Out of Commission

Well.....my fancy schmancy computer is royally screwed up. It keeps shutting off on me out of the blue so I'm gonna have end this sucker in to be repaired or throw it through the store window. But luckily it's under warranty!  Something about a "logic board." So I'll probably be MIA for a while.  Grrrrr. 

Repeat Performance

I can promise you that I'll never get tired of this:

We found her like this around 10:30 last night. Notice her leg shoved under the night stand and the  "pregnancy journal" she had out. Guess she wanted to know how embryos develop. 

John Deere Green

Fact #1: Farm equipment is not Little Bit's idea of fun.

Fact #2: Farm equipment was my idea of fun when I was little. 

Fact #3: This particular tractor has a giant unicorn looking stick on the end of it that could stab and lift an elephant! Yikes! 

Fact #4: The concept of a shirt completely loses it's meaning between the months of May and October for my nutty dad.

Fact #5: My nutty dad is crazy about Sophie B. 

10

1. Well I cleaned out my closet this weekend and pack away and or threw away all of the things that no longer fit. Needless to say, my closet is almost totally empty. C'est la vie. 

2. We aren't going to the WVU/Marsall game this weekend. I can't possibly be inside Mountaineer Field if the unthinkable happens. And after the game last Thursday, the unthinkable just might happen.

3. It has literally taken me 2 entire days to recover from the wedding we went to on Saturday night. I think it's the staying up late that did me in and not the martinis! 

4. My crazy kid is under the impression that Daddy's first name is "Babe." Yesterday she looked right at him and said "Babe, can you get me chocolate milk."  

5. She also looked right him when he asked her to close to door and said "In a minute daddy, I watchn' Dora right now." Excuse, the heck out of us! 

6. I finished up the Twilight books last week and I'm kicking myself for reading them so fast. I never thought I'd say this but I like them more than ole Harry Potter.

7. All of the fall shows will be starting soon, EXCEPT for Lost. It doesn't start until '09. Talk about keeping you waiting!

8. Only a few more weeks until Sophie B and I head down to Charleston SC. My cousin and I are gonna check out a ghost tour. Apparently Charleston is one of the most haunted cities in the US.

9. Little Bit now prays before going to sleep. It's cute, until you realize that all she's doing is stalling the inevitable bedtime by "god blessing" her entire family, extended family, friends, day care teachers and classmates, stuffed animals, and Mary Lou Retton. 

10. Did you guys know that it's only 93 days until Xmas! That's only 5 more paychecks. Steven and I aren't doing Xmas this year since we are going on a trip for our anniversary the week before. 

Flower Girl

       Last night Steven and I stayed out way too late and had too much fun at a wedding for one of his co-workers. It was nice to dress up and kick up our heels with a bunch of adults. And Steven was in heaven loading up on gummy bears from the candy display. Instead of wedding favors the bride and groom had set up the coolest candy table with empty Chinese take-out boxes to load up.  It looked like the inside of a candy store!

    So normally I'm not one to grab the center pieces after the party but I've never had a 2 year old at home either. So I lugged home a 3 foot tall skinny vase topped with a bouquet. And just as i suspected, flowers are a big hit with the 3 and under crowd. 

30 Months

Dear Sophia,

Well little one, we've reached the half way mark, you are officially two and a half years old. It's sometimes hard for me to wrap my head around that fact. A month ago, I held little 6 pound Jackson in the hospital. I tried putting myself in Jenny's place, in that hospital room.  The memories are obviously etched permanently in my mind but they just seem so long ago. How you went from a 5 pound 15 ounce itty bitty baby needing us for everything, to a 30 pound big kid who would sometimes rather die than have us do anything for her is still a mystery to me. 

You actually haven't gotten into too much trouble this month. Although this past Saturday at Jordan's 1st birthday party you made me want to crawl under the table and die. There was Katie's dad going through the food line. He puts his plate down for one nano second and you wedge your little body right next to his a lifted a pineapple chunk right off his plate. Nice. At least you did look up at him and say "thank-you." I think we need to learn some manners. We'll definitely be practicing before we go trick-or-treating. Otherwise, you'll probably walk up to the candy bowls and help yourself!

You have a new favorite song these days and it brings a tear to my eye every time you belt it out. "Country woads, take me home, to da place, I belong, West Virginia, mountain mama ( or mountain Sophie, depending on whether or not you are in an egocentric mood), take me home, country woads. And hearing you sing "Jesus Loves Me" is priceless. Although yesterday morning when I asked you if you wanted to go to church you boldly pronounced "I don't like church."Well then, you obviously don't need to go. 

I've also mentioned that since the paci went off into the wild blue yonder, your naps went up in the air as well. This totally 100% sucks. And that's all I can say about that. Maybe one day you'll understand the magnitude of a 2 year old deciding that they no longer need to nap. And when that day comes, I'll be sure to laugh my arse off. 

Pretending seems to be on the rise around here too. When we let you build a fort under the kitchen table your eyes light up like it's Christmas morning. Usually you pretend that you are the "daddy" and you say "bye, family, I'm going to work now." I guess after I drop you off at daycare you assume that I'm going to hang out at the country club. I need to get you straightened out on that one! 

 

Well Little Bit we've got a fun month ahead of us. A trip with the "girls," Halloween, and a ton of Halloween parties. And I'll be there watching you take in everything, trying to etch all those things in my mind, like that day 30 months ago when I held you in my arms for the first time. 

Love mama

And all of these pics were taken yesterday at the pumpkin patch. They are growing like crazy! 

Paging Dr. Carr

So I was cruising the aisles at Target on Friday and saw the famous Fisher Price Doctor's Kit. Now I was a HUGE fan of this toy. And not only at  the age of 4 but also between the ages of 20-23  when I thought that dressing up like a "hot" nurse every year for Halloween was a fabulous idea. Go ahead, laugh it up, I won't name any names, Mrs. "hot" cop, Mrs. "hot" maid, and Mrs. "hot" go go dancer. 

Anyway, back to my sweet 2 year old. She loooved playing doctor and Monkey Jesse James was a willing patient. 

Daddy, on the other hand, wasn't as cooperative. Of course I don't know how cooperative I would be if my doctor was cramming a plastic scope in my eye.