Oobleck!

I brought home some leftover corn starch from school a couple months ago (we used it in a lab). Last week, we finally got around to making some oobleck.  As you can see, Abby had lots of fun! We played with this stuff for well over an hour. 

Trash

While cleaning up the living room this afternoon I asked Abby to throwaway a box from a new case of batteries. "Sure" she said and she disappeared.
Seconds later she returned, tears streaming down her face.
"I loosed it" "what?" I asked her.
"My pony brush" she said. When I asked to throwaway the box her hands were full of Christmas goodies that she refused to put down and apparently her new My Little Pony brush was lost in the kitchen trash can.
Thankfully Dave had taken the trash out in the last hour and it was safe to reach down inside and save the "pony brush."
Crisis adverted at least for now.

'Twas the night before Christmas

'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the Pleimann house...

Abby is so excited for Santa to visit tonight. She's left out some petite fours, which as soon as she fell asleep Proton promptly ate. She can't wait to see if Santa brings her a purple dress, (word from the north pole is this might actually happen!)

 We spent most of the evening at Grandma and Grandpa's both kiddos were pretty tired by the time we got home. We put out Santa's treats, read the 'Twas the Night Before Christmas and they were out. Now Santa has some serious work today.
Merry Christmas Everyone!

1st Christmas

Abby was only a month old when we celebrated her first Christmas. We spent a lot of time trying to get a great picture of her in front of the tree.

 This is still one of our favorites. She's actually laying on my shoulder with the tree lite up in the background. 

So Noah is nowhere as little as Abby was and it feels like Noah has been part of our family forever but I still wanted some special 1st Christmas pictures... It wasn't quite the same but he's so great. I had to bribe him with cheerios but I was able to get some decent shots.

 Snack break after only a few shots.

 Much happier standing up

 Ho, Ho, Ho, he's too funny.

 I'm still hungry

He's my little Noah man

Quotables: Taking a Bath

So many conversations with abby amuse me lately.  They're getting more and more funny as she gets older.

Peggy: "Who wants to take a bath?"
Me: "I do, I do!"
Abby: "You can't take a bath with us."
Me: "Why not?
Abby: "You're too big for the bath tub!"
Me: "No, I'm not.  I want to take a bath."
Abby: "No, you belong in the shower."
Me: "I do?"
Abby: "Yeah, you belong in the shower with mommy!"

Haha.  Thanks kid.

Holiday Cuteness

I've been saying for awhile we need to get a picture of the kiddos under the Christmas tree and we finally got a few shots tonight before bed. Noah is been on his new meds for few days and he's a different kid. It's amazing how much happier he is when his ear isn't clogged. And you can't even tell he has pink eye. Thankfully he's been really good about taking both medications this time around.

 And yes, Abby is wearing mismatched jammy's. She loves her nightgown but tends to get cold legs so she wears her jammy pants underneath.

O-N

Tonight at dinner, Abby informed us that she had to go potty.  This seems to happen pretty much every night.  Sort of a mid dinner break if you will.  Ugh.  So, we got her down and sent her in.  She wanted me to come turn on the light.  So I told her to use her stool to turn it on. 

So, we hear the stool moving over.  All the sudden, Abby says "It has an O and an N.  And that means it's on!"

Peggy and I looked at each other, trying to figure out what she was talking about.  Then it hit us, she was reading the ON that is written on the light switch.  It dawned on us that neither of us have taught her that is on there. 

I went in there to undo her overalls, and asked her how she knew it said ON.  She said: "I teached it to myself!"  She was very proud of herself.  And we are too.  Too smart I tell ya.

We just gotta work on that teached/taught thing.  Heh....