Monkey see, Monkey do...

It was SO nice of my best friend Alicia to 'make' a best friend for my little girl! These two have been best buds since the day Emma was born. We met at the park one day in January to let the girls play & exchange their Christmas presents.

I love this pic because it really shows their height difference...Andi who is REALLY tall for her age, and Emma who is REALLY short for her age. I bet they will always be complete opposites in everything. Me & Alicia definitely are, but it works wonderfully to have someone to balance you out. Emma is in the cutest phase, she loves to follow Andi around & mimic everything Andi does. Here are some more photos from our fun day at the park.

Come on Emma, lets roll in the leaves...then, crawl this way...

then shake your booty like this Emma...

Now, make a funny pose like this...good job Emma!

Okay, now follow me this way. So cute.

I wonder how long we have until the BFF sleepovers begin!

My booty shakin' munchkins

These are definitely my kiddos...they LOVE to dance as much as I do! This is their favorite song right now.

Anger Management

One day while we lived in Minnesota, I picked Andi up from pre-school and her teacher handed me this poster. She simply said 'Oh, this is the poster we use at school & I thought it might be helpful if you were to re-inforce this at home as well.' Yup, Andi is definitely a fiery tempered red-head. We got a kick out of Andi's teacher's polite way of sending it home to us. We even got a kick out of the fact that she took the time to laminate it as well. She knew we were going to need this poster to last for awhile.

Since that day, the poster has lived in Andi's room and we refer to it each time she acts incorrectly when she is angry. We take her to her room & tell her 'It's okay to be angry, but you still have to follow rules even when you are angry.' And, we walk her through what she can & can't do as lined out on the poster.

Well, sometime while Derek was home over Christmas/ New Year's vacation, Andi broke one of her 'being angry' rules. As Derek was taking her to her room for time-out, I reminded him to go over her poster with her. He stayed in her room a few minutes, then came & joined me in the living room. We both sat there quietly wondering how she would react. Sometimes she will sit quietly in time-out & sometimes she will scream hysterically the entire time. This time however, she did something different. She opened her door, threw something across the hallway & then slammed her door behind her. We looked at each other & said 'WHAT was that?' Derek went to investigate what had gotten thrown out of her room & he came back cracking up laughing, holding her 'Rules for being angry' poster. Derek said, 'I don't think that was one of the acceptable options.'