I was up late & watched the Man in the Moon, with Reese Witherspoon. Made me miss my little sis.

Two Pretty Girls

Skylar took Lucy and disappeared upstairs. About half an hour later, they reappear looking like this:



Lucy was sporting her very first makeover. Skylar had put lipstick and body glitter on her.


The girls were quite pleased with themselves. I can only take this as a sign of times to come.

MIA

I temporarily fell off the face of the earth.
I'm back now, but somewhere along the way I turned 30. Go figure.


Over my birthday weekend, we went to Disney and weaned Lucy. It was a really big weekend!


Before we left, Lucy discovered the joy of home-grown tomatoes and George tested out our new camera.
It was really hard to leave Lucy for the weekend, especially since I had never spent more than a few hours away from her. I didn't worry too much about Drake, as he was going to have his "Aunt Minnie" all weekend.

Outdoors

Two cute boys playing football....

"Second Mama"

Drake finally figured out what the pedals are for!

The princess in her carriage.



Sometimes I think I forget how nice it is just to be outside playing in the yard.

I will have my cake and eat it, too

Vanessa made me the PRETTIEST pink cake for my birthday!!!!
It's seriously too pretty to eat.

We never had a kid puke in the van whole time we owned it (like 6 years). We have owned our Pilot for less than a month and already two out of four of our children have barfed in it.

??????WHY, why, why do all my posts end up coming back to poo or puke??????

Yeah.

So Lucy puked today while we were driving home from dropping Sky and Bart off at school. She made this weird sound, but all I could see in the rearview mirror was a line of drool on her chin and I thought she was just making weird baby noises again. But when I went to get her out of her seat when we arrived at home, wheeeee-ooooo. She was sitting in a puddle of puke. She even got her favorite monkey that she sleeps with. Yesterday she spilled milk all over the monkey. The monkey has had more baths this week than Lucy has.

Gone is the lovely leather smell every time I get into the car. Now we're greeted by the aroma of cheap air freshners and too much Febreze.

The cute red rug we bought several weeks ago for the living room is already picked and pulled from Drake driving cars on it. It took him maybe two days to accomplish this.

Honestly, why do I even bother trying to have anything nice? My kids are lucky they're so dang cute.

This is why my house is so dirty

I just finished reading an excellent book called "The Glass of Time" by Michael Cox.

Excellent, excellent, excellent.

A little romance, a lot of mystery.... I had a really hard time putting it down.