Silly Names

Summer has her own language and hears her own things, I love it, I really do.

Scooby Doo = scooby doobie

Strawberry Shortcake = strawberry cupcake

Pinocchio = pinoci nose

Pink Panther = pink striper

Summer has a cinderella bride princess = mary married

I love the silly names she calls things, she will get them right eventually but not too soon because they are so cute!

I haven't been on in over a month, I can't believe it has been that long. Right now I am gearing up for a birthday party at the bouncy house place! I got a package in the mail today that contained 6 little princess figurines, a perfect size to go on the princess cake I am going to attempt, I mean make for Summer, along with some rainbow cupcakes. I am not sure how those are going to work just yet, I think colorful miniature m&m's will help make those babies good looking.

Besides having to make the cake and cupcakes on Tuesday I have to go Monday night and get a bunch of balloons. The plan is to put balloons in Summer's room each year on her birthday and I want her to wake up to a few balloons. Oh and guess what else, Kris got a job so he won't be around to help with the decorating, or more importantly keeping Summer occupied while I made these things so wish me luck. I am scared but not that much.

I have been taking a few pictures but just haven't felt like blogging for some reason. Here is a recent picture of my princess, or at least her beautiful eyes, I love the eyes in the evening.


I will try to blog more, I need to write about our beach vacation we took two weeks ago, has it already been two weeks, maybe just over one :o)

I know I know

I haven't been ignoring the blog on purpose, we have just been kinda busy. We had a birthday party, movie night, bouncy house morning, swimming, BBQ, more swimming, park, and more. The weather hit 108 today so we did nothing, we stayed inside until 7:30 then we went to Sonic to get a drink. I went outside around 7:00 to try to take a few pictures but the heat is just insane and my creativity has been sapped out by the sun. I know, likely excuse ...

I just haven't taken many good pictures lately. Let's try to catch up some.

Here is proof that we have been having fun in the sun, here are some pictures of Summer and Christa at a park with a water feature one hot sunny afternoon.






Summerisms - things that Summer does

... saying mines instead of mine. I am trying to correct it, it bothers me, but do you know how hard it is to fix that? Here is our conversation.
Summer: This is mines
Me: No mine
Summer: No it is mines
Me: I know, but you don't say mines you say mine
Summer: This is min-e (empathizes on the e on the end and makes it two syllables)
Me: Good enough
Sheesh not an easy conversation. Maybe she will get it, hopefully, if not I will keep trying.

Some other random things I catch myself saying to Summer:

"you can punch mommy & daddy but no one else, ok?"
haha, I really told Summer that yesterday. She was in a fighting stance and went to punch me to get me, not hard. Maybe I should just teach her not to punch.

"stop picking your nose, there is a snail up there and he is going to bite your finger"
not that it helped :o( lol

"Lexi is going to bite your bootie, you better hurry and get your clothes on"
My dog would never bite Summer's butt so why would I say that, mostly to get her to hurry and get dressed.

One of Summer's friends is named Makayla. Summer calls her Bakayla. I tried to get her to say Ma, Ma, the M sound, she ended up saying MaBakayla. I let her stick with Bakayla, I don't think Makayla minds.

Summer likes taking pictures and decided my old camera is now her camera. She is actually doing very good at aiming. I need to go download the pictures and show them off. Here is a picture of her taking a picture of the flowers on our tree out back.


I love it, but I can't imagine why she would want to take pictures :o)

I bought Summer a $4 make-up set at walmart a few weeks ago. She really likes putting on make-up, she is such a girly girl. I kinda like it because she will let me brush her hair while she puts her make-up on and not complain like normal. What is it with kids and getting their hair brushed?


Proof that she is my daughter, because I need proof, I still think she may have been switched at birth, she is way too good. But alas, she eats okra, boiled, and really likes it so she must be mine after all.


We had a BBQ at our house on Memorial Day. Besides swimming I decided to let the kids paint outside. The intent was messy, I wanted them to make a big mess with colorful paints. It worked!





That was really one of my better ideas. I bought huge bottles of paint so we have a lot left. Now it is too hot to go outside but soon it will cool off and we will have to do that again!

Swimming, Summer, like most kids, loves to swim. Our friends the Springstons have a nice big pool and Summer warmed right up, literally, I think the temperature in the water was over 90, it was nice. She gets her float and does her own thing and she watched another girl go underwater and decided she could do it too - yay!






Ok that mostly caught me up, I missed a few things, some parties, but ya get the idea, she is still super cute, lots of fun, and there will be more pictures later.

Her feet are alive

A picture of Summer's foot taken a few days ago.


Since Summer was a baby I always suspected her feet had a mind of their own. From the earliest memory of Summer sleeping in bed with us, 10 months or so, I can remember having her feet find their way to me. It didn't matter which direction I would lay her, she would rearrange herself until her feet were touching me. She would usually wake up laying sideways with her feet digging into my side. This positioning made it almost impossible for me to sleep very comfortably and why I rarely let Summer sleep in my bed. Recently I had forgotten about this natural phenomenon that takes place and I let Summer sleep with me. Two hours later I was carrying her sleeping body back upstairs and putting her back into her own bed where her feet could not find me. Don't get me wrong, I love her little feet but sleeping with feet in your side is just not a good sleep. Maybe I should keep socks on her but I hate sleeping with socks and Summer hates wearing socks in general. Her feet aren't ever cold either, they just require a squishy side to dig into when she sleeps. I don't even think she is aware her feet are searching around for a warm side, I am pretty sure her feet are alive, independent from her own mind.

Here are a few pictures of her feet, these are old because they are just so cute.





Right now her little toe nails are painted a dark red color. She looks good with toe polish on. I should try to take a few pictures of that!

I love messes

Can you believe some people like things neat and clean and when their child makes a mess - they stress? Not me, since having a cute little girl I love when she makes a mess, and the messier the better! Yesterday Summer and I went outside and grabbed the sidewalk chalk, which is always a recipe for a lot of mess. Trying to keep chalk off every single part of the body is not very easy and I love taking pictures of all of those parts.


Knees, nose, toes, legs, it is all fair game when it comes to powdery chalk. We even did a bit of learning because as we were drawing with chalk we practiced writing our letters. Summer can write quite a few letters, which still amazes me. She can write the letter V, M, H, O, P (sometimes) and who knows what else if she tried. Her attention span to writing isn't nearly as long as I would like but we are in no hurry to start writing, I know we have plenty time for that. Summer can also recognize a few small words, like mom, dad, and papa. I think it is sight and luck but she will get there eventually.

For now the chalk is all fun and games mixed in with some learning and a lot of mess, which is exactly how I like it and so does Summer!


By the way, Summer is feeling much better today. These photos were taken yesterday afternoon and I think she was still feeling a little feverish not that you can tell in the picture. Today her fever is all but gone and she also has a much healthier appetite yay! I hope after she rests today she is back to her normal self by tomorrow.

Time for a fever I guess

Thursday was a big day because we had big plans, friends were coming over to swim, we had food to grill, and paints and posters for the kids to play with. When you have a toddler plans can change quickly because that morning Summer woke up with a very unexpected fever. We waited a while hoping it was a quick bug but after a few hours later and a temp of 101+ we had to cancel everything, no friends coming over to swim, no food, and no painting. I was bummed.

On Friday Summer still had a fever :o( She was acting normal for the most part. Tylenol and Motrin would relieve the fever and we only give it to her when her fever would go over 102. The highest temp we have seen is around 103.

Today is day 3 and has been much like the first two days. At first I thought the fever was gone, she woke up and seemed normal and felt cooler but as the day continued so did her fever. Right now Summer is napping. She hasn't needed medicine yet, her fever was around 101, hopefully she wakes from her nap with a lower temp but we will see.

Even with her low to moderate fever Summer has been in a decent mood. She came into my room this morning with her shoes on and told me she wanted to go to the park. Yesterday the temperature outside was 92, today it is only 78, too cold to go to the park. Plus Summer needs to rest and save her energy and concentrate on getting better.

She hasn't been eating much, actually she is probably eating what other normal 2 year olds eat but a lot less than her normal self. She has been good about drinking milk and water and we are keeping her clothes to a minimum to keep her cooled down.

On Thursday night we were sitting outside and I snapped a few pictures of Summer and Papa sitting in the chair. You can see the fever in her eyes. Even when she is sick she is still so darn cute.





In a way we are lucky, Summer went through the entire winter months without getting sick and hopefully whatever she has is almost over with. Only my child can get a fever in the middle of May when the temperature is over 90 outside.

Day 4

No more pappy (pacifier) again. Sunday night a friend came over and she has a 6 months old daughter. Out of the blue Summer said she wanted to give her pappy to the baby so we did. I am not sure if she meant to use while she was at our house or for her to keep it but we took it to mean for good. Later that night Summer was a little upset but we sang "no more pappy for you" and gave her a cupcake, went out to dinner to celebrate and just praised her for being such a big girl. We are on day 4 and it hasn't been easy for us, she got sick yesterday (103+ fever) and the pappy would have been a nice comfort to her but she just fell asleep for her nap without her pappy so that tells me we are done.

The first two days without the pappy was interesting, Summer decided she didn't want to nap and we didn't make her. She did pretty good too considering. On the second day she almost fell asleep after dinner so I figured she is not ready to completely give up her naps. She had a fever yesterday so she napped easily and then today she really had no problems napping.

I have weaned my child twice, it is really not too hard, after the third day it is usually smooth sailing. I wish she could be a baby forever but she can't and she doesn't need it anyway. I do think it was much easier to wean her when she was younger, this time was harder on her because she was better at expressing herself.

This is the last picture I have with her and her pappy. In the end she only had it for naps but when we went to Oklahoma two weeks ago things were crazy and she wasn't happy so she ended up having it during the day.


I am sad but relieved, we hated to do it but she was ready and we had to do it as some point.

Over a month

I haven't blogged in over a month, but rest assured we are still here, still doing good, not much has changed. I will try to update again soon I promise, just not right now.