The Hamburgler

lThe other day a friend said that Leah reminded her of the Hamburgler! Remember this guy? I see the resemblance...

Yep!

She really does look like she just snatched a few burgers here... she's heading for the get-a-way slide! "Catch me if you can!" SO if she doesn't grow too much in the next 12 months, I know what her 2011 Halloween costume will be! I'll just have to find some accessories...

While I was searching for an image of "the McDonald's Hamburgler" this was one of the first images to pop up....
Someone really spends their time photo shopping stuff like this... SICK.

feels like fall

Finally! Today, on 10/29, it finally feels like fall. But when we visited the arboretum last week to see the all the punk-uhs... it was a balmy 80 degrees before 10 am!!

Sweet girl. Her Grannie/Giggle calls her Punkin-head.

I see now that the skirt is a little too short... but just look at that face!

Cheesy grin...

She climbed immediately on the "baby" deer and then wanted up on "daddy" too.

Aunt Leslie took all the pretty pictures as usual.

And I think she looks an awful lot like her Aunt Les in this pic below...

Leah-sized punk-uhs.

I took the picture below just after I changed Leah's diaper. Remarkable only because I put her in a size 1 diaper that I begged off another mother who had a huge diaper bag and a child that looked about Leah's size. I didn't realize that she had an infant also. So when I told her I was a horrible mother and had forgotten to bring a diaper in, she laughed, said she's done the same thing before, and reached in and retrieved an infant-sized diaper and handed it to me. Leah wasn't right there with me and I didn't have the heart to ask the girl if she had a larger size, so I ran off to put Leah's little booty in the size 1...
She didn't seem to mind.

World's Happiest Dog

things that make you go eeeew... part 4

Cascade Action Packs - Citrus Scent

These smell, not like citrus, but like someone just vomited into a baggie full of detergent and then zipped it up. Every time I open the bag to get one out I almost toss my own cookies.... funny enough, they make my dishwasher smell nice after washing a load of dishes... So I will use them up, but I WON'T buy them again. Sometimes things are on a really good sale for a really good reason.

swinging with issy

The weather couldn't be more perfect for playing outside. Leah loved swinging with Issy. (Today Aunt Leslie is Issy... can't wait to find out what she will decide on.)

All I was going to to was upload this one picture... but Leah is playing next to me and started one of her lists.... since I was already typing I just decided to document her little vocabulary rampage. This is what she just said to me, without a single pause:

Hey, hide (slide) daddy, leah, beah, baby, eat, ball, walk, two, pawpaw, giggle, rock, cat, ping (penguin), choo-choo, bus, up, I tall, cheese, hat, shoes, sock, fish, heart, Abby Abby Abby Abby Abby Abby Abby Abby Abby, punk-uh (pumpkin), Abby Abby Abby Abby, bow, Abby, Abby, Abby, muck (makeup), Mommy, Mommy, Abby, Abby, Daddy, Abby, Abby

I finally stopped because she found my makeup (which she loves to pretend with) and got a little fixated on Mommy/Abby's makeup. And I'm pretty sure she just said "Hey Abby" as she walked to me and handed me my makeup.

One of many funny moments in our times together... I hope I never forget them.

Workin' 9 to 5 (or maybe just noonish)

I only work as a nurse part time since becoming a mom (and sometimes I feel like I'm too busy to work my 4-8 hours a week!) In fact, I work so few hours that I get paid in pennies, nickels and free immunizations. So last week Leah and I went up to the hospital to get my annual free flu shot and then we stopped by to see my friends from work.

Then we ran some other errands. Most importantly, we met Daddy for lunch at the Black Eyed Pea. How come only people of a certain age seem to like many of our favorites like "the Pea" and Luby's? The Curley's and the elderly... Anyway, Leah put her menu on her head and asked daddy to make her a hat... so he did. She was so still and so pleased with that hat on her head.

We LOVE, LOVE, LOVE getting to have lunch with Daddy!!!

On the way home she did this almost the entire way. Is it my singing, Leah?

inch

Kevin and I were riding his 4-wheeler one morning. Out of nowhere, an inch-worm appeared on my hand and just began inching along! I made Kevin get a video. It is mainly for my own entertainment... I do know how to enjoy the simple things in life. Really. Simple. Things. :)

Kevin likes to try and make me think that I'm the only person who would ever care about watching this... but I believe he may be wrong. You are amused aren't you? Admit it! You smiled.

genealogy

Here's a little bit of Leah's genealogy - my side of the family. (Eshy is Leah's Aunt Leslie... sometimes Ashy, sometimes Assy, but always her #1 favorite aunt :)

And if the tape kept rolling, you'd hear it a few dozen more times... The stories she tells about Bibby, Pops and Eshy often involve a dramatic re-enactment of some interesting thing that happened during our most recent encounter with the family.

But you haven't seen drama until you've see Leah re-tell about a time when she was sad because we dropped her off in Sunday School or because she fell or because she bit her tongue. She can fake cry and everything!

Here's another one I finally got uploaded. This may be my favorite. The girl makes me laugh. (Like a smoker, apparently)

my dog beah

I don't know if she just doesn't like the name Beans or what. She can say Beans, and used to call her that, but lately Leah has changed the dog's name to Beah. Pronounced just like Leah. She says it so much that Kevin and I have started to call her Beah too! Her name doesn't make quite as much sense though... Refried Jumping Beah Curley doesn't have the same ring.

Anyway, here's a little story about Beah, Leah, Mommy and Daddy...

GiggleGiggle

Leah says names... all kind of names... she names people and animals and she lists them over and over....and over... but for months now she's refused to say Grannie. Not in an offensive way, for she is ABSOLUTELY CRAZY about her Grannie and GranStan... but she must not have perfected their names yet. (She simply smiles and rubs her chin when we talk about GranStan... He has a nice beard that Leah loves!)

Early on in her speech development she was saying "giggle-giggle-giggle" and we had no idea what she was talking about... then all of the sudden it started coming together.... I finally captured evidence of Grannie's new name on video.

Of course my favorite part is at the end. Grannie (GiGO or Giggle) was in fact at the store when we talked to her on the phone... and we had discussed Grannie being at the "sto" at great length after getting off the phone.... But Leah changed her mind. No... No.

More funny videos to come.... but don't hold your breath... each one takes me about 24 hours to upload on the stinking blog. Anyone have a suggestion?

Thank you God for Fall...

The horribly oppressive heat and humidity of this summer did not bring out my grateful side... but now that Fall is here and my chronic heat stroke is resolving, Leah and I walk around thanking God for everything He has made.


Thank you God for grass, trees, ponds (and the men who made this particular pond near our house) and ducks.Thank you God for bread to feed the ducks... or to eat... even though it was stale, then frozen, then thawed....

Thank you God for Daddy.

After we fed the ducks all of our stale bread... we did a little playin'

Swinging was ok....

Playing in the tubes was cool...

But sliding was where it was at! She started at the regular old slide, then moved to the taller one, and finally mastered the giant twisty slide!

I have tried to convince Leah that she doesn't have to say "Cheese" when she sees a camera or when I ask her for a smile. Because this is what I get and I already have plenty of these cheesy, crooked, jutting-lower-jaw pictures of her. But I keep getting more!

Ready, Set, GO!! Static!!
That hair is a result of her lightning fast speed as she came down the twisty slide... no less than 35 times. :) Thank you God, for allowing us to take care of this sweet girl of Yours!

Happy 10.10.10!

This was one year ago (10/11/09) on our way home from church... her daddy and I saw a very similar sight today was we looked in the rear-view mirror on our way home from church... I wish I'd taken a picture today.

Topless Tuesday

Granstan's birthday got a little messy... I removed her spaghetti-stained shirt and forgot to re-dress the poor topless baby before we took pictures!


His birthday was 2 weeks ago and wasn't even on a Tuesday!! I just like the title. Happy Birthday again, Granstan. Glad we got to celebrate with you!

the cat and the bat

Leah's latest phase has her only saying the sound an animal makes rather than naming the actual animal. When we put on her new halloween jammies last night (purchased last November for $5!!) we practiced saying "bat and cat" over and over. This morning she woke up telling me all about her cat and bats.


Then at breakfast she put 3 pieces of banana in her mouth at once and began telling me another story.

yeah yeah yeah

Put this video on a loop and watch it for about 5 minutes. Then you'll have a little taste of what my morning was like. :)


Leah's friend Lillie is considering whether or not she wants to continue this friendship...

(I wrote this 2 weeks ago, but was having trouble uploading the video til now.)