Enjoyable Photos

Some of these photos are embarrassing. Like the one where Penny is watching the television. I could just see that picture showing up in some parents magazine with the title "Too young for television" or "What kind of mother are you." I assure you that Penny does not watch t.v. She is much too active to bother with that business. Also, Nate offered to photoshop Campbell's room so it looks clean. I want to keep it real here on the Troublemakers so it is what it is.

I walked in on Campbell taking a 5 minute break.
I left the room to grab my phone and when I returned I found Penny in this relaxed position.
Carly, this reminds me of the slide photo you have of Farrah. Maybe I should do her hair like this for church.

Whenever Campbell is caught napping it is a pretty big deal to begin with. She reminds me of a pet in this pic. All snuggled up at the bottom of the bed. She made sure to place her stuffed animal entourage next to Nate. That a girl.
Campbell calls the double stroller the double-you stroller.
I met some other mom's in our stake. This next picture was taken on one of our play dates at the L.A. Arboretum. They had a bunch of kid size tunnels. Campbell loved running through all of them. Not the best picture but she was running at the time.
See you in December.

Campbell & Penny

I'm due for an update. I figured if I held out long enough maybe we would get some visitors. It worked(right Nikki?). The girls are growing so fast. Here are just a few things.

Nate and I have noticed that Campbell is really into shoes and accessories. She is still playing for the skins team but she will add a hat or her recent favorite...gloves. She is really attached to gloves lately. She calls them her pinks(because they are pink). I tried to get her to take them off before we went into church but she put up a big fight. She was willing to let pooh bear sit in the car but refused to remove the gloves. The nursery leaders said she wore them the whole time. She even managed to work with her play-doh while wearing them. Gross. Speaking of nursery. The leaders really love Campbell. Apparently they think she is hilarious. She cracks me up but it is interesting to hear it from someone else. Campbell likes to look at dinosaurs on the computer. This means I google dinosaurs and pull up the images. I just let her look at them and hope she gets bored. She will look at them for at least 10 minutes. She is loving her Mickey Mouse playhouse dvd. She particularly likes Goofy and Pete. She brings her little drawing pad over to me and makes me draw Goofy or Pete. Nate thought I was drawing an elephant.

Sometimes discipline is required and Campbell spends a few minutes in her room. This morning I had to give her a time out and when I set her free she said "Campbell is very sad" over and over again.
She can be very encouraging at times. I often hear a "good job momma" coming from her. This usually happens when I do something really hard like pop popcorn in the microwave. It always makes my day when I hear it coming from her sweet voice.

Penny is enjoying her new freedom of crawling. She is all over the place. She LOVES Campbell and usually tries to keep up with her big sister. Campbell has learned the hard way not to lay on the ground when Penny is around. Penny loves hair and takes any opportunity to get a fist full of it. Her favorite toy at the moment is any kind of remote control. She is starting to get really possessive of her toys. She is such a sweet girl but she comes unglued if you mess with her stuff. One tricky thing about Penny crawling is that I have caught Campbell trying to ride her like a horse. There was only one time when I made it to the crime scene too late. Luckily Penny's little back was not injured. Oh the joys! We love our little girls.

I was going to add photos to this post but I don't know where they are on the computer. I will have to wait for Nate.

Feel Good Story Of The Summer

Nate's art was chosen for the First Annual Gnomon Student Show. It is this Saturday. I am so excited for him. He has worked so hard. Just thought I would announce this exciting news. Hopefully I can attend. I'm not sure how they feel about children. Even if they are adorable.

Penny & Campbell

Here are some more fun things about the girls.

Campbell is constantly saying "look at me Penny" Ahhh, I just love it. Penny is constantly following her big Sis around the room(with her eyes)

Campbell has turned the tables on me. Instead of her saying animal sounds she makes me say them. My sound for elephant is different every time. I can't for the life of me nail that one down.

Penny is rolling and excersaucing. She is also testing out the volume in her voice. It is really cute but Nate and I wonder if the neighbors are trying to figure out if we are keeping a wild animal in our apartment. She is particularly loud around 7am. Maybe she is trying to compete with the crows.

Campbell calls the elevator the alligator. She saw a jellyfish at the aquarium and asks me to draw one for her all the time. She pronounces it Joly Siss.

Kind of a random post. Sorry there are no pictures. Camera is in the car.

You Can Reach Her on Her Cell

Campbell talks on her cell phone maybe once a month. If I'm in the right place at the right time I get to hear her conversations. Most of the time she just says "yes, yes, yes" and then bah-bye. Yesterday she had a few more things to add.

Yes, Yes, Monsners, Yes, Yes, Spiders, Yes, Bah-bye

Entertaining.

The Girls

I wanted to jot down a few things about our girls.

What I love about Campbell
Campbell has really turned up the cute button these days. She is melting our hearts left and right. Here are a few of my favorite words in her vocab.
-Squirrel (squwol)
-Movie (oobie)
-Birdie (buwdie)
-Broken (brokwen)
-Dinosaurs (dinsars)
-Spiders (spider)
-Fireworks (spiderworks)
-Monsters (monsners)

Favorite toy at the moment is a Huggies box and a rolled up pair of sox. This morning the box was on her bed so she may have tried to sleep with it last night. You never know with her. She is still refusing to wear clothes but randomly she will bring me something and demand that I put it on. Last week when the temp was so hot she brought me a jacket and long sleeve shirt. I put it on her thinking it wouldn't last but she wore it for about 3 hours.

What I love about Penny
-She is so smiley.
-She can do stomach crunches. She lifts up her head for about 5 seconds and then puts it back down. Kind of makes me feel lazy
-Almost rolling over. If it wasn't for that darn right arm.
-Laughing. Nate can really crack her up. No surprise there.
-She is a big squish. We just love all of her folds. She weighs in at 15lbs. According to the bathroom scale.

The wrong side of town and other ramblings

Last Saturday we decided we needed to get in on the Wal-Mart soda deals. Naturally, we googled the closest store and headed out in the Camry. The store was located on Crenshaw and MLK blvd. Hmmm... Lesson learned. Don't go anywhere you've heard mentioned in a rap song. I was so nervous the whole time. We went in the store and it felt like everyone was staring at us. Probably because we were the only caucasians around. Needless to say we left empty handed. The lines were too long. Duh, on our part. Saturday's are bad news at any Wal-mart in my opinion. I am not racist. I just don't like attention and we definitely had everyone's attention. Have mercy. I couldn't wait to get out of there. The only time I glanced up from the pavement I noticed an older woman passing us with a t-shirt that said "Black Mama" on it. Nate said that most of his mission resembled the area. No wonder he seemed so calm. Next time we'll probably visit a different Wal-mart.
Today we were at the food court of a local mall and Nate chatted it up with a hobo that sat down at the table next to us. He told Nate if he gave him $5 dollars he would go away. Nate's response was "I don't want you to go away." The guy was stunned because I think that was his "go to" line. He settled for some change we had in our pockets. Another funny story about this man. Before he sat down next to us he booted out this cute Mother-Daughter combo out of their seats. He said it was his chair. Now that we look back we wish we would have offered our seats to them. John Quinones didn't pop out from hiding so I guess we are off the hook this time.