At It Again

I love Polyvore but it makes me want to run out and spend all my money on clothes. Somehow I don't think there is $535 in my clothing budget for boots this fall. Bummer :)

fall by mmhemsley featuring tweed coat

Yeah, But Can They Knit?

Ellie: Mom, how did our bodies get made?
Me: Heavenly Father and Jesus made them for us. They are really smart.
Ellie: Can they knit?

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Rob: Ellie, what are those bumps on your tongue?
Ellie: Taste butts. They are for tasting food, not dirty stuff that fell on the ground.

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Ellie: Mom, how do our bodies stay together?

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Vintage Ellie @ age 2 1/2
After just putting Ellie to bed, Rob and I are in our bedroom watching a funny movie, I laugh out loud...
Ellie (at the top of her lungs): THAT'S NOT FUNNY!!

Facts and Quirks

piper
head 18
length 28
weight 20

toothbrushes
polished rocks
playing in the water
blinky game
cheese
bananas
avocados
m&ms
books
saying "What's that?"
baby dolls

dancing

signing 'more' and 'nurse'

walking backwards towards something and then sitting on it (stairs, rocks, people, you name it)

ellie
height 42
weight 38

stuffed animal friends
drawing
racing
snuggling
using her imagination
books
making friends
swimming
hunting with daddy

hiking

painting

We Love Boise!

Rob had a conference in Boise this week so the girls and I tagged along. We went to the zoo after we dropped Rob off in the morning and it was awesome. The weather was great and the girls loved all the animals. I took the girls to Cabelas to see the fish too. Rob's conference provided tickets for everyone to a Boise Riverhawks game. I love baseball. I always have and it was fun to go to a game. The girls thought it was cool for about ten minutes and they lasted about another ten minutes after that because I gave them both suckers but we definitely didn't last for the whole game. It was fun though. And of course we had to try out the swimming pool at the hotel. The Hampton Inn downtown has the best pool ever. It's on the 7th floor and there is a regular pool, a hot tub, and an awesome shallow kid's pool with a little slide, sprayers and a little waterfall. My girls loved it. 

Checking out the fish at Cabelas

Yummy sucker at the ball game

The baseball game

Piper saying, "Give me back my sucker, woman!"

Enjoying the pool

Climbing the slide

Ellie's favorite kimodo dragon

Climbing the lion

Wanting to climb the lion

A super nice zoo worker who took time to talk to Ellie about elephants

Checking out the giraffes

More giraffes

My favorite girls

Checking out the crane

Imagine That

Ellie has been talking a lot about her imaginary friends lately. I can tell living in the middle of nowhere is taking its toll on her. There are no neighbor kids or cousins close by to play with regularly so she has had to make do. She is so funny. Don't get me wrong, she gets to play with her cousins quite a bit, just not every day like she did before we moved out here.
Here's a list of the latest friends she "plays" with:

Sunflower the dog
Diamond and Polka Dot the horses
Brownie the bat
Sparkle the unicorn
Popcorn the lion
Pander, Oatmeal, Big Bear, Baby Bear, and Dixie the bears
Jezzie the dog
Mr. Frerensen (Fredrickson), Kevin and her babies, Russell, and Doug from the movie Up

Rainbow the horse