So here we are 5days into the 2's and I have a sick lil puppy! Well actually I have no clue if she's sick, teething, constipated or just worn slap out from last weekend and is just playing catch up. Sorry its been another 5wks since I've blogged. Since David got me that awesome phone for my birthday I'm rarely on a big computer except to quickly post pix and its rather hard to blog from a phone with a keyboard smaller than a remote control!
June went by pretty uneventfully. We got the house pretty much the way we want it...slowly we'll start painting room by room and replacing door knobs (to keep mother from getting locked in places again! yes...she locked herself in the bathroom last week and we had to take the knob off completely because it was so old and worn. thank goodness it wasn't Freyja in there!!) and stuff like that. David has learned that he has a HUGE backyard to mow now and kinda cursed it the first time mowing. You never know how big the thing really is til you're pushing heavy machinery around its slightly uneven terraine. Our lemon tree has fruit on it! We might just get a small pitcher of lemonade from it come end of summer! I threw a couple of tomatos out there too to try our luck and so far they seem to be doing ok...though I need something to help them grow upright. Freyja ADORES her huge yard and all the neat things there are to explore in it. I worry about the amount of spiders we have out there but so far we haven't had any "close" run in's or bites yet (and knock on wood we don't have any anytime soon!).
July is treating us well so far too. On the 1st dad vh and I took her to Sears to get her 2yr portraits done. She wasn't exactly in a picture taking mood but they did get some really cute shots of her!! Check out the Picasa 2yr photo shoot album to see them. The pix will be back the 17th and then our family pix will be back on the 23rd and I will mail them out then. On the 4th we went to an office party at Davids work and got to watch the big firework display from their balcony (he works right down on the water). Freyja LOVED the fireworks again this year and enjoyed being around all the people. We left right before the firework finale but still got stuck in traffic for an hour just trying to get out of the office subdivision. Pensacola's "finest" had no clue how to direct traffic... Freyja conked out before we even got out of the office parking lot and slept til we got home, woke up long enough to get out of the carseat and pass back out on my shoulder. Poor kid didn't even get changed to pjs that night!
Her birthday party was a huge success last weekend. We ended up with 17adults and 4kids! We moved it from our original location at the park to our house so that more people could make it and essentially make it more comfy on everyone with a/c and good food! David's friend Adam headed up all the cooking, our social lil butterfly took good care of all of her guests and played nicely with all the kids and even shared the fun of opening the gifts with the others. She even blew out her own candle this year!! I made cupcakes inside icecream cones this year and put a candle in hers, Cindy's and Sara's cupcakes since they were all our birthday girls and on the count of three my Miss Mess blew out her candle, licked the base of it and dove into the cupcake! Of course no birthday is complete without a few tears regretfully...bugg was running down the sidewalk, mis-stepped and went crashing down on one knee and even managed to hit her cheek on the concrete as well. She'll have a little bruise there for a bit but nothing too bad and we had already taken tons of pictures so it won't show up on any of her birthday pix.
As for the terrible twos...so far so good! I seriously don't think we're in for too much though she does have her daddy's temper! Potty training is just NOT happening quite yet, she tells us when she's done but thats it. I tried in June but it just ended in tears and frustration for her. I don't want to make this into something terrible for her so we'll take our time and try again after I work Rush in August at the bookstore. Maybe by then it'll have sunk in a little more and it won't be so terrible on her. Plus with the trip to MS coming up I'd hate for her to get confused or frustrated in a new environment. Now if we can just get daddy over the fact his little girl isn't ready yet...
So I guess thats all the news for now! Next month I am taking her to a Colbert family reunion in MS with my moms side of the family. Look forward to more pix and a note on how it went when we get back!
June went by pretty uneventfully. We got the house pretty much the way we want it...slowly we'll start painting room by room and replacing door knobs (to keep mother from getting locked in places again! yes...she locked herself in the bathroom last week and we had to take the knob off completely because it was so old and worn. thank goodness it wasn't Freyja in there!!) and stuff like that. David has learned that he has a HUGE backyard to mow now and kinda cursed it the first time mowing. You never know how big the thing really is til you're pushing heavy machinery around its slightly uneven terraine. Our lemon tree has fruit on it! We might just get a small pitcher of lemonade from it come end of summer! I threw a couple of tomatos out there too to try our luck and so far they seem to be doing ok...though I need something to help them grow upright. Freyja ADORES her huge yard and all the neat things there are to explore in it. I worry about the amount of spiders we have out there but so far we haven't had any "close" run in's or bites yet (and knock on wood we don't have any anytime soon!).
July is treating us well so far too. On the 1st dad vh and I took her to Sears to get her 2yr portraits done. She wasn't exactly in a picture taking mood but they did get some really cute shots of her!! Check out the Picasa 2yr photo shoot album to see them. The pix will be back the 17th and then our family pix will be back on the 23rd and I will mail them out then. On the 4th we went to an office party at Davids work and got to watch the big firework display from their balcony (he works right down on the water). Freyja LOVED the fireworks again this year and enjoyed being around all the people. We left right before the firework finale but still got stuck in traffic for an hour just trying to get out of the office subdivision. Pensacola's "finest" had no clue how to direct traffic... Freyja conked out before we even got out of the office parking lot and slept til we got home, woke up long enough to get out of the carseat and pass back out on my shoulder. Poor kid didn't even get changed to pjs that night!
Her birthday party was a huge success last weekend. We ended up with 17adults and 4kids! We moved it from our original location at the park to our house so that more people could make it and essentially make it more comfy on everyone with a/c and good food! David's friend Adam headed up all the cooking, our social lil butterfly took good care of all of her guests and played nicely with all the kids and even shared the fun of opening the gifts with the others. She even blew out her own candle this year!! I made cupcakes inside icecream cones this year and put a candle in hers, Cindy's and Sara's cupcakes since they were all our birthday girls and on the count of three my Miss Mess blew out her candle, licked the base of it and dove into the cupcake! Of course no birthday is complete without a few tears regretfully...bugg was running down the sidewalk, mis-stepped and went crashing down on one knee and even managed to hit her cheek on the concrete as well. She'll have a little bruise there for a bit but nothing too bad and we had already taken tons of pictures so it won't show up on any of her birthday pix.
As for the terrible twos...so far so good! I seriously don't think we're in for too much though she does have her daddy's temper! Potty training is just NOT happening quite yet, she tells us when she's done but thats it. I tried in June but it just ended in tears and frustration for her. I don't want to make this into something terrible for her so we'll take our time and try again after I work Rush in August at the bookstore. Maybe by then it'll have sunk in a little more and it won't be so terrible on her. Plus with the trip to MS coming up I'd hate for her to get confused or frustrated in a new environment. Now if we can just get daddy over the fact his little girl isn't ready yet...
So I guess thats all the news for now! Next month I am taking her to a Colbert family reunion in MS with my moms side of the family. Look forward to more pix and a note on how it went when we get back!
