Laina Got A Care Hut

I can understand about 99.999% of what Laina says. Most people can understand 99.999% of what Laina says. But this one just had me stumped! For days Laina kept talking about how Matthew (a kid at school) got a care hut. I had NO idea what she was talking about. I kept trying to ask her questions to figure this one out.....do you mean a carrot? NO she would reply...a CARE HUT. I don't know what a care hut is Laina....tell me more about it....what color is it, what shape is it, etc. And she just got louder and louder...a CARE HUT....A CARE HUT! As if talking to me LOUDER would make me understand. So we finally just agreed to not talk about it any more. So a few days passed and I didn't think much of the old care hut.

Joe had gotten his hair cut one day and at dinner Laina said to him...."Daddy, you got a care hut" and finally it clicked.. Care hut means.....HAIR CUT! Then it all came together. Matthew at school had this long floppy hair and then one day he came in with a buzz cut and yes, boy oh boy did Matthew ever get a "care hut" or hair cut as it were!

These kinds of things crack me up. I love the whole learning language stuff. The other cute one is that Renee's new baby's name is Emily and Laina is having a hard time saying Emily so she calls her "enemy" which is just funny because little baby Emily is sooooooo not the enemy!

In any event, here's a cute picture of Laina wearing my Pittsburgh Pirates hat, eating her ham and cheese sandwich and showing off her new "care hut". Don't her bangs look adorable when they are freshly cut!

A Visit With Emily

Today we drove down to MA to meet Baby Emily! It was so exciting to meet her and see proud mama and papa, Renee & Mike. They look GREAT and seem very relaxed and mellow which is awesome. Emily slept most of the visit but did open her eyes a few times. She is a very laid back little girl. Here are some photos of our visit...

And baby makes three!

Happy Mama

Daddy's Little Girl

Baby Feet! Does it get any sweeter?

Laina's first picture with Baby Emily

Best friends....and their daughters...too cool.

Look at that sweet face!

Joe with Ms. Emily...July 2008

And Joe with our Laina - September 2005. Same sweatshirt!

She's Here!!!!!

Here is a picture of the newest SPG member to arrive on the scene! Little Emily was born to Renee & Mike in the wee hours of the morning - - - 1:01am on July 24th, weighing 8lb, 6oz and measuring 21.5 inches long! Mom, Dad and sweet baby girl are doing well! Joe, Laina and I will be driving down to meet her on Saturday. I CANNOT wait! Congratulations Renee & Mike and welcome welcome Emily!!!

After...

So this has been the current question for a while....as an example, here was tonight's dinner conversation....

Laina: What am I doing after dinner?
Mommy: Taking a bath.

Laina: What am I doing after bath?
Mommy: Reading books.

Laina: What am I doing after I read books?
Mommy: Brushing your teeth.

Laina: What am I doing after I brush my teeth?
Mommy: Going to sleep.

Laina: What am I doing after I go to sleep?
Mommy: Waking up.

Laina: What am I doing after I wake up?
Mommy: Going to school.

Laina: What am I doing after school?
Mommy: Coming home.

Laina: What am I doing after I come home?
Mommy: Having dinner.

I kid you not....it went on like this until we had cycled a full 24 hours from tonight's dinner to tomorrow nights dinner. And it didn't stop there. The girl cracks me up.

In other news we took Laina bowling for the first time on Sunday. It was rather adorable I must say. She had a lot of fun, bowling shoes for toddlers are to die for, and she did a superb job! Here's the "play by play"...

Let the games begin! Laina right before we started.

Bowling shoes for an almost 3 year old...does it get any cuter?

Daddy giving Laina her first bowling lesson. Too cute.

Her first ball...right down the middle! That kids got an arm I tell you!

Look at that form!

The final score...yes, my almost 3 year old beat me by 3 points. The kid is good.

Wedding Photo

Here's a picture from Dan & Luke's wedding ceremony a couple of weeks ago. They are still waiting for more pictures to come from friends who were there with them. Don't they look soooo handsome!

On Vacation!

Laina and I have been on vacation this week. On Sunday Laina, Joe and I drove to my parents house in MA and met up with Auntie Di to celebrate Grammy's birthday! Joe drove back home and Laina and I headed back to Rhode Island with Auntie Di and hung there from Sunday through Thursday. On Thursday we all drove back to Maine in time for dance class that afternoon. Di has been visiting with us here and will head back to Rhode Island tomorrow so we've had a full fun week visiting with Di! Silly Mommarazzi did not remember to bring her camera though - how crazy is that!

Di and Nik really enjoyed their time with Laina and Laina ate up every minute of the attention she gets from them. We did some shopping, ate some good meals and I got to go to their local YMCA because I belong to my local Y. What a difference there is between the two facilities. For example, my Y has 2 cross trainers in our cardio room and their Y has 10 cross trainers! We took Di to our Y today and had fun swimming in the pool.

Here are a couple of pictures from today...now that I'm back home and have my camera with me!

The Trifecta...

Smooches For Di...

Sweet Picture...

Congrats To The Cowboys!

Today is a big day for Uncle Dan & Uncle Luke! They have been together for 11 years but because of the wacky world we live in, they have been unable to get married...until now. Dan & Luke are out in California this week and are getting married today! We are so excited for them. Here is a picture of the happy cowboys that I jacked off their website! I can't wait till Dan sends wedding pictures out. We are all bummed out that we couldn't be there but I know we'll get a full report soon! I will post pictures when I get them.

Catching Up...Part 1

Here are some recent fun photos. A few weekends ago we went to Belmont to visit Grammy & Grampy and Auntie Di & Cuzzie Nik came up from Rhode Island to visit too. We had a very fun time with everyone. Auntie Di bought Laina the most adorable tutu, wings & halo and since Laina is now a dance superstar, she put on quite a little show in this getup.


Here is my new most favorite picture of Auntie Di and Laina. Look at Di's hair coming in post-chemo. Doesn't she look soooooooooo cute! I'm very jealous of her cropped hair style! She actually had her first haircut in months! woo hoo!

Laina being goofy...

Dining with Grammy...I brought both of them their meals and as I was walking out of the room Laina started having this whole elaborate conversation with Grammy who did a great job of "ooohhhing" and "ahhhhhing" at all the right times. Its so funny to watch these two together.

Here are some shots from La Kermesse a few weekends ago. Laina and Daddy on the Merry Go Round...

Daddy crammed into the kiddie train ride - he's such a trooper...

Laina's first solo amusement ride! What a big girl! She's ready for Kennywood in September, me thinks!

Catching Up...Part 2

Here's a bit more of what we've been up to lately. Here are some cute shots of Laina from July 4th....before the fever hit! I absolutely love this gymbo top, which ever so appropriately says "Miss Independence".


Helping Daddy put out the flag...



Here are some pictures from the parade we attended in Ocean Park, which is a tiny section of Old Orchard Beach. Folks from Ocean Park like to distinguish themselves as being from Ocean Park...and not from Old Orchard. If you're from here...you'll get it. The parade was adorable and those of you who are from Maine will get the humor in the "Pier Fries" people.







Laina has always been a big fan of our cat, Max. He's the "friendly" cat that doesn't run when kids come near so kids are always drawn to Max. Recently though, they've begun playing together. By this I mean that Laina has learned that if she shines her Elmo flashlight, Max will chase the light. Its really adorable to see the two of them interacting. She also pets him (nicely now!) and he loves that!


Here are some sweet shots of Laina from the beach...love this hat!

It was a funky beach day....warm but foggy....you can see the fog in this shot down by their feet....

Building castles with Daddy...

Showing off the rock she and Daddy discovered.

My Hero!

Joe did it! He fixed my laptop....hooooray! Apparently the computer had two issues. One is that it had some problems with the wireless system when it was originally constructed and when we sent it back to HP, they fixed those problems. But when we got it back last week it still wouldn't connect to the internet wirelessly. Well, after much searching on Google, Joe figured out that we had another problem which is that our HP doesn't communicate well with Netgear, our wireless router. Who knew, right. So Joe had to go through all these settings and change all sorts of things that mean absolutely nothing to me. All I know is that now I have my computer back. What a gem he his!

Laina's Photo Shoot

Well, I still don't have a computer at home. The computer is back - but the problem has not been remedied...very frustrating. I have a ton of pictures waiting to be uploaded but...there they sit.

In the meantime, here are some shots from a recent photo session with my movie star. I had her pictures done at both Sears and Picture People about a week and a half ago. Here are some of the Sear's shots. For the first time in almost 3 years, I was really pleased with how the pictures turned out. These are just some of the Sear's ones. There is one other pose that I love but that one will go out in the mail to people so I won't post that here now. Also the Picture People shots came out great but I don't have those to post.

We had an "OK" fourth of july. On Friday we went to a local parade and that was very fun. They tossed candy out to the crowd and Laina was just amazed by this. It was pretty cute. She scored more candy then on Halloween and I let her eat a lollipop at 10am - pretty fun day.

Unfortunately the weekend went downhill from there. Laina developed a pretty high fever probably due to a virus. I brought her to the doctor on Monday just to make sure she didn't have an infection lurking somewhere and he thinks it was viral. Her fever broke finally on Monday and its a good thing because after being cooped up in the house for 4 days we were ready for a change of scenery! Laina is now back at school and I'm back at work.

I will post 4th of July and some beach pictures soon. When my poor little computer is better!