Dancing Queen

*cue ABBA*

"Dancing Queen
Young and sweet
Only .... five."

Malia's dance recital was last night. She did great. And I'm not just being biased (ok - maybe sorta'). But I really did, objectively, feel like she knew the dance the best and smiled the most. I wasn't allowed to record the recital, but I recorded the dress rehearsal earlier this week, at which she didn't do as well. Bummer. I haven't uploaded the video onto my computer yet, so you'll have to settle for these pictures, which are pretty much adorable, so it's not, technically, "settling."

P.S. If you noticed the excessive make-up (how could you not?) - it's a studio requirement.

P.P.S. I just noticed the lipstick on her teeth. Awesome.

Talking With Daddy

Sometimes when I lay CC down for a nap, I allow Malia to play a fairy game on my computer before sending her to her room for nap/quiet time.

A couple of weeks ago, David popped up on chat to talk to me while I was downstairs, so Malia asked if she could chat with him. I verified that it was, in fact, him and told her she could. She was on cloud 9 that entire afternoon. She was just so excited to have a conversation with him all by herself while he was at work. It was adorable.

They had another online chat again today, and I just remembered that I can find chat history in my e-mail. I looked it up to see what they wrote, and I was literally laughing out loud and touched to tears, all at the same time. (I also discovered the initial conversation from a couple of weeks ago, but they're both pretty long, so I'll only show the more recent one to maintain the novelty of it).

Keep in mind she's only 5 and will be starting kindergarten this fall and I was not in the room the entire time, so I'm pretty proud of both her reading & typing ability. Also, this may be me stating the obvious, but when it says "me" it's Malia.

[sic]

David: hello

me: oh hi dada how are you

David: i'm fine. how are you, Malia? :)

me: im playing a winnie the pooh game called the search for christopher robin that awesome

..D

David: wow that sounds like fun. what did you guys do today?

me: ,,D

WOW YOU WANT TO KNOW OK WE WENT TO A PARK I NEVER BEEN TO B4 AND CC AND I SWINGD ON THE SWINGS ALOT AND I THOTE I WAS SICK BUT IM NOT........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... ..D

David: whoah, that sounds pretty fun

you want to know how to make a smily face?

me: ;D HAHAHA THATS RIGHT

David: there you go :)

me: ..]

David: ;D

;p

me: HEY YOU COPID ME HAHAHA HEHEHE ;D

;P

David: haha yep

me: YOU HAVE TO CLICK CAPS LOCK FOR UPER KASE

OK

;P ;D

David: THAT'S RIGHT!

you are learning a lot about typing

do you know how to write a question mark? it looks like this: ??????

me: YEP YOU KNOW IT

NO...............................................................................................................................................................................,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

David: do you see the keys next to the M key?

they look like this < > ?

me: UM NO I DONT SEE THME

David: they have two symbols on each key. the one next to the M has < and ,

me: WHEN I TRY TO MAKE THOSE IT LOOKS LIKE THIS /

David: ok i will tell you how to make them

me: YAY

David: Press the "shift" key and then press /, it will turn into "?"

me: / IT DID NOT WORK ..

David: you have to hold down the "shift" key with one finger and keep it held down while you type the other key to get "?

me: OK ILL TRY

? IT WORKT

David: YES!

NICE JOB :)

you use ? when you are asking a question

me: IM SO HAPPY NOW ..D

David: Haha good to hear

me: ;D

David: so you can say a question like "How are you?"

me: HOW ARE YOU?

;D

AWESOME JOB

David: I'm fine thank you

haha

me: THANKS FOR SHOWING ME THAT WAS TOTALY AWESOME

??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

David: haha good job

me: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

SO ARE YOU MAKEING MONEY AGAIN?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

David: yep

day by day haha

me: I MEAN HAVE YOU BEEN TO THE PLASE WHERE YOU CAN SLIDE DOWN A SLIDE AND BOUNSE AND CLIMB

??????????????????????????????

David: hmm i don't know, where is it?

me: HMMMM THINK MALIA THINK OH DADDY I LOVE DO YOU LOVE ME TO AS MUCH AS I LIKE THIS MUCH 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

David: whoah that is a lot. I sure do!

me: OH YA I DIDINT THINK OF THAT WELL I DONT KNOW BUT MOMMY DOSE IM GOING TO HAVE MY JAKE AND THE NEVER LAND PIRATES PARTY THERE MOMMY THINKS BUT THEN YOU WELL SEE WHERE IT IS ;P ;D

David: that sounds like a lot of fun

me: YEP YEP IT DOSE CC AND I WENT THERE ONE TIME A I THINK WAIT I HAVE ONE MORE THING TO TELL YOU IS STAR WARS YOUR MOST FAVEROTE MOVIE ARE YOU REALLY REALLY REALLY SURE????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

David: ooh cool

It is one of my favorite movies yes

but I like a lot of movies

me: WELL I LIKE THIS THING? IS MY FAVEROTE BUTTEN TO PUSS ????????????????? HAHAHA HEHEHE ????????????????????? HAHAHA HEHEHE??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH A HAHAHAHAHAHA

David: you are crazy

but I'm glad you like it ;)

me: IM SOME TIMES CRAZY AND SILLY AT THE SAME TIME DID YOU KNOW THAT??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

David: yes i certainly do

love you lots

me: HOW DID YOU KNOW ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? I NEVER TOLD YOU CRAZY HEAD

David: you are silly

me: OH DAD NAP TIME MOM SAYS LOVE YOU THIS MUCH 143

David: 143? Nice!

me: BYE LOVE YOU

David: ok have a good nap, love you too

me: BYE

SO DANG CUTE, NO?!!

P.S. I love with all of my heart that she uses 2 periods ".." for her smiley face eyes in place of the colon ":"

Photo Saturation

I can't believe I have no pictures from the 4th of July! BOO! Oh well. But I do have some from before & after. TRANSLATION: This is one of those posts with a bunch of pictures of my kids. Whatever. They're cute. This is your chance to click the back button or that little "x" up in the right corner.

Still here?

Good. I like showing people my beautiful children. I know - pride's a sin. Meh.

And of course it makes perfect sense that this would be the 1st picture I post after bragging about my children and their good looks. This is what happens when you combine my children, their father, him having access to my camera, and a random roll of painter's tape.

I love when my girls find each other more entertaining than other kids or toys. It warms my heart.

The summer has been quite cool down here in SoCal until about 2 weeks ago. Then it got HOT! The moment I could feel a trickle of sweat down my back we headed to the Splash Pad the next city over. (It's FREE!) The above picture, to me, just screams, "SUMMERTIME!"

For some reason, CC just wanted to "nap" the whole time.

See? (she can be a weird kid - I love her for it).

And then, the moment she decides to play, she gets Old Faithful-ed right in the kisser.

The kid's resilient, though. I give her credit for that.

My bathing beauty.

All of the above pictures are from the Orange County Great Park. We went there to ride the free helium balloon ride, but the wait was two hours and it was hotter than Hades. So the girls ran around the park for a while, rode the carousel, and that was that. Still a good time. We'll go back again to ride the balloon later - & earlier in the day.


This is the closest thing I have to a 4th of July picture. It was actually taken on the 2nd. Malia was wearing an old dance costume to her dance class that day because their teacher said they could dress patriotic.

She got to have a "star" in her hair that day.


I hesitated to post this picture because of Malia's adorable wedgie. And then I decided I had to post this picture because of Malia's adorable wedgie.

In case you're wondering if all I can think about when I look at my child covered in this much wet sand is, "Ugh! That's going to be annoying to clean off!" - then you'd be right. And in case you're wondering if cleaning it off was annoying - then you'd be right.

I like to take close-up pictures of my girls when they're not paying attention to me. I wish I had one of those really expensive fancy-schmancy cameras.

See? I told you. They're beautiful.