Somethin' bout the Southland......

Crape Myrtles-I love them. I had always wondered what they were, and my friend Lu told me. I have a friend who is moving to Idaho (where she is from) and she was telling me how she will miss them because they aren't in Idaho-sad.

Day 21: Memories?

Tonight Abram was carrying around this star and saying "What's that?" Well it cracked me up because I have this picture (if I knew how to use a scanner I would show you) of me when I was little in a Christmas play. I guess I was the star of Bethlehem because I am holding a star (in the exact pose that Abram is in)and speaking into the microphone. The only memory I have of that day is that I didn't want to get down from the microphone. But, I could totally be making that up, Mom-do you remember what I am talking about? And for those of you saying, "That boy needs a haircut!" I know, so I gave him one tonight. I don't know what to do about the "wing" parts. I guess that's part of his natural curl he's inherited from both of us, I think it's pretty cute. I will admit, I am a bit biast. I cropped the pic, but now I am laughing because it totally looks like he is posing for Toddler GQ magazine!

Day 20: Some of our Favorites......

So maybe I almost forgot to post tonight and I totally made up a picture. These are some of our favorite stories. Only 10 more days until the challange is over!!

Happy Fourth of July!!!

We started off today with "patriotic pancakes"


Some goofin' around while folding laundry.....

A little bit of sidewalk paint AND chalk......


A little swimming action (sorry no pics, we were having too much fun)...
A little cookout at a friend's house-with a little bit of jumping on the trampoline...


A little bit of playing Steve Irwin with a cat (you can see the poor cat if you look closely).....


And after a bath, courtesy of some neighbors...a little bit of fireworks (Abram's first fireworks and he loved them!).


All in all, I would say it was a pretty awesome 4th of July, I hope you and yours had as much fun as we did!!

Day 18: A La Peanut Butter Sandwiches!!!

I am defiant, I know this. I think it's the redheadedness. So I had been told to wait until Abram was two for peanut butter by my former pediatrician. My current pediatrician kinda said to go for it. So I weighed my options, had out the benadryl just in case, and let him try it a couple days ago. Today is a day marked in history, his first peanut butter sandwich!

Day17: Abram's Girlfriend....

Some of you know her as "Little Red Riding Hood", but around here she is Abram's girlfriend.


Maybe I need to rewind. A year or so ago I was in Sam's and sometimes they have really cool stuff for toddlers. This was one of those days. It's a soft book with finger puppets in it, the story is Little Red Riding Hood. Within the past few months, this is one of Abram's favorite stories. When we first started reading it, I (naturally) was Little Red. Everytime we would begin the story and I would talk in LRR's voice and explain to Abram that we needed to take a cake to Grandma's house, and he would give her a kiss (several times, it was really cute). And months later he STILL kisses her at the beginning of the story, EVERYtime we read it. Kris is not very good at telling the story, b/c in this version (TODDLER) the wolf "runs away and never bothers anyone again" and Kris tells Abram that isn't really what happened. Well, after a playgroup a couple weeks ago at my house, the Grandma finger puppet is MIA. Maybe the wolf was tired of the "goody goody" version and decided to play out Kris's version instead.

Day 16: Spontaneous Hugs

I know that this picture is blurry, but I was caught off guard. You see, my cute little muffin sometimes spontaneously comes up and hugs my leg and then giggles and runs away. Yep, it melts my heart a little. 14 days to go Drea-we can do it!