Sesame St Live!

So every year Sesame Street comes to town. We toyed with the idea of taking Katie last year but felt she might have been too young. Then we felt like big heels when everyone in her daycare class went except her.

Fastforward to this year and the day the tickets went on sale- I was ready and sitting at my pc to get the best seats available. Scored some great seats and had to laugh- where once I would wait for concert tickets to go onsale I am now waiting for SSL to go on sale. But it paid off and we went last nite.

I was worried about taking Sarah- I thought she might be too small yet and be bored. I should not have worried. She was glued to watching them. She would bounce on my knee to all the songs and when it would end she would clap her hands and go YAY!!!!!

I seriously cant go over how good both girls were and how much they enjoyed it. The look on their faces when the room got dark and the spotlights started to go and then the music started and then BERT came out- it was priceless....

Now the cynical part of me cant believe what a $$ this has become for Sesame St. There was an intermission and they were selling Elmo balloons- at $8 a pop!!! While we did not buy those overprices suckers we did end up getting the girls a bunch of overprices SS stuff. Hey- this is their first show- so we caved.....

Update on the Girls

Katie went for her 3rd sweat test on Monday and again did not give so much as a drop of sweat. They decided to give up for now on the whole Cystic Fibrosis. Unfortunately we had bad new after that. We had to take her for a follow up x-ray and there is still a spot on her lower left lung. So now we go to a pulmonary dr at Geisinger next Friday for him to look at her lungs and see what is going on. Right now it could be a couple different things. So we wait.

Sarah had a follow up x-ray as well and her came back clear.

Not Nice

So Sarah is starting to talk a bit and while a lot of it is still babby talk. She is starting to say some words clearly. One in particular must get said to her alot because she is starting to repeat it on a semi-regular basis. So much so that she walked around with her baby doll yesterday telling the baby doll- Not Nice.

Sarah is what we call our little bruiser. She is quite the toy bully at home and at school. Jim actually got stopped by one of the teachers in her classroom on Friday. Apparently she has been biting 2-3 times a week. Usually because someone has a toy she wants or someone tried to take a toy from her. They said they can usually tell when it is going to happen because she lets out her warrior cry and then goes in for the kill. They can prevent it sometimes but not always.

I love that she is getting more vocal and developing her personality but at the same time I hate this stage. The frustration over being unable to express herself through speech that leads to biting, hitting, shoving and temper tantrums. Fun times....

Talladega Nites and the Baby Jesus

So we try to be good parents and give Katie and Sarah somewhat of a religious background. We both felt sadly lacking back in december when reading a friends blog and finding out how their son was so excited to celebrate Jesus' birthday. To this point our own kids only knew that Christmas meant Santa....

So we set about teaching Katie about the baby Jesus and how Christmas is his birthday. She caught on really quickly and loves reading her children's bible and a her child's book of Jesus stories.... To the point that she loves to read about Baby Jesus being born. Its cute and kinda funny when she tells you King Herrod- baaaaaddd- he need a time out.....

So what does this have to do with Talladega nites? Jim and I cant help to laugh because she always refers to Jesus as baby Jesus... And for those that saw the movie Talladega nites- Will Farrells character always had to thank the Baby Jesus. So we were like- has she been watching that movie????

Everybody Polka!

So those true Pennsylvanians know that the Polka is a huge thing here. Back in the summer Jim turned on one of the local channels that was broadcasting from a local fair and they had the couples doing the Polka. Katie loved it. She stared fascinated at the screen. Fast forward a few months and Jim puts PBS on and polka is on. Katie and Sarah go nuts dancing around to Polka. So for giggles Jim downloads the Pennsylvania polka to his ipod. Everytime he plays it on the way home from daycare both kids go nuts clapping and dancing in their car seats.

Yeah they are true Pennsylvanians! So everyone polka!!!!!

Soccer Mom?

So my Uncle Mike is probably going to love this post. Yes I drive a mini van and yes I have little kids, but that by no means makes me a (gasp) soccer mom! Its a stereotype I have long since fought against. And one my Uncle loves to tease me about. Even going so far as to slap a soccor car magnet on my trunk when I am not looking. And my cousin and his girlfriend went as so far as to buy Sarah a soccer ball for her birthday.

Here is the thing. Katie is good. Really good. She can already do drills and has great control over the ball. So much so we are asking around about a soccer leage for pre-schoolers. So while I will continue to fight the stereotype - I think I will be that soccer mom before too long!

Sisters - Gotta love it

So this weekend was a rough one for the girls. Poor kiddos- there was a lot of late nites and then full days. So Saturday I convinced Katie to take a nap - 2 hours later she woke up and was a major grump. Nothing would satisfy her highness. So she sat in her chair sideways crying and yelling. I finally gave up an decided to ignore. Sarah on the other I guess got fed up with it - she took her binkie out of her mouth and popped it into Katie's and then started rubbing her back. I have to give the little one credit- it worked- Katie immediately started laughing and her mood instantly changed.....


While they fight a lot- they do have their moments of sweetness. I was holding Sarah as she slept in my arms on Sunday at their Bears house and Katie was playing with her cousins but every so often she would come over and lean in and very gently give Sarah the sweetest little kiss...