Dress Up Fun

My friend Jen asked me to take some pics of her family today, so I decided to put Christmas dresses on the girls and go a little early to do my own little "family photo shoot."  They were a little more interested in playing than pictures..but I still got a few good ones.

And a few of the Blumbergs...

3 Year Stats

Yesterday, the girls had their 3 year appointment at the doctor.  To be honest, I was REALLY hoping she would tell me that Isabella had an ear infection.  Is that mean?  Well...she has been an absolute TERROR every...EVERY...every...night for 3 weeks.  She cries for 2 hours before finally falling asleep, tells us she is afraid of something, and is just miserable.  I have tried EVERYTHING...taking away beloved toys, ignoring her, making a sticker chart and giving them rewards for good sleeping.  Nothing seems to be working, so I was hoping it was a medical condition.  But...no such luck.  My sweet girls are as healthy as can be (and I am VERY grateful for that despite my little rant).  They are growing like weeds and right where they should be in terms of all the other milestones.  Here are the stats...

Isabella
Weight:  32lbs 9 oz........63rd percentile
Height:  38.5 inches......75th percentile

Leah
Weight:  35lbs 3 oz......82nd percentile
Height:  39.75 inches...92nd percentile

As for the sleeping issue...a friend of mine suggested yesterday that we let the girls listen to a book on tape as they fall asleep to help keep Bella's mind off of whatever she is afraid of.  I did it last night...and it was semi-successful.  I still had to go in to settle Bella once...but it was not nearly as bad as usual and then she fell asleep right after that.  So...we will continue to try this and hope that it will work....

Oh, and one more thing about the doctors appt.  Just have to say how proud I am of my girlies...they got their flu shot and barely even cried :)  They didn't have any vaccines other than that...but she said at 4 they will get FOUR plus the flu shot.  Ugh...No fun!

Primos

We finally got some pics of the girls and their cousins on Thanksgiving :)  The girls absolutely LOVE spending time with these three sweet boys!!!!

Leaves

OK, I'm just going to be honest and say I have no idea when these pictures are from.  Well, obviously they are from sometime this fall, but I don't remember what the occasion was that we were all over at Mom's...maybe just a playdate...who knows.  Anyway, the kids had a fantastic time playing out in the leaves with each other and Grandma!!

School

Here are the girls' first every school pictures.  They came out pretty good but they were $68 a person so we chose NOT to order them :) 

The girls always bring home work from school so before I threw it in the recycling bin...I thought I would take a picture of it!!  This is Leahs...Bella's is below.

Little Toys

The girls are CRAZY about these little TEENY TINY animal toys that they have!  It started with Isabella getting one out of the gumball machine at one of my soccer games and has snowballed into them carrying these little figures everywhere!  The problem is, they lose them ALL the time (like 20 times a day) and we end up searching the entire freakin house for them EVERY time!  Ugh.  It is ridiculous   However, my friend Tricia has helped us out by giving us a HUGE box of all different kinds of animals so when the girls lose one, we are able to just pull out a new one instead of spending 20 minutes searching the house.  Anyway...although they are a pain to find, they do provide HOURS of entertainment for the girls.  As I said, they take them everywhere.  Here is an example.  This video is at Barnes and Noble at their "train" table which we have turned into a play station for the little toys.

Computer Use

I finally gave in and let the girls use the computers at the library.  They LOVE the library and I was afraid that if I let them use the computers they would never want to read books or play with the toys they have there again.  But, they proved me wrong yet again.  They are really good (after the first few times) at getting off the computers when I tell them that time is up, and they still love reading books :)

Leah picked it up much quicker than Isabella, but Bella is getting there...

Craziness at bedtime

So...at night recently, we all crawl into my bed after bathtime and read books for a while before the girls go to bed.  It is pretty much my favorite time of the day.  However, the past two nights, the girls have been super hyper and have done this literally as I was telling them to go into their room...not sure where the weird headbanging came from.  It started with Leah calling her PJs "MeeJays," which both girls thought was HILARIOUS and then they started what you see in the video...very strange!

Random phone pics/videos

A couple weeks ago we took our first trip to Chuck E Cheeses to celebrate our little friend Ian's 3rd birthday!  We all actually had a great time!  Heather (Ian's mommy) did a good job picking a non-crazy day/time so it was a good time instead of a stressful crazy experience!

Hurricane Sandy was a difficult time for MANY people.  Thankfully, for us, it just provided two days off of school for me to spend with the girlies.  We never lost power and didn't have any major damage.  Well...other than Isabella.  She decided to climb up on her dresser and jump off!  Ugh!  She couldn't put ANY pressure on her foot for a long time and kept asking for bandades.  I had to put 5 band-aides on it and she kept telling me that "just one more" would make it feel better.  We iced it for a while and then put her down for a nap, and when she woke up it seemed better...which was good because all of the local urgent care places were closed because of the hurricane!

The girls and I made pumpkin pancakes on the first day I was home for the hurricane.  YUM!

Another Bella injury!  This poor girl...

Her face had JUST started healing from the catlike scratch leah had given her when she fell and got rug burn at Bounce U.  Then, while she slept, her hair got stuck to it and the scab formed over top of her hair, so I had to rip the scab completely off to get her hair off of it.  Ugh...she is destined to be a scar-face!

My VERY silly girls singing their favorite song (thanks to Ms. Sabrina for teaching to them!). 

Take 2!

Kids say...

Leah at dinner tonight as she was eating her apple for dessert....

"mom...my apple is yucky...there are beans in the middle!"