wordless wednesday

oh christmas tree!

2008
sweet cheeks and her cousin, ellis, in front of our tree.
our first real tree with sweet cheeks.


2009
sweet cheeks with a silly pose in front of our tree. real again, of course.
love the smell, hate the messy needles everywhere.
i love this tree so much more than last years.
the little one decided we needed more hot pink on our tree, so we added garland and decorations in that shade. hot pink is the new holiday red says sweet cheeks. she is always up on the latest trends that one.
we think it turned out pretty.

all by myself

sweet cheeks is growing up too fast for me. i am constantly telling her to slow it down because i miss my baby. she just laughs at me. she enjoys growing up and independence way too much. seriously. too much. like closes the door when she gets ready in the morning. like brushes her own hair, washes her face, and brushes her teeth by herself.


after school the other day, sweet cheeks hopped right into her booster seat and buckled herself up. i smiled and told her that i am sad that there isn't much left that she needs me to do for her. she does it all on her own now. she smirked proudly back at me. then at a sweet attempt to make me feel better, she said 'except for dinner.' and that isn't much because truth be told, 4 days a week the husband cooks, 2 days we eat out, and that leaves me with 1 pathetic dinner a week (usually soup, sandwiches, or pasta- how weak is that).


so what does sweet cheeks do when we get home? she ran right to the kitchen, got out a measuring cup, and asked me for flour and eggs. i asked her what she needed it for, to which she quickly responded, "to make my own dinner."


she made herself chocolate chip pancakes. it was pretty impressive. she did the measuring and the mixing. i did the actual stove part and told her she had to at least be able to reach the stove in order to use it.


so just like that, she proved to be miss independent by making her own dinner. for a second, i was a bit weepy by the fact that my little baby isn't my little baby. i got over that quickly when i saw how much she ate of her very own pancakes.



so proud


so tasty

wordless wednesday

lovely

one of my favorite websites to view for furniture and bedding is house inc.

annette tatum also shares her catalogs on her website and i have fallen in love with so many of the nurseries and bedding prints.

every one (i couldn't share all of them as there are so many) has the most beautiful colors and prints mixed so perfectly together. the only word i can use to describe them all is lovely.

these are just a few of my favorites-








i also enjoy reading her blog, the well dressed home.

a silly sundae with two nuts

saturday night sweet cheeks had a slumber party. her cousin spent the night with her and what a time they had.

my sister and i are best friends. we are so fortunate to have one another (i, mainly, am the lucky one!). the fact remains that neither of our daughters has a sister, but believe both girls are lucky to have one another. i think cailyn is going to be the closest thing sweet cheeks gets to a sister. and they do behave like sisters!

so saturday night was a great time for both.

they pulled out all the silliness possible!

it started out as a simple picture of the girls laughing during snack time....



and it turned into a photo shoot of 2 major silly gooses....





the girls ended the night by sleeping in sleeping bags on mattresses that were on the floor. it doesn't get any better than that. really. it doesn't.

i so love watching them together and imagine it is a preview into the past of what my sister and i were like.

wordless wednesday