it's been a while

This was my attempt at birthday pictures....the girls weren't so coorperative this time around. I think I'll try again when I can take the girls outside.

Cute yes, what I was hoping for, no.

my baby

blowing out the candles (yep I made that crown cake all by myself...no crown cake mold pan needed here)

modeling her new dress ups

her new robe

her birthday donut and tea party with a friend in the morning

my baby is three...that makes her not a baby anymore. But she still loves to cuddle, (as evidenced by her refusing to sleep in her own bed last night and smothering me all night - I think I've developed claustraphobia - but that's another story)she is still sweet as can be - although she does give her big sis a run for her money, she still loves to be with mom and dad. She refuses to hold someones hand while crossing the street, she can do it herself she tells me. her hair is soooooooo long (she tells me this just about every morning while i brush her hair). she can "do" play-doh by herself and it keeps her occupied for hours! she also loves to color. she is beginning to like to read books, but more than two and she is off to play. They grow up so quickly...i wish i could keep her at this age for a while...

just a little extra water....

Yep - it has flooded again...this time our little town has become an island. No way in and no way out. All four roads (yep there are only 4) leading in/out of town are flooded. I'm hearing that it will be a day or two before the first one will open. All of the snow melted into this, along with the warmer weather and rain in the mountains and we get record high flood levels. in 2006, we had high waters and they (who is they anyway!?) said it was 100 year high floods - we won't see another one this high for another 100 years. Guess what folks, it's only been 2 years and this one is higher.

Woodinville-Duvall Road...under water. This was mid-day and I'm told it got much higher. All that debris against the guardrail usually isn't there. I have no idea how much lower the ground is on the non-road side, but it is quite a bit lower than the road
That's a lot of water! We saw a muskrat (we think) swimming around as we walked over the bridge here. I hope those people got out ok.

This isn't a great pic, I hope the Mayor got a better one, but see that power line behind the girls, in the middle of the picture, it was swinging in the water.

We are hoping for the sun to come out tomorrow! (The girls have been singing that song for a few days now) I could really do without this crazy weather. Little Dude has now missed 9 days of school. Since Dec 11th, she has only been in school for 2 days, she ws only supposed to have a two week break! She will be in school all summer at the rate we are going! She wants so much to go to school, she misses her friends and learning. We try to keep up and continue homework at home, but well, there is a reason that I'm not a teacher! Hopefully next week will bring us normal weather and a normal school week!

What?????

Ok - i thought this only happened if you had a brother. My girls don't have a brother and yet -this keeps happening! I'm not sure why or how - but this is two barbies in two days... I think I'm going to take away *my* barbies that I have out for them to play with - they can break their own barbies! (did you know that today's barbie is fatter than the ones I played with? it's true - the clothes I had for my old barbies are a little small on today's barbie)

Other tidbits from today - Little Bit has decided she only likes her noodles "n*ked" what's up with that - I made stuffed shells (one of my favorites and often requested by Little Dude, but I don't make them often) and she asked for a n*ked one. Um, ok I guess.

Little Dude was sent home early (ok, early for the rest of the school and late for her) due to the flooding.... so this means that she stays for lunch (usually she doesn't), I didn't send a lunch with her because I didn't know until after she was on her way to school about the "emergency half day closure" So after talking with a friend who had called the school, I took a lunch to her(following the directions the school gave to my friend). Guess what - she came home with it - the sub didn't let/take/know/whatever get the kiddos lunch! Um, something isn't right with that...all the other children at the school got to eat lunch, these little kindergartners didn't get to, now they weren't starving, they do get a morning snack, but if the rest of her class is like my little one, she eats as soon as she gets home. she came home an hour later than normal and was hungry. So i'm guess I'm not really concerned that she didn't get lunch at school, just that somehow, I think something failed - some point of communication. What if it was something bigger. I think somehow a lot of communication was lacking - maybe this is how it works and i'll get used to it, but she's my first little one at school! I don't know all the protocols people! Someone at the school was calling parents, but I wasn't home - I didn't get a call on my cell and the Mayor didn't get a call, what if I didn't know. Why don't they call a secondary number that is listed? I know that is a lot of phone calls....but, ok - i'm done with this subject, I won't go on.

first came the snow and now the rains and the flooding... great. so far 2 of the 4 ways out of town are flooded...the others 'might' according to the city website close tonight. will we be an island again? no way in - no way out??????? hmm - we are good on groceries for while...

Have a most wonderful evening if you've stayed with me through all that!

Merry Christmas!

So cute just before bedtime on Christmas Eve. I made pj's for their animals that matched the ones I made each girl.

they liked their skirts that I made them. I'm go glad (they have good twirling ability, I'm told)

Little Bit as Mary, the angel wouldn't hold still long enough for a picture. LIttle Bit kept her costume on for quite a while after the "manager scene" Hopefully I'll got those pictures soon!

A few pictures from our holiday. We went to the Mayor's parents house on Wednesday, or should I say shuttled there by the Mayor's dad because we couldn't drive anywhere in our cars! Too much snow! Thank goodness for the Subaru! Shortly after getting there, we got a call that our power was out. I'm told be neighbors that it was off and on through out the night and into the next afternoon. We came home around 3 on Christmas Day and had power and enjoyed another round of opening presents. On Christmas morning at about 3 am I kept hearing someone saying "mom, mom, mom - is it morning yet?" NO GO BACK TO SLEEP I wanted to say! Instead, no not yet, go back to sleep. But alas, sleep was not to be had for another hour or so. Finally they went to sleep around 4:30 and slept til their cous' was up and ready to go! Little Dude was happy to get up, I think Little Bit would have slept for another hour at least - she had very little sleep during the night, but she was woken up too - we didn't want to leave her downstairs by herself. The girls are still catching up on their sleep. And the snow is finally melting! Before the rain began, the drifts on either side of the driveway were as tall as the Mayor...close to 2 1/2 - 3 feet maybe in the non-drifts. Today the snow is wet and icy and and the roads are a mess. So we are still stuck at home. And my house still looks as though a small hurricane went through it. Ahhh the joys of Christmas!

More snow pictures!

Here are a few more pictures of the girls playing in the snow. We had fun yesterday sliding down our big hill which Little Dude is sitting on top of. I just can't believe how much is out there. We are supposed to get more tonight.

SNOW!!!!!

We have lots of it. We managed to make it through the weekend without losing our power for more than a minute or two at a time. But the snow - it has piled up high! It is well over 2 feet deep and that isn't where the Mayor has piled up the snow from the driveway or in the drifts. The drift/snowpile next to the drive way is over Little Dude's head and makes a great sledding hill for them. I would like to try one of the hills in on the surrounding streets, but I don't they are up to that! The Mayor went to work today with our neighbor in his "big" truck - they are on their way home now. I actually saw a snowplow at the end of our street today. He didn't come by our house, by was in the neighborhood! I didn't see the mail come yet - so much for their through wind, rain, sleet or snow. We've been getting it about every other day or so...I sure hope to get some mail on Wed, Christmas presents are supposed to come that day. I'll have some new pics to post soon.