Dumbo story

So I rented Dumbo for Lily to watch, as a change from the princess movies she watches over and over. I remember liking it as a kid and it was fun to watch it all over with her. But the sweetest thing happened. I will summarize the plot in case you've forgotten, but basically at the circus where Dumbo and Mrs. Jumbo (his mom) are on display, some kids come to the show and start laughing and making fun of Dumbo's big ears. Well, as any mother would, Mrs. Jumbo starts to protect her baby and then spanks the boy who is being the biggest teaser. The circus folks think she is getting out of control and start to whip her and then proceed to put her in a mad elephant circus car that is all locked up and away from everyone. Well, Dumbo goes to visit his mama there and because she is all locked up, the only way she can touch him and rock him is with her big trunk. Both Dumbo and she are crying and the song, "baby mine" is playing. So I realize after lots of confused questions from Lily about why they are putting her in time out, I try to explain that they don't realize she was just protecting Dumbo from the teasing and they were being kind of mean to her. She has talked to me a lot over the past couple of days about how naughty those people were for locking her up like that and why couldn't Dumbo see his mama. Well we watched it again today, and when that scene came up and Lily started to ask me why Dumbo was sad, and I said he just loves his mama and wants to be with her but he can't, well Lily just starts balling. I felt so bad that this was causing her distress and immediately hugged her and told her that in the end Dumbo is with his mama and they say sorry to her and never put her in the cage again, and I will always be with her. This seemed to settle her down, but at that moment I just realized how I want to just hug her and protect her from all the evils in the world, and I always will. This just reminded me of how tenderhearted she really is and very sympathetic to people around her. I love how sweet she is and this moment was just too cute for me not to remember.

St. George- Froggy Friend

Eyeing the little frog from a distance
Ahhhhh it jumped!
Now peering down at it from a lounge chair, safely distant.
Lily the frog, so aptly named by Lily
Dad was brave enough to hold it for her to get a better look
Then it jumped into the pool and rested on the cleaning hose for a bit.
Warming up to the frog, she thought she might want to hold her
And tried but never quite got the courage to just pick her up. The wildlife in our backyard down there was quite exciting: very friendly dragonflies, lizards, frogs, butterflies, crickets, and beetles.

My Growing girls

I don't know if it's true or not, but whenever Lily asks me why she has to go to bed one of the reasons I tell her, is because that's when our bodies grow. Well it seems like all my girls are doing lately is grow a ton, and if that's the case I want to enjoy some more sleep from them!

Ahh, I LOVE to go and look at my kids when they are sleeping. Ella cracks me up, lately she is determined NOT to be swaddled anymore and I will hear her grunt and groan until at last an arm is free. She has been such an easy going, happy baby so far, maybe this is just a glimpse at her truly determined side. She is all smiles though, all day and is happy just to play on the floor either watching Lily or I do our stuff.










And Lily has started in the habit of putting whatever stuffed animal or baby she is sleeping with that night to sleep on her chest and she makes sure it is tucked in under her blankie too. She makes me laugh so much everyday and is growing up way to fast for my taste. Today she insisted on going potty by herself all day and, after inspection of the bathroom after a couple of uses I realized that she had used up ALL the T.P. and had piled it in the toilet. She is so independent these days, and has even started playing by herself a bit more (Yay!). Yesterday all while I was getting ready for dinner she was so quiet downstairs just playing with barbies. I had to keep yelling down to her to make sure she was okay and not getting into anything. When I finally went down to get her for dinner she was VERY engrossed in finding matching shoes for all the dolls to wear, and coordinating outfits and was very frustrated when she was missing some shoes "But mom she has to have her other cinderella swipper" (these were all my barbie things so shoes have definately been lost along the way). Anyway I just want to remember all these little things because there are new ones everyday and I don't want to forget anything.

Why?

Okay, so this is my 2nd attempt at Pecan Pie, and it keeps overflowing and burning on me. Nevertheless, I did taste it and it still is yummy but it sure isn't winning any awards for presentation, and Chad sweet as he is tells me it's just what he wanted for his birthday. Sweet man. I am definately no baker though!

Happy Birthday Babe

Happy birthday to my sweetie, the best husband, father, friend and probably person I know. I adore how much he loves our girls and love even more how much our girls adore him. As Lily puts it, "Dad, you are the prettiest prince I ever have forseen." and "Dad I'm gonna marry you."Wow, I could never say enough about how much I love this man. So Happy 31st Birthday Babe! We went to St. George over the weekend to really celebrate and more on that in another post.

Ella Rose

This sweet face greets me every morning, multiple times in the night, and is always with me. My new little bit of sunshine. What a sweet thing to be loved by her.

Friend Birthday Dinner

Since Kristi's birthday was in June, and Katie and I share the same birthday (July 27th), we celebrated all together in August, makes sense right? It was super fun nevertheless and we enjoyed some Applebee's food and a blondie (MMMMmmm)! Love these girlies!

Fishy Friend

Yes, that is a fish in her TUB! Thanks Dad. There were all these goldfish in the centerpieces for the banquet dinner, and since no one lives close enough to take them home, we decided to take one jar full up to the hotel room to show Lily. She immediately named them the Lilys' 1, 2, 3, and 4, and then dad put one in her tub. At first I thought she would freak, but she loved it right from the start! We noticed the fish wasn't doing well in the tub water and put him or her in a cup for Lily to watch the rest of the time. And the next morning when we checked out we told her the fish belonged to the hotel and we had to leave them there.