Aloha Friday #98

Welcome to this week’s edition of Aloha Friday hosted by An Island Life. In Hawaii, Aloha Friday is a day to take it easy and look forward to the weekend. So on Fridays we take it easy on posting, too. Therefore, we ask a simple question for you to answer. Nothing that requires a lengthy response. Visit the Island Life Blog for more Aloha Friday Questions

I’m so excited that Princess is finally 3 years old because now she can start dance lessons. She loves dancing and I hope she’ll follow the instructor’s dance moves. She’s told me she doesn’t need lessons so we’ll have to see how it goes. I enrolled her in a Jazz dance class for preschoolers.

My Question
What activities have you signed up your kids for? If they’re too little what activities are you looking forward to participating in?

Tricky Toddlers

My three year old girl, “Princess”, is generally well behaved but has a few tricks up her sleeve.

The other day I noticed her sitting in the pantry, I looked in but she didn’t seem to be doing anything. A little while later she went back in there and again I couldn’t see anything she was eating but thought I should investigate further. After some searching I found a hidden juice box that I almost missed because she had stored it behind some boxes. We then had a little talk about asking mommy’s permission. While one juice box isn’t a big deal there are things she shouldn’t be eating and if she hides more stuff from me it could be dangerous.

Sometimes when I’ll tell her not to do something she tries to get her 1 year old sister to do it anyway. While I try to be discipline them equally, I think Princess has caught onto the fact that Sweet Pea gets away with things because she’s too young to understand.

Sweat Pea can open our front door if it’s unlocked so we always keep it locked. But if Princess wants to go outside she’ll just unlock the door and tell Sweet Pea  to open it. When I get mad at her she tries to argue that it was Sweet Pea’s fault.

It’s not just limited to her sister though, we had a playdate the other day and Princess found another juice box (can you tell she’s not allowed to drink them very often?) to play with on her pretend picnic. I told her she could play with it if she didn’t open it. She then handed it to her friend and asked him to open it. I then asked him nicely not to open it either. Then right in front of me she whispers to him, “open it!” And now the juice boxes are going to be stored higher!

I’m not sure if I should take these sneaky tricks as a sign that Princess is a genius or future manipulative teenager. I can’t even imagine the trouble I’m in when Sweet Pea is old enough to be a co-conspirator!

Mostly Wordless Wednesday

This is a picture of my girls in the matching pajamas they got at Princess’s 3rd birthday party. They don’t normally sleep together, it was just for this picture. I don’t think they would ever sleep if I kept them in the same room.

My New Blog

Welcome to my new blog! I’ve made the switch from blogger to Wordpress after seeing so many great Wordpress designs. I’m still playing with all the plug-ins and customizing the layout a bit. Victoria from Life Starring the Kids and Me set up the site for me and designed the graphics. I didn’t know how clueless I was about web design until I tried to do it myself. Victoria was great about helping me and not laughing too hard at my questions.

My 2nd Award

One of my newest readers, Holly, just awarded me the Lovely Blog Award! You can visit Holly at Pink is my Signature Color. Now I get to pass along this award to 15 of the blogs I like. This isn`t a comprehensive list of all the blogs I read, because I read a lot, but these are some of the ladies I`ve been able to talk to through blogging. I apologize if you already have the award.

The rules for accepting the award are as follows
1. Accept the award and post it on your blog, along with the name and link of the person who sent it to you.
2. Pass the award to 15 other bloggers that you have newly discovered, then contact them to let them know you have passed it along.

Susie at Be Strong & Courageous
Becca at Becca`s Backyard
Jen at Buried with Children
Michelle at Flying Giggles & Lollipops
Loukia at Loulou`s Views
Brittany at Re-Writing Motherhood
Liz at Sugarplum Creations
Stacy at Stacy`s Random Thoughts
Eva at Surprised Suburban Wife
Kate at Savvy Little Women
Amy at The A to Z Twins
Tara at Tara`s View of the World
Jeanette at Temporary Insanity
Melissa at The Dumbest Smart Girl You Know
Erin at Closing Time

Huge Blog Roll

The ladies at Mom Dot have compiled a list of bloggers. Please take some time to visit some of these blogs. You never know what you’ll find, I’ve found some of my favorite blogs by randomly visiting links

My First Award

I was thrilled to find out I had received my first blogging award. It was awarded by my virtual friend Sara Bonds. She is the blog designer behind Subjective Beauty. The name probably sounds familiar if you’ve ever participated in (Mostly) Wordless Wednesday. She hosts the Mostly Wordless Wednesday at her other blog .Ordinary and Awesome, You’ll notice her comments everywhere because she literally comments on 300 posts that day.

My Award

I will be passing this award on soon. I just have to narrow down my choices since there are so many great blogs out there. You can head over to Sara’s blog to see who else was given this award.

In other somewhat related news my, technorati rating is rapidly climbing. When I first registered my site, I was near the six million mark in terms of rating. After pinging it again, I was around the 2 million mark and today my ranking is #1,340,979. I’ve gone up 4.5 million places in the rankings in one month! Now if only it was that easy to move up the next 1.3 million places.