a teething toddler

we had a fun weekend, for the most part.  but man, she made us work for it!  she's teething pretty hard right now, and she's just. so. cranky.  this pic was snapped while she was raging because i had the nerve to pick her up and put her in the awesome leaf pile.  she was totally thrilled 0.3 seconds after this pic, but her initial instinct was to rage at me.  gotta love it.  she drove me to tears at one point because she was such a challenge, but my patience has found new limits and we're all a-ok.

finally, a smile captured on film!

there's nothing like a toddler in a leaf pile to make leaf raking more fun!  (not that i would know anything about the 'chore'...i took pics and played with A while the hubs did ALL the raking.  thanks babe!)

can't help myself

this picture is old.  it's from april, & she was still two months shy of her first birthday.  i absolutely love it -- it stops time for me, and looking at it helps me deal with her screaming fits. 

poor daisy!

On Saturday, we brought Daisy to a 3-week board & train program so that she can learn some of the basics (like walking nicely on a leash, being calm, and not jumping on people when they come over).  We heard about this trainer from some friends who were THRILLED with the results…and their dog is awesome.  So we’re super excited to pick her up in a few weeks and see what she has learned.  I texted her trainer yesterday to see how she’s doing, and he replied that she misses us and has lost her appetite as a result.  Honestly, I feel SO bad.  She probably thinks that we gave her away and she’s all depressed.  I’m going to check in again today and see if she has eaten yet, but ugh!  We just want to train her to unleash (haha) her potential…but I hate that she’s all down in the dumps.  Poor Daisy!  I’m sure that she’ll be ok eventually because he’ll be taking her on tons of walks and playing with her, etc…but man, the guilt.

Oh, and the A monster misses Daisy like crazy too.  As soon as she wakes up she starts calling for her, and on Sunday she was walking through the house looking in each room saying “DAISY???...no.”  (In case that didn’t make sense…she said ‘no’ when she realized that Daisy wasn’t there...)

This is probably a good thing for all of us, because we get to see how much we like being a little family of 3+1.

welcome to our new home!

thanks for following us over here!  hopefully this site will be easier for me to use... i know it seems like i haven't been writing, but that's because i've been trying to launch this new site.  i hope you all like it...and please feel free to leave feedback if there is something that i can improve!


there are still TONS of things that i want to do to customize this site and make it mine, but for now, i think it's fine.


happy monday, y'all!

trick or treat

so, given her obsession, the costume choice for halloween 2010 was actually pretty easy.  ELMO.  she loved the costume to pieces and was asking to wear it every day for the last few weeks, although she was miss serious as soon as we zipped it up.  she loved picking out the candy and putting it in her plastic pumpkin, although her uncorrupted mind still doesn’t know what candy is...  so, essentially she walked around in her beloved elmo costume and chose candy for my hubs and i to eat for the next week or so.  

we had a blast!  happy halloween, everyone!

getting ready.  we go through this fight pretty much every time we need to change diapers/fix hair/get dressed.  daisy looks happy, though!

she really looked like elmo!

pun-KIN! (that's how she says it)

boo!

it is fall, it is fall...the leaves are falling everywhere.

(post title courtesy of yo-gabba-gabba.  this is in my head for the entire season.)

i was definitely feeling bitter about the weather change...once it starts to cool down AT ALL, i start dreading the snow (or more accurately, the freezing rain.  ick.).  but october has won me over.  the weather has been beautiful here in the sorta-northeast, and we’ve been doing all of the fall things that you’re supposed to do.  apple & pumpkin picking, hayrides, cider, wine tastings...you’d think we were the rockwells!  (which, umm, we’re not.)  i’ve been a bad blogger, but i’d like to think it’s because we’re really enjoying ourselves before the shit-tastic weather moves in.  

i did have one ‘bad mom’ moment that i believe is noteworthy...i locked the keys in the car last week.  with A in it.  yup, i was that mom.  for the event, i had the help of two local cops, one state trooper, and a locksmith...but who saved the day (and at least $400)?  you guessed it.  my sis.  she came to the rescue with the spare keys.  she rocks, y’all.   

but anyway, here are some recent pics (i know that’s why you come to this site...so i’ll get right to it!).