All in a day's work

On Monday night after I bathed the girls, I set Eleanor up downstairs watching Mickey Mouse while I went upstairs to feed Penelope and put her to bed. Well about halfway through feeding Penelope I thought I heard Eleanor come upstairs and go into the bathroom. I didn't think much of it because she had been wanting to put a clippie back in her hair after her bath so I figured she was just playing in the basket of hair stuff. Well I put Penelope down to sleep just in time to here Eleanor saying "uh-oh mama" over and over again. She had baby formula powder all over her and upon further investigation it was all over the bathroom floor and toilet. She had dumped out the entire can! Eleanor was only concerned about her jammies being dirty and wanted to pick out a new outfit. Mondays are long days as it is since Andrew has class until 11, so needless to say I got pretty frustrated with Eleanor! Well after all the yelling and cleaning up Penelope was awake and wasn't going back to sleep. It was our last can of formula so I loaded the girls up and we headed out to the store to get more formula. We stopped at McDonald's on the way home because there's nothing an ice cream cone or a hot fudge sundae won't fix!

I'm a little (2 months) behind in blogging so here's a look at what we've been up to ....

Penelope turned 6 months

Then Penelope turned 7 months and loves it when I play the piano

Eleanor thinks she's pretty good at playing the piano

Eleanor like to dress up as me and Andrew

Penelope is a crawling machine especially when she is on the hunt for paper or electrical wires

She also follows Eleanor around all day long

Eleanor thinks she is a princess. And speaking of princesses, we got Tangled yesterday and Eleanor has probably watched it about 5 times already. Which explains why I have a chance to blog. And hopefully Rapunzel can babysit her so I can get some spring cleaning done.

Penelope is loving food, especially real stuff like spaghetti, mac and cheese, cheerios, animal crackers, veggie straws, yogurt, string cheese. She also loves sticking out her tongue and is working on waving and clapping. She started pulling up on stuff last week and now she is obsessed with standing. She wants to stand any chance she gets. The race is on to see if she will walk before I did. But she's running out of time, she only has about 2 weeks left ;) She's also been a really crummy sleeper. She had RSV a couple of weeks ago and ever since then her sleeping is off. And I think she's about to cut a tooth or two. I'll be so happy when they come through because then maybe I'll get some good sleep. (fingers crossed!!)

My mom sent Eleanor a package of some Mardi Gras beads, a tutu and green sparkly shoes so she can be Tinkerbell! I think she went about a week without taking it off (except to bathe and get dressed, but then it went right back on).

These days she likes to pick out what to wear and sometimes she requests an outfit change several times. This is today's third outfit...

Maybe if it would ever warm up around here she could actually leave the house in spring dresses.

We had some nice spring weather that lasted about a week. Now we are back to cold winter weather and it is actually snowing as I type. We are so anxious for warmer weather!

And to close I had a video of Eleanor's favorite hobby, reading, but it is just taking way to long to load. She has been so into books lately, and I love it! Here she is after her nap just hanging out in her room and reading books. Some of her favorites are Go Dog Do, Five Little Monkeys, Fancy Nancy, anything princess, Hand Hand Fingers Thumb, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (which is actually what she calls chicken now), Mr. Brown Can Moo, and A Fly Went By.