Weekly Pedicures

A friend told me that I should post pictures of our weekly pedicures. Tori calls this her special time. She loves the whole process from the bubble bath (not pictured), to soaking her feet and of course painting her nails pink weekly.

She likes to admire her feet. She will tell me that her feet are beautiful!

Her favorite part the pink shoes to dry.

Tori and Ariel

Tori Loves Ariel. She even tells people that she has a sister Ariel. My mother bought her this costume and now she wears it constantly (Michael likes to rip off the green plastic skirt). When she wears this she thinks that she is BEAUTIFUL ! Of course she is

The O word

Tori is trying to learn how to spell. In fact she loves to spell and consequently is learning to read. Today she wanted to try to figure out and spell all of the words that she knew began with the letter "o". I taught her the word OBEDIENT. She was not a huge fan of the word at first she got my point. We are working on listening and doing the things that are asked of us. OBEDIENT. She noted that the five monkeys jumping on the bed were not obedient and that is why they got hurt. Maybe we are making progress...

Tori the Mermaid

Everytime Tori takes a bath she uses about 20 washclothes. I finally asked her why. "I am making my mermaid tail." Oh. This is Tori (notice the tail) singing. Ariel just got her voice back. Thanks Tori for the explanation!

Siblings

Last night while taking a bath Tori asked if her brother could take a bath with her. I said sure. I put Michael in the tub and he likes the water. In fact he likes it so much that he loves to crawl from one end of the tub to other splashing the whole way. The splashing annoyed Tori. You see she was upset that she was not in charge of of how they were going to play. He would have the choice opportunity to watch her play and then she could wash him. He had other plans. I realized she was frustrated when she said to him while slightly pushing him with her legs "you can go back in Mommy's tummy right now." Needless to say their joint bath ended.

Blessings

Tori is amazing, smart and funny. Our biggest struggle with her is that she is messy. We have tried everything to help her clean her room...different bins for her toys, a timer to help her clean up, we help her, etc. sadly NOTHING has changed her attitude toward cleaning up her stuff. Tonight I tried to explain to her that Heavenly Father has asked us to keep our homes neat and clean. When we obey his commandments He gives us blessings. Blessings are presents from Heavenly Father. The whole time Tori shook her head in agreement until I talked about presents from Heavenly Father; her response was "you have Heavenly Father for presents and I have Grandma Judi". Just when I thought that I was making some progress.....

Tori

I LOVE Tori. She is full of life, energy and disorganization. I spent most of my life organizing my mom, and now I spend my days organizing her clone and I am LOSING. Tori can destroy faster than anyone else that I know. In the video you will notice her zest for life, Michael ADORES her and her idea of how their room should be decorated.

I wish I had her energy!

My mom always buys them the cutest things, this is one of their favorites. CARS is a favorite movie in our house.