A couple more vacation-y pics

You don't know how many times I have told her not to give rides to strangers....
I just love this picture.

How many kids will go into a really cool place like this and pretend to "clean"?? Just mine?? Yeah, that's what I thought. She also "cleans" the bathtub when she takes a bath.....

Some things never change

China - 2005
Minnesota - 2007

Congratulations Serra and Ron!

Vacation Pics

Our first stop in Minnesota
Pizza Hut
Going to our "teeny-tiny room" (that's what she called it!)
Getting settled in

Driving the bus at the Children's Museum
The Kid and Curious George
So happy she fell to the floor giggling

Photo Op #1
Photo Op #2
Taking a break
Being silly
Me and The Kid

Happy Mother's Day

Treat your mother right, fool.

Catching up

First off, Happy May Day (belated)! We did not make our baskets this year, but maybe we will next year. I have fond memories of May Day when I was a kid, and just learned over the weekend that most of my baskets were from my sisters. I really was the nerdy kid with 1 friend.....

Here's a little bit of trivia that you can use to impress your friends and/or family. Did you know that on any given Friday night, the average age of patrons at a Cracker Barrell is 73? And of those patrons, 92.7% were brought there from a bus tour? It is true. And if there should happen to be two or more tables of people under the age of 50, they seat you next to each other in case of an Elderly Revolt. We were seated by the only other young people, who happened to have a little boy about The Kid's age. Everytime he wanted something, he would let out the most obnoxious, ear shattering scream. This happened about 50 times (and I do not believe that I am exaggerating). Because my child has perfect manners, the first few times he did it she would point at him, angrily, and say "HEEEEY! Don't DO that!!!" But then, after a while, she would just shake her head, look at me and say "Oh, no!!!" Seriously, who lets there kid do that? The Kid would never dream of doing that more than once, because she knows we would be out of there so fast her head would spin.

We made a trek to the May Fest again this year and I learned many interesting things. The Germans make some really good wine (my personal favorite this year is cranberry plum), they can make an awesome potato pancake and they love Red Hats.

Here are various pictures from the last couple of weeks.

What's new with The Kid?

Let's see...

-Auntie J went to Texas and got her a stuffed armadillo. The Kid calls it an ar-bah-dill-dough. (Say it quietly to your self.) It's especially funny when she starts screaming for it at night.

-Auntie Carole got The Kid a stuffed Eeyore. The Kid calls it E-hoar. That's also funny to hear her ask for.

-We got in the car this morning to go to the park and as we were driving along, she had the biggest smile on her face and I asked her why she was happy and she said "It's very very pretty outside today!" I love it when she notices things like that. It makes my cold heart melt.

Here's a video of a new kid's show that I think The Kid would like. Now I just have to find out when it is on.

Fancy meeting you here!

Hey there, stranger!!

I've been a neglectful blogger lately and for that I apologize. I just have either not found the inspiration (not that my kid doesn't inspire me daily, mind you) or the time (that's probably much more likely). I don't get it. The Kid is not in school yet, but I still feel like we are really busy with all that end of the year junk. Huh. Weird, no?

Anyway, I don't really have anything to say, but I love Will Ferrell and thought this was really funny. So, check it out. I wish I would have thought of it, first The best thing I've been trying to get The Kid to say is "I poop in my pants!". And for the best effect, it should be said like "I'm King of the World!" from TITANIC.

Easter 2007

Here is just a small sampling from the Big Rodent Day. Fun was had by all, even the little snot nosed sickie...aka The Kid. There may be a few more later, if time permits.

Hope you all had a lovely weekend filled with goodies.

Flowers, Bunnies and trains

Donna is having another Fotofun challenge. This week? The Easter Bunny.

Before we went to see the Easter bunny, The Kid picked me some flowers. She's so cute I could eat her.

I didn't think she was going to go for it this year, but she ran right up there and flashed her cheesy supermodel smile.
Do you think somebody was excited about riding the train?
This was the best train pic I got. She was mad because somebody else sat in the front and pulled the bell.

More of our weekend

This is my favorite t-shirt of all time. T&rget rocks.

The Kid got ahold of a sheet of stickers in the car.

Dinner and a show

This past weekend, we attended a children's theatre production of Alice in Wonderland, with Mark. It was The Kid's first 'theatrical' experience and we were suprized to find out that lunch was included in the ticket price. She really seemed to enjoy it, although she let it be known that it was too dark when they turned the lights out.

Mark's lunch (Mac & Cheese, Chicken fingers, Oreo fluff and a cookie)

The Kid says "Mmmm! This cookie is delicious!"

Mark has my permission to shave my head bald if I ever get the 'Mom Helmet' hairdo.

Mark and The Kid

The Kid with Alice, The Duck (??!?), The Caterpillar, and The White Rabbit

She sings....sorta

I couldn't pick just one, so I'm putting up all three. Enjoy.

All about eyes

There are lots of ways that I am POSITIVE my daughter was meant to be a part of my family. One of those ways is her bizarre sense of humor. For awhile now, I've noticed that The Kid would, on occassion, cross one (although sometimes two) eyes. I was a little concerned about it, because it wasn't all the time and they/it would uncross as quickly as they had crossed. Well, recently, she will be doing something and then walk up to me and when I look at her, she has this really serious look on her face, but her eyes are crossed and then she starts laughing hysterically. I guess it got a reaction out of me, because now she can totally do it on command and she thinks it is the funniest thing ever. I know her Grandpa would be so proud of her!


The other way I know she was meant to be in my family is how stunning she looks in glasses. Much like her momma, she will always have a hard time finding glasses that will stay on her face, but they will look good on her.

Unseasonably warm day

It was 75 degrees the other day. Which was quite a big change from the blizzard we had had the week before. Here's a couple of pics from the day. (LOOK at how long The Kid's ponytails are getting!!!)

Maybe we should branch out.

The Kid and I play this game that I like to call 'Wake Up, Momma!'. The rules of the game are simple. I pretend to be asleep, and The Kid tries to wake me up. The real key to the game is, that I only wake up when she gives me a kiss. The other day, we were playing our game and she had said "Wake up, momma!" a couple of times, before crawling up into my lap (presumably to give me my kiss). She puts her hands on either side of my face and says "Wake up, momma! It's time to go to T@arget!" I laughed so hard I nearly passed out.