Scrappin' Seminole

1.27.10 {waiting}

The little monkey waiting for her big sister.

1.17.10 {sushi dissection}

Went out for sushi night with the girls and wound up with most of our kids going, too.

Emma had a great time being out with us and kept the younger kids all entertained while we waited forever to sort out and pay our tab.

I don't think I had ever seen someone dissect their sushi before eating it, but what was also funny was how much she loved the salted edamame.

Tara's son Nicholas holds the award for being the funniest kid of the night. I think I laughed all night at the things he said.

Funniest thing he said = "These [edamame] are like M&M's in a pea holder!"

1.15.10 {sweet}

 

Girls' fabulous afternoon = Friday before a 3 day weekend + awesome Allegria cupcakes + water fountain to throw coins into + warmish weather

1.14.10 {what do you see?}

The other day, I noticed Lyss sitting up on her knees by herself in the living room.  She was holding a book facing away from her and turning the pages for an imaginary audience, singing as she went. 

"Don-na-nick!  Don-na-nick!  What do you seeeeeeee?"

She's been really into reading to you lately but since she can't she usually just says a few things in her best reading voice and turns the page.  I figured that the song was from school and that was what she knew, so that was what she "read."

Yesterday when we picked her up at school, one of her teachers showed me this handmade book that the other one had made for the class.

Ahhhhhh!  Funny girl.

 

1.13.10 {a view of the future}

Recently I got a deal on ordering a canvas photo.  I didn't look for the deal, but I wanted to take advantage of it so I went looking through older pics to find something I really wanted to commemorate.  

This one of Lyss is one of my all-time favorites. 

And that's saying a lot because in two and a half years, the kid has had several thousand pictures taken of her.

I love this shot because I'm a photo junkie and perfect action photos are really hard to come by.  One with the light just right and suspended water droplets is even more incredible.  But that's not the only reason I love it.

This was at Becky and Brian's in the summer of 2008, so Lyss was just over one at the time.  Sav had a slip and slide that she and Em were playing on, but I never expected Lyss to jump right in like she did.

She absolutely loved the water and would've just about drowned herself because she refused to stay off of it and the water was spraying right at the level of her face.

That didn't stop her.  We had to drag her inside waterlogged and toting extra pounds of weight in her diaper.

That was a view of things to come.

She is one of the bravest and most inquisitive kids ever. 

If there is a sidewalk to jump off, she jumps.

If there is a new path to take, she wants to take it.

If there is something she's never seen before, she wants to touch it.

And if she doesn't want to do something, well, then she's just as headstrong.

1.11.10 {relax}

It worked.

1.10.10 {twofer}

 Two things:

1. This snazzy little "special" cup is what you get in our house when you use the potty.

   

2. This is what happens if you're an iguana in South Florida.  And it's below 40 degrees.  And you freeze* and slip out of the tree you were in.  Just thought you'd like to know.

 

*Don't worry, animal lovers, it's not dead.  Unfortunately, it'll defrost when it gets warm again and be pooping all over the place again in no time.

1.9.10 {a real winter}

This is what it looks like today. Cold, damp, drizzly. Supposed to be wind chill of 26 F by morning. In South Florida.

1.8.10 {happiness is}

Things that make me very happy #63: view of an empty classroom on a Friday afternoon.

1.7.10 {not beautiful}

What is it about sunrises that are so hard to photograph with an ordinary camera?  I guess it's probably mostly about the lens.  And since I always have had a regular lens, I've never been able to capture indescribable beauty of the sunrise.

Every school morning, first we drop Emma off at school, then Lyss and I head over to her school.  Most mornings, when we drive east towards the main road, the sun is just starting to come up over the horizon and I tell Lyss to look at how beautiful it is.

On this morning, the sunrise was one of the most brilliant, fiery displays I have ever seen.  (Naturally, my iPhone does little justice to it.)

"Lyss, look at that sunrise!  Isn't it gorgeous?"

"No, it's boootifulll!"

"Well, usually it is beautiful, but today it's gorgeous."

"OOoooohhhhh!  Gworjust?"

"Yes."

"Look, Mom!  It's gworjust!"