Princess vs. Tom boy

In a desperate attempt to do something with Ryleigh's wild hair for the parties this weekend I went out and purchased hair elastics, clips, and bows.
This morning she tolerated me brushing her hair and parting it, but as I was trying to put elastics in she started crying. So, I moved on to the bows... which made her cry harder. Then I just tried to get her hair to stay down by wetting it and brushing it, which failed.
So, I decided she had had enough crying so I fed her breakfast.... which she them smudged into her hair.
I combed it out, and try to just clip a little of it back.... which resulted in her screaming and grabbing at my hands trying to push them away.

Lesson of the day: Daddy wins.... Ryleigh seems determined to be a tomboy despite my best efforts to make her a girly princess :-(

Recap of the week

This week has been pretty busy.

Ryleigh and I spent a lot of time in the church nursery for VBS. We only watched the staff workers babies, so I have no clue what happened as far as VBS goes... but I heard good things. Ryleigh was the only baby who couldn't crawl, so she ended up getting her hair pulled, and her face scratched a few times :-( But, thankfully she seems like a tough little girl, and after she shed a few tears she was fine. VBS also did wonderful things for her sleeping/eating schedule. Hello afternoon nap! She's taken at least an hour and a half long nap every day vs. her usual cat naps. yay! Her appetite also grew this week!

This weekend we have lots of fun things planned. One of which is a surprise. But, we also get to celebrate a good friend getting her masters degree. And, we have a fun beach cook-out planned for Sunday... and of course, we have a soccer game Sunday night. I am really looking forward to the weekend, let's just pray the weather holds up.

And, we're down to 8 days before the move. We still need to...

-paint
-finish packing
-spackle
-clean
-call the necessary phone/electric/cable companies

super excited

We were in Home Depot buying more paint so we can finish painting our stupid apartment when I found something wonderful.
Wall stickers! I've actually researched these, and they're essentially just giant stickery-things you can put on the walls to decorate with, and then they easily come off when you move, or gets tired of them, and don't damage the walls. I wanted to stick with our Classic Pooh theme for the nursery until I came across this....


That's right.... a giant wall mural of Cinderella's castle! I'm such a dork I want it for myself, haha.
Now I am seriously thinking of turning Ryleigh's room into a princess themed one and I can't wait! :-)

The Karate Kids

Here is some video footage of the kids getting their black belts for all of you who were not able to be there. They all did a great job!









(videos take forever to upload when you have a piece of junk internet service, so maybe I'll post more later)

why I love my husband

So cute :-)