I Think I Wanna Marry You

"It's a beautiful night. We're looking for something dumb to do. Hey baby. I think I wanna marry you." 

This is a song by Bruno Mars. I first heard it when it appeared on Glee about a year ago. It's one of Isabell's favorites. She could sing it all even last year after listening to it over and over and over again. About a month ago I even heard her singing it while going to the bathroom.  

Well, from this song and the encouragement of Disney Princess movies Isabell has become obsessed with marrying and kissing. And who is the apple of her eye? Who does she want to be her Prince Charming? Her cousin Peyton of course!

She talks about it quite frequently. One time while Peyton was in the car with us, she asked Peyton if he would marry her. Peyton respectfully declined. However, Isabell refuses to take "No." as an answer. She replied with, "But I'm going to wear a pretty dress." while turning her head a little, putting her hands up to her cheeks and batting her eyelashes. (And no, that is not a joke. She actually did that.) And she actually  fluctuated her voice like Lucy does to Schroeder on the Peanuts cartoons. 

Last Wednesday all this talk finally became action. Peyton was over to spend the night. They were playing outside and I was getting ready to go to my Young Women's activity at church and all of a sudden Isabell comes inside and says, "Wahoo!! A wedding today! A wedding today!" I of course follow her to her bedroom to inquire about this statement.

 She replies, "I'm having my wedding today!"

Me- "Who are you getting married to?"

Isabell- "Peyton."

Me- "Why are you marrying Petyon?"

Isabell- "Because he's handsome. And he thinks I'm beautiful."

Then Isabell puts on her flower girl dress from Alesha's wedding.

Me- "Well, what you going to do after you're married?"

Isabell-" We're going to KISS!"

Me- (after smacking my face and shaking my head)- "What are you going to do after you kiss?"

Isabell- "We're going to dance."

Me-" And what are you going to do after you dance?"

Isabell, in a secretive whisper- "We're going to eat our wedding cake."

Well, at least this girl's got all the important parts down.

She then goes and tries to get Peyton to dress up in a Peter Pan/Robin Hood costume we have, but he wanted to pretend to be dressed up. 

Isabell in her dress.

Isabell trying to get Petyon to come and marry her.

Iz showing Petyon that she is in her wedding dress and is not playing Maria from the Nutcracker (they watched the Disney version and love to pretend play it.)

Isabell frustrated because Peyton doesn't want to marry her.

After some convincing, Isabell finally got Peyton to agree to marry her. And apparently in Isabell's weddings you just go straight to the kiss. No "I do's" or anything. The next few pictures are the kiss sequence.

And just like Isabell said, after they kissed they had their dance. 

I must say I was pretty impressed with this spin move by Peyton.

They however, did not have their cake and right after dancing both quickly moved on to something different and completely forgot about being married. This whole situation was so hilarious. For the most part I didn't even try not to laugh, because it was no use. The way Isabell says things, with the fluctuations in her voice and how she bats her eyelashes and all. I'm starting to think she is watching WAY too many princess movies. She's very into kissing right now. Today she was playing with her little people and married them and they kissed a lot. I'm not sure if I should get worried about it or just shrug my shoulders and say, "She's only a little kid." (And no, Spencer and I don't kiss a whole bunch in front of her.)

All of this does however bring memories back to my childhood. I have a cousin who is a year younger than me and when we were little my sisters and a few of our other older girl cousins were always trying to marry us. They loved to get us dressed up and put on a pretend wedding. Theirs however involved more than just the kiss. We usually had someone marrying us. If I remember correctly I was usually pretty easy to convince to take part in the scheme but it took a lot of convincing and forcing to get Nate to agree to it. 

I find it funny that the same thing is happening with my daughter. So I posted some pictures below of me and my cousin Nate at about the same age as Petyon and Isabell are right now. 

This is me and Nate playing in the sandbox at TumTum.

Giving me a night time hug before bed.

And here he is giving me a smooch on the cheek.

Two Peas in a Pod

That's exactly what Isabell and Ellie are. They fit so perfectly together. Isabell sometimes isn't the best morning person or just waking up from a nap person. Not sure where she got it (it couldn't be from her mother...). She'll be trying to cuddle with me all tired like, then Ellie hops into bed with us and just flops on Iz laughting and giving Iz kisses. At first Isabell is upset and pushes Ellie away. But Ellie persists and not long after Isabell is laughing and playing wrestling with Ellie.

Isabell is enjoying this game even if it doesn't look like it. Ellie would jump on her back then Is would fall backwards on the couch. Both enjoyed it very much.

It's so much fun to watch these two grow together. Even now they are dumping out toothpicks then putting them back one by one into the dispenser, all the while taking turns. How easily amused little kids can be. 

The both even have the same lifeless face while watching T.V.

The other day we were listening to Disney music. "What's This?" from A Nightmare Before Christmas came on and Isabell started running around the room going from place to place hiding from the scary song. Next thing I know Ellie is following her. Ellie was always in the last place that Isabell was; just laughing and having such a good time being exactly like her big sister. It's amazing to see how much Ellie looks to Isabell for unspoken advice, even though they are so young. You can almost always see her watching Isabell and seeing what she's doing and what Iz thinks of the situation to see how she should be acting. 

As always, there are ups with the downs; these two can get along just beautifully one moment and the next both are screaming at each other and crying. They help bring out the best AND the worst in each other. But all in all I love those two so much and enjoy watching them learn and grow together. And one of the sweetest things the do now is hold hands while walking. Ellie LOVES to hold Isabell's hand. If I'm caring her she will say "Walk. Hands" so I put her down and she runs to her sister and holds out her hand; usually Isabell grabs a hold of it with no problem and a "You want to hold my hand Ellie? Ok." Yesterday Iz had spend the night at Madison's house. While she was gone the first day Ellie kept asking, "Where Izzy at?" And when she woke up in the morning first thing that's what she said. Then we went to pick up Isabell from preschool and Ellie pushed her way through the crowd of parents to get to her sister and Isabell did the same. They gave each other a great big hug and then Iz grabbed a hold of Ellie's hand (grabbing her away from Parker) and walked out of the classroom. In the car she said to Ellie, "I missed you Ellie." "Mama, Ellie missed me to I know it."

Family Snow Day!!

It's the first time since I think Spencer and I have been married that our little family has had a snow day together. Usually he gets stuck at school and I'm down in Ony. We enjoyed it very much. I just wish the snow had gotten here a little earlier so all the Christmas lights could still be up. There's not much prettier than snow covered Christmas lights.

It was quite strange for Onalaska, (at least I think it was) at how quickly our snow accumulated. In just a half an hour on Sunday we had a good few inches.

Isabell was VERY excited to go play in it. She wanted to make a snow man and put a hat on his head so Frosty could come to life. We told her we didn't have a magic hat, but she kept insisting. Spencer was more than willing to do most of the work. He loves the snow and even went back to play in it after his run once it was almost dark.

Iz again kept insisting on a hat, so Papa came up with this.

So with a little work from Spencer, he used it to make a hat for our snowman.

We think it kinda looks like a train engineer hat. This is also Isabell dancing with the lucky Snowman while singing, "Frosty the Snowman".

After a while Ellie just liked eating it.

So I don't know if you've ever heard of the website called Pinterest. Tressa introduced me to it, and I LOVE it! It has everything under the sun. Random pictures, and mostly what I use it for, is ideas; Ideas from crafting, to parenting help, to hair ideas, workout, food, date nights, picture taking, and so much more. Well, I've seen a couple of pictures of things done in the snow and said,"I've got to try it." And for once in my life... I DID!!! And here are the pictures to prove it.

It's an upside down snowman. :)

And what I like to call, "A Car's car". From the Pixar Disney movie, Cars

And this is Ellie in her snow get-up. It was adorable watching her trudging through the snow.

 

Isabell's Moments

I know I haven't posted anything for a LONG time, so this may not be the update you were all looking for, but these are some things I don't EVER want to forget; classic Isabell moments...

She has really been into dress up lately. She has a few of the princess dresses and will put on jewelry with it. The other day she was all dressed up and came into my room and said, "Hi Mama! I'm a princess and this is my prince." (pointing to her imaginary prince) "We're going to have a wedding birthday celebration today."

"Oh how wonderful! Who's birthday is it?"

"The prince and mine."

"Well, what would you like for your wedding birthday present?"

"Umm, umm, umm, maybe a toy puppy. Yeah a toy puppy."

"What would your prince like?"

"He wants a puppy too."

Think her answer will be that simple when it's her actual wedding? I sure hope so.

On Thurs. while riding in the car, Spencer and I had a very low key lover's spat. Isabell interupted us by saying, "But Daddy, you love her!"

Spencer, while chuckling, "Of course I love her."

Iz- "And Mama loves you!"

Spencer, still chuckling, "Of course she loves me."

Iz- "So kiss her!"

Well, if that doesn't sum up all the pointless arguments I've ever had with my husband I don't know what does. And it worked. We were both laughing after that.

Isabell was riding in the truck with me and all of the sudden she asks about my car which we had gotten rid of a few months ago. So I told her I didn't have a car and was just borrowing other people's cars. She said, "You can go get a car if you want to, any car you want Mama."

I asked, "Are you paying for this car?"

Iz- "Umm, no. If you need money you can just go ask the lady and she'll give you some, and then you can get any car you want, if you want to. Hey your favorite color is purple, you can get a purple car and I can get a yellow car like my favorite color. Then I can listen to "Cuppapasitonyou"!! (which is actually "I've got my mind set on you" by George Harrison)

I don't know where this getting money from a lady came from though. I don't think she knows anything about loans.

On Saturday, Mom and I and to get up real early to go to work. Isabell accidentally got woken up by the garage door, and she came running/crying out of the room for me. I told her I had to leave right now (we were just a bit late) and said good-bye and told her to go to Papa (my dad). So she ran to him and said while full on serious crying, "Papa, I have a song stuck in my eye!!"
Papa- "You have a song stuck in your eye?"
Iz - "Yes!"
Papa- "What song do you have stuck in your eye?"
Iz-" If you're happy and you know it!!!"
Apparently it ended with Isabell wanting chocolate milk and asking to watch Dora. Just a background on the song, I sing it to Ellie to make her happy and on Friday we were in the car together and Ellie got upset so I sang it to her, and Isabell slapped her hands on her face, exsasperated very obviously and said, "Mama!! I'm tired of hearing that song!!"

 She sure is a fascinating kid with some VERY interesting stuff to say. I'm so thankful she's in my life. It would be very boring otherwise.

!21!

Well, three weeks after my birthday I was able to have my birthday party. (May seems to be a difficult month to hold a party in my family) Since I hadn't had a big party with friends since my 16th I decided to throw my self a Mocktail/Whose Line is it Anyway Birthday Bash.

For those of you who don't know Whose Line is it Anyway is an improv game that used to be on ABC Family and was hosted by Drew Carey. (It originally came from Britian though.) I love this game so I thought it would be fun to play some of the games that they do. For my party I choose:

Party Quirks

Sound Effects

Scenes from a Hat

Foriegn Film Dub

Let's Make a Date

I'll give a little explanation of each for those who don't know much about them.

Party Quirks- One person is the host and three others are the guests who arrive one at a time and each guest has a unique personality and the host has to guess what they are.

Sound Effects- Two people act out a scene and two other people are 'offstage' and are making the sounds for it.

Scenes from a Hat- written suggestions are placed in a hat. The host then draws from the hat, and any of the four performers, who stand off-stage, may enter and develop that scene.  the US version often consisted of one-liners. (Which is what we did.)

Foriegn Film Dub- Two people act out a scene using just a random movie title and a foriegn language. They have to speak the language and two other people translate it.
Let's Make a Date- Almost exactly the same as Party Quirks except it's like a dating show where there is a contestant and then three bachelors/bachelorettes who they ask questions to.

They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. Well, in this case I think most of these are woth 1,001 so I"ll let them do the talking.

Those kids were so excited when we said we were going to sing Happy Birthday. I think besides eating the cake, it's their favoite part of the party.

A very Cody face.

Cody was our first lovely lady contestant.

The first round of Let's Make a Date bachelors. Mark had a nervous tick and Nate was Batman (Superhero)

Spencer showing off his Elvis Presely moves.

The lucky bachelor contestant.

Tressa was the fun date who was afraid of the color white.

Kim was the fabulous date who had narcolepsy.

I was really whinny. I even got cut off on one of my answers. Hmph!

Erica and Kathleen were our sound effect makers in Sound Effects.

Dad and Jesse are pushing Jesse's broken down car through NYC which was the scene for Sound Effects.

Tressa was our 'Drew Carey' for the Scences from a Hat game

Clarissa getting dolled up before her guests arrive to her party.

Dad (Doug A.) is on fire!!

Erica is a dog who loves to chew on shoes.

Mark has a sinus problem and is blowing his nose everywhere without a kleenex. EEEWW!

I'm the host of the party checkin the dip before my guests arrive.

Clarissa is a Pro Wrestler before a big match and Jesse is really into oragami.

Kim being a Life in 60 seconds (from birth to death) This is the birth.

The Miller Family enjoying the show.

Kathleen slithering and sliding out of her old snake skin, the perfect guest for a party.

Parker displaying one of the funny hats we got for a different game we were going to do.

Spencer and his little sister Sam.

I don't think you're supposed to sitch cards guys. They are lined up to play Let's Make a Date.

Can't you tell? She's a senatorial candidate schmoozing the crowd.

Having a conversation with this Honker (from Seasame Street) is a bit hard.

Once the improv died down, we brought out Just Dance 2. This is from one of my favorite songs, Rasputin.

Peyton helping me with the moves.

Kathleen strutin her stuff.

It took some convincing but we finally got Doug Gifford out on the dance floor.

Isabell doing what she does best; Chasing Brady.

Miss Ellie. Enough said :)