Locking my Blog

My sister is insisting that I lock my blog so those of you who would like to follow my blog please email me your address or leave a comment on this post and I will send you an invite.  I will be locking it in the next week or two.  Thanks!!!

From Ramen to Evil Eye

These 2 pics are capturing the infamous "evil eye" that my family knows so well. It is a rare moment to capture on camera because you never know when she is going to do it long enough to take a picture. Hands down one of my favorite things Ari does though and she knows it. I just have to look at her with my head down and say, evil eye, and she hurries and does it back then looks up and smiles as I laugh my head off. It's gotta be hard being so darn cute!!

My goofy girl. She always raises her eyebrows like this as if she is surprised about something.

So this is my little Ari eating her first ramen noodles. I know, I know it is crazy that she was 10 months and had never had ramen. What can I say, we don't eat it very often. But, as you can see she thoroughly enjoyed it and it was fun watching her and her funny faces as she ate it.

My Little Scavenger

Here Ari is just laying her head down and taking a break. Hey scavenging for food is a hard job:)

So, I have come up with a new method to keep Ari out of trouble while I take my long showers. Surprise, surprise for all of you who know me well, right?!! I do enjoy a good 15 min. shower and that is seriously my guilty pleasure even though Ari doesn't like it much. Anyway, enough rationalizing. When I put Ari in her cute saucer I always give her puffs and she inevitably spills some or drops some while she is wolfing them down. Later on in the day she makes her way back into my room and climbs under the saucer to get the puffs she "saved for later." I promise I feed my child, she just loves her puffs and will go to great lengths to get just one more. I obviously caught her off guard as you can see by the deer caught in the headlights look on her face. I have said it before and I will say it again, I love her weirdness. Too funny!

Feeding the Ducks

Daddy and Ari with the beautiful ducks and water in the background. What a fun place to spend some time with the kids. Thanks Ellisons for introducing us to the beautiful park and the biting ducks?!:)

So we went out with Brandon & Stacy and their cute kiddos Avery & Asher....a while ago (see it's warm still, I told you I was bad at updating this) and we fed the ducks at the park downtown. The ducks were totally coming right up to us so I "tried" to let them eat out of my hand and this is my feeble attempt to do so. I was just too scared! But cute, little Asher was sitting in his stroller next to me, as you can see in the pic, and one of these crazy ducks thought his little toe was a piece of food and bit it!! It was so sad, but soooo funny!! He didn't cry one bit, just pulled his toe back and was surprised. Stacy and I were laughing so hard, we just couldn't help it. An older woman witnessed the whole thing and just looked at us like we were terrible mothers for laughing. Thank goodness Asher is such a tough, chill baby. We really aren't mean, it was just hilarious. Ahhh, good times!!

Nun Ari

By the way, this is our kitchen for my family who hasn't seen it. Small but cozy.

I love taking Ari's shirt off and then leaving it stuck on her head. She usually takes it and rips it the rest of the way off, but this night she let us keep it there and show off her chubby belly. We love having Bobby home with us to give her baths, which unfortunately is rare. Ari sure loves her Daddy.

Sneaky, Little Ari

She is now attempting to crawl and get me because I had the camera that she so loves to play with. Oh, my little Ari.

Here she is with her big smiley turned on for mommy because she knew she had been caught red handed!! :)

I am still trying to catch up on these posts so this was a bit ago, but still fun. I am terrible at getting the house decorated and such a procrastinator that I still had decorations on the floor and we had lived here a couple months already. Ari would crawl behind the couch and sit under her high chair to sneak and scratch all of the candles. They were her favorite thing to play with. So one day I saw her scratching away so I snuck up on her with the camera and captured the above pics. She knew she wasn't supposed to be doing this but she just smiled her cuteness of a smile and made me laugh. She is so mischievous but so stinkin funny with her cheesy grins.

Babies Sleeping

This is my other baby sleeping. No, no this is not his usual ritual but he came home with some weird eye thing one night and couldn't even stand the light so he slept like this. He would kill me if he knew I posted this but I thought it was hilarious. My weird sleepers that I love so much.

So, here is another picture with my Ari sleeping. From the time she was born she always has loved to have her face covered by blankets when she sleeps which, when she was a newborn, scared the crapola out of me. I thought she would suffocate herself or something. Now it is just adorable and yet again, she is snuggled up to Beary Potter. I took this at my own risk as many of you know Ari could have woken up here and chosen to just not go back to sleep for a couple hours, but I couldn't miss the photo op. The most adorable thing about this pic is that I lay her in the middle of her crib every night and when I check her before I go to bed, she has scooted herself up to lay in beary's lap. So darn sweet.