Halloween

It's only July, but in our house it is all about Halloween this week! I love little kids because they don't really understand the difference in holidays, seasons, etc...everything all kind of runs together, like last Christmas when Melanie had to wear her ladybug Halloween costume on Christmas morning, plus asked Santa Claus to bring her a "bug cake" like she had on her birthday. 3 holidays all thrown into Christmas Day, so it didn't surprise us at all when she started discussing Halloween.

Well, she has decided what we are all going to be for Halloween. She, of course, will be Hannah Montana. I know, it's shocking! :) "Meredith is going to be a pumpkin, Daddy is going to be a pirate, and Mommy....well, Mommy is going to be.....well, Mommy, for Halloween, will be....a hot dog." A hot dog?!?! Where in the world did that come from? It's hilarious and totally Melanie, but a hot dog? And now, of course, Eric is asking me if my mom has started making my hot dog costume yet...she is just so random, but so funny! At least it's not as weird as what she told Lulu she was going to be....she keeps saying that Lulu is going to be a blanket! And for a while, since she was going to be Hannah Montana, she wanted Magoo to be either Lola from Hannah Montana, or she wanted her to be Nick Jonas....seriously, child....you are 2 years old (well, almost 3, but what 2 or 3 year old comes up with this stuff???)

I really do love being a mom.... :)

Eric was on the radio today!

So, Eric was on the radio today...he didn't seem to make a big deal of it, but I knew he was excited about it because he told me about it this morning before he left, and then about 10 minutes before he was supposed to go on the air, he texted messaged me again with the radio station and the time he would be on...AM 1450 at 9:05 a.m. Well, AM 1450 is a radio station out of Cartersville, which we didn't get very well at the house so I loaded the girls in the car and I started driving towards 575, hoping that we could hear it a little better. It was totally worth the trip out! When he got on the radio, Melanie got all excited that "Daddy is in the radio!" which was so cute. But Meredith started going NUTS! She was shouting out, "Da, da, da" over and over again, and if she hadn't been strapped in the car seat, she would have gone out the window....she was looking for Daddy! So then Melanie is sitting back there trying to explain that "Daddy is in the radio, not in the car, Goober!" over and over and over again! But from what I was able to hear, Eric sounded awesome! He sounded so professional and important and grown up...he really knows what he is talking about! NorthWest Bank and Trust is lucky to have him! I am really proud of him and what he does for a living.

After we finished listening to Daddy on the radio, we of course had to turn on....what else, but Hannah Montana. The funniest part is when Melanie is singing the song "Ice Cream Freeze" and the one line is, "Do the ice cream freeze, strike a pose..." Well, everytime that line comes on, I hear a little voice in the back singing, "Do the ice cream freeze, strike your po's..." Melanie has called her ponytails "po's" since she learned how to talk, and whenever she sings that line, she grabs whatever "po" she has in her hair! So, so funny!!!

Meredith is getting so close to walking. I think she may have taken her first step today but I am not 100% sure because as it happened, Melanie fell off the couch so I was helping her. I couldn't really tell if she took a step or not because of all the chaos at the time! She is going to do it any day now!

We are taking our first real family vacation next week to St. Augustine and I am so excited about it. We are going to have a lot of fun!!

Melanie-isms

The things kids say! Melanie has been on a roll this week....I guess I will start with explaining the picture above. She got dressed herself, and then went into my sock drawer and pulled out my winter socks, and put them on. She ran in and told me, "Mommy, I am in my soccer outfit!" and I think, "Aww, how cute. Don't know how she knows what soccer players wear, but cute." She then proceeds to go over to Magoo, rub her "Little Bald Head" and say, "...and this is my soccer ball!" Poor Magoo!

Her father also has her convinced that "Ogama" (Obama) is best friends with Icky Bear. I left her down with Eric the other day when I was doing something, and she told me that she doesn't like Ogama because he is best friends with Icky Bear*, and she "hates democraps." Not democrats, demoCRAPS. So when we were in Borders the other day, she sees the big display of Obama books and starts shouting out how she hates democraps and that Ogama and Icky Bear* are best friends and that they go on vacation together. And then she proceeded to start turning all the books with his picture on in the other way! I didn't even know what to do.

We also went to Chick-fil-A (or Tick-a-lay as Melanie calls it). And out comes the big dressed up cow. She decided she wanted to go see him, so her aunt Lulu took her to see him outside. The next thing I see is the cow grabbing and shaking his head no, and Melanie laughing. She told the cow that he "looks tasty!" Now, I will say that she had some help from Lulu on that one, but she still said it to the cow at Tick-a-lay!

I'm trying to remember if that is all from this week...I am sure there is more that I am missing, but I will add it later if I remember. Also, I can't miss talking about Magoo in a post...she got her first pedicure this week. I painted her nails Cha-Ching Cherry, which was what I had on my toes when I had her. I did the same to Melanie when I first painted her toes...she got Cajun Shrimp polish, which was what I had on when she was born! Here is a picture of Meredith's toes!

Scamp

My family had Scamp for the last 15 and a half years. He was really the only dog I had, and he was the best dog ever, and now he's gone, and I am really sad. I mean really sad. I knew it was coming, but it doesn't change the fact that he's gone and I will never see him frap around again. We went over last night to say good bye, and Melanie and Meredith both got to play with him last night. Meredith was actually out in the front yard crawling around after him, and it was so cute. She loved him...so did Melanie.

I was 12 when we got him from a farm in Fayetteville. Leeanne wanted to name him "Pongo" from 101 Dalmations (she was 4) and when Mom came up with Scamp from a book she always used to read us, Leeanne sat there, crossed her arms, and said, "Fine, well, then his name is Scamp PONGO Wesley." He was a good dog, just crazy! The one time in our old house I was doing homework with a bowl of ice cream next to me and he snuck in there and started eating out of my bowl without me knowing. I have a scar on my nose still from Scamp when we were playing when he was a puppy and he caught me. I used to laugh at the old house whenever he would get excited and he would literally do laps around the entire house! Family room, kitchen, dining room, up the stairs, all the way to Bobby's room, and back down again!

I don't really know what else to say but I am going to miss him a lot. And I am glad that he had Mom and Bobby with him when he went, and I am thankful for them that they had the strength to be with him, because I don't think I could have been.

What a weekend!

Well, Eric and I had the best weekend to celebrate our 5th anniversary. We went to Athens on Friday night and went out to some of our old favorites, and then spent the night at the Foundry Park Inn, which was where we spent our wedding night....that was so sweet of E to book for us! Then Saturday we headed down to Jekyll Island for the second part of our trip, where we got to stay in our free room that E won for us, plus free breakfast in the Grand Dining Room the next morning! When we got down there, it was pouring down rain but made the best of it by doing a little shopping for the girlies, walking on the beach during the 10 minutes it was just sprinkling, and making our way to St. Simons, where we ate at Barbara Jean's (YUMMY!!!) and watched the Braves lose. By the time we got back the rain had stopped so we decided to take a dip in the pool and when we got back to our room there was a bottle of champagne and strawberries from the Jekyll Island Club Hotel for our anniversary!! It was so nice! We went and had a night swim, listening to these 2 guys complain about how there weren't any lights in a pool that was 90 + years old, and then we went and played cards on the porch (and of course, drank our champagne!) Sunday morning we went to the dining room to have our breakfast and since my hubby can't sleep past like 4 in the morning, I needed some caffeine asap, so I ordered a diet coke. It was brought to me on a plate, on a DOILY!! The fanciest diet coke I have ever had! We had a great breakfast of shrimp, spinach, and tomato omelets (Melanie would have loved it!) and then hit the beach and the pool (because the weather was amazingly beautiful) before we had to head home.

Then we get home....we pick the girls up from Mom Mom's house, where we were informed that Melanie learned how to play Go Fish over the weekend. Seems innocent enough....I take the girls home for a bath and Melanie was playing with her foam letters and numbers.....once again, innocent enough......then she takes the number 4, sticks it between her butt cheeks, turns her butt to me and screams out, "Do you have any 4's? GO FISH!!!" Now, mind you, this is my not even 3 year old baby doing this! The only reassuring thing about it was that she knew it was the number 4!!!! We called Mom Mom and she said that yes, she learned how to play Go Fish, but not like that!!! What a crazy kid!!!

E and I had a great weekend, but we missed our babies and are so glad to be back!!! I am listening to them playing downstairs right now....it's the best noise in the world!!

Life in general....

Since my baby just turned 1, my older baby is about to be 3, and Eric and I are about to celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary tomorrow, I decided I wanted to try and do something to help me preserve our family memories. There are so many sweet and cute things that the girls do, and I am so afraid that I am going to begin to forget them, and it makes me sad to think about that! For example....the other night Melanie had a "perftict idea". After Meredith went to sleep, she wanted to play cards (which for her is the Disney Princess Memory game). So we sat down and played Memory, and when we were all done she looked up at me and said, "Mommy, I love my peezles, and I love my cards, but I love you the best." Talk about melting my heart!! That was honestly the sweetest thing she has ever said to me. Or, when we were walking in to Kroger the other day...she was wearing her bathing suit and blue cover up and her Hannah Montana glasses, and I said, "Come on, diva, we need to get going!" and she looked at me and said, "Mommy, I am NOT a diva, I am a pop superstar!" The kid is not even 3 years old yet! It's the things like this that I want to make sure I remember.

We just finished up our last day of princess camp today. The best day that I saw was on Tuesday when Melanie was Princess Jasmine. They all sat on their magic carpets and were imagining what they were looking down at. One little girl said she saw a cow, one said a horsey, one said she saw her mommy and daddy. Our little girl? Stares at the floor and says, "All I see is tape." She was staring at the spots marked where they were to stand. It took the teacher a few seconds to stop laughing. I don't know if I have ever been so happy to have had the video camera going!

And Meredith....she had more fun at princess camp than most of the girls there! She crawled around, danced, found herself in the mirror, stole the stars off the floor....and the teacher was so great, she didn't even care! We had her birthday party up at the pool last weekend and had a lot of fun. She was having such a good time that she wouldn't even get out of the pool to eat her pizza - I had to put it on the side of the baby pool and she stood in the pool eating not 1, but 2 pieces of pizza! She is our little Magoo......I really never thought that I could love 2 people as much as I love these 2! As difficult as it can be sometimes, I couldn't imagine my life without them!



Now on to us......married 5 years already?!?!?! That is so hard to believe. 5 years ago I was on my way up to Athens to get married, probably about to get ready for the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner right now. I don't think if I could, I would change anything about that day...it was perfect....I think back on the last 5 years and I just feel.....tired! Great, but tired. We have done A LOT in the last 5 years!!

Let's hope I can keep up with this....I need an outlet so I don't let all my emotions build up on me!! :)