Monday, July 28, 2008

Monkeys, Lobsters, Face Painting, Spaghetti, Water...

As usual, we never have a dull moment at the Estochen residence! Since we last posted, we helped host a baby shower for Mom's cousin, Kristine and baby Caroline, Mom went to the Quad Cities for two nights, Aunt Angie rode three days of RAGBRAI, Grandma rode 5 days of the MSTram (300 miles), and now Daddy's in Florida! In between all this craziness, we managed to do some crazy things of our own.

Let's start with water... we are OBSESSED with water! Below is a picture of Neela splashing in the tub - good thing Daddy's camera has a high shutter speed!


Mom can't let Papa G. teach us every crazy thing, so... We found a lobster in the tub. Mom taught us a lobster goes "pinch, pinch, pinch" on our nose. Here we are showing off "pinch, pinch, pinch..." Papa G... at least it's a foam lobster, not a hard salad tong!!

We love the water so much, we spend part of every weekend day in the pool. Below, Kylie is showing Mom how to "tickle, tickle" Neela.
At daycare, Jesse brought us home some fun new face masks from the movie theater. These go well with the other new trick Mom taught us... We know monkeys say "EEE", and they scratch under their arms. We will show almost anyone who asks!!
For the last weekend, we had Mom's division picnic on Friday night. We played in the bounce house - that had a monkey on the outside. Neela kept pointing at the monkey and scratching... Mom had some explaining to do to her co-workers. It also rained right before the picnic - Kylie found a big puddle, and played in it for a LONG time. Neela just kept running through it. The theme was the Olympics - we tried the "under 3" race to your parent, but we were more interested in throwing the ball then running! On the way out, Kylie found a flag with a "ball" on it (Japan's), so each girl had to bring a few flags home!

On Saturday, we went to our friend Nicole and Craig's wedding in Golden Valley. Kylie's getting quite good at objecting during the vows... Everyone swears they missed her "no, no, no" (again!), but Mom and Dad heard it plain as day! Here's a picture of all 3 girls getting ready - Mom thinks Daddy was holding the camera at his favorite angle!

On Sunday, Daddy left for Orlando - and Mommy had us alone almost all day. We had Daddy's Public Safety Picnic - so we went to the grocery store to find something for the potluck. We got to play in the bounce house (again!), and went down a big slide on Mommy's lap (two kids - good thing Mom's lap is big!). We also had our faces painted for the first time - Mom asked for something quick, but we sat perfectly still. It was the "dry time" that didn't go so well!We also didn't want to nap at the same time - Kylie helped Mom take a shower in the morning (even though there were toys in the bathroom, her favorite thing to do was pull open the shower curtain and say "hi!"). Neela stayed awake all afternoon - the bounce house just got her all wound up. For supper, we had spaghetti - in our own bowls! Mom and Angie let us eat in our diapers (after the pool), so we didn't make a big mess of our clothes. Then, Grandma and Papa E., and Uncle Chuckie, wanted to know why we were only wearing diapers on the webcam :-)

We did manage to try cleaning out the bowl with the spoon - Daddy wanted a picture for Papa G.

Hmmm... Kylie likes to tell everyone - including herself - "Get Down" now. That's probably everything Mom can remember from the last week!

Tomorrow is Aunt Angie's birthday - we get to go to a restaurant to celebrate -- and have CAKE!! Thanks for having a birthday, Auntie Angie!

Love,
Kylie & Neela

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