Easy Bake Oven

This looks just like the Easy Bake Oven I owned:

 

 And this is what they look like now:
I couldn't wait to compare.
However, it may started out as an Easy Bake Oven kinda night.
But ended up to be a chow session with
dough and cake batter kinda night instead.
We only made one pan of mini cupcakes.
Those were gone in two seconds flat.
There was no more batter left after that.

 These two are such a mess.  Eating all the evidence.
I look over and Blakey had switched spoons with Jacee-Kay.  

 Sometimes Spoons are just not enough.

 And sometimes faces in bowls are not enough either!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 I don't know what is so funny, but something is!  

I guess some secrets are better shared with only your sister. ;)

   We like to sing alot while we're in the kitchen together, too. 

One of our favorite songs is Shake your Booty. 

 

These two loveys.
They like to eat icing.
They like to shake their booties.
They also really love their Easy Bake Oven.
I am in love with them.

First They Came...

 

When I was in eighth grade we began learning about WWII.  

In class that year we debated various injustices and discussed why

It’s important for people to take a stand,

even if the battle wasn't directly 'any of their concern'.  

The poem below taught me that sometimes in life when others 

or  myself are being treated unfairly,

it is my job as a human being to stand my ground, 

even if sometimes I shouldn't be involved.  

Even if sometimes I should look away.

Even if sometimes I'm scared.

Sometimes right and wrong isn't that simple.  

Sometimes it's a gray area.  

Sometimes being neutral is ok. 

And sometimes being neutral is not ok.

             First They Came...
First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak out because I was Protestant.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

by:  Pastor Martin Niemoller 

A girl in a dress...

 My daughters are always playing dress up.  

In my closet.  

With my wonderful array of costumes I guess you could say.  

Nothing is better than trying on someone else's shoes.  =)  

I stole this wonderful idea from pinterest:  

Take a picture of your daughter as a little girl in 

your wedding dress to display at her own wedding.  

Naturally this was right up our alley "to-do" list. 

I did get a little carried away though. 

Naturally.

 =)  

I hope I can get another one like this in a few years at Jacee-Kay's wedding day.  

With her sister looking up to her.

Perfection.

Sisterhood at its best.

Blakey

Blakey enjoys playing in the bath tub.
Blakey enjoys giving kisses and hugs to puppy dogs.
Blakey enjoys taking her shoes and socks off when she gets home from school.
Blakey enjoys cuddling with mommy.
Blakey enjoys eating ramen noodles for supper
Blakey enjoys driving the pink caddy in her backyard
Blakey enjoys reading Good Night Bunny before bedtime.
Blakey enjoys gulping milk.
Blakey enjoys playing in mommy's jewelry box.
Blakey enjoys pink boots.
Blakey enjoys anything dress up.
Blakey loves playing toys with big sister.
Blakey loves to dance.
Blakey loves to turn around in circles whenever she is dancing.
Blakey loves Mickey Mouse Club House.
Blakey loves Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Blakey also enjoys running around the house screaming 'HELP!'
Especially whenever mommy is trying to brush her hair in the mornings.
Daddy gets to be the hero.

Blakey really enjoys that too.

Jacee-Kay and Her Six Year Old Ways

I want to remember Jacee-Kay as she is right now.  She is so curious about the world but yet so genius too. There are a few things she says that make absolutely no sense to anyone else but me.  I think she gets me too.  Recently (right before the Christmas break) she discovered a love for reading books.  She is a fantastic reader too. And she's only in Kindergarten, which I think is absolutely amazing. She not only has learned to read but she has grown so mature.  She has been working so hard every night reading and has recently reached the 100 book club.  (A Complete other story) We are so lucky we have such a great Kindergarten teacher too.  She is so wonderful to these children.  A proud day in our family. Way to go Jacee-Kay.

 I also have to point out that I love that Jacee-Kay is obsessed with scarfs, and she is wearing a scarf that she picked out for Christmas in this picture.  (Her picking out a scarf that she didn't realize was for her was very tricky.  (Does it keep getting trickier and trickier to trick your children?!)
 
Our conversations with one another are so funny too, but I forget from month to month how things in her world change so much, and I haven't written much down.  I just want to remember and relish in these times together and remember our conversational past time together. 

 So, for my own sake, here are a couple of things we discuss on our rides to school every morning...
 
..."Mommy, I have a really big school, I mean like, like, like REALLY big.  Do you think this is the biggest school of all?" (I have to note here that it's my fault that the world 'like' is in her vocabulary.  I use this word WAY too much, note to self: stop saying 'like' every other word in every other sentence! For the sake of my children!)

I have to respond with the truth these days. A simple "uh, uh," is not sufficient enough for this brilliant six year old. I respond with this ridiculous long explanation of, "Well, let's see, you are in an elementary school, which you're right is VERY big. But when you get a little older you will go to a Jr. High School and that will be much larger than the school you are in now.  Then when you get even older than that you will go to a High School and that school will be much larger than the Jr. High School you go to. And then when you get even OLDER than that you can go to the Texas A&M school." (I did use the word 'like' alot in my explanation to her, I took them out here for reading purposes. ;)

Jacee-Kay pondering, "So what you're saying is my school isn't that big then. Mmmmm...mmmmm...mmmm, well then how old do you have to be to go to college, what like ten?"

Me holding back giggles, "No sweetheart, more like eighteen..."

Jacee-Kay gasps, "Eighteen, but that's gonna take FOREVER! By the way, is Texas A&M the only college out there?"

"No," I respond thinking of how to answer this question as it's posed before me, "But it is the BEST College out there and if you work really hard right now you can go to the Gig 'Em Aggie school when you turn 18! And you can live in town with Mommy forever and never have to leave home!"

"I'm in mommy, that sounds like amazing!"

I wonder if she will feel that way when she actually turns 18....

THE other fun thing about our car drives, is that it gives us  chance to discuss friendships and as I hate using the word 'relationships' with kindergarteners, I suppose that's what you would say.  Who likes who and who's friends with who. Who is doing really good job doing homework and listening in class and who Jacee-Kay has crushes on. (Those are tough to tell, but a mommy has a feeling about these kind of things!) Back on track though, a couple days ago I learned that Jacee-Kay had a new friend at Kids Klub and that we would have to make this friend a card for her birthday.  We spent an hour on this birthday card and when we had loaded in the car the next morning to go to school, we had forgotten it inside.

"But MOMMY, I lost the birthday card, she will be so upset, I promised her I would bring it today, we HAVE GOT to find it."

To understand that Jacee-Kay has to be in her class by 7:45

To also understand I had Blakelynne and Jacee-Kay buckled in the car and the car running.

To understand also that it was already 7:30.
Maybe even to Understand that I was in heels.

I ran back inside anyway.  I couldn't find it.

I know she was devastated that she couldn't give her friend a card that day.

I did find it however (that evening), and so the next morning, on the way to school and before Jacee-Kay could have a second melt down I told her that the card had been in her backpack the entire time. 

"No mom, I already checked."

"Check again."

What do you know....CARD. IN. BACKPACK. 

So hopefully her friend received the card and loved it.  It was definately an event needless to say.

I like this story because my sweet girl is such a sweet friend! She spent time on a birthday card, she grieved over a lost birthday card, and then she celebrated over a found BIRTHDAY CARD! I just think it is so sweet and special that she did something for someone else without anything in return.  A true gift. It makes me so proud.  I love my six year old Jacee-Kay.

Valentine Day Sweetie- Jacee-Kay

Valentine Day Sweetie-Blakelynne