Shake Your Groove Thing
My daughter loves to dance around the house and shake her groove thing. Check out this video of my little booty shaker!
Wordless Wednesday Wye Mountain Daffodil Edition
In honor of the upcoming Wye Mountain Daffodil Festival March 20-21, I present Rebecca playing in the daffodils. These photos are from March 2007. I think it’s time we get back out there and get some new pics this year.
This is my favorite!
She just ran out in the fields and did this pose all on her own. Don't know where she gets it from.
I finally got her to stop posing.
Caught her trying to pick the flowers. They had an area where you could pay to pick but she just could not resist.
For more Wye Mountain photos, see Arkie Mama and Blessed Mom.
Tags: daffodil, wordless wednesday, wye mountain
Check Up Time
Last Wednesday I finally got around to taking Rebecca to the Dr. for her seven-year-old check up. She was almost four feet tall and weighs 50 pounds. She has done a lot of growing up on me.
Dr. said she is going to have my allergies. Duh, I knew that. I was just hoping she would miss that trait. Zyrtec here we come! She also has to take eye drops for allergies.
She somehow missed getting her last Hepatitis B shot and was not very happy when the nurse came in the room to give it to her.
Other then that, A+ healthy child!
Zoo Fun
This past Saturday hubby and I took our little darling to the zoo for a fun filled family day. Rebecca was so excited, she wanted to take photos of the animals just like mommy.
Rebecca and daddy - notice her camera ready to take photos.
We pulled up at the zoo and it was packed with cars in the parking lot and people standing in line waiting to get in. NOTE: The zoo charges $2 for parking now and you pay it at the gate upon entering. With a free child’s admission from the phone book and the parking fee, we paid $22 to get a family of three into the zoo.
FYI – tomorrow is Coleman Dairy $1 day at the zoo. I took Bear last year when it was Coleman Dairy free day at the zoo. It was very crowded and took awhile to get in the gates but once we got in, we had a great time.
Rebecca wanted to go see the new baby chimpanzee first and then go visit her “friend”. Hubby and I were confused. What friend was she talking about? Did she call somebody and tell them to meet us at the zoo?
After asking Rebecca what friend she was referring to, she informed us that she was talking about her friend the grizzly bear. Oh of course, why did I not think of that?
Rebecca continued with, Don’t you remember last time we where here he stood up and waved to say hi to me? All I could answer with was, we will go see your friend next as I laughed to myself.
I had forgotten about the last time we visited the zoo when the grizzly bear got pissed off and started growling and pounding on the glass as it stood up right in front of where Rebecca was standing with her face pushed up against the glass. It scared the crap out of me but Rebecca just said Ah, he likes me.
So we went to see the baby chimp first as we slowly made our way to “Rebecca’s friend” taking photos of every animal we passed. We visited the flamingos, rhinos, elephants, giraffes and pretty much everything except for Rebecca’s friend. He was not on display that day. Hubby and I told Rebecca we would have to come back when it gets a little warmer and see if he is out.
Rebecca thought she was a real photographer as she tried to get the animals to fit perfectly in the camera frame. She really got excited when she got a picture of the new baby chip hanging from its mothers belly. This took several tries but I think she did a great job.
At first she started off taking a photo of everything I took a photo of but soon she was taking photos of what ever she wanted and loving every minute of it. She was really cute and was having such a great time doing it.
As we where heading out the door Rebecca spotted the carousel. After letting her ride it once we decided to stop by and get some ice cream on the way home. What a perfect family day!
Here are some photos from our fun filled day.
Rebecca's photo - see the baby hanging on mommy.
Rebecca took this photo in front of the elephants.
Rebecca's photo of the rhino.
Rebecca taking photos of the tracks on the ground.
Rebecca taking photos of a Prairie Dog.
This thing tried to eat me while I was taking the photo. I got too close to the fence and it grabbed my pants.
We ran into friends - Jen and In the Family Way's daughter, Ava.
Fellow blogger Heidi aka In the Family Way
Rebecca called this a "pokey pine" and wanted me to take the photo so the "pokey pine" would not throw spikes at her.
Daddy and Rebecca, the great photographer.
Tags: zoo
Bad Weather And Asthma Equals Time for More TV
I don’t watch TV all the time like my husband or Bear tries to do, Brad has the TV on from the time he gets home until the time he goes to bed. Yes, he does other stuff like cooking dinner but he has a TV in the kitchen and it is always on. Bear wants to watch TV all the time but we limit how much TV she gets to watch.
I’m always so busy getting things ready for the next day (lunches and Bear’s clothes for school). Since I get off of work early I do all the running around that needs to be done and start Bear on her homework or any studying she needs to do. Then there is playtime with kiddo.
After dinner it is time for Bear to take a bath and get ready for bed. I use this time to visit with Hubby.
After Bear gets out of the shower or bath it is time for books, TV and then bedtime! Hubby and I take turns reading her books and tucking her into bed every night. We have been taken turns putting her to bed since she was an infant, minus TV time for Bear but Brad would watch Sports Center in her room on the nights it was his turn.
If it is hubby’s night for bedtime duty, I will get my exercising out of the way and work on any bills that need to be taken care of and then it is bedtime for me. I really only watch TV on two nights. Thursday night I watch Grey’s Anatomy and The Practice. Sunday night I watch Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters.
But now I am going to have to make time for one more show – American Idol. I was sick yesterday and spent 2 1/2 hours at the doctor’s office with asthma problems. Ended up having an attack in the office, getting an x-ray, smoking on a “peace pipe” as I like to call it and getting a shot in the fanny. About 7 hours later I finally stopped coughing and I could breath better.
I was still a little short of breathe so I sat on the couch most of the time and watched TV. First Hubby and I watched Snow White with Bear as we took turns going into the kitchen so we could keep an eye on the bad weather, such a cute movie and it helped keep Bear’s mind off the bad weather we had last night. And mine, I am scared just as scared of bad weather as she is – I just can’t show it. See photos of the storm damage here.
After Snow White, I was flipping channels and for some reason stopped on American Idol . I have never been a fan before but last night I caught the last performance of the night by Michael Lynche’s of This Woman’s Work and let me just say – he totally nailed it.
Tags: American idol, TV
I Am Loving This Weather
This past weekend I spent most of my Sunday raking leaves and pulling weeds out of my flower beds.
Some of my plants and flowers have started showing signs of Spring. Yes it is hard work but I love it and the payoff is beautiful.
Rebecca playing in my bed of elephant ears last summer.
Tags: elephant ears, flower
My little Dancer
Rebecca has been taking dance going on four years now. She loves to go to class but most of all she just loves to walk around the house and “Shake her Groove Thing”.
I have to admit, she is pretty darn good. Hubby and I don’t know who she got her talent from, we both have zero rhythm.
My little mouse - first year of dance.
Bear loves to make faces while I am trying to take photos of her - Second year of dance.
My beautiful ballerina - Third year of dance.
Mallory, Blessed Mom's daughter also known as Bear's BFF - Third year of dance. They were in two dances for recital that year.
Tags: dance
What’s that smell?
When Bear was a toddler, hubby and I decided to make a rule about poopy diapers – You smell it, you change it.
The rule was working perfectly. No more fussing over who’s turn it was to change her diaper. After a couple of days of this I decided to just let hubby do all the smelling and changing.
I would walk by Bear and get a whiff of her diaper and just talk to her or play with her and act like I did not even notice the foul smell coming from her diaper. Some short time later, hubby would walk by and get a whiff of her diaper and go change it as I silently giggled to myself. It was pure evil – but I loved it.
This worked like a charm for a few days, then hubby asked me why he was the only one changing dirty diapers.
BUSTED!
Oh well – at least it worked for a few days!
Tags: dirty diapers, poopy
