Lil’s first snow cone

Last weekend Waldo’s brother was part of a charity event thing that gave away free snow cones and he invited us to come and get some. Lil’s never had a snow cone before and I had been thinking about introducing her to the sickly sugary sweet ice treat so this was perfect timing.

I ordered her a watermelon flavored snow cone and at first she wasn’t sure about the crazy red color.

Lily's first snowcone

She tried a few bites, still not 100% on board I think.

Lily's first snowcone

Lily's first snowcone

Then the sugar hit and she was smitten.

Lily's first snowcone

Lily's first snowcone

Lily's first snowcone

Arms raised high “This is the BEST picnic ever”.

Lily's first snowcone

She repeated that comment at least 3 times.

Lily's first snowcone

Lily's first snowcone

Lily's first snowcone

I’m sure we’ll be doing snow cones again this summer.

Random Mobile shots

I don’t usually end up in too many pictures with Lily and I’m trying to work on that. So when she wanted to sit on my lap with her baby the other day I handed my phone to Waldo and had him snap this.

Lily and Mama

I think Kitty loves my new sewing machine as much as I do.

Kitty and the sewing machine

My Mother in Law is going crazy with the baby dolls. This is just a small sample of what she’s made so far. I think there have been a total of 8 or 9 or maybe 50, she makes them so fast these days it’s like they just appear out of thin air.

Dolls

Where did my baby go and where did this big girl come from?

When did she get so big?

Again I say when did she get so big?

I love these two so much.

Love!

My kid loves sticks

My kid loves sticks. When we go on walks she gathers at least 4 or 5. They can be big or small, she doesn’t care, as long as they are sticks.

These sticks were the supports for some climbing plants my Father in law bought. Lily was in heaven when he removed them from the plant.

This girl loves sticks

She made a ladder and is demonstrating how to climb it.

It's a ladder

It's a ladder

It's a ladder

It's a ladder

It's a ladder

She also loves little rocks and flowers, but she gathers those to give to my Mother in law.

Playing in the dirt

I don’t know what she’s doing in this last picture, I just thought it was cute.

Ode to my hair

I love my hair long, I always have. One of the many reasons is that the longer my hair is the lazier I can be with it. I’m all about buns and up-dos.

Here I am a few Monday’s ago with my standard everyday bun.

Old hair

The back of my bun.  I love how my hair spikes around the bun, I think it’s a fun touch. And I have a fairly nice collection of interesting bun sticks and other holders.  These are very nice twisted sticks in complimentary colors.

Old hair

Just for fun I took pictures with my hair down too.

Old hair

I was in a big hurry because I was headed to the hair saloon.  I had been thinking about doing something with my hair off an on for months now, I just wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. Some days I wanted to go short, some days I wanted to stay long and just get a little trim, some days I wanted to go crazy and add bangs, but I don’t want to commit time to my hair so I usually rule bangs out. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with my hair so I just did nothing. The day before these pictures were taken I realized what was making me so unhappy with my hair. When I had my hair pulled back I felt like I was just a giant head with some brown at the edges and that wasn’t exactly a look I liked. Even when my hair was down I didn’t like how the top looked. I have pretty heavy hair and the length just pulls the top flat.  So with no real plan I called up the hair saloon and made an appointment and luckily they could get me in later that same day.

Old hair

I grabbed the tablet to keep Lil entertained and Lil of course and set off to meet the woman whos hand I was putting my prized possession in. I sat down in her chair and said something to the effect ‘I have no idea what I want you to do. I like to do buns so longish is good, but I’m open to short too. I kind of want bangs, but don’t want to have to “do” my hair everyday. Have a go.’  And she did and I love it.

New hair

New hair

New hair

She only cut about 5 inches off and I’m so happy. I can still do some really great buns with it like this. But I don’t totally hate it when it’s down now so that’s a plus.

New hair bun

Messy bun

Hula Kitty

While we were making our weekly pilgrimage to Target this weekend I picked up a pink grass skirt for Lil. I thought it would make a good addition to her dress up truck. Boy was I right. She put it on right when we got home. I pulled up some youtube videos of Hula dancers and Lil loved it (which doesn’t surprise me because I LOVE all things Hawaii) and before I knew it Lil was trying to Hula.

Sorry that this is such a low quality video. I took it with my new (wonderful) phone and didn’t realize that the video quality was almost at it’s lowest setting. I have fixed that now.

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