Sweet Girl!

I had to post this picture. I took this and I don't take good pictures. Frank usually is the one that takes the better ones. So sorry for not being so humble but she's just so darn cute!

The Price You Pay for Beauty!

It has been quite sometime that Claire has been obsessed with earrings. It started last summer with her pulling mine out of my ears and then we moved on to sticker earrings. Lately it has been daily requests for "get my ears pierced Daddy".

So I talked to the manager at Claire's(no my child is not named after a made in China jewelry store), and she said that it would be best if they did both of them at the same time and suggested what time of day would be best.

Yesterday Frank and I were painting the playroom and Claire woke up before we finished so we decided that I would take her to get her ears pierced while Frank finished up. We had explained to her that it would be like getting a shot in her ears and it would hurt but she was so excited and didn't care about that. She was a little chatterbox all the way there.

Then we got there and she was still excited. sat in the chair and then they said "We're going to draw on your ear". Ok so let's rewind, she just had somebody "draw" on her back about 30 times and then proceed to torture her in her mind. So this is what she thinks is getting ready to happen. The manager at Claire's was trying to convince her that she wasn't the doctor and even let Claire draw on her face to show her that it didn't hurt. This was the most traumatic part. After they actually pierced her ears she cried for a second and then she was over it. Ecstatic that she had earrings and then I let her pick something out in the store. We left with a Beauty and the Beast bracelet and two mini bottles of nail polish. She checked herself out in every mirror and told everybody in the store that she got hers ears pierced. Such a diva. Oh but the story doesn't end here.

When it was time for her to go to bed last night she couldn't get comfortable and had a mini meltdown and said she didn't want to sleep in her earrings. I then proceeded to tell her that she couldn't take them out and she laid down and went right to sleep.

What next you say? Well she asked Frank for a bra last night after dinner.

Allergy Testing

So many of you have asked me about the allergy testing so I have decided to post a pic of what it looks like. Claire endured about 30 scratches and I must say it was not fun for any of us. She pretty much thought it was the end of the world and well, I promised her just about anything she wanted to make it all better.

It turns out that Cashews are the culprit but she must avoid all tree nuts and fresh mango until further testing later this year.

So life will be slightly different for us. Chinese food probably won't be an option anymore and fancy ice cream places won't be a destination for us. That's ok though. She loves McDonald's sundaes and I'm pretty sure they don't have any other nuts on their menu besides peanuts (and peanuts are ok).

So, no banana bread, no walnut squares and no pecan pie. Maybe we'll lose some weight!!

Toodles for now!

Progress!

Well, there has been a lot going on at our house. Actually the work never stopped to be honest with you, it's just that now it has moved outside.

We had some brush removed and some dead limbs cut from our trees. That wasn't a lot of work for us.

Then we had the fence guys come in and put up a fence. We had to do some work for that. Raking mostly. So that the fence guys would have a clear path for the fence. It's just along the back of our property to disguise our backdoor neighbor's old car and swimming pool.

Then Frank decided that since the weather was nice, he would start doing the much needed repairs on the deck. Here is where the work is coming in. He tore down the top half of the deck and stained what was left. Now the plan is to add new rails and extend the deck to make it double the size. He's got other ideas too but we'll see what happens. We found out that we need a permit from the city to do the construction so I have the privelege of going down there tomorrow with a drawing of what we have planned. Yay for me!

Anyway, I have posted a new slideshow of what has been going on here and there are some pics of our little resident squirrels. They will do anything to get into the bird seed. Although we don't make it very hard for them.