Little Miss Attitude

Kendall and I have had to have a little chat about her "attitude". She was ignoring me the other day so I said "excuse me" and she turned around and said "no excuse ME". I thought - oh i don't think so honey. So I got down eye level with her and said "I don't know where you've picked up this attitude, but in this house that is not how we talk to each other so you can talk like that all you want, but you will be in your room A LOT." She said she was sorry. Every now and again a little snottiness gets thrown out there but I remind her of our talk and she changes her tune real quick. :)

Friday night we went to the Hudsonville Fair with Adalynn and Jordan. Kendall had such a blast. She got to pet the animals and climb all over a bunch of tractors and ride a roller coaster (or a train). She wanted to ride some of the big rides but she's not tall enough yet.

Oh yes and she keeps telling me that she wants "earrings" and I keep telling her it hurts and she just says okay so during our long weekend coming up I may take her to get her ears pierced again. She may chicken out but who knows - she has been pretty daring and tough so far. At least I can reason with her this time and tell her not to take them out and EAT THEM. EW!

Another birthday party!

We got to enjoy Maison's first birthday party on Saturday - Kendall (as well as the other kids) had a blast. All week Kendall kept telling me she was gonna sing 'had a birday" to Maison and she sure did. And as you can tell - the rest of the kids were more interested in the cake than Maison was.Shane provides great entertainment...Breanna was over on Sunday and the girls wanted their hair done alike - if Kendall's hair ever gets as thick as Breanna's I don't know what I'll do with myself. The little side ponytail I did for Breanna is as thick as all of my hair put together. Kendall's is far from thin though - when I put a ponytail in today I used one of my hair ties and it held it much better than the little rubberbands for little girls....geez I have to start sharing my stuff this early on? Breanna makes things very easy on me when she's over - Kendall follows her everywhere and when I try helping her, she tells me "no mommy banna do it". And Breanna loves it so hey I'll gladly kick my feet up. When Uncle Andy comes over without Breanna, Kendall doesn't normally say hello she says "where's banna" and looks past him. Sorry Andy!
She has been very "i do it mommy" with things lately - the only thing that I have a hard time not redoing is her socks. I know, it's small and I don't fix them, but I don't want the daycare teachers thinking I'm a complete knob and don't know how to dress her. But she is so proud of herself when she's done so I figure if that's the worst thing they think about me who cares!

Who cares if you just had a bath

Sorry - no pictures, just a story. Hopefully I'll have more pictures after Maison's birthday party. So last night I gave Kendall a bath even though it wasn't bath night because her and Evan at daycare had a nice little wood chip fight and her hair was full of dirt and other fun things. So after her bath she looks out the door and tells me she needs to "take a walk on the driveway' - okay girl whatever you say. So we put our "fittops" on and walked down the driveway. Then she got on the grass and said "come on let's look in the air for birds" so we laid down and looked for birds. She made me start CALLING for the birds. I'm sure the neighbors thought I'd totally lost it. I was trying not to laugh at her because she was so serious about screaming "tweet tweet come here birdies". Then she wanted me to chase her so when I caught her I twirled her around and when I sat her down I acted like I was dizzy and fell and she thought that was hilarious. So then she pretended to fall. So her hair stayed clean - but the rest of her did not remain so clean, including the pajamas - oh well, she'd have gotten dirty again eventually.