Gillian's hair

Every morning I fight with Gillian. She hates getting her hair brushed.  Well, that's a little dramatic, she doesn't hate it. She just doesn't like to stay still while I am brushing her hair. This morning I decided to do something different with her hair. It was something I saw on Pinterest and I thought it would look cute on Gillian. Before I could start on Gillian's hair, I needed to brush Donald Duck's hair (Gillian was planning on bringing Donald to school today).  Next I started on Gillian. I did the first two ponytails and then Gillian wanted to get up. I had to hold her still while I did the other two ponytails. The whole time Gillian was saying "I don't like it. Stop!"  Finally her hair was done. And she looked so cute. But she said "I don't like it. I gonna take it out."  Thankfully Daddy quickly distracted her and asked her to get her sneakers. By the time her sneakers were on, she had forgotten about taking out her hair. 

I was surprised to see that her hair was still in the ponytails after school. When we asked her if everyone liked her hair, she said "Everybody hate it!" Fabulous, she is three. She is going to be delightful in her teenage years. 

sNOw day!

Gillian woke up this morning and looked out the window.  She said "There's snow on Daddy's car!"  We had to find Daddy right away so she could tell him about his car.  John was already awake talking to Daddy about going "snowboarding."  We told the kids that we would go outside and play after Daddy cleaned up the driveway and the cars.  John was very concerned that we wouldn't get outside before the snow melted.  He hasn't had a good track record this winter.  So far this winter we have only gotten a small amount of snow and it has been melting before he remembers that he wants to go outside and play.  There was no way the snow would melt too fast today.  We got about 6 inches by us. 

We got the kids dressed in their snow gear and we headed over to Holmdel Park.  There is a huge sledding hill there and it is well worth the drive.  We brought two snow tubes and John's snowboard.  John and Daddy went to the big hill first on the big snow tube.  John loved it.  Gillian and I waited in line for the little hill and I sent her down on the small snow tube.  She loved it when I pushed her down, but when Daddy caught her at the bottom, she was not happy.  Next we all went to the big hill, I went down by myself in the small tube.  The tubes are fast.  You fly down the hill.  I ran into a couple of kids, but luckily no one got hurt.  I quickly got off and looked for John.  He was the next to go down.  He went down on his snowboard, and only got about halfway down the hill.  I had to run and find him.  We were very smart and told him that when he stopped in his sled, he needed to get off and move to the fence.  That's where I found him, at the fence.  Next Daddy and Gillian went down on the big tube.  Again, she wasn't too sure about the ride.  She like the first half and then cried at the bottom.  We decided maybe we should stick to the small hill for a little bit.  John went down a couple of times on his snow board and we got Gillian to go down once.  We thought that if we told her Mommy would catch her at the bottom, it would help.  Daddy pushed her down the hill, he said she was laughing and smiling.  But by the time she reached me, she was crying.  Poor little lady did not like it! 

 

Finally, we decided to go back to the big hill.  Gillian and I went down on the big tube.  Again, I am thankful that we had a tube.  It made for a fast ride, but I didn't feel guilty when we bumped into a few people.  We did bump into like six people on our trip.  Everyone was so nice and understanding.  Gillian loved the trip down the hill, but again was crying when we reached the bottom.  I didn't have time to console her, I had to look for John.  John wanted to go down on the small tube by himself.  He did great!  Like I said, the tubes went fast and John collided with another kid and flipped out of his tube.  I caught the tube and then found John on the hill.  He was smiling ear to ear.  He loved it! 

They boys did another run by themselves while Gillian and I waited at the bottom of the hill.  They went so far in the big tube.  They ended up almost to the end of the hill.  They even ran into a group of kids that thought they were safe hanging out at the bottom.  The kids were safe until Daddy and John got into their tube! 

We got home, and John wanted to play outside more.  I joined him for a little bit and he told me that he was looking for "ice sticks."  I guess he found a couple of icicles hanging off of the jungle gym and thought they were super cool.  So he was searching for more.  I pointed out all the icicles hanging from the roof of the house and he said "But we will never reach all of those ice sticks!"

In the car on the way home, we asked Gillian if she had fun.  She said "No!"  We asked John if he had fun, and he said "It was awesome!"  Overall, a pretty fun day for everyone.  Well with the exception of Gillian!

Check-ups

We had the kids annual exams scheduled for this morning.  I have been talking to both John and Gillian about going to the doctor and how we are going to be brave and do what the doctor asked.  I have even been sing that Doc McStuffin check up song.  For those of you that don't have Disney Junior on all the time, Doc McStuffin is a little girl that repairs toys.  She also has a little song about check ups.  Check out the video below:

I thought that by singing the song that Gillian would understand that the doctor was just going to look in her ears and eyes and everything would be fine.  Well we got to the doctor's office and John was great.  He stood on the scale and got weighted and measured.  He also sat still and had his blood pressure taken.  He said "This doesn't hurt at all!  It tickles!"  He also had his hearing tested.  He listened to the nurses instructions and raised his hand every time he heard a beep.  Next they tested his eye sight.  Again he was awesome.  Then it was Gillian's turn to get weighted.  She wasn't so sure about the big scale.  John told her "It's really easy.  Did you see me?  I was brave!"  The nurse and I agreed to weigh and measure her in the baby room.  This way all she had to do was sit in the chair to get weighed and then lay down to get measured.  She sat still, but I had to hold her down in order to get her height. 

We had some down time in the exam room while we waited for some paperwork to be filled out.  John sat in the doctor's chair and checked out all the tools on the table.  He loved playing with the doctor's reflex hammer.  It was shaped like a dinosaur.  John said "It looks like a dinosaur.  But it has a long neck, but long-neck dinosaurs don't have spikes on their neck.  It kinda looks like a dragon.  Mom, you know what kind of dinosaur it looks like?"  I was completely intrigued by his whole thought process here.  Of course I said no, what kind of dinosaur does it look like.  He says "Amargasaurus!"  I didn't know if that was true or not.  I had never heard of an Amaragsaurus before (in case you are interested, check out this link to learn more about the Amargasaurus).  But he does know his dinosaurs.  I did get a picture of him holding the reflex hammer. 

The doctor came in and again John was awesome.  He did everything the doctor asked.  Then it was Gillian's turn.  Again, she didn't want the doctor to look in her ears or her eyes or listen to her heart.  Dr. Yee said "she's feisty!"  Yup, that's my girl.  Everything checked out fine.  Both kids are growing and doing the appropriate things for their age.  Next came the shots.  Gillian got two shots.  They did the second one and she just cried and cried.  John was brave, but he did shed some tears.  I hate to have them cry, but I know that John was really in pain while Gillian was her typical dramatic self.  Dr. Yee said "John you get three lollipops because you had three shots."  As soon as Dr. Yee said lollipops.  Gillian stopped crying and said "Lollipop!" 

Random people

I don't know if it is just my kids or it's me. But we attract the most random people. Today we were eating lunch in the food court at Monmouth Mall. A little old lady passes by our table and starts waving at Gillian. Gillian saw the old lady and started to squirm in her chair. Well the old lady came right up to Gillian and started talking to her. That was too much for Gillian and she completely fell off her chair. She didn't get hurt. She just slid off the chair onto the floor. The lady felt so bad. Gillian was her typical dramatic self an cried which made the lady feel really bad. I found out that she was a grandma and has 7 grand kids that are all grown up. She was walking past our table to go cash in a lotto ticket and just had to say hello to Gillian. Gillian finally calmed down and we finished our lunch. The lady came back and brought John and Gillian some fruit snacks she bought at the connivence store. She felt so bad. She didn't want Gillian to fall off the chair. Luckily John was on his best behavior. John shook her hand and said hello. I felt bad for that sweet lady. She just wanted to say hello to my kids and was greeted with tears.