Love Thursday - A Big Sister's Love

I look outside today and it is cold and windy and shake my head b/c yesterday we were able to play out on the back deck, with NO jackets! In yesterday's post I mentioned how Piper was such a little mama with Violet while she is learning all the ropes of being a mobile toddler. What I didn't say was what a lover she is with her baby sister too. This photo was shot after Violet fell and Piper ran over to "kiss it" which is happening SO much over here right now. To a 2 year old I guess that everything feels better after a kiss - heck, her 36 year old mama feels that way too though.

Now, I am going to go and check out some other blogs that are participating in Love Thursday, you should too!

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Wordless Wednesday - Little Mama

Piper is always there to help Violet up when she falls and to push her down if she is in her way :)

For more Wordless Wednesday fun check out 5 Minutes for Mom and join in!

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A little contest for a SWEET apron :)

I *heart* aprons! This is not a secret and my daughter has taken to them too! Anyway, there is a giveaway going on at Loving our Large Family for an oh so cute flowered apron that has Jessie written ALL over it! You can enter too, just do it before February 4!

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A Party for Princesses

Piper has yet to see a movie with a real princess in it but somehow she LOVES princesses. I never thought that she would be such a little girlie girl but she is turning out to be just that. A friend of mine told me that our local Chick-fil-A was having a "Princess Party" last night and wanted to know if Piper and I would like to join her and her daughter. Of course we agreed and when I told Piper about it (yesterday probably 2 hours before leaving) she was very excited. We arrived 10 minutes early to find a packed house, I took the LAST parking spot that they had. Yikes! We got inside and it was seriously pink chaos! What did I expect with a restaurant full of young girls and toddlers dressed in their princess best? Anyway, we made it through the crowd to get her a wand and then back so that she could get her nails done and her little treat bag. Navigating through the crowd was a little tricky but we finally all ordered our food and after getting it realized that there were no open tables. Wait, there were empty tables but they had people's coats sitting at them. Why oh why when you see that a store is that packed and you see people (with 2 year olds) waiting for tables would you just use that table as a coat rack? We all went out to the car and had a picnic in the back of the wagon. Still fun fun fun for the kiddos and Piper is STILL talking about it today! Yeah Chick-fil-A for having fun family nights like that! Here is a picture of Piper after I got her ready to go - I can't believe how big she is getting!

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Love Thursday - (Friday Edition)

Yesterday was a long day and I actually didn't even know about "Love Thursday" until later last night. I laughed b/c all day Thursday I felt so much love from my family and friends. My old friend Beth called in the morning and I had a nice conversation with her while Violet slept. Piper gave me so many unexpected hugs and kisses yesterday it was so sweet. The icing on my "love" day came however when my husband got home from work with a bouquet of flowers behind his back announcing "Happy Thursday" to me and the girls. Since he is working such long hours I wanted to wait until this morning to take a picture of the flowers (which I ALWAYS do b/c I am a dork that way) and after taking about 6 pictures came in to put them on the computer and submit to Shutter Sisters for my Love Thursday Post. To my surprise the picture that I thought would be the perfect one actually wasn't, the one that I am choosing as my submission shows my love for many things all in 1 shot!

The flowers show the love in my marriage, the cup is my love of good coffee, the basket holds a bundle of cloth napkins and that represents my love for Mother Earth, and finally you can see my Violet's booster in the background - my girls are the loves of my life! So there, I am so not in the same league as the ladies at Shutter Sisters but I try :)

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U.P.(s) and Downs

We had a very special treat this evening, my brother was in town for work and stopped by the house to hang with our family. Since he lives in Upper MI we don't get to see him nearly enough. My sweet husband gave us a nice tour of the shop and then we headed back to the house for dinner and good conversation (at least I thought so). Roddy had a bunch of pictures on his Zoom so I got to see his beautiful family. Very nice evening! Pretty cool that baby Violet is really walking up a storm now so he got to see that. Good timing also brought him down our way for Piper's 1 st birthday party a few years ago. Now, to get Susie back down here (I know that you're reading!!).

For Christmas we got Piper a Waldorf doll that she affectionately named Tiki (you got me). Well, she wants absolutely nothing to do with Tiki unless that baby grabs her. Today Violet took Tiki for a ride in a stroller and was having so much fun, it was kind of a struggle for her to stay standing b/c it is just a cheapo little thing so she fell alot - but she got up smiling!



This didn't make Piper very happy though and she actually played with Tiki for about 5 minutes b/c it is "HER doll not the baby's!" That is a new record for amount of Tiki Time at our house - so sad.



Not that I am complaining (a whole lot) but with the weird weather we have been having here lately we have those crazy little ants again! They come in by the kitchen sink and not even when there is a bunch of dishes in there either - there is no rhyme or reason that I can think of for them besides their little bottoms were cold and our house is constantly a sauna. My husband JUST told me that I am not allowed to put dish detergant all over our tile backsplash b/c it is too hard to get off after it is dry and hard - bummer too b/c that kept them at bay for about 15 minutes last time. Tonight though I brought out the big guns - Windex - and killed a bunch of them. SO GROSS - I dislike ants in my kitchen! What I am not looking forward to though is tomorrow morning when their whole colony has moved in and set up camp - I drown them by spraying them down the drain - did I mention how much I dislike them...

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Look Who's (almost) Walking!!

Hurray Violet!!



Yep, she walked more today than she has ever done before! Now instead of her crawling up to Piper and trying to steal stuff she will be walking up to her and running away - ah the fun starts (and I thought we have had drama up until now).

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