. two of a kind .

these girls are so different, it's truly amazing, however, the one thing that is the same is their hair.  who knew?!?  karsyn has always had blonde hair.  mykah's was always brown.  they are exactly the same color now.  karsyn still has her baby blues though and i love that. 

they are becoming such good friends, but obviously have their sister moments.  i'm very thankful for being blessed with two sweet girls!  i cannot wait to see how their relationship grows and changes as they get older.  right now, it's simply precious. 

. time flies .

i have always believed that time flies when you're having fun, but whether we are having fun in the hill house all the time or not, time is still flying by so fast.  the girls are growing and learning new things daily and hitting "developmental milestones" so quickly.  karsyn is about to be 4 years old.  when did that happen?!?  mykah is going to be 2 shortly after.  i'm learning to sit back and enjoy.  to soak in every second of their little lives.  to try to memorize their every move as if i could always see them as babies. 



karsyn is (as "those" parents would say ... 47 months old) or almost 4.  i prefer to say "she'll be 4 in december".  here are some of my favorite things and some not so favorite things about her right now ...



*she absolutely loves preschool and amazes me at the things she remembers.  yesterday she said "authors are the people who write words."  i asked her where she learned that from and she said "from ms. jamee". 

*she wants me to fix her hair every single day.  and those little stray hairs that pop out of the side of the pony tail drive her crazy.  reminds me a little of me.

*she has an opinion about everything and is not afraid to express it.  at. all.

*she loves anything physical. riding bikes.  jumping on the trampoline.  swinging.  she's even said she wants to run with me, which i would love.

*she loves being a big sister.  the other day she said she never wants me to have another baby.  mykah cannot ever be a big sister b/c she is the big sister.

*she's quite the bossy little thing.

*she is and has always been very independent. 

*she is very strong willed.  very.  and i'm not so sure where she gets that from.

*today she told me that "emma starts with E, brenna starts with B, and ally starts with A".  those are her little friends in her preschool class.  i was amazed that she knew this!



Mykah is definitely developing an awesome personality.  She is hilarious.  She is 2 1/2 (or 22 months old now) and a complete riot!  Here are some new things about her ...



*she is learning to put sentences/partial sentences together.  all day long she says "mommy's car.  daddy's car.  mimi's car."  that's her favorite phrase right now i guess.  she gets a kick out of her words too.  each time she says something she just laughs and laughs.

*she is doing everything sissy does.  everything. 

*she has her thumb in her mouth more times than not.  i think the only time its not in her mouth is when she's eating, but even then she's tried to eat with it in there.  that's going to be a hard one to break!

*she's not sleeping as much as she used to, which i miss.  but she still sleeps pretty well.  typically she'll go to bed at 7:30 and sleep until 7:00 or 7:30.  her naps are down to an average of an hour and a half.  i'm missing the 2-3 hour naps though.  occasionally she breaks them out. 

*she knows how to call papa on my phone.  every. time.

*she now sleeps with a pillow and a blanket to cover her (b/c sissy does), but is still in her crib.  i have no intentions of moving her out of her crib.  karsyn was in hers until she was 2 1/2. 

*she is still lactose intolerant and actually just ended up with a double ear infection b/c we let her have cake and ice cream.  usually i give her a lacaid chewable and she's fine, but that day we forgot and paid the price.



i am absolutely amazed at my girls each day.  they are always learning something new that blows my mind.  i love being home with them and can't imagine it any other way.  i just can't believe how fast they are growing though!

. halloween 2010 .

we typically don't do a whole lot for halloween.  obviously we have small children still, so it has not at all become anything for us, which i'm ok with.  i can do without it.  what i can't do without is the candy at the end.  my back side could do without the candy, but not without all the walking we did to get the candy.  let's not go there. 



the fun part this year was letting karsyn pick what she wanted to be.  she has said for months now that she wanted to be a cat.  easy enough.  and since i like things to be all matchy-matchy, we made mykah a mouse. 

i don't think i'm biased at all, but i'd say they were the cutest cat and mouse you'd ever seen.  now, the mouse?  she was definitely the slowest mouse i'd ever seen.  there was no scurrying, even though she was saying "run. run."  as we approached the houses while trick or treating.  she must have heard the other kiddos.

friday night we had a birthday party for one of karsyn's favorite friends.  they got to dress up for that and had a blast.  here she is with her besties ...

the party was so much fun.  neither cat nor mouse wanted to leave.  then sunday came.  karsyn couldn't wait for halloween.  i think she asked about every 2 seconds if it was "halloween yet?!?"  and where the "festibal" was that we were going to.  we had a very lazy sunday. that's what you do on holidays right?  then we got all gussied up again and headed to our church for the fall festival (which is always insane) and then we met some friends to go trick or treating.  we didn't get home until 9:00 and the girls passed out.  they had a blast though.  i'm waiting for them to wake up and ask for candy for breakfast!  such is life, right?

p.s.  no i didn't eat all the candy, but i must say i did steal the one and only almond joy out of the bucket.