Girl Drama...Already

I hear Lucy screaming in the basement. Oran is yelling that Lucy painted her toes. Picturing nail polish everywhere, already planning the best way to clean it up, I run down stairs. Lucy is crying and trying to talk but I can't understand anything. Looking around I see a row of nail polish bottles, closed, in a line on my desk. I look at Lucy. I look at her painted toes; while not perfect the only nail polish I see is on her toes. I can't figure out why she is so upset. Maybe she doesn't like that she got some polish off her nail and on her skin. I use remover and start trying to clean them up a bit. I start on the left side taking some of the green off. Lucy starts calming down. I think I have it figured out. I move on to taking some of the pink polish off her skin and she starts getting more upset again and starts yelling "green, green". I move back to her pinkie toe and remove all the green polish. Instantly all the screaming and crying stops. Lucy looks at me and says, "Thanks, Mom. I don't like the green polish."
I don't know what surprises me more: The fact that my 2 1/2 year old painted her toes with multiple colors of polish without getting polish anywhere but on her toes OR That she screamed for 20 minutes because she painted two of her toes green and decided she didn't like green polish.

A Nice Break

We took a week off from all of our schedules and took a break. We spent the week hiking through a cave and seeing a waterfall, playing in the ocean, building sandcastles, enjoying the sun and warm weather, swimming in multiple pools one after the other, learning about space, seeing space shuttles and spending lots of time together.

I ended up with over 400 pictures. I just posted a few of my favorites for now. Maybe I will post more later.

On our last morning we got up early and walked to the beach to watch the sun rise. This is my favorite picture; I just wish we were a little more put together and not in jammies.

Soccer

Oran is playing soccer. His first game was a little rough since it was freezing and very windy. Oran was so excited until he didn't make a goal. He kept saying, "I am just not good at soccer." He wouldn't play anymore of the game. Dan had a little heart to heart with him and I spent the next week talking about how if we practice and keep trying we can get better. His second game went much better. It was about 20 degrees warmer which made a big difference. He was happy and kept trying. He was unsure of what to do when on defense; I think he got a little bored. Lucy has a little friend whose brother is on Oran's team. They didn't care to watch the game -instead they spun around in circles until they fell down...again and again and again.