Just Call Her Rainbow Bright!

Hanging Out With Auntie Sara!

Yay Daddy's Home!

Today Sophia is going to have her first haircut!!

Ok it's more like a bang trim.

But still my heart strings are being pulled!

Her first haircut and her first Birthday all within a few days..my heart can't take it!

6 Random Things Part Deux

I was tagged by my friend Jen at Daily Mish Mash to do a meme of 6 random facts about me.

Then I remembered that I had done this Meme before. So I went back into the vaults of my blog to find it. There it was back in May...when I had only one bloggy friend! Yeah Amanda you know who you are!!

Looking back on my old posts was really cool and made me so glad that i started this blog.

Even though back then I seemed to be wittier and had more time to blog.

Lately I am too busy keeping up with an almost one year old. I don't blog when she is awake anymore only when she is napping, which seems to be less and less.

However if I want to accomplish anything for the day that is when I have to do it. Who needs showers or a clean house? Pshhh I don't. I'm coming to you live with a messy kitchen and bed head!

Soo with out further a do here is my new and exciting 6 random things about me!

If you want to look at my first ever meme click here!

1. My favorite snack in the whole wide world is popcorn popped in olive oil and sprinkled liberally with brewers yeast! It is so beyond tasty! My parents used to make this when we were kids. You may have never even heard of brewers yeast. It is a nutritional yeast full of vitamins and has a cheesy, nutty flavor. Sounds gross but is awesome!

2. If I know someone is coming over I go into a mad panic to clean my house. I can move in warp speed to clean my house when needed!

3. I like my fingernails really short.

4. I am newly obsessed with the toy isles in stores. Ever since we went looking to buy Sophia her first birthday present I have become obsessed. There are so many cool toys! They even have stuff that I loved as a kid. They have the Cabbage Patch Dolls that are the same as when I was young...even the same packaging. I wanted a Cabbage Patch soo bad when I was young. I remember seeing the dolls in their big boxes and drooling. I may have had the same reaction when I saw them a couple days ago. My Cabbage Patch dolls name was Lana Hannah. Do you remember your dolls name??

5. I am sick of cleaning bottles!! They never end.

6. I love watching the show Mad Men. I want to dress like I am a woman from the early 60's. I even want one of those old fashioned Playtex bras. I love the look of the era. I love men in suits.

So how was that for random?

Special Delivery!

Yesterday Sophia received her very first...1st birthday gift in the mail!!

It came all the way from Kansas!

Our awesome, very thoughtful friend Heather over at A Big Boy, A Baby Girl And A Precious Pug sent Sophia a birthday present! Heather has been fighting cancer and somehow through the midst of it all she managed to think of Sophia and send a gift! You rock Heather!!

Thank you so so much for the very fun gift!

I was going to wait and open it on Sophia's actual birthday...but the kid in me couldn't wait!!

Praise Jesus! I love my new toy! hehe...

And guess what happened this morning?

The very first thing she did was go to her toy box and pull out her new toy cell phone!!

I think it is a hit!!

Thanks again Heather, Ella and Skylar!!

Rockin The 'Pony'

As some of you have noticed Sophia has started rockin' a pony tail!

I love it.

However, her hair is at a funny stage.

I am too sentimental to cut her hair.

She could use a bang trim

But I am too sentimental.

I discovered itty bitty, teeny tiny elastics.

They rock.

Sorta.

Trying to put a teeny tiny 'pony' on a wiggly worm has proved challenging.

She tries to look up and see what I am doing. Then side to side to shake me off.

Hahaha her plan doesn't work.

The 'pony' is in.

Sorta.

I need to master the art of putting on an elastic.

It is harder than it looks.

It made me think... I need to practice braids.

I have never been good with hair.

By the time she can rock a braid I plan to be a braid champion.

(These pictures were taken after a playdate and a refusal of a nap)

I call this look Pebbles...

A Very Wordy Wednesday

Part One...

HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY!!

Chris had his MRI follow up yesterday. The news was great, fantastic even amazing! The tumor has not grown. Yipee. But the best part is that the tumor has actually shrunk! They said that this is rare considering the large size and the fact that radiation is meant to keep it from growing not to shrink it. Can I give a holla up to God!!

This brings me to my long winded Part Two....

To celebrate the good news we went for an early dinner at the Keg. Steaks all around. At this point Sophia had reached her limit on the days activities. She had a very short nap in the morning then we picked up Daddy from work and went to the Hospital for his follow up. She couldn't crawl and was a wiggly worm the whole time. She decided that today would be a good day NOT to eat. She does this often. It is enough to make me go insane. So while we are trying to eat our steaks at like 4:00 (we ate with the old people) she would do her high pitch scream, drop all her toys and food, and bang the table loudly. Ahem so I was like "maybe going out to dinner was a bad idea". We inhale our delish meals and go home. She has another short nap. She plays and plays. Surely she must be starving and I try to feed her again. Nope not going to happen. She plays and plays some more. No sign of tiredness. I look at the clock it's almost 10pm. My child is still on high speed energy level. What the heck?! She normally is exhausted by 7:30 - 8pm and is out for the night. I let her play and play some more. I give her a bath it is now almost 11pm. This is so very unlike us. Her routine is out the window (obviously) I lay her down in her crib still awake. She usually would just drift off to sleep. That would be too easy. Tonight she figures would be a good night to execute her 'standing in my crib all night' method. I am beside myself and cant figure out how to get her to sleep. I am exhausted. This 'standing in my crib' plan of hers went on for the whole night...I kid you not. I tried everything. Tried to let her sleep with me. That proved dangerous as she just wanted to crawl off the bed and use me as a drum. Did someone slip my child caffeine??!!!??? This thought went through my head multiple times through the night.

Needless to say Sophia is exhausted and is sleeping. She tried to execute her 'stand in the crib all through nap time' routine but it proved to difficult for her and ended up falling asleep.

I am also exhausted and am rambling on and on and on...sorry about that. I just needed to vent.

But yay for the shrinking tumor!

Ok I am done.

I might be delirious.

She did not just wake up?!!

Yes she did.

Pray for me.