Happy Easter!

The Kid's cheeseball ANTM smile.


Modeling the special necklace that grandmumsy got her for Easter. Thank you Grammy!

Easter Eggs with Uncle Mark

What do you want to be?

This was from our last day of vacation. We went to the mall and they had this kid's exhibit that was set up like a town but everything was kid sized. It was a lot of fun. I have to say, she was the most interested in the auto shop....which makes me a little proud.

This one is for Auntie J.

BIG

In one part of this Science Museum that we went to today, they had a musical garden. There were all kinds of things that made music. Anyway, The Kid was impressing me with her wicked cool dance moves and it kinda reminded me of Tom Hanks in BIG when he plays the giant piano with Robert Loggia....and maybe a little Napoleon Dynamite.

Vacation Day 2

I'm too excited to sleep!
It's cold. Take the picture, mom.
Look at me. I'm a palentologist. I'm digging up a dinosaur. AND I GET TO WEAR GOGGLES!
This is an astronaut potty.
I suppose these accomodations will do.

There's nothing like...

..the first night of vacation.

The Kid....laying in bed and eating a cookie. We would NEVER do that at home!!!!!!!!!!

Where does she come up with this stuff?

**This was a draft I had sitting around for awhile, but I have been so neglectful of Ye Olde Blog that I thought I'd better post this, too. The only excuse I will give is that I've had the creeping crud for about a month.

Just as we were getting on the interstate yesterday, a semi pulled passed us. From the backseat, and with gusto, The Kid said "Follow that Truck!" It was like a scene right out of a romantic comedy.

She will walk into the bathroom without turning the lights on and will say, "HEY! Who turned out the lights??"

We went out to lunch with Grandmumsy at a local Chinese restaurant. As we were perusing the menu, I asked Grandmumsy what she was going to have and The Kid said "Chinese Food!"

This morning, out of the blue, The Kid told me that she wanted to take juggling lessons. CAN you take juggling lessons??

**Also, I've meant to give a big shout out to Auntie J, who is on week two of her new job. YAY, Auntie J!

Thank you, A!

A friend of mine, A, went to El Salvador recently and brought back this doll for The Kid. As you can tell, she loves it and says it is her 'seh-shul' (special) doll. I asked her what she wanted to name her doll and she said "Maria! Like on Saymuhsuh Street!"

Thank you so much, A! She couldn't have been happier.

Somedays, I do some incredibly stupid thing and I think "Somebody let you be this child's parent?!?!" I did another one of those things today...and because I can laugh at myself, I will share it with you.

This is a new outfit I bought The Kid yesterday. She wore it today. ALL DAY. In public.

This would be the little diaper cover that came with the dress....still attached to the dress by the little plastic tags.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Here's a pic of The Kid all ready for her Valentine's party at preschool today.

To say that she was excited would be putting it mildly.

An actual story as told to me by my daughter

Once upon a time a mommy, a daddy and a new baby went for a walk. The new baby got lost. Then he came back to his mommy but his daddy was lost, too. Again. Something happened! Something happened to the mommy and the baby. They both got lost. But then, they came back. They tried to stay together. That wasn't nice. NO! The wizard didn't like them. So the mommy and the baby and the daddy were hiding. They were SO lost AGAIN! Then they found something shiny. A diamond! They held up the diamond. THE END! It's done. The story is done. The other one ripped.

.2 Seconds

That's how long it took us to go from "Sane" to "Crazy" and back again tonight. This cycle repeated itself for over an hour.

Sane, but with a hint of the crazy in her eyes.
Full on CRAZY.

Enchanted

We went to see Enchanted this weekend. This was our 2nd successful movie attempt! We've had others, but we had a really bad one this summer and somebody is still upset about it. I won't name names, but she's 3 and is very short. The trick to keeping her in her seat for the whole movie is getting a kid's popcorn combo and a large bag of popcorn. Whenever her little popcorn box gets low, just dump some more in!



Anyway, the movie was really cute and we both enjoyed ourselves. There were two little old ladies sitting behind us, and I have a sneaking suspicion that one of them had never been to a movie before. Every time something 'magical' would happen, she would lean over to the other old gal and say 'well...THAT was implausible!" And even after the movie was over, the one woman asked the other if she had enjoyed the movie and she said "Oh yes! Parts of it were pretty implausible, but I enjoyed it all the same."



I really wanted to turn around and ask her what was so implausible? The fact that people came to NYC through a sewer drain who had lived in a CARTOON WORLD or that you can't just open up your window, sing a little song and birds and woodland critters will come running to clean up for you? Maybe it was the talking chipmunk? And even now, a whole day later, the more I think about it, the more that woman bugs me. I'll get over it, but I do wish I had said something to her.



On another note, I hope you all have a joyous and happy new year. I know mine will be much happier AFTER January 3rd. I swear I get 5-10 calls a day from candidates. But after the 3rd, we can all go back to being just one of those farm states in the middle for another 4 years.

Christmas roundup

Christmas was sooo much fun this year. The Kid really was so into the whole thing and was just a bundle of energy. I was actually up two hours before she was....finally at 8am I went in her room and gently woke her up (everybody was waiting!). When she opened her eyes, I said "Merry Christmas!!" and she popped up in bed and said "Happy New Year!" As the elves were in the living room making the last minute adjustments, I told her that I thought Santa had been to the house and her eyes got really big and she said "Did he bring me a suitcase?" That's all my little goofball asked for this year. A Tinkerbell suitcase. But, Santa did come up with a few other things that she was so thrilled with.

Personally, I think the Disney corporation should provide us all with a week long stay at one of their amusement parks because we certainly made a large contribution this year. Basically, if it was either Mickey or Little Einstein related and makes noise...we now own it. THANKS, SANTA!!!!!

The Kid did get her suitcase, complete with a pillow, sleeping bag and night time eye mask. After eating nothing but m&m's all day and playing nonstop, finally at about 4:30 she said "maybe I'll just lay here in my sleeping bag for a little bit" and then she slept on the floor in front of the Christmas tree for about an hour. So sweet.

Hope your Christmas was filled with suitcases and loud musical toys!!

Merry Christmas!

With love, from The Animatronic Mouse and The Kid.

Note to self

Here's a little something I don't recommend. Don't save 85% of your Christmas shopping for the weekend before Christmas. And don't plan on getting as much of it done as possible on the day before 'The Snowstorm of the Century' is supposed to come to town.

I'm just sayin'.......

Christmas Party!

Decorating cookies

Presents
Let's Wrestle...or hug. What-ev.

Santa 2007

We're fine!! Really! I have pictures to prove it!

Yeah....haven't blogged in awhile. I've been Scroogy McScroogerton this year. But, I'm back to entertain my loyal readers (who are mostly lurkers, but I still love you all anyway).

So. As promised, here are some pictures from the tree decorating. One of our favorite holiday traditions is hanging a special ornament in a place of honor. That ornament would be White Jumpsuit Elvis. Seeing this picture gets me all misty eyed.

Next we have the customary Elvis snarl with the presentation of his cape.

And finally a twirl or two to show that the cape is flow-ee.

And I believe, in this picture, The Kid is saying "A tiny rocking chair! But I want to sit on it."

So. After getting the tree up, we had to take different pictures in front of the tree (because I thought I might send out Christmas cards again this year, but I'm quickly running out of time...but you can see the results anyway).