Still playing with dolls

Took Sara to the HUGE semi-annual kids consignment sale today. What did she want to buy? A Barbie. Oh, sorry, a "My-Scene Barbie". She doesn't play with Barbies anymore. If you ask me, they should be called "Hoochie Barbie" Look at those lips, and makeup! Oh well, glad she is still into dolls and not boys.

Carolyn - look what purse she is wearing!

Hoobaloop

That is how Anna Lee says Hoola Hoop.

She also calls her lunch box a "Bunch Bob".

Audio of Girls singing in car

Morning Commute

Sunny, but cold this am. Gotta love those Veggie Sticks. Must be hard to eat with mittens on, especially if you put them on yourself and have several fingers in the thumb hole.

Such a Flirt

She LOVES men (and boys, but men more).
This is John, who is the brother of a girl at ballet. Anna Lee loves him, he tolerates her, even plays with her sometimes, but was not crazy about being hugged. Anna Lee did not care, he was getting hugged.

Trying on Glasses

Why do kids love trying on glasses?

DNA test

http://www.familytreedna.com/jgene.html

No Coffee

Coffee break for Starbucks' 135,000 baristas

Coffee chain to close all 7,100 stores for employee training. Dunkin' Donuts offers 99 cent promotion.

OMG! What will Ron do?

Poo-Poo Head

Anna Lee got put in "time-out" for calling her teacher a Poo-Poo head yesterday.

Wonder how that conversation went?

Park at twilight

Went to the park with the kids last night after Anna Lee's LATE nap. Got some great pics.


I'm never in any pictures, because I'm always taking the pictures. This time, I remembered to have Ron take some of me.

Check out Sara's Chuck T's!

Pretty sky.

Ron and I can both still do a flip!

Ron & Anna Lee having a slide race (teaching my baby to be a backwards Aggie... You go DOWN the slide, not UP!)

Shabbat lights

I thought this shot was so cool, with the shadow of the candle on her face...

Girls Playing

Girls playing on the "white trash" mattress topper under the swing on the porch. I think there was tickling going on.

Face Lift and Makeup?

Not a good look for you, Alex.

Library Card

Took Lee Lee to the Bell Road Library last night before we had to get Sara from Ballet.
My card was "blocked" because apparently "someone" had returned media in the book drop, which is absolutely forbidden. So, I had to go through a lecture from the librarian, who also informed me that I had $10 in late fines and still owed "We Speak Spanish" book on tape (which they will NEVER get back, since I found Anna Lee unraveling the tape from the cassette one day) which costs $26.50 should I chose to replace it. Great, I had exactly $1.00 cash in my purse, which I was saving to buy a Vault with.
So... I just got a card for the baby instead.
OOOOOhhhh, the Librarian was MAD. HeeHeeHee.
(I do believe she belonged to the sub-100 IQ club)

Here she is holding up the card for Mommy to take a picture, while trying to read her book at the same time.

Please excuse the extremely messy end of day hair - she is in a "don't touch my hair" stage and Daddy will not let me cut it.



Here is my card from when I was a child.

Lunar Eclipse

It was cool. Sara was excited. I snuck back out an hour later as it became uncovered and it was reddish.

Smelling Flowers

Anna Lee decided that she had to smell ALL the flowers at Fresh Market last night. She was not very gentle. Suprised we didn't get kicked out.

New stage in Bat Mitzvah prep

Now practicing chanting.
Nothing like listening to a 13 year old try to modulate the voice box. At last there is no pubescent boy voice-breaking to deal with...

Items found in Anna Lee's Pockets 3

It stinks when your PJs get stuck on your braces

And your Mom won't help you until she takes pictures for her blog.

Daddy's helper

I guess she should have been a boy.
She is always right up under Ron when he is working on the house.
Do you like the Sweet Tart PJs?

No way

Surely this was some teenager's idea of a prank...

Does the KKK still exist?

Recipe for disaster

The shopping carts with the cars on the front for kids are a great idea, right? Sure, keeps the kids entertained, more room in the buggy for groceries. I used to think so, too...

Until you pull into the checkout lane. And the car is at the perfect height to view and grab candy... from the display that should be illegal (they KNOW kids are going to ask for candy at checkout).

Good choice, though. Almond Joy's got nuts, Mounds don't!

Retro Tile

I love this tile. It is in the bathroom at the Capri Theater in Cloverdale.

Valentine Display

Park at Temple

Let the girls play at the Temple's little park on Saturday after picking Sara up from her youth group event. Anna Lee had just gotten up from her nap and refused to wear shoes, so now her ratty slippers are even dirtier and rattier. Sara helped Anna Lee on the balance beam, what a good sister. Anna Lee has no fear. Had to rescue her from the HIGH slide before she killed herself.

Experimenting with B&W.

Items found in Anna Lee's Pockets 2

Strange scenes in Alabama

This still sort of freaks me out.

Yes, those are prisoners picking up trash on the road. Wearing actual black and white striped uniforms. I don't ever see a guard with a gun anywhere. Are these "good behavior" convicts? I have never seem this anywhere else we have lived. I see it quite frequently here.

Krispy Kreme

Got the girls doughnuts before Anna Lee's ballet class Saturday a.m. They like to watch them being made.

How do you spell doughnuts?

donuts?
doughnuts?
dough nuts?

Cool wine labels

Needed a bottle of wine last night. Went to Publix. Thought they may have better selection that Winn Dixie.
Wrong!
No R.H. Phillips anywhere.
And there was no logical classification system. Some Red over here, some further down as well. It wasn't by import / export either or by region / type. Walked up and down 10 times.

Anna Lee: "Are you gonna get some yellow beer for Daddy?"

Found these wines with really cool labels, just couldn't bring myself to buy a wine because the label was cool, though. If I were a wine producer, I would totally make the coolest label and/or name. I suspect a lot of people DO buy wine for the cool label (I almost did. Would have made a great bookmark.)

I have seen this more and more recently. Must be those damn marketing majors.
Off the top of my head:

Fat Bastard
Menage a Trois
Upside down labels
Cobalt blue bottles
Extra cork on screw tops

Turns out that the Kris (cool label) might actually be good. Internet wine blog and Washington Post both say good value for consuming now, not a buy and hold.

So, what did I wind up buying?
Screw Kappa Nappa!
Which is.... a cool name ploy. But good as well. Have had it before. But the initial purchase was because of the name.
I think someone should do a study. Like me. Regress cool label and wine sales.

Exceptionally Horrible Morning

Jacket issues.
The pink jacket was just too filthy to wear.

(I hate the pink jacket. Anna Lee found it in the lost & found at school and made it hers. I'm always expecting a parent to walk up to us and reclaim it. I guess she likes it because A. It's pink B. The sleeves are easy to push up.)

She wanted her "tiny" jacket. No clue what she meant. Tried to pacify her with the L.L. Bean vest. Couldn't find it. Wound up forcing the purple jacket on her.

After jacket issues, found Lee Lee trying to cram a bag of marshmellow candy into her lunch box. A BIG bag. Left over from Ron's candy lesson. (diminishing marginal utility?)

That was just the beginning.
Too much more to write about.
30 minutes late to work.
Good thing my boss is out today.

I be a TIGER & you be a LION

Checking of the Verse

We check off a verse each time we have read 3 nights, 20 times each night.
Only 2 left!

Duh!

Sara told me last night that she thinks her phone is dead.

(translation - she dropped it and it came apart, SIM chip or battery are in wrong)

So, this morning on the way to work, I CALLED her on her cell phone to tell her to ask Daddy to take a look at her phone.

Duh!

I think I needed more Vault.

Late for work & stuck on the Bypass

Oh no! It's raining, let's slow down.

Items found in Anna Lee's Pockets