Blog Babies

I love to go to Aunt Tay Tay’s house. She has the best books and a great cat named Jesse. He is very friendly and lets me play with his toys.

Boo at the Zoo is a fun day for kids where we get to dress up and get candy and see all the animals too. I’ve always gone to Boo at the Zoo. Last year I was so sleepy, I missed the whole thing. This year, I was a little dazed when we got there and Mommy got my costume on, but as soon as I saw the other kids and animals, I was like, “Woah! This is awesome!” Of course we went to see the elephants first. They are Mommy’s favorite. (Just in case you’re like everyone else at the zoo who called me a chicken all day, Mommy was a scarecrow, I’m a little black crow and Daddy’s a farmer.) Aunt Stacey also came with us to the zoo. She said she didn’t have a costume to wear so she just put together a random outfit and wore a pink wig. I thought it was pretty cool, not to mention all the other little girls that loved her pink hair. As you might have noticed, I have an orange Tootsie Pop in this picture that Aunt Stacey let me have. Eventually I worked my way through the paper and Mommy took it away. What a bummer. Here is Daddy and me looking at the penguins swimming. I wanted to get in a swim with them, but they wouldn’t let me. Oh well, there’s always next year. Here I am with my candy bucket that looks like Elmo from Sesame Street. I had fun running around. I wasn’t so sure about this panda. I’m checking him out in the picture. I think it might have to do with the little boy in line behind me who kept saying to his mommy and daddy, “I don’t want a picture with the monster!” By the end of the day I was super tired. This picture was taken about 2 blocks from the zoo. I was so tired, in fact, that I fell asleep with a cracker in my mouth.

Mommy and Aunt Stacey love Harry Potter. They also love knitting (although Aunt Tay Tay a little more than Mommy!) They are both knitting scarves for the new Harry Potter movie that is coming out November 18th. They are very excited about it. Aunt Stacey has some knitting groups that meet throughout the month and one of them meets at the Tattered Cover. Mommy hardly ever goes, but she did last time. Here are Mommy and Aunt Stacey working on their scarves. They’re so silly.

Mullets! Is there explanation needed? Like mother, like daughter (I guess)?

Daddy has taken to calling vegetables, “veg,” like he lives in England or something. My favorite veg these days is broccoli. As evidenced by these pictures: I also don’t like my food cut up into manageable bites, either, instead I want to eat a whole floret of broccoli. Actually, I like to sort of use my teeth to grate off the leafy parts leaving the stem behind. Its a method!

Mommy tells me that she loves having a little girl because it is like playing dress-up with her dolls everyday. Here are some pictures of me that are kind of random, but showcase some of my “looks” during the month of October. I love that its getting cooler outside because it means a change of wardrobe. Here I am at Mommy and Daddy’s office looking quite fashionable in pink stripes, pink ruffle leggings, my daily accessory of beads and a cute flower barrette. Mommy’s especially excited about the barrette, now that I have the hair to put it in. As you can see in this picture, I’m getting a lot more hair these days! Okay, here I am with a sweater on that Daddy made me last year. It just fits now. I’ve also got polka-dot tights and a ruffle skirt on with moccasins. Mommy didn’t necessarily like the ruffle skirt, she said it would have looked better with a plain denim one, but I didn’t have one at the time. I think she got me one the next week. I’m glad she did too, I wouldn’t want to look stupid! Here I am the same day, playing silly games with Aunt Stacey. Aunt Stacey had a friend in town from Indiana and the girls went to lunch one day. Here I am in my mongolian pink fuzzy hat and giraffe coat, quite the ensemble. I love to eat rice, chicken and edemame at Kokoro! Here I am at Mommy and Daddy’s favorite Italian restaurant, Romano’s eating bread with Grandma. I am wearing my new fleece in this picture. Mommy mostly got it so that we could match when she wears her black fleece.

Since I started feeding myself most of the time, Mommy felt the need to get me some new bibs with a little more coverage than the other ones I had. Not only that, but these new, fancier bibs are made of a plastic coated oil cloth that is much easier to clean between meals, meaning less laundry to do too! But, the real beauty of these new bibs is this incredible pocket that is right at the bottom of the bib. It catches food as it falls out of my mouth or hand or sometimes it is a storage pocket for food strategically put there by me - you know, for later! I know these aren’t new inventions, but, its new to me and I love it. Here I am, sans-tray just eating out of my “food pocket.” My Grandpa Tom calls me the girl of a million faces, and there is no shortage of them at dinner time.

The weekend after we got back from our trip to Missouri our neighborhood was having a garage sale. Grandma, Grandma Sue, and Aunt Stacey all brought stuff over to our house to sell together. Daddy had class, so he wasn’t able to help out, so it was mostly us girls working the sale. (Grandpa Murray was inside watching the news most of the time.) Mommy got up early to set up the tables and there were already people showing up, so she didn’t have time to dry her hair or put any makeup on. Here’s a picture of all of us in the garage. Mommy blurred out her face, what a weirdo. For a while I spent some time in my exersaucer, but after a while I remembered that I’m way too big for such a baby toy and got out. At least while I was in there I had some snacks to eat! Stacey and I had fun together, she let me sit in a big girl chair. Overall it was a pretty successful day. We didn’t come close to selling everything, but Mommy said she got enough money to pay for her date night with Daddy and the rest of the stuff was going to go to Goodwill.