This morning Chloe and I were doing our daily kitchen routine of loading the dishwasher, wiping the counter, etc.  Chloe was begging me to put her up on the island.  I told her no and that I was almost done anyway.  She let out a big sigh and dropped her head in dismay.  Then she looked up at me with her big, brown, puppy dog eyes, lifted her shirt up, put her hand over her heart, and said "Mommy Chloe's heart-beep is broken".  She dropped her head again and quickly walked away. 

Dollhouse Update

I'd say it was a good buy. It is now 2:26 in the afternoon and Chloe has been playing nonstop with her dollhouse since 10:00 this morning.  She was so excited that she wouldn't even eat her breakfast!  We love playing pretend with her. She calls the Mom "Mommy Alexis" and she named the little girl "Maryanne". We are amazed with the scenarios she comes up with.  

 

Oh Garage Sales, how I love thee

I hesitated to buy this dollhouse, thinking that Chloe wouldn't like it.  Oh my, was I wrong.  She did not make a peep for at least an hour, we could not even get her attention.  She was fully focused on her new house!  It came with all the accessories, even a laptop computer. I got it all for $15.  The house alone sells for around $80. 

I couldn't pass this treasure up.  $15!!!! 

I bought this swingset for $100.  The guy actually wanted $150 for it.  He also had a trampoline that looked like it had hardly ever been jumped on.  I asked him if he was going to sell that also.  He hem-hawed around and said that he would sell it for $40, and that I could have the swingset for $100, SOLD! Pa and Mamaw had originally planned on getting the garden in the ground yesterday, oops. We ended up spending the rest of the day breaking down and setting back up all of our garage sale finds.  We couldn't have done any of it without you guys.  Thank you so much.  

Ooh-na-na what's my name?

Uno!

Whew (wipes sweat off brow).   We found out on Friday that we are not having twins. Of course we would welcome the blessing of two babies, but we are relieved that we are only having one.  We are still getting used to the idea that we are going to have ten more little fingers and ten more little toes around here.  Miss Chloe has changed our life in such an amazing way.  We can hardly imagine what this little bundle will bring. 

Cheers to that!

Okay, we have been having a lot of discussion about the natural goings on of the human body.  Yeah, I am talking about pee and poop.  Chloe has begun potty training, we have a long way to go, but we are excited about getting started.  So, earlier this evening she was pointing to where she pees and where Poppa pees.  Then she turned around and pointed to where the poopy comes out and then pointed to where Poppa's poopy comes out.  No big deal right? Here is the funny part, she then turned around stuck out her booty and bumped up against Poppa's booty and in a very excited voice said "cheers"!  

I'm telling you, this kid keeps us in stitches.

TuTu adorable

We were at the store a few days ago when Chloe spotted this tutu.  We weren't planning on buying it for her, but she ran all over wiggling her hips, twirling in circles, and watching herself in the mirror.  Doug looked at me "juicy eyed", that is when I knew the tutu was going home with us.  She is all about dancing in her tutu.  We went on a walk at Mamaw and Pa's place today and I just threw the rain boots, so she wouldn't get all wet.  They looked so cute with her tutu, so I had to grab my camera and take a "few" shots. 

Playing around with photoshop and the Technicolor Dream World action

Handsome Pa and pretty little Chloe

May 2010

I love this photo of my babies

Either our kid has a really tiny head, or that is a huge mushroom!!!!

McCormick's Creek

Poppa showing Chloe how to blow bubbles at a friends "Bubble Birthday" party at McCormicks Creek 

Chloe racing to pop the bubbles.

We went on a little hike the nearby "waterfall off" as Chloe calls it.  This was her reaction to seeing a waterfall for the first time.

We were getting pretty tired at this point.  Poppa snapped this shot of us staring off.