shoo fly

my cup overfloweth....with ridiculously cute toddler talking. ;)

ad's shoo fly from Molly Leone on Vimeo.

she was talking to the ants below our picnic table...

"Shoo, fly! Don't bother me!" - Unknown

sleep...or lack there of

what's it called again?! ahhh, yes....sleep. i'm sure most of you have read the book circulating the web, "Go The F#@k To Sleep." well i'm pretty sure i could have written it myself. also pretty sure i'm going to have to go with the i'll-sleep-when-i'm-dead theory. and i'm getting okay with it.

little ad's been in and out of a horrible sleep phase for months and months. i really don't know how or why it went wrong, but she is proving to not be a good sleeper and it makes me very sad for her. i've struggled with sleep for as long as i can remember and it is NOT fun!

my little persistent punk...it gets to the point where you just do whatever you can for her to sleep, so ad's had more nights in our bed than we'd care for.

and she's sooo dang cute....

but she is NOT fun to sleep with. she HAS to touch you...and by touching i mean rubbing, pinching and grabbing. and she loves to be close....like forehead to forehead. which again, sweet, but not to sleep.

it wasn't every night. not even every other night. she'd go in spurts. but she'd still sleep all cozy in her crib. well.

but then in may she started showing signs that she was probably coordinated and brave enough to climb in and out of her crib... :(

then you know we had "the night." where she climbed out. a.lot. and she wound up having an improptu sister lovin' sleep over that neither of them expected.

it surprisingly went great! like really great. i mean sure ad had to be pulled out from under the dresser - twice. and woke up on the floor. but hey, she slept.

it went so well, that she hasn't returned to her room. it is sister sleep overs every night.

we tried e on the floor next to her, but ad wouldn't stop touching her so she was up back in her bed. and poor ad has trouble staying on that little matress without all those crib bars keeping her in!

so.....we did what any awesome parents would do and gave our daughter the air matress!

so that she'd stay off the floor when she slept all crazy...

but.she.slept.

and of course they played. i mean it's hard not to with air matresses, right?!

they sometimes stay up after we kiss them goodnight and i hear them whispering and quietly giggling. it always ends with elena yelling at adelyn to "go to sleep." ;)

she eventually does...

they use ad's toddler bed in her room for playing now...

and of course mommy and daddy's bed is the place to be still!

but we keep her sleeping on that air matress....well her body at least....her head might have been on the floor sometimes. we can only ask for so much, ya know?!

so we finally ordered new beds - for both! the matresses came first....and uh, they were excited.

new beds from Molly Leone on Vimeo.

and they're doing great in them! even though they're all ghetto on the floor...

with no true bedding...

but of course, my little punk.....you knew it was just a matter of time before she pulled something else out from under her sleeve...

so one day i had had enough and she had to sleep in HER room by herself...and i noticed some white socks under the door...

yep - little bugger's just used to sleeping on the floor apparently... :(

she got to go back in lanie's room...and i can't tell you how much i LOVE going in and watching them sleep. kinda creepy? yea, i know. i really do love sleeping babies. they are just such miracles....and i love to see them so peaceful and reflect on our day and think about our tomorrow...

plus, they're so sweet how close together they sleep... everyone now...awwwww!

so yea, we're kinda ghetto with our matresses on the floor. and at first it really bothered me and needed to order their beds asap. but i'm over it and who really cares. beds are ordered and we're waiting on them...

they'll both have rails....

which are needed...

i love that they're sleeping in the same room. and until just recently i was thrilled that miss ad was actually sleeping. sigh. i guess i'll also be going with the all-good-things-come-to-an-end theory.

but right now i'm going to go the f#@k to sleep. and HOPE that my little punk stays sleeping. night night.

"Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death." ~Author unknown

ad's gut laugh

the girls were pretending to be scared while watching 101 dalmations and daddy was coming to the rescue. and adelyn thought it was more than hilarious.

Untitled from Molly Leone on Vimeo.

"What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul." ~Yiddish Proverb

slip-n-slide

yes, it has been uber hot...

no, we haven't done anything outside besides get wet...

maybe, it's in the pool for a bit...

yes, this was the first time we got the slip-n-slide out...

no, adelyn was (surprisingly!) NOT scared...

maybe, she had herself an ahhh-mazing time....

yes, the girls stopped to drink the water...

no, it didn't get old...

maybe, e is getting harder to push down the slip-n-slide...

yes, she still makes great slip-n-slide faces...

no, the girls could not have been cuter on their slip-n-slide...

maybe, elena said it was "the best day ever!"

yes, elena helped push adelyn down the slip-n-slide...

no, her arms did not stay ahead of her...

maybe, she did a face plant and had to roll out of it...

yes, she quickly recovered on daddy's back...

no, elena didn't pass up the opportunity to push daddy down the slip-n-slide...

maybe, he enjoyed it a little too much...

yes, yes, yes he got very familiar with the 'ol slip-n-slide...

no, he didn't hold back...

maybe, he's part penguin???

yes, that must be it...

no ladies, you cannot have him. he's all mine...

maybe, he's not the only adult that got their slip-n-slide on...

yes, the girls were exhausted...

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." ~Abraham Lincoln