Hey Peeps!

It's me Simon. Again. I don't have much more to report BUT I did want to post this funny pic of yours truly. I think I'm so funny!! I've got lollipop all over my mouth.

I was learning about triangles and squares today and Molly and I have been playing Wii and Lego Batman (360) while Mommy cut some checks (she had on the payables hat today).

My favorite food these days is Kid Cuisines! They're REALLY good and a lot of them come with brownies so I'm in heaven. I'm in heaven...and my heart beats so that I can hardly speak.....oh wait. That's the song "Cheek to Cheek". My bad. I guess I'll go back to my video games. Latuh! - Simon

Hey Peeps! It's me Simon. Like the pic of me noshin' on a totally Strawberry Vanilla Lollipop?! I had myself a totally tubular Christmas, dude! Hope you did too. I got so many Hot Wheels toys that I could start my own museum. Come on down and I'll let you in for free, man!

Mommy got me a new "curriculum" for my school last week. She says I'm starting to work on Kindergarten stuff. I'm still 3. Geez, mom!

Otherwise, you can catch me playing my Nintendo DS trying to save Princess Peach in Super Mario Brothers. OR, Molly and I are trying to save the world and/or universe in Lego Batman (XBox 360). I'm a video game junkie and already need therapy, but that's cool with me. It's driving my grandmother batty, but we'll just blame it all on mom, right???

See you on the flip side. Over and OUT!!!

Hey everybody! It's me Molly. This is one of my favorite dresses because I get to wear my beret. I often tell people when I walk in the door (with this dress on). Hi. I'm wearing my beret. It's french. I'm not french though. I'm an American.

So I got lots of toys for Christmas (mainly Barbie Peek A Boos and a Barbie Cafe - oh and an "Our Generation" doll). Oh and one of the first orders of business for 2009 was that I (and my family) went to Disney World. We have season passes that are about to run out so we did a one day trip to see Hollywood Studios. I have to say that Magic Kingdom is a lot more fun but we still enjoyed it in spite of the lack of rides.

MorMor is coming on Saturday. I'm so egg-cited!!! Welp, I'm off. Ta Ta For Now!! Love, Me...Molly

Okay - so it's me Molly. It' s only FIVE more days until my 1/2 birthday dinner at Chili's. I'm SO excited. It's also only SIX more days until our Christmas show. I'm singing Silent Night at our Christmas Eve Service at church on (wait for it)...Christmas EVE!!! I sing Silent Night with daddy ALL YEAR long for my lullaby every night so I know all the words REALLY well. It's also only SEVEN more days until I open up about a gazillion Christmas presents from my Mormor (plus a bunch more from Gigi and Dae). I wish the Christmas season wasn't SOOOO long!! We do have an advent calendar on the wall that we made that has a piece of candy for us as we count down. I just wish we could eat that candy faster!!! ;) It's 65 degrees here and we're going to go over to the park and play some soccer. Hope everyone is having a great winter!!!! Love, Molly

Dude. So mommy made me and Molly get all dressed up (I even had a tie on!). I was a little annoyed at first, man, but then she whipped out these fantastically large Strawberry Vanilla Swirly Pops. I thought that was totally cool, dude. If she's going to make me dress up in the penguin suit and take pictures, the least she could do was hook me up with some shugah!!! Pretty sneaky, mom!!!

Molly was running through the house and tripped and fell and hers went crashing to the floor in a million little pieces. That was kinda fun to watch too. I'm totally excited for Christmas, peeps! Only 21 days left!!!! Woohoo!! Later!! (Simon)

Hey Peeps! It's me Molly. I have a story for YOU! Simon Elliott (my little bro) thinks he's too cool. He tried to help mommy fill the van with gas on Tuesday and was able to yank the nozzle out of the car with gas still spewing out of it. He's such a twerp. I'm a little tired of his "No ME! I will do it all by MYSELF!" attitude. He's such a 3 year old. Geesh!

Mommy got most of the gasoline (smell) out of their clothes but she wasn't all that impressed with Simon this week.

As for me, I've been learning my phonics and letters and a few sight words and can read a simple sentence if I put my mind to it. (Kinda bizarre that I can type full paragraphs and coherent blogs, huh?) Math is MUCH easier for me. I was learning how to subtract from 3 and 4 this week. I was practicing my dance steps (for dance class) last night too. I'm learning as much as I can every day! Later!

Hey Peeps! It's Molly and Si. We are totally psyched for Gator season. We're HUGE Tim Tebow fans. In fact, we are homeschooled JUST LIKE TEBOW was!!! Tim Tebow and his fam helped pave the way for us to be able to play extracurricular sports such as football and cheerleading without having to spend 8 hours in a school building. We know that we're still barely doing kindergarten curriculum, but it only takes us 30 minutes to an hour to do what it takes 3-5 hours for traditional school/classrooms. We spend the rest of the time enjoying life and avoiding the long lines and traffic. We went to the Cummer Art Museum this summer. We like the kids area but the "temprorary" exhibit of the "Sketch to Scalpel" series was a little bit much for us. Our friends came with us and our friend Vivien was quite unimpressed with the exhibits/sculptures of the insides of the body. She helped us find the exit to that wing VERY quickly :) The kids area had a neat contraption that helped us learn how to mix primary colors to come up with totally new colors. Did you know that yellow and blue make green? So cool!!

We've spent some time at the Jax zoo and we TOTALLY dig the train at the zoo. Gotta try the carousel if you're ever there too.

We had a really fun science activity last week. We were munchin on Target brand cheese crackers. Pepperidge Farm monopolized the [gold]fish idea so Target chose to go the "Chickadee" route. I [Molly] wanted to know what a Chickadee looked like since we were so good at making the "Chick uh dee dee dee dee" call. Youtube has some cool videos of 'em if you need a refresher course on Chickadees! We need to make a trip to [great] Grandpa's house in Iowa pretty soon so we can see all of his birds and have him give us a primer course.

Anyway, we hope you are enjoying the last days of summer. They're totally hot here in Florida and we're grateful that the hurricanes have stayed away so far this year. And remember .... GO....GATORS!!!!

Here we are. The three of us going over to the "beach park" on May 22nd, 2008. It's Simon, Kailey and Molly.

Hey everybody. It's me again. Simon. Here's a picture of Molly with my friend Evan. We were noshin' on some totally righteous Chic Fil A grub. Killer, dude!

Check it out. Me (Molly) and Simon hanging with our best buddy Evan at his birthday party in May '08.

Hey Dude! It's me Si. Long time no post! Here's a picture of me that Daddy took when he took me on a special "date" to see Thomas The Tank Engine LIVE! I love trains (and CARS). I was so excited that I was grinning the whole time. We've been super busy just bein' kids (Molly and me). We got WAY too many presents for Christmas. Also - we have been dabbling with homeschool (we go to a support group and everything) BUT Molly is still technically in preschool and the state of Florida doesn't require you to officially "enroll" as a homeschooler until you're in 1st grade so we're taking our time and Molly is starting to learn to read. Go Big Sis! Don't ask me how I know all of this stuff since I'm only 2. All questions must be submitted in writing to my mommy. Thank you in advance. Later, man.

Guess What! Guess What!!!! My BIRTHDAY PARTY IS SATURDAY!!!! I can't wait, I can't wait!!! Hooray!!!! We're going to eat and celebrate with everything PINK!!! Strawberries dipped in pink chocolate! Pink Lemonade! Pink sandwiches! Pink (okay kinda purply) grapes! We'd make the pretzels pink if we could figure out how! My cake is going to be a Barbie dressed in a pink dress! Pink ice cream sandwich cake! I LOVE PINK!!! Pinky Dinky Doo, man!

I am a princess! Watch me eat pink!

Here's a picture of me. I came running into momma's office and made her take a picture of me (with my pink camera, of course) because Kenna put my hair up in pig tails - just like my doll. Instead of saying "Cheese", I prefer to say "Blue's Clues!!". Mommy hasn't figured out why "Blue" is the preferred word when PINK is my favorite (and would make me at least look like I'm smiling instead of booing). Hooray, hooray, it's almost my birthday!!!!!!!

Here I am (Molly) riding a pony at the Shrimp Festival in May. It was REALLY hot but I sure love to ride ponies. I think I got to do it 4 times. I was supposed to dance my Lion King "Hakuna Matata" dance that day in my lion costume but I decided to pout and get upset because I don't like the costume (it's too "fit" (tight)) and I wasn't the center of attention (I had to share the limelight with 3 other girls). I guess I was acting like a 3 year old for some reason.

At least I got to ride the pony......

Here I am (Simon) noshin' on some of my Lightning McQueen (2nd birthday) cake. I dig cake, dude. Kechow!

So our nanny is taking a classroom college course (not online) on Tuesdays and Thursdays now, so we got to spend all morning with mommy today. I can't decide if I like that or not. She's much more strict than Kenna and makes me eat healthy food. I can dig it, but it threw me off my game today. We only got to play outside for awhile this morning because the rain storms were rolling in this afternoon.

We tried "school" this morning too for an hour. Molly is trying to learn her phonics (to read) and I was learning my shapes and colors. We get bored pretty quick with some of that stuff but we like it too.

I'm a pretty laid back dude so I guess my blog posts aren't as dramatic as Molly's. I'll let her post tomorrow. Later, dude.

Check out the cool cake that my mom made me for my second birthday, dude. It's a LIGHTNING MCQUEEN cake. Kechow!!!! I totally had a super duper cool birthday party on May19th with some friends and some hot dogs (my fave, man) and this awesome cake. I got LOTS of cool new toys - mostly CARS (Disney movie) cars. I've been reliving the movie in 3D with all my new cars while watching it on my Lightning McQueen shaped TV/DVD player in my room. I'm a little obsessed, but I come by it naturally. Daddy keeps making fun of mommy for reading WAY too many books and watching movies about Isaac Newton. Once we find something we really love, we have to learn everything there is to know about it before we can go on to the next subject ;)

We're gettin' excited to go see my Great Grandpa (Weir)'s wedding next weekend. We're flying on an airplane to Kansas City (to pick up Granpa (Ron)) and driving up to Cedar Rapids, Iowa for the shindig. It's been about a year since I flew on a plane so I'm not quite sure how it's going to all work. In the meantime, Molly and I have been REALLY ornery today. I even headbutted MorMor and gave her a black eye tonight. I was a little sorry, but she's going to look cool tomorrow!!! :) Later, man.

Hey man! It's me, Simon.

Here's a picture of us in front of "The Swamp". It was a fun day in April that we went to see the Orange and Blue Game. When we went inside, as soon as we sat down on our bleacher, Molly yelled "Hi Gators!". See our previous post for some more info. It was a totally fun road trip, man. My next post I'll have to show you my totally cool pics from my birthday. Later, dude.

Hey everybody! It's me Molly. My daddy and mommy and Simon and me went to the Orange and Blue game in Gainesville in April. It was super fun. I even got to do "high fives" with some cheerleaders and one of them took a picture of me and mommy (see picture). As soon as we walked into the stadium, Simon and I were yelling "Go Gators!" and doing the chomp. It was pretty hot but fun just the same. Plus, to add to the fun, we had our van towed and had to wait for an hour to get that back. (We blame ourselves but Mr. Mike [Barile] suggested we park there - and he got his car towed too.)

I'll have to try to post again tomorrow so I can post more pictures. I'll give Si the reigns tomorrow because it'll be all about his SECOND birthday. Can you believe he is TWO????? He's already 37" and 30 pounds. He's going to be our tall basketball player. Mommy says he'll be a Jayhawk and Daddy says he'll be a Gator. We'll have to wait about 16 years to find out!

Later!

I'll tell you what - Mommy has been SOOOO bad about taking pictures lately and keeping in touch with anybody. She hasn't even given me the chance to blog in 3 months!!! Geez. Is she like busy or something? I don't even have a picture to post! Actually - maybe I should post a picture of my birthday party (from 2006) or maybe Halloween. My FOURTH birthday will be here VERY soon. I'm SOOO excited! Daddy will be THIRTY ONE next week. He's SOO old. He doesn't like to be told that either! Si's birthday will be here in May. He's been around for almost 2 years now! Where do the days go?

I don't have much time to chat today but I'll try to make Mommy get the camera out. My dance recital is coming up in May - surely she could take some type of picture for that, right?? Come on, Mom!!

Here's a small taste of the room that mommy built. It's the creative studio at AXIA where mommy and daddy work. They got new furniture and lots of colors on the ground as you can see. Mommy even got an orange wall in the mix (her favorite color is orange). It's a work in progress. They still have more furniture and art for the wall to buy so you'll have to come visit and check it out in 2007.
Simon and I (Molly) are gearing up for Christmas. We're excited for the birthday party that we're going to have for Jesus. I've decided that he wants a pink princess cake to celebrate. I'll blow out his candles for him and I get to open LOTS of presents.
Mommy and MorMor went to a Cookie Exchange on Sunday so we've been noshin' on cookies. Plus, that day was exciting because Mommy's van blew the battery and we were stuck at the gas station until mommy and MorMor came to "rescue" us. At least mommy has a new battery now.
I better get back to playing. Just had a minute to blog a bit this morning. Later! Love, Molly

What's up, dude? Here's a picture of me (Simon). Molly was chasing me around the house with the camera and I was cornered so I turned around and gave her an earful as you can see. The rest of the pictures that Mommy downloaded were of the back of my head. Mommy just kept giggling and I still don't understand why.

So, we had Turkey Day yesterday and were thankful that Gigi made us a fancy meal over at her house that was very yummy. I ate LOTS of potatoes. Molly ate LOTS of turkey.

I'm still a little annoyed with my mommy (as is Molly) when she left us for a weekend to go visit her friend Stacey. She says I'm just being stubborn because it was important that she go and visit Kansas City when Carol Osterberg died. Mommy was very sad but she brought back some toys and lots of stories about our friend Kailey. She said it was nice to get away for the weekend in spite of the sad occasion but I didn't see it as "nice" but I've got to learn to be a big boy pretty soon anyway and MorMor was here so she softened the blow :)

I've been watching all of Molly's Barbie and Princess movies with her this month. I'm getting pretty good at plies and twirls so I keep hearing Mommy say that I'm getting lots of boy/manly toys for Christmas.

That's the skinny for November. Here's to an enjoyable December [bottles clinking]!