Archive: August, 2009



Mommy and Son Date

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We had a date, just my son and I.

His choice….the skate-park with a trip to Lamar’s Doughnuts afterward.

I went to grab my camera and he asked me to leave it ,  he wanted my full and undivided attention.

I was happy to comply with his wishes. I did get to actually watch him scooter around instead of being preoccupied with capturing it on  camera.  It was great to live the experience rather than being concentrated on documenting it.

My favorite moment on our date…….A quite talk in the car on the way home where he said ” You know what Mom? I really, really love you.”

Does that melt your heart or what?

I will try and think of that moment the next time he slugs his sister or blows me off when I ask him clean up.

After we got home he agreed to one pic, but it had to be quick.

We Grew This!

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Can you believe the kids and I grew this from a seed?

We have trouble keeping house plants, in fact we don’t even have any right now.

This is a major feat for us, and it is like 4 feet tall.

There is a row of them waiting to bloom, but this one was the first!

Yeah us!

Birthday Girl


She is turning 4, a girl's 4th Birthday Portrait

My baby is four, where has the time gone?

She is so silly, soooooo girly,  and precocious.  She is smart and fussy about details, the very definition of a Miss Priss for sure.

I can only laugh as I realize she is so much like me.

She is the first one to hug me when I feel out of it, without saying a word at four she gets me.

I love her big round brown eyes and and crinkled nose as she squeals with laughter.

I love that she packs a purse full of lip gloss to pick her brother up from the bus stop, and runs to embrace him as he hops off the bus. Then she does everything in her power to pester him to death for the remaining part of the afternoon.

I love that she is obsessed with a mini shampoo bottle she found in my bathroom drawer.  She declared it “so cute” and now keeps it in her room.  Anytime I ask her to take a shower she runs and gets it and oohs and ahhs over it’s cuteness again.

I love that she loves HOT PINK.  Anything hot pink….a dress…. a pair of underwear…….a pair of shoes…..a hot pink paper napkin,  it doesn’t really matter. Hot pink just makes her feel good.

I love my little Beauty…….

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Dora Cake


My little Brithday Girls' 4yr Portrait with her Dora CakeWe celebrated Beauty’s Fourth Birthday this weekend.

I made the cake (Dora cake,pink with two layers) as requested.

It was my first time working with fondant. Beauty is one of the few people who likes to actually eat the fondant.

I think I did an okay job, if I do say so myself!  Thank goodness she wanted lots of decorations…they sure helped to cover the imperfections.

She was happy with it, and her opinion matters the most.

The cake is always VERY IMPORTANT to her.

Beauty doesn’t consider it a birthday without a big cake.  Ace of Cakes I am not…but I try

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Fickle Sibling Love

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This time it was lots of love.

First Day of First Grade

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Today is my big guy’s first day of first grade.

I know I was more nervous than he was.  I woke up at like 5:30am and couldn’t go back to sleep.

I just have all the mommy jitters…..

will he know where to line up when he gets off the bus?

will he find his friends in other classes to sit with at lunch?

will his teacher see his sensitive and loving spirit through his all boy/playful exterior?

will he remember which bus to get back on?

He on the other hand woke up at a leisurely 7am and cool as a cucumber and ready  for whatever happened next.

First Day of Preschool

first_day_of_schoolmainToday was my little Beauty’s first day of preschool.

We got off this morning with just one small hitch….

She was up in her room crying and throwing a fit surrounded by a sea of clothing cast-offs.  She declared that she had “nothing to wear”.

She is only almost 4 people !!!! Her teenage years are surely going to kill me.