What's going on in this family?

That is the question I heard after the week we had. It's been a while since we've posted, and here we are going to post a "real doozy". First of all, it was Monday after the holidays, back to the old routine. I brought the girls to preschool and went to work. At 11:45 a.m. I got a phone call from the preschool director. Said she had two little girls sitting there waiting to get picked up. WHAT?? It had totally escaped Chad's mind to pick them up. I called his cell, and he said he was sitting at work looking at his computer - yikes! I told him and he said *%^@ and hung up. The girls thought nothing of it - they got to go the lunchroom with the teachers, which was pretty cool. The next night, I came home late from work and was having a bite to eat. Allie was upstairs in the bathroom, for maybe 1 - 1 1/2 minutes. We heard her hollar for us. Chad went up thinking her hands were maybe wet and she couldn't open the door. He went in and I heard this, "OH MY GOD Allie - what, what, what are you doing??" I went running up and looked in the bathroom. Below is a picture of what we found. (If you have a weak stomach, beware!!) However, in the screaming of her dad and I, she looked at us straight faced and said, "But mom, dad - I washed my hands."

Allie's version of card from Jodi & Phil

I heard Allie reading a card from Aunt Jodi & Uncle Phil. I don't think this is what the card said, but it's so cute.

More Allie and Taylor "goofiness"...

Last night we went to Grandma and Grandpa Harry's house for dinner and a little "Voit Family Fun". We had a great night with lots of laughter. Those little cherubs sure keep us all in stitches. Allie was in a performing mood that's for sure. They were all playing "Simon Says" with Aunt Lori. She decided to have the KIDS take turns being Simon. Taylor took her turn, which was great. Stuck to the rules. Then it was Allie's turn. She sat on Lori's lap and you could just see the wheels turning. The FIRST thing out of her mouth was "Simon says touch your balls." OH MY!!! We all laughed with a few tears in there. Then it was story time. Lori had them all "tell a story". Allies' was all about a princess in a tower - over and over. Not much more to her story. Taylor grew a little shy, so Uncle Mike helped her along brought some "gut" laughs out of her in telling her story. Owen was telling his story, which was very detailed and "made sense" as opposed to the others. He went on to talk about the rain and storm that was happening and the birds in the nest, three of them. In the midst of his story about the birds, Allie chimes in and says "and then they cracked a bird." I wish we would have gotten it on video; much funnier! However, we all chuckled. Taylor was into tackling - not sure what her gig was. She was going after Allie with a vengeance. Then turned her sights onto Owen. She was just coming up behing and taking them down. Forget dance or gymnastics, I think dad thinks we should sign her up for football! Needless to say, we went home, had a bath a never heard another word from those two until 7:30 a.m.!!!

Gopher Nation!

MMMM...wonder who's been teaching the girls this? Shawn, Chad thought you'd like this!! I see Chad, Shawn and "4" girls heading to Gopher games!!!

Starting Spanish....

The girls are starting to learn some Spanish - since I don't think it's an option to NOT know that anymore!

Halloween 2008

Halloween was a success, that's for sure. The girls had a lot of different occasions to wear their costumes. On Thursday, we went to see Aunt Jackie and then went to Aunt Jodi's house. There are neighbors at Jodi's who we always go "Trick or Treat". They really like the girls, and it's turned into a sort of "tradition" now. We also went over to their daughters house. We had never been over there before. As we are standing in the entry, Allie looks at Jill and says, "Um Jill, where is your kitchen?" Just out of the blue. Why??!! So funny. Then on the way back to Jodi's as she stepped on the manhole covers, she would stop and say, "Oh, a placemat." She is one random little girl. Taylor was quite the hit with her "wig", which was almost as big as her. Halloween night was a blast! Our neighborhood was wall-to-wall kids. Incredible! We went out, hit a bunch of houses and came back and unloaded the buckets to go back out again. Allie decided to stay home and pass out candy with dad. After some kids came to the door and she gave them candy, she closed the door and goes, "wow, what a rush." Even Taylor laughed. Silly, silly. They were VERY tired and ready for bed. It was 10:30 before all was quiet. Then, lucky for us, about 4 a.m. Taylor came in our room and said she's ready to get up - she wasn't tired anymore. Whoa....I beg to differ! Chad brought her back to her room and they had a little "discussion" and it wasn't long before she was sleeping. Whew...until 8:15 a.m. Awesome for us!!

Dentist....

Well, we had another very "expensive" day at the dentist. Mom finished her "5th" crown over the root canal; the girls both had thei 6 month follow-up cleanings. Allie breezed through and all looks great. Taylor, not so lucky. Apparently, in one of her back teeth, when that tooth was forming, it didn't completely "close" so there is a "dip in the distal" as he put it which now needs to be filled. Well, she wouldn't even let them recline her in the chair today OR use the "spit sucker" so how on earth are we going to do this fill? We go back in 2 weeks, and they'll give her "laughing gas" and fill the "dip". He said it will take longer to explain and get situated than the actual procedure. Also said due to her small mouth, we may want to start saving our pennies as she's probably going to need some dental work as she gets older. No room in her mouth unless her permanent teeth grow in quite small. Not what I wanted to hear! UGH.....