hello?

been a while huh?

every day this week i had intentions of getting on here to say hello and share some fun things. and every night when i 'finished' the day, i reminded myself that tomorrow i must get to it. but obviously it hasn't happened and it's really not happening today i just wanted to pop in to say hello. we're here. we're well. we're loving and living and partying. we're celebrating another birthday around here tomorrow so i won't be back till the weekend is over. enjoy your weekend friends. ours is starting now. i'm leaving you with one cute picture so you don't hate me :)

much love from yours truly...

headed to the plains...

this was last year. it's crazy how much she's grown since then. i still however feel like this was yesterday. i remember having to cut the legs of the bloomers under this outfit because they were too tight on her irresistible thighs. they were baby thighs. and i loved them. i still do but now they are covered in marker and dirt instead of johnson's baby lotion. but i still love them. and the tigers too which we are headed to cheer on. but first it's time again for favorite foods friday. but back later with recaps of both....

war darn eagle!

embrace the camera - september 23

{lovebirds}

wish you were here...

georgia's at school...
i just had a diet coke....
got a broom & mop calling my name...
got on my dancing socks...

AND

i have tina turner radio blasting on pandora. i wish you were with me. lip-singing with the auburn shaker isn't near as fun without friends. well it kinda is, but that's because i love me some tina turner. and lip-singing. and sharing it with you guys.

okay gotta go. lionel just came on and 'all night long' is begging me to end the blog post and get up to dance. love you all. especially you mom. i wish you were here loving some lionel with me.

and if you can, get your hiney over to pandora.com and get your tina turner on.

playin' & fussin' & learnin'

it's funny how all those things {playing & fussing & learning} can happen all within the same hour. i'm always amazed at how quick she bounces from devestation to joy to quiet concentration. i would say that the quiet concentration comes the least often, but nevertheless these little people are so funny. so in quick review here's what we're up to...

playin' {not chokin' as it looks}...

fussin'...

learnin'...

and two other things worth mentioning as well. we've been working on her handwriting and she has mastered writing the first letter of her name without help. this was a whole page of 'G' she had written last week. i will admit. i am super proud of this....

and with every proud moment there comes a not so proud moment. this week that happen to be when she came to me while i was cleaning the guest room and she told me that 'your phone is wet'. i looked at her and knew exactly what had happened. my phone was sitting right next to my glass of water and since i was distracted she thought it would be fun to put her earrings AND my phone in the water. not a good choice georgia marie. not a good choice. i'd be surprised if she ever does that again. i was not happy about it.

so that's all i got for now. still without diet coke. still fighting the urge to snack. i have two more weeks till my birthday and i'm going to finish strong. peace out my friends...

embrace the camera - september 16

just a little love before mother's day out this morning. happy thursday friends.

you just never know...

i'm starting to realize that finding little things like scribbled notecards and torn out pages of books are just part of having a toddler in the house. i'm okay with all of those things too. she doesn't know not to tear unless i tell her. she can't use a notecard to write until i teach her how to. and so on and so on. my point is that since she's so 'busy' now i best be teaching her the correct way that things should work to hopefully avoid lots of these incidents. but this morning i realized that sometimes they are just plain destructive. or bored. or whatever. she's seen me put on my lip gloss/ lip stick 200 times. she can even do it. so i was really confused when i walked in our bathroom and saw what had happened....

now why on earth did she think it was prudent to color the baby's legs with my lipstick? and on top of that, i guess she 'colored' so hard that the lipstick just broke right off at the base. seriously, what on earth. i asked her what happened and she said 'dat baby got lip-sick on her knees'. well no duh.
i stood there long enough to explain the correct way to use lipstick then i dashed for the camera. we both got a giggle out of the whole thing. that was until she realized her finger was stuck in my lotion bottle.

random-ness

this post is gonna be all over the place. you've been warned...

this box of notecards sits to the left of our computer. i like writing notes and found it handy to have should i feel the urge to send a card of encouragement at a moment's notice. i even keep stamps in there because otherwise it will sit addressed on my island waiting for a stamp for 3 weeks. just sayin'. but that's not my point at all. my point is that when i grabbed for a notecard the other day i opened it to start writing and looky what i saw...

now who on earth would be responsible for scribbling in a notecard and unassumingly stick in right back where it belongs without a word. yeah, i have no clue either. silly baby.

next up...even though only 3 of you will care...i haven't had a diet coke or snack in 12 days. now i will say that i did make brownies for a friend and that afternoon when they were done i ate one that broken to pieces in my hand. but that's it. and i think i finally might be through the withdrawal stages of not having diet coke. i had serious headaches and body aches for a whole week. i am not joking. at one point i thought my vision was becoming blurry and i started to really freak. then i realized my contacts were dirty. anyway i wasn't even drinking that much. 1 or 2 a day. that's it. but i knew it was having it's way with me and boy was i right. so we got another 2.5 weeks to go and i'm determined to come back here to report success. and i really hope i never resume my diet coke habit. but darn it, it's so so good. and gross too. whatever.

and lastly a few things so i'll remember....

each day when i rock her before naptime or nighttime she says...'tell me i was born'. she wants me to, in great detail, tell her about the day she was born. she never gets tired of hearing it and neither do i.

also, she had a little fever last week and every time i changed her diaper she said...'don't put fever in my poopoo'. i had to take her temp in her bottom and she thought i was putting fever in there and she wasn't happy.

that's it for now. happy monday friends.

summer 2010

dear summer...

thank you. thank you for being willing to let each day last longer and longer so that we could enjoy all you had to offer. you've given us some sweet memories and for that we're grateful...

we've blown out candles and lit up fireworks.
wore out our bathing suits but built up confidence.
dirtied paintbrushes and our clothes daily.
took long walks and short naps.
danced in tutus and butt naked.
been swimming in the pool. the lake. and the ocean.
played with friends here. there. and at chicken play.
ate pizza for breakfast and pancakes for dinner.
learned our abc's and how to hold our breath.

the list could go on and on but mainly...thank you. our family is richer because of your warmth. and if autumn is sitting near, please do remind him to take it easy on us. we promise to drink up every bit he'll offer if he'll just be as generous.

love,
h,h & g

first day recap

after i laid georgia down last night i began preparing for today. clean clothes and new shoes were out and ready to be worn...

her bag was packed...notecards for teacher were printed...and sugar cookies were made for the teddy bear picnic that would take place today...

and as always morning came and we slowly got ourselves together. but this morning we both decided that blueberry 'piley face' pancakes were a better option than plain ones...
and because it was a school day {and it's much better with distraction} she had her breakfast at her table and watched signing times and i sat on the couch behind her and worked those curls into perfect puffs....

then it was time. we dressed. and posed. and talked about all the fun things the day would hold. and as i took this picture i realized that she had grown 2 years and 2 feet since yesterday. strange how that happens huh?...and then i decided that in case i didn't tell her enough times this morning how much i love her, i'd better write her a note. so i ditched the name tag in her lunch box and instead opted for a note. maybe her teacher read it to her...maybe not...but even though she can't read it she knows my handwriting and when she opened her lunch sack today she saw it. literate or not, she knows what it said...and then we were off....
i've been telling her for weeks that there are no paci's at big girl school. and i fully expected to enforce it when the time came. but the time is here. when she walked in today she asked for her paci. and without a second thought, i gave it to her. she won't be this small forever and i'll have plenty of time to help her find other things to comfort her, but until then i'll let her have it...
in fact if i hadn't dropped the paci habit 30 years ago i might have needed one today too for a little comfort. but we both made it and now we're together again which feels right. and i'm sure all you moms agree that the feeling of leaving your children never feels right. its always a struggle. even for 4 hours a few times a week. so when she wakes up from her nap we're having kool-aid and cookies and we're going to talk about our day and all the fun it held. then we'll spend some time wonder ing how in the world we're going to do it again tomorrow...

one more day...

mother's day out {or school as we call it} starts tomorrow. which means she trades her flip flops for ked's. he works longer days. and i finally mop the floor. change is coming. sure she'll only be there a couple of times a week but it seems to make the weeks & months go by that much faster. these past months have been so good to us and we have sucked every drop of goodness and sunshine out of these long, lazy summer days. so tonight we'll have a special back to school dinner and talk about the fun things of fall to come. and we'll selfishly wish that this fall time will slow down just a little to let us take it all in....

embrace the camera - september 2

“If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants"

-sir issac newton