Attitude from day one

So I don't think I have ever posted this picture of Lydia. This was Feb 4th, the day we came home. I think the look she is giving Nonni is sooo funny. As we slowly get the big girl room ready and more and more people I know are preggers...expect more blast from the past pictures. I saw a fellow counselor today at a training (who used to also be my roommate during the last part of my college career) and she has a baby! I did not even know she was pregnant! He was only 4 weeks old and thankfully she brought pictures. Then two other fellow counselors that I have worked with showed off their new baby bumps..yikes...could I be getting the fever a year earlier than we planned! So here same attitude..."sure I will clean up my room mama"...She is so rotten.

Here is Lydia and Daddy having fun.
Can you believe Mark and I produced such a tall girl...I just cannot get over it.

Oh, you laptop illness has spread to mine..Thank Kim! ; )

Stuff we have been up to

Here is Lydia on her first day of library school....

Here is Lydia on her last day of library school. Yeah, it is the same picture. For multiple reasons library school did not work out. Our Baby Sign class got cancelled and I cannot get anyone to call me back on the Kindertots class. Isn't there anywhere besides daycare for kids to socialize. And I do mean socialize, not sit silently for 20 minutes listening to stories.
Last Friday we had dinner with Bryce and Wendy for Bryce's birthday. We also got to meet up with Katie and her husband Dave. (Her blog is listed on my blog's I visit) We would have loved to see Jordan..maybe next time.

Here we are at our 2nd annual Eagles/Steelers get together with Dan and Kathy..we are one and one. Steelers one last year but we did not get the win last Sunday. We ate Philly Cheesesteaks and french fries with Heinz ketchup. I also made cupcakes with gold icing...it was fun!

10 funny things about Lydia

1. One of her new favorite words is "Wait". It is funny how she will say it over and over to the Marian as Marian runs away from her.

2. So she has picked up another word as of late...a phrase really....Damn it. Oh yes, we have had our first cuss word. She even uses it completely in context. Example, she was crawling down the steps backwards and put her foot in the cat water and said "Damn it". A couple of times when we have told her no, not to do something, she will say "Damn it".

3. I stayed home from work today. Lydia fell asleep while cuddling with me in my bed watching Cinderella. I heard her talking later on and found her snacking on the peanut butter crackers I had brought up earlier. When she saw me she said, "Mama, I eat crackers."

4. She has been putting socks on her hands and saying that she is cooking. I guess she thinks they are potholders??

5. When she sees the Mountaineers she says "Let's Go March"

6. She will now do "this little piggy" on herself and she remembers them too!

7. She likes to watch the digital picture frame and name off everyone and everything that comes on it.

8. "Kumpins" or pumpkins as you might know them to be called, are Lydia's new obsession. Daddy brought home two huge kumpins today and she was so excited. I cannot wait to carve them with her.

9. She is finally cutting the next two bottom teeth so now she has the four front, the four bottom and her four molars. I have no idea why she is cutting them in such a weird order.

10. Did I mention that I gave birth to Jesus? The other day I was doing laundry and I put one of Mark's tee shirts on her. ( My brothers and I always wore my dad's tee shirts to bed so that is where I got the idea) So when I got his shirt on her she raised her two arms and kept walking around saying Jesus. She has done this a couple of times but I never have the camera around. I hope to get a picture of it soon. I have no idea where this came from..if she is thinking of pictures of Jesus she has seen or if she is thinking of the priest...who knows with this child.

A funny for your Monday

Here is Lydia in all her silliness...

But for some reason I find this picture even more hilarious....

I think it is funny that after the first pictures she just goes about her usual business like she is not wearing orange shorts on her head and sock "puppets" on her hands...nothing stops her.

We are closer to having her big girl room ready. Mark's co-worker was in a horrible flood and we gave her the spare bedroom set out of the guest room. Now we have her toddler bed in there and her toys. There is sooo much room now. She loves it.

10 for Tuesday

1. I did the grossest thing today. I drank from my Principal's coffee cup today. It has nothing to do with her..I HATE drinking or eating after folks. I just wanted puke..but not in front of her since she might get a little offended. She had her cup sitting in a spot in the front office where I sometimes place my cup. I just picked it up and drank when she asked me why I was drinking her coffee. Luckily, it was very full and very hot so I am not sure she had even drank from it yet.


2. Stupid thing number 2. I was doing a lesson in a recently divorced kindergarten teacher's class. Her old married name and our Principal's name is very similar. I did not think I did but the teacher claimed I called her by her old married name. I tried telling her I was saying the Principal's name (which I really was) but she said I didn't...so after my coffee stunt who knows. She was not happy with me either.

3. Stupid thing number 3. I was making the afternoon announcements and I forgot to unpush the all call button and everyone could hear me talking..luckily all I was saying was I almost forgot to do the afternoon announcements before everyone was yelling "we can hear you" . I am so glad I did not say something horrible..

4. Did I mention how glad I am to be going to a different school tomorrow?

5. I have already baked a cake for these teacher in case I do more stupid things and end up offending them as well.

6. Really I did, I had some leftover icing from cupcakes I baked this weekend. I wanted it out of my fridge. So I did a homemade (not box) chocolate cake with homemade cream cheese icing. I hope it turned out ok. I purposely did not make my famous brownies b/c I might eat them..I hate cake so my waistline is safe.

7. So I recently bought some Gap jeans. I bought the style that I usually love. I ordered them online..big mistake. They now are made with stretch. They grow all day and are extremely baggy by the end of the day. I hate that I spent so much money on these jeans that look so sloppy on me.

8. We got the second layer of mud on our bedroom...one more to go!

9. Lord God, I hope the Steelers and Mountaineers play better this weekend. Both of them are rival games ( I guess Marshall is our rival?) but the Steelers play Monday night against the Ravens....Oh I hate them!

10. The biggest news of all. Lydia is starting library school tomorrow. The Mannington Library is starting a 18 month-36 month program. There are three other little girls that are going to be there. I think Lydia going to have so much fun. I have the perfect outfit picked out now we just have to pray that between Poppi and Daddy, they get her cleaned, fed, dressed, and get a picture of her before 9am! Mark is going to ask Poppi to take pictures during the lesson..but who knows if that will happen.

Mommy and Me

This was my fave picture from that fateful Sears session. I have been meaning to scan it for a long time and finally got to do it last week.
Poor Miss Lydia's allergies are up to their old tricks again. I guess it is my fault for taking her off of the Claritin but it seemed as if things were better. So along with all the clear junk constantly running out of her nose, she is coughing. I am hoping that it will clear up soon and we do not have to start her back on her Singular. If we put her back on it, her doctor wants her on it until she is five. I had to beg to take her off of it this summer. I just hate when she is not feeling good.

Draft Day

So fantasy football is pretty big in our house. Mark is commissioner of one league and participate in other leagues. After a stellar performance the first year I participated...I have gone down hill ever since. So here is my beautiful daughter, the daughter who I carried inside me for 9 months, fed, bathed, fed some more, snuggled, cared for, (you catch my drift I am sure) picking the draft order.....and who does she pick to get the first pick....well me of course! Did you think she would pick someone else?

Here is her dad telling her to my name back in the hat...no not really but he was pretty cranky that I got first pick.

Daddy got a pretty good pick..I cannot remember exactly what right now since this was back on Labor Day.
But don't worry for those of you who thought, hey maybe Paula's team is finally going to pull itself out of the gutter...anyone want to guess who I picked with my precious first pick???????

The number one points getter in the whole league last year....

The person that won my husband many many games last year...

The person who has won his team many many SuperBowls....

Tom Brady. The streak continues.