Halloween and Dress Up

So the girls have been anxiously awaiting Halloween. We've got their costumes all ready and they try them on at least once a week! Here are some pictures of them, and a few more cute ones I pulled off the computer ;-)

Karis is going to be Tinkerbell

Three Amigas

Ruby is Pink 'Meow Meow'

Karis digging into the popcorn!

Sierra is going to be a Ballerina

My girlies!

Ruby dressed up as her favorite princess!

Daddy told her to put the Cheezits back in the pantry :(

Sgt. Sierra

Me and my Ruby

Update

I am no longer a daycare provider as of Friday night. Dustin and I aren't really too upset, this will give us more time to focus on our family. Oh, and more time to scrapbook :D Thanks for all your prayers and support!
~Aleta

STILL Potty Training!

Yep, that's Ruby... IN APRIL 2006!!! And look, here it is SEPTEMBER 2007 and she is still not potty trained! She likes to sit on the potty, will pee-pee occasionally and if we catch her in the process of going poo-poo we sit her on the potty to finish. But she will not tell us that she has to go (unless its 10:30pm at night and she wants an excuse to get out of bed :eyeroll: ) We've tried threatening, bribing, singing and dancing, giving candy, buying ice cream... EV-VRY-THING!!!

She just doesn't care. So I have come to terms with it. Hey, if I wait a little while longer, I'll probably be able to potty train Karis and Ruby at the same time - lol!

Ruby Ruby Ruby!

Miss Rubriana is 3! We ended up going over to Kid Zone on Friday with some friends for a pizza and cake. Ruby wanted a Snow White cake, so here she is. Sierra said that the cake was very beautiful, but would be even more pretty with a necklace. So I put a necklace on her. LOL!

Ruby can't do the regular "I'm Three" fingers, so we taught her the German way. Hehehe.

Opening up gifts

The girls eating pizza and chicken. And Ruby is checking to make sure her cake is still okay on the other table.

Baby Barbies - her favorite!

A princess cake for my Princess!

MMMM... Sissy's cake is Good!

Neunkirchen Zoo

A few weekends back we went to the Zoo at Neunkirchen. Zoos in Germany are more open and you can get up real close to the animals. The one right down the road in Kaiserslautern is scary! The lions and tiger are within reach, and one day they were not happy and looked like they wanted to eat Sierra! LOL! But we normally go to the one in Neunkirchen because its bigger and has more animals at it (real animals, not farm animals hehehe). Enjoy the pics!

Girls!

GIRLS! Do do do do do doo-do
All I really want is GIRLS!
Do do do do do doo-do
In the morning its GIRLS!
Do do do do do doo-do
And in the evening its GIRLS!

So the girls are still growing and getting into EV-RY-THING! Karis Marie thinks she is 1 going on 4! When we go to the park, she climbs up the stairs, through a tube and goes down the slide (on her tummy). She does this over and over and over, and if you try to help her, she tells you "NA NA NA NA NA NA NA!" Such an attitude! She's also into taking her pants off every day. So most days she just runs (yes RUNS!) around in a onesie or t-shirt and her diaper.


The girls in their swim suits. We went to the indoor pool a few weeks back. The girls had a blast in the kiddie area. Karis didn't care if the water was up to her chest, she was walking around and wanted to go down the water slide. Even if she did go under at the end, she just stood right back up. Daddy took Sierra and Ruby into the big pool one at a time to get them to float on their back (with him holding them) and they both flipped out and didn't trust that he wouldn't let go.


Ruby will definitely not be a social butterfly. Most days she is totally content with just playing in her room or in a corner all by herself. She loves the little mini barbies (think Barbie's little sister) and will gather all of those up to play. And she is still a cuddlebug :D
The girls love their princess dresses. The other day the ice cream man came by while they were dressed up so we went down to get a scoop of ice cream. He was honored to be serving royalty! And called them Bella (he's Italian) when he gave them their ice cream. Of course, then Mommy had to handwash the ice cream out of the dresses later that night.

Sierra and Karis. They are like two peas in a pod. Karis loves her big sis! She loves Ruby too, but she has more fun terrorizing Ruby and does it every chance she gets.


What a Koolaid Kisser. Sierra is getting taller every day! A friend of mine sent some hand-me-down clothes, and I thought, oh, these are too long, they won't fit Sierra. Nope, the fit her to a tee! And she tells everybody that Ms. Julia sent her new clothes. Mostly because they question why she's wearing jeans and long sleeve shirts and sweaters in August. LOL! Its because they're new!
Crazy girls! Ruby and Sierra like to play together. But they get involved in something, and Karis will come over to 'help out' so they've taken to either going in their room or in the bathroom so they can shut the door so Karis can't get in. Then Karis bangs on the door yelling "NA NA NA NA NA NA" LOL! Its really funny, it looks like she's telling them off.

Not much else is new over here. The girls certainly keep us busy. I have a bunch of cute pics from the Zoo in Neunkirchen, so I will post those later. Gotta go make lunch and get ready for Happy Hour ;-) (that would be nap time)!

My Little Monkey

Karis Marie is such a little monkey! She climbs on EVERYTHING! And I do mean everything! Here are a few pictures of her exceptional climbing skills. :eye roll:

Climbing in the baby doll stroller

Look, on the climbing up on the chair - which is moved away from the table

Because when the chairs are by the table

Look what she does!

Oh, and lets not forget the bookshelf. We've had to move the little chair by it

She wants to play on the computer too!

From the other side, she likes to climb up on the desk too!

Oh, and she climbs on our couch when I'm on the computer and jumps from the back of the couch to me!!!! She is the cause of my gray hair!

Another Weekend Almost Over :(

Not much new happened this week. I figured I would post a picture of me and Dustin as all you ever see is the kiddos. This was taken a few weeks ago, I got my hair cut too, even though you can't see it in the picture. Dustin said he really liked it - I "didn't look like frump girl anymore" AGGHH! MEN!! I told him next time he should just stop at the "I really like it" LOL!
We went to WIC and the Pediatrician this week since I had off. Sierra weighs 36.9 pounds and is 40.75 inches tall. Ruby weighs 36.1 pounds and is 36.5 inches tall. And Karis weighs 19.5 pounds and is 29 inches tall. And they all got their shots on Friday - which was an ordeal with Sierra of course, but she should be good until she's 12 now! And Karis has to go back with Daddy next week to get her blood drawn. They tried to do it Friday but couldn't get it and after a lot of poking and prodding in both arms, I said I would bring her back in for another try next week.

Well, off to clean my house. I have a DC kid coming tomorrow at 5:15! Why did I say yes! At least its only for 9 days... just 9 days - I hope I can do it.

Fun Weekend!

So the girls and I had either food poisoning or a 24 hour bug this weekend. Not fun! We went to check on Sierra Friday night and she was sitting on her bed in a pile of... YUCK! I have no clue how long she had been sitting there. She was staring at the wall with a blank stare on her face. So I picked her up, getting it all over me, and we got in the bath together. Then she spit up a little twice more before we put her back in her bed.

Ruby woke up Saturday morning and came into our room and said "I have throw up in my hair" Sure enough, Dustin checked and she had it all over. I wasn't feeling good at all! So I stayed in bed most all day Saturday. I had to go to the bank and BX, but I was back in bed by 2pm and didn't get back up until about 7 or 8pm. Dustin took care of the girls (who were both fine by now) while I slept. And Karis threw up once, right after she nursed. And no it wasn't 'spit up' it was everything she had just ate. Can you transfer a bug through breastfeeding? I'm not sure, all I know is I nursed her and she threw up about 15 minutes later.

So I am just now getting over it today. Thankfully I don't have to work this week! No daycare kids so I made a bunch of doctor's appts.

Oh, and last night I took Sierra and Ruby to see Harry Potter. They had fun. Ruby just liked to eat popcorn and candy, and watched a bit, but it didn't end until 9:30 and she was tired the last 30 min and just layed on my lap. Sierra liked the movie and asked why everyone always tries to kill Harry Potter? LOL! So now I really want to read the last book (even though I haven't read the first 6!) They don't have the first ones at the library and I don't want to read them out of order, so I guess I'll just have to wait.

We've also heard that Transformers is really good, so we may take the girls to see that next weekend. But I think Dustin will be going with me this time. The girls were really good, but I guess if I want to actually SEE the movie, without going potty, getting more popcorn, cleaning up spills, having kids rotate sitting on my lap, and a 4 year old asking a question about the movie every 10 minutes I need to go by myself. LOL!

Happy Birthday Karis Marie!

Miss Karis Marie turned One Year Old today!!! My baby is one and *almost* walking! Here are pictures of her taking a few steps last night. She can take about 3 to 4 steps before she falls on her bottom. But she is getting good at getting back up. I don't want my baby to walk!!! But Dustin and I were clapping and saying Yay! everytime she stood up to walk a few steps. So now, when she stands up, if we don't clap, she lets us know by clapping and saying Yay! Hehehe

So we woke up this morning and Karis got to open her presents. She got a pop-up toy from Sierra and Ruby. A Pooh-bear ride-on toy from Mommy and Daddy. And a baby doll from Grandma Patty and Papa Donn. She loves all her toys, and knows that they are hers!!! She will let Sierra or Ruby know if they are playing with one of her toys. Here she is getting ready to play with her pop up toy.

And opening gifts

My favorite baby doll! She giggles like me!

Another present

OOH! A pop-up toy!

Care Bear Cake! We put the cake in front of Karis expecting her to dig in. She went to grab it, got just to the edge of the icing, and then took her hands away. She didn't want to get all messy. She wouldn't even eat the cake with her hands, Mommy had to feed it to her. And when I took a break to get a bite of my own cake, she promptly handed me her fork! :D

Watch Out, they all have wheels now!

Haircuts

So Sierra has been asking to get a haircut at 'the place upstairs' on Vogelweh. Its the beauty shop that I go to - lol! I usually cut the girls hair once a year, in the summertime, but Sierra really wanted to go to the beauty shop so today I took her. She said she wanted a lot cut off and short hair. So I told the lady to give her a bob. Well, afterwards, Sierra told every single person that we saw today that she had bob hair. Hehehe!

Ruby watched Sierra get her hair cut, and then didn't really want to get hers done. The lady put her on the chair, and Ruby kind of looked like she was gonna wail. I asked her if she wanted a lot cut off like Sierra or just a little. She said just a little bit, so the lady just gave her a trim. Daddy wanted her hair short too, but Ruby really didn't want a haircut. So here are pics of Sierra.

Before

After