Lily's Birthday Cupcakes

Here is the link to the pictures of my trial run for Lily's B-day cupcakes.

Keys, Anyone?

If you know me at all. This story will be all too familiar. I could NOT find my keys this morning. Yesterday, Stephen moved the car into the garage for me. I asked Lily to get the keys out of the stroller (from our walk yesterday) and give them to him so he could move the car.

L maintains that she did that and "rode" in the front seat when Daddy moved the car. Daddy says that he used his keys to move the car. Over the course of several texts between Stephen and I, we both are still pretty sure of our "positions."

Finally, it is passed time to leave to take L to preK. I decided to to just use Stephen's key and take her and sort it out later. I am getting ready to buckle L in and she gets really excited . . .

"I member. There are right here. I put them here (pointing to the console) b/c Daddy had his key to move the car. Lily saves the day!!!!!!" I didn't have the heart to tell her that she's the one who created the mess in the first place :)

Moral of the story: We were BOTH right! How often does that happen?

Recent Lilyisms

See Lilyism #4

I haven't been as good about keeping track of these as I used to be. Here are a couple of late:

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1. This one came 10 days after I left my cell phone on top of the car and pulled up away after stopping to buckle Lily in.

Me: (dropped cell phone on the ground at Wendy's- battery cover comes off)

L: Not again, Not AGAIN! (shaking her head)

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2. Lily laying down for her nap/rest time

L: I AM NOT GOING TO BE QUIET! I DON'T WANT TO SLEEP! (5 sec pause) I AM NOT GOING TO BE QUIET!

Me: You don't have to sleep. Just rest and be quiet.

L: How am I supposed to do THAT?!?!

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3. Clearly, she picked up the word and not the meaning . . .


L (to Gma R): Draw something. . . Something random. Not my name. Just letters.

Gma R: ok (writes something) Is that ok?

L: No, that's not random. You are random (laughing).

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4. After finding Ga with marker on her forehead. . .

Me: Lily, what happened?

L: Ga drew on herself.

Me: Lily you aren't in trouble. I just want you to tell Mommy the truth. Look at my eyes.

L: Yeah, Yeah. I did it. I thought her head was a piece of paper.

3-4 days later . . .

Me: What happended?

L: (being honest?) I thought her head was a piece of paper again.

Me: Thinking her head was a piece of paper doesn't happen twice (let alone once). Short conversation and loss of markers for a time period then followed.

November and December 2010 Pics

November pics here.

December pics here.

Graceanne's 1 yr checkup

Well, it is so hard to believe that GA is one year old. We went to her one year check this morning.

She is still a little thing:

17 lbs. 11 oz. Still in the 5-10% here, but we have little ones literally and figuratively in the woof house. She's up 6 oz from last week when we went in for an ear infection. Dr. Stephanie was very pleased that she's still gaining well even with not feeling well lately.

28" tall - 10-25% here.

Wait here it is - She may be petite, but her head is not!

17 3/4" - 50%

Still in Limbo

Well, at least Stephen has passed his test and started work in Fred. already. Many of you may know that already via Facebook, but thought I would update this neglected blog!

In other news, we wait and wait and wait . . .

Still waiting to her from the bank about the contract on possibly our new home - Home inspection issues. Our home here is on the market, but not even so much as a phone call to ask for a viewing. I knew selling our home would be tough in December, but I guess I was secretly hoping it would happen quickly! Trying my hardest to trust God in his timing to send us someone who needs and WANTS our current home!

Travels

Well, my great post - you know the one. Witty, funny, honest, creative. It just got deleted and I am pretty sure it was my fault. Oh, well. We are traveling down I81 hoping to be home sooner rather than later. The girls have traveled well. They are currently keeping each other entertained in the back seat of our stuffffffffed car. Sleeping some helped both of their attitudes.

Hoping to make it home on only one more stop - 5 hrs 45 min. Can we do it? We better or this mama and papa just might consider tossing the heirs out the window. JK Really they have been great. We will - however - start throwing rocks at the people who are driving 55 in a 65! And the semis that keep pulling out in front of us. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This particular one has the license 26107 from the state of TN.

No news on whether Stephen passed his board exam.