Alrighty...since October....

-my cousin Lynn...or "Auntie Dot" came from Louisiana to live with us. She's staying in our spare room. Jeze-bee loves having her around....another person to marvel, amaze...and melt with her cuteness :o)

-we adopted Tab's (Daniel's sister) dog Mipi (Mipilu). After ~7 years, Tab decided she wasn't really a dog person. So, we opened our home to another fur baby. Jez loves Mipi...though Mipi is kinda prissy and skittish so she doesn't really let Jez love on her too much. It's getting better though.

-Thanksgiving...good food.

-Jezebel turned 2 on Nov. 28! Fairy/Tinkerbell birthday...kiddies...cupcakes....presents. Woohoo!

-random snow storms

-Jezebel loves Christmas, Christmas lights...decorations...presents...music...Santa...etc. She didn't cry this year when she sat on Santa's lap for the picture taking! Yay!

-home made gingerbread house, popcorn balls, sugar "Santa" cookies....yum

-Christmas! Jezzy was a bit overwhelmed with sugary sweets and awesome presents. She was so excited about Christmas morning. So were we! She got lots of great stuff, including a super sweet awesome play kitchen from Santa. (Santa does one awesome gift in Normania...the rest come from Mommy, Daddy, or other wonderful family people)

-Jez went ice skating for the first time. Super cute!

-other goods...

Jez has 18 pearly teeth now. She's still working a a couple of molars.

She's amazingly smart, charming, mischievous, wonderful...and crazy (in my mommy opinion).

She has a wonderful little imagination. She's started telling us stories. Tonight's story was "One time, little boy ate lunch...ate pancakes...ate waffles...ate apples. Little boy take a nap. The end. Good story!"

Jez loves to sing nursery rhymes...with a twist. haha :o)

I'm amazed at her vocabulary and whatnot sometimes. Today she said a full sentence...with conjugated verbs, contractions, etc "I'm bringing my popcorn ball to the bathroom" Now, not every sentence is fully formed...but it's amazing that she's so little...and speaks so much. Not gloating...just being an amazed mommy. :o) (oh, the response to her statement...no sweetie, your snack needs to stay in the kitchen...no popcorn balls in the bathroom.)

...still working on potty training

...she learned to ride her tricycle! So cute...she grabs her purse, hops on her trike, and says "bye mommy! going grocery shopping!"

...errr....that's enough of a texty update for now. Sorry there are no pics...next time!

squatting!

gaz, dib, and gir

dib and gir

gir!

snow bunny

Jezebel and my very tolerant kitty, Basco le Bad

One paragraph.

So..this summer has been super busy...buying a house, trip to LA, working full time, etc. I'm so behind on uploading/sorting/etc. photos. I think I still have the pics from our vacation on the camera. Yeah...that was a month ago. Things are starting to slow down a bit; summer is coming to an end, we're settling into our house, and life is getting back to normal. The school year will be starting soon and I should have a little more time on my hands. I'll still be working every day, but not quite full time. I'll have a healthy gap between working the before/after school program. (Hey, I'm going to be a Site Director!) Anyway, I'm hoping to use this little gap to catch up on life and spend more time with my amazing little girl. I've missed her this summer. M-F I've only been able to spend about 4 hours a day with her. This usually includes dinner, bath, bedtime routine...and occasionally the tail end of the nap. I'd like to have more time to just hang out and admire her. Hopefully the school year schedule will allow me to do this. I turned 28 the other day. It was a very low key birthday. Daniel got me a pretty sweet present though. It's a cute little Acer Aspire One (sapphire) netbook. It'll be my downstairs surfing/blogging/skyping/cooking/etc. machine. Hooray for tiny mobility! No..that's not my hand.

The new house ;)

not really an update

I feel like I'm so behind on everything lately. We're in the process of possibly buying a house. I've spent so much time on the computer lately, but haven't really accomplished anything. Or so it seems. I enjoy reading other people's blogs and it gives me ideas of posts I'd like to make. Of course, I never get around to making those posts. I still need to upload lots of photos from the last month or so. I need to do....lots.

I need to go now. House duties call.