Two 2 year olds...

=quite the adventure! We are only on day 2...and I am exhausted!

My sister Jennifer (glad to clarify since she is my only sister) got married on Saturday to the wonderful Steve. Pictures of that will come later, maybe, depending on when my mom gets hers to me. Who forgot her camera for the whole weekend? Yeah, that would be me. Anyway, we are lucky enough to have Sadie with us for the week while Jen and Steve are on their cruise. Jennifer was freaking out about it a bit, so we are doing our best to prove how capable we are.

So far, we have only had a few rough spots- one involving two screaming little girls in a car because each was putting their hand where the other wanted. Lesson learned- separate the car seats. The other involved feeding the children too many craisins. I'll let you figure that one out. (Let's also remember that Hallie is potty trained. So too many craisins, panties, and being at church equates to a terrible mix...Good thing I had Devin readily available to help (and by help I mean take care of 100%) with the problem).

Anyway, keeping up with these girls is enough to wear me out! How do people have more than one child? I guess I will soon find out. While they do pretty well to entertain each other, their ideas of entertainment are different than mine. For example, splashing in the toilet does not sound fun to me. Nor does slamming every door in the house over and over and laughing hysterically. Too bad neither of them will sit still to watch a movie. Maybe that is a good thing though or we would be doing nothing but watching movies.

Here is the proof for Jennifer that I am a great babysitter and should be left with her child at all times when needed:

call me "trouble"
call me "trouble 2"

Devin had the girls for the morning and had it easy-short play time, lunch, then naps. Our first activity of the afternoon when I arrived home from work was to color. Sadie lasted about 2 minutes but colored her picture much more extensively than Hallie, who lasted about 10 minutes, but thought it was more fun for me to help her draw "turkeys" (tracing her hand) the whole time versus coloring her picture. I, on the other hand, lasted a good hour and colored a wonderful masterpiece while the girls wreaked havoc on the doors and toilet (see above).

Our second activity was to make sugar cookies. I needed something that would last a good long time and what better way to celebrate Christmas than with little gingerbread men shaped sugar cookies? The girls loved the first part, the mixing of the ingredients.

Licking the beater. Hallie is definitely in charge in this relationship and makes sure to let Sadie know. This is right after I said "Hallie, share with Sadie!" Sadie is dutifully opening her mouth and Hallie even got her hand right up to Sadie's mouth before shoving the dough into her own mouth. Eh, no comment on that behavior.

She finally did share, with a lot of pressure and insistence from me. The girls tired of cookie making after this and left me to finish the task while they retired to their previous activities.

Now I have a problem in that I have no more grand ideas of ways to keep them entertained for the rest of the week. Tomorrow we may make gingerbread houses...we will see how that goes with the girls. Other than that, I'll take any brilliant ideas on entertaining these two for the rest of the week!