Storytime

Ellison Ann is finally starting to show an interest in being read to and books.  I use the word interest loosely.  She pays attention about 1/3 of the time.  I  love that her favorite person to read to her is her big sister.  Hadley loves books and loves reading, so this is one area they can connect on and bond.

 

Cute X2

I hadn't planned on taking their pictures the morning they wore these dresses for the third time, but.....I was instructed to.  Since the Red Head is training me up to take the path of least resistance and truly choose my battles, I made time to snap their pictures.  I really couldn't resist taking their pictures when she told me I needed to because "we are cute".  So she has the confident thing going for her and we have established she is quite charming.  The world is pretty much hers to conquer

 

 

Words

Peace out said the little Ducky.  This one...Oh my.  Her favorite words/sayings are....

• Seriously?
• You're freaking me out...
• Earth to Mommy/Daddy/Hadley

Her BryNana taught her this pose. She mastered it pretty quickly and has been sporting it quite often. The other night I was giving her and Hadley a bath. I had my attention on Hadley as I was washing her hair, I catch Els out of the corner of my eye. She has her hip jutted out, hand on the other hip, fingers up in the peace sign and practicing various duck faces. I realize she is watching her reflection in the mirror. Yep she is our entertainment....most nights.

 

 

The other day when I picked her up from school, she had on different clothes.  Different clothes that weren't hers.  This is the third time this has happened and she has a change of clothes.  I questioned the teacher to find out what happened and seems she had an accident at nap time.  No big deal, I asked why she wasn't wearing her own clothes and she didn't know.  The other teacher checked to make sure they had Els change of clothes and labeled correctly and they did.  In the meantime, her teacher got the low down on what happened.  Seems there was another teacher watching the class during nap time....one that wasn't familiar with the kids names....when the teacher took Els to change, Els told her she was Sophia (Els BFFF who has a flair for fashion and has fun sparkly clothes as her change of clothes) the teacher not knowing she wasn't Sophia, put the fun polka dot, silver trimmed outfit on The Red Head.  The story wouldn't be so funny, but The Red Head knew exactly what she had done, when questioned I got the biggest dimpled smile.  Her Daddy's tell as well when he is pulling a fast one.  Love this girl and her brand of mischief!!!

I did it for the Chocolate!!!!

I ran another 5K!!!  Still can't say I love it, but I can say the reward at the end of this one has been the best yet!!!!  C.H.O.C.O.L.A.T.E.  The race was Sunday in the AM, 7:45 in the big ATL.  A little early for my taste but I went down the night before with a fun group of ladies to pick up our packets, eat at Cheesecake Factory and stay the night.  It was a nice little get away.  For the months leading up the race, I was terrified about running in the cold....I don't like it, that is a fact, no two ways about it.  Santa purchased me some Under Armour Cold Gear, but it was 50 degrees and the cold gear was a bit of overkill.  I opted to forgo the shirt and only wore the pants.  Here is my review....  While Under Armour Cold Gear does not keep the cold out, it keeps the heat in.  By mile two I felt like my pants were on FIRE.  When I say on FIRE I mean, I could feel it all the way in my face, panic attack fire.  WOW.  Worth their money!!!!

 

New Year Shark Attack

The older you get, the more tame your New Years Eve's should be.....right?  We had a nice quiet evening at a friends house, playing games and the kids running crazy.  Although, there are no words for this picture........

 

 

all I will say is the pictures proves it did happen.....YES IT DID!!!!

 

I can only imagine the comments when we look back at this picture 20 years from now......