Mollie hiding from me after church yesterday.
Sydney flying at gymnastics last week. After this she did 3 back flips by herself in the air. I have a video of that.
Sydney ate scrambled eggs! Can you believe it? We were having omelets for dinner and Phil had the eggs out about to make them (he does eggs best). We didn't really mention whether they would eat them or not. I thought that Mollie would, but wanted to see what Sydney was going to say about it (that she wanted macaroni). Sydney said, oh, I want my eggs plain. I told her that we were going to have omelets and that it was kind of like a quesadilla with egg on the outside. She said "I want them plain like at breakfast". We rarely eat eggs so I'm assuming this came from Gramma and Grandpa on one of their IHOP trips together!
So Phil scrambled up the girls some eggs with a little cheese and they ate them like they'd been doing it for years! I was shocked. We're really making some head way with Sydney's foods lately! Mollie's always been a pretty good eater, but sometimes what Sydney wants influences her.
Just regular old life going on here:) We generally stay pretty busy. The girls were on Spring Break this week, but it didn't phase us much. Except for the fact that I am used to having those hours to myself during the week that I haven't had! Thursday my friend Jennifer invited the whole class over to their house to play in their awesome back yard. The weather was beautiful so we played outside all morning. I had to drag Sydney out of there. She's been having a hard time with transitions lately. Friday she also had a hard time leaving our lunch with friends at Panera. Today we went to a teddy bear picnic at our friends Dawn and Ava's church which was super fun! Well, just Sydney and I, and once again, when it was time to leave Ava's house, meltdown from Sydney. Phil and Mollie had a special sneak to Chickfila while we were gone:)
Sydney woke up from her nap today really cranky and kind of hoarse so I think she's coming down with something. Tonight we ate at Rudinos with our friends James (aka Jamie to the girls) and Michele.
From the minds of little kids:
Sydney~
2 girls walking their dogs down the sidewalk. "wow, I think those girls are 9"
"when I was little I used to call Chickfila chich-chil-A, but now I'm big so I say Chickfila"
"Peeps are healthy foods, they are good for your teeth" (uh, no)
Mollie~
"wanna see my new one malmation?" (one hundered and one dalmation she got in her Easter basket)
"I'm a mean witch!" (not sure where that came from, maybe Wizard of Oz which Sydney loves to watch)
"my name is Eliza. It's my birthday" (her friend from school who she constantly talks about. The funny thing is that we were invited to Eliza's birthday in Dec., but Mollie was sick and didn't go. But she's been playing her party with her Melissa and Doug birthday set.
First of all, this is a sobering thought, there was a fire today at the apartment complex where I used to live!
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/2633723/
I lived there for a year right after college graduation with my roomie Laurin and Nikki who lived on our hall. We were all so poor. We had the rent divided up by amenities of your room, haha. We drew straws, but I prayed for the cheapest room. Laurin payed more b/c she got the master suite and Nikki paid like $10 more than me b/c she was right next to the bathroom. I had the room in the middle and had to walk through the living room to get to the bathroom. Did I care? No! Anyway, it really brought back memories to see this building, which was probably not even our building, up in flames. We lived on the 3rd floor also. That's where we lived the year we got like 30 inches of snow in Jan. 2000 and could not get out. Phil had 4 wheel drive and could get as far as Duraleigh road, but not around to our building. It was Laurin's 23rd birthday while we were snowed in so we hiked to the "main road" and he dropped off a 12 pack of beer to us. Which did not really go far with 3 stranded girls, haha. But our neighbor college boys were jealous. OH, what fun.
Anyway, tonight I took the girls to see Horton Hears a Who! It was really cute. Sydney got a little crazy and it didn't really make sense that Mollie would pay more attn. than she did, but Sydney's been very well, let's say outgoing, lately. It was great b/c there were only 3 families there for the 6:20 showing, but I think it gave her the sense that she could be as loud as she wanted and stand on chairs! Phil is gone for the next few nights so it was our special sneak that ended up costing me like $30!! It was about $21 for tickets and $9 for popcorn and my diet coke which I did have to have. I even brought their cups in with us!! I'm really looking forward to the summer movies that they show at 10am during the week with $1 tickets for kids, free for parents, $1 drinks and popcorn.
Oh, and my hint for if you're sharing popcorn among/with children. Bring dixie cups and stick them in your bag and put the kids' popcorn in it. I did not do this of course, but had the idea when I'm in there. They wanted me in the middle which complicated the inhaling of popcorn a bit. Yes, I'm sending that in to Parent's magazine:)
Switching topics to cleaning: It's impossible I've discovered to have a clean house. Well, neat house. As soon as I get one room cleaned it is at the cost of having another room all messed up b/c the kids are playing in there while I'm cleaning the other room. The girls play much better in the play room when it's neat and they can find stuff easier. But then they mess it up and don't want to clean up. So then they don't want to play in there, haha. Ugh! Viscious cycle. And why do I have a dining room? Really, that was not a smart idea. The table is always a clutter spot.
So I'm currently taking a break from trying to make the dining room look normal again and I'm listening to music on TV. I like the hit list channel on cable. Phil would be annoyed that I'm also watching it. He likes to "conserve the plasma" by turning the screen off when listening to music. So I'm being a rebel b/c it makes me feel like someone else is here:)
Tomorrow night I have a ladies night out thing and I managed to get a babysitter since Phil's gone. What's funny is that he's actually at the beach. Conway and Loris hospitals (right outside of Myrtle) are some big customers of his. But he doesn't want to stay at the beach house b/c if he stays at the Hampton Inn down the road he gets more points!! Our trip to Disney next Jan. is already paid for by his Hilton points, haha. But we aim to never pay for a hotel again!!!!!!!
Chase came over today while Nancy went to the dentist on her day off. He is so cute!!! Really, I love how he's getting so big, but is still so little. I'm not sure Mollie was ever that small. Well, maybe in her first 2 weeks of life. And by 5 months Sydney was starting to pork out a bit more too. It's nice to carry him around and not feel like my arms are getting tired.
We had a great weekend at the beach! Wow, I really didn't want to leave. It was a great feeling though. The girls had a great Easter. They did lots of egg hunts together outside and played and played. Then crashed in the car on the way home. Sydney did not nap at all there so she was really tired by today. Chase was a very good boy too! We intended to get out to the beach a little more and take some good Easter pics, but that never got done, oops. 
Kitchen and back door taken from living room:
We're in our new beach house! I'll have some pics to post when I have a little more time, but we closed this morning and it's great! We definitely have some work to do, but the inside is nearly perfect. Fully remodeled kitchen and new appliances. Need to move a few beds around and change a comforter or 2 that are really ugly:)
We got everything in the house including some Poptarts and paper towels and other personal things of theirs like soap and shampoo! That we don't necessarily want, haha. It literally seems like they were staying here then walked out and didn't come back, haha!
We have a list of things that def. need to be done that are big. But it is 30 years old! We can't wait to bring more people down here with us!
We'll probably be setting it up with a rental company this weekend also. And tomorrow the sea wall guy is coming b/c we need a new one. I had the girls out in the back yard at high tide to show them that there really was water in the channel and she said, "is our house floating???" It was so cute and really kind of made sense the way I'm sure it all looked to her. More later! Gotta go to bed!
