Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Our "Free" Entertainment

I'm not sure what we ever did to keep ourselves entertained before Mikayla came around.  She sure provides a constant source of smiles and laughter.
I told her to say "cheese" so I could take a picture of her with my phone.  Sure-no problem, Mom.  She held up HER play phone and let the cheeses begin.
If her hair isn't enough to make you smile I don't know what else is!
Style.  She's always had lots of it and it just keeps getting better.
Her obsession with stuff.  She just can't let go-literally.
Notice the book they're reading?  She's obsessed with dinosaur or "roar" books lately.  Her Dad has to be completely to blame for that one.  She would have us read to her all day long.
Her newest obsession?  Glasses.  The way she says glasses is amazing-hopefully you can pick it up from the  noisy video.  She's also obsessed with colors right now-she knows them all and tells you what color everything is.  All day long.  Don't mind me saying how cute she is in the video, either.  It happens.
She's become quite the little helper/homemaker.  Yesterday I found her cleaning toilets.  With a napkin and my body spray.  She couldn't have been more proud of herself.  She loves to "nean" (clean) and to "nah-nup" (clean up, like the infamous song says).
She's into baby dolls all of a sudden-it's either absolutely perfect timing or we're going to be in serious trouble when she wants to be the mom to little sister.  We'll see!
She is a riot.  Pictures and videos don't even do her personality justice.  You'll probably just have to come visit us sometime to see what I mean!

Big Accomplishments

It's been a crazy few weeks for the Hancock side and it's not slowing down any time soon!  
We made it to Phoenix for some of Dillon's state baseball playoffs and had a great time hanging out with family.  Dillon's team actually went on to become state champs the next weekend!  Of course I forgot to take pictures of the games, but here are some of the other happenings of the weekend.  
Pool time!
We went to the mall to find a dress for DeeDee and when we walked out of the dressing room at Ross' Mikayla sat down on the floor, took off her shoes and ran to the shoe racks to start trying on shoes.  She is such a GIRL (have I mentioned that before?!?)!
This past weekend Dustin and I made it down to DeeDee's graduation from EAC.  She just finished the nursing program and we are SO proud of her!

Mom's Day

We had a great Mother's Day around here!  I was spoiled rotten with my favorite thing-FOOD!  Dustin and Mikayla made quite the team and made sure I was very well taken care of!
Breakfast in bed!
Me and the girly who made me a Mama!

Friday, May 4, 2012

Sexy Mama

$1 on a yard sale slide=worth every penny.
For some reason the slide has become her stage.  She stands either on the steps of the slide or the top of the slide and belts out all the songs she knows with everything she's got.  My favorite is when she sings "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam" and stands on top of the slide.  She tries so hard to be really brave while she "jumps" for the "beamp" parts.
Sing it, sister!

Monday, April 30, 2012

Waitin' on a Woman

You know the country song, right?  I'm pretty sure it can be the theme song for our lives these days.  Mikayla cannot go ANYWHERE, not even to get the mail from the mailbox, without taking something with her.  Most days she bargains for two things because that's the way she rolls-everything's better in twos.  And so, we wait.  Every time we want to step foot out the door we wait as she searches for and collects her treasures of choice.  She's recently discovered purses and that just makes the waiting process longer-you'd be surprised how many treasures a 2 year-old can stuff in a purse.  We've had to upgrade to Mom's purses though because Mikayla's just don't hold enough stuff.  The whole process is quite comical and makes me smile most of the time as I watch this unfold:
First off, the frustration of things not fitting just the way they should.  Probably shouldn't make me laugh, but it does.
Then there's the distraction of playing with toys while trying to decide which things make the final cut and which will have to stay home just this once.
The begging part of the process goes something like this: she comes up to me looking super cute holding whatever she is wanting to take with her, then while looking super cute she nods her head and says "yeah, yeah?" (a lazy man's way of saying "Can I take this with me, pretty please?")
The final ensemble that makes me giggle every time.  She has to hold her arm up in the air to keep the purse on.  I don't know how she keeps it up for so long!
Who wouldn't want to take a cutie looking this good on errands with them?!?
Sure makes waitin' on a woman worth it!

Snippets of Life

Picnic on the porch
New bathing suit/dance costume
Big blues and pigtails
My belly is growing bigger everyday and apparently Mikayla's is, too.
Mikayla and I made some shoes for little sister
Quickly learning how to pose for pictures
Playing cash register,
make-up and
dress up are our activities of choice these days.
We scored a kid's porch swing at a yard sale
Mikayla went potty on the toilet for the first time!  (Still not sure how to conquer this potty training thing...any suggestions?!?)
We love "bear bear" and "lellow" on our shirts!  Best day ever!
And as always, we live for time with Dad!

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

"Hole. Dirty."

This past weekend the Wilson girls went on our annual Mother's Day outing to Phoenix for an overnight adventure with lots of shopping and eating.  While we were away the boys and Mikayla were superstars and worked like maniacs in our yard digging out an 8-10" area for our concrete pad.  Mikayla is quite smitten with the hole in our yard and informs me on a regular basis that she'll be "Bah-bak.  Hole.  Dirty."  Interpretation:  "I'll be right back.  I'm going in the hole to get dirty."  Knock yourself out girly!

I don't have many explanations for the pictures (that I stole from my Dad) because I wasn't there for the adventures, but I think they pretty much speak for themselves...
Lunch.  Dad style.  Love it.
This is the best picture I found of all the work they did.  You can kind of get the vision-it's deep and about 1200 square feet (basically almost as big as our house).
Thanks brothers and Dad for helping Dustin!  You guys are awesome!