day 150

it movie date day again for you and me, and today we saw "horton hears a who." it was a cute little movie that you and i both enjoyed, even if they did have a few problems with the movie this morning. they started the movie and about 15 mins. into it the movie messed up and they had to turn it off, it was then you looked at me and said "the end!!!!" i told you "no, they are having a problem and it will start again in a minute. to which you said " no, the end....um on..go!!" but then the movie started again and we watched and ate our popcorn and laughed like we do every tuesday.

love you......

day 145

let me tell you about one of my favorite things in the whole world, it would be you singing and dancing. the reason i love it so much is because you just look like the happiest little girl in the world. you start singing and you close your eyes like you are really into what you are singing. i think it is one of the greatest joys a daddy, even a fill in daddy like myself can ever feel in his heart.

love you.......

day 144

it was week 4 of our movie date day, i think you look as forward to them as i do. i woke up about 30 minutes before you did just to check my email and whatnot, but when you got up you walked into the living room and the first words out of your mouth were "movies?" so we went to see jimmy neutron boy genius and much like i thought it was fun not great but a fun and silly movie. the moral to the movie was "no matter how smart you think you are, you always need your parents." because jimmy neutron thought he was smarter than his parents, and they told him not to talk to strangers. but he didn't listen and tried to contact an alien race in space, and because he did his parents along with all the other kids parents were kidnapped by the aliens and were going to be offered as a sacrifice to a big alien chicken. hahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!

i told you it was a fun and silly movie :0)

love you.....................

day 140

earlier this week i told ms. terry we would come and see her at the church, so today we rode to the church to her. we talked to her for a while, well wait a minute i talked....you ran around being your usual charming self. after a little bit her husband mr. mike stopped by and we all decided to go get some lunch at marlow's. you had a great time just sitting there laughing and having a great conversation with a couple of good friends. but as usual you stole the afternoon just being your beautiful self. they really love you and that makes me feel good that people enjoy being around you, it makes me feel like maybe just maybe aunt nina and myself have done something right. because you seem to be the happiest 2 year old girl i've ever seen!!!!!

love you...........................

day 138

storytime this week was a whole lot better than last week, thank goodness!!! the little young girl that did storytime this week was quite animated and seemed like she really liked telling stories. she even did a few musical numbers with dancing and a even a little bit of singing. then it was off to smart start for you to play for a couple of hours, when we got there we found out that you were in the smart start newsletter again. you were as beautiful as ever in those pictures, i also told ms. claire that i was going to have to charge them a modeling fee for all the pictures they have been taking of you, to that you just looked at me and laughed she must have thought i was joking!!! hahahahahaha i guess i really was.

love you............

day 137

week 3 of 10 in our little summer movie clubhouse, today we saw "igor." it was a cute little movie not as good as the first two we saw but it had a good little message in it. the moral of the movie can be sumed up in one of the lines from the movie...."everone has as evil bone, it's just up to us if we use it or not."

up next week................jimmy neutron, the boy genius! i personally have high hopes for this movie, mainly because it just looks like it will be a fun movie. not necessarily great, but just fun. so let's keep our fingers crossed!!!

love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

days 134 & 135

it has offically become the dog days of summer, at least for this weekend. we tried to get out and do some stuff but we ended up going swimming pretty much the whole weekend. we took your new float that uncle jody gave you and you had a blast playing with it. the more we were out there the braver you got, by sunday afternoon you wanted to jump off the steps and go under the water before we caught you. then we would bring you back up out of the water and you would just laugh like you were being tickled. it was definitely a water filled weekend, and i'm sure there will be plenty more as the summer rolls on.

love you.......

day 133

this evening we went to a baby shower for uncle jody and tracy's new baby they are expecting in august. so i guess you could say they were the guest of honor, stars of the show, the main attraction........you get the idea. but i think half way through the party you stole the show, when it was time to open the gifts you were right there ready to lend a hand. everyone there was talking about how cute you were in the middle of all the action helping out, even uncle jody and tracy say you were a BIG little helper. i am hoping to get some pictures from mrs. terry this week so that i can put a couple on here for you to see one day when you read this blog. you and me also made (if i say so myself) a pretty mean pot of BBQ meatballs, they were the talk of the food table so i had to make sure they knew you helped make it with me.

love you......

day 131

it is time for storytime!! but today was sort of a lackluster storytime, i'm not sure if it's the fact that mr. roberts didn't do it today or what. but i guess it was still good, you seemed to have a good time with savannaha sitting on mr. reid's lap in the floor. then we went to smart start where after about an hour mrs. claire showed up her 2 granddaughters and you played with them for over 2 hrs. susie and myself thought we would never get you to leave. but with a little help from some fine people we were able to go get some lunch.............................finally!!!!! :0)
it is such a joy watching you have fun like that!!!!!!!!!!!

love you....................

day 130

week 2 of 10 of our summer movie clubhouse!! today we saw "the tale of despereaux." while it wasn't near as funny as "barnyard from last week it was still a pretty good movie with a good little story to it. after the movie we went to have coffee with eddie, his wife amanda and her sister audra, they really love you and think you are just the most beautiful little girl they have ever seen. i enjoyed a mocha extra hot and you have yourself a strawberry lemonade shakened not stired. we hung out and talked and laughed and watched you run around for close to 2 hours, it was quite nice just to chill with good friends. here is the movie poster of the movie we saw today, i hope are enjoying going as much as i am taking you.

love you.............

day 128

as usual i left early for church to go to band practice and the early service, but i was told to come home after the band got done playing. so as i always do i listened (lol) and came home, when i walked through the door you came running into the dining room screaming "happy father's day, love you." those were the best 5 words i could have heard, then you handed me a card that had a $25.00 starbucks gift card in it. which will get used in no time flat because we do love us some starbucks. we were also a part of a slide presentation at church honoring all the father's at church. aunt nina put a picture of my tattoos of you in it which i think drew a little attention after church from a few folks. it is my honor to be your substitute daddy!!!!

love you baby girl...............

day 127

today you got to meet my uncle don and aunt sharon from Pennsylvania. one of their sons lives in samford which is about 2 1/2 hours from where we live. their son and his wife went to see a friend get married at mathra's vineyard in Massachusetts, where the rich people live like the kennedy's who you will learn about when you start school. so uncle don and aunt sharon came down to take care of their 8 year old grandson, so you and me, aunt sharon and her grandson went swimming for a good 3 hours. all in all it was a good day where you finally got to meet some of my family that you have never met.

love you..........

day 126

i think that i am beginning to run you a little too hard, for the last couple of days you have been a little grouchy. so today i decided to stay at home and take it easy, and boy did we ever. we didn't get up till close to 10:00am this morning and then we took us a little nap this afternoon. but as always we still had fun being at home, we played and danced and just acted silly!!

love you........

day 125

today was sort of a back to normal day, we went to smart start where you played for close to 2 hours. then we left to meet uncle jody at starbucks for our weekly coffee and to give him a cd. i had the pressure :0) of having to come up with awesome baby shower cd with a jungle music theme. but i think i did it uncle jody called me later and said that him and tracy loved it, i personally think he was just being kind but it's ok.......i'll take LOL

love you.........

day 124

after about a month off the library started storytime up again today. i'll tell what we had a fun time, mr. roberts acted out the classic book "where the wild things are" while telling the story...he did a really good job and he was quite funny. they are making a movie of that book, scheduled to come out later this year, it looks like aunt nina, you and me will have a movie date later this year when that movie comes out. afterwards we rode to uncle dub's house to hang out for while and catch up on all the drama in his little world, as well as ours. he gave me a really nice copper grilling pan for my birthday, looks like it will be perfect for our grilled cheese sandwiches with fried bolonga plus i'm sure we will find other tasty uses for it too!!

here is the movie poster for the "where the wild things are" i can't wait till it comes out, nothing better than a family date night...yaaaaayyyyyy

love you.........

day 123

what a day!!!!!!!! today i turned 41 and i can't think of a better way to start off day than to go on our first movie date, we went to see barnyard. it was the first time you had ever gone to the movies, so i was really looking forward to seeing how you would do..............and you loved it!!!!! which is good since i bought the movie pass for all 10 movies that is a part of the summer movie clubhouse. then when aunt nina got home we went to sticky fingers to eat ribs. aunt nina decided to get you your own plate and you loved those ribs, the more you ate them the louder you got "ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm love it!!!!"

having you and aunt nina is the best thing i could have asked for!! i love you two more than life itself and i love the 3 of us being a family. so now is time for a funny picture that you will probably hate when you get older, but will i hope make you laugh...along with the movie poster of your first movie.

love you................

day 121

at church today you were in your class during the service, and i'm not if the service went long or if you had just had enough. but you starting crying towards the end of the service, so susie went and got you and brought you in to us. when we asked you what was wrong you said that you missed us....just even at 2 you know how to melt our hearts. later this afternoon we went SWIMMING!!!!!! which i think is becoming one of your favorite things to do.

love you...........

day 120

WAKE UP!!!!!!!!! it's time to go yard saleing to see if we can find you a tricycle, i hope we find one cause i think you will love it.
well baby girl we just got home and guess what............we found you a bicycle!!!!!!!! yaaaaaaay!!!! and i must say you love it. when we got home you played and rode on it for a good 45 minutes, you don't have the pedaling down yet but i'm betting it won't take long. then your grandma maggie came to pick you up and you were gone the rest of the day. aunt nina and i were like two lost little puppies, sitting around the house wondering what you were doing or if you were having fun. we even went to big lots and bought a soccer ball for you so when you got back home you would a surprise waiting on you. you were suppose to spend the night but at around 9pm grandma maggie called and said you wanted to come home and that they were on the way. aunt nina and i were so excited that you were coming home that we went outside to wait on you. we want you to always know that you can come HOME to YOUR HOUSE anytime you want to!!!

love you........

day 118

it was made official today.....we now have full legal custody of you baby girl. we went to court today for the last time for our last review with DSS, the judge released them and the all the lawyers invovled. we are so glad that all of that is behind us, we love having you with us and look forward to many many more years of our home being filled with your laughter. so to celebrate we went swimming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you had a ball, i'll bet we stayed at that pool for close to, if not more than 3 hrs. the 3 of us were almost sunburnt by the time we left to go home.......to your house :0)

love you.........

day 117

this morning we went to smart start for a bike rodeo, its where you go and ride your bike through an obstacle course and learn about bike safety. you loved riding on the tricycle they had there, you didn't want anyone to help you. i think aunt nina and i are going to have to look for a tricycle for you. i think we will go to some yard sales this weekend and see what we can find. they also had games inside where you won a book, a lollipop and a toothbrush, you really seemed to have a great time. candacs went with us and sissy amber and kevin came after his field day at school. then we all when to mcdonald's to eat lunch, then it was home for a well deserved nap.

love you.........