Daydreaming with Doug and Lex

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Fashion Trend Alert

I have been having a really hard time finding fashionable, yet functional maternity wear. I think I nailed it this time with this futuristic helmet. What do you think?

Watch out Michael Phelps. You've got some competitiion!

Miss Chloe learned how to swim today! We were playing around in the pool just like any other day. Mamaw decided that we should give water noodle a try and pushed it over to Chloe and she grabbed right on. Before long she was all over the pool, kicking away all by herself. We were thrilled! The next thing we knew she was letting go of the noodle and swimming under water over to us. She spent the next couple of hours swimming back and forth to Mamaw and Mommy. She was so excited, as were we! Every time she came up out of the water she would say "Chloe did it, Chloe swimming!". She was pretty tuckered out after all that hard work. On the way home she told me that she was really tired, she turned her head to the side, and quickly drifted off to dreamland.

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Something new everyday


We have been getting annihilated by chiggers this year, especially Miss Chloe. She is covered right now. The other day she noticed that she had one right next to her little booby, she lifted her shirt and said "look Mom two-ones nipple!" I really loved the two- ones part. Anyway, I have been telling her to try not to itch them, just rub them, and they will heal faster.

So, this morning I peaked around the corner, she was playing with her lizard and frog. She was taking the lizard's front foot and scratching its neck with it saying "oh no, my chiggers are itching so bad". Then she wrapped one of the frog's front legs around the lizard and said "it's okay I'll take care of you, don't itch them, just rub them" and took the frogs other front foot and rubbed the lizards neck with it and said "that's better".

Cracked me up! I love spying on her while she is pretending. It just blows my mind sometimes, the stuff she comes up with is so funny.

Our little Grease Monkey

If Poppa is "doing", Chloe is "doing" too. She helped him change the brakes on the car yesterday. She gets really into it and wants to talk all about what they are doing. She hands him tools and says "here Poppa and your welcome" with every tool she gives him. She puts the tools back in the box, and helps clean up. Speaking of cleaning up, boy did she need it after the car repair. I went out and she had grease on her face, hands, shirt, and everywhere else. She ran up to me and said "Chloe fixing Poppa's car, new brakes!".

Friday, June 24, 2011

Who is the Man?!?!?!

My man is! We bought a new car last night. She is a beauty, I think we are going to call her Pearl. She is a Buick Enclave CXL, fully loaded with heated leather seats, wood grain dash, heated washer fluid (huh), 8 passenger seating, and whole bunch of other bells and whistles that we have to get accustomed to. We are really excited and also in a little shock right now. This baby is N-I-C-E. Thank you, thank you, thank you a million and a half times over babe. Doug you are the MAN! XOXOXOXOXOXO

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Yay! Yay! Yay!

If you can't tell, we are more than a little excited that Chloe is potty training. She is very proud of herself and wants to sit on the potty ALL THE TIME. She will sit there for the longest time and talk to her guys about the importance of not pottying in their pants. It is so cute. Way to go girl. We are well on our way now!

On another note, Chloe has been saying today that she loves Pa's truck. He takes her on special rides around their yard. Apparently she over heard us talking about websites, because today she came up with "www.chloe loves pa's truck.com". She says it clear as day, except for the the www part, that gets a little jumbled up and sometimes comes out w-x-y-z. She is hilarious.

I'm really old now

Our baby girl turned 2 years old on June 19th. We enjoyed a relaxing, rainy day playing with our girl. Later that evening Poppa, Chloe, and I sat out on the deck and had ice cream cones while we sang happy birthday. At the end of the song Chloe said "Poppa I'm really old now". We have been telling her she is going to be older, so I guess she took it literally :). Happy Birthday girl. It has been the most exciting two years to date! We love you.