Park day, baby

There she is.  My pretty, pretty princess.  She is modeling a lovely chunky pink multi-stranded necklace, worn in the style of the flower child.  Let me just tell you, she got plenty of kisses for that!  

In the spirit of the lifted weather, we headed out to the park.  The sun was out!  Hooray!  The air was cold.  Boo.  So we suited up and headed out, me and my little munchkin:

Notice the shoes.  Ugh.  It makes her look so old!  Why?!  This could be named the first official time she has used shoes.  She and I wrestled each other to get them on, a few tears were shed but we survived.  It is clear to me that for a first-timer, walking with shoes is a different sort of task than walking without.  She stumbled and fell over more times than is normal for her, trying to get grounded.  Clearly she is my child.  Shoes are dumb.  She even got her first skinned knee!  

Don't act like I'm crazy, it really is skinned a bit.  She fell over herself while walking to the park.  Ugh, it tugged at my heart and made me want to toss those nasty (albeit cute) sneakers into a fire.  Of course, she was barely fazed and was ready to take off when we reached the park.

My favorite new accessory has to be the ball cap.  It is too darn sweet!  

There were too many 'big kids' being crazy around the play structure (note to teenagers: please take your silliness and obnoxiosity (new word?) elsewhere and leave the playground for the babies) so we moved  on to the swings!  Always a hit with Ro, she becomes contemplative, giggly, observant, meditative.  

I am in love.  I can't get enough.  I sometimes long for the break of nap time and then feel lonely, longing for her to wake up and remind me of why I am the most blessed Momma.  

We didn't stay out long, the air was too cold for this family.  Rosanna agreed that she was done too.

Lastly, I leave you with this shot, because her cuteness cannot be denied and I'll never pass up a chance to spread the love.

Shout out to the hubs, who's camera skills captured some awesome adorableness on today's adventure :)

  

5 Days To Go

In only four days our tiny little baby, our little lump of love will be one year old.  I know, you think I must be mistaken.  I've checked the calendar a number of times because I don't believe it myself.  Then I think about all the growing that has happened and I come to the conclusion that yes, it has indeed been a year.

She walks,

without shoes....

 she has amazing hair,

she's opinionated,

and adventurous,

she's so very helpful,

already she has made friends for life,

not to mention she is so creative!

She's a team player,

and simply irresistible.

Love you, Rosie Posey

Cookie Fail

My attempt failed.  That's all there is to it.  This is what they are SUPPOSED to look like:

Lovely, right?  And they don't require eggs (this is key because we are out of eggs).   Here are what mine look like *cringe*

On the upside, Baby Ro got some quality Uncle Russ time :)

We love us some Uncle Russ!!

CrapBeGone...accomplished?

Ethan and I ROCKED IT today and got a pile of crap to go out the door like none I have ever seen.  It definitely fulfills my commitment through the end of the month.   There has to be at least 100+ things here.  Not to mention the 2 piles of clothes already picked up by freecyclers today.

I am, however, going to continue getting at least 5 things per day outta my way...tee-hee.  There are other rooms in this house that I haven't ventured into for this mission, so they are definitely next!  

And now, the obligatory Ro pick (this time with her Pops):

Day 15

All caught up and then some!  Wa-hoo!  I went through my dresser drawers and found a bunch of stuff that I routinely pass over whenever I go on a toss-out binge.  As you may have guessed, I still haven't worn these things.  So away it goes!

Bye, bye clothes.  Please don't ask to stay, because I might just let you.  

Days 4-14

Am I really ten whole days behind?!  Good grief.  As a part of my friend Erica's "crapbegone" mission for February, I am officially FIFTY things behind.  Wow, that's a lot.  Here are some things I rounded up today:

Fourteen already read National Geographics:

Four knives from a second not-so-nice set of knives left over from before we got the awesome ones for our wedding:

Some foot stuff I got for Ethan that he never used, a pair of earrings and a solo earring:

And a box of 'stuff' from a previous purge that never made it out of the house:

There is an undisclosed amount of stuff in the box (and I am not going to go through for fear of 'needing' some of those things again) so I am going to bring my total for today up to 40.  Only 10 more things to get caught up, the night is young....