Monday, March 23, 2009

Still On Vacation


Enjoying the animal show at the aquarium. Baby Girl was thrilled to see an animal that Mama described as a cross between an anteater and a lemur. Perhaps Mama was a little tipsy.

Playing in the park with a new sun hat and jumper.


Friday, March 20, 2009

Splish Splash


I guess it's pretty warm down there in Corpus Christi, huh?

Thursday, March 19, 2009

A Vampire Attacks!


Luckily, she is confined to her dinner chair.


Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Two Weeks of Travel


For those of you undergoing Little Monster withdrawal, join the club! Mama is in Corpus Christi with Wee Goblin and Daddy is on his own, missing his girls. Perhaps this video will hold you over a little bit. It's what Daddy has to get by with!

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Late Night Activities

The last few days Little Monster has been a joy to be around. She's constantly happy and smiling, and even giggling at her own little antics. The pre-bedtime transformation to werewolf was caught on camera last night. Those faint of heart beware!

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Where The Baby Girls Roam

Every day is an adventure when you're Miss Fuss, and some days are many adventures!

Sunday was a crazy snowstorm in northern Georgia. Who could have guessed it? The snowflakes were almost as fluffy as Little Monster's belly, and it was cold and wet. Wiggle-Critter likes wet when it comes to the bath, but she certainly does not like cold and wet when it comes to the weather. Mama hasn't seen much snow, either, though, so Wee Goblin indulged mama a bit and went outside with her for a few minutes. Then Mama came to her senses and brought Miss Fuss back inside, where everyone had hot pizza.

Friday, Mama took Baby Girl to the park near Joddie's house. It was a beautiful day and they had Daddy's car, since Mama's car is in the shop for a leaking water pump. They took advantage of the day and played in the flowers, ate grass (!), and lolled in the sunshine. Baby Girl even had a flower behind her ear, she was having such a frolic.

Then, after cavorting in the park, Little Monster came up to Daddy's office to be a part of the party that was happening there. It was a cookout, and Wee Goblin had some picnic food herself. Nothing like the brats or burgers cooked up for the big people, but it was fun to eat with Mama while Daddy was out on the patio, gesticulating wildly about some crazy idea of his. Baby Girl's friend Liam also came to the party, and the two of them giggled and smiled.

On Saturday, the adventure was houses. Little Monster must have seen almost a dozen houses today! She liked each of them, but Mama and Daddy are a little more picky when it comes to the place they want to put up a new nursery for Wee Goblin. They really seemed to like two or three, and Miss Fuss thinks a little cynically that they like the ones with the best kitchens. Can't they see that it's all about plenty of carpet to squish between our chubby toes and plenty of hardwoods to scoot across in the walker?

Baby Girl was very good while all the house-visiting was going on, but by the end of the day she had had enough. By the time we got home, a nice, long nap was in the offering. And tonight is bath night! An adventure like no other!

Oh, great, now Mama's talking about frogs.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Adventures in Babysitting

Poor Miss Jeanie. She was so excited to have Madeleine daily back in September when Mommy and Daddy both went back to work. Then Mommy decided that she couldn't bear to be away from Little Monster. Now that the house hunting is under way Mommy has once again decided that maybe she should get a job and stop being a bum. Because of this, Miss Jeanie got to keep Miss Fuss for precisely two hours today, three quarters of which Madeleine hollered and carried on for. Apparently MJ was fine for the first fifteen or twenty minutes when she all of a sudden figured out that Mommy was nowhere to be seen. She then proceeded to let Miss Jeanie and the other kids know how she felt about that. (Hint: she wasn't too happy.) However, she did get her first swing ride which she reportedly loved. If we're lucky and Mommy gets this job, Goblin will only have to stay with Miss Jeanie for roughly an hour twice a week. It'll be good for her. (Or so Mommy keeps trying to convince herself.)

We will caption today's photos, because there were too many funny ones to just choose two. We didn't think y'all would mind. The first one was a serious, in depth conversation with Totoro.

Puffy face after an extended crying jag Tuesday night. Boy, does she cry like Mama or what?!

Madeleine gets very excited when she thinks she's up to no good - like pulling all of the toys out of her bookcase.
An apple that Miss Fuss demanded this morning at breakfast. It was Mommy's, then someone decided she was commandeering it. "This is mine. Don't even try taking it back, Mama."

Finally, a new variation on the booty dance.
Madeleine wishes you a Happy Friday and a wonderful weekend! We will be meeting the realtor on Saturday to give her our wish list. Madeleine's involves a corral for her future ponies and a yard big enough for circus birthday parties. Daddy says, "We'll see."