What a Monkey!

Melody is such a monkey! Her new talent is removing every piece of clothing before I even realize what she's doing. This morning she did just that while I was making her breakfast. I told her I wouldn't give her her toast if she didn't put her shirt back on. I tried to help her, but she insisted on doing it herself! This is as far as she could get it and I figured at least it was back on her body. The 'right' way to wear a shirt is all in your perception anyway isn't it? Also note how she eats her toast. It's almost always gone by the time she's done, she just has to eat the middle first! My little girl definitely does things just the way she wants, I hope she never changes!

youtube videos

I sent out invites to everyone to join youtube so you can see videos of the kids. If you join you can subscribe and recieve emails whenever I put up new videos, however you can also just check the link from time to time to see if there is anything new. the link is http://youtube.com/user/meakin84 I'll post some of the videos here on the blog, but I'll put all of the videos on our youtube channel. Let me know what you think or if you have any problems!

Katie is getting so big! She laughs at everything Mellie does and Mellie just loves playing with her. I thought everyone would appreciate seeing this video, I thought it was too cute but I may be slightly biased!

Mellie's CRAZY Party!

Since we didn't have family that could come celebrate with us we decided to get creative in what we would do for Mellie's birthday. First we went to McDonalds because Mellie LOVES french fries. Then we filled the livingroom with balloons and streamers. We strung all the streamers at her eye level so she could play with them. As you can see from the picture she made quick work of all the streamers! Then Jared connected the computer to the tv and we did a video call to grandma and cassie so they could sing happy birthday with us. By the end we were singing really slow because the lag made us seem like we weren't together so we each kept slowing down to catch up with the other! Finally Mellie blew out her candles (after four or five tries:P) and she licked all the frosting off the cake! I'm sure she'll never remember it, but it was fun anyway!

Melody's version of eating yogurt!

So last weekend Jared was really nice and he got up with Melody and told me to sleep in. I thought it was so nice of him until I got up and was greeted with Melody washing her hair with her yogurt. Jared had given her a BIG bowl of yogurt and then logged on his game. Obviously I don't need to tell you he wasn't paying attention. So a word to the wise for all of you with toddlers, don't offer large quantities of yogurt if you plan to play warcraft!