Great question

"Mom, where do I get a prince?" is what I was asked last night while watching Sleeping Beauty with Paige. Wow, where do you start with that question? At the age of 2 she has discovered one of the female gender's biggest mysteries. I laughed and told her to go ask her Dad.

So she went and harassed him and played Sleeping Beauty with him. She laid on my pillow and closed her eyes until he kissed her. Daddy makes a good prince.



Also, tonight she had a booger on her finger and tried to give it to me. I said to hang on to it and don't touch anything until we get a Kleenex. I picked her up and headed for the bathroom. She looks at me all innocent and asks, "Should I put it back in my nose?" Um, no. But at least she didn't touch anything with that finger.

The Princess Diaries, part 2

High heels, skinny jeans and pink toes. Wow, do I have a college girl already?

The infamous Sleeping Beauty dress-the best $9 I have spent so far on toys.
Every girl should have one.

The Princess Diaries

We have officially entered the 'Princess Infatuation' at our house and someone LOVES anything princess related. I was hoping to avoid all of it; but I am getting sucked into it. Poor Ryan. It just keeps getting more girly at our house :) I got her a costume dress; but it took weeks to get here. So I don't have a picture of our Sleeping Beauty dress, but here is Paige's Valentine present from Gramma Shelly. The top picture she is showing off the huge dangle earings that are heart shaped. I broke one already; but luckily was able to fix it. She pranced around in this for several days; pjs on underneath it.

I'm loved. . .

I didn't marry a flower guy; he doesn't randomly shower me with flowers 'just because'. He's a sweet loving guy, and I am actually very pleased he doesn't financially support the flower shops on a regular basis since I think they are a waste of money and they die in 3 days. However. . .I do squeal with delight when he does come through and I get a bouquet on my desk. He has to spend Valentine's Day apart from his girls, so I got some roses to know he will miss me. They looked great on my desk and I have been smiling ever since. I know they are a commercialized thing for Valentine's Day, but I still like 'em!

Snow

So I was very unprepared for the 9 inches of snow we got yesterday! We weren't supposed to get much of anything, and then boom at noon it started to snow. I drove my car to work, rather than the four wheel drive, and didn't have my boots with me. My dad would have kicked my butt if he knew I didn't have boots with me. So I was running around trying to clean off my car in dress shoes. Needless to say, I had very cold wet feet after picking Paige up and finally arriving home. We almost got stuck at daycare and I didn't think the trusty Buick would forge through the snow on our road home, but she did. It is good snowman snow; we'll have to see if we can make a snow creature this weekend. I am thinking a snow-woman with pink flowers in honor of Valentine's Day. . .

Valentine Bobbers

I read this really great article in a magazine that talked about taking the same picture of your child over the years--get them to wear the same thing and try to take it in the same setting. Their example was a mom had a great old vintage swimsuit that had been her mothers and she put her daughter in it each year--starting from birth and every year on her birthday they took a swimsuit picture. They had 16 years worth of pictures on one page and they looked fabulous. You saw this baby swimming in this suit through the years until she was 16 years old and standing their posing like a model. The pictures were very simple and the focus was on the daughter. I thought that was a neat idea; but I don't own a really cool piece of clothing I want to hang on to for the next 18 years. So I decided we'll do a Valentine picture with our 'bobbers' on because is fun and silly. Now that I have a few I am really happy I am doing it. I know in a few years I will have to force her to do it; but hopefully she'll humor me with it.

So gear up for Valentine's Day. . .you have a week to get your chocolates bought!

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Princess 'dress'

I had to work for a few hours this morning, so Mom & Dad came over to hang out with Paige. I was at work for like 15 minutes when I get a call. "Where is the nail polish?" Paige could only direct Mom to my room and say Mommy had it there. A little while later, another call asking to wear her Christmas dress. I said if we have to. Paige has been on a huge dress kick lately, and I should have figured she'd try to con Gramma into letting her wear it. I have been saying no and there has been considerable drama because of that decision.

I come home, expecting to find my daughter all dolled up with her beautiful dress. I find her wearing this:

This is NOT her beautiful Christmas dress but a Barbie nightgown (with matching hair ribbons)that has been hanging up in the closet because its a size 4, and we've had it for 2 years. I can't remember who bought it for us, but thank you. It has given this 2 year old a 'princess dress' that she has been wearing all day. I have been trying for hours to get a picture of her, but this was the best I can do because she is starting to run from the camera! Note multiple layers of shirts, leggings, etc. she has on to stay warm with this beautiful 'dress.'

Weekend fun

We are home from our family weekend in Bismarck. Going to Bismarck is not normally a big deal for most people; but Cowboy generally doesn't get to go anyplace where there are not cows on a weekend. Plus, it doesn' hurt him to go some place that actually has stop lights and more than 2 lanes of traffic. So we went to see our niece play basketball (which she does very well) and to spend some time with our extended family. We spent most of Saturday afternoon running around a few stores and then hanging out at a few basketball games. We finished up the day with swimming and pizza--which was the highlight of Paige's day. We had been hearing for days about how much she wanted to go swimming. I also got my new camera, but need to read up on all the features so I know what I am doing. A few shots of the girls swimming ended up really blurry. But it has a great zoom and such so I took lots of shots of the basketball game. A few turned out pretty good, some not so much.

Focused during a free throw.

Making a free throw.

Jensen, Cowboy & Peanut this morning in the pool.