Rielee's Here!

It's rare that Rielee gets to come play since school started but Friday both Jillian and Rielee didn't have school.  The first thing when Rielee gets here is to go in the dress up box and get everyone an outfit to wear.  Here Rielee is trying to pull up Jillian hair to fit under a fancy hat. Rielee ended up as a hula girl.  Bridget put on a fancy skirt that she wouldn't remove all day.  It is great having Rielee come as they play and get along so well.  I even had time to work on some projects.  And Bridget follows them around fascinated by what they're doing and she is completely happy doing that.

Here is Bridget in her fancy skirt.  She loved to twirl around in it.  She would twirl and twirl, get a little dizzy, and go again.  But she never got real dizzy so she would fall down.
That evening they got to go watch Cale play his last home football game.  Bridget tried to show Mommy her twirling in the grandstand but it was too hard in that small space.



Play, Play, Play

Jillian and Bridget started the day with a visit with Ava and Harper.  They were immediately attracted to the house for all the horses, especially since it raised up by itself.   They had a great time there seeing all the toys new to them.  I borrowed this picture from Dianne since I forgot my camera and phone.    

The girls spent all afternoon outside in the beautiful weather.  Bridget surprised me by wanting this helmet on and then getting the glider bike.  Papa put the seat down and she got on and rode and rode.  She wasn't very fast but she had the right idea.  She also felt she was a "big" girl for riding a bike like sister.  Jillian always wants to do this catching game with the ball.  She is getting pretty good at it.  I don't remember what it's called.

They ended the day with a visit to Tierney.  They played downstairs there for a long time as they have the coolest toys downstairs.  They especially enjoyed Tierney throwing them on the giant bean bag. 


Jillian's Gone

Jillian spends a lot of time arranging dolls and furniture in the dollhouse and she keeps Bridget away by giving her something else to play with and Bridget goes along with that.  When Jillian does that I call her "Ruby" from the cartoon "Max and Ruby" as Ruby always tries to distract Max from her things.

But when Jillian goes to pre-school, Bridget heads right for the dollhouse and plays and plays.  She has found a treasure.  But when Jillian returns and sees the dollhouse she lets everyone know she is not a happy camper.

What a Difference a Year Makes

 

A year ago Jillian made a witch's house like this and it really looked like a crazy witch's house and she needed a lot of help with the basics of putting it together.  This year she looked at the pictures, figured out how to put it together, and did all the decorating herself.  Big girl now.

Last of Nice Days

When the girls first went outside Jillian worked on the hula hoop.  She can do it real well on her arm and she kept trying to do it on her body and gets better every time.  So as soon as Jillian was done, here comes Bridget to try to do it too.  She would swing it with her arms and when it fell she would throw up her arm to say "Yea!" 

Then Jillian wanted to show me how well she can do hopscotch.  They loved throwing the rocks.  As always Bridget watches carefully.  Then it was on to the helicopter.  Jillian has figured out how to balance the teeter-totter to do it with Bridget.  It does look kinda scary, but it works. 



Halloween Decorations

Since next week is the first of October, I had the girls help me unpack and start putting up Halloween decorations.  The first thing Jillian wanted was the hanging spider that drops when you clap.  They love the thrill of being scared or scaring anyone that comes.  We didn't get too far on putting up the decorations as they wanted to play with everything and see what was in the next bin.
Thanks to sister Dianne I decided to try some egg carton Halloween decorations.  Jillian is showing off her hanging bat and spider she made.  Bridget worked on a spider but had more fun painting everything but the egg carton.  Also she didn't want to get any black on her fingers.  She threw her bat off the high chair and Sophie immediately chewed it up before I could save it.


 

In the evening we went to Papa Pete's to help James celebrate his birthday.  Then we went to the volleyball game where the girls did a lot of playing with Rielee and a little volleyball watching.  After the game they ran on the floor and got to see Tierney.  The Rockets won in three.



Since it wasn't very nice out Jillian wanted to water color and so did the "Me too!" girl.  Actually they both did very well until Bridget got tired of just painting the paper and painted the tray and then dumped her water on the tray.  Good thing I just gave her a tiny bit of water.  Jillian had a very colorful picture she hung on the refrigerator.

Next they decided to go outside so stepped out on the back deck.  Jillian decided it was cold so she went back inside and dressed her and Bridget in snow hats, coats, gloves, long pants, and boots.  After a minute outside they decided something in the house looked like more fun so immediately came in and shed everything.  Sometimes the attention span is so short.

Jillian wanted her picture taken this morning all ready for pre-school.  She has her new bear pillow and a backpack of things to share today at school.