End of March 2011

 If you didn't know, Dalia LOVES to make sandwiches!

 

The weather was so beautiful the fourth week of March!!  We enjoyed having Picnics in our yard and running around outside!

 She finally did it!  She cut her own hair, ALL BY HERSELF!!  And she was so very proud!  I was out in the backyard enjoying the weather.  Dalia was inside coloring and cutting up paper, which she loves to do lately.  Or so i thought that's what she was doing.  I came inside to she how she was doing and found her in the bathroom.  She cut off the front of her hair on both sides to her chin.  She had even cleaned it up and put it in the trash can.  I am so glad that she didn't cut Tesila's.  We are still undecided as to what to do with her hair now.

 Brian got his present to himself in the mail, finally!!  It only took about a month to get here.  He is SO very excited!!

 We said good bye to Grandpa & Grandma Ha.  They were headed back to Alaska after there 2 week stay with us, while Grandpa recovered from his surgery.  However, they will be coming back in June to meet our baby brother!  and stop by to see at doctor down in Seattle.

 Picnic with Grandma before she left.

 Tesila loves her baby brother!!  She hasn't even met him yet and she loves him!  She already talks about how he is going to wear her diapers, sleep in her crib, ride in her carseat, how she is going to change his diapers, wash him in the bath tub and how he is going to love baths!  She talks about how she is going to sing to him, give him his blanket and a binky.  She is such a cutie!

 But it is the cutest when she randomly walks over to me and Kisses her baby brother (my tummy).  She loves him!  As of late Tes wants to name her baby brother, "Lizard one Boy one Geico."  (Tes usually says the word 'one' between words in sentences.)

 Dalia had a close call the other night.  We tucked the girls in and went downstairs like usual.  Awhile later (at least a 1/2 hour later) i went upstairs to get something from my room and i heard a little girl crying in her room.  I went in the girls room to find Dalia just crying!  She was so sad and told me how she wanted to turn her night light on.  There night light is one of those that is turned on automatically when it is dark.  So i thought she had unplugged it.  I went to turn her lamp on and it didn't work.  Then Brian came upstairs and we realized that there was NO power working upstairs.  Brian mentioned that he thought he had heard a breaker switch awhile ago.  He went and flipped the breaker and the lights came on.  We found the black coming out of the nightlight and asked Dalia what happened.  She just cried how her necklace broke.  We then realized that she was playing in the glow of her nightlight when she decided to hang her metal chain necklace on the night light!  Boom!  The power went out.  Sweet little thing was so distraught that she just stayed in her room crying.  I am just so glad that she is okay and didn't get electrocuted. 

 Tes got earrings for her birthday!!  Stick-on ones that is.  She doesn't want real ones, she says those are "poky."

 Tesi's cute little ears!

 Tes is good at sharing with her big sister Dalia!

 Dalia's cute little ear!

Brian and Dalia LOVE to play K'nex!  Brian is a master k'nex builder.  Dalia is quickly becoming one.  She will play with K'nex for hours making all sorts of things.  This is what they did all saturday morning.  They built a k'nex ball machine.  It carries the toy balls up and they slide down the ramp and go back up again.

Cut.Hair.Swim.Electrocute - Mar. 23-24, 2011

Brian made a Knex ball Run.  Dalia enjoyed helping him.  We enjoyed our first Picnic of the year on our front lawn!  We got home and it was so nice outside we decided to eat outside.  Grandma came to watch the girls at swim lessons!!  and Dalia did something that every kid eventually does.  She CUT her own hair!  I could not believe it.
Dixie and i were out on the deck talking.  The girls were inside at the coloring table (or so i thought).  Lately Dalia has been coloring and cutting all sorts of pictures.  So i have left the scissors at her table.  I then realize that i haven't heard any noise from the girls so i went inside to check on them.  They were coming out of the bathroom.  Dalia told me proudly that she cut her hair.  She just took a chop at each side and threw the hair in the garbage can.  I just started to laugh.  (i was sad that she cut her hair, but really what could you do, and at least it wasn't right to her scalp).  I was soooo thankful that she didn't cut Tesila's too and that her's wasn't too short.
The past few days she has been saying that she wants to get her hair cute like Alisi's (who is in her preschool class.  Alisi just got her hair cut to her shoulders).  But before this week Dalia would tell me how she loved her long hair and didn't ever want it short.  So this was a new thing this week that for three nights in a row she would ask to have short hair.  I didn't want to just go and get it cut because I wasn't sure if she really knew what she wanted.  So i think she just felt like she wanted it short and Alisi got her hair cut.  So Dalia cut it.  Now i'm not sure what to do.  Dixie offered to cut it, but I'm just not ready for her hair to be chopped off.  If i put her hair in a little side pony tail  you can't really tell.  So i am waiting a few days to decide what i will do. 



Tesila is sooo cute!!  She loves to give baby brother (aka-my tummy) hugs and kisses!!  She also likes to wash baby brother (my tummy) when we are in the shower.  She is going to be a great big sister!!  Also, Tes got Stick on Earrings for her birthday!  The girls have fun choosing which ones they want to wear!

Okay, there is another long story about Dalia this past week.  She electrocuted herself.  After we tucked the girls into bed we went downstairs like normal.  About an hour later i went upstairs and tried to turn on a light in my room and it would go on.  Then i heard crying coming from the girls room.  Dalia was crying on her bed.  Not just a cry.  It was more of a whimper scared kind of cry.  I called for Brian to fix this no light situation since the lights in the girls room wouldn't turn on either.  Brian had to flip the breaker and the lights came back on.  We figured out that Dalia was awake playing with a metal necklace.  She went over to her nightlight and decided to hang the necklace over the nightlight.  As she did that the metal necklace hit the nightlight prongs and poof!  There might have been a spark, but either way the lights went out and the nightlight and wall turned black and Dalia began to cry.  She was scared!  But she didn't come to tell us she just went back to her bed and cried.  I am so very glad that she was okay!  So we had a talk about why that wasn't safe and to never do that again.  Oh, and it also broke the necklace in two.

Leprechaun Song! - Mar. 2011

Video: Dalia's preschool class singing a Leprechaun song for St. Patrick's Day!! - Mar. 2011

March 2011

 Pictures!

 

 i HATE bloggers new photo uploader and what ever it did to mess up the curser.  i can't move the pictures where i want and i can't type where i want.  so here are a punch of jumbled up pictures without any explanations.  besides blogger and my frequent emotional mood swings we are having fun here in washington!

Green Day! - Mar. 17, 2011

March: Rainy Days, Umbrellas, Rain Boots, Puddle Stomping!!  Swim Lessons with our friend Preston!!  Baking Mini Green cupcakes for the Preschool St. Patrick's day party!!  I love the picture of the girls sitting in their pink chairs watching the cupcakes bake!  Dalia has an awesome preschool teacher for the month of March!  She has taught them all about Leprechaun's and St. Patrick's day!  Dalia made a little Leprechaun castle, Leprechaun hat, and a Leprechaun TRAP!!  That's right she made a trap to catch Leprechaun's.  The Leprechaun's are supposed to walked to get the "gold coins" (chocolate) and fall through the tissue paper and be stuck in her box.  She was sooo excited and played with her trap and castle all afternoon.  Her teacher Miss Serena even taught the kids a leprechaun song that they sang for us at the party.  So cute!!

St. Patrick's Day is one of my Favorite holidays!!
I love to wear green and make a fun green dinner!  This year we had swimming lesson's on st. patrick's day and i had a Stake Young Women's meeting.  So i was sad that it might not happen.  But thanks to Grandma Dixie!!!  she pulled it off!  She stayed at home and cooked while i took the girls to swim lessons and cleaned up when i went to my meeting.  I felt like i came home ate and left again.  Thank you dixie!!  It was a memorable dinner for me.  We even made a time lapse video of us eating.  Those are fun to watch!  And Brian and the girls played the game "Life" while i was gone.  The girls like that game! 
The girls also found their bat in the backyard so Brian made them a T-ball stand and we taught them how to play T-ball!  I think they both look cute ready to bat!

March 2011 Videos #1

Video: Tes sings the ABC's. - Mar. 2011


Video: Tes sings her own song and she really gets into it. Mar. 2011


Video: Dalia sings her own song. It is so sweet. - Mar. 2011


Video: Tes roasting "Marshmallows" - Mar. 2011


Video: The girls had a Knex Rainstorm in their room. - Mar. 2011


Video: Time Lapse Green Dinner 2011 - Mar. 2011 - requested by Amy.

February 2011 Videos #1

Video: Dalia & Tes singing Old McDonald. - Feb. 2011


Video: Tes singing Hush Little Baby to Grandma Carolyn on the phone. - Feb. 2011


Video: Tes role playing as Pocahontas, Dalia as the friend. - Feb. 2011


Video: Dalia role playing as Pocahontas, Tes as the friend. - Feb. 2011


Video: Tes giving Dalia a Bubble Bath? - Feb. 2011


Video: Dalia & Tes looking through their Valentines from their friends. - Feb. 2011


Video: Dalia at dance on the obstacle course. - Feb. 2011

Mar. 11-14, 2011

"Roasting Marshmallows over a fire!" - My girls are so creative!  I love it!  Here they made a "fire" out of dress up & toys!  Then they stuck their "marshmallows" (finger puppets) on sticks and roasted away over the fire!  There was even sound effects and pretend eating!  I got a video of it too.  so cute!! 
March 10th was Kindergarten Orientation!!!  We dropped Tes off at a friends home and Brian and I took Dalia to her soon to be Elementary school!  Dalia was excited to walk down the halls of the school.  We found out she will have AM Kindergarten and picked up a packet of papers that i get to fill out and return to Register her for school!  She is so excited and i am excited for her! and sad too.  I'm going to miss having her with me all day.

March 11th - Grandma & Grandpa Ha. came back!!  Grandpa will be having prostate surgery on the 14th in Seattle and then come back to our house to recover and Grandma will be his nurse!
When they came they brought Tesila a birthday gift!  Grandma made Tes this Awesome Dinosaur puzzle out of wood and it stands up!!  It is amazing!  Thanks Grandma!!!
Group Picture: Eric, Britni, Brian, Tesila, Ruth, Barb, Kyle, Flora, Dalia, Mark, & Dixie
We had the L.'s cousins and Eric over for dinner before Mark's surgery.  It was fun to see everyone and meet Kyle (Flora's boyfriend!)  He is really awesome!  My girls love to play with him and Kyle and Flora are just cute together!  We did miss Emily though, i think she was off studying for Law school. 
Sunday night after church we got out Pie making on, because tomorrow is PIE DAY!!  Mark, Dixie, Brian, & I were busy in the chicken making pies it was fun!  Mark & Dixie were nice enough to make us a square pie (some engineering thing) even though they won't be with us tomorrow for pie day.  Tomorrow is Mark's surgery.

Pie Day!!  3.14 - March 14th, 2011
The M.'s, R.'s, and Eric (Emily still busy with school) joined us!  We had Chicken Pot Pie for dinner!  and Blackberry, Chocolate, Oreo cream, and Lemon pies for dessert!!  We love pie!!  and celebrating with friends!!

January 2011 Videos #2

Video: Tes jumps like a kangaroo - Jan. 2011


Video: Dalia likes to make sandwiches. Here she made a Ham and Honey Sandwich. - Jan. 2011


Video: Dalia dances at dance class. - Jan. 2011


Video: Tes made her bed like Cinderella & the birds. - Jan. 2011


Video: Dalia piled blankets on her bed when i asked her to make it. Jan. 2011


Video: Prince Derrick kisses Odette - Jan. 2011


Video: Dalia dancing at dance class. - Jan. 2011

January 2011 Videos

Video: Tes watches her Thomas the Train drive on the tracks built by Brian. - Jan. 2011

Video: Dalia as Rothbot & Tes as Odette (from the Swan Princess) role play at lunch. - Jan. 2011


Video: I found Tes in the bathroom with lots of toilet paper on the ground. She told me that she needed a little paper to clean with. - Jan. 2011


Video: Dalia tells what she wants to name her baby brother, Hercules Stronger. - Jan. 2011


Video: Tes sings, I am a Child of God - Jan. 2011


Video: Tes jumps like a kangaroo - Jan. 2011

Video: Tes tells what she did in Nursery - Jan. 2011


Video: Dalia made a piano out of dominoes and sings, 'Little Lamb' - Jan. 2011


Video: Tes stacks some dominoes. - Jan. 2011

Grandpa is here!! - Mar. 4-9, 2011

Papa came to visit for Tesila's birthday and to watch Dalia in her dance class!!
The is what happened after Tesila's birthday!  One night Papa watched the girls so Brian and i could go on a date!  Brian and I went out to eat at "Famous Dave's BBQ!"  Then we went Mini-Golfing at a family fun center.  The golf course was half indoors and half out.  It was rainy and cold that night, so we golfed fast on the second half.  It was fun to spend sometime with just Brian.  My dad and the girls had fun at home.  I think my dad and the girls were excited for us to go.  When we were leaving Papa was making Chocolate Chip pancakes for dinner!
Tesila had her 3 year check-up.  My dad stayed home with Dalia and i took Tes to the Doctor.  Before we left i told Tes to pick a toy to take with her.  She choose a little dinosaur toy that she got at Burger King, Tes likes dinosaurs.  At the doctors they had her get dressed in a little hospital gown.  She looked so cute and nervous waiting for the doctor to come in.  Tesila weighed 34 lbs. and was 39"inches tall!  She is healthy!  I like the 3 year appointment because there are no shots involved!!  Afterward we went to Henry's for a Donut!!
Dalia's Dance class!!
Last year my dad was lucky enough to schedule his trip for Tesila's birthday during a time where he could attend one of Dalia's dance classes.  So this year he made sure to schedule his trip the same.  And this afternoon Brian was able to come too!  Dalia was so excited to have her dad and her grandpa there to watch her!  She did such a great job, she is always fun to watch prance around the room in her little leotard.  She was also glad to have her friend Alisi in her dance class.  Alisi is also in Preschool with Dalia too!
The sad part about dance class today was Tesila.  The past few times Tesila has wanted to dance.  But you have to be 3 1/2 to be in the class, and Tes wasn't even 3 when the class started.  So i have been telling Tes that she can't dance with the class because she isn't 3.  Well now she is 3!  On the way to dance she was talking about how she is wearing her new purple ballerina skirt (that she got for her birthday) and that she is 3 so she can dance.  At class the teacher called all the kids to start class and Tes went right over like she was part of the class.  I had to go and drag her back to the side.  She was very sad and sat on Brian's lap the entire time with a pouty face.  Poor girl she thought that since she was 3 she was now in the class.  Needless to say i felt horrible.  Next year Tes you can be in dance!!

Also while Papa was here we played in the yard with our left over snowman, rode our bikes, and when for walks!


 We had stake conference this week and we all made our way to Marysville to a church house to watch it broadcast from another building, since our stake doesn't have a stake center we can't all fit in one building.  It was weird driving so far for church (about a 20 min. drive) when our old stake center building is about 5 mins. away.  We were glad that Papa could come and stay with us!  We always enjoy the time we have with him!!  Oh also, see those Pink cookies!  Dalia made those for Papa in February.  We shaved them in the cupboard for him.  Dalia was excited to give them to him.  However, i don't think he ate them, they were a little old.
After he left was the pinewood derby at church.  Brian works with the cub scouts and made some trophy's for the winners.  I work with the young women and the young women were helping out at the pinewood derby.  So we went as a family to the derby tonight.  The girls had fun running around with their friends and watching the cars.

Tesila's Birthday Videos - Feb. 29, 2011

Video: Tesila's Cinderella Cake that she has been asking for for the last six months! - Feb. 2011


Video: Tes opening her present from Aunt Jami. - Feb. 2011


Video: Tes got the Prince Charming barbie for her birthday from Aunt Jami. - Feb. 2011


Video: Tesila got Glass Slippers from Papa for her birthday! She has been wanting glass slippers for awhile!! - Feb. 2011


Video: Tesila got a nightgown from G&G Ho. for her birthday. - Feb. 2011


Video: Tesila talking about her birthday. How old she is - 3! and what she got!! - Feb. 2011


Video: Tes blowing out her three candles on her Cinderella Cake!! - Feb. 2011

Tesila's Birthday - Feb. 29th (Mar. 1, 2011)

"3 Year Old Tesila Rose!!!"


My Tesila is 3!!!
Tes requested a Cinderella Cake (she has actually been talking about her Cinderella cake for at least 6 months).  So we had a Cinderella theme party!  She also requested "Salad" for dinner!  So i made a giant Cobb Salad!  and we had Jello beans!  Papa came to Washington just for Tesila's birthday!  We picked him up at the airport the day before.  Then the day of Tesila's birthday we made french toast for breakfast!  Then Papa played with the girls, the played the Fishing game!  and watched a movie!  While i made the Cinderella Cake!!  Aunt Emily came over for dinner (Uncle Eric is in the UK for work).  We played some games hosted by Dalia (Duck Duck Goose and some kind of Pin the Word strip on the Wall, Dalia was really excited to be in charge of games).  Tes wore her Cinderella dress and i put her hair up in a Cinderella Bun (I have learned since her previous party).  Then we opened presents!  Tes got Pince Charming Barbie from Aunt Jami!!!!!!!  Tes got Glass Slippers from Papa!!  Tes got Cinderella Crown from Mom & Dad!  A beautiful Cinderella Nightgown from Grandma Carolyn & Grandpa Lane!  A little Rapunzel, a little Flynn Rider, and a little Boat from Aunt Emily!  (she had been asking for this specifically just how i typed it!)  It was a great birthday!!  I loved celebrating the life of Tesila!  We are so glad that she is now 3!   
 

Tesila is 3! - Feb. 29, 2011

Tesila turned 3!!

 Tesila had been requesting a Cinderella cake for about 6 months now!

 She had a Cinderella party and even got her Prince Charming! (Thanks Aunt Jami)

Tesila in her new Cinderella Night Gown!

Tesila had a great birthday!  When asked how old she is she holds up three fingers and counts, "One, Two, Three!"