New favorite color

So Alyssa has a new favorite color. Yesterday as I was chatting with a friend (actually only for a few minutes) and after I hung up there was that silence about the house. I found Alyssa at the top of the stairs with a bright blue permanent sharpie marker in hand. She has colored all over her toes on both feet, the side of one foot and both forearms and hands. I panicked as any good Mom would do and through her in the tub and scrubbed. I tried soap, hairspray, buffing cream and nail polish remover. All of which the soap did the best job. I realize I should've paused for a laugh and good, "bright blue" photos but I just didn't have it in me. We had a conversation while she was soaking in which she told me that "papaw did it". My father likes to draw little smiley faces on the bottom of her toes and used to do it to me too. So apparently he had left work, came to our house, went upstairs and wrote all over her! Boy do I have a fibber on my hands! After she was done with the bath, and I let the water out I noticed that our bathtub mat was blue and the tub had a nice blue ring around it. Yes that was how much marker she had on her! I ended up cleaning the tub and my daughter all before 9am...it was a long day!

Giana's Baby dedication

 

Our beautiful babies. And yes this is Alyssa's new "smile".

November 15th, 2009

We dedicated our precious baby girl to God on Sunday! Wanted to share some photos. We really appreciated everyones support and were excited to have Dennis, Pat, Amy and Julia join us. For those of you who missed it or were miles away here is a peek...

Fall Fun

Alyssa and I had alot of fun raking up leaves and playing in them. She loved when I raked them into the air and they fell down on top of her. I think we had leaves in our hair the rest of the day!

Daddy raked the front yard and Alyssa helped sweep the leaves? She soon realized she didn't have the "real" rake and insisted on helping with the real one that was a bit large for her. We get a massive amount of leaves from our two trees in the front. You can see in the pictures that our pile is the width of our property, and still all the leaves have not dropped!