Wordless Wednesday

Sweet Surprises

One year ago, I was driving home from a friends house where we had gathered to stuff wedding invitations for her. My mind is always wandering and I started thinking about the miscarriage I had just had over Christmas. I also started thinking that it should be close for me to start my cycle again. Then it hit me. I could be pregnant, I thought. NAH..no way. That is not enough time for my body to recover from the miscarriage. My levels had just finally dropped all the way back down on New Years, so surely not. But then again, I have always had short cycles, so maybe??? I remembered that I had one test at the house and I thought that I would just take it and see. Every other time we have found out we were pregnant, Michael was there with me waiting. This time I just decided I would take it on my own because I thought he would think I was crazy. I ran in the door and he was on the couch watching TV. I said "Hey" as I threw my stuff down and ran to the bathroom and grabbed the test out from under the cabinet. I really thought that the test would be negative. Even if I was pregnant, I thought it would be too early to tell.
Lo and Behold...I saw that little positive sign instantly! I decided not to tell Michael right away. I waited until later. You really don't want the details, so I won't give them. I will say that Michael did not believe me at first...I TOLD YOU.
Anyway, the point of this post is to say that when I sit here and look at my sweet little boy, I would have never imagined one year ago that I would be holding him in my arms and the would have changed our lives the way he has. Life is full of such sweet surprises and God is so good...all the time!

Are those Piggies I see?!?

Piggy Tails to be exact. Is it true? Could this really be happening? Does MY daughter seriously have pig tails in? Why yes, she does. And they are super cute! Now whether or not they stay in will be the real test. But for now...this is what we have. I, of course could not get a cute picture of her face. I was literally chasing her through the house just to get these.
Anyway, last night, I found two small pony tail holders (probably from my nieces) and decided to try and put them in her hair. This was after arriving home from where a friend of mine took Lila's bow and clipped the mullet into a rat tail! Right then and there I decided I either had to cut the mullet or embrace it.

Lila did not like me messing with her and I basically had one shot to get them in. The holders were a little big, but I thought to myself, "This just might work." I decided that today we were heading to the TarJay and were finding teeny tiny ponytail holders. How exciting!
Oh, and AJ...if you happen to read this, please note that Lila is looking at her United States book. I can only hope that she too, will one day know the "states song!" :)

It's My Birthday!!

Normally, I am all about some birthday celebrations. This year, I was perfectly content on keeping things quite. I feel like now I am for real IN my 30's and after all the hoolpa from last year's Big 3-0, I felt there was no need for a big hoorah. My parents did come down to visit/babysit for the weekend. Thanks to them, we got to have a date night and ate some yummy food. We also went to see Slumdog Millionaire. And thanks to SM, for a brief period of time I thought it was going to be about a rapper and prostitutes. :) That is NOT what is is about. Actually, it was a great movie and everyone clapped after it was over. I wanted to do a little more shopping around Green Hills, but thanks to my toe surgery and my choice of boots that I wore, I could barely make it into the theater. With all that being said, we had a wonderful night spending some good QT together and some yummy cheesecake after we got home.(On a side note: the only table in the restuarant that had a child at the table happened to be right next to us with a screaming 3 year old. :) Oh well.. what do you do? )
Today was very quite and layed back. After Kindermusik, the moms were so nice to join me for lunch. Little did they know I would be asking them to buy my lunch because my check card was/is MIA. How embarrassing is that?!?! I ask them to lunch, only to tell them that if I am staying one of them has to treat me. Unfortunately, this is not the first time this has happened to me. I think I was more mortified when it happened with a client. Yeah..the whole I need to be more organized and less scatterbrained this year isn't working out too well for me yet. :)
After lunch, the kids took a nap and we just hung out. So yeah..super layed back and relaxing!
I did get Michael to attempt to take some snapshots of me with the little ones on my birthday. They aren't great, but that is ok.


Oh, and I think one of my favorite things on my birthday this year is the 100 FB messages I received. I felt SO loved! Happy 31 to me!

Skidamarinky Dinky Dink....

Skidamarinky Do. I love You!!!
This was one of Lila's (and all the moms) favorites songs in Kindermusik this semester. Lila had her semester end program on Saturday morning and luckily Grandmother and PopPop were able to attend again. Michael wasn't able to go to the last one, so this time he got/had to participate. Lila loves this class. Mainly because of Miss Rachel and her friends:

She was a little overwhelmed with all the new faces there, but I still think she had a good time. As you can tell, she is teething because she wouldn't take that finger out of her mouth.




Just so I will remember: All weekend long, Michael sang "Elbows together, Elbows together!"


After the program we FINALLY went and purchased our double stroller. Now, if it would only warm up for me to use it.
The rest of the weekend was mostly spent like this....Yeah for lazy Saturdays!



I know yall didn't think I would actually get a picture of Lila snoozing. :)

Little Mommy

Lila is quite the big helper around here. It is really sweet how good she is with Graham. (Besides when she is trying to sit on him.) The only time she gets really upset is if I happen to use his blanket or something that is HERS with him. Other than that, she loves to rub his head and say "Oh Gam," or give him his blankie,paci, etc.
Check out my own "Little Mommy"
I love how she carries the carseat (which she says quite well by the way) in her elbow pit. Don't make fun..that is what I call it.

Quick cute quote of Lila's. When we were home for Christmas visiting, Lila was ready to go. She came in the living room at Michael's parents house with her finger up in the air and said, "Gam, Carseat, BYE-BYE!!" CHECK!




Like a true mommy, she has her camera always ready to go. :)

Nuudee Booty

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this little boy!