Full of personality!

So, the purpose of this blog is to keep a record of my family's daily life since my memory is beyond pitiful.  But, really to remember Amelia and Anna Claire's funny happenings.  So, this is going to be a miss mosh of funny things that Amelia has done lately.

This morning, I was taking her to daycare.  I have a little mirror that I can see her in, because I can't stand to not be able to know what she is doing.  So, as we are sitting at the stop light, I look in the mirror and this is what I see.

Little girl had found her glasses.  She is becoming so full of herself!  It just made me crack up immediately!

Tonight, we had just finished eating dinner, and I had gotten her down from the table.  She was walking around and found a video of Winnie the Pooh.  She was so excited and started saying Winnie the Poop.  The she proceeded to say I want poop until I finally put the dvd in for her to watch Winnie the Poop.  She wasn't too interested in it for long, but the Winnie the Pooh movie is actually a little bit scary.

Lastly, I was reading a friend's blog yesterday, and it reminded me of something that happened a few months ago.  We were shopping at a local home decorating store.  We were looking for things for Anna Claire's room.  Well, as you know Amelia can't stand to sit in the cart for very long, and I am constantly saying to her, on your bottom, on your bottom.  What did I say, and she replies on your bottom.  She will sit every time, it just doesn't last for long.   So, she stands up again for the twentieth time, and I say Amelia, on your bottom, and she says to me, but I have to poop.  All I could say was well, you can't argue with that.  At least she already has good reasoning skills.  The funniest part was after I changed her diaper, I hated to leave a stinky diaper in the store, so I wrapped it in one of those bags and put it in my purse to toss later.  Well, the ladies at the store were following behind us everywhere we went with febreeze.  Needless to say, we left pretty soon after that happened, and I am sure they were happy about that!

VBS

Tonight started the first night of VBS for our church this year.  Amelia was able to go to VBS at her aunt Sharon's church, so not her first.  But, it was still exciting for her because she had some friends in there with her.  The theme this year is Moses and the Ten Commandments.  We learned about the 10 plagues tonight.  The teachers did a very good job of making it interesting for 2-4  year olds. 

This was during game time.  We first started outside on the playground.  It was really hot to be out there too long.  We all had to go inside and cool off.

Amelia having fun playing with the toys.

We then went to craft time.  They made necklaces with beads.  I guess I need to start doing more crafts with her.  I think I underestimate her abilities.  I still see her as a baby, but she did really good.  I mean she needed a little extra help, but that may have been because she has never done anything with beads before.  I think I might have to go to the craft store.  It would be nice to add something new to our daily routine.



Also, curtains are 90% complete, and night stand is complete.  Hopefully pictures will be available on Wednesday.  I feel like I accomplished so much this weekend.  Now to get all her baby stuff ready, and we will be good to go.  Just waiting on Anna Claire to get here!  Yay!

Sweets and treats!

I decided that today, I was going to feed that need I've been having for some yummy pastry.  So, we got up, had breakfast, then got dressed to head to the farmers market.  It was my first trip.  I have to say that the Greenville farmers market is really not very impressive, or maybe we picked the wrong Saturday to go.  But, all I wanted was peaches, and they had plenty of those!!  Yay!  So we picked up 2 bundles then headed to do some more shopping. 

Daddy was in charge of getting her out of the car so she looked like quite a diva walking around the farmers market!

We headed to some local stores to try to find a lamp for Anna Claire's room.  We had considered maybe going to Jackson today to go to the children's museum, but I am in full out stress mode.  I feel like I have to get everything done right now.  So, we will have to wait on the children's museum for a few more weeks.  Once Amelia went down for her nap, I got busy.  I'm not quite finished with the curtains, but for 5 roman shades, I am pretty close, and that makes me happy.  I worked some more on the night stand that I am refinishing.  It would be finished, but unfortunately, it sat outside for 5 days in 100% humidity, so I have to redo the top because the wood seperated a little bit.  I was not too happy to say the least.  Lastly I did a lot of cooking today.  I made our second freezer meal, red beans and rice.  It is so yummy.  So, now 2 meals down many more to go.  I plan to do about 2 per week. 

When Amelia woke up, we filled up the pool, and went to soak up some rays.  It was nice to get outside, and not be on fire!  Amelia had a blast.  I am sure that if any of our neighbors saw us, they probably got a good laugh.  The whole family was in that kiddy pool. 

Then, I went in to get started on my peach cobbler.  I am not a talented baker by any means.  I found a recipe on pinterest, which apparently is the same as the pioneer womans.  I am going to have to keep practicing to learn how to move the crust without it cracking.   The pie filling recipe came from Southern living.  Let me tell you, it was probably the yummiest peach cobbler ever!  I shared mine with Amelia, and as hyper as she is now, she usually doesn't sit still for longer than 5 seconds, but she would not get out of my lap.  I think that is saying something.  She wanted another bite as soon as I put one in her mouth. 



This is the finished product, not beautiful, but my mouth didn't mind.

This is my serving.  It really didn't photograph well, but it was delicious!  I think it may have actually been worth the mess that I made in the kitchen!

It was a nice way to end the day!

Flashback Friday

We are sitting here watching the opening ceremonies to the olympics, so it makes me think back to the last olympics 4 years ago.  Drew and I were getting ready to go on our "honeymoon."  We took a delayed honeymoon.  We watched the opening ceremonies with our friends in Knoxville, then left the following morning.  We missed a lot of the olympics that year, but we were ok with that.

We went to Cozumel for our honeymoon.  It was wonderful!  I loved it, and so did Drew.  He was a little fish.  We brought our on snorkels and fins, and spent a lot of time exploring the water.  We did a lot of fun excursions also.  Our first excursion, we went to chichenitza (unsure of the spelling), swam in a conote (unsure of spelling also, but it is a large swimming hole), it was beautiful, but I just observed from the sides, I wasn't brave enough to actually jump in, and we toured an old city.  We were completely exhausted by the end of that day.  I also received a call from one of my good friends letting me know she was going to have a baby.  Our other excursions consisted of swimming with dolphins, snorkeling, and touring some more mayan ruins. 

The last day we were there, we rented a VW beetle and toured the island.  We went to a public beach.  We swam out about 150 yards to snorkel.  I thought I was going to die by the time we got out there.  But, it was the best snorkeling of the whole trip.  We saw all kinds of sea animals.  Drew went out a second time, I was too exhausted to go out twice.  But, he saw a shark on the second trip.  I'm not sure that I am too sad about missing that! 

This is in front of chichinitza.  It was really hot that day!

 

We were headed out for dinner, these were local performers. 

This was our last dinner in Cozumel.

This was at the Mayan ruins of Tulum.  It was absolutely beautiful.  It was built on some cliffs overlooking the Caribbean.

It is truly amazing how much our lives have changed in the past 4 years.  We were just getting married then, now we are living in a new city and about to welcome our second baby girl.  I look forward to seeing where life takes us in the next 4 years.  Hopefully another tropical island or 2 before the next olympics!

Getting ready!

I am having a lot more difficulty finding the energy and motivation to start getting everything ready for baby girl #2.  I have decided that this week it has to get done.  I only have 6 more weeks until my due date.  Which does kind of sound like a lot of time, but maybe this one might decide to come a little early. 

I had a doctor appointment today pretty early, and since I had to take Amelia to daycare, I decided I would leave her there all day and get some stuff accomplished.  First, MD appointment went well.  I did gain 3 #s in 2 weeks, so he told me I needed to slow this train down.  So, I took his advice and ate my 100 calorie chocolate graham cracker cookies on the way to the grocery where I then bought a bag of dove dark chocolate with almond squares as a little happy.  They are yummy!  We'll see how it goes in another 2 weeks!  Can't wait to not have to hear about my body size everyday of my life anymore! 

I spent the rest of my day getting ready for baby girl.  I am making roman shades for her room.  There are 5 windows in there.  That is a lot of shades, but they will cost me about a fifth of the price to make as they would be to buy.  So, it is worth it.  I am about 40-50% finished.  I hope to have done by Saturday, and hung, so as soon as that happens I will post photos of the room.  

The last accomplishment for me was that I started the first of my freezing of meals for post baby tonight.  I did that with Amelia and it was wonderful.  She was about 6 weeks old before we were out of premade meals.  We did eat out some and we were out of town for about a week of that time, but we were beyond able to start cooking by the time we ran out.  I hope to have a freezer full in a few more weeks.

I still have a lot to do, but just getting started helps me to feel more motivated to actually get finished!

Sharing and confessing

One of Amelia's favorite toys is her picnic basket.  One day we will have a real picnic, but that day will come when the temperature drops back in the 60's and 70's at noon.  Until then, we will continue to enjoy our daily pretend picnics.  But, I do have a really pathetic confession.  I always let Amelia set up the picnic.  She always gives me the same thing, and she always gets the same thing.  She always gives me the slice of pie.  This makes me so happy!  The other dessert is a boring looking cookie, and I love pie!  How pathetic is that!  It is fake food, but everytime I am thinking to myself please give me the slice of pie.   We usually end up "eating" each other's food anyway, so it really doesn't matter, and again it's fake!  Maybe this pregnant momma just needs to break down and make a yummy pie so she'll quit wanting the fake one so bad!

Going to the chapel!

This weekend was Drew's cousin, Molly's wedding.  We drove up to spend some time with Drew's parents and for the wedding.  It was a really quick weekend!  We got to Drew's parent's house late Friday night.  Amelia didn't have a lot of time to spend with Mimi and Pop, but she did enjoy jumping on the bouncy ball (a trick she learned from her cousins) until it was time to go bed.
The next day, we got up and went to the local park.  Amelia loved running around and playing, and cleaning the playground equipment.  I really don't know where she gets it from, but little girl really didn't like the little rubber playground pieces on the playset.  But, I know mimi and pop had a lot of fun playing with her too.

Do you think she likes to slide!

She loves to go really high!

This slide was a little big for momma to feel comfortable with her going down.  She didn't mean to end up on her belly!  I think we will wait to go down it again until she is a bit older!

That evening we drove up to Clarksville for Molly's wedding.  Amelia was excited to go to her first wedding, and she loved it!  She wanted to run around everywhere and just be a crazy girl!  Little girl is definitely turning on her fast pace mode!  She is keeping momma running!

These are the only wedding shots I got.  I am so sad!  But, it was a beautiful ceremony, Amelia acted a lot better than I expected, and it was great to see all the family that we haven't seen in a while.  Molly was beautiful, and she and Austin look very happy together!

Oh yeah, I almost forgot to include one of the biggest events of our weekend!  I bought her a little potty chair just so she can start getting comfortable with it.  Not really to potty train cause I don't know if I am ready for that.  But, today when we got home, she was so excited about her elmo toilet.  She looked at me and said I've got to poop and sat on her toilet.  I said ok, if she wants to try, I will let her.  So, I took off her diaper and let her sit on her toilet.  She didn't poop, but she did pee in the potty.  We were very excited for her!  I don't think it will happen again anytime soon, but I am excited that she is getting comfortable with her toilet.