Pictures Anyone

What kind of blogger doesn't post pictures - a lazy one and I am sorry, I haven't posted pictures in SUCH a long time, I have just been lazy. I take pictures all the time, and by all the time I mean ALL the time, at least 2-4 times a week. I am still addicted to getting good photos, you know, good - high quality photographer style. I almost took a photography class but like any good naturally talented artist I convinced myself that I can teach myself, after all I do have a natural talent right? (laugh) ya shut up I do ok I think.
Anyway I am going to start adding pictures to make you happy, and so I can no longer call myself lazy! I took pictures of Summer on Tuesday night. It was the perfect temperature outside and the weather was overcast, which makes for wonderful lighting if I do say so myself. I always struggle with getting pictures that show how beautiful the eyes are but I think this set captured it nicely, what do you think?




Summer has started to take an interest in dressing herself. I think a lot of kids her age are already doing basic things like pulling up and down pants, taking off shoes but this hasn't clicked for my child yet. Hopefully she is more graceful than her mother, goodness knows I have issues with balance! If balance has anything to do with getting dressed (actually does it?) anyway the norm at our house is barefoot, even outside most of the time can be shoeless because the grass feels so nice on the bare feet. Since it is warming up outside, the driveway and sidewalk are becoming lava scorchers so the need for shoes, at least in the front yard, will probably increase. I put shoes on Summer on Tuesday so we could go take pictures, the plan was to take pictures of ants, but as you can see from the pictures above, Summer is no ant and I did not get any good pictures of an ant, I need a different lens for that apparently. The shoes I put on her little piggies were shoes she doesn't normally wear but still cute and I figured we weren't going to be out there long so who needs socks. From what I can tell Summer didn't like the shoes or doesn't like the shoes without socks and wanted them off. I always take her shoes off when she wants them off, except this past Tuesday, I told her to take them off herself, she is a big girl now, and while she struggled with the shoe monster I took a picture.


Because that is what a good mom does, she takes pictures of everything, even the small things, the unimportant little things that end up meaning the most. No, she never did get the shoe off without help, I had to slide the shoe off the heal and then she was able to do the rest. She was happy, I was happy, and I like the picture.

Summerisms

We use icky for anything she should not touch, icky bugs, icky toilet, icky dog butt lol it is all icky. Don't touch that it is ICKY. We clean up doggy poop in the back yard almost every day and ask her to help us find the "icky poopy"

We were watching Sesame Street last night and somehow Summer recognized Marco - the boy that one lady adopted. He isn't on the show much at all and Kris and I were like WTH - I didn't even remember his name, I thought it was Marcus.

If Summer is doing something she shouldn't, like standing on a table or running, I tell her, are you suppose to "stand on a table" or "run" Mr. Noodle to imply she is being silly and knows better than do that. Then I say, "where are you suppose to stand" etc. I think it works pretty good.

She has also been putting her finger up her nose more lately /sigh so I have been trying the "is that where your finger goes Mr. Noodle" lol I hope it works.

Summer learned how to say "octagon" from Sesame Street and loves that word. It sounds SO funny when she says it.

From the other room Summer can spot the bag of suckers on top of the fridge. I keep moving them back so she can't see them. She spots the bag, "candy, mommy candy, (grabs hand, pulls me to the fridge, points) "candy mommy"

When I am cooking dinner and she is under foot I will tell her it is "almost ready" and "10 more minutes" to which she will repeat "almost ready, 10 more minutes"

Summer will grab two pieces of paper and say "two dollars, two dollars" - I have no clue where she got that one from.

Sometimes I will ask Summer for a kiss and she will tell me to "kiss daddy" instead. She likes to see us kiss but if we hug she has to get in between us.

I always tell Summer, "mommy loves you" and then I will ask her "who loves you?" to which she will reply Papa or Daddy - stinker

The Things They Say/Do

The best part about my job and having to be away from Summer is chat, I love IM, at anytime I can send Kris a message and ask him how everyone is doing.

Kris just sent me this in an IM (instant message for those of you who are computer illiterate):

she just ran up and said daddy, I got a booger in it while poking at her nose

I have never actually seen her get anything out of her nose but she has had her finger in there lately, I don't think she is that skilled yet to get anything out but we will begin teaching her the basics of nose blowing and tissue later :o)

he also said this:

earlier lexi snapped at her got her arm a little and she almost cried ...then she told us to get lexi some food lol, maybe she thought lexi was hungry

Apparently she was sitting on the couch next to Lexi our dog and flipped a book and hit her, Lexi is very stupid and annoying dog but I don't think she really bit her hard, she just snaps and pinches.

I love this age!

Disneyland was a hit!

Summer and I had a great visit to Disneyland, I was worried she would be too young but she had a great time. We didn't think we were going to get to go because last Wednesday Papa and Daddy took her to Chuck E Cheese and she woke up Thursday morning with a 100+ fever but I suspected it would be a 24 hour thing and it was, it was over by Friday afternoon.
We left on Saturday around lunch time, I made sandwiches for the drive which was going to take about 4.5 hours. I hoped we could eat, sleep and then we would almost be there. The plan worked fine for Summer, Ana however was awake the entire time but she was really good and quiet. Summer napped for just over an hour and woke up happy as could be. We got to Heather's house in Huntington Beach around 4:30 on Saturday, everyone else had already arrived, Tina and Aubrey, Lauren, her husband, Thomas and baby Josiah and of course Heather, her husband and Marin were there. Summer was shy at first sitting on my lap and just smiling but she finally found her groove and got up and walked around and started playing. We ate a very yummy BBQ, hamburgers, hotdogs, fruit and tater tots, Summer ate wonderfully as I knew she would. We stayed up late, 9:30, just an hour later than normal and Summer was so ready for bed. I used Tina's pack n play and Summer was out within 5 minutes of laying down. I slept good considering how humid it was :o)
On Sunday we slept in, we were not in a rush to get to the park, I heard Summer talking around 5:15 and grabbed her and put her in bed with me but she fell back asleep until around 7:15, then we got up, brushed our teeth and I took her into the toy room to play until everyone else slowly got up.
We ended up in the parking garage of Disneyland around 10:30 and stayed until after 8:00 - which was the plan, leave late so the girls could sleep for the ride home, and that worked too just like we expected.
We went on several rides, Dumbo, a train, tea cups, the carousel, It's a Small World (but Summer slept through the first time), pirates of the Caribbean, Winnie the Pooh, and back to It's a Small World. We had a yummy lunch, burger for me, turkey wrap for Summer, we saw a street parade and Summer enjoyed a big sucker that Casey bought for the girls, we took photos with Pooh, Tigger and Mickey Mouse. Overall it was a great day, I was really concerned we would run out of things to do if we stayed more than a day but we easily could have done another day. We were 5 minutes from the beach when we were at Heather's house but I didn't realize it, we could have spent some time on the beach, I guess that means we will have to go back soon, Casey said something about going for her birthday in August - I can't wait!

Forgot to mention

The following night after the potty incident I got home from work and took Summer into the bathroom where she proceeded to immediately pee it the toilet. WOOHOO I thought, she must be ready so I put on big girl undies on. Not 20 minutes later she pooped in those undies. I guess she isn't ready lol and that is OK, she will be ready eventually and I will too.

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Summer was hot this morning when I got her out of bed, I suspected a fever and I also suspect that Chuck E Cheese was to blame! This is the 4th trip to Chuck E Cheese and the 3rd time she will have gotten sick afterward. I am hoping since it came on so quickly that it is the 24 hour bug and goes away fast because we have plans this weekend, major plans, we are going to Disneyland and will be visiting cafemom friends, lots of them, so she better be better soon! Figures she would get sick. Luckily I am not even worried about the fever, I am not suspecting the bird or pig flu, I am not anticipating anything serious, I am just thinking she has the little kid cold that all little kids get and need to get so they build up their little immunities and grow up to be a strong healthy person. I have come a long way! Right now she is at home with daddy, last I checked her appetite was fine, she had energy and did not have a fever. I hope she remains healthy by the time I get home, I was thinking about a long overdue photo shoot, grandma bought her a cute little pink OU outfit and I was going to try to capture some photos with a basketball on a basketball court - that is if OU is a basketball team, which I think it is, it is isn't it? I better make sure but I think so.

I am not ready for this!

Last night after dinner I decided to take Summer to the duck park. I was so tired but knew if I didn't I would just lay around and be miserable so that was the plan. I took her into the bathroom because we needed a new diaper and clothes and she said, "I want to go potty". I never deny her the chance to sit on her little pink toilet, after all I didn't buy it to be used as a floor decoration, so I took her shoes, socks, pants and diaper off and let her sit while I got my socks and shoes on. She sat, she sat, she sat, she got up but then sat. I wanted to go to the park so I told her to come on and get a diaper on but she didn't want to - she wanted to sit. I was a little annoyed to be honest, I am such an impatient person and she clearly was not going but I waited and she farted, or as we tell her to say, tooted. I thought to myself, maybe she does have to go. 5 or so minutes went by and she gets up and said all done, to which I thought FINALLY we can get your dressed and go to the park. Then I noticed green poop down her leg! I looked in the toilet and sure enough she went - eww and it was kinda runny and I guess when she jumped up some flew on her leg. I was shocked, how in the world did she knew she needed to go and know to come do it on the potty??? I cleaned her and the potty, praised her, offered to go get her some candy for doing such a good job (pieces of a broken sucker that I slowly give her). I am not ready and she may not be, it could have just been one of those things but I told Kris to keep encouraging her today and remind her. We will see if he does, however I am still proud of her. I didn't think to take a picture like Jon and Kate either ewww haha.