Invoking Grandparents' Magic

The other day Norah wanted to pick out her own clothes, so we said "ok".  But then she picked out two pairs of pants and no shirt.  We told her she needed to trade a pair of pants for a shirt, but she wasn't having it.  She started crying and screaming and rolling on the floor (she is two now).  We left her for a few minutes.  When I came back, I said "how about this shirt.  Grandma and Grandpa got it for you?"  Tears ceased, a small smile emerged, and she happily put the shirt on.

School photos

Counting sports cars

Jackson has been enamored with sports cars lately and has taken to counting how many he sees each day.  On a good weekend day, he will often spot more than 50.  Last weekend, we took a little side trip to a parking lot that often has fancy cars.  We weren't disappointed!

Ferrari 488 Spider

Mercedes AMG GT S

Mercedes-Benz G550 4x4 Squared - Not a sports but a rare find.

Norah's birthday weekend

We had a fun filled weekend for Norah's 2nd birthday. We had Chloe, Bruno and Emma over for the weekend. Marshall and Kelly also stopped over. It was filled with family, friends, tennis, birthday party, an outdoor brunch and the Dallas' mandatory Arboretum photography trip!

Three kids played so well like fish to water. 

Norah showing Grandpa her MONSTER face. Be afraid, be very afraid...

Norah on her birthday throne, she was so proud!

One of the many photos that none of them looked at the camera. :-D

We got our family portrait! Thanks, Chloe and Bruno!

Our funny, spectacular girl (in train to be classy ;-))

Who is the boss?

Caption?

The @#$%& Jackson does

At our tonight's bedtime routine, Jackson forgot to drink milk while reading stories. Jackson was drinking while I waited him laying on the bed. He joined me laying down. His straw was sucking air instead of milk.

Mommy: Silly, you can't drink milk laying down.
Jackson thought for a second and turned on his belly. And he proudly finished drinking milk laying down.

Tonight's book was about a group of chickens living happily near Versailles. There are the protagonists who are a pair of big brother and little sister. And there are a few naughty chickens as their friends. Jackson always looks for those naughty chickens in each drawing. (He likes them)

After story time, Mommy: Are there naughty chickens in your class?
Jackson: No. We don't have naughty chickens.
Mommy: Okay.
Jackson: Well, naughty chickens stay in the middle at our class. They don't get to be line leader or caboose.
Mommy: Are you sometimes line leader or caboose?
Jackson looked at me: No, mama. I am in the middle.

Norah is a big girl

Norah grew a lot in her language ability the last few weeks.

She calls "my turn" when we are talking. She told me yesterday after school that she got time out for coloring on the table. She told us that there were buses out of her window on our drive to Texins today.

She tries hard to catch up with Jackson. She insisted on buckling herself on car seats and high chairs. Jackson started buckling himself from 3.5 years old. Everything to her is "Norah do it!" "Norah did it!" "Look! Look! I did it!".

She has a different approach than Jackson's when she gets in trouble. One day last week when I picked her up, she was in time out for climbing the table. Teacher told me she giggled and swayed her body when got called out for bad behavior. And she said "you are funny! Norah is funny!" to distract teacher from giving her time out.