their party i saw Eva just sitting on the edge of one of the inflatables with these sleepy looking eyes... we were at bouncing off the walls for pete sake! so i asked her what was the matter and she told me she thought she just needed to take a nap... A NAP! 
um... ok then its your birthday...

and then i realized

i gave her cough medicine just before we left for the party...
i drugged my own child...
she left halfway through her own party to take a nap!

sheesh.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Dear Cheese...

"Cheese, I'm in love with you cheese...
you know what,
instead of marrying a boy
I'm gonna marry cheese.."

~Eva

yes, i realize she is eating chocolate in this picture...

Thursday, March 10, 2011

"go make your beds!"

and boy did Eva make that bed!

Cora on the other hand... well she's just Cora, She wouldn't be herself without completely ignoring me
honestly though, i am lucky the room looks this good considering they sleep like this


Monday, February 21, 2011

we are out of freezer jam!

 look at that dirty face!

 and that TAN!

 delicious!

 too bad we woke up to 9 inches of SNOW today!
sheesh!

hurry up spring....

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Baby Eden...















we miss you sweet baby! 
{oh ya, and YaYa and aunt Sophie too!}

Thursday, January 27, 2011

i wish i had a picture of this...


So last night i was feeling like serious crap and i asked the girls to please PLEASE go to bed with out any naughty business... yeah right.
 it was worth a shot... they were quiet for a whole 5 minutes and then the giggling started...

"ladies."


it stops...
somebody "shushes" somebody else and then another minute of quite before it starts again.. the loudest giggles were coming from Cora and the routine is to separate them if they can't knock it off. So i say

"Cora, go upstairs."

 She HATES to go upstairs, she usually tells me all about how lonely she will be will tears welling up in her eyes and how she can't sleep with out some one to snuggle with.. bla, bla, bla... same thing every night. so i wait for her to grab a stuffed animal and a blanket. she comes around the corner with 5 stuffed animals, A blanket AND a pillow pet! for petes sake! her "special stuff" is piled so high that i can't even see her face... so i say

"no way. you can take one baby and one blanket that's it!"

so she peeks her little face around her pile of junk and i realize why they were laughing...

Cora's entire face is COVERED in stickers! like a sticker mask... it was hard for me to find her eyes!

at that point i knew i couldn't keep a straight face and she was in some serious trouble for her antics so i just said "forget it, just go upstairs now! hurry... before i change my mind" so sticker face jogs up the stairs blindly stepping on her blanket along the way, trying to get out of sight before i make her surrender any of her precious babies.

i proceed to watch my back-to-back recorded episodes of "Live to Dance" and "IDOL" and completely forget i sent her up there... by the time i go up to bed i remember her naughty business and realize i never took a picture but she starts to stir and i knew i lost my chance....

she half sits up with her eyes cracked open and starts clawing at her face. she had forgotten what she had done to herself! the stickers she found there seem to surprise her... so i help her peel the stickers {with the strongest glue ever} off of her shocked little face... she winces as i pull the extra big ones off her cheeks.... suddenly she gaggs just a bit and sticks out her tongue to produce one last soggy drool soaked sticker!
gross.
funny...
and NO CAMERA!

~sigh~

i should just wear one around my neck...

on an Eva note: she was asked to bring in Oreo cookie crumbles for her Valentines Day party at school and she has food alergies so she asked me to make sure to buy the "ORGANO" cookies...