Yesterday's Cuteness

Now that the peanut pretty much has free reign of the whole house, I spend a good part of my day taking things away from her and removing her from awkward locations. Yesterday I decided that as long as she's not getting into something that could kill her, I'm just going to laugh and take pictures of whatever she's doing. Yesterday she:

Helped unload the dishwasher

Took a peek in the hamper

Unloaded her diapers

She also decided that dinnertime requires the use of not one, but two sippy cups. Because sometimes you feel like a straw, and sometimes the moment calls for a spout. You know how it goes.

Walking!!!

So it appears I forgot to tell everyone that E is walking now. So, um, E is walking now! Here's proof!

New Clothes!!!

Check out the adorable clothes I got for E a few weekends ago! Old Navy was having a huge sale, and everything I bought was 99 cents!

Matt found this hoodie.

I picked this one.

And this is my favorite purchase. Big girl jammies!

E has discovered recently that she's not the only one in the house who likes toys. Since she loves putting things in anyone's mouth who will let her, she and Roy get along quite well. She picks up a toy, puts it in his mouth, squeals with delight, waits for him to drop it, and starts all over again.

And I can't leave without showing off these cake pops. I am so excited about them. The food markers I bought sucked, so I need to find better ones that will actually let me draw a straight line, but I think they're so cute even with the crappy markers. I'm helping my friend do a March Madness themed first birthday party for her son, and I am having so much fun with it!

I did a test run of E's smash cake for her party, and it turned out so cute! Her birthday dress also came in the mail this week, and it is perfect. I'm not going to share pictures until after her party though, so you'll either have to wait for the festivities or for the post that follows them. Sorry!

Hot Dog!!!

I know I mentioned in a previous post that the Nans is obsessed with the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Hot Dog Dance, but now she's really proven her love. As of today, her vocabulary officially consists of the words mama, dada, hi, bye, and hot dog.

I also realized that those of you without kids probably have no idea what I'm talking about. I myself had never heard the hot dog dance until a few weeks ago.

This song is now downloaded in my phone in case we need to do some emergency calming down while out and about.

Christmases #2, 2.5, and 3

Christmas #2 was at our house on Christmas morning, and I cannot tell you how great it was to wake up and not have to go anywhere. Usually we go to my parent's house in the morning, but this year we decided we were going to have our own little family Christmas with just the three of us and then have my family come to us a little later in the morning (Christmas 2.5-since we didn't actually go somewhere else, I'm not giving it it's own number).

We had so much fun watching our little peanut open her presents. She loved unwrapping them, and she loved the boxes, but we were actually surprised at how much she liked her presents too. We figured she'd mostly just play with the paper.

You'll notice that she's wearing different jammies for Christmas #2.5. This was not planned, but rather out of necessity, as she peed all over her previous set. She actually went to bed in yet another pair of Christmas jammies, but she leaked through those during the night. Don't worry, we've since gone up a size in diapers, and all is well. I'm just glad Matt's grandma sent E some Christmas jammies in the mail so she had an extra pair.

By Christmas #3, we were a little tired of being glued to the camera, so all we have are pictures of E and I just after we arrived at Matt's mom's.

Merry Christmas!!!!

Christmas #1

We usually do 4 Christmases every year. The first is the afternoon of Christmas Eve, at Matt's dad's house. Then we go to my parent's on Christmas morning, and Matt's mom's in the afternoon. We usually do our Christmas at home the day after. This year, we decided we were going to do Christmas morning at our house, just the three of us. My parents and sister came over a little later in the morning, and we had Christmas with them at our house too. So it was more like 3.5 Christmases this year. I was going to put all of our celebrations in one post, but after uploading the pictures from Matt's dad's I realize that it would be the longest post ever, so I'll do them one at a time.

"I'll help you with this one, Grandma!"

Helping Mommy unwrap

"Cool! You got me paper!"

Yummy

BRAINS!!! PRESENTS!!!

"Ooh, shiny!"

"More paper!?! It's just what I've always wanted!"

Nans quietly opens her presents, unaware that danger is lurking just behind her.

MORE BRAINS!!! MORE PRESENTS!!!

"A glitter bow! You shouldn't have!"

Happy New Year!!!!!

Okay, one of my resolutions is to start blogging regularly again. I can't promise to update every day, but I'll shoot for 3-4 times a week. In order to do this, I'm going to have to veer off-topic from the cutest baby in the universe, aka the lovely Miss E. While I personally think she is the most beautiful and fascinating person in the entire universe, I realize that the minute details of her day-to-day life are not as spellbinding to the rest of you as they may be to me, and quite frankly, it is boring to try to come up with an interesting post about our daily activities when many days our activities consist of a trip to Target and watching the Mickey Mouse Hot Dog Dance on repeat 3 times in a row. Don't misunderstand me here- there are few things that I find more amusing than a trip to Target, and I defy you to find anything that Nannies loves so dearly as the Hot Dog Dance. It just makes for boring blogging. So, assuming I keep my other resolution- to work on the squillion little (and sometimes big) projects that need to be done in our house- you will be seeing the occasional picture of, say, a newly refinished fireplace facing and freshly painted mantel in addition to photos of the aforementioned adorable infant.

The shiny brass fireplace and the sagey-olive mantel are no more!

I'm not sure what pictures are going to permanently live on the mantel, but here's what I have for now. The middle and side pictures are Nans' newborn photos, taken when she was a mere 6 days old. ::sob:: The girl on the tricycle is my sister, and the baby in the bonnet is my mama. I have a framing project in mind, but I'm not sure when I'll get to it, so for now I'm making do with what I have laying around.


We went to the mall today to get out of the house, and by some miracle/lapse into insanity by my husband, we came home with a beautiful new addition to our family. Meet Kate.

I've been lusting after this bag (the drawstring Opus in mustard) for weeks now, and when I saw it in person my reaction prompted Matt to ask if I'd like to be alone to make out with the bag. Then, in a moment of glorious, impulsive gift-giving, he bought it for me. The saleswoman asked if it was a birthday present or a late Christmas present. My response was, "I don't know what it is, but I'm taking it!" SQUEEEEEEE!!!!!!

And since I can't completely deny you a picture of my insanely squeezable little stinker, here's Nannies and I in our matching coats. It's a slippery slope from here to matching Laura Ashley dresses. I'm going to have to insist that one of you kill me if I ever get to that point.

My next post will cover the kiddo's very first Christmas festivities, but that's going to be a long one. Tonight's post was just to prove that I am still, in fact, alive and well, and not buried under a pile of freshly poured concrete under the boat in Senator Boyd Boyette's garage. (That's the plot of "The Client", if you're not familiar. I'm not insane, I swear.) Adios and buenas noches!