Thursday, August 23, 2007

Baby Legs

I went a little crazy last summer with the Baby Legs...we have eight pairs. They were so cute on her and still are but now she does this to them. She scrunches one legging down! It seems to me that it would be uncomfortable but she gets upset when I try to correct it. So I guess she is trying to create her own sense of style...or is it stubborness?!

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Saturday, August 18, 2007

Big Brother and Jamaica

Big Brother is about the only show that I am watching these days. It is getting soooo good and even Jon gets into it which is nice to be a couch potato with him & Emma a couple nights week. I know there are several other BB8 addicts out here in blog world so who do you think will be evicted this week? I woke up about an hour ago and turned on BB8 After Dark and it is sounding like Amber and Jameka will be nominated. I was hoping for Jen and Zach. I love the alliance of Eric & Jessica...they are so cute! By the way, we just got Showtime two nights ago and I am loving the After Dark! DirecTV called and offered Showtime, free for three months...perfect timing with the whole Big Brother After Dark thing airing every night 11:00-2:00 AM. I can see how this could become addicting. Thank goodness for Tivo...we can get to the good stuff. :)

Jamaica. We honeymooned at Sandals White House in Jamaica just two summers ago. It was brand new and I wasn't completely impressed with it but it was a good time. Save for our honeymoon being bookended by hurricanes Dennis and Emily. There were hardly any excursions available and the snorkeling was canceled every day that we tried due to the water being so rough and murky. The last two days were spent pretty much holed up in our room because the wind and rain were incredible and the resort was in "hurricane" mode without actually saying they were in hurricane mode...they didn't want to envoke the Hurricane Guarantee for a FREE return trip!

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Anyways...I just saw the headline about Jamaica expecting a direct hit from hurricane Dean in the next few hours and it brought back my own memories. We were blessed enough to have hurricane Emily turn within 100 miles of Jamaica sparing us the experience of a direct hit and a lot of unknown complications of getting back home. Here's hoping that hurricane Dean will turn and spare the island again. It really was a neat place and I'd love to go back again someday but we would probably stay a lot closer to Negril where there is a lot more to do and without a scary hour long shuttle ride with a crazy Jamaican driver on little windy roads!

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Sending up prayers for the people in the path of hurricane Dean. :)

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Is it to early to think about trick or treating?

While I was shopping for new checks the other night, I think I stumbled across the perfect costume idea for Emma Cakes. Pebbles from the Flintstones!

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She shows her belly like this whenever she has on a dress and when we pull her hair up it reminds everyone of Pebbles. So now I just need to come up with an idea of how to make a cute bone shaped hair clippie. I googled "toddler Pebbles costume" and the only one I found was kind of ugly so I think I will try to make it myself. I just hope it isn't too chilly for her at Halloween! :) My other idea is dressing Retto up as Dino....we'll have to see on how well he cooperates on that one though.

So it looks like the octopus costume idea is out at least for now.

Little Colts Fan!

Too bad they lost...
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Saturday, August 11, 2007

Where's Emma?

Emma, being her completely adorable self, throws both hands up in the air and grabs her head, whenever we say...Where's Emma? She kept doing it during her bubble bath last night when I'd ask her so we got to wash her hair about six times! She has also been doing this cutesy thing of tilting her head and smiling like "yeah...I know I'm cute" whenever someone tells her she is cute. It is seriously too funny. I wish I could put the video up here for all to see. :)

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She is our little social butterfly now...if she sees another little kid, she will walk right up to them and start babbling. This morning at a consignment sale, she was ready to just walk away with this other family with two little girls...it was like see ya later, Mom!

Anyways, Emma has also taken up the not so cute habit of screaming...loudly in the bathtub, in the car, in the house and in stores. It is bad. We have been trying to stay after her and sternly telling her no while covering her mouth but it just isn't working. She started it last weekend while we were shopping at BAM and when I told her no, she threw herself onto the ground and started screaming at the top of her lungs. I had to carry her out to the car and I admit that she got her second real spanking from me. Not that she really felt it through her diaper but still. I've been told that it is just her age and also that it is a girl thing but I hope it ends sooner rather than later. It makes it so hard to drive, hard to cook, hard to shop and just plain hard to think! Did your child like to scream around 14 months? What did you do? How do I make it stop?

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