Wacky Wednesday

I love when Cecilia's school has dress up days.  I love getting outfits together for her to wear on whatever day they have deemed it.  Yesterday, they had Wacky Wednesday in honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday tomorrow.  They were supposed to wear mismatched clothes, crazy hat/hair or whatever we thought would be wacky.

This is what we came up with...

I forgot to tell Brent to take a picture of her before they left for school but luckily she was in the mood to model (well sort of) when I got home from work.

Brent HATED the big flower but Cecilia loved it!  I didn't even ask her to put it back on for the picture; she just did.  Brent is not a big fan of the dress up days mainly because I sometimes go super overboard but I think it's fun for the kids.  I now wish I hadn't been too cool (or so I thought) to dress up when I was in school.

Could Care Less

I am praying that this weather stays (well of course not the storms that we are supposed to get today) and that I don't see a drop of snow.  I love not having a winter and getting to see this at the end of Febuary...

Cecilia loves going for walks and taking the dog.

Too bad he is still packing some winter weight and starts struggling 5 minutes in.

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Cecilia has this new thing she started about a month ago.  I may have already talked about it but it is so stinkin cute and hilarious.

You ask her a question, like 'how old are you?' 'what's your name?' and she will look up and tap her finger on her face like she's really pondering the question.

She even adds a few hmm's and uhh's to add to the effect.  I have no idea where she got this.

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We are 2 and a half weeks away from C's second birthday party.  I am suprisingly ahead of the game and pretty darn proud of myself!  Can you guess the theme?

I still have a few more arts and crafts to do but nothing major.  Cecilia has no idea why "Mimis" is all over the place but loves it!  I'm going to be glad when its over so I can quit seeing red polka dots in my sleep.

We didn't do too much this weekend which is always nice.  Neither one of us was in the mood to exert ourselves too much so there was a lot of couch time and pure laziness.

The most exciting thing that we did was go buy me a new camera.  I have been dying for a new camera for several years but didn't know what I wanted.  I love my dad's camera but I didn't really feel the need for us both having one when I can borrow his (plus all his equipment) at any time.  So after much research and deliberation, I decided to bite the bullet and get me a decent camera.  I ended up buying the Canon Powershot SX40 and it has made all my dreams come true!  It has a lot of the bells and whistles my dad's camera has but still very easy to operate.  We've all enjoyed playing with it.

My dad took these shots while I was having arts and crafts hour with some friends...

Seriously, is my kid that adorable?  Hard to tell sometimes when she is screaming at the top of her lungs.

Brent spotted a herd, pack, flock (?) of turkeys in the field across from our house.

I decided to see just how good the zoom was.

 

Gobble, gobble!

Brent LOVES new toys whether they're mine or his so he spent some time taking pictures as well.

He took several but he is either zoomed out too much or way to up close and personal!

Sad the think that purchasing a new camera was the highlight of our weekend.  Maybe this week will hold some type of excitement.

Why Not

Clearly yesterday was Ash Wednesday and everyone was talking about what they were giving up for lent.  I'm Southern Baptist and that's not something we practice but I do like the meaning and purpose behind it.  So I thought, why not give something up.

I thought all day yesterday of what I could give up that would actually be hard for me.  I had several things on my list but none of them seemed right.  At some point I had even them up for an extended period not meaning to.  Then it hit me late afternoon.  Chocolate.  Some of you are saying 'big whoop.  That's easy.'  But let me confess...I eat something chocolate EVERYDAY.  Most days multiple things.  I don't have to have a huge piece of cake or ice cream but I do like a little chocolate throughout my day.  Why just yesterday morning, I popped 4 Hershey Kisses before lunch.  And when I fully committed on giving up chocolate for lent, I had 3 hand fulls of M&M's.  (Had to get that last chocolate fix in.)  I crave chocolate after a meal like smokers crave a cigarette.  I sometimes even get the shakes when I haven't had any in a while! :)

Giving up something one loves is all mind control and focusing those craving and thoughts on something else.  So I have decided that during those cravings, I'm going to learn a new bible verse or drop a note to someone I haven't seen or talked to in a while.

I might as well be productive during this time than dreaming about a big fat 3 layered chocolate cake with chocolate icing and chocolate chips.

Another Year

I'm another year older.  I feel no different nor do I feel my age.  I still feel like I just graduated college last month instead of it being almost 7 years ago.

Age doesn't bother me though.  I would say that's because my mom has never let her age bother her.  We have always spent birthdays celebrating instead of hidding in our room because another year is gone.

This year was no different.

Our celebration started when I got home from work to find this...

In the 9 years that Brent and I have been together, he has bought me flowers 4 times.  I love flowers but I only want them when they are totally out of the blue and he knows that.  I want to be caught off guard and that's just what happened last night when I walked in.  He also knows that I only want lilies and he always seems to find them even when I don't think they are in season.  He searched his little heart out for these flowers and his efforts did not go unoticed.  He did good.

My parents and the 3 of us headed downtown for dinner at Mariah's.  We don't go there much so it was a nice treat.

I branched out and got Mahi tacos and let me tell you they did not disappoint!  They were very good and I do believe I might just have to have them again.

We had a good time visiting and being entertained by our ever so lively 2 year old...

Who knew the sugar dish could be so fun!

To end the night, we were going try a little something different for dessert but after 2 failed attempts, we ended up at our old faithful...Stakz.

What a great night to kick off my last year in my 20's.  YIKES!

Thanks for all those who sent texts and emails.  I was feeling very loved!

So Close

We were almost a month to the date away from celebrating a year with no ear problems since getting tubes put in Cecilia's ears.  ALMOST.

Saturday morning Cecilia woke up with yellow junk coming out her ear.  I immediately knew her ear drum had probably busted.  It happened once before and I remember it looking similar.  So Saturday morning we ran to the the peds office to get confirmation.  He said it could either be the ear drum or an ear infection that is draining out instead of in because of the tubes.  He couldn't really tell because he said there was so much drainage.  Yuck!  We were so close to doing our happy dance.  The good news is the ear infection is so minor with tubes compared to without.

Over lunch Brent and I were talking about how sorry he felt for her for feeling so bad.  We looked over at her just as she was smiling and dancing the Hot Dog dance.  Clearly she was in a lot of pain.

The rest of the weekend, we relaxed and ran a few errands.

Colt enjoying a little Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.

I'm hoping this will be our one and only ear infection.  I'm also hoping that those expensive little tubes stay in place for a while longer.  Mercy, I do not want to pay for another set.  I could pay for a semester of college at those rates.

Valentine's

Cecilia racked up this year!  We got home and had a sack full of goodies from her classmates plus a few other gifts.

She dug in as soon as we hit the door.

She loved looking at everything she got.  She would inspect the little cards then passed them along for me to read.

During the process, I was busy opening one of her goody bags and I hear her cracking up.  I knew she was holding a card and for a split second I thought she had learned to read overnight and found the card funny.  We look at each other and she says 'Buzz.'

For some reason she thinks Buzz is hilarious and just the sight of him on the card cracked her up!

When we got through opening everything, she walked away with quiet the loot.

And because we really couldn't stand not seeing Brent on Valentine's, we took him dinner at work.

Cecilia loves going in the store mainly because they have a big bin of basketballs she loves to play with.

She couldn't even focus on eating because she was so worried about playing ball.

Her and I ended our night snuggled up watching her new Mickey Mouse dvd.

Honestly, it was one of the best Valentine's I've had.