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...

lottie sue's worst nightmare & metz makes it by a whisker

Lottie Sue's worst nightmare should arrive around October 8th - yes, you are reading this correctly:

We have baby #2 on the way!

greetings earthlings

I say that because he kinda looks like an alien in this photo. A cute alien. The photo is front on with him on his right side. The two dark circles are his eyes there. It's really hard to make out but it's the only photo I have so I had to post it. Matt and I are VERY excited and have gotten over the initial surprise - we are so thankful to God for this wonderful blessing. And we don't mind at all if you add us to your prayer list, we have been praying for a joyful pregnancy (A LOT) this time without any baby or mommy drama.

I'm feeling well, my energy is back but food is just gross to me. I exist on cereal and soft serve yogurt (mmmmmm!) currently, but hope this ends soon.

PS - I think it's a boy.

PPS - I would like to say goodbye to Metz the cat, Kenley's best friend/family member for the past 19 1/2 years (yes, WOW). She was a one-of-a-kind kitty kat and will be missed. Terribly. We're thinking of you Kenley!

click to enlarge please

Night night.

happy birthdayz, the mockingbirds & other items

Kenley celebrated her birthday on Wednesday - I'm a little late but HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

(don't ask) looking good!

Harlan also celebrated his big #2 on Sunday and I will post some photos of our cute boy once Becce goes through them and sends them over. I can't believe he is 2 - whoa. But I do have a photo of Harlan's soccer team, it's hilarious. Harlan is the fourth one from the right and he looks like he's about to throw something (?). Becce said all they do is run around basically and I would guess that is enough because they all look to be around 2. I can't image Lottie Sue kicking a ball consistently - or sharing for that matter.

i introduce to you, the mockingbirds

I also thought of a few Lottie Sue-isms for you...

• Lottie Sue LOVES latex gloves. She loves to wear only one and she makes me wear them with her. We come across them all the time between PDO and doctor visits. They always let us grab a handful so we have a supply.
• If Lottie Sue is done with you she gives you a flat "BYE" - this means that she wants you to leave and she is fine by herself. I get this when I drop her off or she has a toy she doesn't want to share or play with me. If she is excited about a food item I give her I am always told to get lost.
  
• She loves to pretend sleep, she will lay a blanket/tissue/towel on the floor then lies down and does a fake snore. It's adorable. The new thing with it this week is that she asks me to rub her back while she "sleeps".

Here I have a few photos of Lottie Sue, the first one is her on the couch eating an apple (loves them).

laid back

And here she is having tea time with Puppy.

she is really into having tea and pretend cooking/eating

This is a photo of her begging/pouting when I wouldn't give her the camera.

act your shoe size and not your age

I went over to Jo's a couple of weeks ago and have a few photos of the kids. Lottie Sue and Jack played together really well. Here are a few photos of the kiddos.

good kids

I leave you with a few items for your entertainment, enjoy:

• The New Yorker has a contest where you can caption a cartoon for the magazine. Get your creative juices flowing, and enter here.
• Here's a story on the crossword guru, Will Shortz, interviewed by Time.
• John Locke lives again on Lost.

Here's to a happy Friday and a great weekend. I hope that I am finally over this cold (second on ein three weeks - nice) and that I can get back in the swing of things. Next week Matt and I travel to NYC with the Gilmores for a long weekend. CANNOT WAIT - I'm already there...

Peace.

parainfluenza III & we partied like it was 1999

This week has been pretty terrible, Lottie Sue had a virus that landed her in the hospital for five days. FIVE DAYS! It's a long long long story, but we are so happy that she is on the mend. We came home yesterday but she is still a mess, she does not feel well at all. We are trying our best to keep her comfortable and entertained but it is hard as nothing is fun for her when she feels like poo.

I was so good last weekend, I completed four posts and I was going to post them every other day but that just didn't happen. So be sure to check the blog this week as we'll have new posts up several times. OK, here's our post from NYE...

Jonathan had a NYE party and it was so much fun! He and his lovely Tabby are wonderful hosts. Here's the invite, I say JP never looked better.

looking good

We shipped Lottie Sue off to Gramma and Papaw's, so we only have one of her and here it is.

lottie sue on new year's day, wearing marty's hat

And here are a few photos from the party, doesn't everyone look dapper?

tabby puckers up

mr. and mrs. america

kenley, moi (and matt) and jo looking gorgeous as usual

shonnie bear and patterson

jennifer and tabby strike a pose

marty and shawn

megan dances up a storm and looks very cool doing so

jennifer and will ring in the new year

mr. t and blake

kenley, jo and mrs. t (aka, cheri)

patterson and brad

amy and seth

marty gives it his best shot

We spent New Year's Day playing Rock Band 2 and Mortal Kombat with the Smiths, Gilmores and the Masons. We spent the day in our pajamas. It was awesome. More to come later!

old halloween photos

I'm totally stealing Brad and Patterson's blog post here, thanks for the inspiration! This photo of Brad's Halloween costume cracked me up. He was a redneck last year, and boy does he have it down...

hitting a little too close to home?

And here you'll see the old photos I found - good times! I love Halloween, it's like a costume ball.

kenley as a floozie, carrie as a brownie, then on top cera as
elton john (which cracks me up to this day), me as prince and becce as a geisha

um yes, i won "best costume" that night

jonathan as a dork (i.e., too cool to wear a costume) with carrie

matt with the greers

And I can't tell you how many man hours Matt put in to his "Man In Wind" costume...it was inspired by our time in Chicago. It was pretty great. And it was the only thing to survive the fire that took that room down, go figure.

matt won "most creative" that night

And these are from a Halloween party in Chicago that the Chuns threw. It was so much fun and people had awesome costumes.

sigfried and roy (lots of time went in to these outfits)

teresa as ron weasley with bob dylan

the chuns (susan and phil) as punky brewster and hulk hogan

And this is us and the Smiths from a few years ago.

mr. t, strawberry shortcake, the bee girl from the
blind melon video and rupert from survivor

OK, I'm off for now and I'm still trying to figure out LS's costume. I had nothing but the best intentions of making one for her but I don't see that happening. Time to get creative. Later!