Monday, January 25, 2010

the kids, my birthday week & photo booth

first of all...

happy birthday to tri-cera-tops! whee! we love you and miss you terribly!!!

ok, now back to the blog. here i am with rowdy, he was home from work on his lunch break.

our little business man

i'm going to start this post off with photos of the kids. i think that's what everyone likes best anyway. can't say i blame ya!

it's our little row mow, chilling on his blanket. smiling. it's his favorite.

hi mommy

and here are a few from last week. lottie sue doesn't have school on tuesdays so we have our own fun and we call it "pajama tuesday" - you must keep pjs on through the morning and we get to watch a movie together. it's a lot of fun and is now a tradition in the house.

pajama tuesday RULES!

lottie sue placing toys on the ottoman, she
told me she needed to look at them
there

i usually do a fair amount of cleaning on tuesday mornings and sometimes lottie wants me to dust her. if she sees the duster she goes bonkers, whatever floats your boat i say.

the excitement upon learning she is about to get dusted

oh how a good dusting tickles

hilarious, do it again

here we have lottie on her "maptop." she told me she was checking her email.

i told her the report was due by 5

random photo of lottie sue running around with a hat on
(plus she has house boots, aka house shoes)


and now we have a few close-ups of rowdy. he is SUCH a cutie pie. he is happy happy happy. he smiles all the live-long day and has started giggling for us. something that matt and i find just wonderful.

he is growing like a weed, he is four-months old as of yesterday. gulp. sniff sniff. his hair has grown and he still has his signature curly q - his hair is looking blonde/strawberry blonde but we'll see what happens. his eyes are blue and have gotten quite light. he likes to eat (then spit up) and the boy can sleep lemmetellya. he loves to stand up (with help of course) and he loves to try to sit up, he's really working his abs. i guess summer IS right around the corner...


see? told ya he was cute

here are a few photos of lottie sue playing. she is really into her figurine people, anything to do with her dollhouse. she has also been taking photos of course and i have a few for you in a moment.

lottie kissing one of her baby dolls

lottie dancing like a "balrina"

she wanted to lay down and have me take a
photo of her where rowdy was laying


rowdy and i read about avatar
(matt and i went to see this on my birthday and i had
to leave because of motion sicknes, what a wuss)


jo has a big heart, ain't nobody gonna deny that. when matt is out of town she often cooks dinner for me and the kiddos. she had me over the thursday before my birthday and had a cake and everything for me! THANKS JO! you rock! tabby and amy also came, it was way fun!

lottie sue is helping me blow out the candles

amy took this with her phone of lottie "boe-ing" the candles out
(lottie sue LOVES to blow out birthday
candles, one of her favorite things to do)


love the cake - it was delicious!

a photo of the superb amy h. totally out of focus

and yes another out of focus shot, the adorable tabby p.

then on that saturday we had a nice dinner in with the smiths. i want to thank them again for my awesome gift - i love my colts t-shirt! upon thanking them megan deferred and told me to thank tommy - he thought of it, bought it and wrapped it. so thanks TOMMY.

you know i be wearing this during the supa bowl

megan spotted the bag jo gave me for my birthday, it is too cute and i love it. i had to check her bag before she left because she loved it, too.

we are adorable. yes yes yes

our computer has a program on it called photo booth, you just take snapshots from the computer but it has a lot of effects you can play with. you can distort your face many different ways or take photos of you in paris or on a rollercoaster. it's a lot of fun. we got going with it one night with the smiths, and matt and i have been hooked ever sense. some of the photos are disturbing but hilarious at the same time. it's amazing how different you can make yourself look. matt and i could do this for hours and i am not kidding. it's great entertainment.

i'm posting a few for you, but we about a million funny ones. matt and tommy sell it more than anyone else and get the best ones. this first one of tommy cracks me up. matt and i look at it sometimes just laugh. matt has several golden shots following tommy...enjoy.











for real, disturbing and hilarious - yes?

here are the photos from lottie sue's camera.

man (that's what she calls him and we often hear her
talking to him saying "i love you, man") with sleeping
beauty, snow white, cinderalla and ariel (not pictured)


a photo of me (in the am i think so don't judge)

matty fish mouth

her princes on the ottoman now

i'm holding her sideways and she's taking a photo of her
reflection the bathroom mirror before ballet class


and now some interesting items that are not mowrer-related...
alrighty, enjoy this windy day!

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

can i have my cookie now? can i have my cookie now? CAN I HAVE MY COOKIE NOW?

last night was "daddy & me" dance night for lottie sue's dance class. matt is in dc so she was daddyless, but leave it megan to save the day! megan was subbing in for rachel's husband and she took lottie sue under her wing as well. it was a melee. excellent blog material.

megan was uber excited about the prospect of dancing in her tutu with her ballet shoes (from way back when - college). she looked the part (a super pretty ballerina!!!), but the kids wore her out. it was like herding cats. rachel and i enjoyed the show from afar.

lottie's teacher, miss melissa, let the girls know that at the end of class they got a cookie. once lottie sue heard this she could do NOTHING but think/want/focus on cookies. she had cookies on the brain, yo. she would dance a little then run over to me (or another mom, her teacher - anyone, really) and ask "can i have my cookie now?" in her sweet little voice. i know she asked me 8 times for it. i am not kidding - ask rachel.

i had rowdy with me (asleep) and i was trying to video tape the class plus take photos and it was hard for me to keep her in check. early on i gave up and decided to laugh about it. one time she actually had her hand in the cookie jar (ok, it was a covered plate) - again, not kidding - ask rachel.

here are the photos i took last night - enjoy!

here we have lottie sue with megan and june behind her

yes, i know how cute this is

tip tip tippy toes

plie, lottie style

iris gets in to action (june's big sis)

lottie sue running over to me to ask about the cookie situation

it's funny, lottie sue sticks that tongue out if she is concentrating on something. see?


love her

during one part of class they dance with a stuffed animal. this evening lottie picked mickey mouse.


hugs all around

i love this photo, usually miss melissa has to corral lottie a lot. if they are dancing in a line, lottie is usually somewhere else in the room investigating something or chatting someone up. if her teacher had a dime for every time she had to get lottie back in line she'd have $1 every tuesday night.

this move really got her attention and she went along with it! no corralling needed.


then it was time for taps but i am a horrible mother and left her dance bag at home. i will never forget again. lottie loves tap because she gets to stomp around and make lots of noise. here she is with miss melissa - she is finally starting to do the moves correctly. i am very proud.

ball beat move

i would guess in this photo megan was looking for june

megan about to break out her jazz hands

here we have lottie sue jumping in the air - that's elevation, holmes

megan and june play around

this is lottie after i told her she had to
wait for cookies, she almost cried


megan, ballerina princess

lottie sue, june and iris

megan holds lottie during a break

AND FINALLY - LOTTIE GETS HER COOKIE. she was so happy, she showed it to everyone.

right as rain

here is a shot of our ballerinas. adorable squared!

happy happy happy

and a shot of me with miss thang, eating her cookie.

nom nom nom nom nom

i hope you enjoyed the dance section of this post. now you can read about other interesting things..
alrighty, short post tonight. over and out.