3rd and 9th Birthday Photos

I finally got the girl’s birthday day photos done! Yay! But, I don’t know if I’ll go back to Picture People. They only allotted 20 minutes in total for both girl and I feel like the photos were hurried. It didn’t help that it was a rainy, humid day. Soso’s hair was getting frizzy so I tied it back, but once piece kept falling off and the bow I put on her didn’t look right in the photos… Eh, whatever. It’s over and at least I have a couple of decent photos to put on the wall one of these days. I’m afraid D will be right about it taking me months to get the photos actually printed out.

My favorite photo of the two of them.

D’s favorite of Punk.

My favorite because this represents her personality.

The obligatory birthday year photos.

The best photo of Soso because in every other photo, she had a piece of hair sticking out.

See what I mean?

Also, the new header are the photos I’ll have printed and up above our fire place.

What I Got For Mother’s Day

He did it!  They did it!  D, S and P gave me the priceless gift of sleeping in until precisely 7:25 AM on Sunday!  I can’t remember the last time I slept that late.  Actually, I do.  A little over 2 years ago,  before Punk joined out family.

I was totally kidding when I mentioned to D the gift I would really like.  So I wasn’t expecting him to try, let alone be successful.  He planned with Soso by having his and the girls’ clothes ready in Soso’s room.  Soso apparently was so excited about this plan, she woke up early and was already dressed by the time Punk woke up.  She helped D dress Punk.  Punk stayed quiet. They sneaked out of the house and out to breakfast all before 7 AM.

I just wish I had known so I could have slept later!  Unfortunately, when I saw it was 7:25 and all was quiet, I woke up to investigate.  And once I’m physically up, I couldn’t crawl back into bed again.

Apparently, all the local diners didn’t open until 7AM so D and girls enjoyed breakfast at a near by…

Seriously the best Mother’s Day gift ever! And I got my hour for the pedicure!

Monday Musings… on Wednesday

Because I’ve been sitting in a jury room for the past two days.  The first day, no one was even called down until 2:30.  Fortunately the rest of us got dismissed by 3 PM. But do you know how tiring it is to do  nothing bu sit and read for 6 hours? It’s actually completely exhausting.  I’m just glad it’s over for another 3, hopefully more years.

Weekend has been a blur as usual and now that it’s Wednesday, mostly forgotten. What did we do??? Um.  Hm.  Geez.  Oh yeah, we had… uh… a dinner at a family’s house! Okay. Phew. I was starting to panic about my early memory loss.  At D’s Peruvian cousin’s house.  Which by the way turned out to be a birthday celebration for her that she didn’t tell us about.  There were Peruvian food, including very authentic cui. If you don’t what that is I’m not going to explain it to you.  There was lots and lots of alcohol. That side of family can really drink!  D has to “man up” and take 2 shots before he could to go home. Poor thing didn’t feel so well later on.

What else…  Lenten retreat for Soso where we made crafty Lenten related things that we’re now supposed to use throughout the season. If I can remember to…

Made my Meatless Monday meal, eggplant parm!  This dish is perfect meatless meal for those that miss the meaty feel.  It’s a very meaty feeling eggplant parm. Punk actually thought it was chicken.

Speaking of Punk, another adoro-moment… She’s really into her Lucky dog, a 101 dalmatian puppy she got for her 1st birthday or Christmas while we were waiting to get her.  Anyhoo, she loves him so much and he’s starting to have the Velveteen Rabbit look. Anyhoo again, the other day, she was cradling him and cooing… seriously cooing, “Hi, sweetheart.” O.M.G. SO. CUTE.  I have no idea where she picked up the word “sweetheart” as we do not use that term. Must have been at daycare.

We’re also super busy getting ready for our “family” talk for Pre-cana on Saturday. We’re so not ready.  As much as we’ve been enjoying volunteering with the Pre-cana team for the last 5 years, this may be our last year.  Sadly, it has started to become a burden and not a joy.

What else? Oh, in browsing through our photos, I came up on this classic video of Soso from 2009. I can’t believe I never posted this! It’s hilarious, at least to us.  Enjoy!