The Sleeper

Mary can sleep anywhere! She has stopped taking afternoon naps since we moved, and she would rather sleep right around dinner time. Since that would keep her up ALL night, I try my best to keep her awake until a decent bedtime. She's persistent though and will easily fall asleep wherever she is right at 5:00. Two of the best from this week ... 

SOUND asleep on the steering wheel at Publix.  

She stayed this way straight through the shopping trip. She woke up at home and had no idea we had even gone to the grocery store.  

After I washed her car seat cover and put it back together, Mary buckled herself in and took a nap in the living room. 

So cozy. 

St. Patrick's Day

1st

2nd

3rd

Every year, the smile gets a little more unnatural. 

The Chop Shop

We all chopped our hair off this week. Must be some part of Spring Cleaning for us, because these new short-do's feel so fabulous. 

Paul lost an inch or two.

I lost a heck of a lot of inches. 

And Mary lost all of her scraggly toddler hair to give her the perfect summer bob. 

Pardon the pictures of us hangin' out in the bathroom. It was a golden opportunity to snap a shot of everybody in a good mood :). 

A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes

Mary watched Cinderella for the first time last month, and we are heading full throttle into princess land. Since princesses cover just about ever inch of little girl stuff, I put it off for a long time. I have nothing against the movies, I just don't like buying clothes, toys, dishes, furniture, curtains, and cans of soup that have princesses printed all over them. So, I'm not going that far ... but we are watching our fair share of Cinderella these days . It's a good movie! Probably a little TOO good for Mary, though. I think we're living in a fairy tale.

WHY?!?!

When I give her some crackers for a snack ...
she says something like,
"Oh Thank you Mommy, It's more than I ever hoped for!"

She prefers to walk around the house in one shoe, so she can talk about losing her other glass slipper. Even if that glass slipper is really a dirty tennis shoe.

When I put her to bed at night
she says
"Goodnight, I love you Prince."

My favorite was last week, when she really wasn't ready to take a nap.
She gets up again and again to play in her room until I tuck her back in her bed and say, "Close your eyes, it's dream time."
Mary's reply (in her best cheesy Cinderella voice) --- "But my dream is to get up!"

I shouldn't have been surprised when she told us one day
"I a Princess. Daddy, you a Prince ... and Mommy, you a wicked witch."

I think I'd rather be the Prince!

Bachelor Party Madness

I mean "madness" like ... we're ticked.

We hyped up Monday night's finale of The Bachelor just to leave feeling like we all got dumped. Thanks for nothing!

More Snow Day Pictures

 

My Snow Day

We left church on Sunday to a beautiful snow storm. Snow was piling everywhere! That afternoon, I sat in my bed and looked out the window to the most gorgeous winter wonderland. During Mary's nap time, I sat there for hours reading and watching the snow flakes fall. Paul was downstairs cooking dinner, I was curled up in some cozy winter socks with a good book and a pile of blankets. The heater was on high  and the sounds of Paul working in the kitchen downstairs and the wind howling through the snowstorm rang through the house. It was heaven.

{Oh, wait ... did I mention it was Mary's nap time?}

Yeah, she wasn't on board for the peaceful afternoon I had in mind. She was right there in bed next to me while I read, playing her heart out on her whistle. 

I was nice when the musician decided to fall asleep and we could all go back to the winter wonderland I had originally envisioned =).