mom i dont want to go to dance class, i want to go to dancing class. 🙂

she got all dressed up, even let me put a ribbon in her hair. she posed for pictures- this time with me AND chris in them, LOL. chris took these ones of her before class 🙂

outside of class- what a little ham!

in class she was a total riot. totally excited and participated. she flipped out when cinderella's bippity boppity boo came on.

i think after class was just as much as a hit as the actual class. there is grass and trees all around and she'd much rather play hide and seek than go home!

so much that a tantrum was brewing… here she's ignoring me…

and my fave from the day!

im pretty proud of myself for breaking out the camera today! another mom even called me out on our first dance class session– noting i brought along the big daddy camera. sheesh!

and then finally home. we love dance class 🙂

last week we attended the boy's back to school night, where we learned about cam's classroom's social contract– basically the kids in the class came up with the rules that they thought were fair and posted them in the class. chris and i were pretty impressed with the things they chose! so tonight we decided to see what OUR kids would come up with on their own at home. i will have to post the boys later but kira's cracked us up SO much. she basically rolled her eyes at having to do this, we thought it was so cute of her to participate, LOL
"i promise… to be nice to my brothers, not to fight, to be responsible and helpful, to babysit when needed (unless something really fun is happening), to entertain elsie, to make my bed in the morning."
we were dying. the babysitting part was a riot. 🙂
i was going thru yosemite pics from freaking JUNE tonight and found these of her. A) i can't believe how much i lagged on editing them B) i can't believe how much she's grown since here C) i can't believe how fast from June till now has gone D) i want to go on vacation.

the other day she wanted to borrow my flats to school (im a 7) she couldnt get her foot in. she's an 8 now. i cant believe it!

dry erase board drawing from caleb. 🙂 it's me and chris in case you can't tell 🙂

the summer has been flying by. i want to say it's been a relaxing summer with nothing to do all week long.. but it hasn't. just been plain busy. tomorrow is 'operation-media-free' day though. will be interesting to see what we end up doing. i vote for bake-a-thon 🙂 i will post again with something exciting. hopefully. 🙂

ps- cam just walked by and said ever so disapprovingly.. 'you haven't blogged in 5 days??'..walking away, shaking his head.

as we were heading out of the house today- she stopped and said, 'wait, wait.. one green, one pink.' how could i not encourage her individuality?! 🙂

we can't believe how fast time has gone (i know i am a broken record). she has said and done some of the cutest things lately… last night we watched nim's island.  (which btw, if you happen to watch the previews, there is one on there for angel wars-yay!) and she calls watermelon, nima-nima-nima. so she kept calling nim that. and when it came to a close up of someone clicking on their Mac mouse, she said, mommy has that clicker! 🙂 she's also big on saying sorry. which i LOVE. she's also big on "doing it myself" which tests every ounce of my patience levels. ah, the wonderful age of two 🙂

cleaning out caleb's school work from last week to get ready for this week and came across this:

he is SOOO cute. we talk about him being little but strong 🙂
when we took him in for his 7 year check up the doc was surprised that he weighed so little.. that he was the average size of a 4-5 year old. our little guy.

happy monday, people!

he is nonstop, i tell ya.

all from just yesterday:

after trying some spicy chicken at dinner, "spicy is when your eyes are drippy."
after chris had called me a woman, "she's not a woman, she's just my mom."
after he had gotten in trouble and i was talking nicely to cameron, "fine, you two just go do your love thing!"
after receiving lots of snuggles from me, he says to kira and cam, "she likes me best you know."
after he snuggled buzz lightyear in bed, "buzz is my best guy ever."

yesterday evening at 6:15 pm, all heck broke loose in the waters house. mom was cooking dinner. cam was bouncing off the walls. kira was running her food network tv show in the kitchen. and caleb was screaming bloody murder.

“i waaaaaaaant to eeeeeeeeat!!!!” (who does this kid think he is?!) “i waaaaaaaant daaaaaaaaadddy to sit next to meeeeeeeee!!!” (ok, if daddy were home, that could be done… but since he wasn’t that just made matters worse.) “myyyyyyy throooooooat huuuuuuuuurts!!!” you get the picture.

needless to say, dinner came… he ate a few bites… and he went to sleep. right there. gotta love when they do that. i finished my dinner in peace. clicked a few pictures. look at those toes.. yummy. 🙂 took him to bed. which is where he stayed until 6:30am the next morning. man, 12 hours of sleep. if only we could get a night’s sleep like that!