Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Jackson just took his first few steps all by himself today!

Monday, July 15, 2013

"mom, I just love you everyday"

Lyla is so sweet :)

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Lyla's adventure

(this is Troy writing this) 7/7/13

I was watching lyla and jackson and lyla said that she wanted to go on an adventure. She wanted her and I to go and get dressed so that we could go on an adventure like Dora the Explorer. I asked her where she wanted to go on this adventure, to a castle or to a dragon's cave? She said that she wanted to go a dragon's cave. She ran into her room to get dressed for the adventure and she decided on wearing her Little Mermaid wedding dress. Then she grabbed her back pack and said that it would be dark in the cave and so she grabbed her light up pillow and stuffed it into the back pack and put it on. I told her we needed a map like Dora has so she looked around the room for one. I had her grab a book from her closet and pretend it was a map. She grabbed a book and started flipping through the pages and describing where we needed to go to get to the cave, "we need to go this way and then this way and then that way," pointing in all different directions. Then I said, "ok, let's go, I'll follow you because you have the map." So we took off from her room and she started heading for the front door and I asked where she was going? She said that we needed to get in the car to go on our adventure. I told her that we couldn't go in the car and that we needed to pretend inside the house. She looked over into the corner of the living room and said, "look, there's the dragon's cave!" She ran over to the corner and found her pony stuffed animal and said, "oh, I need to save my pony!" She began to put her pony and several other toys into her Barbi suit case. Then I said, "look out! here comes the dragon! we need to hide." we took off running and hid on either side of the couch. I was holding Jackson and so I didn't want to crouch down like Lyla was doing so I just held up a pillow in front of my head to "hide" from the dragon. Lyla saw me and said, "yeah, we can pretend we are statues!" and posed like a statue. Then I said that the dragon and flown past us and left so we went back to saving her pony. When she finished zipping up the suit case I said that the dragon was coming back and we needed to hurry back to our "camp" AKA her bedroom. So we took off running to her room. When we were in her room she said that it was fun going on an adventure but that she wanted to go on a real adventure sometime in the car and drive far away.