New Peach Words

Belly button and back pack.  She still doesn't say no.  I couldn't love her more :)

Beautiful

G bear is a beauty.  She loves skirts and shoes, make up, and dolls.  Oh she will get dirty and wrestle with the boys but she loves being a princess.  Yesterday I was in the bathroom putting on some makeup.  For the most part I leave this out of my routine but I was going to enrichment and in an effort to avoid hearing the, "Wow you look tired." comments I was putting on some mascara.  G bear came in and asked me to put some makeup on her.  I told her she didn't need any makeup.  She was beautiful little girl, perfect just the way she is.  She said, "But I want you to make me darker.  Darker is beautiful.  Mom you have darker beautiful hair."  It was a shocker of a moment for me, full of joy and sadness.  I think most children see their mother as their first example of what is beautiful and I'm glad to know that I live up to a standard that my daughter feels that about me.  I am saddened though in the fact that love has her feeling slightly unsatisfied with her own looks.  As the Mexican daughter of a white mother I have always felt a little uncomfortable.  I recognize a sort of hidden desire in myself to mesh more closely with my mother's family, the ones who predominately raised me.  I also felt a little uncomfortable in the dating realm.  There was definitely a lot of blond to blond pairing up at my college and there were times when I wondered if people saw my coloring as a liability.  In the end the opposite ended up being true.  My hair caught the eye of my husband, and my winning attitude kept it, and so brown married blond, and little miss blond hair, blue eyes was born.  I have two blue eyed, blond children, I have one brown eyed, brown haired child.  They are all adorable.  I'm a very lucky mom.  I often feel blessed to be the mother of such photogenic children.  I hope they can always be happy with themselves.  I realize that isn't always possible.  Woman, even baby woman sometimes find issues with themselves.  It is my job as their mother though to always let them know how awesome they are.   

Summer Birthday Parties

 Some sumer slide and painting fun.  I'd like to point out this was one of the hottest days of the year and I was sweating up a storm.  Thank goodness the pictures are only of the kids :)

Momma Visits

My momma came out to visit and then a few weeks later my mother in law was here.  I miss my family and having the mommas in town was balm.  When my mother in law was here she did tons of things for me.  Clean out the limt trap, check.  Clean out the lint trap on the second floor, check.  Clean out my drains, check.  Clean out the bathroom fans, check.  We did fun stuff as well but you've got to love clean and fun :)

Peach and her namesake...

This girl loves fruits but she wants her fruit whole, no piece meal fruit for her.  And yes she has some chompers.  Does anyone recognize where the rounded front teeth come from?  My sister's daughter has teeth like this as well so I'm thinking it must come from my side of the family.  Anyway they are cute.  I just wondered if they came from my mom or my dad's side. 

Magic House!

We have a museum pass that lets us visit children's museums all over the country.  One of the coolest we've seen is The Magic House in St. Louis.  If you need to kill some time in St. Louis,while you are waiting for a spouse who is in the temple and it is 100 plus degrees so the zoo is out...it is the perfect place.  OK honestly even if it isn't 100 degrees it is still pretty perfect.  So when you are taking three kids through a huge museum with no backup, pictures are not high priority but I did manage to snap a few at this gigantic electric ball.  Can I just say it was a little scary but the kids loves all the wattage!  Go kiddos, GO!

Baby Voice

Peach's Newest Words:

Toe, toes=toes (she'll point for this one)
ba=ball
drin=drink
wawa=water

As usually Dr. McSteamy was gone late.  At 7:30 we got a call to wish everyone goodnight.  Captain E took a turn.  He mostly giggled.  G Bear had more to say.  Then I took the phone and walked into the kitchen.  Peach came toodling after me, yelling and reaching up.  I hung up the phone and she got really upset.  "Nigh, nigh dada, nigh, nigh dada."  So I called back and gave her the phone.  I told her to say hello and she waved.  Then she started laughing.  She was happy and I could hang up the phone.