Wacky chocolate mess

How can such a small chocolate chip make such a huge mess on a one year old little body? I went upstairs to find Ava her shirt, as I had dressed her in Olivia's identical shirt but just had not realized it every time I wondered why Ava was taking it off, and on my way back downstairs I discovered my normally lily white angel, smeared with a chocolate trail from front to back.

Would you like some fried chicken with that?

My husband loves fried chicken. Today I decided I'd try to make it again and see if I could get the batter to stay on. This time I used the Japanese breadcrumbs that I normally use for crabcakes. Oh my God. The chicken turned out beautifully fantastic. Dave came home, saw his favorite dish, mouth watering, eyes fixated, and I knew right there- he's gonna wanna do the naughty tonight. For some reason he associates sex and chicken to be one in the same. Not any old chicken fills this quota though. It must be fried chicken- not necessarly made by me either. Just good old fashioned fried chicken.

As we eat dinner, Ava is drenched in her nightly ketchup dip and Olivia is requesting, "get more daddy mommy, mommy daddy..." For some reason Olivia started calling us both names, maybe to see which one of us will respond. It's been going on about a year now and I am usually called "daddymommy" most of the day.

Anyway, I look over at Dave and he gives me the smile/wink rwalll sound and says, "sex and chicken". This post might be late tonight. We will see how quickly we can get the girls to bed.

Pancake on a stick?

Today Dave went off to work and the girls and I slept in until 9am. It felt extremely wonderful to sleep past 7am. We got up, dressed, and headed downstairs to only find out that duh- we don't have any fruit or veggies. So I asked the girls if anyone wanted a pancake on a stick. Olivia replied, "No mommy. I want popagottle."

Ok so I said that her vocabulary is booming. Maybe I forgot to mention most of it is not recognizable to anyone but me. Olivia wanted a popsicle and Ava snarfed down her pancake on a stick.

Weekend Recap

Whew. 4th of July weekend was a long a weekend. We headed North to visit my parent's house and swim in their pool. The sun was a scorcher, the water was warm, and the Corona's were flowing. It was in fact the perfect weekend.

My parents had gone out of town so we brought along some friends. They have two kids, 10 & 4 months. It was nice having them around. The 10 year old spent the first entire day in the pool. 9 hours to be exact. The baby was cute too. She has begun lifting her head, rolling over, eating rice cereal, staying awake longer, you know all the cute stuff babies do. It was nice having a baby around again. Yes, it does bring up the idea of a third child for us, but it also makes me really appreciate where Olivia and Ava are in their lives. Olivia is so tall and her vocabulary is booming. Ava can dress herself (in Olivia's clothes of course), her growing vocabulary blows me away, her attention span is expanding, and her sweet calm nature is just rockin. I love these two little gals so much.

Anyway we left on Thursday and returned on Monday to a hot house of 91 degrees. We walked through the door and our hair became matted to our faces, our cheeks reddened, and our thirst for a Slurpee increased. I cranked on the AC and Dave shot to the minimart and by nightfall the house temperature had dropped to 84 degrees. Much better.

Heading Home

It's always sad to leave your favorite vacation spot but as with all good things it must come to an end sometime. Our friends left this morning to visit some places along the way home. We stayed to swim one last time, eat lunch, shower, and hopefully put the girls in the car for their nap. We are officially packed and ready to be heading home.

Suddenly Sunday....

Olivia has finally worn herself out and has suddenly fallen asleep on the couch next to Dave. She has been refusing to nap since we arrived and today we both said forget it. Just let her stay up so we can put her to bed at a reasonable time with less screaming.. Ironically today she puts herself down for her own nap.. Suddenly Sunday.

The swimming Pool

Oh the glorious swimming pool! We woke up today at 6:30 am and by 7am we were in the pool. Ava and Olivia were both wearing swimming floats that are similar to lifejackets except for the fact that they don't save lives. The floats aer designed to add a little extra bouyance to allow the child to learn to swim.

Ava watched Olivia swim around in circles yelling, "look mommy I swim in ovals" and thought she should be free to swim in the pool all by herself too. That wasn't happening so of course she wanted daddy because mean old mommy wasn't giving in. Ava loved the water. She played a lot at the stairs and could grab the wall and walk along it. She really loved to roll over on her back and float and kick her feet.

After an hour and a half we all meandered out of the pool and back into the house for some cinamon crumb cake muffins and milk.

Now we sit and wait patiently for our friends to arrive..