More prayers...

There's nothing sweeter than a 2 year old praying. In addition to the (previously blogged and often heard) prayers for Gus, dinner, Mario (my parents' cat), etc... tonight as Adam was putting elise to bed, she added "Mommy, Ainsley, Daddy's mouf (mouth), Gus mouf, Daddys (shirt) pocket, Daddys arm, Daddys feet, books... ". So cute and neat to hear her. By the way, she also had her 3rd day of school today and the teacher said, "Elise is a great kid and one of the easiest in the whole class to deal with. She plays well with the other kids and loves snacktime." That's our girl!

Nothin' much today...

We're having a nice quiet morning at home today- a little Play-Doh, some coloring, making some dinner during naptime...a pretty typical morning for the "moseley girls" ! Ainsley is still not sleeping great overnight, so we're trying to tweak her daytime schedule and see if that helps...I know that every kid is different, but since Elise was sleeping 9 hours straight overnight at 3 months, it's killing me that I'm still up every 3 hours with Ainsley! Grrr....but, we're all doing great otherwise. I just updated some pictures on the blog (the right side column)...so, enjoy!

Swimming "lesson"

Here are just a couple more pics of when elise fell in (only about 3 inches) the pond yesterday. I was there before she even fully hit the water, but she got filthy (do we see a theme with this kid?) and smelled horrible! We quickly headed back to the house for a hose-down for Gus and bath for elise...p.s. click on the actual picture on the left of elise in the water for a larger version- it's a great look on her face!

Super-Gus...

Several people have wondered when we'd do a posting focused on Gus, so here it is! The truth is, Gus is the greatest dog- so happy, laid back, and easy that we just forget about him sometimes...although he's 5 1/2 now, he sleeps about 20 hours a day and still acts like a puppy the other few. Sunday morning we took him on a long walk and then swimming and he was soooo happy. This little pond is right behind our house and we spent about 30 minutes there with Gus non-stop retrieving sticks, shaking off to SOAK us, and wagging that tail a whole lot. =) Elise had a blast, too...playing with a big stick also...right up until she fell in the water! I (Erica) was right there and it was pretty funny...she was never in danger. =)

we fancied up this blog...

So, Adam just spent some time adding links, favorite websites, friends' blogs, etc...to the right side of our blog page--then I thought, "maybe some people don't want us to have their site linked on here. So, If you don't want your blog listed on here, just tell me and we'll remove you. =) Thanks. Sorry we didn't ask first!

River Rat

On Saturday we went to a state park to try out the new kayak and see how Elise would like it. Turns out it was a roaring success. Elise seems to be a little bit of a river rat, took to the water right away and didn't slow down when it came time to ride in the boat. With her life jacket securely fastened she climbed right in the aft well like she had been a hundred times before. The boat handled well and Elise managed not to fall off, though her cup was declared overboard more than a few times and the river heard "turn round daddy, turn round" time and time again. While we were beached she climbed in an out of the boat and played in the water like a true river rat, we are so proud. Next we'll see how she does in the salt water and maybe by next year Ainsley can join her.

A Quacking success!

Of course Adam was totally cool and relaxed last night and this morning while I wasn't...and, once again, I should've followed his lead! Elise's first day at pre-school was a huge success! She is a "Duck" (all the 2 year-olds) and was so excited to go this morning- the whole drive in (ok, only 2 miles) I heard from the backseat: "school, Ben (a friend that we know who is also a Duck), slide, blocks, wagon, snack, school, snack..." all the things that we'd talked about last night and over breakfast that were going to be part of this "school" day. =). I walked her into the Duck room to say Hi to the teacher and deal with a (I was so sure of it) tearful goodbye. She dropped her backpack on the floor, LITERALLY said, "bye bye Mommy" and took off for the toys and slide. She never looked back. I chatted with the teacher for a minute, then waited to see if Elise was going to be sad... I never even saw her face. She was totally engrossed in some blocks and had already found Ben and given him a hug. hilarious. I left the room, choked back a few tears on my way to the car, and then enjoyed 3 hours of quiet and time with Ainsley!!!!!!! =)
When I picked her back up a few hours later (after checking my watch NO LESS than 30 times to MAKE SURE I wouldn't be a minute late!), she ran over and gave me a big hug, then took off back to the sandbox. She was filthy, her cute pink bow was gone, cheeks were flushed from running outside, yet she looked like a million bucks. The teachers said she was great; she listened well, was very polite, played well with others, sat quietly during snacktime (shocker!), and never stopped talking and playing. I was so proud of our little Duck! Sounds like she's going to take after her mom's "extrovertedness" after all! She talked non-stop on the drive home, ran around like a crazy kid for an hour and ate lunch, then CRASHED out for a nap...I'm betting she'll be down for 3 hours. It was quite a morning for all of us!