The Actress

Merry: "Madie, who do you love most? Kooby or dee actrwess?"

(referring to herself of course.)

Don't know if I can choose.

Also....

Merry: "I want to be on Dancing With The Stars So Bad."

Me: "Well, Merry.... I think you kind of have to be a star first to get on it."

Merry: "Uh hello? I am an actrwess!"

Me: "Oh, you're right. You should totally be on it."

Lime Green Love

Evidently I like dressing my babes in lime green.

Problem

On Saturday my mom bought a box of oreo's for me. Then when Page came over to my place during her lunch break on Tuesday she also bought me a big box of oreo's. And now of one of them is already gone. Apparently I have a problem.

Surprise

Jeez, I thought I just updated this and it's already been a month! Good grief. Anyways.....

The other day Valentine was being very quiet in her room. I very suspiciously peeked in to see what devilry she was up to. I found this:

Then this big lug joined the party.

They are so great.

Pretty Big Deals

So the past two weeks or so we've had some pretty big deals going on. Moses at 7 months is not only a crawling pro but is constantly pulling himself up to EVERYTHING. Coffee table, shelves, ottomans, couches, chairs, stairs. I'm surprised he's so stable with his proportionately small legs and cute big fat head, but he does great and stands for a long time and is already walking his way around furniture. Oy. He also has two little teeth poking out of his bottom gums! Needless to say his oral fixation and drooling has gotten even worse if you can imagine.

He also is big and stable enough to take baths with Valentine. Makes life easier and it's fuunny. They almost look like they're the same size in there together.

But really, the biggest deal of all is that Miss Valentine's hair is now long enough to wear PIGTAILS!!!! She's not great about leaving them in, but I keep doing it cause it's so darling and I've been waiting for 2 1/2 years for this. The first time I put pigtails in her hair I exclaimed, "You look like a little girl!!!!" Pretty big deal.

The picture below is my new favorite picture of Valentine. Hands down.
Oh yeah, and Pagie-Pooh got married!!!!

Only in McLean

So, Sarah, Maria and I had this game going out at school called, "Only in Rexburg." Pretty self-explanatory- it was a funny list of things we encountered while there that really would only happen in Rexburg. I.E.- A man robbing a bank and getting away- ON FOOT. Or, the headline story of the local news being about a singing mailman. Or, getting chastised by a local lady for sun-bathing in a field because it was across the street from a church. Or, the whole town completely shutting down on Sundays and at 9:00 p.m. all the other days (serisouly- you couldn't go to a drive-thru at 10). Or the kid at Blockbuster checking me out saying "Oh, this is rated R" me- "Oh, do you want to see my I.D.?" kid- "No, it's just.... it's rated R- you shouldn't watch this." You get the picture.

Anyways.

I was at the Giant grocery store here in McLean, VA yesterday where there is a sign up offering Valet Parking to customers. Seriously? What nutter came up with that idea? Who gets/wants/needs VALET parking at a GROCERY store? It really just baffles me- and I always feel so bad for those poor useless guys sitting at their dumb booth by their dumb sign for something dumb that nobody is going to use. This sign has been there for awhile, yet EVERY time I see it all I can think is: "Only in McLean."

News

Moses has just hit 6 months and is officially crawling! He's been working on it for weeks, and still isn't great, but he's doing it and he's gotten pretty good at meandering his way around the apartment. He really likes to kind of.... flip around more than actually crawl- he'll go from sitting to all fours and twist back to sitting. It makes me laugh. He's huge and happy and cute.

In other news, my darling Valentine that I love so much has somehow traded places with an evil twin I didn't know about. Evil is strong...... extremely very super naughty secret twin. Half of the time she is lovely and cute and fun and even sweet. The other half..... so terrible. I don't know how to handle it. Sometimes she's just downright nasty. They weren't lying when they labeled it "Terrible Twos." Good thing she's so pretty. Otherwise there are times that I might toss her out. She apparently has a pushing problem in Nursery and LAUGHS when her victim cries. She shrieks and hits when she doesn't get exactly her way (sounds typical but it's horrible). She SLAMS her door when she's mad (which is a lot). She looks at me after I've told her not to do something and with a very deliberate look does it repeatedly- staring at me the whole time. She throws her ipod. *Sigh* Don't even get me started on potty training. We've given up on it for now. Valentine has always been a bit..... sassy. But lately..... yikes bikes. I feel like all I do is yell and tell Valentine "NO!" Probably not helping. I've been thinking if I change my parenting tactics peut-etre I'll see some better results. She's also a toddler which tends to equal naughty for all children, so I need to not take it as a personal slight that my daughter is acting nasty. Jeez, can't wait for teenagers!

Oh and p.s. they both have been coughing NON-STOP FOR WEEKS. Oy-vay.