Three Years

Happy 3rd birthday to my sweet baby girl!  

You mean everything to me, my little love.  While I wonder how three years could fly by so quickly, I marvel at the fact that I've been there everyday to see you growing,

learning, loving, playing, believing, and dreaming. I can't imagine what

the years ahead have in store for you.  I'm so grateful that I get to share them

with you.

We love you always and forever, with all of our hearts.

What We've Been Up To

This feels like the NEVER-ENDING-WINTER.  It is just insufferable being stuck indoors 99% of the time.  Running errands in cold weather is something I absolutely abhor.  Seriously, people, winter is my worst enemy.

It's hard to keep yourself entertained indoors for very long.  I'm sorry to say there's been more Netflix viewing than I care to admit.  But we're coming to the end of it (please, tell me we are!).  I'm hoping to come out of this slump sooner rather than later.

So, here's a few snapshots of what we've been doing to occupy ourselves until we can venture outdoors without layers once again:

:: always a silly girl ::

:: yet another time where they're sleeping the same way. weird ::

:: making a chef's hat at the children's museum ::

:: sleeping off the side of the bed ::

:: lunch date with momma ::

:: hey, i know it's march but we like to do things on our own time frame ::

:: and of course, I've been growing a new little one ::

:: little bean at 6 weeks, 1 day ::

Harper's Snowman

I'm really impressed with Harper's first attempt at drawing!  Granted, I drew the actual snowman's body, but she drew the rest herself!  She kept asking me what to add and when I told her a specific part, she knew where to put them and even had a shape for each.

Also, yesterday she had absolutely NO accidents.  My little baby is growing ridiculously fast!

Happy Monday

Have a lovely week and enjoy this randomness!

:: "Smile for the camera, Harp!" ::

:: Play time before bed time ::

::  We were actually watching The Empire Strikes Back here.  My kid rocks ::

:: "Momma, are you ready to see Micky Mouse?!"  Why, yes I am ::

:: Family dinner date night ::

:: Good morning ::

:: Story time with Mimi ::

:: My fav outfit from last week ::

::  This is how I found my little love when I came home from work one day PTFO ::

:: 2012 Christmas tree ::

Washington, D.C.

So this post is belated, but better late than never, right?

Somehow I was able to take a (much needed) momma-only trip a few weeks ago.  I was lucky enough to visit my BFF of 25 years AND do a bunch of tourist-y things in D.C.

:: Bilbo Baggins restaurant, which happened to serve a delicious Bilbo Baggins beer ::

:: Since I always seem to pack inappropriate footwear when I travel, I had to buy some new shoes.  My new Toms ::

:: Hello, Mr. Lincoln ::

:: Absolutely DELICIOUS cupcakes.  However, when I opened up my $15 half dozen box that I was taking home, my cupcakes were wreaked.  See below ::

:: sad face ::

Our Week (or so) In Pictures

:: Thanksgiving ::

:: Hanging ornaments ::

:: Going to the Children's Museum ::

:: Digging for dinosaur bones - her favorite part because it's "just like George!"  Curious George, that is ::

:: Beauty rest ::

:: Modeling for Momma ::

:: Craftiness by Momma - turning an old sweater into a jumper ::

Sick

being sick has advantages of mismatch jammies and eating only the marshmallows from cereal (once again)

Harper and I are sick with the nasty flu.  It's painful and draining.  I am doing what I can to feel better before I leave for DC tomorrow(!!).  I need us both better by then!  I had to take a sick day yesterday and we literally stayed in bed all day.  I watched half of the first season of The Good Wife(!) while Harper watched Curious George.  We did quite a bit of sleeping and ingesting of medicine (which I hate more than anything.  Ask Wade.  It takes a lot for me to take medicine when I'm sick unless I absolutely need it).  I made it to work today so that is promising.  My brain is still a bit foggy so nothing clever for this post, I'm sorry to disappoint.  But I will leave you with this little gem:

ugly socks, ugly pants, ugly mismatched sheets (i suck at laundry).  but they are all ridiculously comfy. BTW that's Arthur playing on the outdated TV that I lost the remote to and can't turn off the closed-captioning