Change of address

Dear friends and family and followers-

As of today, March 21st 2010, I am moving to a new bloghome.

It's been fun having my own special blog, but I'm going to go over to the World Wide Wards blog, where the rest of my family is, and hang with them from now on. Come check me out there, and you can see how fast Resli and I keep growing and also learn what other things we're all up to. My new home is at: http://world-wide-wards.blogspot.com. See you there!
Love,
Lela

Missing Daddy

Daddy had to go away again to another conference this week - just a couple days after coming home from the last one. We miss him so much we had to go out to Buddha Belly for dinner tonight. I kept looking expectantly at the door hoping he'd walk in.

But he didn't.
Mami distracted us by watching a cool Disney video on her iphone though. That almost made up for no Daddy!

Hurry home, though, Daddy, we miss you!

Acting like a 2-year-old

Now that I'm two I can do lots of big-girl kinds of things. One of them is throwing HUGE temper tantrums. Like this morning when we tried to leave the house and I decided that I did not want to walk out to the car. At all. So I sat down and sulked.

Then (after taking off my jacket and throwing it at Daddy), I tried to go back in to the house.

Unfortunately for me, Daddy is much stronger than I am and he managed to get me in to the car. Then I got over it and was fine . . . Until the next tantrum . . .

Eeew!

The past few days I've been having some trouble with goop in my eyes and my lids being all swollen. It's been getting worse, so Mami finally took me to the doctor this morning. Turns out it's NOT pink eye, just a really bad sinus infection that is so backed up it had to come out my tear ducts. Poor me! But I'm on antibiotics now and will soon be able to see again.

I feel fine, by the way. I just look gross.

Not just any Sunday

Today was a special Sunday because it's the day before Resli turns 5 years old! She and I got all dressed up in funny outfits this morning as part of our celebration.

But later we put on our real party clothes - ballerina costumes.

I put a headband in too, see?

Grandma and Granddaddy and Ms. Jenifer came over for our party, and we had presents and cake and grand time. One of Resli's coolest presents was a flashlight from Nana, and I spent quite some time chasing the light around the floor. Mami says she had a cat that used to do this...

There's nothing wrong with that, is there?!?

Ballerinas and barbecue

Resli and I love to dress up as ballerinas.

And seriously, what else would you wear to your favorite barbecue joint?

My first haircut

So you all know what great curly hair I have, and how long it's been getting. But it had been getting more and more out of control and hard to brush, and so Mami and Daddy decided that it was time for my first hair cut.
Here's a pre-picture.

I did NOT like getting it sprayed down.

But then I sat contentedly on Mami's lap while the nice man snipped and snipped.

We were a little worried that if we cut the curls off the end we'd lose them forever, but we just weren't sure what it would do when it was shorter. Here's a post picture:

Clearly we had nothing to worry about, those curls are there as strong as ever! Too bad it's not still 1980, when this look was really in. But it's much more manageable now, and we still think I look cute as a button!

Sweater weather

It has been very cold in Florida this last week, colder than I've ever known it. Luckily, Aunt Lizzie gave me and Resli these wonderful sweaters for Christmas, and we've been getting a lot of use out of them.

Don't we look cute?

Thanks, Liz!