Thursday, October 20, 2011

E @ 2.5


Little E., at 2.5 years you . . . .
-still love your milk. Not sure you will ever love anything else as much as your coconut/soy milk mixture. You always say, "Sit da couch my milk."
-always say my for I, like "my do it" or "my go to" or "Ready or not, here my tum"
-have begun stuttering. My school's speech pathologist says it is probably just a language burst. It is pretty cute. Sometimes when you can't get your words out you gradually talk louder until you finally shout the word you trying to say. You also do the other extreme. When you're stuck on a word you start whispering it. The funniest is when you just start laughing and say, "I don't know."
-favorite songs- Baby Oh-Justin Beiber, Old McDonald, Last Kiss-Pearl Jam, All the Single Ladies-Alvin and the Chipmunks
-favorite food-spaghetti
-Potty training- we are working on it right now. You much prefer peeing/pooping in your diaper. Hopefully, that will change over the next few weeks.
-Naps-knock on wood- you are having a good stretch of naps. You went through a phase of climbing out of your crib and playing. Then you figured out how to open the door and I would find you just walking around downstairs playing. I put a kid proof door knob thing on the door and since then you've been doing great.
-are a cat 65% of the time. You purr, meow, hiss, and scratch.
-love to swing, especially on Mimi and Papoo's hammock. You lay face down and sometimes even fall asleep.
-favorite joke- poop on the ceiling, poop on the tree, poop on the cow, etc. You die laughing after every line.
-you love to watch videos of yourself and videos of cats on youtube
-weigh 25 pounds and wear a size 7 shoe
-sometimes are a handful, but the good times outweigh the bad. You are so sweet and absolutely adorable!

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Disney on Ice




$4 for $44 for Disney on Ice. I couldn't pass up that deal. Disclaimer: due to taxes and fees it was actually closer to $70! How misleading!! Anyway, Reesi has been several times, but we thought it was time for Elye to experience Disney on Ice. It started out with us finding the best parking spot right by the GEC. However, as soon as I opened the trunk to get the bag I realized I had forgot the tickets. Uggh! I threw Larry and the kids out of the car and flew back to Franklin to grab the tickets. Luckily, I found another great parking spot and ran the whole to the show. We were only 20 minutes late. Not the best start to the night, but since it was my fault and not Larry's I wasn't too upset! Elye loved the show and sat still the whole time, but Larry announced that this may be his last Disney on Ice. Looks like a girls night for the next Disney show.

Oktober Fest




The second festival of the month that we went to was Oktober Fest in Germantown. This time we made our friends Daniel and Kara come along. We went last year in the morning, but this year we waited until the afternoon. Big Difference! It was packed. We finally found an open field to let the kids run around in and do some crafts. We ended the night with Las Palmas! Some how Mia missed all the pictures!

Cultural Fest



Nashville Cultural Festival at Centennial

Larry loves festivals. He would go to one every weekend if he could. This year he drug us to the Nashville Cultural Festival. I was not that impressed in the beginning, but it got a little better. The kids did some crafts and watched some cultural dancing. I scored a cool pair of homemade gloves so I guess I can't complain. Not bad for the opening of "festival month."

Shipwrecked Island

The only thing she played with was the ball pit!

Typical Mom

Typical mom with a million things in her hand.

Yard Sale!!


I love yard sales! I love going to them (but never do now that I have kids) and having them. Our neighborhood has two a year so I joined in this year. Reesi plans on owning a mall full of stores when she grows up so this was right up her alley. She began pulling things out of the garage and marking them weeks before. She has no clue what things are worth so her prices were a little off. She marked our baby sign from Baptist Hospital (don't ask me why we still have that in our garage) for $40. She also set up a bake sale with her cousin.
The highlight of the bake sale was when a heavy set women pulled right up the the table, climbed out of the car, and said, "The fat lady's here." She then proceeded to buy $10 worth of 50 cent cupcakes, drinks, and candy. Jackpot!!
We sold Reesi's Barbie Dreamhouse and our little red wagon, which made me sad, but we never use them. I ended up making almost three hundred dollars! Unfortunately, my Patagonia jacket ended up in the Goodwill pile somehow and now I'm short a winter coat! That hurt my profits a little. I guess someone got a killer deal at Goodwill and is now wearing my favorite jacket!



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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Tropical Storm Lee


Over Labor Day weekend we had planned on going to Florida. Tropical Storm Lee also planned on making a visit. I tried to talk Larry out of the weekend of rain, but he was determined to have a weekend in Florida. There was a lot of rain. But we made the best of it. We went to the Naval Museum, got some seafood at The Shrimp Basket, and did actually make it into the hot tub when the rain cleared out one evening. The funniest part of the weekend was when Reesi came out of Lesli's room wearing a Jessica Simpson hair piece. That hair piece turned her into a different person. She came out shaking it and posing with attitude! This posing and dancing had been going on for about five minutes when Gary finally said, "I don't see what's different. She had that outfit on when she went in there." Somehow he hadn't noticed the curly hair down to her booty. I think maybe Santa should bring Reesi a Jessica Simpson hair piece for Christmas.