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...

patterson is gonna have a baby, time to celebrate

cupcakes by carrie, super duper cute

Oh yes, ooh and ahh over the cupcakes...Carrie made these and they are the cutest things. Ever. But you'll see a lot of cute things in this post (Patterson, cupcakes, friends, Sophia and etc.), so get used to it. I'll start with a few photos of the decorations and food. Enjoy.

the adorable diaper cake

here we have the punch/favor/flower/cupcake table

let's single out the flowers (arranged by matt - he's gifted) and the cupcakes

And now I would like to share the eating/chatting photos.

the mommy-to-be gets pinned by her mom

yummy yummy in our tummies

megan chats with baby sophia and courtney

everyone enjoying pleasant conversation

patterson and lila catch up

sophia is all smiles

faith (excellent RB-er) and megan

here we have kerri (patterson's lovely sister) with beth and carrie

carrie and her shoes

megan ponders something important

here i am with faith and megan

shon telling a story

patterson catching up with courtney and faith (they live out-of-town)

shon striking a pose

and another, hot to trot

patterson with megan and her mom

Now let's move on to the opening of the gifts, Patterson's car was full on the ride home.

the loot

kerri gave baby boy wilson a complete hawaiian outfit - it was soooo cute

patterson basking in the love

i was on trash removal duty

patterson and the diaper dekor

sophia helping out

patterson reading one of the cards

super cute sleep onsie

adorable shoes - i love these

patterson's mom gave her a few too-cute-for-words outfits - here's one

here's another - i love the crabs

and finally swim trunks for next year - adorable!

beth made sure baby boy's bathtime was taken care of - the whale tub is so cute

lila hooked patterson up with the dwell baby items - super hip

At one point we made everyone pose for photos - looking GOOD!

patterson with her mom (margaret) and sister (kerri)

patterson with faith and courtney (with baby sophia)

patterson with the knoxville gang (lila, moi, patterson, beth, shon, carrie and megan)

the hostesses with the lady of honor

And the day wouldn't be complete without prop photos...

patterson taking the diaper cake out of the oven

voila! it's done!

And we even had professional "to go" boxes for the cupcakes. Did we think of everything or WHAT?

they look even cuter in this box

So that's all I have from the shower. Now all we have to do now is wait on the baby to arrive. The anticipation is killing me!!!