Weekly Winners

We've had a busy weekend!! Party central you could say....80's party on Friday for my sister in law, Jess...she really knows how to throw a party. She turned 30 and celebrated it big! Princess party for Shorty McShort and her friends on Saturday and today we'll have family over to celebrate her turning 4 today. I still want to post a letter to her, but will have to do it later. Better late than never, right? So here they are, this week's weekly winners.

October 5-11, 2008

Poor Princess Kitty...can't catch a break, I got this at Target...it's for dogs, but fits her great!!! Now I have a little elf helper for Christmas :) mwahhahahaha

Jess & Melynda, struttin' their 80's stuff!

Mr. Tall & I...(do you see Ms. Pac Man on the TV in the back?)
Shorty asked what happened to my hair...

Princess Love

Princess Mommies

Princess Jess came to visit all the little princesses

cupcake sammy...ever had one?

There you have it. More to come later, hopefully.....
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Princess Party

So here is what I've been working on.....

cupcakes for the princesses that will arrive in a few hours

dance party floor for the princess ball

princess gift bags complete with diamond ring pops

a little pin the tiara on the princess should be a fun game

crown making 101

It's official, Princess Shorty McShort is one day away from being 4. Dear God help me.

Four years ago today I was at SW Medical Hospital in a bed. I'd had several rounds of the miso thing to "ripen" my cervix. Wasn't working. Then I got a little pitocin. Not much progress. Later this day four years ago I got the gel at bedtime and then my water broke around 3am. About 12 hours later, a TON of pitocin and a c-section later Shorty McShort was born. And my life has never been the same. (wipe eyes now, sap is done, moving on)

And I'm okay with that.

Bring on the princesses! Let's party. Princess McShort planned this party, it's all her ideas (with guidance from mom and dad). She helped with the cupcakes (shed did the sprinkles), colored the stones on the tiaras for the game, helped hang streamers and cut ribbons. I love her excitement!! Bring on the fun!!!

Haiku Friday Look Back

So I'm thinking Haiku Friday is the perfect time to reminisce and look back at my Shorty McShort's life. So here we go.... (forgive the fact that i'm totally taking pictures of my scrapbook...we've had a couple computer crashes and a theft since her birth....digital of the early days don't exist on my machine!)


so greatly pregnant
you took your precious sweet time
two freaking weeks late























completely worth it
instant love is what we felt
like nothing before

eight pounds nine ounces
twenty and one-half inches
good size they all said

first year flew by fast
pictures taken monthly--oy!
oh so innocent




then you were one year
and the time started warping
almost four years old

you're talking, walking
turning into a young girl
who knows what she wants

very curious
so smart, so independent
growing up so fast

More waxing nostalgic to come and the big 4 birthday is Sunday...Princess Party on Saturday with her princess friends. 80's party tonight at sister-in-law's and family party at my place Sunday...let the fun begin! (and house cleaning!!!)

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What the Efff is TRON?!

So as I'm peeing this evening after tucking Shorty in post stories, I hear this rattle rattle, paper sounding noise that seems to go on for evah! I think, what is that? And then I hear the hubs say, I've got my costume...come see. I tell him he'll have to hang on a sec cuz i'm mid stream.

I wash my hands and make way to the bedroom....a full 12 feet at least. Yeah, long walk. I know. And what do I see? Hubs has a large piece of paper over him with some black lines and the word, "TRON". I say, what is tron? He's like, uh, what? And I'm like totally trying to not make fun of his "costume" for his sister's 80's party on Friday.

So back to TRON. He says something that I don't understand and I am trying to get him to understand that I simply don't have the foggiest as to what the fuck he's talking about. (at school I'd tell the children I have no schema for TRON and then we'd work to build our schema together)

So...back to TRON. I know I could google it, but enlighten me readers reader. What the hell is TRON?! And I'd like to mention....hubs was reading over my shoulder trying to bully me into making changes to my post. I just told him to, "post a comment, it's my effing blog".

Nuff said, what the hell is TRON?

And we'll be back to sweet posts tomorrow about how my once baby is a grown up girl.

My Baby Is Turning 4!

So in less than a week, my "baby" is going to be four years old. Seriously people...where did those four years go? It may sound cliche, but honestly...it was like yesterday when Mr. Tall and I brought her home. Set her car seat on the floor and promptly asked each, "what do we do with her now?"

Obviously we figured out what to do with her. We got through her colicky stage, her "I don't wanna sleep at night stage", teething, transitioning to "real" food, crawling, walking and talking. I have to say that with each stage I've been ready to say goodbye to something that makes me crazy and welcome in the next stage.

Her current thing that drives me up a tree is just the sassy mouth. Honestly, I have absolutely no idea wherever she may have inherited it. (what?! me?! shut up!) But yeah, her latest game is to be a parrot. She'll just start and stop at odd times. I think she gets that it's an instant button for me. And she HATES it when we turn it on her. (if you're not familiar with parrot, it's when you repeat everything the other person says)

What I love about her current stage is her independence and love of learning. She's absolutely excited about all things new. She's finally (willing) able to play by herself for a while too. I love that....a lot! Her independence has been interesting too as of late. An example is the fingernail painting here. Just gotta love her ability to do things "all by herself".

I've been bad about scrapbooking lately and have not even really put many words down about what Shorty has been up to. With my poor memory I need to get on this or I will forget! So this week I'll attempt to get some thoughts down as she eeks closer to four years old.

I dedicate this week to Shorty McShort and will try to get some pics of her true baby stage up. We'll see. It's Monday and I'm already tired.

So I'll leave my readers reader with this question....How do you remember the moments with your children and not forget? How do you celebrate each birthday? Comment away. NOW! Go leave a comment...help me out here.....

Weekly Winners

September 28-October 4, 2008


Look Mom, I did it all by myself!
(while daddy was in the bathroom)

Does my hair look pretty? I did it all by myself!

Heather with her beautiful twins, Emmett and Magnolia

She's such a natural at this mom thing!!

Dried coffee in my mug....been sitting on my desk for a week or so....looks sick, but smelled really good! (I put it to soak before I left my classroom for the weekend!)

Ballet has started again....lots of ballerinas in this class!

Shorty McShort doing her "elevee"

Have a great week! I hope to post more this week, but we'll see how that all works out! For more weekly winners click here.

Haiku Friday

october is here
simply unbelievable!
time flies by too fast

the leaves are falling
shorty will have a birthday
then the pumpkin patch

how to make time slow
i feel like i'm missing much
just not enough time

do i do too much?
what to give up? i don't know...
want to do it all!