the daily adventures of Taylie (...and Luke too)

I got to thinking the other day, what my photos would look like if I decided to follow Taylie around for a day. I will be honest, I only lasted a morning. It is far too exhausting to follow around a toddler all day, but I did learn many interesting things about my daughter and why my son tends to yell for help when he is with her. Here are some of the daily adventures of Taylie featuring Lucas as the victim...or uh, maybe sidekick is a better word.

The morning started with the donning of some Buzz Lightyear underpants (she picked them out all by herself...) and then seeing how many toys a standard size grocery bag can hold. Answer: quite a few actually, the only problem comes when she has to drag it because it is too heavy.

apparently while I was in time-out, she stole my sunglasses and decided that it was time for Elmo panties. The underwear...hmm, it is still a work in progress, lets just say that.

While wearing my sunglasses, she decided to teach her brother a new skill......

I am SO not pleased with this by the way! She was standing at the top of the stairs with food (look at this boy, does he look like he can resist a bribe like that??) and saying: "Here lukie, come here lukie, good boy buddy!" ARGH! So now, he climbs stairs with ease but does not get back down them quite so gracefully.


So then when he is bummed from falling down the stairs backwards (no, I didn't sit and watch it happen!) she decides that she needs to hold him and make him feel better:

so amongst the protests...he gets comforted whether he likes it or not.

Now when I say to Taylie: "Please play with your brother I will be right back." I understand why he yells, not cry, but Y-E-L-L. She feels as though it is her job to corral and barricade him into which ever area she has chosen to occupy at that moment. The yelling, I now know, is Luke's way of summoning me to rescue him from his bad fortune of being condemned to play with his sister. She does a very good job though. I gotta give her that!

...and again later during the day

the poor boy doesn't even have a chance with her around!

By this point I gave up to long ago and didn't capture the moments of her and Luke playing "hide" (a.k.a. hide and seek where they hide in the same spot and giggle with each other), "be a boat" (where she demands to be wrapped up in a blanket and lifted/swung/tossed around and whatever else you can do to a 2 year old in a blanket), and "make me a burrito" (where she likes to be wrapped up so tight in a blanket it risks cutting off circulation), giving Snoopy a bath and attempting to do her brothers make-up. Like I said, exhausting!

I did end with this bath picture where she has, so helpfully, offered to wash Luke's hair and face...against all protesting. Luke is not into anything that could be considered grooming. You would really think I am killing him when I clip his nail or comb his hair. The volume comes from daddy.

So there is a small glimpse into the life of my 2 babies who are so quickly growing up!! I will have to post more highlights and photos once my energy recovers. :)