Monday, May 12, 2008

Tomboy to . . . . . GIRL????

I want you to look at the following picture and tell me what might look strange. Any ideas?? Well, I'll give you a hint - that's Ashlyn - you know, the one with the SKIRT on and holding a BABY DOLL. What? You didn't recognize her? You thought, surely that's not Ashlyn...I hate to admit it, but starting last week she wanted to wear dresses and has been carrying that crazy baby doll EVERYWHERE. I"m not sure what happened. Last Monday she woke up and wanted to wear a church dress. WHAT? I thought she was kidding so I laughed and then she got mad at me and actually, seriously wanted to wear a dress. Honestly, I really didn't know how to respond except to say, "no?" We just aren't dress wearing people here so I was caught off guard a bit. We eventually settled on a skirt rather than a dress. Every single person that saw her that day commented on her skirt - too funny. Maybe she's a girl after all!

Shawn has been working like crazy in the front yard and we are officially done! All of our front yard landscaping is finished. We even bought some potted flowers to set in the rock garden out front. It looks awesome. Now we are heading to the backyard and having a new patio done in a couple weeks. Can't wait!!

Gabriella has been cracking us up lately. She has quite the personality these days. She is so funny - constantly hamming it up and being super ornery. She is the only one of my three kids that is interested in baseball. She will actually go get the ball, put it on the tee, get the bat and swing and hit it - 14 months old!! Austin could care less, but is definitely improving on his swing a bit. I have a feeling Gabriella will be the athlete out of the three - she is super coordinated for her age (not sure about her brain power yet...)

Austin is having a great time also. His latest "moment" was this - Every night when Shawn does bath time with the kids Austin always has to pee as soon as the water turns on. Shawn is usually sitting on the toilet getting the girls ready to get in the tub and has to get up so that Austin can go to the bathroom. Well, last night Shawn was talking to Ashlyn and putting her in the tub. When he turned around Austin was up on the step stool, had one leg up on the counter and was peeing in the sink. When Shawn asked what he was doing, of course he said he had to pee. duh. Shawn said he didn't get mad, just stated that we don't pee in the sink. He obviously just didn't know there was a rule about that I guess. Don't worry, if you are coming over any time soon I did clean the sink. Life is never dull around here!
I think that's it for now. Hopefully the weather will be good here this week. We spent almost all day outside.
Hope you are having the time of your life!
ST

1 comment:

EmEaster said...

She might just pull a girly girl on you. She can still be a tomboy too. Trust me. Granted i just bought all dresses for my little girl from Kiersten.