Meet the Professors

When Tierney was a baby, she was famous for sporting a pair of green sunglasses (lenses and frames). She quickly became known as "The Professor."

Today while playing in her room we came across those same glasses and each Little took turns wearing and posing for the camera.

 Tierney

 Brooklyn

Liam

And, not to sound too US Weekly, but who wore it best?

Two crazy girls, one camera

One of Tierney's favorite things is to use Mommy's camera and snap photos. I usually don't let her play with my camera and instead hand her the kid's digital camera to snap photos on (the camera is real, but doesn't take spectacular photos and it isn't the same in her mind). The times that I have let her she takes some interesting shots of the floor, the carpet in particular, or shots up her nose. It's pretty funny when you're looking through the camera and see what she takes.

But, recently, I gave in to her almost daily request and handed her the camera. I showed her how to point it at something, other than the floor and up her nose (ha!), and let her get to work. She decided to take pictures of me. So, we went back and forth taking goofy shots of each other. We were cracking up. She's such a fun little girl. And, we even caught Daddy in the midst of our crazy photo shoot.

Here are some photos... Enjoy!

AND... This post wouldn't be complete if I didn't post a couple photos of my oldest and youngest.

Miss Sensitive to the sun

Liam loves to swing - I just need to make the baby 

swing a little more manly and less princessy!

What an afternoon!

So, I had to record this somewhere to remember it because it just cracks me up when I think about it.

#1 - Brooklyn enters our bathroom and says "Oh Mommy it stinks in here like tacos ... did someone poop out tacos?" LOL!

#2 - I had the great idea to run errands this afternoon. I had the idea of running said errands after lunch and before naps. Usually this is pretty doable as I can keep Brooklyn awake by bothering her and Tierney by not giving her a pacifier. Well, this time around Tierney already had her pacifier, so she was going to sleep in the moving car, duh! And, I got a phone call that kept me from bothering Brooklyn, so she feel asleep too. So, errands were ran, children were happy, then we come home and I try to put them down for an afternoon nap after about 30 minutes of playtime. Tierney, who doesn't believe in sleep, takes about an hour nap, and then wakes up not wanting to go back to sleep. Brooklyn, who took a 15 minute nap in the car, refuses to go sleep, but lays in her bed for an hour awaiting my approval to get up. For this hour, I'm trying to get through as much material for a test I'm taking tomorrow morning, hoping to get through quite a bit. But, now they are both awake and requiring my attention, so I can't. I say to both of them "You silly girls aren't going to let Mommy have much study time today, are you?" And, little Tierney looks at me and says "Nope," while flashing me a huge smile.

#3 - Minutes after they woke up, our doorbell was ringing and ringing and ringing and ringing. I'm not a huge fan of going to the door because nine out of ten times, it's a soliticer and I'm totally not interested in what they are selling. We've had kid after kid standing on our porch trying to sell us chocolate or their services in bringing in my trash cans, which again, not interested. So, anyway, I went to the door after the first two rings and saw it was the little girls across the street. I immediately thought ball in the backyard but nope, they live across the street so that couldn't be it. I didn't answer it. I went back to the girls. Then, it kept ringing. I finally gave in and went to the door. The two little girls told me that their school was doing a fundraiser and would I like to buy anything. I looked through the magazine and saw they were selling Christmas wrapping paper and decided to buy a roll. After all, they are our neighbors, and my girls will be doing this one day too, and wouldn't I want our neighbors to buy something from them. The wrapping paper is cute and reversible. So, everyone wins. The funniest part was when I went to pay for it and I asked who I needed to make my check out to and they said, "Well, just leave it blank and we'll take care of it." I told them that if they could find out who I neede to make it out to, I would do buy something. They found out real quick! So, we'll have some cool new wrapping paper this holiday season and we supported neighborhood kids. Yay!

#4 - I was sitting in our recliner in the family room looking through work emails and Tierney would can't leave my side at times required me to put her behind me in the chair. As she is moving around, squirming like a worm, scooting to the edge of the chair, I reminded her that she's high up in the air. She just smiles at me. I put her in my lap to protect her from falling but she once again squirms behind me. So, I just watch her more carefully. Then, she lets out this sigh and leaps off the chair, head first into the carpet. She cries for like a half second, looks up at me and gives me the most disgusted look, like as if to say "Hey Mom, why'd you let that happen?" And, then she crawls away from me to play with her sister.

So, all four things happened in a span less than 30 minutes. All I can do is laugh. Aren't kids just the silliest?!

Too much alike!

Like mother...

Like daughter... Apparently we both need to learn how to put our shoes away!

Huh!?

Mommy, what is THAT!?

A beagle, a table and a leash

Here's what happens to one 7-year-old beagle who invests all of his time after our dinners tripping those cleaning up, jumping up on the chairs and table in hopes of gaining another scrap of food, licking the trash can and recycling bin, and pretty much, just being a big dork! Yes, Kevin grabbed his leash and collar and tied him up to our kitchen table, the one that he cannot seem to leave alone after meals. I was nursing Tierney in another room and when I heard and saw what was going on, I started laughing so hard. I paused the nursing for a few moments because I was laughing so hard and I ran and grabbed the camera to take this photo. He only stayed there for about 10 minutes, and did it teach him a lesson? Heck no. To learn more about our dog, check out Kevin's column about how smart our lovable beagle is.

Response to MomSense

All you moms out there, you have to watch this. It's really good! You will enjoy it. I promise it!!

This gave me a chuckle!