Month: March 2012

I’m wavering on continuing on the April Photo A Day Challenge. It’s found here: http://www.fatmumslim.com.au/2012/03/april-photo-day-challenge-list.html?m=1
Essentially, having that list & the ‘canned’ topics motivates me to write on here. I love crossing off to-do’s and finishing things, so committing to the challenge gives me motivation. It also inspires topics, since to be honest, my day-to-day isn’t all that inspiring (obviously, save the little moments with our munchkin), so without it, I might only write every so often. Maybe someday Selah will get a kick out of these too, since I attempt to center most of them around her, or at least our family, since most of the point of this blog was to give updates to family & friends.

But on the flip side, having the topics might hinder me from straying too far from the script provided. Maybe if I didn’t do the official challenge, it would challenge me to come up with my own topics and more meaningful updates?

Who knows. If you have a feeling one way or another, please share. I’m open. 😉

I suppose I could have posted a picture hiking or at the gym, since technically, that’s where I go to relax – exercising is my stress relief. Must be why I’m stressed! (Not much exercising around here lately! 😉 )

But, this is much cuter to photograph:

And I can’t say it’s not relaxing to see my silly girl be oh-so-silly that it makes her giggle. It gives the gym a run for its money, that’s for sure! The pics above were taken this morning – after she insisted I put on her “piglet” shirt, “princess skirt”, black fleece pants (I insisted – it was freezing!), and “pink dress-up necklace”.
Here was the similar outfit (sans pants & necklace, add ‘princess cup’ & soccer ball), pictures taken last week:

Yep, I guess you could say that as a working mom who doesn’t get all that much time with her baby, my “place I go to relax” is wherever my baby girl happens to be playing & smiling (and the tantrum times, well, let’s just classify those as ‘not so relaxing’ & more closely classified under ‘places I try to avoid’).

This topic should bring us all a little memory of childhood…and the popular saying “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”.

Here, I bring you some simple cardboard boxes that brought us diapers…

Or is it so simple? Just boxes? Or is there a little girl under there?

Perhaps a car?

Or a fort? For a turtle too?

Love that girl. And not a box becomes ‘trash’ before she gets a quick play in it! 😉

So, the last two days were “breakfast” and “key”…both of which I failed to capture on film or come up with any sort of remotely close interpretation of the words. So, we’ll just skip it!

But in keeping with the commitment to regular posts, I thought I’d include some of our last couple of days.

First, Selah with some requested special “pony tails”…

Rarely does she let me do her hair, but occasionally I talk her into it if she is feeling generous.

We also headed up to my parents house for the weekend (and on to the lake house for the men to install a heater and fan). In the car seat, Selah requested all of her stuffed animals from her bed. This was how it looked from the front seat looking back:

Yes, she could breathe – I know because she was still chatting to herself. I blame Auntie Andrea who gave us more balloons than we could fit in the car on Selah’s first birthday, which has made her comfortable under claustrophobic conditions.

We also got to see Aunt Rose, Uncle Steve, Great-Grandma, and cousins Alyssa and Kaylee for a family orchestra concert. Unfortunately, we had to skip the nap to make it, and leave right after it started to go to the lake (the combination of which prompted Selah to scream to the audience, no, mommy, MOVIE! on our way out), but she definitely enjoyed the festivities before, and we were really happy to see family. Here’s a picture pre-scream in our amazing seats (thanks, Rose!):

And last but certainly not least, after the lake on our way home today in the car:

One sacked out little munchkin on our way to see Nana and Papa. I wish I had remembered the camera to catch her flaunt her cute new apron, but we’ll catch it later.

We all had a full extended weekend (its Daddy’s spring break, so we’re taking advantage) of travel, family, and fun…and topped it off with an overnight stay for Selah with Grandma & Grandpa at their house while we (Mommy & Daddy) drove home. We are going to work on the house tomorrow (woo hoo! Spring break! Party time! I guess this is how we do that as adults?!!), and will pick up our littlest angel on Wednesday.

And don’t you know it, just when you think – I can’t wait for a moment alone at home – then it happens, and I’m sitting on the couch blogging, wishing she was here in her room so I could steal a quick snuggle & smooch before bed. But it will be great to get some uninterrupted work done tomorrow, and she’s of course in the best of hands with Grandma & Grandpa, and we are so appreciative!

So, I’ll leave you tonight with a representative “spring break party” photo. Oh my how things have changed (from the original college spring breaks to when this was taken almost a year ago to now):

(Selah poolside in a sombrero, Palm Springs bachelorette party, 2011)

Well, the moon has been hiding from us yesterday and today, so we’re skipping that.

Instead, here’s two doggies who are ‘over the moon’ to get attention from one little girl named Selah (in her trusty Panda shirt – which I may need to go find another one since literally it is requested every day!):

And since I’m a day late, and today’s topic is “an animal”… I think I just killed two birds with one stone. But to make up for shorting you a day of pictures, here’s one of Selah this morning learning “dice”. It started out as “helping” (we use the term loosely it seems around here) mommy pick up from our poker night…and ended making up counting games.

It reminded me of my grandpa (Selah’s great-grandpa Adams) actually for some reason – I suppose because he was the “game” loving one of the family. Don’t worry, Grandpa, I’ll teach her cards soon – she already gives away my hand by shouting out what number I’m holding, so we’re off to a running start ;). I’ll wait a bit on the suits just to protect my game ;).

Here’s your great-grand baby… and how I wish you were here to meet her: