our little bucket head, cupcakes, jaydiohead & i've been hearing, but I haven’t been listening

Here is Lottie Sue this afternoon. Whatever floats your boat, I say.

bucket head

These photos are of Lottie Sue on Sunday afternoon, she's really into cooking right now. She often copies Matt when he's in the kitchen making dinner. She'll get her kitchen on if Daddy is creating a meal, too cute.

the most delicious meal you'll never eat

And this is a photo I took of Lottie Sue giving me a big hug. Love her.

lottie sue is a lover, not a fighter

Here are a few Lottie Sue-isms for you:

• She has three babies that she plays with all day, she wants to take all three of them with her if we go anywhere.
  
• On Sunday night she kept telling me "I your little girl" over and over again - it made me cry it was so sweet. Side note: my pregnancy hormones make me cry at just about anything. Like I bawled at the end of The Amazing Race (???), and I really didn't care who won. I was just so happy for them I couldn't contain myself. I also cried the other day when Matt barely mentioned Lottie Sue getting married one day. Waterworks. It's funny.
  
• She loves to eat blackberries and raspberries, I think she might turn into a berry.
• She loves her pajama set that has the Disney princesses on them. She will tell the shirt "HIIIII" and then count the princesses over and over again.
  
• Lottie Sue had a bona fide #1 in the potty last week (see photo below - and yes, we took a photo) with a #2 yesterday.
  
• Lottie Sue loves to hug people, she is a very sweet little girl.
• Lottie Sue does not have a shy bone in her body. She is very social.
  
• She loves to wear Mommy's doos (shoes).
• Lottie LOVES to dance around, her favorite song is the theme song to The Family Guy. She goes nutz every time.
• She loves to fake sneeze, she thinks it's hilarious.
  

Last week Carrie hosted another Cupcake Extravaganza (and has a post up as well), a splendid time. She made dinner for us girls (this was one of the dishes and it has my name all over it - I even made it last night and I never cook: Giada's Pasta Ponza recipe) in addition to prepping everything for the fun. I stole some photos from Carrie and Kenley's crackbook pages.

here i am with patterson, kenley and amanda
with our creative juices flowing

carrie taking a picture of me about to take a picture

nomnomnomnomnomnom

megan about to chomp down

wonder woman herself with part of the cob

see? do they look real or WHAT?

Next we made monkey cupcakes. These guys were super cute.

gimme a kissee

i named him "burt"

the whole family of monkeys

Next up was a batch of lion cupcakes, these were my favorite and were so much fun to create. I really enjoyed doing the detail work on these babies.

roarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr (my lion is at 4 o'clock)

Here is a shot of the cupcakes together, all I can say is AWESOME. I LOVE decorating cupcakes!

voila

megan, amanda and p-dub post decorating

megan and amanda now with kenley

OK, here is a TMI shot for you. It is Lottie Sue's first real #1 in the potty. It is weird to think about how excited Matt and I got over this. Matt was in there with her and he starts yelling for me, I run in there and it's confirmed then I run after the camera. To take a photo of urine. Help me.

lottie sue is getting to be a big girl (wah)

Some news you can use:

• There are two albums out that are available for download and are free to you. One is from Coldplay (oh Chris Martin, you can do no wrong) and the other is from Jaydiohead - yes, that is JayZ and Radiohead. And yes, it is awesome. Enjoy.
• Here is a list of everything Tracey Jordan said this season on 30 Rock. I love that show and he especially cracks me up. Two of my favorites: “Pete, how am I going to live? I only have three hundred million dollars" and "I've been hearing, but I haven’t been listening."
  
• The trailer for the Sherlock Holmes move is up. I'm a big fan of Robert Downey, Jr. and love just about anything he's in. Check it out here.
• I am going to watch the Fox show "Glee" this evening. I've heard great things about it.
• Please please please set your DVRs for "So You Think You Can Dance" - it premieres this Thursday night. It. Is. Awesome. Even if you think it's not your thing, you will love it. This is one of the pieces from two years ago, it's titled "Hummingbird and Flower" or something like that. I think it is gorgeous.
  

PS - I just stole these photos from Jamie's crackbook page. They took the girls golfing last week and had a few photos. They were too cute not to share.

john with a very happy evy and campbell

campbell, jamie and evy - campbell and evy cracked me up on this one

Alrighty, check you later...

brad and patterson's goings-on & other quick items

Happy Friday everyone! I'm trying to get a quick post in while Lottie Sue plays, Coldplay is on the Today Show and she has been dancing when they perform. I love Coldplay and it seems that she does as well. She's so cute when she boogies, she moves her hips and shakes her arms like crazy.

Please let me introduce a new blog for you to peruse...Brad and Patterson's Going-On! I used to work with Patterson at HGTV, but I'm not there anymore and she moved on to a great job at UT (she's making the world a better place - see photo below). They are super cool people and I know you will enjoy all of their home projects (I need them to come over and help!). Also, Brad and Patterson are legendary-level Rock Band folk, I am currently star struck.

a recent photo from their blog

I just have a few photos from last weekend, we went to the lake and had a nice time. It was hot and we cooled off by staying in the water.

lottie sue is getting pretty good with utensils, it's messy but she's getting better

at least most of it is on her face, this is progress

And then we took another pleasure cruise, Lottie Sue REALLY loves to be out on the boat. She's really all about them, back at the house she is the assistant harbor master to her GranDaddy and she gets very excited when one comes into view. They are her main source of entertainment when she isn't in the pool. But here are some photos from the boat trip...

lottie sue boats it up

granbunny, matt and lottie sue sit tight as we cruise down the main channel

Becce called the other day, well actually Harlan accidentally called me and boy - he did not want to give the phone up. Becce took it from him and he was quite upset, Becce sent this photo as evidence. We have an old cell phone for Lottie Sue but she only wants mine.

I WANT THE PHONE MOMMY!

Babies are really funny, they get very mad if you take something away from them. Lottie Sue likes to do a big cry if you tell her the word "no" - I'm not kidding. If she tries to grab something she isn't supposed to have and you gently tell her "no" she breaks out the tears. Matt and I think it's funny, it doesn't last very long and she at least gets one tear out every time. What a drama queen.

Wednesday was Lottie Sue's first time in her Kangaroo Class at Sprout Studio - she loved it and I thought her head was going to explode when the music started. She's in the Bouncers group and it's an engaging hour of "kangaplay" which includes rhymes, songs, dance, story time and other little activities that stimulate senses and perception. I put her in there mainly because I need to get her around other little kids, she gets so excited when she sees little kids and I was starting to feel bad about it. This is great because she loved the class and she also loved being around the other kids. They range in ages from 10 - 18 months and it was really funny watching them. Little kids are crazee, they basically run around or crawl all over the place, concurrently putting anything and everything into their mouths. I'll see if I am able to get photos next time, it's pretty busy in there with all of the singing and jumping.

A few stories to read if you are so inclined:

• Lance Armstrong is quite the cassa nova.
• A Monet painting sold for $80 million the other day.
  

Alrighty, that's all I have for now. Everyone have a great weekend!