Princess Amelia

Today's royal wedding of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton has been a hot topic.  It's been plastered all over the television, radio, and internet.  I read some about it online, but it's hard to get too excited about people I don't know.  My favorite pictures were the ones of all of the hats that guests wore to the wedding.  Some of them defied gravity.  Those women must have worn dozens of bobby pins to keep those hats from falling off their heads.  What do I know?  I'm just a simple girl who grew up on a farm.  It's interesting, though, to take a glimpse into the life of the royal family.

Mia and I were playing around in the front yard earlier.  I was trying to take her picture with her tiara as a shout out to today's events in London.  However, she thought it was much more entertaining to put the tiara on my head and take my picture.  She took pictures of the grass, her finger in front of the lens, etc.  One picture she took though was really good.  She took it completely by herself, so I was really surprised.

Finally got her picture when she sat down with a cupcake.  It's not a 1936 Cartier tiara like Kate wore, but my little Mia makes quite the pretty princess.

This is the picture that Mia took of me all by herself.  She said, "Say cheese, Mommy!"  You can't really see it, but she had put her tiara on my head.

 

Rain, Plastic Eggs, and Lots of Smiles!!!

Mia and I went to Heavener for Easter weekend.  Wesley couldn't go, unfortunately, because he had to work on Saturday.  I let Mia have her Easter basket last Sunday since I knew we wouldn't be here.  It was hard to get a picture of her with the basket because the little stinker kept getting candy out of it.  She would hand it me and say, "I want this one please!"  That girl loves her candy.  The weekend didn't start off too great.  On Friday morning, I had car "issues", so I wasn't able to leave work at noon as planned.  I didn't pick Mia up until 4:00pm.  Getting out of Dallas takes awhile at that time of day.  We spent much of the drive ahead of one storm and behind another.  It was all worth it when we got there, though.  Mia got to spend all weekend playing with Zoey.  Zoey is sitting up really well now.  She likes to make funny sounds and bob her head back and forth when you sing to her.  Z gets prettier every time I see her.  Mia isn't as jealous of her as she used to be.  For some reason, she only got a little jealous about diaper changes.  Poor Mimi had to change Zoey's diapers as well as several of Mia's.  Mia didn't want me to do it.  She kept saying, "Mimi's turn!"  I must admit that I didn't mind not changing a couple of dirty diapers!  We had our family get-together at my dad's on Saturday.  I'm happy as a clam when I'm surrounded by my family.  I just wish Wesley could have been there.  Mia was the littlest "egg hunter", so there were a lot of eggs in plain sight for her to find.  She kept saying, "Right there! Another one!"  There were a few dyed, hard-boiled eggs.  Dad's black lab, Mattie, found one and started chowing down, blue shell and all.  Gross.  Hehe!  One of the eggs Mia found was nestled in a small cluster of poison ivy.  Unfortunately, she had already picked it up before someone pointed it out to me.  I scrubbed her hands good with lots of soap, and we never saw any sign of it later (thank goodness).  Mia kept hunting eggs, but she wanted to open each plastic one as she found it to look for candy.  She ate entirely too much candy this weekend, but I guess she needs to let loose sometimes!

Mia last Sunday with her goodies from the Easter bunny

  Now, pictures from this weekend.
Zoey trying on the bunny ears

Mia is on the hunt for sugary treasure!

A couple of local residents came walking by the yard while we were out there.  They seemed surprised to see a bunch of humans picking up colored eggs.  

 This one's got candy - jackpot!

Two of my favorite ladies - my grandmothers!

 Miss Z and her mommy

 Checking out the loot

 Shayna practiced her driving with my dad while Camryn and Kaylee enjoyed the ride!

Wordless Wednesday: Bunny Girl

Bluebonnets

Taking a drive to see the bluebonnets in full bloom is a very Texan thing to do.  We have never done it until this year.  Does that mean we're becoming more Texan?  Hmmm, well Mia is a native born Texan, so I guess that's okay.  We chose the trail we wanted to drive to see the bluebonnets and took off.  We found a great spot with thousands of bluebonnets, so we stopped for some pictures.  By the time we were done with pictures, Mia was ready for a nap.  She slept all of the way to the grocery store (which took about 45 minutes since we were down in Ennis).  She was still pretty tired, though.  At bedtime tonight, she didn't put up a fuss at all.  She said, "Daddy, come on! I'm ready for bed!"  What a great day!  I hope we can make a trip down there to see the bluebonnets every year.

Can you hear what she's thinking? "Daddy please take away Mommy's camera.  I'm tired of posing."

Fun Down South

We met Jon, Holly, Jasper, and Harper in Ennis today for the town's 60th Bluebonnet Festival.  Ennis is designated as the official Bluebonnet City of Texas.  They hold the festival downtown which has a lot of old buildings.  I'd like to go back down there just to take pictures of the buildings.  There was a section that was specifically for children.  Mia went into the bounce house with Harper, but she had no idea what it was because she'd never been in one.  She never really jumped, but she did smile and bounce a little.  Next, the girls went on the train.  Mia was a little nervous about getting on it, but she was okay with it when she realized that Harper was riding it, too.  Mia also went to the petting zoo.  She didn't mind all of the animals walking around her.  She seemed surprised, though, when I encouraged her to pet them.  I think she enjoyed it quite a bit.  We all got some ice cream, and then headed to the booth that had maps for the bluebonnet trail.  I'll include those pics on the next post.

This little black pig was my favorite!  Isn't he adorable?

 

New Wheels

We've been preparing at work for a garage sale we're having tomorrow.  All of the money we make will go to the American Cancer Society.  We've had a few large items donated.  However, most of those items have been bought by the staff already!  I bought a tv and a few things for my niece, Zoey.  I was really excited to discover that someone had donated a Little Tikes Cozy Coupe car.  Mia's friend, Harper, has one, and Mia loves it.  I wasn't going to buy her a new one because we don't really have much paved space for her to play with it.  On the other hand, if I can get a used one for ten bucks, why not?  She had fun playing in it on the sidewalk but didn't want to get out when we were ready to go to dinner.  We were going to go to our favorite Salvadoran restaurant.  I asked Mia, "Do you want to go get some rice and beans?" She said, "No, Momma."  I then asked, "Do you want some pupusas?"  Her eyes brightened.  "Pupusas? Yeah! Let's go!"  It's so funny the things she likes to eat that I never ate for the first time until I was an adult.  She likes Salvadoran food, of course, as well as Greek food.  That doesn't mean that she has an extremely refined palette.  She's just as happy chowing down on a hamburger.  I try to give her healthy choices, but sometimes we're more in the mood for pizza than grilled chicken.  One of her new favorite snacks is dipping pretzels in hummus.  I didn't even know what hummus was until I was in my twenties.  It's one of my favorite snacks now, too!

Award-Winning Daddy

I just noticed on Mia's birthday ticker that she is two years, two months, two weeks, and two days old.  I love it!

Last night Wesley and I went to an awards banquet for the city he works for.  He won the Civilian of the Year award for the police department.  I was really proud of him.  We had a good dinner and got to hang out with some friends.  Nana and Keith watched Mia while we went.  It's nice to have a date night once in awhile.  Add that to a free dinner, and you've got a great evening!

Mia had a lot of fun hunting Easter eggs in the front yard with Nana and Keith this morning.  She was really good at it.  Once again, she stayed home with them while we went out grocery shopping.  When we got back, they had to head home.  After a little lunch, we went over to our friends' house.  Wes helped Jon work on putting together a swing set for Harper and Jasper while the rest of us hung out with the kiddos.  Mia and Harper always have a great time.  Jasper is a pretty fast crawler.  He'll be zipping around with those other two before long!  Harper had a Dora cake for her birthday that Mia really liked.  Naturally, Mia ended up with more frosting on her face than in her mouth, but she loved it.  She didn't want to leave at the end of our visit!

Mia really likes "helping" Daddy with yard work

Ready to go play with Harper and Jasper!

 Mia with the birthday girl

 I think it was Holly who said that Mia looked like an Apache with the icing on her face like that. Haha!

Working On Her ABCs

Mia is doing much better with singing the ABCs.  Obviously, she still has some work to do, but for barely over two years old, I think she's doing a great job!

Caught Red-Handed

Mia got really quiet earlier which always makes me nervous, especially if I can't see her.  I heard a rustling sound coming from the kitchen and went to investigate.  This is what I found...

I guess I left the box sitting on the counter.  I forget that she can reach up there and get things down now.  Mia's funniest moment today was while we were at Lowe's.  As we passed by a long row of lawnmowers, Mia pointed to them and said, "Daddy's push toys!"  She cracks me up!  Here are a couple of other pictures from the last few days.  It's been pretty quiet around here.