Do They All Have Different Personalities?

Do they all have different personalities?
A question we get ALL the time.

Here is a true story that will help answer the all so common question.
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Maryn, Brynn and Leah are 4 and are lots of help around the house. When they make their beds or clean their playroom...they each get coins (quarters) as a reward.

Each girl has a bag of coins she has saved up over the weeks, and a couple of Sundays ago...they wanted to bring their "savings" to church.

So.....proud as can be, each girl walked into church that Sunday with her "purse" and said good morning to the Sunday School teacher.

Maryn went first.
She smiled at her Sunday School teacher and said as proud as a peacock, "I want to give lots of coins to Jesus to help kids who don't have any money or a house or food." She handed over most of her coins and walked into the room smiling ear to ear.

Brynn was next.
Brynn carefully counted her money thinking about all of the things she would like to do with it. She handed over a little less than half of her money thinking that would be about the right amount to give to the kids who don't have as much as we do and still keep some for the ice cream truck and Skittles at Target. She also felt very proud of herself....giving and saving....mission accomplished.

As a parent, I am standing outside of the room thinking "what I good job we've done." They are givers. They think about saving. Look at those kids of mine. Seriously, could we BE better parents???

Then Leah marches in....she heads right up to her Sunday School teacher and without hesitation says, "Sorry, I can't give any money to Jesus. I'm saving for a horse."

Slam - Right back down to reality!
2 out of 3 ain't bad.....

The Golden Age

Mom says 4 is the "golden age"...I'm not sure what she means by that...maybe she means it is that age you win a GOLDEN MEDAL at your preschool track meet???

3 Champions!

GO TEAM JONSWOLD!

Or maybe she means you look as good as gold cause you get to dress up like a real princess for dance pictures. (We EVEN got to wear make-up!)

Or maybe it's cause you get to wear a golden crown at Wild Wings?!

Dad says we are the only kids he knows who request wings with the bones IN!

We love our "real wingies!"

(Maybe next time we'll be up for the blazin' challenge?? You want to join us?)

Whatever the reason, life is GOOD right now!

We are having so much fun together in the sunshine.

Sorry we don't update much...we've just been having a ball!

Our next update we'll tell you about some of our random acts of kindness.

Don't worry! We've been working on it!

XO-

Maryn, Brynn and Leah

Easter 2012

Little Artists

We had an art fair at preschool yesterday!

Mommy and Mimi came.

See some of our beautiful art!

Rainbows by Leah:

Sunflower by Maryn:

 Action Painting by the whole preschool class:

Flamingo by Maryn:

Tucan by Brynn:

"Here's me doing the action painting, mom!" - Brynn

"and me!" -Maryn

A penguin Brynn drew 100% by herself! She's an artist!

We love preschool!



Swimming Lessons

We're getting ready for summer!

We started swimming lessons last week.

Do we like them, you ask?

We'll answer for ourselves.

Brynn: Love 'em!

Maryn: Yeah, they're alright!

Leah: My parents force me to do this. (and smile while they take a picture!) It's pretty awful!

 

We are learning how to do front floats, back floats, and rockets & rainbows.

Hopefully by the end of our lessons, we'll learn some great swimming skills so that we can "deep sea swim" in Sugar Lake this summer!

The weather has been SO nice, we spend as much time as possible outside!

We love going to the park! Weeeeeee!!!!!!!!!

Welcome Spring!!!

RAOK UPDATE:

#3: Our lives are busy...stressful. So lately I've been focusing on random acts of kindness on the road. 90% of people say that they have experienced some form of "road rage" in the past 6 months. Whoa! That's a lot of us. So, in our little van, we're working on brightening days behind the wheel.

Letting people in (even when they wait until the last possible second to merge), "waving thanks" when they let us in, and generally trying not to be stressballs in the car. Seriously, a wave from a stranger as a "thanks" makes my day. It reminds me that there are kind, unselfish, grateful people everywhere! A good daily reminder!

#4: I drink Diet Coke. I drink a lot of Diet Coke. I also happen to collect a bunch of Coke Rewards. For a long time, I couldnt wait to collect enough to get another year of my favorite magazine subscription or a gift card to a store we frequent.

This month, though, I donated my saved Coke rewards to someone who is saving them for an amazing cause. She mentioned the cause in passing, and my heart felt pulled. A tiny but unexpected gift! :)

What's A Girl To Do....In The Winter?

Strap on your rainboots, and find a puddle!

Have your daddy spark up a fire, and watch a princess movie!

Get out some nail polish, and go to the "spa."

We went to "Ariel's Spa"....6 prietty pink thumbs up!

We also really love to play wedding.

One of us will put on jeans and be "Eric"....the groom.

The other dresses up in our bride outfit.

The 3rd girl will be the bridesmaid.

We get married, KISS, and then we DANCE!

A big ole' dance party celebration.

Eric must ask the bride, as he bows..."May I have this dance?"

We know how to get down at princess weddings!

Princess wedding pictures to follow....

Happy Monday!

Love,

MBL

New Words

Hi~Leah here!
Hope you are enjoying the weather as much as we are! We were out riding our bikes today, and it was the BEST!
We're still in Mrs. R's preschool, and we're picking up some really interesting new words. Let me tell you about them.

1) Weird
triplet definition: An insult; a mean word
Now, just because I am little, some people might think I can't hold my ground.
If you want to test me, try calling someone in my family a naughty word, like weird.
At MOPS school the other day, my mom was our teacher.
One of the "big girls" in my class called my mom weird.
I got right up in her face, finger wagging in front of her nose.
"Don't you DARE call my mom weird! My mom IS NOT weird."
She was 5, and taller than me...but I didn't care. Nobody calls my mom such a naughty word.
Weird...a word you should never use...cause it will probably hurt someones feelings.

2) Horrificist
Horrific-ist (From the word horrific...learned from Beauty and the Beast)
Definition: Terrible, awful, no good, very bad
Used in a sentence by Brynn: "This is the most horrificist day of my life!" (because she had to wear PANTS to school rather than a dress--oh, the horror!)

3) Rude
Definition: What we call someone when we don't get our way.
Mom and dad are SO RUDE when they make us go to bed.
Mom is SO rude when she won't let us dress Reese the dog up as Rapunzel.

4) Whatever
Definition: Mom/Dad-you seriously don't know what your talking about. I'm 4, and I'm smart.
Example:
Mom: "Brynn, SIT DOWN on your chair. You're going to fall if you stand up."
Brynn: Ignores the suggestion
Mom: "Brynn, SIT DOWN NOW!"
Brynn: (eye roll) "What-ever!"


Some of our new words get good reactions....some...not so much!

But, we are getting pretty smart at preschool. 1 more year and we get to go to Kindergarten!
I can hardly believe it! I wonder what cool new words we will learn there!

Happy Tuesday!
Love,
Leah

Mom and dad on Mom's birthday:

Pictures by Kathy Quirk-Syvertsen