Big Girl Bed!!

who is letting my tiny baby grow up??

so 2 over weeks ago my kid started crawling out of her crib.

WHY DOES SHE HAVE TO BE SO TALL & STRONG & SMART? i mean, come on.

so then we fought her to stay in the toddler bed. mostly it resulted in sleeping on the floor.
we pushed her toddler bed up against the side of the twin bed so she wouldn't fall out, but still had a large gap to GET out. this has resulted in sleeping mostly through the night. half the time she just asks to sleep in the big bed and points at it, wanting to sleep there. but it's a twin bed ON RISERS, so if she fell off it would definitely hurt. i finally bought a bed railing for the side and installed it today. moved everything back, taught her how to climb up & down out of the bed & then put her down for her first BIG GIRL NAP!

she barely fell asleep bc she was SOOOOOOOOO excited. i mean, look at this cheese???

First day of nursery!

Hooray! Hooray! Sitting through church and getting to pay attention....will to our primary class at least!
She is only 17 months but they said it was ok. My baby is getting so big!
She made a little"kite" thing she is  dragging around. Love her!

Captivated

First time watching The Sound of Music. She is loving it, as she should. I keep telling her this is a very important moment of her life :-)
Let's see if she watches more than 10 minutes...
And to update: yes,I sang her "you are 16 months going on 17 months..."

Tiny hiking shoes

Faye has tiny feet. Well, at least she did until this week. All the sudden nothing is fitting so we had to find some zapatos, pronto!
Kohls sends those free $10 cash things in the mail, plus we had some change left on a gift card, so off we went.
These little puppies were $35 originally! ARE YOU SERIOUS? I mean, who would pay $35 for shoes kids out-grow in 2 months? Even the cute tiny Tom's shoes are less than that! Anyway...
So these are half off, making them $17. Plus the Kohls cash, makes them $7, which is waaaay more remotely reasonable....plus a scratch off 15% at the register...ok...it's like they WANT me to have these shoes.
At the end our gift card had more on it than the  needed $6, so we got cash back. They actually gave me money to take these tiny shoes off their hands! Lol
Shoes she can wear on our first big family camping trip next week?! For Free!?
I'll take it! :-)

Banana bread

my little helper! she loves to help me put ingredients into the bowl, stir with the spoon, and of course lick it afterwards!

Family Picture

ya ya ya there are a TON of good ones with brad & me and all of brad's family... i may post some later, but what you really came here for was THIS little lady. she. is. gorgeous. i love her! 

(now if only we could get her to SMILE for a picture... it's like she see's a camera and immediately stops all smiling.. oh well.)

the moral of the story: love italians

Faye has had this weird diarrhea thing going on- like she's had it for 2 weeks almost. no fever, but just poop. POOP! this morning we all got woken up at 6 AM by shreaking eels and a whole crib full of poopy baby. poor thing.

so today i was trying (and succeeding) at restricting her diet to the BRATY and seeing if that helped- luckily she loves rice, but bananas are suspect lately, and applesauce...eh. i was trying to be pretty strict bc i KNEW it would help with the crazy pooping. i'm a good mom, i want her to feel better. this WILL HELP. all day she was an unhappy, pooping baby monster. and i was an unhappy poopy baby mom.

finally, relief! after at least one tearful phone call, daddy came home from work a tad early and immediately put all grumpy girls into the car and trucked them off to Lucci's Italian Restaurant (our new fav hole-in-the-wall).

CARBS! EAT CARBS. When the day is crappy, and your baby poops- EAT PASTA ANYWAY. my kid DEVOURED her dinner.  i thought she was just not feeling good all day- no, she was HUNGRY!! who wants to eat applesauce and rice and bananas when you can CHOW DOWN on meat raviolis, spaghetti and garlic bread?? and you know what else- so was i! i basically looked at my food and it instantly went to my stomach; i didn't even have to use my fork.

HAPPINESS RESTORED!! smiles, laughs, conversation and we even had time, energy and happiness enough to go to Disneyland and walk around holding hands! i even treated myself to a chocolate dipped mickey ice cream. (something about eating mickey ears just makes it more delicious!)

moral of the story- CARBS: why fight it? forget this nonsense about healthy eating! who cares if someone is going through a pooping phase!? eat what makes your family happy, and BY GOLLY today it was ludicrous amounts of pasta and marinara sauce.

dear italians- i thank you. love, lindsey