Wordless Wednesday

Ok I know this post is supposed to be wordless, but yes, Annabel has BOTH thumbs in her mouth while in the swing at the playground. I had to laugh!

Cheers,
Cathy


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Annabel hearts frosting

With two candy holidays so close together, and a rash of birthday parties, Annabel has had the opportunity to sample a lot of cakes, cupcakes and the like recently.

The surprising thing is, my carb-loving girl only eats the frosting. To heck with the cake!


This was at our friend Jake's birthday party. Note the big white glob of frosting at her mouth and the big chocolate hunk of cake left on the plate.


The other morning, Nene and Hot Dog came over and brought donuts. And they brought one special bunny donut for Annabel. See how she gazes adoringly at all that sugar? She's never experienced so much at one time.


"Really? This is for ME?? No fooling?"


Annabel strategizes how she's going to intake all this sugar before Mommy comes to her senses. Perhaps we start with these yummy eyes...


Mmmmm... Frosting! It's hard to see here, but the donut is still whole while there's some noticeable thinning in the icing. Fortunately, she quickly experienced sugar shock and didn't eat much more than you see here.

Hmmm... I've been posting a lot about sugar lately. I think I need to go look for some vegetables or something.

Cheers,
Cathy

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Wordless Wednesday

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Puppet phobia

Every few weeks at storytime at out local library, they will do a little puppet show. It turns out that,


Puppets:Annabel as Dolls with freaky blinking eyes:Cathy.*

Yep, poor thing is freaked out by the puppets. Even after the show, the kids could pet the dog puppet. Annabel just stood there, staring at it for several minutes before running to cling to my legs. Keep in mind we have two bigger dogs at home that she regularly pounds on - I mean, pets - with much glee. Ah well, like I say with just about everything she does... It's just a stage, right?

Cheers,
Cathy

*For those of you too far removed from our old SAT days, that was one of those word analogy things. A is to B as C is to D. Sorry, just trying to mix things up a bit. Hee.


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There's nothing like handmade

My friend, Emily, who has become a sewer/knitter extraordinaire, made a poncho for Annabel. We were inspired by one that we saw online on Etsy, and it must be said that the one Emily made is so much cuter!

I know the poncho doesn't match her outfit here. We were heading out the door to go the lake in our neighborhood and grabbed it at the last minute when we realized it was getting chilly. But still, the glaringly non-matching pants don't take anything away from the adorableness of the poncho. Or the girl in it!

Here's the view from behind. Another nice thing about it is that it's roomy enough that Annabel will be able to wear it next year too.

With her daddy. She's saying "cheese!"

And with the hood off. Annabel loves her new poncho! Thanks, Em!!

Cheers,
Cathy

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Let's go fly a kite

Yesterday we got a fun little kite as a party favor from a birthday party we went to. So since we are getting gale force winds in these parts, we took the kite out. Annabel loved the "pretty kite!"


The kite is that tiny yellow dot above the house. It got pretty high!


Chris attempts some tricks with the kite. Shortly after I took this one, it nose-dived into the backyard.

I took a turn with the kite too, and it was pretty fun! Chris took a couple pics on his phone, but I wasn't pleased with how I look in them. So as the author of this blog, I reserve the right to withhold less-than-flattering pictures of myself. Ha!

After a bit, the wind got the better of us, and the kite took a header into one of our trees. We were too busy trying to extract the kite to remember to take pictures, so here's one of the aftermath:


That's the poor kite's tail still in the tree. I guess we'll try to get it out... someday...

Cheers,
Cathy

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The dreaded "F" word

It's not what you think!! It's actually...

FUNDRAISING!!

Yep, it's time for Annabel's school's spring fundraiser. It's actually pretty cool, a little different. It's a flower catalog called flowerpowerfundraising.com. And not like 1-800-FLOWERS or anything like that. It's actually flowers (bulbs) and plants for your garden or landscaping. See? Pretty cool, huh? (Work with me, people!)

Here's the link directly to Annabel's school's fundraising site. You can order directly from this site and all items will be shipped to you. No middle man (ME!) bugging you and hassling you! And 50% of what you spend will go to Annabel's school!

So why am I blogging about it? To ask you to buy, of course! PLEASE?!?!? Here are a few items in the catalog (click on the photo to go to the ordering site):

20 double freesias mixture ($10). Apparently these bloom mid-late summer. All the flowers in this catalog are so pretty, it ALMOST makes me want to plant a garden. But then, who would I hire to take care of it?

Summer Garden Collection ($20) contains 6 Purple Liatris, 10 Peacock Orchids, 7 Mixed Gladiolus and 20 Mixed Harlequin Flowers. Gorgeous! If only I knew what to do with them all!

Top Hat Blueberry ($30) includes1 Top Hat blueberry plant (ships in a 4 1/2" pot), Terra cotta colored planter and planting medium. This plant will fruit by its second year. How pretty! And fresh blueberries without paying $3 a pint!

And there's tons more, like one of those hanging tomato planters, lots and lots of different flowering bulbs, other fruits, etc. And did I mention, 50% of what you're paying goes to Annabel's school!

I'm going to browse and see if maybe they have a lemon tree, or something else fun like that. Or maybe I'll get the blueberry thing. Then I'll blog about how I kill, er I mean, care for it.

Happy Shopping! And THANKS!! (And I promise I won't complain when you ask me to buy stuff for your kid.)

Cheers,