Pee Pee

Yep, Daddy helped me go pee pee in the potty today! I am getting to be such a big girl.  I cannot wait until I can run around without any diapers on.  Summer will be so much more comfortable! 

Bathtime for CC

in the jacuzzi bath tub. While Nutz was away, this is where CC took her baths; she loved it.

Grammy and Papa Visit

Grammy and papa came to visit and CC really enjoyed having them here (so did I). They stayed an extra couple of days to welcome Nutz home from his trip across the ocean. While they were here CC got a new Jeep tricycle and helmet. CC helped papa put it together; she's quite the supervisor. Here are a couple of pictures from their visit. I confess that I did a TERRIBLE job of taking pictures while they were here. Can you say BUSY?

CC at JW Tumbles

Each Monday morning, Ms. Amy takes CC to JW Tumbles for her "gym" class. This past Monday, Nutz and I took her. You can see in the video that she LOVES it.

Wheels on the Bus

ABC Song

If you're happy and you know it...

Why Parents Drink

A father passing by his son's bedroom was astonishedto see that his bed was nicely made and everything waspicked up.

Then he saw an envelope propped up prominently on thepillow that was addressed to Dad. With the worstpremonition he opened the envelope with trembling handsand read the letter.

Dear Dad: It is with great regret and sorrow that I'mwriting you. I had to elope with my new girlfriend becauseI wanted to avoid a scene with Mom and you. I have beenfinding real passion with Stacy and she is so nice.But I knew you would not approve of her because of all herpiercing, tattoos, tight motorcycle clothes and the fact thatshe is much older than I am. But it's not only the passion.Dad she's pregnant.

Stacy said that we will be very happy. She owns a trailerin the woods and has a stack of firewood for the whole winter.We share a dream of having many more children. Stacy hasopened my eyes to the fact that marijuana doesn't really hurtanyone.
We'll be growing it for ourselves and trading it with the otherpeople that live nearby for cocaine and ecstasy. In themeantime we will pray that science will find a cure for AIDSso Stacy can get better. She deserves it.

Don't worry Dad. I'm 15 and I know how to take care of myself.Someday I'm sure that we will be back to visit so that you canget to know your grandchildren.

Love, your son John

PS: Dad, none of the above is true. I'm over at Tommy's house.I just wanted to remind you that there are worse things in lifethan a report card. That's in my center desk drawer. I love you.Call me when it's safe to come home.

"My Daddy"

Tonight, I pointed to Nutz and asked CC, "who is this?" She promptly stated, "my daddy." Very cute!

Daddy is home!

This afternoon, our beloved Nutz, returned home after a six-week stay across the pond. As you can tell from the photos, CC was extremely excited to see her daddy. When she spotted him walking down the concourse, she ran to him (top photo). And, since it's an action shot, it's blurry. :-) Poor Nutz, had been awake for over 4o hours (actual travel time 15 hours). Needless to say, he was exhausted but needed to adjust to our time schedule. So, CC helped him out by demanding his undivided attention until bedtime. During the bedtime process, she proceeded to climb on his head, kiss him, hug him, etc. Yep, she wasn't ready for daddy to go to bed. I'm not sure how the poor guy kept his eyes open.

Nutz, we're glad you're home and we love you BUNCHES!

Sunday with the Pino Family

Today, CC and I spent a nice afternoon with the Pino family! We had a delicious lunch and CC loved playing with Ben and the "baby" (aka Nate).

Thanks for having us! Pictures (nice bags under my eyes) courtesy of the Pino camera since mine was at home. :-)

Daddy shares lunch with Cupcake

Well ok, I watched her eat lunch over the web. As you can see daddy lets her get away with everything. Only thing that cupcake was missing was a cold beer to go with the chips!! Daddy did have that.

CC and Friends

If you click on the picture, you'll see that the girls have red and blue glitter in their hair. They thought they were the prettiest girls ever.

Hanging Out - My Bedroom

I love the pantry.

Mommy, can I PLEASE have some honey?

Making a list..

I like to make lists for mommy so she knows exactly what to do for me...

My Many Faces

I love sticky notes.

I'm cute...

just ask my mommy and daddy! :-)

From March 2009

From March 2009

Snow Day

It snowed most of the day and boy was it cold! Here are some pictures that mommy took.

Bedtime

Another bedtime ritual that daddy will have to "break" when he returns home. After working all day and being a single parent in the evening, I just don't have the energy to fight with a toddler. As a result, CC has slept with me every night since Nutz has been gone. By the way, she's a bed hog. In fact, the other night, she rolled right off the bed. Oops! Again, no mother of the year award for me but we're in survival mode at this point. All of you who have the urge to tell me that I'm only doing CC a disservice by letting her sleep with me, don't. Feel free to keep it to yourself or talk about me behind my back; I'm okay with that.

Eating

Other than Thursday night, I don't think CC eats in a chair anymore. For whatever reason, she's become a "grazer." She has her stool, or what used to be the kitchen stool, that she uses to belly up to the bar and "snack" on food. I continue to try to get her in her chair but I only have so much energy so I haven't fought it too much.

As a baby, she was a GREAT eater; I don't think there was anything she wouldn't eat. Now, I can barely get her to try anything new. If it weren't for dairy, I don't think she'd eat. Yogurt, cheese, milk, cottage cheese...that's pretty much her diet. I am able to get her to eat fruits: banana, apple, apricots. And, she loves PRUNES and raisins thanks to her daddy. It's the cutest thing when she tells me she wants a "pruh." CC is also NOT a vegetarian. She loves to eat pork, chicken, meatballs, and steak. In fact, I have to limit how many pieces I give her. If not, she has all of them in her mouth at one time which isn't very ladylike. :-)

Oh well! She's on a multi-vitamin so I hope that takes care of anything she's missing from a well-balanced diet. I'm sure I won't win mother of the year but I'm doing the best I can. So, if you have an opinion about my mothering skills, feel free to keep it to yourself.

Bathtime

Bath time with mommy is a little different than with daddy. Because of my back, I have a hard time leaning over the tub to bathe CC. So, since daddy's been gone, CC and I have been taking jacuzzi bubble baths each night. She loves it! When I ask her if she's ready for a bath, she says "mommy bath." Needless to say, I've become CC's bathtime playmate. If nothing else, it's quality mother-daughter time.

Happy 29th Birthday, Uncle Wormy!

Animal Sounds

Tonight while eating chicken alfredo, I told CC that we were having chicken. She proceeded to put the piece of chicken in her mouth and make chicken sounds. Is she smart or what? :-)

Bathtime Pictures

Saturday morning with CC

CC is a morning person like me so she's bright-eyed when she wakes up in the am. This was her on Saturday morning. :-)

Scruba dub dub two hot chicks in a tub

Where is momma...
That's right she is making the bubbles.

Auntie Anne Visits

This weekend, Anne came to visit. It was GREAT seeing her and CC couldn't have been happier having her Auntie Anne here.

Happy Valentine's Day, Daddy!

My Sweet Husband!

Even though he's far away, he still remembered me on Valentine's Day! I love you!

I love my farm.

Thanks, Grandma Charmie!

Today I received the prettiest outfit for Valentine's Day from grandma Charmie. Thank you!

Our long distance relationship

While daddy's away, we're still able to "talk" using technology. Here's a screenshot of our webconference today.

Bathtime Story by Daddy

Happy Birthday, Miss Amy!

Happy Birthday!

Thank you for taking such good care of me!

Miss My CupCake

Don't tell momma this, she will think her hubby is a big softy. Anyhow, last night as I was getting CC ready for bath time, I got all choked up reading her expected pre-bath time story; "Bath time for Baby". I did not do the story justice with the usual flair in which I deliver the tale. Sorry Cup Cake.

I will miss you...ok and your mommy too.


Parting is such sweet sorrow...

Personality

Crazy Crumbz is really showing her personality. At bed time, she will grab daddy's throat and massages his jugular while she slips into a dreamy bliss. However, when daddy moves to place her gently into the crib, all bets are off. She is wide awake and very aware that she is being moved from her warm, comfortable spot on daddy's lap into the cool confines of the crib. Long gone are the days of when she would point to the crib and welcome the ability to spread out and drift off to sleep on her own.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Brayden

Today I partied like a rock star with my friend Brayden. I am not sure how old he is (4), I am sure my mommy will remind me again and I seriously doubt mommy will let me date Brayden when I am in high school. However 10-12 years afterwords not a big deal. Just like mommy..

Anyhow here are some cool pix that I think you all will love. Am I a photo "Ham" or what?
Happy Birthday Brayden, you will always have a special place in my heart :P



The place we romped and rolled is called My Gym and it is in Red Mill, deep in Virginia Beach.

Where is momma?

Daddys' Girls

Tonight, we spent some time at the Behr house to say "see ya later" to Larry. He's off to Leavenworth, KS for a year. :-( I really wanted to get a picture of the guys and their girls. Since Jose has more girls than hands, Sofia decided to sit on Uncle Nutz's lap. We all have pretty and healthy girls; very blessed!

Momma and Daddy love

Well the little girl has taken a liking to Mommy and daddy smooching! Yesterday when we all finally got home, little CC was in daddy's arms getting some smooches, momma came over for some smooches and the wee one liked the sight of mommy and daddy smooching.  So as soon as we would break apart, Cupcake would push our two faces together for more smooches.  Cute, I like kissing momma!

Growing up

Daddy's little girl is growing up. I took cupcake to the pool this evening and of course she loved it. She hesitated a little before getting in however once in she did not want to leave. for fun she would climb up the ladder walk around to the edge of the pool and ease back in and repeat with daddy assistance. After a dozen or so evolutions, she was on her own and doing just fine climbing up the ladder, walking around, easing back into the pool and moving along the edge to get to the ladder. Almost brought a tear to my eye!

Skylar Rae Behr is here!

Congratulations Chris and Larry! Skylar Rae was born on December 28, 2008 at 14:40. She weighed 8 lbs 12 1/4 oz and was 20 1/2 inches long! She's a cutie; looks just like her mother!

To keep up with their sweet family, go to their blog.

Christmas with Grandma Charmie

We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at Grandma Charmie's house. Mimi, Uncle David, Uncle Steve, and Uncle Mike were there also. We had a nice Christmas dinner with Grandpa D and his family. Thanks for all the great gifts and the warm hospitality!

Dinner with the Reed Family

Aunt Amy and Uncle Jeff had us over for dinner on the 23rd. It was so much fun! As you can see from the pictures, I was the only little girl there. Kaleb R., George S., Devin, Cayleb, and Dalton...a bunch of boys.

Aunt Amy had beautiful Christmas decorations but especially liked her Florida Gator Christmas tree; it was AWESOME!!

Dinner was delicious and we had a GREAT time! Thanks for having us!

My Friend, George

While I was in FL, George and his mommy came to visit me! He's a cutie and I had so much fun playing with him. Aunt Marcella is such a sweetie and I love to give her hugs. Here are the pictures from our visit.

Christmas with Miss Amy

Miss Amy and I exchanged gifts before we left for FL. I loved my books and can't wait to get my new Baby Bug subscription. Check out our pictures.

Friends

I love this!

18 Month Check Up

Click the picture to see a larger version.

This afternoon, CC had her 18 month checkup. She was the perfect little girl while Dr. V examined her. I kept wondering what happened to the "real" CC.

Her stats:

weight - 25 lbs 10 oz
height - 31 1/4 "

head - 19

She's getting to be such a big girl. She decided to "show off" to the doctor that she knew how to put on her socks and shoes all by herself. I think Dr. V was impressed. Also, each time CC goes for her wellness checks, she gets a book. As you all know, she LOVES books. Dr. V asked her to point out items on the page; CC knew them. She's smart like her daddy, I mean mommy. :-)

Auntie Anne's Going Away Party

Today we had a "going away" party for our good friend, Anne. It's a bittersweet time for us; we're happy for her next adventure but sad that she won't be next door.

We had a great turnout. Nutz made his famous tacos and they were delicious as ever. As a "don't forget us" gift, I made a video, A Story of Anne...and her friends, for Anne. I included pictures (and lots of them) of our years (still can't believe we've known each other since 2004).

Goodbye, Vicki!

My good friend, Vicki, is moving to DC! I know, it's not that far! As a celebration of Vicki's new adventure, we (Anne, Vicki, and I) had dinner at The Green Onion; it was DELICIOUS!

Good luck Vicki, we'll miss you!

Great Website for Working Moms

I've shared this before, but Mommy Track'd is really a GREAT website for working moms.

Our New Toy

For Christmas, grandma and grandpa bought the family a WII. See Nutz boxing in the video below...

Family Pictures

While grammy and granny visited last month, we had updated family pictures taken. Thanks Aunt Marcella for reminding mommy to put up our latest family pictures!

Proof of Concept

As you all know, our daughter is making fine progress in communications. Yesterday afternoon Crackerz and I were quizzing Crazy Crumbz on her vocabulary. Can you say, Cow, I love you, sheep, nose etc. Well daddy piped in and said, can you say "fart"? Without missing a beat, Crazy Crumbz stopped what she was doing, looked at daddy, slightly squatted and squeezed out an air biscuit. Daddy laughed for about six minutes! You will have to go to a previous post and read about her first experience doing something similar.

Memory Lane

Do you remember when? Here are the rules...

1. As a comment in my blog, leave a memory that you and I (Crackerz, Nutz, and/or CC) had together. It does not matter if you know me a little or a lot, anything that you remember. If we are only blogging friends or if you're a blog hopper who happens upon my blog regularly...leave a comment. There must be a reason you keep stopping by. Say something! If you don't have a blog or don't know how to sign in, sign up for an account.

2. Next, repost these instructions on your blog (if you have one) and see how many people leave a memory about you. It is actually pretty fun to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I will be sure to write one about you.

(Stolen from multiple friends)