A mommy moment

Yesterday I was dropping Keilani off at school and she was being silly and goofing around and I said, "Remember your mommy loves you." Then she got very serious and with an intent look on her face she said, "I will NEVER forget that." It just made my heart tingle to hear her say that. I hope she will always remember that.

The Performers

This was at the Primary talent show on May 29, 2009. Keilani and Sadie also performed these same dances at their dance recital on May 28. Sadie sang the song "Tomorrow" from the movie "Annie" for her dance recital and the talent night and did a fabulous job both times! We're so proud of her! The music has a girl singing also, but you can still hear Sadie's voice above it. Keilani wrote a book about kitties and displayed it on the tables at the Talent show. It was very creative and she drew pictures along with it. Sadie sang and danced to "The Bare Necessities" and Keilani sang and danced to "Singing in the Rain." They both did so great! I just love watching them perform! Sadie and Keilani are in the position of second from the right. I'm so proud of both of them. Keilani was a little nervous, but she did wonderfully! Sadie, on the other hand, will probably live her life on a stage!

Keilani's missionary experience

Today Keilani brought home a picture she drew at school of somebody being baptized. This brought up the subject of what happened yesterday at school. In her words this is what she told me, "Yesterday I asked Mrs. Miller if she goes to church. She said, 'No, I don't go to church.' So I drawed a picture of Jesus and gave it to her and told her: This will help you remember the gospel is true! She said 'thank you.'

Keilani lost a tooth!!

We had an eventful evening tonight. Keilani decided that it was time for her loose tooth to be removed. She suggested that we tie string around it and slam the door. So, as per her request, we did just that. Dental floss around the tooth, attached to the front door, Keilani sitting on the step. We were a little worried that an over-reaction would take place, but much to our surprise...she was calm, cool, and collected! Unfortunately, we didn't think the entire thing through very carefully since she was sitting on our cream colored carpet near the front door. No blood was spilled on the carpet(thank goodness), but the tooth went MIA. We're not sure if it went flying out the door as it was slammed or if it landed deep in the fibers of the carpet. We searched and searched and much to our dismay, we found nothing. Fortunately, Keilani wasn't too broken up about the literal losing of the loose tooth and seemed content to write a letter to the tooth fairy and share the bad news. The note says, "This is Keilani. I lost a tooth. I don't know where it is." Sadie felt that she needed to add her note to Keilani's and draw a picture of Keilani with her loose tooth. We were so excited for Keilani and so were she and Sadie. It was such a fun and exciting night!

time to reminisce

I was looking through some files on my computer and found this video of Keilani when she was about 2 years old. I believe we were at a swim meet for Jake's sister Julia. Of course Jake was encouraging her to face her fears and run down a narrow cement wall and jump off the end! What a great dad!

This is one of Sadie from when she was about 2 1/2 months old. She apparently loved the sound of her own voice. Not much has changed!

Tattooed Tyrants

Keilani got some tattoos in her Valentine's day cards from school. She is such a nice sister that she shared a tattoo with Sadie. Keilani wanted the red firey dragon tattoo and she gave Sadie the sweet teddy bear one. (I thought that maybe it should be the other way around!) They each told me where to place the tattoo and I helped them apply it. They felt pretty tough and cool! Sadie, of course, insisted on wearing her beautiful dress to show off the tattoo. Sadie's tattoo faded rather quickly, however I'm beginning to think that Keilani's is permanent! She has had it on for over a month now and it has only slightly worn off. Oh well, maybe she will be tired of it and realize that a REAL tattoo would be boring!

Sadie & her dance partner "Red"

Sadie LOVES her tap shoes. She puts them on almost daily and dances on the kitchen floor. Thank goodness I have laminate floor instead of hardwood! She was dancing around and eating M&M's and chose a red one to be her dance partner. Unfortunately, "Red" has a tragic ending. No matter, she still keeps dancing away!

Keilani-ism and Sadie-Silly

Today Sadie was having "one of those days" today where she just did not want to cooperate. She has recently been wanting to always wear Keilani's clothes. Today she had on Keilani's Christmas dress, which she has the EXACT same dress. I asked her to take it off and put on regular clothes. She refused and after I scolded her and asked her again, she said to me, "Are you done arguing with me? Mommy, you are not choosing the right!" I tried to help her realize that she was the one not choosing the right since she was being disobedient. She still did not take off the dress and after repeated demands, I was told by her, "Mind your own business. I am NOT going to deal with you right now." Frazzled, I gave up. Some time later she was sitting in a chair and said, "Mommy, I'm sorry. I love you!" I gave her a hug and all was well. She quickly jumped up and went and changed her clothes.

Keilani was talking about Mario and how he always chases her and tries to hit her. Jake asked her how it made her feel when he kissed her. She said, "kind of mad at him...and a teeny bit happy."
I was at work at Costco the other day and Jake and Keilani came in to visit me. I was serving yogurt and gave them each a few samples. On the way out, Keilani said to Jake, "Mommy is doing a great job. I hope that lots of people like her yogurt. Maybe she should make sandwiches, then lots of people would like her sandwiches."
Tonight she saw a wishing star in the sky. Jake asked her what she wished for and she replied, "I want the whole world to be clean with no garbage anywhere on it." Then she said, "I want to go hiking with garbage bags and we can pick up all the garbage that we see on the ground." Sadie made a wish too. She wished for the mountains, the trees, the signs, the road, the water, and the people. I don't think she really got the whole idea of making a wish! But then again, maybe she did.

Recap of Misfortune

I usually try to count my blessings instead of counting my misfortunes, but for some reason tonight I was thinking about how we've had a string of bad luck for about the last 6 months. It all started one day when I was taking some pictures at home and took the camera with me to a going away party to take pictures there. All of a sudden, my camera was not working anymore. I don't know what happened, it just wouldn't work. It was flashing some weird code to me. It still doesn't work. After that, things started to go severely downhill from there. My favorite sunglasses broke, our truck broke down, our car broke down, our Explorer was hit 4 times, my Vitamixer blew up, then later got recalled, our oven stopped working properly, Jake got 2 speeding tickets (which he has never got tickets in his life until then), our laptop went wacko, the kids TV broke, our ipod got broken, our portable DVD player won't recognize DVD's and therefore will not play them, and now, as of today, our vacuum blew up. Yay for me I guess I get to spend my birthday money on a new vacuum. I've always wanted a vacuum for my birthday...and a nice colander with a handle, but I already got the colander. With all this happening it compels me to shout, "What have I done to deserve this?" Probably a lot of things. I don't know.

Keilani-ism

"Daddy, you look like Kronk when you cook."

When Jake was asking Keilani what she liked about mommy, she said a few things and he told her that he liked it when mommy kissed him. She said, "I know you do." Then she thought for a minute and then said, "Remember when we were at Carly's house and you asked her who she was going to marry and she said Zack? And then you asked me who I was going marry and I said Indy?" Jake said "Yes." (this conversation was about nine months ago when we were visiting family out in Illinois). Then she said, "I changed my mind." Jake said "Who are you going to marry now?" She said, "Mario!" Then noticing what sparked the change in the conversation, Jake asked: "Has a boy ever kissed you?" She got a smile and said, "Yes." "Where?" "On the lips." "Who was it?" "Mario. But I didn't like it." Jake asked her what she said to him, but she didn't say anything.
Apparently it was in the basement of the Jones' house. Then Jake told her that his first kiss was in kindergarten also to a girl named Megdalen. Keilani liked that name. Later when I got home from work, I asked her about it and she wouldn't tell me. I'm glad that our kids can talk to at least one of us about those things!

Sadie Silly & Keilani-ism

Yesterday I was trying to wake Sadie up in the morning and she rolled over and said, "We forgot to brush our teeth before we marched into the back with our friends." I love it when the kids talk in their sleep. It makes me giggle!

The other day we were getting ready to go somewhere and Keilani was all ready and Sadie was taking forever...as usual. So, Keilani asked if she could run across the street and say hi to the neighbors real quick. I said that would be fine, so off she went while I battled with Sadie to get her ready. A few minutes later Keilani comes home and says, "I saw Owen's balls." You can imagine the first thing that came into my head was, 'she is never going over there again!' Curious and trying to give the neighbor the benefit of the doubt, I asked, "What did they look like?" She said, "Oh, he had basketballs, baseballs, all kinds of balls." I was so relieved that it was those kind of balls. You just can never be too careful these days.

The Marriott world of Legoland!

Last night we decided to just hang out together and play legos. Jake helped the girls make people out of the lego blocks. They made daddy, mommy, Keilani, Sadie & Panion. They also made a doctor, a couple of priesthood holders and some bunkbeds. They would break the people in half or their heads would break off and the doctor would come fix them. Then they would have the priesthood holders give them a blessing. Sadie would speak in a tiny, high voice "I have the priesthood, I can give you a blessing." She would have the doctor give the broken lego people a shot before re-attaching their body parts. Then they would get to go to sleep in the bunkbed. This is complete imagination at work! Keilani was the all green person because apparently it is her favorite color right now. Sadie had the orange head because her favorite color is orange. Jake and I had the red heads and Panion was the short one with the yellow head. One picture is of the bunkbeds, one of our family, one of Jake giving Keilani a piggyback ride and Sadie having a ride on Panion, and one of Jake and Becky kissing and Sadie and Keilani petting Panion...in legos.