For those of you who were on this forum a little over a year ago making bets on when I was going to go into labor, can you believe that it has already been more than a year since she was born?? She's trying really hard to take her first steps... standing up and bouncing in the middle of the room, giving me ornery looks over her shoulder to make sure I'm watching. Where the heck does the time go?
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Clean her up before you hand her to me, Homey. :)
She wasn't quite 11 months when that pic was taken... she'd just tasted her first bites of strawberry shortcake. (In spite of the fact that her teeth don't show much when she is smiling, she has a full set of chompers in there and likes grown up food that she can sink her teeth into.) Yep, she is a mess, but look at that innocent expression....that's how she usually looks when I catch her doing something that she knows she's not supposed to be doing (unrolling the tp, for example).
She is cute for sure, but I don't like babies to get wet stuff on me. :)
They must be sanitary before I will play with them.... and no urping up on my shoulder either..... rofl
Good looking kid HT. She will love to grow up in the country.
Now that's a beautiful picture !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quote from: glenn kangiser on May 30, 2009, 12:44:06 AM
She is cute for sure, but I don't like babies to get wet stuff on me. :)
The must be sanitary before I will play with them.... and no urping up on my shoulder either..... rofl
I'm with you, Glenn. :) Luckily, I have a bunch of sisters who don't mind changing their clothes and cleaning up after every gross emission...
Cute kid HT, BTW. ;)
Her sisters don't mind dragging her around no matter how messy she is, either, Ernest T. They played in the dirt the other day with her until she was covered in red dirt from head to toe.
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What a cutie! Thanks for posting new pics!
Now that is a very nice picture Homey. Very pretty. :)
Andrew, I think you and I both understand that the dirty stuff must be done by the ladies. Messy diaper --- I'm gagging..... [waiting]
You want me to throw up and increase the problems ???
Bring me the kid after it's clean... rofl
Glenn, you're as bad as my dad! He nearly passed out one time when my oldest was little and messed up a diaper while he was carrying her! I couldn't even change her diaper in the house... I had to go out to our truck to do it because he was gagging and carrying on. He can't stand to watch babies eat, either, especially once they get to the stage where they like to play with their food.
Kids! Good, Bad and the ugly. Doesn't make any difference at what stage if they are yours you love them anyway.
How true, Red. She's been teething again and has had a 24-hour virus to top it off... I've been puked on and worse in the last 24 hours, but looking at her sleeping in there now I go soft. Wouldn't trade her for anything.
looking great HG. Time sure does go so fast, especially with all the changes and tribulations you and your family triumped over this year aside from just keeping the family healthy and happy.
Quote from: Homegrown Tomatoes on May 30, 2009, 10:05:30 AM
They played in the dirt the other day with her until she was covered in red dirt from head to toe.
I'm all grown up and still do that sometimes.
I dont mind messy kids or even messy babies. I just dont like the crying with no obvious culprit. that drives me crazy, if you want milk just say so :-\
Muldoon, I hear you on that... our four-year-old still has a tendency to start hollering or whining for absolutely no apparent reason rather than just saying what she wants. It drives me nuts. Part of it is that she has a really tiny voice, and it is hard to hear her half the time anyway, so maybe she's already said it, but she mumbles or is not facing you when she's talking, and then she gets mad if you didn't hear her. It was cute when she was little and had that tiny voice and people couldn't understand her half the time, even though she was speaking really well for her age, but they would have to stop whatever they were doing and lean in close in order to hear her. Now, she can be 100 yards from me and say something in that voice and expect me to hear it, and if I don't then she starts wailing incomprehensibly, because when she's hollering you sure as heck can't understand a word she says. It makes me way crazier than them being muddy or catching varmits and bringing them into the house.
My grandson used to start wailing if something wasn't going right (he's 2 1/2 yo)
but then his mom taught him to just say "help"
it is so cute
he found a tiny bug on the bathroom floor and ran to gramma and said 'help' and took her hand to show her the bug -- very cute (bugs are not welcome after the bee sting incident)
your daughter is beautiful, Homey
Thanks. :) The "help" is a good idea. I ask DD, "When is it OK for a nearly 5-year-old girl to whine?" and she'll mumble, "Never." When she was little, we called her Squeak all the time because she has such a high-pitched soft little voice. I think maybe I'm half deaf at that pitch... maybe something to do with sitting in front of the drumline all through high school and college band. It also doesn't help that she talks extremely fast expects you to catch every word. Especially bad when I'm driving as I can't read her lips then!
The baby gets really excited over bugs now too. Yesterday, we were eating supper outside and every time a fly would land anywhere near her, she would squeal with delight and point and say, "Look!!" She really liked the ladybugs until one of them landed on her, and then she puckered up and looked like she would cry. My oldest caught a wasp the other day in her bug jar and she never got tired of watching it crawl around the jar... she wanted to hold it up really close and look at it through the magnifying glass on top of the jar. We made a run to the city yesterday to a bookstore because I wanted to pick up a few things for home school for this fall, and you'd think she'd never been in town before. She was pointing at all the books and shrieking and yelling, "Book! Book! That book!" People were cracking up laughing at her. Her eyes are too big for her face and she was so animated and funny about it; I guess she's already forgotten that she ever lived in the city.
Quote from: Homegrown Tomatoes on June 02, 2009, 12:44:03 PMMy oldest caught a wasp the other day in her bug jar and she never got tired of watching it crawl around the jar...
Maybe she'll become a beek. I never get tired of watching my bees. :)
That'd be great by me! :)