Happy New Year

We rang in the new year in great fashion...in bed by 10:45pm!!! What do you expect, we knew Ella would be up at midnight to celebrate! She was up at 12:23am!! Brian, Kristin, Blake and Keyara came over to help us celebrate with Grammy. The girls had a great time playing, minimal arguing, and lots of dancing and laughing! The girls were not happy to stop and take a picture for me! They all wore their pajama's and princess dresses while they partied and played!!

Olivia got some new "diamonds" for Christmas. For those of you who don't know what her diamonds are, shame on you...her diamonds are sometimes rocks (yes, the ones from outside), but are usually colored rocks that you use to decorate inside vases or use for something classy. Not Olivia, these are her diamonds, and don't you dare lose them, take them from her or in case of her mother, not go back to Hy-Vee to find them! She left them, wasn't listening and didn't tell me she didn't have them until I had all 3 girls buckled in their carseats and was buckling myself. I told her I wasn't going back in to get them! She has reminded me everyday since that they are still at Hy-Vee. In these pictures, her "diamonds" were sticky and she was puttin them on herself. She was talking to Michael Leo in this one...probably telling him about her diamonds, or mommy's tree and he was probably telling her about cars, trucks or maybe "Manlin". Toddler talk!!

We decided to bring out a new toy for Ella, the exersaucer. She is loving it, now if she could only love sleeping as much! I am fairly certain that when we went to York for Thanksgiving with Tony's family she must have had some kind of a talk with her cousin Sydney from Wichita. Sydney is a parent proclaimed sleeping nightmare!!! Sydney sleeps about 1-2 hours and then is awake to eat, play or simply get on her parents nerves! Now Sydney is only 14 months old, but is already trying to teach the youngins her tricks...here they are in cohots trying to devise the new sleeping plan for Ella..."Got to bed really good, then around 11:30 start waking up and be in an allout crying fit by 12:30am. Your mommy and daddy are gonna try to rock you back to sleep, but let them know you aren't having any of that...you want mommy's platinum milk and you want it now. Go back to sleep with that feeding and wake up exactly 2 hours later until morning! Your mommy and daddy will be so proud of you for sleeping!!" We have tried to reason with her and tell her Sydney has no idea what she is talking about, but apparently Ella is already telling us who is boss and who is gonna run the show around here, and it ain't gonna be mommy or daddy!!