too tired to write anything creative or meaningful, so today’s pics will speak for themselves.
good night, moon.
Enjoying the Small Things
By Kelle
too tired to write anything creative or meaningful, so today’s pics will speak for themselves.
good night, moon.
By Kelle
so, daddy came home from work today with a coy smile on his face and his hands all curled behind his back hiding a present…not for me. nope–for the other girl in his life.
“i gots a pwesent for Binks,” he says.
at which point “Binks” peeks around the corner with her daddy’s-home-from-work grin and walks (yes, walks…still can’t believe it) over to him, reaching.
…and what was behind daddy’s back, you ask?
why, carbs & sugar, of course…the key to a girl’s heart.
so, Binks cautiously peers into the “pwesent” bag…
and then daddy gives her a widdle taste…
and then, as all good daddies who are swayed by their cute little daughters do…he caved…and gave her the whole thing…
…and the rest was history.
and in less sugary happenings today, latte and lainey had a show-down.
and it went like this:
lainey likes to hook latte’s leash up and attempt to ‘walk’ her, but latte’s on to the whole you’re-just-a-baby-and-i-know-you’re-just-gunna-drag-me-around thing so she, being the smart dog that she is, puts the breaks on and refuses to move. usually, lainey gets the point but today she was all if-i-say-you’re-gunna-walk-you’re-gunna-walk.
so they had a show-down in the drive way. …and their faces said it all.
lainey: ‘you’re gunna walk. and you’re gunna like it.‘
latte: ‘i’ll walk when hell freezes over.”
…and this went on for quite some time, both just as stubborn as ever.
ten minutes later, here’s how we stood:
so, the refs intervened and brett distracted lainey while i shooed latte inside. so neither won…or maybe they both did.
funny kid. funny dog.
and last but not least…cheap toy idea (and evidence #4064 that babies like free crap better than expensive toys)
wanna reuse baby food jars? cut slit in old container and give your kid a stack of baby jar lids to drop in like coins. we did this forever today as we counted…”one…two…three…” big smiles on her part followed by jangling the container, dumping them out and starting over. and some major coordination skills too…fun to watch her figure out how to turn the lid so it would fit. so you’re being green and thrifty all in one. genius, huh? …and you thought i was a real blonde.
…enjoying the random things. ~k
…oh wait, here’s a cute widdle footie i couldn’t leave out:
By Kelle
we survived mean ‘ol fay who actually didn’t turn out to be too mean at all. we took lainey down to the beach last night because daddy wanted to document her first tropical storm. she was quite amused by the whole gale-force wind thing…
and later, leaving target, we looked up and saw the most beautiful naples sunset in the history of mankind…and that’s coming from a parking lot! shoulda stayed on the beach for it!
…and today, we’re back to plain ‘ol regular life…boys are back to school and we are accepting the new routines that are inevitable.
in summation of the past few days: she’s been a major daddy’s girl lately and is growing a bit more attached to both her pacifier and her blankie. i tend not to worry about those things much, but don’t want a three-year-old who can’t give it up either. so, i’m stewin’ on how to avoid it without doing the whole ‘obsess-about-silly-things-the-books-say’ thing that i hate so much too.
oh, and did someone say ruby slippers? ah yes…there really is no place like home.
…enjoying the aftermath-of-the-storm things. ~k