Catch up

Who is this child?! I swear, she is literally growing right before my very eyes way too

quickly. In some ways it makes me a little sad. I miss her baby-ness. I wish I could

keep her two years old forever. I liked that age. Still a "toddler" but grown up

enough to not need me all the time. Now she's smart, witty, and she back talks me.

She's independent and wants to do things on her own. She can entertain herself in her

room for an hour or longer. She is funny and sweet and thoughtful.

I love her so much and as excited as I am about her growing up, it kinda makes me sad too.

My parents are in Maine right now with my brothers and my mother left her car with me

since they flew up there. It's lovely! It's a cute little Kia Soul and I'm in heaven driving

it!!! No joke. I've never had a new car.....and I hope one day when I'm working again

that I'll be able to "splurge" a little and get something this adorable.

She also left her cat with us, Tigre. And she's adjusting well. I was afraid she wasn't

going to get along with Gemima after their first meeting but she's settled in now and

her and Gemima are getting along well now! It's cute to see them tearing around the house

after each other.

We dropped by my mother in law's today to take her and a friend down to the hair salon

to get their hair done. They both ended up going much blonder and they each got a

feather in their hair! So cute. Especially on my 60 year old mother in law!

But while we were at the house Gianna took the opportunity to jump on the inflatable

guest bed. She said it was just like Kidz Play - our local inflatable park!

I snapped a couple of photos, her faces crack me up! Click on the picture to see it larger.

It will most certainly make you smile (and look at those long legs! Geez.)

My little artist. She found a "paint brush" - it was actually an old make up brush but she was

thrilled. She located her little paint pots and wanted to paint. So I got her some paper

and she painted for a good 30 minutes. She painted a flower garden, and later

she painted a picture of Daddy walking in the flower garden.

She has such an imagination!

After some painting we made smoothies for a snack. I have these smoothie mix packs from

Jamba. They are little individual bags with pre chopped strawberries, bananas and yogurt

"chunks" - you add juice or milk, blend it up and enjoy! She loves them as much as I do!

I pretty much wear my hair up like this all the time! It's so much easier to deal with, quick

to style because there is no flat ironing involved and SO much cooler since you

pretty much sweat as soon as you walk outside right now. Today was "cooler" and it

was still 95 out. I'm trying to get better about wearing all my cool earrings. I just

forget most of the time.

I'm hoping it'll be good and sunny tomorrow and that I can actually get Gi and I

out to the pool. We haven't really spent any time out there in like a month.

I think I spent more time out here at the pool when I didn't live here!

But my tan is practically gone now and that's not cool since it's still July......

But I'm looking forward to August - mine and the Hubs 6 yr anniversary (I should share "our story" sometime!), my 25th birthday (sounds so old!), Gianna starting school (hopefully)

and the possibility of me getting a part time job (after um, five years, being at home. Yikes.).

I put in an application at our local Hibbett Sports - I wouldn't mind working around

cool shoes and fitness equipment so I'm hoping to hear back from them. *fingers crossed*