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Inner workings of a very soon to be three-year-old.

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At the hardware store looking at the nuts to fix the stroller.
I find the isle with the nuts i said I was looking for.
Ainsley says, “Mom, please don’t buy these nuts. I don’t think I will like them.”

Leaving the store about to walk home, it starts to rain.
I say “oh no, we are going to get all wet. I might have t call Daddy to pick us up.”
Ainsely “ Mom, Dad cannot pick you up! You are too big! Daddy can only pick me up.”

On the walk home she hops out of the stroller while we are on a busy street.
Me “Ainsley, get back in the stroller. We are on a busy street!”
Ainsley “ No we are not on a busy street Mom.”
Me “Yes we are Ainse, see all the cars.”
Ainsley “Yes, THEY are on the street, but WE are on the SIDEWALK!”

Lesson of the day  — Choose my words very carefully.

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Nothing but love…

We’ve had quite a bit of rain the past few weeks. It has forced us to be creative while forced inside and also to appreciate the lovely sun when it shines.

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Adjusting to life at the beach…

There are many things we have enjoyed about living in Southern California.

We enjoy the sunshine and beach year round.

We have great parks, storytimes and an awesome zoo.

The hardest part has been missing living near family and enjoying the many friendships we shared in San Jose.

New friends is something we’ve been praying for over the past year and I’m so happy and blessed that God has brought some fun friends into ourlives during this new year.

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Rain rain go away… finally the sun comes out so we can play!!

Daddy the kittypeek a boo kitty

Storytime @ SB library. We made Cats. Ainsley named hers “Belle” Emmie named hers “Daddy”

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it was a beautiful afternoon at the Beach!

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Special treat for good listeners

belly girl special treat peanutbutter playdough

we made edible peanutbuttter playdough too!

Some of our favorite things

The girls have become quite the funny ladies lately. These are some of their favorite things.

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We love Christmas!! Every night we ask if it will be Christmas again when we wake-up.

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We love to run at Dog Beach.

piano

Emmie got a piano from Santa. She loves to play Mary had a little Lamb and have everyone sing-a-long.

Scooter obsession

Ainsley is a dare devil on her scooter from Granddad. She loves to ride it in the Park and through the house. She's a pro at a one foot hop.

snuggle up

Emmie is obsessed with wearing her bathing suit. She also loves hats and glasses. My little fashionista.

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Emmie is very attached to her paci still. I think the binky fairy will be making a trip to our house shortly.

cleaning up

We love to wash our hands and end up without our clothes cause they "were a little bit wet Mom." (log into flickr to see this pic- "friends/family" only)

messy fun

We like to paint and make hand-prints.

making cookies

Helping make cookies and licking the spoon in a favorite pastime.

Friday Fun

It was a relaxing day. We first started out with some toe painting.

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which turned into funny faces

these are our new “say cheese for the camera” smiles

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It was time to get outta the house so Mom strapped on her new running shoes and we headed uphill to the park.

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We enjoyed our favorite activity- The swings!!

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Ainsley informed me her hat was bothering her.

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I needed to fix it and apparently this

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is fixed.

then it was onto lunch

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we brought the usual apple, carrots, cereal and our latest obsession, Edamame.

Emmie decided she needed to fit in some yoga after the long stroller ride home

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then it was upstairs for a prolonged savasana in the crib.


A day in the life…

In sunny San Diego the days pass by pretty quickly. I better start documenting these times before i blink and they’re over.

We decided to take a trip  to our usual morning spots. First the library then to our local park on the coast. We were a little detoured with a a nature ride.  We checked out the snails. Raced the cars. and took in a little sun.

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After the library we arrived at our Favorite park and ate our lunch among the sunshine the waves and friends.

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Voting Day

Emmie and Ainsie have had something important on their minds all day…. vote!!!

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Still Alive- Halloween Update

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Ahhh.. Quadrupletes

Wow.. is anyone still out there? Anyways, lets forget that there’s no update for the last 11! months and move forward.

The girls have been down with a cold the last week or so which made for an uneventful Halloween. Unfortunately we missed out on all the parties but did manage to wander over to a few neighbors houses. The girls were very curious as to why they were being urged to grab candy from a bowl but once the concept caught on they were all for it. I was surprised that their favorite part of the night was passing out candy to the trick-or-treaters. Ainsley loved putting each piece in their bags and as the kids left both girls would hold their little arms out with a candy, yelling ” Mo.. Mooo  Moore..” It was too cute!

Coralling the Chaos

My baby girls are nine months old now. I feel like every month that goes by I say, “This is definitely my favorite age”. I wonder if there will be a point in which I’ll wish they were still a previous age over the current one, but at this point they are learning and doing new things everyday. It’s so fun to learn more about them and watch as they become more active, more expressive, more opinionated and just so very different. The best thing has been watching them play together. Wherever Emmie goes, Ainsley is not far behind. Whatever Ainsley has Emmie is sure to be interested in it. Emmie is far more adventurous and active, seeking to destroy anything in her path. Ainsley is more focused and aware of those around her. She likes to focus on one object and examine how it works. Emmie is far to busy for such things.

During the first few weeks after the girls began crawling, it was relatively easy to build a barricade that kept them in and out of places. However, now they are much to strong and smart to be fooled by such things, they either go through it or over it, so we invested in the Ultimate Baby Jail. So far it has been great. It allows them freedom to roam around, make a mess, and I don’t have to worry if they are into something they shouldn’t be or if they’re attempting to climb into the fireplace. Now if only I could keep them from pulling each other’s hair and using the other as a stepping stool.

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