This is rediculous.....

This has been the way Abby and Brooklynn's room has been looking for the past few months, it is rediculous!! We get it all cleaned up and put away and 2 minutes later this is the way it looks!! Needless to say they are spoiled rotten and have too many toys!! We are banning Christmas presents unless they get rid of a whole bunch of stuff....that is the goal for this weekend, to weed through and get rid of stuff they don't play with. I hope Goodwill needs toys.....

A new pet

Abby has wanted a pet for awhile, so when she got some money for her birthday she wanted to use it to buy one. While she was hoping to get a kitten, she settled for a fish. (Tim is not an animal lover) She named it Goldie. I'm sure it's the only gold fish with that name....ha. Anyway, she is very proud of it and makes sure she feeds it every morning before school. We've already warned her that fish don't usually have a very long life expectancy!! But she is very happy to have a pet now!!

Daddy the fireman

This week is fire safety week. The fire department goes to local schools teaching kids about what to do in case of a fire. Tim made sure that he helped with that this year and went to both Abby and Brooklynn's schools. They think it's great that daddy comes to their school. Tonight they had an open house at one of the fire stations, so we went for awhile to see the trucks and get popcorn!!


Eating popcorn and watching Daddy and his friends cut a car apart with the jaws of life. Olivia was actually the most interested in this and when they were done she asked if they were going to put it back together now....it was funny.


I don't know if the girls have ever really seen Tim in his bunkers because they usually only wear them on a call. Atleast Olivia thought it was strange and kept looking at him like he was crazy wearing that. She asked me as we were leaving "Is Daddy wearing a costume momma?" She couldn't figure it out. Anyway, it was good for them to see a little bit of what daddy does when he runs out of the house when his pager goes off. (Abby and Brooklynn are holding rulers and pencils up by their face, incase you were wondering!)

Happy Birthday Abby!

Today is Abby's birthday, she turned 6 years old today!! We celebrated her and Jessica's birthday this past Sunday. They shared a cake and Abby thought it was great. Abby loves that Aunt Jessica's birthday is the day before hers. She loves celebrating with her every year. Today she took a birthday treat to school for her class and then wanted to go out for pizza after school. She is getting so big and learning so much!!

Potty Training???

We've started to try and potty train Olivia! But as you can see from the above picture, she is not very interested. She thinks her big girl undies look good as a hat (if you're reading this Kristin, I can totally relate!) She gets a sticker on her "potty chart" everytime she uses the potty, sadly she only has one sticker!! I think it will be a long road ahead!

Wedding

Tim's sister, Rachael, got married last night. Brooklynn and Abby were flower girls in the wedding. They did a great job!! Brooklynn walked down the aisle and sat by me and then asked if she could do it again! Tim's mom made the dresses so Olivia got one also. The wedding was very nice and the girls think it's fun to have another uncle!

Brooklynn starts Preschool

Brooklynn and Joanna



Today was Brooklynn's first day of Preschool. I had to work, so I didn't get to bring her. Tim had to get both Abby and Brooklynn ready this morning and bring them both to school. He also picked up another little girl from Brooklynn's class and brought her also(she also goes to our church). He did all this and took pictures!! I'm impressed!! (We won't mention that he was late picking them up from school!) There should be some kind of "dad of the year" award for getting all that done! Anyway, Brooklynn had a great time at school, she didn't even say goodbye to daddy. When I told her she doesn't have school tomorrow, she asked me if I was kidding...she's a funny girl. She's very excited to go back on Wednesday.

Computer Baby!!

Olivia is so cute!! Yesterday Abby and Brooklynn were playing webkinz on the computer and as soon as they were done Olivia jumped up on the couch to have her turn. She thought she was big stuff playing on the computer by herself!!