That's My Girl!
On Sunday, coming home from church, I was carrying Aeriana inside and crossed the front lawn which has a large, blossoming tree. The blossoms had started to fall from the tree, creating a bright blanket of pedals on the grass. Aeriana proved she takes after her 'mess-averse' daddy when the following exchange occurred.
Aeriana: "Nasty!" (a new word she's learned)
Me: "What's nasty?"
Aeriana (pointing at the ground): "A mess!"
Me: "You don't like all the pedals on the ground?"
Aeriana: "No!"
A little later she was again proving to prefer things to be organized as she neatly lined up some plastic shapes in a perfect row, then making stacks of the same shapes on top of each other (square lined up perfectly on the other square, star lined up perfectly on the other star) when she gave us another laugh.
Mommy: "Aeriana, you are so daddy's girl."
Aeriana: "No!"
Mommy: "You're not daddy's girl?"
Aeriana: "No, daddy a boy."
Labels: Aeriana, family, funny
Let's Define 'Nutrition' Shall We
My Easter basket had several of these included (thanks Easter Bunny!).
While partaking of one particularly scrumptious egg just now (you know, as an appetizer to my lunch) I noticed that on the back of the garishly pink carton is a section for 'nutritional facts'. I really wish Zachary Confections was legally allowed to have the nutritional section read something like this.
"Real Nutrition Fact #147:
How much less nutrition could be included in this product? None. None less nutrition."
P.S. I may call my congressman and inform him that the mere existence of a nutritional label on this type of product confuses me into thinking that some type of nutrition must be contained therein.
P.P.S. I may also suggest a more appropriate label.
"Surgeon General's Warning: This product contains nothing your body needs and may make you fat; high amounts of consumption may give you a sugar rush and then the resulting crash, making you feel miserable. This product should be consumed only under the supervision of someone more responsible than the person who actually wants to ingest this product."
Labels: food, holidays
Enough With The Snow
Yeah, we heard you loud and clear... all of you.
"Enough with the snow on your blog!" you said, so now the snow is gone and we can all rejoice in the beauty of spring and the warmth of the sun.
The new background image is a shot I took last summer of Lake Maggiore in northern Italy. We stayed in Baveno, a beautiful town and this is the view we were treated to (briefly - it rained most of the time) while there.
Labels: trips
Go Duke!
With Duke going all the way, two things have happened.
First off, most of my family has decided they don't want to talk to me any more because I was rooting for 'Puke Duke'.
Second, I've taken 3rd place in the brackets for my family. All with my randomized method. Looks like I'll be employing the same method next year to see if I have similar luck.
P.S. Erin took 2nd place in the brackets. She picked teams based on whether or not she liked the name of the college (for example, she had Temple going to the Elite Eight because she likes going to the temple.)
Labels: family, sports
Still Playing 'Catch Up'
So I have officially been an epic failure when it comes to blogging. But I'm honestly going to try better ... again... And yes i realize i have said this before. Sorry... But I'm almost up to present time. :)
Aeriana and Zoe are the best of friends, and I love it. They play and giggle together all the time and Aeriana can always get Zoe to smile. I mean look how Zoe looks at Aeriana you can just tell she thinks Aeriana is the coolest.
We had a big snow storm and Brett got to work from home one day and they even closed the office the next day! It was awesome! The car was crazy stuck in the snow and we don't have a shovel, so Brett dug the car out with our ice scraper. Yeah... it took him forever. But then I made him hot chocolate to make him feel better. :)
This is a snow man that Aeriana and I had made a few hours prior, when it was only snowing a little...
This is later after it snowed a bunch more. Poor snow man got buried...
My good friend Crystal lives right up the street from me, she took the kiddos out while I stayed inside with the babies. (She had a little girl (Lillie) two weeks after Zoe was born, and Rebekah her other daughter was a month after Aeriana. We like being prego together, what can we say.)
It's hard to tell in these two pictures but Aeriana was having a blast picking up the snow and throwing it in the air.
This is Zoe and Lillie chillin' inside. I love Zoe's face, it says, "Seriously, you licked me. I can't believe you just did that."
We have a baby that loves the bumbo. :) It's awesome! (Aeriana
hated it.)
Zoe was super sick for about a month. It was so sad super high fevers and she had a horrible time breathing. She's all better now, but it took her forever!
One of Zoe's favorite things... Eating her giraffe and staring at herself in the mirror.
Speaking of giraffes, Aeriana has a giraffe too! And a pooh bear! And Bubblegum! And her Blanket! - all of which she wants to sleep with
every night. I think she's going to be one of those kids with a million stuffed animals on her bed where you can't even see the bed, but they swear it's comfortable.
I tried to curl Aeriana's hair... It didn't work. I think she would have to sleep in the curlers over-night and there is no way they would stay in her hair with the way she sleeps (which is every which way). Any idea anyone?
We started doing a cousin exchange this year and Aeriana got her very first laptop from Evie. She loves it! At first she would walk up to it and say "No, no!" thinking it was mommy and daddy's laptop, but once she figured out it was hers she couldn't put it down.
Here's Zoe being the happy baby that she is... happy but loud, man this kid can make noise! Currently her favorite noise making technique is blowing raspberries. (and yes i know this toy got recalled... I sent it in, no need to send the parent police after me.) ;)
Aeriana loves to read and her favorite book is Dora! Well, she loves anything Dora really. She's obsessed!
But obsessions sure are handy when your friends come into town and you want to play games (yay Agricola!) and not be bothered by a two year old. :) Notice Aeriana in the background... yeah she's watching Dora.
And sometimes Dora is just great, but Aeriana has lots of energy and needs to move around a little while she watches... sometimes she decides to undress herself.
She's starting to realize that undressing, and attempting to get re-dressed, can be fun... and the results can be rather interesting.
Anatomy of an Early Morning Wardrobe Change:
Pants removed - check!
Diaper 90% removed - check!
Pants inside out - check!
Both legs stuffed into a single pant-leg of the pajamas - check!
This is Zoe's favorite position, she does this all the time and the picture just doesn't do it justice. She arches her back in this really weird way just so she can look around and see what she wants to. She tends to use this most often when Dora is on the TV; being placed on the floor facing directly away from the TV is no problem for a master contortionist.
This is her other favorite position. Pacifier and foot!
Here's Aeriana having fun with friends. Hanging out watchin' a movie. Three peas in a fleecy-blanket lined pod.
Zoe, super comfy and totally relaxed... (this mastery of relaxation makes her daddy proud).
I love the bed-head and I can hear Aeriana as a teenager saying "Mom what do you want from me, I just woke up?"
Aeriana got her first hair cut. It was much needed she was starting to look mullet-ish. And I would have none of that!
Pierson and Aeriana hand in hand at the mall. She loves to hold other kids' hands; it's so cute, we see her walking down the halls at church with one of her friends hand-in-hand all the time.
And last but not least! Happy birthday Brett!!! I love you!
Well, that was another long post but no need to worry, there is more to come!
Labels: Aeriana, baby, Brett, Erin, family, holidays, pictures, Zoe
Dad (Brett)
Mom (Erin)
Aeriana ('Wacko', 'Princess')
Zoe Jean ('Stinker', 'Cutie')
