Don't get it... at all

Why go to a party that you don't want to attend, only to affect everyone around you with your shitty attitude? If you don't want to be there, chances are, no one wants you there either. You were probably invited out of obligation.

A friend of mine is invited to the same surprise party as I am. I plan to go. I want to go. I am good friends with this girl and it's her birthday. This other friend of mine just keeps talking about how much she doesn't want to go and how she's only going if I'm going and how she's going to be miserable the whole time.

Then don't fucking come with me! I don't want you there if you don't want to be there. Stay the fuck home.

Ahhh, I feel better now. Thank God this friend doesn't know about my blog so I can bitch about this.

The end.

Happy Birthday to my little Ainsley May

Ainsley is one today... the past year has flown by.

She is walking everywhere. She's trying to keep up with Avery, I guess. She's very motivated to go, go, go. She eats like a champ. She will eat just about anything you put in front of her. She's learned to dance. She stamps her feet and shakes her head. If you hand her the telephone, she puts it up next to her ear and really listens. She loves the dogs. She loves dogs in general, really. She'll say "ooh, ohh, oooh" for her 'barking' noise. She's pointing at things. Mostly things she wants. She wants everything Avery has and Avery doesn't share well. She's getting into books -- we read about 5 every night and she will turn the page when you ask her to. She loves the books with flaps. She's already torn a few flaps off!

Here are a couple of pictures of her. Jed and I took her out to dinner tonight, just the three of us. She liked being the only one to get attention :)

Lollipop, Lollipop

Just wanted to share a few pictures from my "photoshoot" with Avery the other day. This is the first time I specifically dressed her in something, had props, and used a specific location. I don't know if I'll do that again anytime soon. HAHA

From the weekend

All of the pictures I've taken recently of Ainsley are pretty terrible. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's because I'm having fun putting Avery in certain situations and she's actually (mostly) cooperating? Don't know. I'll work on that. I figure, too, since Ainsley's birthday party is this Saturday, I'll have a ton of her from that day, so I'll end up balancing it all out, right?






And we met a bunch of firemen last Friday at a local park. It was fun!

I should know better...

Once I boasted about all the fabulous sleep I was getting, my nights and mornings turned to shit. Avery's been having trouble falling asleep and won't actually konk out for the night until like 11pm, only to promptly rise at 6am or earlier. This would be halfway tolerable if Ainsley was still doing her 9am trick, but no, since posting the previous blurb about her newfound fantastic sleep habits, it's been 5am, 5:30, you get the picture.

I should know better than to even mention sleep or the lack thereof at all. It always comes back to get me.

A couple of pictures...










I'm not favoring Avery in the picture department... I have more of Ainsley that I haven't gone through yet. This last one of Avery cracks me up though. Not really a great picture, but I was more concerned with waking up Princess Crabs-Alot than I was with getting a picture perfect photograph.

Who needs a stinking bed, anyway?

Right around the corner...

Ainsley turns one next week. I can't believe she's almost one. This year flew by. She is still mostly crawling but she can walk. If you stand her up in the middle of the living room, she'll either just continue standing there or she'll walk to the nearest piece of furniture. Yesterday, for the first time, she willingly walked from one place to another. She did the same thing twice today. It's only a matter of time.

She had tooth #3 cut right after we got back from Mexico, but it's not coming out quickly enough. She's been pretty crabby and fussy lately. She's also being doing this weird (albeit fabulous) thing where for about a week and a half she slept from 7pm to 9am the next morning. I think I actually slept from 10pm to 6am two times without waking up at all. It's literally been since the early weeks of my pregnancy with Avery that I've been able to go to sleep at night and wake up in the morning. Just when Avery started to sleep longer and more soundly, I was already up peeing all night because Ainsley was on the way. Sigh. SIGH.

Anyway, I am being a cheapo and instead of taking Ainsley to the 'professional' photographer, I took her first birthday picture myself. I hope she doesn't hate me for not taking her to get her photos taken. I'm sure she'll wonder why...

Today's Captures

And just for a good laugh...

Some pictures from today...

Just practicing...

Look at these lashes!

If she only knew how lucky she is!

Back, but not really well rested

I came down with a horrible cold after getting home from vacation and actually had to call in reinforcements to come help take care of the girls because I was completely out of commission one day. I'm on the mend now, so here are some pics of Cabo to share.