A how to video by Lola

How to make the following: mushy cookie, mushy cushy, cushy cushy. An instructional video by Lola

The Lola & Stella Show part II

Here are a couple photos and a short video of Lola and Stella doing whatever the heck they want at a restaurant in Downtown Disney. They were dancing and having so much fun while the wait staff and patrons walked around them. I'm so glad they didn't get in our girls way.





Stella may look a little sad in the above photo, that's because she just got out of the arms of her loving Aunt Amy.

Dear Amy, You're welcome for not posting and tagging you in this photo on Facebook. From your friend, E-mailee

Young at Art

Lola's first ever art show was yesterday at school. The kids and teachers have been working so hard on this for a couple of months now. In prep for the art show the kids have also been learning about famous artists, different types of media and even a little art history thrown in the mix. Lola told us that Vincent Van Gogh is her favorite artist because "he uses short strokes". I couldn't find it in myself to tell her that he was bat shit crazy and cut off his own ear. I'll save that for later.
Unfortunately I was home sick yesterday with stupid strep throat and didn't make it to the art show but Lola's Daddy went and took the camera capturing all of these wonderful photos. Lola took her Daddy to see all of her different pieces and told him all about each one. The above piece is a classroom project, the kids all worked together to make this fabulous sculpture out of recycled items.



Aaron was quite impressed with this rose that Lola made out of clay. The assignment was to make a rose and she did great!
Aw, how sweet is this?!



Lola and her friend show off another classroom project, a house that everyone took part in building. The teacher said that the blue cloth above one of the rooms was Lola's idea.



When I was looking at these photos I asked Lola what this is a painting of and she said "It's called splatter paint just like Jackson Pollock" (I had to google that since I wasn't familiar with Jackson Pollock, maybe I should go back to pre-school)



And finally we see Lola's painting that she calls "the makeup store" where she "used short strokes like Vincent Van Gogh"

We are so proud of our sweet little Lola! And by the looks of the photos Lola is pretty proud as well! Good Job baby girl!!!

beach day

We had a lovely day at the beach today with the girls. Lola continues to love sand and doesn't care when she is completely covered in it. I'm pretty sure I've mentioned before that I prefer the pool to the beach for that reason alone. However, today proved to be a fabulous day for the beach and we spent quite a bit of time there. The girls had fun building sand castles and playing in the water.

Julie and I took the girls to dinner at Muddy Waters tonight, a local place where the kids get pirate tattoos and pirate coins. The girls finished off a great day by gulping down their own Shirley Temple drinks (this is a big deal).

My only complaint this vacation... WHY can't I sleep in past 8am? Lola has been over at her Gigi's house each night and I've been at Pam's so I do NOT have to wake up and tend to my baby so WHY WHY WHY can't I sleep in? It's so annoying.

Cousins at Disney!

OH WAIT...
You were looking for these cousins!


We had a fabulous time at the Magic Kingdom and want to send a special HUGE THANK YOU to Gigi, Mimi and Nanny Karen for an awesome time! Celia enjoyed her first visit at Disney and Lola loved going back.
The girls started the day by having breakfast with the Pooh characters and they ended the day with a firework show where Lola had a huge meltdown because Tinker Bell flew away. Lola made it clear to everyone around us that she wanted Tinker Bell to stay at the Magic Kingdom. She fell asleep in my arms as I carried her to the car... 13 hours after we arrived that morning.
Check out this super frickin adorable video of the girls with Karen on the tea cup ride, they LOVED it!!!!


To see a gallery of photos from our most recent Disney adventure please click here