Disneyland

so last year I took Rylan to disneyland for the last time before she turned 3. It was a very fun and special day. So this year, before my pass expired I wanted to take Cade. So we planned a day just in time and off we went....it was a very special and fun day.....the pictures are in backwards order....so we ended the day with a scoop of choclate ice cream (his choice) and he defiantely enjoyed it and the ice cream you see if all the mess he made which I thought was pretty good for how much fun he was having eat it....
We also rode Autopia, which sadly was not his first ride but it was still pretty fun. I let him steer because its what I do. It was abumpy ride but the bumpy part was his favorite part. He seemed to enjoy it, and told me as the day went on that he wanted to drive. because thats what we called the ride, autopia is so boring but driving sounds like so much fun.

see I told you he was enjoying driving. and i really didnt' touch the wheel until we were at the end of the ride but I did hold onto him because the "seatbelt" on the ride is not the best.

This was the first ride of the day, and he seems to already be pretty happy with life and we are only on the carosel.

It was a very fun special day, there was not a single tear, only one whiney word (Mickey). and a lot of smiles and laughs. We even ended the day playing with Lucas which both boys seemed to enjoy a lot.

Brooke and Delaney

meet brooke and Delanhey. these are the new girls im nannying for. i can't call them kids, they take offense to that. brooke just turned 10 and delaney is 6 1/2. they are both very fun. brooke is a bit more out going but we have had a lot of fun together the last two weeks. they haven't been in school so our days have been filled with a lot of hanging out at home, playing with the 3 dogs, trips to the park, a lot of oragami, and a lot of feeding the ducks....

they both had the ducks eating out of their hands a lot....they have a lot of the ducks named and they have made numerous friends at the duck pond that keeps them occupied for a few hours multiple times a week. we stop at vons and get 88 cent loafs of bread and they go play for a few hours. its fun and simple and close and a good thing for everyone i think.

goodbye little ones...

well after 7 great months today is my last day...
they are currently safely tucked in bed and sleeping, finally...
i got to feed them dinner, put their jammies one, tuck them in, read them a story and say goodnight...but it was the last time i will see them most likely...
they are leaving thursday and today is my last day..
so lets see when i met them they each had about 5 real words, now they have over 150, I counted. they have grown a lot, they are way more mobile and physical, they climb on everything. They are now feeding themselves with utensils not their hands, they love me and go to me over mommy and daddy once in a while, they listen to me wonderfully the large majority of the time, we go to sensory time a lot which they love, we go to the library, which not even mommy has done with them. we went to penny pickles which was an intersting adventure, we play games, we read books, we do projects, we watch movies, and other than the last 2 weeks, they slept pretty good most of the time....
they are really good kids, i have truely enjoyed getting to be a part of this part of their lives, but tonight saying goodbye was hard. weird that it was hard, because stuff like this doesn't bug me usually, stuff like this is never a big deal, and yet with these two it is sad, i genuninely will most likely never get a chance to see them again because they are going to be states away. its sad. but they will be closer to family and im not willing to move to oregon despite being asked so nothing we can do about it. i have enjoyed the last few weeks with them, just enjoying the little moments of up and laughs over little things like "get you" and "side down". its been fun. they have grown a lot. i will miss them.

Pumpkins!!!!

so last Friday we went to the pumpkin patch, I asked first to see if parents wanted to be the first to take them but they didn't care, and I wanted to make sure we got it in before they are gone. So I asked if they wanted to see pumpkins and wow!!! Henry stopped in his tracks, jumped up and down and yelled pumpkins so excitedly waving his arms in the air in the process...im not even sure he knew what a pumpkin was at the time. but off we went...and it started slow, they weren't quite sure what to do...but eventually

he discovered that touching the pumpkins was fun, apparently he liked the texture...but here he is trying to roll the pumpkin, but its the best picture i got that day...

Abbie, was a bit unsure of what to do with the pumpkins that it took a while for her to discover they were pumpkins not apples. but with a lot of correction she figured it out, and decided eventually that sitting on the hay with the pumpkins was fun....

they eventually got brave and explored on their own, not just following me around...but they liked the green pumpkin..

then came the hard part...attemping to get two toddlers, who were not overly interested to smile and look at the camera at the same time...so this is one of many attempts....

and sadly...this is the best of the bunch...but hey, i did try, and maybe if we go back again it will be more fun...who knows? maybe we can get a better picture.

overall though it was a fun morning activity to get us out of the house, and in the end they spent the rest of the day telling everyone "pumpkins fun"...and no I was not saying that to them over and over agian, they came up with it on thier own.

washable doesn't always mean from hands...

so today we decided to try out stamps.....I knew it was kind of risky because ink could be messy, and their fingers would be a mess and lots of other reasons....but we are trying very hard to find new and mommy approved things to do so i thouhgt I would give it a try.
I found some cute stamps for a buck of things they were into and some semi cheap stamp pads that said washable, easy clean up, and non-toxic. so i decided to believe the package and get them, it was also nice because they were not as expensive as some other ones i found.
so today i set up the high chairs at the table and buckled the kids in and it took a minute for them to figrue it out...but they got it...

of course first henry wanted to put it on his hand. which he clearly tried, but no ink was on the stamp yet so it didn't work. but once he figured out the paper part we were off and running...

see, he figured out what the goal was...

as with everything, he was pretty serious and focued on what he was doing.

Abbie had it down to. she went from the sstamp pad to the paper between each stamp and caught on very quickly, before herny in fact.

now you see everything was going fine, until....

we ended up with a flower on the dining room table, and ink on hernys fingers. so i went to try and wipe the WASHABLE and EASY TO CLEAN ink off the table, well it was nto very easy at all. so I figured i should try henrys hands before things got worse. but that went okay.

Then, we came across the hard part....Abbie ended up with ink on her face, all over her hands, and on her BRAND NEW dress that was moms FAVORITE purchase yesturday. so i was a little worried that the ink would not come out, so i threw it in the washer and thankfull it is now completely ink free and clean which is good. however, i got the ink off of abbies face adn high chair with a simple washcloth, but her hands.....oh my...

I have tried soap, someone suggested comet, a lot of water, baby wipes were suggested, and just endless scrubbing....and her hands are still pink!!!!

I have looked online and there are lots of options: windex, salt and soap, toothpaste, baby wipes and greasy lotion, and many others....so i may try those after nap time.

but the label said it was washable, henrys green and red hands are back to normal, her cloths are clean, her face is clean so what is up with her hands?????
in the end though....they really enjoyed it and seem to want moer...I just have to figure out how to keep their hands out of the ink next time apparently..gloves?

Swimming...

so we have gone swimming a few times this summer and im sure we will more but some of the pictures are really cute so I thouhgt i would share them...

Penny Pickles

so in an effort to get out more we decided to go check out a childrens museum in temecula. we were pretty sure most of it the kids would be to young for but we wanted to check it out anyway, and they said that you can touch everything, and what almost 2 year old wouldn't enjoy that...so off we went.

there really was a lot of things that were way over their heads, but they still had fun. most of our time was spent in two rooms...the music room and the "gear" room. Abbie loved playing the piano. and they were both mesmorized by a wall that was full of giant gears all turning together. and they enjoyed getting to turn some smaller ones themselves. they also enjoyed the glow in the dark room which was fun. i thouhgt they would be scared because it was so dark but they weren't. they loved the neon pictures, and they enjoyed looking at the pictures I had drawn on thier hands in highlighter that lit up under the black lights. over all it was a fun day...but probably not a place we will go back to for a while...here are some pics.

....sorry about the mess of pictures...i don't know how to set them up better, it won't let me move them how i want to so thats what we get.

what we did today...

well its been about 4 months since i started working here and its been good. we added another day of work, and we have been going out more and more...but today we just hung out at home after a nice morning walk.
here is what our walk looked like...

it started when Abbie said blue sky as we walked out the garage, and it led to...
seeing how many colors we could find...here we found some green leaves, which they got to touch for some texture in their too...

We saw the grass because Abbie repeats grass all the way to the park half the time so we took time to stop and look at the GREEN grass....

Henry enjoys counting and will count to five once in a while so we stopped at the mailboxes to count, to which Abbie kept saying "more, more"

we picked some YELLOW flowers

and we saw some black, blue and white cars.

overall it was a fun little walk that got us outside for some fresh air and we entertained ourselves with colors and numbers......then it was back home for all of this....

we played with chalk....I outlined them....we did it once last week and today Abbie came up to me after a few minutes of drawing by herself and said "Abbie" and so she laid down right there and we traced her again, she stood up and again said "Abbie". it was fun...we did Henry too....

who knew playing with corks could be so much fun. They have a few jars of corks and somehow it entertains the kids for a long time. you dumb them out on the floor and they enjoy putting them back in the jar. Henry will count them, Abbie sees whats on them and stands them up which I think is pretty good considering some of them are not very flat.....

Henry got a turn too...

we played in the sprinklers...

it didn't get much past them putting their hands in it today...

we played with bubbles...

sometimes its more fun to put your hands in the bubbles than to put the wand in and actually make bubbles

Henry made some bubbles too...

that was our day...it has been fun. they ate a good lunch, and then went down for a slgihtly early nap. it was a fun busy, relaxing day...oh ya we colored for a little bit to. to which Henry said every letter in his name when I pointed to it...he is doing so good with his letters, he seems to love them which I am really looking forward to.

pretend city

a while back i went with a good friend to pretend city.
it was a very funday
there was a lot of imagination
a lot of dancing and dressing up on the stage
a lot of water
and just a lot of fun
and then after we went and played at the park while mom did a photo shoot...
a very fun day...
see........