the mowrer family: February 2009

Thursday, February 26, 2009

a little bit about lottie sue, cupcake MANIA, sydney is a year older & a venable throw down

Greetings and salutations! It's Thursday afternoon and I just put LS down for her nap. I know I put a lot of photos up but I need to write more about what Lottie Sue is doing (and saying). Here are a few items of interest that came to mind, bullet-point style.

She is truly hilarious. She loves to laugh and make others laugh.
She has food audibles (shout out to the Linkers here) and if she eats something she likes she'll go MMMM-MMMM!!! Over and over again.
She wants to eat whatever we are eating, even if she has the same thing in front of her - the food on our plates must taste better.
She says "peez" and "day you" (please and thank you) without being prompted most of the time.
She calls a cat a dat and a dog a gog. She'll say just about any word you ask her to say and she has a large vocabulary. She also talks about 90% of the time.
She likes to repeat our names over and over again, I will often here her mumbling "Mommy and Daddy. Mommy and Daddy".
She LOVES to be chased around and could do it for hours.
Lottie Sue also loves potato chips, they are not in her usual rotation but if you Matt you know that he would die for a bag of Ruffles Cheddar Potato Chips. If Lottie Sue sees them she goes nutz.
Lottie Sue loves to look at her butt in the mirror. She thinks it's hilarious.
She loves bubbles. Very much so.
She calls her blanket "babbit" and is very attached to it and to her pink puppy. Grandma gave her puppy right after she was born in the hosptial. I bought three extra ones on ebay in case we lose one.
If you are taking her photo, she says "CHEEEEEESE".
She loves to pretend cook and feed her babies.

I'll write down more soon, she's growing so fast it's hard to keep up! This photo is from last Saturday during the big clean. She fought Matt for the dust buster, I promise we are not making her do hard labor.

dusting and saying "CHEEEEEEEESE"

OK, you might have read Carrie's post about her Cupcake Extravaganza so this will be old news to you. But if not...

Mom bought me this book for Christmas - it is awesome.

click on the image to take you to amazon to purchase

I knew that Carrie would be all over it so I told her about it and I was right, she went bonkerzzzzzz. She organized a cupcake decorating party last weekend and it was truly awesome. I had so much fun. We made four different kinds from the book, take a look for yourself...

The first kind we made were sunflower cupcakes. You had to have "the touch" to do them, notice the faces of concentration in some of the photos. They turned out so well!

adorable!

The next kind we made were my favorites, little owls.

patterson creating a baby owl

here is the tray of the flock we made, could they be any cuter???

The third kind we made were creepy crawlies. They turned out particularly well. My favorite is the centipede you'll see below. But these are hard, you have to have a steady hand for sure when making the critters. You lay wax paper down and then trace the bug design with chocolate. This one was a little intimidating but the more you do it the easier it gets. These just scream Halloween.

here is carrie tracing while kat plops in the m&ms

here is my go at them
(you leave them here to dry them place them on the cupcake)

scary! but cute!

The butterfly cupcakes were the last ones we did. I have to leave a tad bit early and don't have a great photo of them. You make these the same way as the critters, by tracing them on wax paper. The chocolate you use is warmed, Kat had a blow out but quickly recovered and started up again.

uh oh, oopsie

here's one hurried photo, these are really pretty

Later that afternoon everyone gathered at out house to wish Sydney a very happy birthday. Mom and Dad brought over the scrapbooks and we had a "this is your life, sydney garlington" show. It was neat to look back at all the good times, Mom takes a lot of pride in her scrapbooks - they are works of ART!

syndey blowing out her candle
(she had the pick of the litter from the cupcake extravaganza)

gramma, papaw, lottie sue and michelle smile for the camera

matt hams it up on the swing with lottie sue

all the mowrer ladies (sans lottie sue), we took about 10 of these and this was the best one

Later on Lottie Sue got into Papaw's wallet and helped herself to some dollah billz. Her excitement level was high.

show me the money

And I'll end it with a few photos from the Venable Valentine's Day Throw-Down. I meant to take a lot more photos, but it didn't happen. But I'll share what came out alright.

shawn and marty, looking good

matt and sam prepare the smoke meat for mass consumption

lottie sue plays with marty (i have to tell you that lottie has a crush on marty, she smiles at him A LOT and is always game to play with him)

a happy max

Alrighty, I hope this post finds everyone well. Word.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

rent is due by the 15th of every month & pretty little girls

This is how Lottie Sue pays her rent...

outta my way please

She loves to use the broom, if you don't let her have it she lets YOU have it ifyouknowwhatImean.

I borrowed these photos from Grandma the other day, thought I would share.

this is my mom at age three (i'm guessing) - how sweet

this is momma when she was five, how pretty

And speaking of pretty - look at me at three months. This was my first Easter photo.

where is my neck?
note to self: dress lottie sue in bonnets

this is me with a very happy becce in 1977 i would guess

and here we have the huddleston girls
decked out in their izod outfits in 1982
(at this point cera was known as the
"bald eagle" due to her lack of hair)

Oh yeah - Megan was on TV AGAIN the other day and look - you can see it my blog! Wow, technology.

Alrighty, short post for now but I'll be back soon!

Thursday, February 12, 2009

mr. awesome & bubble mania

Um, could she be any cuter than she is - NOPE. I thought I would start the blog with that photo because I love it.

sweet lottie sue

But now let's move on to a funny item. Here is another piece of Matt's adolescent drawings, not sure what's going on in this one except that he thinks he's dope. Maybe this is his version of the Batman signal.

holla

Last weekend we had wonderful weather (it's lasted all week - yay!) and we were outside a lot. Lottie Sue loves to blow bubbles and draw with chalk. So that's what we did. She is the most adorable little girl, she gets SO excited over things and she seems about to burst.

we are bubble experts

She also loves to color with chalk. Matt drew her favorite, Elmo, for her and she loved it.

our budding picasso

I did a lot of watching basically, Matt was Mr. Dad all weekend and catered to Lottie Sue's every whim.

here i am with the sun blinding me

Lottie Sue's really in to riding on Matt's shoulders. If we go for a walk she is O-V-E-R the stroller fast and wants on top.

my two favorites

Tomorrow is Friday - YAY! Matt has been out of town this week and I am looking forward to family time! The Venables are having a Valentine's Day throw-down and we're going - should be a wonderful time. I'll take photos for you!

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

ted danson, 867-5309 & so much more

For your entertainment, here is another one of Matt's adolescent drawings. I give you, Ted Danson (don't ask)...

pucker up

Jenny, don't lose that number! There was a phase when I would tell everyone my phone number was 867-5309 to see how long it took them to figure it out. It was always funny except one time my friend tried calling me at that number for 45 minutes, she was upset. I still thought it was funny. Anywho, the number is a NY area code but anyone can use it (it's through Vonage) and the number can be all yours via eBay. Last time I checked it was up to $430K with five days left - WHOA!

Friday night we went to Seth's 30th Surprise Party, my camera was almost dead but we have three photos to share. In the only good one of us girls my head looks GIGANTIC. When I first saw the photo I did a double-take - my head is bigger than Megan's and Beth's put together. I had to put another photo that isn't so great to prove that it was a crazy angle, I'll be able to sleep at night now.

the gang hanging out

megan - pretty, beth - pretty, jen - pretty with giant head

putting this up makes me feel better...

On Sunday we went over to the Hussars for a Super Bowl Party, they are wonderful hosts (as always) and we had a great time (Cincinnati Chili - YUM). Chris made a wager board and I actually won the first round of dough (see below).