sug-GLE

sweet baby girl (i think i will always call her a baby) LOVES loves LOVES loves LOVES to snuggle. She grabs blankets ("bankit") and baby dolls and pillows and will flop her head down saying, "suggle. i suggle."
I caught this during a nap early in the summer and thought it was totally worth the risk of waking her up...

when money's tight...

On a budget? Just stick to our family ways of entertaining and you won't be missing out on a thing.

This activity has multiple savings packed into one. Skip the park and the extra cost of gas... AND dad can forgo that gym membership... make your own swing at home...

amusement park rides....

you can even skip the costly circus by making your own flying trapeze routine...

(8-04-09)

happy birthday!!!!!

whats that? the big first birthday was 5 months ago... hmmm?
who's NOT busy these days? so i wont even bother to give excuses...
i just can't believe how fast it goes bye (sigh)
so, in an attempt to catch up... i give you.... JUNE:

jeorgia observing the goods... as far as we know (and i'd like to keep it that way... so please don't tell us now grandparents) this is her first encounter with cake...



















mmmmmm....








oh yeah, i can definitely swing this...

one of my favorite memories was after the party at dinner time... washing that little face and finding purple icing up her nose nearly three hours later.

my sweeties

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

things are busy here, obviously with nearly a three month hiatus...

haven't managed to keep up with this as well as i would have liked, but hopefully, we'll be able to play catch up.

IF I was doing a good job of updates, I would have posted this shortly after July 28.

Bracelets are the thing right now.

And if you think I'm kidding, check it out, because this child could put Cyndi Lauper to shame with the amount of cheap bracelets she has dripping off her arms.

She, of course, doesn't seem to realize what the big deal is, as if to say "geez, what's moms problem?!" Other than the fact that she can't pick anything up or bend over for fear of a bracelet falling off... (this of course, makes my life simpler. scoffs) it is pretty amusing.

I am forever grateful that she is smart enough to have learned on her own accord how to put the bracelets ON.

And laughing all the while...

things to do today: invest in a photo printer

O walmart, I believe we are at a cross-roads. I feel a decided remorse for you these days and my prior "love/hate" status with you is preeeeeetty much just hate.

I put off this errand, because of too much to do (who's not busy, right?) and ended up wanting to claw out my eyes while waiting to upload ONE (yes, that's right. One. 1!) picture in the stinkin' machine at the photo lab.
The "child" in front of me was in obvious indecision about which gang poses, sunglasses close-ups, and fake tattoo shots needed to be edited. And then spent another 5 minutes deciding how many of each said poses to print. O wait. Did I mention the shots of her in the bathroom with just her underwears on????!!!!!!(yes, I said underwears.)
And I guess now would be a good time to mention that her MOTHER was sitting alongside her - this 14 year old girl.
And just when I think I can't take it anymore... (!!!!!) she is now adding text to these kodak-award-winners. Most are tagged with "SEXAAAAY!"

Vomit.
I have nothing left to say.

apple of my eye

O (sigh.)
my baby is getting too big.
Alas, this is bitter sweet.
today we painted fingers and toes. wish i could have grabbed the camera and taken a good shot, but i will take what i can get. (camera from my phone)









She has also learned what to do when i hold the camera (yes, even the camera from my cell) in her direction and say, "say CHEEEEEESE!"













Even when we're making funny faces in the mirror and she unexpectedly pukes on me... out comes the camera phone and there she is, ready with the "CHEEEEESE!"









man, i love this kid.

"don't turn around o-oh...."

so lately this baby girl has been a lot faster than mommy is giving her credit for... (Obviously with the Lysol episode)

I thought I had just a second to turn around after getting items i needed out of the fridge...
No. Her new food love is blueberries. She managed to quietly pull them off the shelf and open the container by stepping on it. When I turned back around she was sitting and stuffing her face full of blueberries off the floor.












When I picked her up to put her in the highchair, she was very unhappy... and lost a sock in the process (it was proof of the container "stomping" and stained with blueberry juice.)














Another time I let her happily play (in her birthday suit) right before bedtime routine for two minutes in her room while I put clean crib sheets on her mattress (seriously, it was that fast)...








And at 2 minutes and 1 second, I heard grunting and found this...






Next, I was happily documenting something new - splashing in the bath tub - when she comes up with a "first" of her own...



And tonight, I got her ready for bed and left her room to get myself something to drink, i knew it was too quiet in there, but figured she was playing with her books (just like I left her) when I walked in to this...













i guess she wanted to do a little spring cleaning.