Happy 26th Birthday to Me...

Thank you all for your well wishes, calls, emails, comments, etc! I had a great day. I took the afternoon off work and went shopping with Mallory, then to dinner at Chilis - my favorite.

I am twenty six years old and it is a difficult thing to shop for clothing for a 26 year old. I mean, the cute teeny-bopper stores are a little too young (although I still love the look!) but I'm not quite old enough to start the Misses section. Luckily I had Mallory there to tell me "You're too old for that" or "yeah, that works."

But I may have broken the teeny-bopper rule - see exhibit A. My new shoes. Not only have I finally given in to the flat canvas boat-shoe look, but please examine the picture to your right a little closer. Comment if you can tell what the pattern of the shoes is. I didn't choose it on purpose, but it was all they had. And they fit so great i just couldn't pass it up.

Okay, here are some pictures from dinner tonight. As you can see, Adrie chews to death anything in sight - especially paper and cardboard. Opened a few presents, and then Mallory helped me pack some more - a perfect day!

Baby in a Box

Packing, packing, packing... it's SO much work! I have no idea how we've done this eight times in the last 4 years. Oh my GOSH. I never want to do this again. Maybe it's all the baby stuff that's seemed to quadruple our personal belongings.

Anyway here is one fun packing picture. The bright spot in all of this is that Adrie is getting really good at entertaining herself!

She's the Man

Okay, SO DUMB but here I am raving about a movie.

And of all movies, a dumb teeny-bopper chick flick with Amanda Bynes.

Probably for the precise reason that my expectations weren't all that high to begin with, or the fact it was a boring Sunday with nothing else to do, I found this movie absolutely hilarious. And delightfully entertaining. So much so that here I am, writing a blog about it.

They did SUCH a good job of making her look like a convincable boy! But then, seeing her as a girl again she just lost a lot of that sex appeal. Anyway.

I laughed, I screeched out in "aaaah don't do it!" agony, etc. etc. etc. Even Kurt was laughing at me. But he liked it, too.

So next time you're bored and don't know what to get from the slim pickins at RedBox, pick this little ditty up. And tell me what you think.

NEWS

We sold our house. And now have 11 days to pack and be all moved out. Stress? Yeah, a little.

Adrie celebrated her six-month birthday by rolling across the front room. Again, and again, and again. It's AMAZING how at ease she is with something that seemed so difficult just the day before.

Kurt gets up at 4:20 am for his new job. Yuck. When I get up at four in the morning to feed Adrie I thank my lucky stars that I get to go back to bed for three more hours.

The weather here is gorgeous. I like not having to wear jackets. And we were excited to go shopping for cute hot-weather clothes for Adrie. Pictures to come at a later date. They are darling! I want three more girls just to experience dressing them up.

It's getting harder and harder to go to work; in direct correlation to how darling my daughter gets.

Okay, that's the news for now. I should have some cute photos to go with it but I don't. I'm tired, I've been packing all evening, and now my tv shows (Prison Break and the month's Scrubs episodes) won't download fast enough for me to watch before bed.

Love love! What's the news in YOUR town? I don't even know if people read this thing because no one comments. Comments?

Bathtime

We just love bathtime. Adrie is finally starting to figure out that splashing is fun. She kicks her legs and waves her arms and then makes grimacing faces when she splashes water in her eyes, looking at me like "Why did you do that!?"

Then she'll stay fascinated by the baby in the mirror for a long time.