Recently...

I have been a blog slacker. Mainly because I haven't taken many pictures and I have been using my mom's laptop (so I am trying not to be on it much). Also I have been filling my time with other things, like playing Batman Lego on the Wii with Xander, going through pictures on the computer for the scrapbook, and just plain being lazy. So here are some of the small things that have happened the past few weeks.

Mara is still falling asleep in the afternoons! She will just crawl up in my lap and snooze! She does it about once or twice a week. While I was reading a book last Thursday, she slept in my lap for an hour and a half, and I was able to finish my book! Good thing too because I had my book group meeting that night! Thanks Mara!!

This one I love!! She was so tired all afternoon but didn't want to sit with me but she did want to watch Xander play video games.....and fell asleep!!
I was even able to put her in her bed and she slept for about 2 1/2 hours!! It was great! It makes me miss the fact that she doesn't take regular naps anymore.
We have crayons for the tub and the other night Xander made this masterpiece!! The tree is my favorite :)
My sister Karri has a game for her Nintendo DS that is Tinker Bell. She was showing Mara the game and Mara decided that she was going to play it all by herself. She even got the extra stylist and made Tinker Bell fly!!
Later that night she went to find Daddy and fell asleep on his lap. Luckily it was about a half hour from her bed time, so we were able to just put her in bed.
Lately (more like the past 6 months), Mara has had to strip down in order to play dress ups (which we are quickly changing now), and usually she'll go around the house with only a skirt on. And she has been stripping down her dolls too!! Last week she was being so quiet and I found that she had taken all of the clothes off of her dolls and then just left them on the ground. This is how I found them!!! She will even strip down her polly pocket princesses and will tell me "I want to take a bath with my girls!" It's so cute! She just wants them all to be in their "Simsuits".

Thursday morning we awoke to this message on the back of the front door where Xander's Word Whammer is. He was quite excited about it, especially because he could read it! Thanks Daddy!! (he couldn't find the v so it's a sideways c)

Mara had to turn her kitchen around to play with it, and I just thought it was a cute picture.

And lastly: For my birthday Pat was giving me a re-release of the 1986 Barbie and the Rockers doll. It was supposed to be released in February, so we made an order on the Toys R Us website. Shortly after, we got an email saying that they hadn't received their stock, so it would be awhile. I of course thought back to my Indiana Jones Adventure Heroes and started worrying that they have cancelled the doll, since she was no longer on their website or on Barbie.com!!! It has been about a month since we placed the order, and still no word on when she would ship. Well, we went to WalMart on Saturday and look who was there!!!!! They have made vintage reproductions of 6 Barbies for the 50th anniversary. I had this doll as a kid, along with about 50 other Barbies. While Pat was on his mission I got rid of about 99% of my Barbies. So when I heard that she was being released I knew that I had to get her!! The best part of it is that you can take off the front of the box and touch the doll and stuff!! It even comes with a little booklet like the original did and 3 cards featuring dolls from the 80's, Peaches n' Cream Barbie (which I had and loved), Day to Night Barbie (which Karri had), and Astronaut Barbie! (another one that I had)

Last night Karri was over and got out her Barbies and found her original doll. So here they are together!!

A close up of Then and Now!!

I love her and it makes little Breanne happy to finally have her. Too bad I don't have enough money to buy another one to really open up and play with.

On another thought: Pat has 2 more weeks of student teaching. It's sad that we have become used to the routine of him being gone so much, but I am anxiously awaiting when life will go back to 'normal'!