Kids' Room

We moved the kids' room a few weeks ago and I finally got around to taking pictures! We had some furniture built for all of the toys and although it was custom made, it did not fit in their room. I was very specific about the measurements but I suppose it was lost in translation....

Luckily, the back room is a bit larger and it fit there. So we moved the entire room! It turned out great though because they have lots more space and the room is the coolest in the house because of the two windows. I didn't realize how much bigger the room was though, until now.

 Walking through the door...

 Lucas's corner!

 I love how the shelves turned out after we painted them. They fit all her toys nice and neat, and each space is really deep too for even more toys. This way her room is nice and organized (most of the time). She climbs on top too, to play with her dollhouse, or get her dresses down!

My Cutie Pies

 Little Lucas loves this toy - I picked it up to give him and shook it once and he reached out his little arms for it! He is amused for hours with it! Ok not really hours but a long time!

 It is really hard to get a good picture of Leyla nowadays because she is always making silly faces!

 Lucas was smiling and looked so sweet but I couldn't get her to be still! So these were the results. The last one they finally both look good, but Lucas wasn't smiling much anymore!

 I can't wait to watch them grow up together and hope that the love they have for each other never fades! Lucas just lights up when she talks to him and so far she is the only one who can make him laugh! She jumps on the bed, dances around and makes silly faces and he grins from ear to ear. It is so sweet! He adores her and I just know that as they both get older he is going to follow her everywhere and want to do everything she does!

Conversations with Leyla

I am desperately trying to get Leyla to watch less TV. We did good for about a week and then we slid back into the old habit. So now we are starting over, again. I told her to pick 3 shows. She listed her favorites: My Little Pony, Backyardigans, and Peppa. Then first thing in the morning, she wants to watch TV. But, when I turn it on and it's not one of those three - I make sure she understands that if she watches Curious George, for example, she can't watch My Little Pony. She agrees. Then two hours later she's begging me to watch another show. I don't think she gets it.

So today, after Lucas finally fell asleep for his nap, we went into her room (reluctantly) to find something else to do. She picked out her Dora coloring book and some crayons. I started coloring Dora's hair pink. Of course she got really mad because Dora's hair is supposed to be brown. And her backpack isn't yellow, it's purple. There's no being creative here! After awhile she got into it though, and let me color Dora all kinds of colors including red and yellow eyes. I called my masterpiece "Zombie Dora." HA! Here's the conversation we had:

Leyla: Here mommy, I'll take the pretty colors. You can have the black ones. (She gave me all the dark colored crayons).
Me: Oh wow, thanks Leyla, how nice of you.
Leyla: You're welcome.

I colored the trees blue and orange.

Leyla: Oh Mommy, that is so cute!

We colored a princess in a high tower.

Leyla: Look mommy that door is locked. Mommy look there is water, the princess can't get out because there is water.
Me: That's right, she's surrounded by water. Maybe we can draw a bridge so she can escape. Can you draw a bridge?
Leyla: Okay (She drew a very nice bridge)
Me: What a good bridge you drew. Now let's color the water blue.
Leyla: Now she can get out!
Me: But how we'll she get down to the bridge? We should draw some stairs. Or, I know, let's draw a ladder (I drew a ladder).
Leyla: But mommy, she's in a window...
Me: Right, that's why I'm drawing a ladder.
Leyla: Noooo we have to draw stairs! (She knocks my hand away). I know, I have an idea. (She colors over my ladder, exactly like a ladder). Now She can go down the stairs!
Me: Oh good job Leyla, we saved the day just like Dora.
Leyla: Yay! I saved the day!

Oh, Leyla.

Here's the Proof!

I realized I didn't actually have any pictures of Lucas sitting up, so in case you didn't believe me, I took a bunch!

 "What's big sis doing?"

 Not sure what that face was about!

 Happy boy! He loves to slap at the ground or the toys in front of him.

  Leyla was posing, according to her...although I don't know what she thinks she's doing, with her hand up like that!