For Auntie Lolo

I got a request for more pictures of the nieces, Auntie Lolo, this one's for you!

The girls swinging at Skypark, Eliana's 10 Month birthday.

This picture was taken moments before I hauled Adessa screaming to the car, for what proved to be our most difficult day together to date. She worked herself into a raging fit like none before or since, luckily, but one that brought out the worst in both of us. I'll just leave it at that.


At second-step-cousin once removed Henry's birthday party, a ho-down at his farm! Here's Adessa with the goats.


Here we are with beloved Aunt Deborah. (Adessa hadn't warmed up at this point.)

And with my beloved friends Kim and Barbara.

Here is Adessa 20 minutes after we should have gone home, finally 100% into the ho-down, absolutely in the spirit and having a blast.



St. Patrick's Day, sort of. We had a birthday party for my friend Shanon with a St. Patty's spin, only a few days before the 17th. Please note Calvin's fledgling mustache. He's growing it for a picture at the end of May. It better be one fabulous picture, is all I'm saying. Its very hard to take him seriously.


The weather has been beautiful, and we've been enjoying our backyard. The warm weather is great because there's more kissable soft skin exposed. 8)


Adessa marched around singing, sweet.


A cake side-note: I've decided caking is my newest hobby, and got some bargain pans online. Here's my first attempt, and I learned a ton. Couldn't have done it without youtube tutorials.

Help My Hands!

Do any other moms get this? My hands are in serious crisis. Since Eliana was born almost ten months ago, they've been in some degree of dry, itchy, sandpaper-like, scaly, rashy ouchiness. It's from washing them too much, I know. I use Cetaphil mild hand soap, and try to moisturize whenever I get a minute. I've also been wearing lanolin in white gloves at night, it just seems like my hands are always wet. Diapers, noses, potty training, cleaning, cooking, I'm just always washing them. Do they have spa getaways for hands? My hands need one. If you've any tips, I'm willing to hear them. One consolation is, I don't think I'd look like royalty if we were to have another French Revolution, they're beat up enough I think I'd avoid the guillotine.

Disney on Ice and More...

Adessa kept calling it Disneyland, but we got to sit in a Penthouse box at the HP Pavillion to see Disney on Ice. It was awesome. Awesome to sit holding Adessa and have special time with her. Awesome to see her so excited and enchanted by it all. Awesome to spend time with our friends who had the box connection, Kim, Jim, Gwen and Julie. Eliana was happy to hang with Grandma and Grandpa Lewis, and it was very nice to just have to worry about Adessa. Before we left, as I was dressing Adessa in her Minnie Mouse costume, she said: "Minnie Mouse will be so happy to meet me." That's right girl. I'm pretty sure Minnie waved right at us.

Posing with Grandma pre-show, in all her Minnie finery.

With Kim (wearing Julie) and Gwennie in our box.

We tried to get the perspective here, can you see the ice?


More...
An impromptu bath in the bathroom sink. (Can you see how we need to remodel, or at least update?)


Eliana rocking out on her piano.


This girl is trying it all out these days. Eliana tries to say: ball, uh-oh, more, bye and hi, and is so engaged with what's going on around her. She's also trying to stand and clap at the same time, she tries to pull herself up on everything, she tries to play with Adessa or whatever Adessa's doing, which has lead to another new noise she makes. Pretty much when she sees Adessa coming towards her she shouts: "Nahh!" because that's what Adessa says when she snatches toys away from her. Oh dear.

Here she is stuck between the stove and the counter. Again, can you see we need to remodel???? 8)


Sisterly love. A big smoocheroo, or maybe mouth to mouth? (So that's how they do it in their family... Ferris anyone?)