Here and There

You can catch the Kolmetz Girls Band at a toddler club near you!
Emma has a drum solo.
Sara will be featured on the Food Network challenge "Can You Fit in Your Own Oven." Let's hope this is the only oven she ever tries to get into!
Grandaddy helped Emma devise a kitty catcher. Aunt Beth's poor cat never got a moments rest unless the girls were asleep too. Aubie probably slept for a week!Sara continues to love the David books. She and David have a lot in common. They both hear the word "no" and their name...a lot!
The girls enjoyed feeding the sea gulls and the pelicans.

Picnic Table and Chairs

Daddy found the cutest Mickey Mouse Clubhouse picnic table and chairs at Toys R Us last weekend. The table, chairs, and umbrella were $30! What a deal!

The girls were very taken with the umbrella.

Sara shows us how to relax.

Emma was dealing with her allergy issues but she enjoyed being outside anyway.

LPGA

Look at that form! Watch out Tiger Woods!
Sara selects the red club for this hole.
A club trade is made on the ninth green.
Emma and Sara's golf outting was a mix of golf, keep-away, and croquet. It was quite a sight!

Speedy Sara!

NO, I wouldn't really put Sara in a dog crate, although, it would make my life a little easier! Sara has been incredibly busy the last few days! Standing on the arm of the couch playing with the light switches (thank goodness we've had the gas turned off or she would be controlling the fire place! scary!), sitting in the middle of the coffee table watching T.V., trying to climb up a ladder I was using the paint the kitchen (it was folded up and, I thought, out of the way) and continually trying to eat acorns when we are outside. You'd think I didn't watch her at all but she is so fast! We're starting to call her "Speedy Sara!"

P.S. Mama, can I borrow the eyes in the back of your head? Thanks!

Emma Sings Cinderella

Emma and Sara watched Cinderella while traveling back and forth to Ft. Walton during Christmas. Emma is now quite taken with Cinderella and really enjoys singing with her. I shot this video while we were listening to the Disney Princess CD during lunch this week. Hope you enjoy it!

Cookin' Up and Playin' Up a Storm!

Poor bay (that's what Sara calls her blanket) must have needed to cool off! Sara was busy alternating bay's location from the refrigerator to the oven of the little kitchen. I've heard of people putting towels in the dryer to warm them up, but never the oven! Emma has really enjoyed cooking in the kitchen too. She makes lots of strawberry tea. She will put a plastic strawberry in a tea cup and then fill it with hot water from her teapot. She also really likes washing her hands in the sink. She also complains about having to wash the dishes. Wonder where she's heard that? Isn't her apron cute?
We had a great jam session the other night. Daddy played his guitar with accompaniment from Emma and Sara.
Sara and Daddy decided to switch instruments. I don't know if they will be getting a recording contract anytime soon, but it was a joyful noise for sure!
Sara got up close and personal with the pink guitar ("gek-car" in Emma-ease).

January Update!

We've been having some chilly and rainy weather lately. The girls have been stuck inside for the last few days, but we were able to go to the park Tuesday afternoon. Emma and Sara continue to love to swing!
Emma loves taking care of her pet puppy, Bella. She enjoyed taking her for a walk at the park. Emma seems to have a great imagination and can play with just about anything. She was using her cup and her bowl this morning to talk to each other.
Sara continues to be an adventurous toddler. She climbed up the steps to the slide all by herself and then proceeded to crawl up the tube to the big slide. I'm sure the other people at the park enjoyed seeing me crawling up the tube after her and pulling her out by her pants.
Emma has started walking in her Daddy's Birkenstocks on occasion. She's also very interested in putting on her own shoes and socks. The other day she was pouting and I asked her what was wrong. She said, "I can't wead (read) and I not happy!" We started extensive phonics and letter recognition training that afternoon! Just kidding!
Emma has also graduated to what we call a "princess bed." She's been sleeping on a regular twin mattress and box springs placed on the floor for a few months now. We had to put it up on the bed frame this weekend because little sister Sara kept getting on it and jumping up and down. She continues to be very fast! Now, poor little Sara can't lift her little leg high enough to even hope of getting on the bed by herself.

More Christmas and New Years Pics!

Happy New Year!

Baby Sara enjoyed sitting on Grana's nap.

Emma has loved playing with her Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. I over heard her say, "Come on...let's go. Let's be sweet!" Wonder where she has heard that!

Get your motor runnin'. Pretty hard to do on grass so Daddy had to come and push her!

Poor little Sara Gracie! She fell asleep while I was making her sandwich...no, it didn't take me long to make it. She was just so tired! She looks so sweet it her Auburn sweats! She was just resting up for the big game!

Here's More Pics!

Bright and early Christmas morning, Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Lolli and Uncle Brandon came by to exchange presents. Emma looks on as Grandpa opens his Grumpy mug.
This is our family Christmas pic this year. I wanted to get one when the girls had on their pretty plaid outfits later on in the day, but Sara got sick all over her dress! There's always next year and this pic really shows how great we all felt! Not!
Emma took some time out from unwrapping presents to lay on the couch with Grandma.

Later on at Grana and Grandaddy's house, Sara got a shopping cart full of her favorite friends...Pooh, Tigger, Piglet and Eeyore!

It's Our 100th Post!

We hope everyone had a Merry Christmas. We are looking forward to next Christmas because all of the Kolmetz Family were sick this year! We had two ear infections, one allergy attack, two parents who thought they wouldn't live through the stomach flu and one baby who started it all of by christening our van (twice)! We feel like the Grinch came by our house and stole our Christmas fun! Through it all Marcus reminded me that, even though we were as sick as dogs, we were celebrating Jesus' birth and not to worry about all the "other stuff" we didn't get to do because that's not what matters. We were blessed to spend Christmas with both of our families. I don't know if our presence was a blessing to them though...Sara got sick at both Christmas Eve dinner (at Marcus' parents house) and Christmas Day dinner(at my parent's house). Emma waited until Christmas Day snack! We have joked that we should have made up t-shirts that say "We Survived Christmas 2007!"

We moved our tree between the foyer and the living room so Sara wouldn't be able to roam all over the house. We were afraid she would want to climb up the tree but, for the most part, she left it alone.
We had a small Disney tree in the kitchen this year. The girls really enjoyed looking at it at breakfast and lunch!
We also put a new tree in our room. It was inspired by the Grand Floridian resort, where we spend our honeymoon. We never found a star that had the right Victorian feel to it so the top remained bare this year. It won't be long until merchants will have all the Christmas stuff out again and we can start a new search!

Now onto what you visit this blog for...pictures of the girls!

Poor Emma spent Christmas Eve in Grandma's chair watching Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas...one of her favorites! Her poor little eyes were so swollen!

Santa left Emma a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and some other great toys and books.

Sara got a tricycle from Santa, along with lots of other treats!

Daddy helped Emma with her hippity hop ball!

Watch out! Sara's got wheels!

Dancing and Coloring!

Emma loves to dance just like June from the Little Einstein's.

Sara really loves to color and sit in Emma's chair. She's also learning new words everyday!

Baby Bakers

Emma loves to cook! She loves watching Paula Deen and Rachael Ray so I knew she would really like to help bake Christmas cookies this year. I thought we would start out small and use some pre-packaged cookie dough. Emma was in charge of sprinkles!

I think she really enjoyed wearing Mommy's apron. Doesn't she look proud of herself?

Emma didn't like the fact the the cookies weren't done instantly. She got a little upset when they had to go in the oven. When they came out she said, "The cookies all better now?"

Sara thought the cookies needed a little more color but she was still able to eat it.

Emma enjoyed taste testing!
Later on in the afternoon, I got ambitious and let the girls help with the spritz cookies (the ones that go in a cookie gun). Sara looked on and helped us count the cups of sugar, flour and teaspoons of vanilla. Emma helped hold the mixer and was in charge of telling me when we needed more green food coloring to make the perfect Christmas trees.

Today I hope to tackle cowboy cookies!

Christmas Is A Coming!

Look who found his way to the manger! It's Leo, from the Little Einsteins! A few days ago, I went into Emma's room and she had all the nativity scene animals on the lid of her dirty clothes hamper. You never know who are what you are going to find around here!Emma enjoyed watching herself dance in the "Elfed" video. I've put a video of Emma watching it on my last post. I just hope it's not a "copyright enfringement." What a pretty pose!
Another sweet girl...this one has a Wheat Thin stuck in her cheek!

Sara dances and sings to Jingle Bells.