Flu-free

...Is what we plan to be. Little Curley had her choice of a little shot in the leg... or a big spray up the nose.

I would always opt for the shot. Because I am a purist... and a masochist... and a little skeptical about the mist. I mean, what happens if you sneeze right after? (Which undoubtedly I would do.)

But this girl opted for the spray in the nose... And let me tell you, she will never opt for that again! She was not a fan and as soon as it was over she said "Mommy, I want the shot instead."

I'd promised her a treat after it was over and she SCREAMED "Starbucks!!" She loves the birthday-cake pops... Who doesn't? So off we went for a 9 am treat.





Sprinkle lips.


Flu vaccines are good...


But laughter is the best medicine.


Then we headed to the ag mart to pick up a couple of things for the shepherd in the family.

She saw the baby chicks and said "Where are their mommies?" I didn't tell her that one was marinating in our refrigerator at home in preparation for tonight's dinner.

Speaking of... The other day she told me "Chicken comes from cows, mommy." Do you think chick-fil-a's marketing campaign is confusing her?


She cracked me up when she said "ok baby chickens, now line up and I will teach you some things you need to learn."

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a little ham

Leah's new favorite movie is Veggietales: Princess and the Popstar. When her friend Lillie came over today, they hopped up on the piano bench and Leah burst into one of the (very melancholy) songs from the movie. You'll see that once they've finished that song she hops down and says "Now its time to get ready for the Ka-Chow show!"

Leah turned around to me later and said "Excuse me mommy, we're getting ready for tonight's show." After this they sang several more songs together, including Happy Birthday and Twinkle Twinkle. I wish I had the entire show on video! It was spectacular.

Enjoy some ham!

a little cooking

Even though her thumb appears to be on the wrong side of her hand... she is quite a little cook!
This particular meal was spaghetti... "Some for me and Mommy and Daddy and Beans."
"A little taste for you..."

"A little taste for me..."

RIP... my sweet

See the big one? This particular melon vine in my garden had several of these little melons sprouting, but only the biggest one continued to grow as the other ones shriveled in the heat this summer. I didn't photograph her after this date, but she was more than half the size of a full grown cantaloupe melon, when her vine of origin met an untimely end... She made it through the hottest summer on record in Texas... only to be weed-whacked to death. :( Kevin was sorry, though he didn't come right out and confess UNTIL I found the lifeless melon and began blaming the neighborhood rabbits for the death of my little fruit. Sad.

Natives

Every summer around the 4th of July, we re-unite with some of Kevin's Native American family in Oklahoma. That's right... you probably didn't know that my freckle-faced fair-skinned hubby was an Indian... but he is... that means this little blondie is too!

For the last few years we've reunited at a Casino/Hotel for the weekend... and since LC is too young to gamble... We swim...and we swim... Leah swam with daddy...and with Granstan...And surprised us all when she wanted to swim all by herself.
"Don't help me, I want to do it by myself."

Seriously, who wouldn't be impressed by a man who can hand-stand like this? Well, hands off ladies... he's mine!

Where's Lightning?

This is just like Where's Waldo... Only you are looking for lighning McQueen. He is a red race-car. He comes in many shapes and sizes... But he's always #95, he always says "ca-chow" and he is ALWAYS with Leah Curley. See if you can find him in the pictures. He's in every one...

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in the car...

at the pool...

in bed...

in the garage on "clean-out-the-garage-day"

at dinner with friends...

outside...

at breakfast...

at Grannie's birthday party...

helping with dinner...

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Labor Day Love

I try not to post alot of pictures of other people... I figure people don't care THAT much about whats going on with ME in the first place... and they probably care even less about whats going on with people I happen to know. I also don't like posting pictures of people without their permission. But deep down its probably more because I don't like people posting pictures of me in other places. Especially facebook... since I am a hater.

Don't ask me why... but occasionally I break my own rules. Today is one of those days. :)

Labor day weekend we headed down to Austin for my cousin Jeri's backyard wedding. It was a girls trip... and Leah loved saying "No boys on this bacation... just gols." My sister and I, along with my mom and her sister Dianna, and little Leah drove to Austin for the festivities. My cousins: Jeri and her daughter Natalie. Its been said I look more like these two than like my own mom and sister. Uncle Winston and his baby girl... My mom with her niece and her 2 sisters. The BOB and the NOB (brother of the bride, Jeff, and nephew of the bride, Jaxon) Look at that face! (I'm referring to Jaxon of course...) Precious!

My cousins Clay and Virginia and little Logan...
Leah enjoyed herself. She ate fajitas and wedding cake, she danced like no one was watching and she ran around the backyard like a maniac. All in all, a good bacation. ;)

too chilly to swim...

...but we're going swimming anyway!Leah and I joined Kevin on a teeny-tiny, mid-week vacation. (Work for him, vacation for us.) I sort of thought that with all the heat we had this summer no Texas pool could have possibly cooled off yet!

I was soooo wrong, and sooooo cold. But that girl just didn't seem to care. We swam for 3 hours, all alone. No one else was crazy enough to swim in that frigid water!

Lately?

She's enjoyed lots of splashing...





Cycling...


Sleeping in her big girl bed... Smiling!


Wearing out those pigtails...


And accessorizing...


Sort of...


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