Princess G!!

My little girl is 2 and 1/2.

She has changed so much it's hard to recognize her some days.

Her personality is coming out full force and she is tough.

T is my sensitive one and G is my stubborn tough one.

She will tell you no and walk away.

Time out and punishments tend to not be a big deal ( T still screams when he is set to time out)

She bullies her big brother, with hitting, screaming, biting and tackling.

She can take pain pretty well and doesn't cry unless she really got hurt.

I have no idea where she gets it from.  People tend to laugh when they hear it and don't believe me.

Because she is so little and adorable.

Despite her little "evil" side to her.  She is princess through and through.

For the most part she is a sweet smiley little girl and definitely my little side kick.

I love my one on one time I get with her while T is at preschool.

She loves to go shopping with me and always make sure she brings her purse.

She is really into bags and is fun to see what she puts in them.

Like rocks, crayons, (fake) food from her kitchen, random paper she finds around the house.

She loves to sing and dance. 

She loves PINK!

She loves Princesses and Strawberry Shortcake.

It a great Mom to her babies.

And she loves animals.

We play beauty shop and paint our nails together.

She is my little girly girl and I eat it up.

She is super excited to be a big sister and loves to kiss my belly and give her sister hugs.

We talk all the time about how she is going to share all her stuff with her sister.

And I am trying to do my best to prepare her.

But I know she is going to be in for a big shock.

 She loves being the baby and still wants me to carry her a lot.  

So I am hoping it is not going to be too challenging when 

girl #2 comes.

I am super excited to be a mom to two girls and all the fun girl stuff we will get to do.

Preschool

T is now a big preschooler!

He is loving it! 

He has made new friends like Malaki and Frankie.

He is learning new things that excited him everyday like letters, numbers, songs, books and more.

He has definitely surprised me on what he picks up.  By the second week he had memorized the whole "Brown Bear Brown Bear" book.

He loves learning knew things and sharing what he has learned with people.

For Mama, the first day of preschool was a little more emotional than expected.

It is the first time (besides church) that he spends time on his own away from me.

It is only just the beginning.

He goes Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9-12.

It is at Shoreline Children's Center and is run by the Shoreline School District.

It is set up just like a school with 16 different classrooms, a library, a gym, a music room and a cafeteria.

So when I dropped him off the first day, it felt like my little boy had grow up.

He is changing so much it's a little hard to handle.

I am so proud of him but I tell him everyday that he needs to stop growing.

And I make him pinkie swear with me that he won't ever leave me.

Despite that he has a whole plan that when he turns 18 he is going to move out and live with

his Uncle DJ and be a doctor or a race care driver (depending on the day).

I wish I could bottle these years up and relive them when ever I want.

Vacation and a Wedding

D and I spent last week here...NYC!

We went because of these two wonderful people.  They were married in the Manhattan temple.  

We were so excited to be there for them. It was beautiful!  

Congrats my Brother and his new bride!

Since I had never been to New York City and my whole family with us:

all my brothers, sister in law and my parents,

we made it into a wonderful, busy, sightseeing vacation.

8 day, 7 nights...the kiddos stayed home with Grandma.

We did things like...

Took my first subway ride.

Probably looked like the biggest idiot trying to figure out the ticket machine and where we needed to go,

but we survived and best of all there were no muggings...yay!

We saw an amazing view from the Top of the Rock.

I only had my phone so no amazing pictures were taken...but I thought this was a funny view.

The weather was 90 degrees and almost 100% humidity and being 6 months prego, I spent as much time sitting where I could.

We paid our respects to Lady Liberty via a water taxi. 

She is amazing to see!

Checked out Wall street.  

On a Saturday this place is dead...the whole financial district was a ghost town expect for the tourists.

We also took a quick 5 hour drive with my parents and brother down to the capital.

Good to know about the east coast...it costs money to drive on the highway.  

We probably paid $40 in tolls from NYC to Washington DC.

Jeez...next time we'll take a train.

We took a wonderful bus tour of DC. 

Still a lot of walking but a least I could have a little a/c break once in a while.

First stop...

The Capital Building.

Next...World War II Memorial.

I heard this is beautiful at night.  

When we come back we'll have to check out all these sites at night.

The Washington Monument. 

Interesting..this is the tallest building in DC.

It is beautiful. 

And I love how it is the center of all the important monuments and buildings.

Then we stopped and saw this guy

Thomas Jefferson.

D and I sat and talked about the architecture.  Are those columns Ionic or Doric?

It brought me back to my art history days...loved it.

President Lincoln.

Bigger in real life.

I enjoyed how most people are real quiet around these memorials,
lets you really be able to take it in.

Ended the day at the White house.

This was way smaller than I thought. 

Who would of thought that 55,000 sq. ft. would be smaller in person.

I think the Obama's were out of town.

By the end my feet were ready to fall off.  

And we had only just begun to see DC...so we will definitely be going back again.

There are many favorite things about this trip,

but the top of the list by far was spending time with my hubby.

Life is busy and we don't have much alone time anymore.

Eight whole days was awesome!

 I am so excited for my brother Jake! I hope that he can have that in his life now.

Nothing beats a vacation with your best friend.

Amazing trip!