The Perfect Storm

Annie loves Popcorn. A pretty healthy treat in my opinion so I am ok with her obsession.
It was about 3:00 in the afternoon, we were in the post nap portion of the day.
"Babe" is the current favorite movie playing in our home and it was rolling,
"I CAN DO IT!" was exclaimed as I was opening the popcorn package. I handed over (after encouraging kinder word choices) the package and she climbed onto her chair opened the microwave, deposited package, pushed the automatic 30second button a few times.
Unfortunately the button was not pushed enough times and the popcorn only half popped. Oh well, a waste of about half the bag, she had tons of "seeds in my bowl".
I sent her off to the couch with her popcorn as I grabbed a yogurt & spoon for Mia & headed there myself.
Just as I sat down with Mia, Annie fell backwards in her attempt to climb onto the couch, popcorn went flying in seemingly slow motion through the air and landed all around her as she laid sprawled out on her back.... I laughed, sort of in that way moms do so their kids don't loose it for the 4millionth time that day, and sort of because it was pretty funny and an easy clean up (unlike the orange juice catastrophe of lunch). However my precious daughter was SCREAMING! Her eyes were squeezed shut and it was then that I realized she had hot popcorn kernels sitting on her eyelids burning her poor little eyes!!! Oh I felt so bad, awful, really, really bad! I tried to offer a soft ice pack even though I didnt see much damage, but she just wanted to sit on the couch however she held a blanket to her face which I thought was odd.
A few minutes later I left to run an errand and Joe called me and said she had blisters on her left eyelid and she had rubbed them open! :O(
We can't put anything on it either because its so close to her tear duct that it just goes right into her eye and she screams from aloe in the eye which hurts worse than the burns she amazingly has not complained about at all yet!

Mom of the year award goes to...... someone else!!!

p.s.

Upon walking into the bathroom and finding Annie holding roughly 20 feet of tp wadded up in her hand I wanted to yell (it was after 7:30 my rope was at the frayed end and barely hangin on). Instead I knelt down next to her and here's how it went.
Me "Annie, what made you take so much toilet paper off?"
Annie looking at the sky filling her cheeks with air, popping her tongue out through her pursed lips and letting all the air escape looks at me and said with her little head bobbing in a convincing matter "Jesus told me to"......

What do I do with that!?!

p.p.s I told her she must have heard Him wrong, He told her to take a little bit of toilet paper off :o)

The Ann Girl Update

Annie
is not a baby anymore! She will be 3 in a month and it is starting to show! She has some of the most serious faces and lately has been using big words more appropriately. What surprises me the most is her observations and her understanding of complex things. She gets that her Grammy and Papa are my Mom & Dad & every day on vacation when my mom would wake up in the morning and come into the living room she would jump up and exclaim "Mama its your Mama!" so excited every time. It was adorable because it shows me in a different light how excited she gets when she sees me.
She also figured out the whole husband role lately. I think she she used to think that Daddy was also her husband. She told me the other night that she only had 1 sister and it was Mia, what makes her think to say these things I don't know.
I love hearing her prayers, usually she wants me to say the prayers and when she has something to add its usually for a relative. When she prayed one day on vacation it was "dear Jesus, thank you for vacation because we Loooove vacation, amen!" sounds about right to me! Then another day I was laying with her and she wanted to pray and said "Dear Jesus thank you for Uncle John and Baby Hope amen" "now get out Mama"!

She can finally peddle her tricycle which she learned a few months ago, I think she just couldn't because it was too big, she can finally reach the peddles!
She loves her "Pink Baby" and sleeps with her clutched in her arms every night.
She was waking up earlier that I liked this summer so I plugged and alarm clock (some people use a night light) into a timer and set it to come on at 8am. She stays in bed or at least in her room until the clock comes on flashing 12:00 and then she knocks on the door!!! I was SO happy that it worked!
She looks, acts, talks, walks just like her father which is fine with me because I like him too :o) She found out her eyes are blue "like my dad" and is very happy with that.
She loves animals (although doesn't want to touch them) and the zoo and anything that resembles a map even if its a junk mail catalog its a "map".
She likes to do anything artsy and make tents which she calls a "secret". I caught her under multiple pillows on her bed the other day and after asking her what she was doing she said "oh we were just playing secret" I asked her who is "we" and she shrugged her shoulders and said "oh Pink Baby & me".
She calls butterfly's "flutterflowers" or "flutterfly's" which I think was their original name, I bet it got changed in translation from Adams time dont you?
Anything on the radio is "kukucks music" and boy is she picky, she doesn't want to listen to anything slow and she wants me to sing along to all of them!
She has what she calls a "nakey dance" that she does when she changes her clothes and although inappropriate for this website I need to get her on video because there is a lot of jumping side to side and flapping her arms like a chicken and well its hilarious.

Decorating

... I have blogged about it before. Our Bellevue house was easy to decorate, plus we were a... whats the word... DINK household :o) That's right, duel income no kids, the recipe for living on one income, saving the rest and still having some left over for frivolous spending. Spending on things like house decor. It was on the top of my list before kids, unfortunately people would judge if they see my kids naked, if my walls are naked people just think I am a bad decorator or don't plan on staying put long :o)
I have had the decor from our last house sitting around in places and in boxes for over a year now and I cant decide if I should hang them just to get tired of them being on my walls for 5+years now! I am SO over it and I wish it would just look decent.
Problem #2 since we have been married I have not been a picture framer. I have 1 picture from the wedding of me and my dad in a frame that floats from room to room and 1 picture from our honeymoon that sits in the exact same spot since the week we got home! I have 2 frames that I LOVE set up on some shelves that are still advertising Homegoods signs as I have not even thought about finding a picture to put in them. Joe came across a few pictures of us from college that he has always loved and found frames to put them in and they sit on his bedside table.
It is a sad reality check but I was watching a story about a couple whos 3 children died in a car accident and they showed alll the pictures of their children that they had framed on their walls and how therapeutic they were to look at... I have NO pictures of my children, anywhere! How sad is that!?! I want shrines! I want a wall of family pictures to remind me of wonderful times and cute chubby cheeks that aren't quite as chubby any more. I want to FRAME! So look out Hobby Lobby, I am coming, and I am spending money I don't have to dress my house!

A Day Of Antiques

While on vacation Joe and I ran to the local tiny grocery store in the town of Cadiz, KY to pick up hamburger buns for dinner. I had been informed that there were Antique shops in town and I made plans for a girls trip later in the week to hit them up. I asked Joe to drive by a few so we could see what time they opened. As we left the tiny grocery we passed the Sonic and feed store which was all I thought Cadiz consisted of. However we drove on into an adorable little strip of storefronts nearly every one an antique store! Oh Bliss! My hubby lost major points for knowing this was here and not taking me in the 6 years he has been coming on our vacation.
A girls trip turned into Dad and Zach tagging along and wonderful Kara & Ben staying back with the kiddos.

For Uncle Joe, you were going to get that tea pot till we saw the price... sorry we love you on a budget :o)


For Susan, when we walked into the first shop I announced to Carly that I wanted to find buttons... turns out buttons are a hot commodity and priced accordingly. However mom pounced on this jar of buttons and said "Oh Susan... take my picture!" I didn't even have to ask for a translation :o)

Turns out a day of antiquing taught me a valuable life lesson: if you are going to be a sign maker... learn to spell! It also reconfirmed Kelly's dyslexia because she pointed out the cute sign and didn't even notice the letter missing.

These two things were found in a quaint little coffee shop called "Pops" We were clueless as to what this small closet was for, so Kelly put herself on display. Upon further inquiry we were informed it is a cell phone booth. Cute!

Kelly said if Zach saw these he would totally call them and ask them how he could pray for them, which is so true of wonderful Zach. :o)


It was a successful trip, 5 antique stores is truly my limit. My legs were tired and I was on antique and covetousness overload :o) However I did score a Eloise Wilkin little golden book of childrens prayers, "Hand, Hand Finger Thumb", a giant cake cover & a Jadeite Fire King bowl (!) to add to my collection (that is actually a birthday present from my parents and I wont actually receive until Oct).

Vacation Summary in Pictures

We rented a boat on the hottest day of the week, 105 degrees I believe. I love motoring around the lake on a pontoon, turns out Annie does too!

Ann Girl with the Captain

It wouldn't be vacation without these two

Lake Barkley's newest member Zach!!

Amelia was just a wee squish last year, she was livin it up this time around.

"PorterBeth" let Annie have a turn one night with their fishing pole. When we were little we used to fish with dried up pieces of hot dog. I guess Barkley fish are too snobby for hot dogs because they weren't biting.
However I did catch Annie nibbling a bit

Buster deciding that sleep sounded more appetizing than dinner.

The Squish in her Blue Jean diapers from Uncle Joe

And saving the best for last... reading, wonderful reading fictional books on vacation. Some choose to read things that grow their spirituality but what, I ask you, is more spiritual than Anne Of Green Gables on a borrowed Kindle tilted back in the comfiest patio furniture on earth, with a view of the sparkling lake around you to the tune of nothing but vacation noises (no seriously the children were all asleep!)?