She's Back...

...the Hair Cutting Bandit has returned...

Last night Bo walked into our bathroom to find...

...with the bandit caught red-handed. I don't know what she's thinking! At least she was somewhat even...

...how considerate for her to trim up both sides. You can even see the cut from last time. So now she has 4 different layers in her hair...

...and recently she's decided she wants to grow out her bangs so she has been running around like this...

....and this was this morning after her hair was done, it's the only way to pull in all 4 layers of her hair...

...and after her cutting job last night I threatened to cut all her hair short, and shockingly that wasn't the idea she had in her mind. She sobbed at the thought of losing all her hair. So this is how it will stay until I can get her up north to get a haircut to fix the damage. She's only 3, so it doesn't matter, right?...

...the little angel....

The Prayer of the Children

We started working with Boo quite a while ago on learning how to pray, probably the last year or so. And for a while she was doing pretty good at it, a bit repetitive, but hey, that's how we learn, right? Then all of a sudden she stopped, she wanted nothing to do with praying. So we would have to really push her, and help her to get her to pray and even then sometimes we weren't successful. Then enters Sunbeams class. Since going into Sunbeams, she's gained a renewed confidence. Just the last week she has really taken to it, but I really have to control myself when she prays because she has really taken it to a new level. For the most part, she no longer is repetitive, she actually thinks quite hard about what she wants to say:

"Please bless that Mommy will take me to the dentist"

"Please bless that Daddy will go to work tomorrow" (And you'd think it was very considerate for her to pray for the safety of her daddy's job in this crazy economy, but the next day was a Saturday. Bo was a little put out that she didn't want him home the next day.)

"Please bless Mommy to go to the store"


"Please bless Mommy to go to the store and buy me a prize"

And from last night:
"Please bless that I can ride my bike tomorrow... all the way to Olivia's house... by myself... so I can play with toys... and with Olivia and baby Kayten... and watch a movie."

Hey, I can't complain, I just have to not laugh when listening. It's harder than it looks!

Penny For Your Thoughts?

I need your opinion: (although, I probably won't give you a penny, so know that you are offering your opinion freely)

First, how do you get your 3-year old to stop crawling into bed with you in the middle of the night and understand that she needs to sleep in her own bed?

Second, if you were going to buy a new camera, what kind would you get? (The camera needs to be portable, as much as I would love one of those fancy photographer cameras, it needs to be compact)

Third, if you were going to choose a theme for a child's room where both a girl and boy share the room, what theme would you choose?

I think that's about all I need opinions on; answer one, answer all of them, but just don't answer none. ☺

Better Late Than Never...

Since I finally got my "Christmas" letter out, I thought I'd post the final product of our latest family picture. I liked the first picture the best, but I also liked the closer shot as well. Boo's head is a little crazy in the close up one, but it shows her crazy personality. We ended up taking about 60 pictures, and a couple turned out good, but in most of them at least one of us was making some kind of goofy face. Anyway, thanks goes to Jordan for putting up with our crazy family and for being willing to come takes some pictures last minute for us! You're the best!

Singing Diva

Boo has the unique ability to learn a song very quickly. I caught her in a good mood today and she gave a couple of her famous renditions for me. Here she is singing everything from Abba to church songs!

Texas Sized Fun

I've been meaning to post these pictures for the last week, but never found the time to. So before Mallory kills me for never posting them, here they are.

Mallory met us on the day of our last doctors appointment and spent the day with us. We were really glad she was okay with making the trip down to see us. Since she moved, this was our first time to see her, I guess it's our turn next to go up and see her. She even went to the ultrasound with us. Sorry guys, she was the first to know! She was a great cheering section for us when we found out, Bo and I were in a little bit of a shock! We then spent the rest of the day doing a little shopping, going to the mall and then we caught dinner together before we headed our separate directions to go home. As a tradition when Bo comes to appointments with me we visited his favorite restaurant, Texas Roadhouse.

It was kids night that night (every Monday night, just FYI), so Boo got a little bucket full of prizes and we even got her a balloon hat. Of course, she only wore it for about 2 seconds and then was uninterested. Kids!

Here's our attempt at a silly face picture, the only thing I find funny about it is the nose-picker!

We had a great day with Mallory, and were sad to say goodbye. With 2 doctors appointments, visits to a number of stores and a lot of time in the car, it was a long day, we were ready to be home and Boo fell asleep in the car which left us with a quiet ride home!

Christmas, Finally!

I am just really behind in blogging. It's been busy around here, so I'm not caught up at all. Luckily I really only have Christmas to blog about, but it's taken me so long to get there!

My parents came for the week of Christmas. Boo loved having them around. We decided to do graham cracker houses for the first time with Boo; she's just been too little in years past. Here are some picture from the event!

I got the idea from a friends blog to make trains instead of houses. That way you can fill them with candy and stuff and give them away. I made two, we kept one and gave the other to Boo's friend Olivia and her family. I thought they turned out so cute!

Here are our house creations. First is my house, the middle is Boo's house, and the last is Grandma's house. Click on them to see them in more detail, especially Boo's, she went to town on decorating, and eating of course!

Then I had so many picture from Christmas that I was just going to put them in a slide show, but found the option to do a movie and tried that instead. So here is Christmas at the Lee house.

Boo and I ended up going home with my parents. We went through the valley and stayed there for a couple days, we had a family party and got to just visit with the family in the valley. Boo had a great time playing with Bedelia. These were the only pictures that got taken from the event, it was on our way out of town!

We were up north for about a week, it was full of visiting and getting sick. Boo had a day or two of being sick, and I had a day of being in pain from a bout with TMJ. We did get to go to lunch with a group of old friends, and had a great time catching up. We decided we need to do it more!

I had my camera with me up there, but didn't pull it out half as much as I should've, so I'm short on pictures. After a week of being there Boo and I were ready to get home and sleep in our own beds. We hitched a ride with my friend Lydia to Tucson and Bo came and picked us up there. It was a good visit up north, and a good Christmas but we were ready to be home and get back into normal life!

Changes

I've decided to allow anonymous commenting again on my blog. There's a lot of reasons for me doing this, one being that a lot of people who read our blog don't have a google ID, and I don't want to discourage them from commenting. So please remember to leave your name if your commenting anonymously. I don't want to have to take it off again because I get blog stalkers again. so please leave your name! Also for all you anonymous people/blog stalkers, start commenting! I wanna know who's out there reading my blog!

And the Winner Is!...

We've found out what we're having! Click here to hear the news!

Voting Time

I've been a little out of commission this last week or so and I do plan on doing some updates, but for now I wanted to just post a little blurp. This coming Monday I have a doctors appointment and we get to find out what we're having. So it's time for you all to cast your votes, I was just interested in seeing what you all think, or what your predictions are. Drop a comment and let us know! The first comments are what our little family thinks!

For more info on how the pregnancy is going, see my pregnancy blog!