our first hair cuts!!

ella kate is almost 2 and 1/2 and has never had a haircut or even a trim!! with her hair being so cute and curly, you can't really tell that she needs one! but i straightened her hair a week or so ago and saw how uneven it really was. i meant to trim the ends then, but ran out of time.. so i staightened it again and cut it myself. it looks pretty much the same, but to me, her hair looks even curlier than it used to! she was so cute after i cut it.. she looked in the mirror and said.. "ohh.. i like a pwincess!!" josiah had his 1st haircut a couple days after ek's. bill, however, didn't trust me to cut his:) bill didn't even want to have it cut... period. but apparently, he had had enough with people saying he looked like a girl and it NEEDED to get cut, and i am sure he got tired of coming home from work to see josiah toddling around the house with a ponytail:) so, we had a sweet friend from the church volunteer to have us come to their salon to get his first cut. i was sad and worried that we would cut off all of his curls and he would no longer look like a baby, but the end result is GREAT! he looks so handsome and still has his little curls. and when we got in the car after leaving the salon, ella kate told him.. "good job 'siah!! you got your hairs cut!"

i need to write this stuff down..

ella kate is constantly saying the most hilarious stuff and i keep telling myself to write it down, write it down, you are gonna forget it so write it down! and here lately, we have been so out of it and busy that i can't remember what she has said and no, i haven't written anything down :(

but tonight we all loaded up to run to sam's to get some toilet paper and other necessities... the babies were in the back seat still buckled while we were waiting on daddy to find a 2-seater buggy. while we were supposed to be waiting patiently, ella kate was sick of it and kept asking questions in a whiney, irritating voice. i, being the all-star mother that i am, was tired of hearing it and said, "ella kate, chill out girlfriend!" she sat quiet for a few seconds then responded, " i not your girlfriend, and i not chill out!" oh well... so speaking of patience... looks like mom needs to work on hers as well:)

oh yeah.. i also wanted to share a christmas moment! ella kate was the official present opener at my parents house! she just walked around to everyone and started unwrapping their gifts! ( BIG helper..) so bill (my bill, not my dad bill) wanted to get my mom a kitchen aid mixer this year so my sisters and eric all chipped in and we got one. she has been wanting one forever but would never buy herself one, so bill decided that christmas time was the perfect time to get it. anyways.. so it was my mom's turn to have her presents opened so ek hopped over and started ripping and tearing the paper away. we all new what it was, but we said, "ek, ek what is it??" and smiled and said, " mimi you got a coffee maker!!" we all busted out laughing! she is so stinkin' cute! i still have no idea how she even knows what a coffee maker is... bill and i dont even make or drink coffee!!

christmas is over...

ok i dont even know where to start... christmas has come and gone and honestly, i am kinda glad. this christmas was pretty difficult for us. having 3 babies ages 2 and under is challenging, but having them during the holidays or any other time of year where you travel and are super busy, is even harder. plus, to top that off my mom had pneumonia and we also had some sort of stomach bug! no fun!! so i am looking forward to our days slowing down a bit and us getting back into our routine. i am stickler for schedules... i like for the babies to eat at the same time everyday, nap at the same time, run errands at the same time and go to bed at the same time... and they are so used to doing the same thing everyday that when we stretch and miss a nap or have a late meal... they are NOT happy campers! but we did make the best of this christmas and we had as much fun as possible!! ella kate was sooo very cute opening her presents!! she got excited over every little thing! josiah was a little different. we had to open his presents for him and once he saw the first toy, he sat down to play with it and didn't really care about the others! and miley, well, she pretty much napped through the whole thing... newborns are so easy:) but we did manage to get some cute pics!

HERS

bill and i have always hated to hear kids say MINE!! i know that all kids go through the phase of not wanting to share, but we wanted to try and prolong and prevent our babies from saying that as long as we could. however, our efforts were fruitless... well sort of! if josiah would grab something from ella kate, we would correct him saying, "no, no 'siah.. that is hers. etc.." and vice versa with ella kate. so now, when josiah or any other friend for that matter, comes and tries to take something from ella kate, she says, "NO!! it's HERS!!" and even being the sweet big sister that she is, if someone is taking something from josiah she still says, "NO!! it's HERS!!" and snatches it back to give to her bubba! so whether it spelled M-I-N-E or H-E-R-S .. it basically means the same thing! so we have some work to do.... :)

m&m's

this morning ella kate was playing with an old pair of bill's binoculars. it was so cute because she thought, for some odd reason, that they were a camera. she walked around the house taking pictures of everything:) what was even cuter, was that she had the wrong side up to her eyes:) so here she is standing in front of me wanting to take my picture... "momma say CHEESE!!" "cheese!! " i say, giving her a funny face. she put the 'camera' down and clapped saying, "YAY momma!! you said cheese... you get a M&M!" now, i dont know where she got that from..i have NEVER bribed our kids with M&M's to get a cute smile out of them! i have threatened to beat them though, but never an M&M.... NEVER! :)

but speaking of M&M's.. she does get one everytime that she goes potty. it is pretty cute b/c she has one potty in her room and one in our bathroom, so she has the freedom to 'go' even during her nap time. she will sometimes potty all by herself and tell us that she needs an M&M, and of course we have to hunt down which potty she used... just to make sure that she is telling the truth:) however, one day, i went into her bedroom while she was snacking on a box of raisins, only to find that she had dumped the box of raisins into her potty and was eating them out of the 'big bowl'... lovely! so maybe we should keep potty's in the bathroom only... oh well!

what a hoot..

i was at our sunday school christmas party tonight and we all started sharing funny stories of our kids. i got to telling some of the sayings of ella kate before i started this blog and i wanted to share them on here. my sister lauren and i were playing with ella kate one afternoon and we were both kissing her on either side of cheeks. we were going to town just kissing all over her face when she said... "Stop, girls, stop!" :)
as i am writing this, i just remembered that i wanted to share another bathtub incident:) tonight i bathed them extra early before we dropped them off at our friend audrey's house, so we could go to our party. i have mentioned earlier about ella kate's love of 'pretend' play and josiah has started to catch on to it. the davis kids dont have normal bath tub toys. they have pieces of a tea party set, a loofa, a teenage mutant ninja turtle, a set of rubber keys, a plastic foot, a random building block.. you get the picture. so with these odd items, you could see how a game of pretend could be easily played:) tonight, however, they were making edible items like popcorn and gatorade. ella kate will tell me what she has made, and hold it up for me to smack my lips and act like i am eating it. josiah had one of the tea cups and held it out for me to taste and i said, "oh josiah.. it is so yummy!! is it apple juice??" of course, he just beams and is so proud of himself for playing the game. all the while ella kate has this blank stare and says to me.. "no momma, thats not apple juice!! it's just hot water!!"

another no daddy night..

so tonight i was a loner again... but had many smiles brought to my face from my crazy babies!! ella kate is in the process of being potty trained and for the most part she does great... so after waking up from her nap being dry, i decided to put big girl panties on her! she wanted to be a naked girl (meaning no clothes, only panties) and asked that josiah be a naked boy too! so there they were running around being naked kids when i heard miley squeaking in her bed. it was time for her to eat, so i left the babies playing with blocks downstairs and headed up to my room to feed the squeaker:) they usually follow me around if i have miley with me, b/c they love her so much and are constantly kissing her. (well, josiah's way of kissing, is a gentle head-butt, but you get the picture). so i sit down on my bed and ek crawls up and tries to squeeze in my lap next to miley. her panties are completely soaken, and i ask her, "ella kate, your panties are wet.. where did you go TT?" and she does the cutest thing EVER... she puts a finger up to her jaw/chin area and starts tapping it and says, "hmmm... let... my... think". it was hilarious:) "my go TT downstairs by the christmas tree." and sure enough there was a puddle on the carpet. that kid is so funny. bill and i laugh because she talks either in 3rd person or she says 'my'. she will say ella kate do that, or josiah push my. her latest saying is so sweet... she will walk around the kitchen saying, "ella kate NEED sumpin". very dramatic... i dont have a clue where she gets it:) oh yeah, and tonight while josiah and ella kate were in the bath tub, i decided to 'dunk' miley in again and wash her off! they did much better and didn't splash her this time! josiah was, of course, squealing with delight that her foot accidentally brushed against his belly and ella kate grabbed her hand and shook it saying, "hey baby miey... nice to meetcha!" i love those babies!!