What time are you?

I saw this in a post on my brother-in-law's blog, and thought I would take the quiz. I am definately what it says, I am an afternoon person, and nowhere near a morning person.

Bob (the tomato)

Right before dinner, I asked Lena what she wanted to eat. She said "Leaves", which is her word for salad. So at dinner, I had a salad and shared some with her. She kept pointing to my salad, so I thought she wanted more "leaves", to which I gave her some. She kept telling me that wasn't what she wanted. Finally, she pointed at my salad and said, "I need Bob." I figured out pretty quickly she meant the tomatoes. She loves to watch Veggie Tales, and for those that aren't familiar with Veggie Tales, the tomato's name is Bob. So, we went to the store after dinner, and I picked up a thing of tomatoes, and Lena goes, "No squishy Bobs." She is such a funny girl, and she keeps us laughing.

Reading to sleep

Yesterday afternoon, I put Lena down for a nap and gave her a few books to look at before going to sleep. I went in to check on her later on and this is what I found. She read herself to sleep.

Valentines Day Pictures

I know, Valentines Day was last week, but I wasn't able to make my computer work to post pictures till today. So, here are some pictures I took of Lena outside of the church building on Valentines Day. My favorite is the middle picture.

Park #1

A couple of weeks ago, I took Lena to a couple of parks near our house, but wasn't able to make my computer work to post pictures till now. Finally!


Lena tried to pick up all the rocks on the way to the slide, because she thought they were in her way. I informed her she didn't need to "clean" the playground. She tried the little slide, and thought it was too little, and then moved on to the big tunnel slide. She absolutely loved going across the bridge, and up to the slide, down and then all over again. We stayed there over an hour. She loves the park.

Park #2

There was a neat playhouse at this park that you could climb in. Lena loved going up and down the stairs and to the lookout at the top. She also loved the swings, sand, and bouncy thing.

Posting pictures

I took Lena to the neighborhood park yesterday, and she loved it. We were there for over an hour. She screamed when I took her to the car. I think I'm going to make this a regular thing. Tomorrow I think I may take her to another nearby park that is a little bigger. I took pictures yesterday at the park, but for some reason, I'm not able to post them on my blog. I'll take more pictures tomorrow at the other park, and then maybe I can post them all together tomorrow (if it's working!) Sometime, I want to take her to the zoo, but James wants to go with us, since it would be Lena's first time at the zoo. I may even try bowling with her sometime this summer. Is there a water park that is around town?

Belated Christmas Pics

Ok, it's over a month behind, but I finally downloaded all my pics from my camera, and have posted a few from December.

The first several pictures are from Christmas. We went to Midland, Tx for Christmas with my side of the family. We started Christmas morning with Lena opening her Christmas presents. She got a tu tu that I made for her, but she wasn't so sure about it. She also got a potty time book, but quickly cast that aside. The one's she was most excited about were her alphabet board and the Hermie Christmas DVD. On the way to Midland, she kept saying she wanted to "Watch Hermie Christmas". I told her to wait and she might get to watch it. When she opened the present with the DVD in it, she got all excited and said, "Hermie Christmas! Yeah, you really did it!"

Later Christmas morning, we opened presents with the rest of the family. There is a picture of my family to show how crazy it is at Christmas with my side of the family, but the picture doesn't show my whole family.

All in all, we had a great time at Christmas. Soon I will post how Christmas/New Years was with James' side of the family.

Looking at her presents on Christmas morning.

Lena seems to really like her Alphabet Board.

"Hermie Christmas! Yeah, you really did it!"

This is what Christmas looks like on my side of the family. And this isn't the whole family!

A week before Christmas, Lena got her first shiner at preschool.

The Song That Never Ends

Okay, I'm sure you all have heard of "The song that never ends". And we all know how annoying that song is because it never stops. Well, at our house, Lena likes to sing "The neverending ABC's". She'll sing the alphabet song, and when she gets to the end she sings,

"Now I know my ABCDEFG....." and proceeds to sing the alphabet all over again.

This is the alphabet that never ends. It's not annoying at all. It's rather cute. She'll only go through it twice.

We also have the star that never stops twinkling. And if Lena could have it her way, the wheels on the bus would just keep rolling all day long. I'm sure that bus driver is quite underpaid.

Anyways, we are having fun with our super cute, smart, sweet 2 year old.

A First

James took Lena to the doctor this morning, only to find out that she has a double ear infection. This is the first time for her to have an ear infection, and she gets it in both ears. Our day started out at 6:00 am with Lena waking up crying. I held her for a bit. When she decided at 6:03 to put herself back to bed, I wondered if something was wrong, gave her some tylenol (she complained of pain yesterday), and let her climb back in her bed, and then I went back to bed. At 7:30 am, she woke up crying again, and just wanted to be held. For the next 30 min., she went in and out of crying and holding her ears. She finally poked at her ear and said, "Owie" and cried. Then I knew it had to be an ear infection--I had no idea it was going to be both ears. I HAD to be at work today--it was the first day back to school, and I had a new student starting today. So, James took her to the doctor, got her antibiotic, and took care of her till I got home, and then he went into work. I have such a wonderful husband who is also a wonderful Daddy. He also went to the store for me on the way home from work. He sure is one in a million. He's so good to Lena and I!

Posting

Ok, I do have a lot of pictures to post, and I will post them soon. Things have been really busy. We were gone for the last couple of weeks during Christmas and New Years, and just got home nearly a week ago. School is starting back tomorrow, and I don't even have my lessons planned for this week! My camera battery died last week, and I just haven't had the time to charge the battery so that I can download pictures to post. I'll get to it soon, maybe this weekend. I just wanted it known that we are still here, just a little busy.

Ketchup

According to Lena, ketchup is great as face paint and for styling your hair. She calls it "chechup."

Contests!

Check out the contests that are going on at 5 Minutes for Mom. Lots of neat prizes. Just click on the button on the right (on my blog) that says Christmas Giveaway, that is red and white with a package on it. It will link you to 5 Minutes for Mom. My favorite is the Born Free bottles that they are giving away. Have fun looking!