Cat farts stink a little

I was getting ready for the day yesterday and Adrianah was in my bedroom petting the cat, she came to me and said "Blink farted" and I said "yeah? it stinks doesn't it!?" to which she replied "yeah, just a little, not like Fain's" (Fain is my in-laws dog). And Adrianah continues "Blink just has little farts, and I have big farts..." and she kept going on....I couldn't believe that my 3 year old GIRL was going on about farting. This conversation was another reminder about how much like me and my side of the family she is.
A bit later in the day yesterday we went to the mall with Jen and Adrianah and Aleksia were holding hands and walking and we were following behind and a short conversation the two had went something like this:

Aleksia "I like to make new friends"
Adrianah "Yeah, but I'm not new"
Aleksia "Yeah, you are old"

and then it just kind of tapered off from there. It is strange how many people asked us if they are sisters. Then we were in La Vie en Rose (an underwear store like Victoria Secret) and they were going crazy with the bras and top pieces saying the cutest things, Jen and I were pretty well peeing ourselves laughing, they were saying things like "i want this boobie thing for Christmas" "this one is HUGE like Auntie". I can't remember all the stuff they were saying but man are they cute! (sometimes). When we were in Jens truck driving to different places the other day, we looked in the back and they were holding hands.



Another time a couple weeks ago they were playing upstairs and came down to show me their dress up clothes they had on.



Aleksia has the gun holsters on her feet, I thought that was very cute.

Time doesn't stop

I can't believe how fast the girls are growing up! Adrianah is going to be 4 at the end of March and Petra is going to be 7 at the end of April. It is so hard to believe! I just registered Adrianah in preschool and she will start in September. Anita takes Petra to school for me and brings her home, one of Anita's sons is Aaron and he is in Petra's class, they have become quite good friends. Anita's youngest, a girl, Anika, and Adrianah have become pretty good friends because Anita and I have become pretty good friends, she is my "sponsor" for Passion Parties so we have been spending quite a bit of time together. Adrianah and Anika will be going to preschool together and Anita and I keep joking that when they go to school we will be "childless" and so we are going to become partners in crime! It is hard to believe that in 7 short months I will not have any children home during the week, it will be the beginning of many years that I can have the freedom of doing what it is that I want to do during the day, will I go to work full time, have more time to scrapbook, get motivation to get my house clean more regularly or just spend more time with my few good friends that I have? I guess we will see what happens.
Petra is really learning a lot in school! It amazes me every day how well she is doing with reading! She was pretty excited the other day when she came home from school and had a level H in her home reading. (It starts at A and goes up one by one). I don't know what I actually thought when I had kids but I never really thought about the fact that I will get old/er and as my kids get older, I too will get older, sometimes I have a hard time thinking about getting older.
My kids have taught me a lot in the last 7 years and I know they will continue to teach me more.

Lately Adrianah asks me often if we are going to go to grandma and grandpas today. She asked me not long ago if we are going to get to see grandma and grandpa and auntie Pam "this spring". Hopefully we will be able to make a trip down, at least to Montana to have our own little family reunion this summer. It must be hard for them to be so far away from my side of the family. I know it is really hard on me!

Snowboarding

It has been a while since I have written, I will try to update a bit. Auntie Ronya was kindof feeling bad about how much Adrianah wanted to go snow boarding so on a Sunday when we were at Aggie and Detlef's for family dinner Auntie Ronya came too and brought a snow board with her. She went and bought one for them and was ready to teach them (or try to teach them) how to snowboard out there where there is the long drive way and other hills on the property. The girls were ecstatic when they saw what Auntie Ronya brought! So they got all their snow gear on and out they went to try to learn how to snowboard. I didn't last out there for to long, I took a couple pictures then I went inside, I don't like the cold and it was pretty cold out that day. They are lucky to have such good Aunts and Uncles!

A quiet day

Well I don't really have a whole lot to say right now, the girls haven't been home for a couple of days. Oma and Opa picked them (and Wildor) up at about 7:40 yesterday morning and they all went skiing, they met Auntie Margie and Uncle Ken there as well. The girls seemed to have fun, Petra didn't really want to stop, I hear that she did very well with skiing. Adrianah did hurt her ankle but nothing serious, she is able to walk on it and everything, I can handle that! All day while they were gone I kept having thoughts about one of them hurting themselves so they had to come back early cuz they broke a bone or something, and every time the phone rang I would kind of cringe. All in all, nobody was really hurt and they all seemed to have a good time. Wildor was pretty exhausted last night and is still exhausted today, it was quite windy out but it was relatively warm out, lots of fresh air. Oma and Opa took the girls home with them yesterday, after they stopped here for some chili and cornbread that I made. And the girls have been with them today and will stay the night tonight as Wildor and I are going to the silent auction that I am helping at to raise money to go to PEI in July, we will go out to his parents house tomorrow to pick the girls up. I will write more when I have more to say.

Brief conversation

Just wanted to write a brief conversation that Adrianah and I had this morning. I was doing her hair in the living room and with the sun shining on the door it makes noises as it starts to settle and it made a thump kind of sound and Adrianah said "I heard someone stomping their feet" and I said "that was just the door" and she replied "doors don't stomp" I then had to explain to her what the door was doing.
I will try to write more later.

Kids!

After Petra got home from school today the girls were talking and Petra was telling Adrianah how many sleeps till they get to go skiing and Adrianah said “yeah, then we get to go to Omas for a sleepover for 2 sleeps” and after getting that settled Adrianah said “well I am going to snowboard” and Petra (thinking she is Adrianah's mother) said “no you aren't you are going to ski” and Adrianah did the slow booty shake thing like 'na na na' and said in a snotty voice “well mom is thinking about it”. Then they were continuing to talk about skiing and Adrianah said “well there isn't going to be any mans there...” and Petra said “yes there is, Daddy and Opa will be there” and Adrianah said “but there won't be any mans helping me sti” and they sorta continued to converse about going skiing and Adrianah said “well we get to bring our stis home!” and Petra, wide-eyed, said “we do?” and Adrianah said “yeah, but just for the night, after Oma takes us to get them”. That conversation kind of tapered off then Petra was leaning on her chair sideways and Adrianah thought she was going to fall and she pushed the other 2 legs back down and then Petra whispered something to Adrianah (I couldn't hear) but then Petra said to Adrianah “put your arm like this” and proceeded to do the flexing her muscle motion but instead of flexing (like she knows what that is) she more or less just bent at the elbow and her lower arm was resting on her upper arm. So Adrianah did it and Petra felt Adrianah's muscle and said “wow! You are strong!” I just kindof smiled and enjoyed the moments that they were not fighting, but were getting along and having really cute converstaions. Oh the joys of being a parent!

A sunny day

Yet another day is here. Yesterday was pretty good. I picked Adrianah up from Jen's house after my dance class last night, I think she talked the whole way home. She told her secret she had. She whispered it loudly to me, “my secret is I had a book and a string in my bed last night”. She wasn't to happy that she told me that secret because I got a little upset with her and told her it isn't okay to take books to bed when we told her it was to late and she couldn't read in bed and also told her it is dangerous to take a string to bed. Also on the way home I reminded her that in 3 more sleeps she was going to go skiing with Oma, Opa, Daddy, Auntie Ronya and Petra, she was excited and said “but this time I don't want a man to help me! Do I get to go on the big swing?” I told her that she isn't going for lessons so she won't have “a man” helping her, and I told her that she will probably get to go on the big swing too. I also told her that in 2 sleeps Oma will come over and take her and Petra to the rental shop and get their skis and everything and she told me that she just wants one board. She doesn't want to ski, she wants to snowboard. I told her that she would fall down alot and she said “well then I will just get up again and hop, hop, hop around” she is adamant that she snowboards not skis...we may be asking Auntie Ronya to help her out with that one. :)
I wasn't able to participate in my dance class last night, all day my back kept feeling like it was going to go out and I didn't want to be twisting and reaching and everything and throwing it out so I just went and watched the new spin they taught us, I have the means of practicing at home and we can drop in at the studio on thursday nights and saturdays and pay $5 for 30 minutes of practicing and getting one on one help from the instructors if we need to...I am really enjoying my class! It is a really good work out and I am having fun doing it!
I suppose I should get things done around the house so I better leave you with this for now, I will write more later.