Another First! the darling little ringlets are gone!

We're all about milestones lately! 

Miss M screams and fusses when I do her hair.  

So, in an effort to keep the peace, we finally trimmed her hair.

her cute little keepsake ponytail :)

After

She seems pleased! and it's amazing what 2 inches will do! She looks older and it truly is easier to do her hair! Mucho fewer tangles!

pencils!

Do you know what a pencil is?

You can eat it!

It's covered with salt!

It's warm and twisty!

It's a pretzel!  And my girls loooove going to Target to get a pencil and walk around with Teriney and her girls!

This is LG's favorite face right now.  She loves feeling her new tooth with her tongue!

Have I mentioned how much Ruby loves LG? She loves to get in her face and give her toys.  Mostly she loves to give her her firepass and then take it immediately away! :)

ps

You just gotta check out M's recent funny on the sidebar! it's my new favorite and she's been saying it to me a lot the past few days. she makes me laugh!

Eruption!

can you see it? it's there! i promise! it's the bottom left tooth and it's FINALLY come through meaning all that drool and fussing was not for naught!!!

Eat to Live

I think I'm being humbled.

LG is nine months old. I've known for a while that I need to shape up. Literally!

I need better food and exercise habits.  And I've known I needed to start for a while.  

The thing is, I love food. I loooooove all the things I shouldn't.

cheesecake

hamburgers

onion rings

ice cream

cheese

chips

anything I shouldn't? well, then I want it!

My head keeps telling me it's time but I've been procrastinating.

Live to eat or eat to live?

So, I got the plague.

I'm being humbled, I tell you.  I have hand, foot and mouth in the worst way.  I have blisters all down one side of my tongue and up the other.  It's so painful that I talk like had my jaw wired shut and eat like it too! 

I came home from Minnesota and have been miserable ever since.  

Someday, I think I'll be able to eat again. And work again! (I had to call in sick today-I'm not sure I would have been very effective considering I teach people to speak clearly!)

And when I can eat again, I'm going to do it better.

the wagon

I had such good intentions to post. I have many things to post about! 

Alas!

Things got crazy!

We're off tomorrow on an impromptu trip to Minnesota to help W's parents.

See you Tuesday

Home Sweet Home!

We've discovered home is a very relative term.

We have a home in Minnesota.  It's so weird to see other people's stuff in it! But we have a mortgage to prove it's ours!

We had a home in Utah.  It was Grandma Betty's and M still asks to go back to it all the time.  (We think this stems from it being the last place where she was the "queen" before LG was born, and she remembers it better than the Minnesota house and so to her, it's the last place that we were alone as a family)

We have a lovely home here.  My parents have been amazingly gracious and loving, opening their home to us and putting up with us for way longer than they should have had to.

Hence, it's time to get our own home again. 

Welcome!

At the beginning of June, we will be moving into this nice 2 bed 2 bath apartment.  We will be downsizing and it will be interesting to see what fits but we'll make it work!

As you can see, M and LG are a little excited about their new space!

This is the girls/guest bath.  We're working on brainwashing M to believe that diapers won't be coming to the apartment so she has to return to the task of potty training when we got to our new home.

We're excited! W has been a trooper to live with my family for so long.  And we haven't had our stuff in over a year.  It's time! W goes to Utah to move out of the storage unit at the end of May and then we'll be moving in!!!!