We have recently discovered a show about a menace named masha and the very patient bear she torments/befriends. Its hilarious. Even to me. Korrali loves it and I like it, in part because the episodes are about 7 minutes long so she can feel like she is bingewatching and I know it's only been 30 minutes or so.
I love freezer jam, and Korrali loves mashing things, so we bought a billion strawberries for 8$ and she mashed while I cut and washed and prepped. Then she ate sugar while she stirred the pectin mixture. It was so much fun that we did it again with what sounded to J like a million kids (but was in fact only 5).
Mmm there is nothing better than a free license to eat however much fruit you want because Cooks Privilege and Canning Something. Except maybe clothes shopping without kids. And the beach.
I am certified many things, but am now officially re-certified cpr and first aid. It makes me feel much safer. And also I can upgrade my massage certification to board certification which is a fancy way of saying I paid a bunch of money and took a lot of school to be awesome at massage therapy.
Every once in a while I decide to be a fun mom. Then I get called away from the scene by something and by the time I get back to supervising fun has outlived its welcome and then fun mom isn't invited back for a while.
Anyway we painted, please note I prepared by covering the entire easel with a cloth. And by painting outside in a swimming suit. So maybe I'm learning.. Slowly.
When I returned from changing a diaper the paper was beautiful and discarded as useless on the ground, the bikes were beautiful, the girl was beautiful, and luckily for my plants only part of the pots were beautiful. Also the paint was gone so the grill and windows lucked out and stayed boring and normal. I didn't even feel upset, rather impressed at her speed and the fact that finger paint doesn't bother her like it does me (ew). It also presented the perfect opportunity to clean the patio (which she loves because it involves buckets of water, paintbrushes, and sometimes even friends outside in the heat).
I really really want to just let her loose on an entire room one day because she just loves creative arts with such abandon.
I was holding Claire when I heard smacking and looked down to see she was happily going to town on this loop she worked free from her gym. It's a hands-free device apparently. Perfect for driving, keeping her hands securely on the mama-mobile. I love my law abiding, stealthy toy muncher.
This is her rockstar dress. And if she goes zombie hunting, this is her dress up of choice. Note the heels and sword. Zombies beware, she will find you,and will defeat you in style.
We all look goofy in this pic but the dresses are adorable! My mom had them sent from her sorority sister's company, TAJ of Honolulu. Twin dresses are so fun, A little tricky to coordinate with a small for her age 5 mo old and a tall for her age 3 yr old, but so worth it. 😊
Lately we have made some really fun friends. One of the families in our ward lives in our complex and their son and Korrali have become friends. We took him with us to jump in puddles and ran around for a couple hours just having fun.
Korrali will hear them playing outside and yell "my friends are outside! Can I go? I want to go outside outside!" (twice, because one outside means the patio). Its so fun for her to have friends who love her enough to come get her (they are all boys) and teach her to play baseball and collect rocks, help her climb trees and whom she teaches to rescue worms.
In keeping with my childhood obsession that has never grown up, I took Korrali out to splash in puddles. It was good fun, and my phone managed to focus on the stinky flowers we picked, of all things. It was one of the rare opportunities she and I had to hang out just the 2 of us. Good times!
