Tis the Season.......

We put up the tree while Sydney was taking her nap the other day. When she got up it was all "Ooooo" and "wow!" and "Petty!" (Pretty) Then we let her put on her ornaments. They were plastic ones w/ disney princesses on them. She now knows that they are hers and points them out. She also likes to take them off the tree and play with them. These are the only ornaments she touches, thank goodness. She also already has some presents under there (Thanks to Mops and Pops Perry!) Other fun Christmas activities we've done include singing and dancing to the christmas songs on the radio. Her favorite so far is "All I want for Christmas is you" by Mariah Carey. She's got the

"youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!"

part down pat and she twirls and twirls until she gets dizzy and falls down. I'll have to see if I can get it on video and try to post it.

New Moon

Now I know the pics are a little blurry (thanks to a crappy cell) But yes that is Rob Pattinson and those abs were hard! Like cardboard! OK It is Rob, but he's made of paper. What can I say? A girl can dream can't she? I showed this pic to Jesse and he did a double take. Then he said he knew it was fake, cause I was sitting in the car next to him (jess) and not somewhere else with Rob. Hahaha! I can window shop, but I just won't go in the store.

This is me with my baby sis April Lauren (middle) and cousin Kayla (far left) KayKay was Jane, Snoops (AL) was Alice and I was trying to be Rosalie. You can't tell in this pic but we are all about 4 shades paler than we normally are. All in all it was a blast. We haven't had an outing with all five of us in years. This won't be topped for a while.....at least not until Eclipse comes out!

By the way, in case you were wondering: Sydney and Jesse stayed at Yaya and Pop's house (my parents) and hung out there all day.

Bug's new room

Today I finally finished decorating Sydney's bedroom. As much as she loves Pooh, her room was way too baby-themed. So.....Now it's a fairy garden! I found some old photos online and printed them out, framed them and turned it into a wall collage of fairies. I hung a canopy over her bed and paper lanterns around her room in a sort of border-type fashion. I also put up some new sheer fabric over her black-out curtains to brighten up her room a little bit. And the cherry on top: A fabric dragonfly above her dresser/changing table. Here's the best part about all of this: I didn't pay a cent and I didn't even have to sew a thing.

I got all the fabric for free from Target (they were going to throw away their curtain displays in the dumpster, can you believe that?) I already had the frames, and wind chime. I made the lanterns myself w/ a little tape and some decorative scissors. Even though I'm super handy with the sewing machine I just tied and pinned the fabric into place where I wanted it. I'm very pleased with how it all came together. And Sydney just "ooo"ed and "aaaahh"ed all afternoon.

Pretty canopy over John Deere

Aunt Mindy's frog hamper and Bug's humidifier blend right in

This is the biggest bug in here, at least until Sydney gets bigger!

Ballet w/ a bite!

I have a ballet buddy. Her name is Cathy. She and I have gone to most of the Ballets this season at the Koger Center in Columbia. Some have been better than others (like the Hootie and the Blowfish one complete w/ live band performance!) but so far my favorite is Dracula! Mr. Starrett (Director/choreogrpher) is brilliant! and there are several of the dancers who have become my absolute favorites (Jose and Regina especially) And like I said before this is the Best so far. The music they chose for this show suprised me. There was hard rock, and lasers and smoke. It did get a little gory, but in a funny way (blood doesn't natually squirt that far) All in all at the end of the show, we left raving!

Best Ballet Ever!!!

Mommy is not slacking off......

OK I know it's been a while since I blogged, but I've been busy! I had to finish the pom-poms for Syd's costume, work full time, attending a funeral, visiting my parents in Fairfax, killing off the inhabitants of the Roach hotel, Clean and disinfect the roach motel, fixing up and altering two of my costumes (cause there wasn't enough time to make two new ones), and of course taking care of Sydney, laundry, dishes...ok i'm gonna stop. I promise. But on the plus side, I feel like I've accomplished a LOT. Just to show some of my accomplishments this week: (just be glad i didn't post the Roach Hotel ones!)

Bedtime Routine

Every bedtime and Nap time we go through the same routine. Play with daddy or mommy or Aunt Ceh-Ceh then wherever we are in the house we race to her bed. It looks a little like this:



PS Look below to see what we're doing for Halloween!! Caution: It's goofy!

Insane, are we?

Halloween is my favorite time of year! Mostly for the fact that as an adult, I can play dress-up and get away with it. This year the theme of our yard is going to be an Insane Asylum in the goofiest sense. Complete with "Beware of Duck" (yes, duck) sign and an easter-egg tree. And of course no halloween decor would be complete without the goofy grin Jack-o-lantern! I got a few weird looks while i was putting up the easter eggs, but it's all in good fun. Halloween gets too scary sometimes. With Sydney being so little, I want her to think it's fun, not scary.
By the way...Sydney Loves the pumpkin and so far thinks the eggs are great! We even had to leave a few down so she could play with them.