June 24, 2009
I’m thinking I may be changing the format of my blog soon. Or creating a whole new one. I’m not sure yet.
I’m sort of all over this Pageant Mom thing, so …. stay tuned!
OH! BTW, just got BabyGirl’s new pageant dress–GORGEOUS!! LOVE IT! Cannot wait to get some pictures of her in it! Plus, i really do need some pics of BG. I used to have some every month. But since my camera died, not so much…
June 9, 2009
Well, I think I’ve already goofed this post, cause I mean really-who gets to eat?
Papi took the day off work to do some more work in the kitchen. You know, the one that’s been in the middle of being remodeled for over a month? Yeah, that kitchen. On my way home from work, he calls me to warn that there is plaster dust everywhere and it might be wise to just pick up the kiddo and go eat before coming home.
I think about this as I go inside the daycare to pick up Babygirl. After loading and fastening her into her seat, I send a text back to him: Get cleaned up, we’re going to pick you up and have dinner at O’Charleys.
He’s outside waiting for me when I drive by.
We arrive and seated quickly. Everyone smiles and waves to the baby as if she’s a local celebrity-as always the little goof is showing off. But hey, it’s cute, right? We order, she sits and colors. Rolls appear and she eats the majority of one. Her pizza arrives, along with the rest of our food. She stabs it with a fork. Dips it in Mommy’s Ranch (dipping makes everything edible, right?). Everything but actually eat the pizza.
Finally, she’s had enough, just as I decide I really need to start eating on my salad a little faster. Babygirl NOW wants to sit with Mommy. NOW. And cries. And shrieks. So Papi hands her over and she cuddles on my chest as I eat around her few sprigs of hair.
Papi finishes his meal and offers to take her to the bathroom and change a diaper–I get to eat in peace for 5 minutes. YAY! I get a text, thinking from my friend in Kansas City. Uhm…not quite.
It read:
Papi: I have an emergency in here ( I immiately think she had a blow out!) she threw her skirt in the toilet.
I giggle and ask the waitress for an extra To Go bag and text back I’ll meet them at the door of the bathroom. I stand up gathering our stuff that’s suddenly EVERYwhere. I look up and Papi is cuddling Babygirl in his arms just so that her diaper doesn’t show.
Apparently, the toilet had a bit of gross in it and he was not bringing the skirt back home. Oops. Now isn’t that just like a man, not to clean the toilet before laying his daughter on the changing table above it?
June 5, 2009
Can it be? Summer will be here in 16 days? I mean, we’ve had some warm weather. So warm that I went out to the patio during my lunch hour, rolled up my sleeves and pant legs and baked for 30 minutes. I was still red 3 days later! Given, no base tan, but wow! Anyway, the last few days have been darn right chilly. 57 degrees at 8 am it cold, right?
June 21st also brings two more things special in my life- the famous Father’s Day and my mother’s birthday! I t seems like that happens every few years-instead of every, what, 6 or 7?
Okay, that’s it for my jumbled post. I need to get back into the swing of posting. I mean, my dearest longest online friend has her act so together, that she’s even going to BlogHer! Have fun, K!
May 22, 2009
I entered Alexis into a photo contest! You can vote daily until the end of the month, once a day. Please vote? She’s #7 and #8 ABProductions
The votes count as 1/3 of her score. So even though she is the MOST GORGEOUS one of the group, she could lose if someone pulls in a lot of votes and she does not. Sucks, huh?
I appreciate any help you can bring her way! Thank you!!
*************UPDATE********************
Alexis did not win, but thank you so much for your votes!
She received first runner up! She lost by two points overall! She got a lot of online votes, but you can see that the older looking ‘girl’ won that bit.
Still proud of my little girl!
May 22, 2009
It is finally here. Memorial Day weekend. But we are not going to do it, nope. I decided to not have baby girl do the state pageant in Springfield this weekend. I sort of wish we were, but after the week we’ve had. No Thank You.
Started out with the inland hurricane that blew through a week or so ago. Yikes. We didn’t have power for 6 days. I packed up the baby and went to visit my parents for a long weekend. Well, the last day there, BabyGirl decided to throw up everywhere–she came down with the flu!! We rushed home (even though no power, we had everything else). Ended up having to take her to the ER for some fluids, and she’s all better.
And then, I came down with the flu. The worst flu I have ever had. I could hardly do a thing without being exhausted. Lost 17 pounds in 3 1/2 days. I’ve gained 7 back…but fighting to keep the rest off.
Yesterday, we took the baby to Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St Louis. She’s fine, but she gets chronic ear infections. She got tubes put in her little ears….so we’re dealing with all the hospital shock drama now, ie very clingy.
In our little community there is a big festival going on and they have a baby contest in the morning. We are doing that…it was cheap to enter, so why not? ha
But, I do want to wish a great big good luck to my new pageant mommy friend’s and their children this week at the Sunburst State Competition!! Samantha, Alexis will do great!!! Dynice and Christina, good luck–you’re little ones will sleep well on the way home! ha ha!! Sunburst is a great pageant system! Good luck!
May 6, 2009
Time is flying, is it not? It’s already MAY!
Well, I decided to skip the Sunburst State pageant and went to America’s Fabulous Faces Missouri/Illinois State in St Louis instead. Phew! Cost a little more, but it was definitely an experience! She placed 1st Runner Up in Beauty, but we decided not to buy any of the other awards. Example, if you sell the most ads (at $100 a page) you win Grand Ambassador. You can be the ugliest, cryingest baby there, and you get a huge crown and trophy for suckering people into giving you money. Stuff like that.
I’m proud of my baby-she did awesome. Here she is in her new pageant dress!
And here I put together some shots from the actual Pageant!!
And of course she is now 19 months and saying a new word everyday! I have heard her say a three word sentence twice! the first was I see Bun-ny! and the second was I see bear!
March 26, 2009
This is fabulous! I just found this through one of my ole’ favorite sites, Posh Mama!
You must check out the Kitchen Cupboard collection from Green Cupboards. Environmentally friendly products for EVERY ROOM in your house…obviously the Kitchen Cupboard is my favorite!! Now, go…Check it out!
March 16, 2009
There are times like this when I feel like my blog needs it’s old name back “Topy Turvy whatever it was” ha ah
Things have been good. I am more happy and proud every day. My daughter is blossoming so quickly right before my eyes-I feel that if I blink, she will be graduating high school and moving out. My husband and I are slowly but surely recapturing our connection that we had before BabyGirl was born. It is odd how much life changes. You hear about it but don’t believe it until one day you look at your spouse and wonder who he really is nowadays.
The Fixer-Upper House is painstakingly slow at making progress. We now have all of the interior doors up and the facings up. Baseboards are going up one wall at a time (one week at a time!). All of the mentioned needs to be painted, but hey, we have a good 5 years before we move again, right? The outside. Yikes, how dare I go there! In this area, Sweet Gum trees are everywhere, we get to have six in our front and back yard. And we believe that the previous owners did not rake anything in the last two years-but chose to mow the leaves and leave it at that. So, Papi and I, two weekends ago decide to take this leaf and gumball matter into our own hands. After three and a half hours of both of us working, 21 contractor strength lawn and leaf size bags, the front yard is clean! Two years of leaves and sweet gums in the holly bushes (they had berries on them under all that crap!), and dirt as a yard with green onions appearing. Ugh. Now that spring is here, we’ve really got to get the grass seed down to try and get a handle on it.
This is long enough, I’ll try to post more often. I have tons of pictures from the park and going to Paducah to upload for you eventually. And more Pageant updates! =)
Have a great night.
February 5, 2009
We had some major snow last week, as evidenced by the sheet of ice covering my lawn! ha!
Anyway, here’s a pic of BabyGirl enjoying her time outside!
Next–Valentine’s for BabyGirl’s class at daycare!! Yikes!
January 26, 2009
here is one picture of the finished house! ha As if it were even close to that. And please ignore the WAY TOO SMALL rug in the middle of the room. Cannot find one big enough, cheap enough! ha
