My first stitches

We started the week excited for Valentine's Day. We bought Valentines for our friends on Sunday, so Monday night we started to sign our names and put stickers in Valentines for our friends. I got almost all of mine signed, Hannah got half of hers signed and folded with stickers inside.
Wednesday, I had kind of a rough day. I was a little bit naughty at daycare, then came home and Hannah and I were fighting, so daddy put us in our bedroom. It didn't take long before we were out of our room! I was climbing on the ladder to my bunkbed and fell down, landing right on my big yellow (metal) Tonka dump truck. Hannah ran to tell Daddy I was bleeding, and Daddy tried to stop the bleeding. I got a really big cut right above my eye. We were on our way out the door to the doctor when Daddy got it to stop bleeding. I was freaked out - Mommy could even tell when she talked to me on the phone. I cried and couldn't even act tough for her. Even though Daddy got it to stop bleeding, he still decided to take me to the doctor. I didn't want to go, but he told me that after we go to the doctor, we could go to Subway, so I reluctantly agreed to go. I took my Transformers and Hannah took a baby and off we went to the doctor.
We went to a different Urgent Care office than we normally do, but they brought us into the little room really fast! They decided I needed stitches. I didn't know what that meant, but Daddy had used those words when he talked to Mommy. The doctor said it needed to be stitched because the skin was too far apart to heal right. So, they gave Daddy a cotton ball to put on my eye and hold for a while.
When the doctor came back into the room, she started to put stitches in my cut. The first one was OK. I was calm and it didn't hurt, but the second stitch hurt! I cried and screamed and tried to get away. They put something on my eye that burned, then finished stitching, but I just wanted to get away. Daddy and a nurse had to hold me down while the doctor tried to stitch my cut when I stopped to breathe. Hannah was freaked out by my screaming, too. I could see her pacing back and forth putting her hands on her ears, crying because she was scared of why I was crying.
When it was all over, we headed out for Subway, but I saw a McDonalds! I told Daddy I wanted McDonalds instead, so he told me that I could have whatever I wanted. Yay! McNuggets and apple fries at our kitchen table when we finally got home with drive-thru McDonalds food.
Because we were so far behind schedule, we were still up when Mommy came home from her game at 8:30. She was so happy to see us and hug us! I was able to show her my stitches and Hannah was able to give her the Valentine she made for Mom at Sue's. (Hannah wanted to bring it to the doctor, just in case mom came, but Daddy told Mom not to come, and told Hannah that Mom could get her Valentine when they got home.)
Friday night we had a fun night! I thought we were going to go to Grandma's, but Mom and Dad took us to the Sweetheart Dance at the Community Center. It was so much fun! We danced, ran around, did the limbo (even Mommy did the limbo!), got our picture taken and ate yummy snacks. Mommy took lots of pictures of us having fun but at the end of the night she said her camera broke. Daddy figured out that the memory card was broken and she lost all of the pictures she took on the card. She was happy she just unloaded pictures from it on Sunday, but she was very sad that she lost all of the pictures that she took Friday night.
Saturday, we slept in. We were tired after the big dance! Daddy went snow tubing with the church and we had a big day at home.
We went to skating, and Hannah went right on the ice and showed off her skills from last week. She still has trouble standing up, but she was moving her feet really well! I told Mom I didn't want to go on the ice. I reluctantly put my skates on, and went on the ice, but I didn't have my best day. Mom keeps asking how I'm going to play hockey if I don't practice skating...shouldn't it just come to me when I have a stick in my hand?
After skating, we went to have our skates sharpened. Our teacher told Mommy it would help us, so she hopes it will help stop us from sliding around so much on our skates. While we were there, we saw all sorts of hockey sticks! It was awesome! I really want a hockey stick.
After we had dinner we went out to play in the snow! We played in the backyard for a while, then went sledding at Griffin's house. He has a really big pile of snow in his driveway that we slide down into his yard. It was such a nice day, we played outside for over an hour!
After sledding, we made cookies. We made GIANT hearts and stars, and even a few small hearts and doggie bones. They were pretty good - and mom let us try the dough BEFORE it was baked. It was pretty good, too.
Today was church and Sunday School. We were so good at Sunday school, then we were very excited to go see Kasey in the nursery. We made valentines for Mom and Dad. They're beautiful!
We went to a computer store, played with the cameras and took pictures of each other, then came home to play outside again. It was another nice day - and another day of sledding with Griffin. What a fun weekend we had!
We delivered our Valentines cards & cookies to Griffin tonight before we took a shower. We have taken showers this week instead of baths, because we're getting to be big kids! After we washed our hair, we put on our swimsuits and had fun in the tub. (Then after we got out, we went and gave daddy a big wet hug!)
We're looking forward to tomorrow. It's Valentine's Day and we're having parties at Sues and at school. YAY!
Happy Valentine's Day everyone!
Noah

Awesome weekend!

Tuesday night, Daddy brought home a gingerbread house that we helped him to decorate! It was so cool. We put on the decorations for the walls, roof and helped with a Christmas tree on the back of it. It was a surprise for Mommy.
We were so excited that the first thing we did on Wednesday was show Mommy! She loved it.
Friday night, Mommy came to pick us up from daycare and told us we were going to a party. We love parties! When we got home, Daddy told us we would be going to Dylan & Trevor's house for the party. Yay! We love going to play with them! I got all dressed up in my red party dress, and we packed our pajamas in a bag and left. Mom said we had to stop and pick up a friend of hers at a bookstore on the way - we tried to guess who it was, but had no idea it would be ANGIE! So, we got to bring her to the party with us.
On the way to the party, we told Angie what we told Mom about school. We learned about walleye today. It's a big fish that lives in lakes. Noah was very excited to tell Angie about it.
We danced, played with nerf guns, ate yummy food and had a pajama party before we got tired and went home. I almost fell asleep before we got home. I'm glad I didn't because there was a strange truck parked in our driveway. We got in and found GRANDMA and GRANDPA in our house! YAY! We were so very excited, but very tired, so we went to bed shortly after getting home. (We stayed up until 10:30. We were so tired when we fell asleep.)
Saturday morning, we didn't have skating so we just hung out with Grandma & Grandpa. After lunch, we went skating at the park with Grandma, Grandpa, Mommy and Angie. Grandpa was the first to fall, though we all fell once or twice. We skated for over an HOUR, but we really made some progress in moving our feet by ourselves. (Our favorite part was when we got to skate between 2 adults. We got to go really fast and rely on them for balance, so it was awesome.) After we skated, we got to go to Target to pick out Valentines for our friends. Valentine's Day is next week, so we have to sign our valentines and get them ready to go.
Saturday after supper, Daddy told us we could eat the gingerbread house. That was the best part! We destroyed it with Noah's hammer and ate the candy off, and even ate some of the icing, though it was pretty hard. But, it was yummy. It was so much fun! I can't wait to decorate a gingerbread house next year and then destroy it so we can eat it.
We went skating again this morning, but it was colder, so we only lasted about 45 minutes. It was fun, and we really did a good job. Noah skated a lot by himself! I got cold early but still got to skate with lots of help to get my confidence up.
After a yummy dinner, Grandma, Grandpa and Angie had to go home. Daddy told us we would have quiet time and then go to a movie. We've never been to a movie at a theater before. Noah didn't understand why we had to lay down - he wanted to go right away. But, we laid down, waited patiently and then left for the movie theater. Mommy and Daddy chose a theater that had tables and served food and drinks so we got hot cheese, nachos, chicken strips and waffle fries while we watched Tangled. I loved it. It was about a princess with long, beautiful hair.
This was our first movie in a movie theater. It wasn't stadium seating like Daddy liked, but it had comfy chairs that could twirl and tables for our food & drinks.
Noah didn't quite get the idea of the movie - he got there and said he wanted it to start now, and then wanted to leave because it didn't start when he wanted it to. Mommy took him for a walk, but came back when the movie started. It was really loud, but I got used to it. I LOVED the movie. I sat in one spot and nibbled on my food throughout the movie, but I was fascinated by it. Daddy said he loved looking at my face throughout the movie because he knew I loved it. Noah decided to have some food and drink his milk during the movie, too. He went back and forth between a chair in front of our table to Mommy's lap. I think he liked the movie, but he really wanted to see Spongebob. (The theater didn't HAVE a Spongebob movie playing today.) He had to go potty at the end, but was too interested in the movie to leave. When it was time to go, he said he wanted to stay and see another movie - but Mom and Dad said we only get to see one movie when we go to the theater. They had to clean out the theater for the next movie showing.
On the way home, Daddy told us how he was very proud of us for being quiet and good during the movie.
Mom said we're getting really smart. Whenever she uses a big word, we ask what it means. Friday, we learned what recognize means. Today, we learned a few more words. We'll keep learning lots of new things!
Have a good week.
Hannah

Pajama party Friday.

Noah loves to play in the snow. He played in the snow with Griffin when we got home from daycare on Thursday and Friday. Thursday, when Noah was getting ready for his bath, he told mom that he and Griffin are the SNOW TEAM! Shoveling and moving snow was what they did best. Friday, the girl from 2 doors down came to play with them-until Griffin lost his boot in the snow. Then, we all had to go inside.
Friday was a pajama party!
We went to daycare and school in our pajamas - all the schoolkids at daycare and preschool wore their pajamas, too! It was so cool.
Then, when we got home, our neighbors came over for a pizza party. Griffin came over in his pajamas, so we had a pajama party with him, too! We ate pizza, played cars, Barbies and Superheros all together. Griffin was going to sleep on our Spiderman couch in our room when it was bedtime, but unfortunately, he got scared when it was time to go to sleep, so he went home to bed.
Saturday, we went to skating and both of us tried to do a good job. Hannah even moved her feet, so Mom & Dad were happy. Then we went home, had pizza and spent the day playing at home. We like playing at home - it seems like it would be boring, but we don't have a lot of time to just play with all our toys that we have at our house. We're always so busy!
Daddy went snow-tubing with a friend after skating, and when he got home, we went out to eat! YAY! We went to Perkins - the place with the mirror on the ceiling. It was so yummy!
We had fun in Sunday School today. We made necklaces and got JUICE in our class. (That was our special treat after dinner.) When we went to the nursery while Mom & Dad went to church, we made picture frames for Mommy & Daddy.
After dinner, we went shopping for running shoes and skates for Mommy & Daddy. Mommy found a pair of skates to fit her, but Daddy didn't. So, when we got home, Mommy wanted us to take her to the skating rink at the park and teach her how to skate. We got cold really fast, but neither of us fell down. Mommy fell on her butt right away, though! We'll have to try again in a few days to teach her how to skate.
Noah has been very interested in superheros' alter-egos today. He was playing with Ironman, and saw party of the Ironman movie, so he was interested in how Tony Stark is Ironman. So, he asked who Spiderman and Batman were, too.
Hide and Seek is our favorite game. We got to play Hide and Seek for a little while after our baths. It's so much fun! We're getting much better at it. We used to jump out from our hiding spots when someone was close to finding us - now we just get caught occasionally when we giggle too loud in our hiding spot.
Have a good week. We've got to get to sleep so we can be up and ready for school tomorrow!
Noah & Hannah

Singing in church!

It's been a really cold week! We're looking forward to the temperatures warming up a little bit this week.
We have been wanting to go outside for a long time, though, so Daddy let us play outside for a while on Saturday (yesterday) afternoon. It was 2 degrees below zero, so we only stayed out for 15 minutes. I went down the slide which was covered in snow. Hannah wanted Daddy to dig the swings out of the snow, but he said there was too much snow and it was too hard packed to dig out. The snow was all the way up to the bottom of the swings! But, I tried to push her while standing on the snow, anyway. So, she got to swing a little bit.
We got to see Mommy play volleyball yesterday. That was fun to get to go to her tournament. We saw the Divas, ate sloppy joes and chips and got to play with Nicholas.
I tried really hard in skating yesterday, too. I moved up to the next class up, but kept going back to see Hannah in the beginner class. She wasn't trying to move her feet, so Daddy was disappointed with her. I love skating! I am learning to move my feet and get up when I fall down. I'm going to play HOCKEY! i even wanted to bring my puck yesterday, though I couldn't find it when it was time to go.
Today, we sang in church. Then, we got to go in the nursery with all our friends. We got to make bookmarks, play with trucks and all the other kids from our class. It was fun.
Daddy played volleyball this afternoon, so Hannah and I painted with Mom at home. We painted one side of my Buzz Lightyear wings (we made them out of cardboard a couple of weeks ago) while Hannah painted on watercolor paper. My wings look SOO cool now, especially when I wear my Buzz Lightyear belt, gun, binoculars and Buzz Pajamas!
Have a fun week!
Mom just told us that we don't have school tomorrow, so I'm a little bummed. But, the teacher told me I was being putzy on Friday. I told her I was sorry, so when I go back on Wednesday, I'm going try to listen and focus on what I'm doing so I get my snowpants on in time for the bus.
Noah

Staying healthy...

We are trying hard to stay healthy! Everyone around us has been sick.
Hannah had an ear infection a few weeks ago, and I've had a stuffy nose, but we're hoping to stay healthy!
Monday, Daddy was home sick and found out he had a sinus infection, so he got new medicine to make him feel better.
Tuesday, our daycare provider had to take her daughter to the hospital because she was sick. We made her cards Tuesday night and brought them Wednesday morning. We stamped on cards, wrote our names and colored on the cards, then we put them in envelopes and put stickers on them. She loved them! We made her smile, and she put her cards on her dresser. We're happy we cheered her up.
Thursday, Mommy stayed home from work because she was sick. Daddy was home because some guys came to fix our sewer pipes. Since he was home, he took Mommy to the doctor and got her medicine for her throat. When we got home from daycare, the guys were STILL working! Hannah smiled at them, but then got shy and ran away when they were nice and talked to her.
Friday, we had a new teacher at school because our regular teacher was sick. I had the sharing bag to bring a toy to share, but didn't bring anything to share because I was so tired and crabby! I was happy the week was over because I just wanted to be home.
We got to play our new Thomas computer game Friday before supper. Hannah played on our "shared" computer, and I got to play on Daddy's. I even got to wear his cool headphones while I played the game.
Saturday, Mommy took Hannah and me to skating. Hannah got her skates on and went on the ice right away, though she didn't want to walk. Mommy told her she could wear a dress to skating if she tried, so Hannah promised she'd stay standing on her skates. I told Mommy I just wanted to go HOME and didn't want to go to skating lessons. About halfway through class, I decided to put on my skates and shuffle around on the ice.
When we got home, we got to spend the rest of the day wearing costumes! I wore my Bumblebee helmet then put on my Optimus Prime costume. I even got to wear it to eat lunch and take a nap!
Today, after church we got to eat Subway (we LOVE Subway!). Then for supper, Daddy took away our chairs and put the piano bench by the table for Hannah and I to eat. We were so much higher up! It was cool. Plus, we got to sit next to each other. That was great.
I gotta run. Tonight we have to go to bed early because we've been kind of naughty the past couple of days. We don't have school tomorrow, so we just get to hang out at Sue's house all day with our friends.
Have a good week! Stay healthy!
Noah

Big Kids Now!

Of course, our big news is that we started school this week!
After a busy couple of holiday weeks, we got into a new routine: preschool.
We went to Sue's house Monday, then after we ate, we went downstairs, went potty, and when everyone else had naps, we went up to wait in the kitchen for the bus. Joey, our friend from daycare, goes to preschool too. He gets to take the bus to school.
Mom & Dad came to pick us up, since the bus wasn't ready for us on our first day. We got to the school and found our classroom and teachers. Noah got shy and wanted Mom to pick him up, but our teacher told Mom that she had to put him down because we're big kids now. He pouted about it until the bus came, and we were both excited to see Joey (and he was excited to see us!) and that cheered Noah up. We got right to work on learning the preschool routine! It's going to take some getting used to - Noah and I each had a point where we wanted Mom to pick us up and hold us. We were tired from such a busy weekend. But, we're going to try to be good at school and prove we're big enough to be here!
Our teachers are Mrs. Bodin & Mrs. Hanks. They're strict, but we're going to learn how preschool works very quickly.
After preschool, we went home to play for a while. Then, we got to go to a restaurant to celebrate Mommy's birthday. We love restaurants! We gave her some pretty jewelry that the Divas helped Daddy pick out. She loved it. Noah was so hungry, he ate TWO meals - he ate his corndog & applesauce then wanted a grilled cheese, so he ate half a grilled cheese sandwich after that.
Tuesday was Mommy's birthday. We sang happy birthday to her. Unfortunately, she had to go to work, so we only got to see her a short time after work before she went to play volleyball.
Wednesday went better at school. We got to ride the bus with Joey. Noah and I both got the sharing bag, so we got to bring something to show and tell on Friday. After school, we got to ride the bus home - and we picked up some of our schoolkid friends at their school before going back to Sue's.
We were so excited to ride the bus, when Daddy picked us up, he asked what we did, and we said "We rode the bus to school, then we rode it back to Sue's!" Dad asked Noah about riding the bus to school, and he said "Dad, we didn't ride the bus home. We rode it to Sue's." That silly Dad - asking crazy questions. I guess he wanted to hear more about school, but we were too excited about the bus!
We also started skating again on Saturday. I really don't like it - they won't help me up like they did in the fall. They said I know how to do it, so I have to try harder. I don't want to fall down, so I'm not so sure if I want to try. Daddy is disappointed, though, so maybe I'll try harder for Daddy. Noah almost got moved up to the next class, but they decided to keep him with me. He likes to skate and tried really hard to do what the teachers asked. He wants to play hockey, and daddy said I can, too, if I try hard.
I had an early morning Saturday, so I actually fell asleep at naptime. I was tired! When I got up Daddy had brought the big chair back to the living room and we got to cuddle in the big chair for a while.
We were happy to see Mommy when she got home from her volleyball tournament. We played with her, and even made a campfire. (Mom has a basket of Christmas tree branches with pinecones and lights. We turned off the living room lights, plugged in the basket behind the big chair and had a campfire.) We roasted pretend marshmallows and laid next to our campfire. It was fun.
Today, we got to go back to Sunday School. I love Sunday school! Noah didn't want to go, but once we got there, TJ & Penny were there and cheered Noah up. We got to do camp activities in big group - we made cool cross necklaces and ICE CREAM in plastic bags! I fell down and got a rug burn on my elbow when Daddy was helping me with my ice cream, so I only had a couple of bites. Noah and Mommy shook his up and he had chocolate ice cream! I didn't like his, but he ate it all! He loved it!
It was a fun day to just play at home - we have been so busy we haven't been able to play with all our Christmas toys. I played princess, Barbies, Zhu Zhu pets with Noah, and he played with his transformers, read books and dressed up in costumes.
Looking forward to another day of school tomorrow! Have a good week. Stay warm.
Hannah

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!
We were said that Mom and Dad took down the tree on Tuesday. But, Christmas is over and Mom and Dad wanted to get rid of the pine tree needles all over the floor.
We had a short week at daycare again. Lots of our friends were on vacation, so it was quiet.
Thursday, Mom & Dad picked us up early and had the truck loaded with luggage and Cheyenne. I KNEW that meant we were going to GRANDMAS! YAY!
It is always a long drive. We drove in the rain most of the way until daddy said it got really icy & slippery. Then, suddenly it got very snowy! It was scary because I couldn't see any lights for houses or cars around us. Sometimes there was a break in the wind and snow and Mom pointed out Christmas lights, but it was pretty windy. Mom & Dad made us turn off our movie because they couldn't see the lines on the road with the snow blowing so hard. Mom & Dad said we were very good when we were asked to be quiet, even though we were very hungry!
We got to Grandma & Grandpa's house and they were in the garage with Angie to take us out of our car seats right away. We were so happy to be there! We ate pizza and got to play a little while before we had to go to bed. See this picture of us with Grandma? It says "What Santa doesn't give me, Grandma will!" There are a lot of presents under the tree, and we counted a bunch for us!
Friday morning, Lauren & Ben came over to play. Lauren got a Leapster from Santa, so she let us play with it. It was pretty cool. I told her all about my Alphie. He's a robot that I got for Christmas.
After we had dinner, we got to open presents. WOW! We had a LOT OF PRESENTS! Some from Angie, Dani and Grandma & Grandpa! I got princess sheets & a comforter, Barbie clothes, new princesses, new slippers, some new clothes and lots of other things. Noah got Toy Story sheets and a comforter, Optimus Prime (he LOVES the transformers), a football, a Transformers sweatshirt, some new clothes and a lot of other things. So, we got to play with our cool toys until supper, then we had birthday cake and got BIRTHDAY gifts, too! Grandma made us run all over the house to find clues to find our sled, and I got a new Barbie princess dress, new Barbies and a computer. Noah got some books, a Toy Story Alien, a Spiderman hat, a Buzz Lightyear computer and we both got new chairs to use on the deck! We were so exhausted by the end of the day.
Saturday, we went to Great Grandma's. The roads were still pretty snow covered but the sun was shining and all the snow on the trees was pretty. There weren't very many people at Great Grandma's, compared to other days we're there when there are LOTS of adults and kids all over the place. We went to see Great Grandma Marita after dinner. She fed us rosettes and cheese. They were both pretty good! After that, we went back to Great Grandma Leona's to open presents. We got a bunch more gifts! I got some My Little Ponies and Noah got a big truck to carry his matchbox cars just to name a few...We really get spoiled at Christmas time!
After supper, Mom & Dad left us at Grandma & Grandpa's house while they went to a movie. We made sure to be very good for Grandpa. We brushed our teeth and went to bed with no stalling. Staying at Grandma & Grandpa's is nice - the room we stay in is kind of cozy, but there is a built in night-light. I turn on the closet light and it shines out just enough so Noah and I aren't scared of the dark.
We got a LOT of cool things this year. It was so fun to rip open the paper and see all the neat stuff! I can't wait until next Christmas!
Today, we had to pack up and go home. We were ready to go home. Daddy and Mommy packed up the truck and we left to go home, but the roads we left on were still pretty bumpy and snowy and we got STUCK in the snow! We couldn't get out. After we sat there a while, I asked Mommy, "Are we stuck?" She said yes, we were. I asked how were going to get out, and she told me that we were going to have to wait until it melted. Really?
I told her that would be a long time! She smiled and said Grandpa was going to come get us. Sure enough, he came to pull us out with his big truck! But, he broke his rope that he tried to pull with, so he gave Daddy and shovel and left. Fortunately, he came back soon with a new chain (after the BIG snow plow went by us and made a path next to us) and was able to pull us out of the snow. YAY! Grandpa is our hero today!
We did get to play with our computers most of the way home - we watched a movie for a little while and traded computers so I got to play with Noah's Buzz Lightyear computer while he played with my computer. I love new toys!
We're very excited because tomorrow, we have our FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL! Mom said we're going to be at the same school as Joey (from daycare). We're really looking forward to getting to go to PRESCHOOL!
Happy New Year to everyone.
Hannah