On Saturday night, we met Ryves, Mary Chris, and Darby Dabbs for a long overdue dinner date at Old Venice. Darby wasn’t nearly as excited to see us as we were to see her because she kept nodding off. Helen Grace did her best to keep her awake but wasn’t always successful. Now that she’s over the two month milestone, she was so alert and attentive, and HG was into her every move. Watching these sweet girl cousins grow up together is going to be FUN!
Last Wednesday was a special girl-bonding day. After my moms’ Bible study, I met Spiffer for lunch at Old Venice. We very rarely have a whole meal to ourselves, and we just talked and talked, barely stopping to catch a breath! We did a little shopping before it was time to pick up Helen Grace from school. Luckily, we didn’t have much time, or we’d have gotten in trouble. Spiffer then rode with me to SAA, and HG asked to go to the bookstore to play for a bit before dance.
We followed around behind HG as she asked for every. single. stuffed. animal in the store, and I continually told her that I’d buy her any book or smart toy/game that she wanted. She finally got the hint and then started asking, “Is this a ‘learning math’ toy?” Not sure where she got that term, but she’s continued to use it. At least she finally got the point!
After she selected her ‘learning math’ toy, a dinosaur egg excavation kit, we had a seat in the cafe and enjoyed sharing a late afternoon snack. Then, we had to bust a move to dance class, but what a sweet and fun girls’ afternoon!
This is how we roll…at 7:00 a.m…
“On the fourth day of Christmas, my Grandma brought to me four dove-n eggs and a pear in a pear tree!”
“We went wild at recess! Like a monkey that wants an extra banana so bad!”
She often requests that we turn off all the lights in the bathroom, turn on the light in the bathtub that flashes different colors, crank up the music, and have a disco party!
She saw a picture of John as a baby at Grandma’s house. She told Grandma, “That makes me sad. He was such a cute baby. Too bad he had to grow up!”
She was playing at Spiffer’s house, and she picked up a cross and handed it to her, saying, “To you. From the house of the Lord.”
Her Southern accent continues with words like ‘tore-nay-duh’ and ‘pill-ah’ and ‘mir-ah.’ Making her Yankee daddy proud- not!
Violet Day at school
HG is constantly making up new songs. This is just a quick sample of her creativity.
On Monday, Martin Luther King Day, John was given tickets to the Grizzlies’ game against the New Orleans Pelicans, and we were able to treat Peg and Jeanne to their first Grizz game! The game started at 4:00, so it was perfect for Helen Grace since we were home by 7:30. She did better with the fire and loud noises at the beginning of the game (since we were able to warn/prepare her), and she enjoyed having the empty suite to run around in when she got a little bored. She probably had the best time cheering, “Go Grizz!!!!,” with her daddy and then throwing things away for all of us. It’s the little things!
Helen Grace spent the weekend in costume, and she loved every minute of it. First, we celebrated Daily’s 6th birthday ‘under the sea’ with a mermaid party, and then we rang in Haney’s 6th birthday with a rock star dance party.
My beautiful and happy little mermaid. She wore this thing for hours. I had to beg her not to wear it out to dinner that night.
Most of the girls at the party went to school with Haney, so it took a while for HG to warm up. But once she did, man, she didn’t stop dancing!
We seem to have a common theme for the first part of January…sleepy pics. I promise we are busy with lots of fun things, although it doesn’t look like it from this post! I can’t help that my people are photogenic when they are asleep/sleepy.
Is there room for Mama in her bed?
Last weekend, we hit the ice with our friends, Ginna and Sallie Key. I am so lucky to have such a good friend in a coworker/neighbor who also happens to have a little girl 8 months older than Helen Grace.
The girls were so excited to ice skate as it was Sallie Key’s first time. I think HG was brazened by that and decided she wasn’t going to use a walker to skate. Before we started, she was really cute as she showed SK how to get up when she fell, how to use the walker, etc. She did really well on the ice, although we moved at the speed of a snail. She fell a time or two but didn’t complain a bit. She did wear out kind of quickly and requested a trip to the snack bar, in which we were happy to oblige.
They both took to the ice so well that we teased them that we may see them in the Olympics one day! We might have to have an Olympic ice skating watch party to educate them because they both looked at us like they had no idea what we were talking about. We have a lot of teaching to do!
We started off the year right with lunch at McAlister’s with the Browns…
Over new year’s week, Granddaddy and Spiffer took her to SkyZone. I had hoped one of them would make an appearance on this video, but no such luck. :)
Granddaddy videoed this puppet show of Spiffer and Helen Grace. Long but hilarious!
Our little acrobat loves to flip with Granddaddy.
