Our Little Entrepreneur

 

On Saturday, as Sela was cleaning up her room she came across a bunch of Hello Kitty rings she had left over from her birthday party. She got a piece of paper and asked me to help her "make a sign to sell them."

so She got paper and wrote out H (Upper case or lower case H?
E (uppercase or lower case E?...
L

Her sign said Hello Kitty Rings

Then she asked me to put a price of $2.00 each. I asked her is she meant 25 cents each. She said confidently, "No I want to sell them for $2.00 each."

"Who are you going to sell them to?", I asked.

"Little girls from around our neighborhood." (there are very few...)

So she set up shop, and waited patiently.

Zach came around with 50 cents Mark had given him to go buy a ring, and she happily lowered the price to sell one.
Then she sold Mark one for $.50, and me one for $.50. Then Mark asked if he could buy one more, and she said, "no. One is enough for you. I need them for the other little girls who are going to come by."

A bit later I asked if I could buy her inventory for $2.00 - and again - she said no. She would rather close up shop and keep her inventory for a different day!

I think I see a future in high end sales...

I Can Smell the Future!

Sela's imagination has been in overdrive lately, and she is keeping us laughing.

She told Zach and I the other day, "I am a witch you know. I can smell the future."
To which we broke out into hysterical laughter... maybe you had to be there... but Zach and I were impressed with her originality.

Last night I asked he who knew she was a witch.
"Just you guys, and my best friend Emily, and Miss Jennifer (her preschool teacher)."
"You told Miss Jennifer you were a witch?"
"MOM! She already knowed. She's a witch too!"

This comes on the heels of her telling Emily that Dr. Seuss is both her grandpa AND her doctor!

Sweet Sleeping Babe

All is Calm...
All is Bright...

My little Ci. She has had a few tough weeks. First she got that nasty cough,and finally she got better... but she got used to being around me full time again, and is having separation anxiety every time I drop her to pre-school this week. I HATE leaving her in tears. I'm hoping she will be ready to go back after the holidays.

I had to snap off this picture. She looked so peaceful!

A Sweet Moment

 

 

It seems like I have been saying , "zach don't push your sister, Sela don't hit your brother so much lately." I was so happy to be able to capture this sweet moment between the kids the other day while they were waiting to go into a bounce house.
Yah! For sibling love!!

My little cowgirl

Today we took the kids to Apple Hill in Placerville. It is a group of several apple farms that have banded together to encourage tourism. At the first stop Sela spotted a cutout of a cow.
She said to me, "Mama. I like cows very much."
Me, "Really? Why do you like cows, Ci?"
Ci, "Because I like cow milk!"
At this moment I was quite proud of my smart little 3 year old.
Then she said, "I like cow juice too!"
Me, "Like apple juice?"
Ci, "Yeah, cow apple juice is delicious!"
Me, "Oh sweetie - I'm glad you like cows... but they don't make juice, just milk.
Ci, "And chocolate milk!"
Me, "close enough!"

They had ponies and horses to ride at one of the farms - here is a pic of Sela riding one.

On the way back to the car she said, "Mama. I liked that beautiful pony. Her a really big pony that I rode!"
I'll post more pictures tomorrow.

I was scared-ed!

I have to write these little conversations down, because I know I will forget them, and when the kids get older they will laugh!

We went out to eat sandwiches for lunch, and Zach dropped his napkin. He politely asked for a new one, and Mark got him one.
As we are leaving, I ask Zach to go pick up the napkin he dropped on the floor. I have this thing about not trashing a restaurant when we go there and I am trying to teach them to be responsible. There were some people sitting right there, and someone that worked there was talking to him, and he said to me, I'll get it. And I said, "No thanks, He dropped it, he can pick it up."
So Zach starts getting all wiggy. (Pulling away from me and tripping)
I ask him what's wrong and he say, "I got scared-ed." He always puts that extra "ed" on scared for some reason.
So I pick it up and we get them out to the car.... and ask what that was all about... and he just says I was scared-ed. (To which Mark makes a snarky comment that only I could hear about napkins being super scary.) I guess he got nervous when the guy who worked there started paying attention to what we were doing.

Then Sela chimes in.... complete with her expressive hand gestures.
"I'm not scared... of dragons or spiders, or loud fireworks. I'm not scared.... I'm a big girl."

Zach's reply? "Ohhhh! Sela! You are too scared of those things!"

Sela, "no - I not scared! I a big girl!"

Yep... that Sela - she pretty much put a little pink skirt on her big brother with her comments.

Sela's Princess Birthday Party

We had Sela's 3rd Birthday Party - A Princess Party. I tried to keep it a little lower key than previous birthday parties we have had for the Z and C. It was raining when we woke up - so all plans to have the party inthe backyard went out the window.

We had a Sparkle Station where we painted the girls nails (quick dry nail polish), I also bought Sparkle spray for their hair, and lotion with sparkles in it for their hair, and of course lip gloss.

We played freeze dance (princess music is too slow - find more upbeat music for this), and I also played a little game of what is missing with Princess items (tiara, wand, necklace, etc.) The girls were all three (except one 5 year old) - so the games were not really important.

Pink mini cupcakes with sprinkles and ice cream.
And cute little purses for their favor bags.

We had the boys construct a castle out of tubes and other reuse stuff while we were doing the girly stuff with the girls - and that worked out well.

More pictures to come - I didn't take many - but awesome Dusti and Cheryl did!

The Princess Bed

So Ci is in her Princess Bed now... and we've had to demote her to her crib a few times because she has had behavior unbecoming for a Princess (getting out of bed many many times, because she can.)
All in all the transition is going pretty smoothly, and she LOVES her bed! It is so pretty... and you just have to pretend the rail isn't on it when you are looking at it!

Sela's Giggly Ways

Last month we took the kids to the Discover Museum and let them play. Sela was mezmorized by the squirrel puppet on my hand, and "fed it acorns" for quite a long time. Everytime the acorn disappeared into the puppets mouth she would squeal and laugh. She is so very happy.

It was fun to make a LO... it has been a while...
Not loving the colors of the LO... but I had to match her outfit.

Credits:
Paper:DY Bungalow recolored, LBA color matters recolored, Jen Caputo Template, CK Constitution font.

"Doesn't she have two kids?"

You may or may not have noticed that I haven't been doing many layouts of my little girl recently. Every time I would try to journal about her, my eyes would literally well up with tears - because we're just having a "moment together" these days. I can't find the words to describe it - and I know I have gone through this with Zachie at times too... where my love feels so deep that I can't appropriately capture my feelings on paper.
My Sela girl will just make up a song and sing to herself and dance in the shopping cart to the background music at the grocery store... she is just too sweet for words at the moment - and my journaling doesn't do her justice... but she is too dang cute not to scrap!

Credits: Template - Jen Caputo
Papers - Jen Wilson Comfy Jammies
Fonts: Impact, Kayleigh and Century Gothic.

Magically Delicious!

Had to do a layout on Sela's current love of anything pink. She is about the most beautiful whirling dervish of energy. She is equal parts of sweetness and "rough and tough". I hope these two elements never disappear, because she is simply perfect! (even it she tires me out to the core each and every day!)

Layout Credits:
Template - Kissed Studio 009 Papers: Jessica Sprague Strawberry Lemonade Fonts: Fine Hand, Edwardian Script and century gothic. Photo altered with Photoblast Antique Action

Strawberries and Creme

I'm getting tired of this dreary gray weather, so I was looking at my summer photos and wanted to share a very funny video of my daughter eating strawberries with whipped creme.... but I have tried 4 times now and can't get it to load on my page... so the best I can offer is this link tothe upload... if you know what I'm doing wrong - please let me know!

My LOAD layout is from pictures I extracted from this video. Here is my layout too.

Oh... and I've been tagged by my local digi scrapping friend Tezra - and promise to post 7 random things about me tomorrow...
ohhh the suspense of it all!

2 more for the weekend

Here are my weekend layouts...

What would I have done if it weren't for Liv? Her stuff is front and center in my work this weekend. First the awesome Shutter plopper that helped me out when my creativity blew out the window with the storm. If you don't already know - I'm fiercely competitive - so I WILL get a LO done each week if there is a possible prize involved.
The beautiful paper in the LO of Sela and her sweater also came from Liv. The other stuff (frame and ribbon) came from the 12 days of Whimsical Wonderland (Flergs and Franziska) . I also used an acid wash photo action on the picture. Still not in love with this LO... so it will sit in my Work in Progrss file until I love it.

Sela and the Water

In honor of all the crazy rain here -I thought I would pull a warm weather picture and lay it out. My daughter loves the water - if I had let her she probably would have been out in a raincoat today playing in the storm.
Last summer I heard countless times... "Mama we go to the water park? and "I wanna play in the pimmin(swimmin) pool!

Started My December Pages

I have been in a creative funk... as you can see from my blog. I decided to finish a quick page compliments of Ali Edwards, via Jessica Sprague.

Sela and the Christmas Tree. She wanted to be right in there with Zach and I. So... while we were busily putting the ornaments on the tree - she was flinging them out of the boxes as fast as she could. We only lost a few, none that were incredibly sentimental and nobody required any bandaids.

She is sticking to wanting a "Hello Kitty computer" from Santa. Luckily I was FINALLY able to find a toy Hello Kitty computer for Santa to order for her. (I'm certainly not going to let her ask Santa real one - $2995.00 - Who buys these??!)