After 4 consecutive rainy days we were finally able to move Perri's new slide outside. Her Lulu and Pops got if for her last week. She loves it!
Monday, July 5, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Dancing Machine
Okay, sorry for the last of posting lately. We have been spending a lot of our time at the pool or in the backyard on the trampoline and I just haven't been good about blogging at all. I somehow take the time to read everyone else's blog, but neglect my own. Ha. I'll try and get a post up soon of some new pics and what we've been up to but for now I'll leave you with a video I took last night of Perri dancing. The kid seriously goes crazy when music is on and has even started this break dancing thing where she sits on the floor and scoots herself around in a circle really fast. It's pretty funny.
Also, please ignore me talking and telling her a million times to spin. Oops.
Also, please ignore me talking and telling her a million times to spin. Oops.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Just Call Me 'Mother of the Year'
Baby in diaper. Check
Baby drinking from beer bottle. Check
You cannot get much trashier than this
Or this
My explanation? We were playing in the backyard this evening and Perri got her dress soaked playing at the water table so I stripped her down to her diaper. A few minutes later she walks up to me holding a beer bottle and laughing. She apparently reached up by the grill and found an empty bottle sitting there. And I did what any good mother would do. Took it away from her and scolded her Started cracking up and grabbed my camera and took pictures.
Don't judge.
Baby drinking from beer bottle. Check
You cannot get much trashier than this
Or this
My explanation? We were playing in the backyard this evening and Perri got her dress soaked playing at the water table so I stripped her down to her diaper. A few minutes later she walks up to me holding a beer bottle and laughing. She apparently reached up by the grill and found an empty bottle sitting there. And I did what any good mother would do. Took it away from her and scolded her Started cracking up and grabbed my camera and took pictures.
Don't judge.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
18 Months!
Wow how time flies! I can't believe Perri turned 18 months yesterday! She wasn't in the best of moods today so this is the only one of her smiling I could manage. Sorry for the horrible background.
What Perri is up to these days:
Weight: 22 lbs (10-25%)
Height: 32 1/2 in. tall (75-90%)
Head: 18 3/4 in (75%)
Shoes: Size 4 but they are still kindof big
Clothes: 12-18 months and a few 18 months but most are still big
Diapers: Size 3 but she's such a super soaker she has to wear size 4 Extra Protection at night. Those suckers are still about 10 lbs. in the morning!
Teeth: 10 but more about about to cut. All of the sudden they decided to finally come!
She is an absolute mess and BUSY. She does not stop until she is asleep. This is such a fun age but my goodness it absolutely wears me out. She can destroy the house in no time, but luckily is very eager to pick up and put everything back when asked.
She is saying a lot of words and repeating most things I ask her to say and very good at following directions. Lately when I ask her if we need to change her diaper she'll run to the living room, roll over on to her back and lay there waiting for me to change her. Pretty funny.
Tells everyone "bye bye" and then blows them kisses. Doesn't matter where we are or who it is. Checking out at the grocery, standing in the front yard and someone driving bye, even if she's leaving a room I'm in she'll tell me bye and blow a kiss then take off. She's also (finally) gotten to be pretty snuggly and loves to lay her head down on our shoulders or climb up on the couch and snuggle up. It's about time and we are eating it up!!
Obsessed with water and anything containing water. Her water table, Emma's water bowl, sinks, toilets, the humidifier, everything. The pools are starting to open up around here and we can't wait!! (or well momma can wait to put this body in a bathing suit...) but can't wait for playing at the pool every day!
I'm sure there are so many other things I could post but then it would be a book so there's a quick update for you!
I'll leave you with our evening in pictures after I thought it'd be a good idea to buy her sidewalk chalk.
Mmmm afternoon snack!
(Excuse the runny nose, it's a permanent fixture right now due to allergies...)
(These are all super close and blurry because I was trying to take a picture and hold her arms down so she'd stop trying to eat the chalk..Hard to adjust settings with one hand)
"Hooray for the USA!" (Hey, at least she's patriotic while eating chalk)
Quickly followed by
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Sweet Shot
I know it's Mother's Day, but here's a sweet picture I took today of Perri and her daddy. She was playing on the couch and kept wanting to lay down on him. Love it!
Monday, May 3, 2010
Random Thoughts
I haven't posted in forever because while I do like sitting and reading other people's blogs, sadly, when it comes to my own I don't feel like thinking up something to write and messing with the annoying blogger. Great attitude, I know. So I may from now on update as I feel and will probably be pretty random stuff or maybe just a bunch of pics.
Perri is turning into such a little girl and while I love this age and her hilarious personality, it makes me sad at how fast she is growing up. She is such a little clown and pretty much everything she does, is to try to make you laugh. She is constantly dancing and doing this funny tap dancing footwork thing or running around the house yelling at Abba (Emma). She loves to run around and scream at the top of her lungs, preferably in Amos's (our cat) face. He does not exactly care for her and last month bit her in the face.
She pretty much always has some sort of scrape or bruise on her forehead. Much of the time a scrape AND bruise or multiples bruises. She's always banging her head on something or trying to be funny (headbanging in the shopping cart and slammed her forehead on the handle...) and results in the bruises and scrapes. Last month I had to run upstairs and left her downstairs and while we do have gates, the one downstairs doesnt work at the very bottom of the stairs because of how the stairs are built so it's up three steps on the first landing. Perri was standing on the landing waiting for me and turned around quickly, lost her footing and fell down the stairs and landing head first on the tile. Immediately a knot popped out.
I was inside and Craig was in the backyard with her yesterday and he said she did a flip off the deck somehow. He said it was graceful though and she got up and went along playing. Today she was playing in the curtains and somehow slammed her forehead on the ledge. So what did she do when she recovered from this? She walked over and bit the ledge. Awesome, I know.
She's saying all kinds of words that I'm not even going to attempt to write them all out and will repeat pretty much anything you tell her to. The funniest though is how she says "please." I have no idea how she got this but it comes out by blowing a raspberry and then the "ease" of it. It's pretty darn funny.
My parents got her a water table and this is all she wants to do. She will stand at the window in the living room and get so excited when she sees it in the backyard and starting saying "please" over and over and signing "water." She absolutely flips out if I tell her "not now" and that she can play later. The girl loves water and can't wait to get in the pool with her and teach her to swim! My mom said I was jumping off the side of the pool and swimming to her at 18 months so I'm hoping we can get Perri doing that too!! Some pools opening this weekend down here but the one in our neighborhood doesnt until Memorial Day. But several of my friends here live in neighborhoods where there's is open on weekends now so I'm sure we'll be hitting those up with them until ours opens.
Perri had her first trip to the dentist last week. As I expected, she did NOT like them in her mouth, as she hates us brushing her teeth, and I had to hold her arms down while they cleaned her teeth and examined them. She screamed pretty much the entire time and could've cared less about The Little Mermaid playing on the tv in her exam room. Afterwards, though, she was all smiles as getting two new bracelets (the girl LOVES anything she can put on her arms, including bloomers, headbands, even cookie cutters..)
The dentist did promise me that she does in fact have bottom teeth and will be getting them soon! She has one molor on the bottom in addition to the front two but we were getting a bit worried she'd never get teeth down there!
And I'll leave you with some recent pictures.
Perri is turning into such a little girl and while I love this age and her hilarious personality, it makes me sad at how fast she is growing up. She is such a little clown and pretty much everything she does, is to try to make you laugh. She is constantly dancing and doing this funny tap dancing footwork thing or running around the house yelling at Abba (Emma). She loves to run around and scream at the top of her lungs, preferably in Amos's (our cat) face. He does not exactly care for her and last month bit her in the face.
She pretty much always has some sort of scrape or bruise on her forehead. Much of the time a scrape AND bruise or multiples bruises. She's always banging her head on something or trying to be funny (headbanging in the shopping cart and slammed her forehead on the handle...) and results in the bruises and scrapes. Last month I had to run upstairs and left her downstairs and while we do have gates, the one downstairs doesnt work at the very bottom of the stairs because of how the stairs are built so it's up three steps on the first landing. Perri was standing on the landing waiting for me and turned around quickly, lost her footing and fell down the stairs and landing head first on the tile. Immediately a knot popped out.
I was inside and Craig was in the backyard with her yesterday and he said she did a flip off the deck somehow. He said it was graceful though and she got up and went along playing. Today she was playing in the curtains and somehow slammed her forehead on the ledge. So what did she do when she recovered from this? She walked over and bit the ledge. Awesome, I know.
She's saying all kinds of words that I'm not even going to attempt to write them all out and will repeat pretty much anything you tell her to. The funniest though is how she says "please." I have no idea how she got this but it comes out by blowing a raspberry and then the "ease" of it. It's pretty darn funny.
My parents got her a water table and this is all she wants to do. She will stand at the window in the living room and get so excited when she sees it in the backyard and starting saying "please" over and over and signing "water." She absolutely flips out if I tell her "not now" and that she can play later. The girl loves water and can't wait to get in the pool with her and teach her to swim! My mom said I was jumping off the side of the pool and swimming to her at 18 months so I'm hoping we can get Perri doing that too!! Some pools opening this weekend down here but the one in our neighborhood doesnt until Memorial Day. But several of my friends here live in neighborhoods where there's is open on weekends now so I'm sure we'll be hitting those up with them until ours opens.
Emma likes the water table too. Her own giant water bowl.
Perri had her first trip to the dentist last week. As I expected, she did NOT like them in her mouth, as she hates us brushing her teeth, and I had to hold her arms down while they cleaned her teeth and examined them. She screamed pretty much the entire time and could've cared less about The Little Mermaid playing on the tv in her exam room. Afterwards, though, she was all smiles as getting two new bracelets (the girl LOVES anything she can put on her arms, including bloomers, headbands, even cookie cutters..)
She loves to get in my headband drawer. I usually later find these all in her ball pit.
The dentist did promise me that she does in fact have bottom teeth and will be getting them soon! She has one molor on the bottom in addition to the front two but we were getting a bit worried she'd never get teeth down there!
And I'll leave you with some recent pictures.
Playing at the fountain at La Centerra, a shopping center here. During the spring and summer they turn on the fountains and kids play in them. So much fun! Love her in her 'kini.
Decided she'd rather sit down and eat than play.
Her hair one day. It seriously would not lay down and stayed this way all day. It was lovely.
Just a cute one to end with!
Monday, April 12, 2010
Easter 2010
I know I am WAY behind in blogging and don't have a whole lot of excuses other than I haven't felt like it. Ha! I love reading other people's blogs but when it comes to sitting down and thinking something up to write and then deal with blogger's horrible layout of uploading pictures, I'd just rather not. So I will say I'll try and be more timely with my posts, though I think I say that all the time?
Anyhow, we had a nice little Easter here. Church on Sunday morning then came home, had lunch, Perri napped, then the fun began. Craig hid eggs all over the backyard and some had treats in them, some didn't. Perri loved running all over picking the up and we'd look inside and sometimes she'd get a treat (note: treat to her- iced animal crackers, chocolate cheerios and goldfish) and if not she'd take off for another shot.
Here are a few pics from the day. I had intended to have us all match but that didn't work out so well. I searched everywhere for I don't know how many weeks trying to find a dress or top or something for me to wear to match Perri's dress and Craig's shirt and I had no such luck. So I just went with something I already had. Doesn't match at all but oh well :)
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