Chocolate or Vanilla

Lately, we have made two batches of pudding, chocolate and vanilla. Mary Kate has enjoyed helping me make it. Bet you can't guess which flavor she is wearing!

Picnic in the Park

Since we have been having such great weather, Becky and I decided to take the kids to the park and have a picnic dinner. The kids had a blast eating, making a mess, and stepping on everyone else's plates of food!



My cutie playing on the slide!




Patrick giving MK the ride of her life!


Ben sporting a cute expression and some baked beans on his face. MK was wearing them too!

The Children's Museum

About a month ago, we took MK to the Children's Museum of Atlanta. They have some amazing exhibits for little kids. She got to play in a huge water table, go grocery shopping, and play with lots of balls. She loved it.

Mommy

Mary Kate just started calling me "mommy" from "mama." It is so sweet to hear, except for when she is saying it over and over and hanging on my legs. :)

Weather Bummer!

The snow passed us by and landed in north Georgia. We didn't get anything but some sleet and ice which is not fun to play in. I was hoping for some fun in the snow with Mary Kate, but since it didn't snow, she is ready for spring!

Feeding the Ducks

We took Mary Kate to Garden Lakes to feed the ducks and she loved it. We gave her bread to feed the ducks with and she ate it! Oh well, at least she saw us feeding the ducks.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone! May God bless you richly as you share in the joy of His Son's birth!

Uncle Jarred visits

My brother, Jarred, came to visit today and brought Mary Kate a great present. Her very own Cinderella chair. She loves sitting in it. She sat and ate her gummies while watching Baby Einstein!

Red-Head Rants

I would just like to take a moment to rant a bit about being a red-head and having a red-headed daughter.

1. People seem to think that it is their "obligatory duty" to comment on MK's red hair everywhere we go. It is just hair people! Now, I don't mind the nice comments but the comments of "Whew! That's about as red as red can be!" we can really do without!

2. Being a red-head does not necessarily mean that we have a temper. LOTS and LOTS of people have tempers who are not red-heads. So, it really doesn't mean anything. Having a temper is part of being a sinner.

3. Just because a little girl has red hair does not mean that she will be mean. I taught kindergarten for four years and I saw plenty of mean kids. Most of them were not red-heads.


MK sharing her bubbles.


4. Being a red-head does not mean that we will fry every time that we go out into the sun. We can get a tan. Now granted, we won't tan like J-Lo, but we can get a nice golden color. It all depends on skin tone, not hair color!

Grass Sledding

I am running out of things to do with Mary Kate outside. She loves to be outside, but you can only blow bubbles for so long. Last week I decided to push her down the hill in my sled. Maybe I was wishing it would snow for real.

The Hospital Visit

We have had quite a week! Mary Kate was put into the hospital on Tuesday afternoon for a severe allerigic reaction to an antibiotic that she was taking for an ear infection. It was not fun at all. She looked horrible. I took her to the doctor on Monday for it and he gave her a shot of steroids. He said that it would take care of it along with some Benadryl. Well, lo and behold, the next day she was worse! Her eyes were swollen and puffy and her face was swollen. When I took her to the doctor people were gasping at her and saying things like, "Bless her heart." Well, we all know what that means! She is doing much better now and looks like her normal self again. It was quite a scare!

Sweet Picture

Mk and her Grandaddy!

Is It Christmas Yet?

This is Mary Kate asking her Daddy "Is it Christmas yet?"

Happy Anniversary!

Sorry for the lack of posting. Brian and I went out of town last week to celebrate our fifth year anniversary! Yeah! We left Mary Kate with my parents and went to the beach for a few days. We had a blast and Mary Kate had a blast too. We didn't have anyone to take our picture so this is the best we could do. :)




The sun was doing some amazing things behind us. But you can't see it. ;(

Well, yesterday I was tagged by Becky to do this thing. You have to take a picture of yourself and then write about the person that tagged you. Well, I don't know Becky extremely well, but the times that we have hung out I have really enjoyed it. Everytime I am around her and the boys, something really funny happens. For instance, one night we went over to the Motes house for dinner. As soon as we got there, Patrick thew something into the ceiling fan (which was going at a high speed). It sounded like the fan exploded! Becky got onto Patrick and told him to go outside to release his energy but she was laughing the whole time. I think it takes a very down-to-earth person to have such a cute and active boy like Patrick and be able to handle it with stride! Hope you are feeling better, Becky.

The Coffee Mug

Brian and I both have issues with misplacing things sometimes - I guess everyone does. A few weeks ago I saw him with a new coffee mug and I asked him where he got it. He said that he didn't know what happened to all of his coffee mugs that he used to have and that several of them were missing tops. Well, today I am walking by the mailbox and I spy a foreign object atop my mailbox. Here folks is his coffee mug. I am sure that he got the mail and set it down on top of it. I thought it was so funny that I wanted to share. Honey, I am so glad that we have each other's back when it comes to finding the things we each lose. :) Love ya!

Halloween Pictures

Rebeckah was sweet to Trick-or-Treat with Mary Kate! Brian's cousin Caleb made fun of me for making this loud noise with my mouth to get Mary Kate's attention for the picture. All I got to say is that it worked!


The Fam.



I had to be a one-woman-circus to get her to smile for this picture!



The cheerleader!

Happy Halloween!

Last night I took pictures of MK by the jack-o-lanterns that Brian carved for us. My plan was to dress her in her Halloween costume. She was supposed to be a flower. The costume was made by Brian's Aunt Chris and was worn by his cousin Rebeckah. Well, MK would have no part in the flower petals being put on her head. So, she is going to be a cheerleader for Halloween. We are trick-or-treating with Rebeckah and Nana and Pops (Brian's parents) tonight so I will post pictures of her first trick-or-treating experience tomorrow. Happy Halloween everyone!







This picure scares me. It's like she has seen a ghost! Or, maybe she just takes after her Pops!

Our Weekend with No Pictures

Well, we had a spectacular fall weekend. We were going to take Mary Kate to Burt's Pumpkin Farm but that was too far away. Instead we went to the Pumpkin Patch that Luke and Becky took their boys too a few weekends ago. We had a blast! Mary Kate loved petting all of the animals and she even got a few kisses from a goat and it didn't bother her at all. We also took a hay-ride. That was a little boring because it didn't go very fast and Mary Kate doesn't care about tractors. After the pumpkin patch we went to Chiaha which is an arts festival here. It was great! We have no pictures of the day because all of our batteries were dead for the camera. Bummer! So here is a random picture!





I am not sure what she was eating here- obviously something messy!

Morning Mohawk

This is how Mary Kate woke up one morning. I swear that we didn't make her hair this way!