My girls

I have decided that my girls are the best free entertainment I can possibly get. Today we were out at the store (as usual) when they both said they wanted to watch Giddy Up Pooh when we got home. Like some of you reading this I was wondering, what in the world is Giddy Up Pooh? I had never heard of it. Ella pulled out the Piglet Movie and they began to watch it. The theme song comes on and says "Winnie the Pooh Winnie the Pooh..." to which my daughters were singing loudly to the same tune "Giddy up Pooh Giddy up Pooh..." I laughed so hard once I realized what Giddy Up Pooh was!

They have both been asking more about Christmas this year and I have about decided to hire a babysitter any time I need to go out. Ava asks for EVERYTHING for Christmas this year. I finally flat out told her that I was done shopping for her (which was not a lie). So now she has moved on to asking for it for her birthday. I can't say I don't admire her ambition. She will remember 98% of what she asked for too, I on the other hand will not.

I want to thank Zhu Zhu pets and my younger cousin (I'd say little but he's almost my height now!) Matthew for helping me come to the realization that my children do NOT need a hamster for a pet. First of all Ella of course is terrified of the real thing. She kept telling Matthew to put his back up when he took it out yesterday. But the Zhu Zhu pets are awesome. I have nothing to clean up or remember to feed! And if they go under the couch it isn't nearly as hard to catch them! But that is just the thing. I can just picture Ava deciding a real hamster needs to come out to play and we spend the rest of the day chasing it around the apartment to get it back in the cage!

I asked Ava the other day if she liked math and she looked at me and grinned. Then as she nodded she said "I like math! And it's like Matthew! It sounds the same!" She is so smart. And a smart aleck, but she does come by it honestly, my baby book states I was (and still am) the same way at her age! We were discussing French one day and I asked them if they could say French. Ava answered with "French...French...French Fries!" then I asked if they could say "bay" which is the pronunciation of b in French. Ava then answered with "Bay...Bay...Bacon!" Lordy, I swear all she thinks about is food (not that anyone could tell with as small as she is!).

Ella's new thing is to tell me to be nice to her when I tell her to stop doing something. I told her earlier today at the store that I was running out of patience with her and she told me "Get some more mommy. Do they have some here?" By the way we were in Hobby Lobby and no, they do not carry patience lol. I did get a good laugh out of that and couldn't stay mad at her.

But I do have to say that I love when they come in my room in the morning (regardless of the fact that the sun has just risen most days) and kiss me and rub my face until I open my eyes and say "I love you Mommy. You make me berry happy!" It makes the start of the day (too early most days) much better.