Weekend Hangover

Saturday morning, we started the day with a soccer game at St. Agnes. While it was freezing last weekend while we were in Vegas, it was HOT this weekend (of course). Afterward, we figured we couldn’t be any hotter, so we might as well go to the zoo. We ate a quick lunch while John and HG made the monkeys go berserk (I swear, the whole Cat House was watching them make the monkeys slam themselves into the window), and we hadn’t even made it to the giraffes before HG asked to be carried. Needless to say, it was a short zoo trip (after a sweetly requested popsicle to cool down). We turned on her sleepy music on the way home, and she was asleep before we left the parking lot.

After a good nap that moved from the car to Mama’s bed, John and HG headed to mass with Grandma and Peggy while I celebrated Ginna’s birthday with a girls’ night to Como. Fun!

On Sunday, we went over to see Teddy for his birthday and enjoyed some of his delicious banana pudding. Afterward, we headed to Aintree Farm for a make up horseback riding class, and Peggy and Grandma got to come along to see her in action!

We met Spiffer, GD, and Bubba for dinner afterward, but when HG put her head in my lap during the meal, we knew we had to get home- quick!

On the way to dance after school on Monday, I made her take a nap to take the edge off, which really helped her weekend hangover. When bedtime rolled around though, she was awake. I left her in her bed around 8:00, and when I came back at 9:30, the girl was still up and was reading a book- AHHHH!

After calm, relaxing afternoons and early bedtimes on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, I think we have finally recovered from our busy weekend.

Halftime with Mary Kate Mary Caroline and the Schmitt boys Giving her some quiet consultation from the sidelines Calvin Douglas

Love her version of this classic elementary song

Happy birthday, Ginna! Happy birthday, Teddy! She spent at least a week making a birthday book just for him with tons of pictures and xoxo’s.Happy to show off for Daddy, Grandma, and Peggy

Monday afternoon nap

Disney on Ice

Ginna and I enjoyed a girls’ night out to Disney on Ice last Friday with Elsa and Ariel. It was a very fancy night with our very own princesses in tow, complete with Chick-fil-a drive through dinner, tiaras, and light up princess spinners. Big time in the world of five year olds!

Toohig Tidbits: Hello, September

At the Life Is Good store on Labor Day, I was looking at scarves. John took one of them and wrapped it around his neck. HG, as she sat on my hip, just looked at him and shook her head very slowly as if, ‘No, Daddy. Just No.’

We grabbed an after-school cupcake. As we walked to the car, I asked HG to keep it in the paper sack because I would cry if the cupcake hit the pavement. HG responded, "Mommy, it's NOT that traumatic."

I told her I was planning on bringing lunch to her at school this week. She said she was going to give her classmates clues for who was coming to lunch. “She has blue eyes, pink lips, and strips of blonde hair and strips of black hair.”

At dinner with GD, Spiffer, and Daddy, she was telling us about her lesson with Beanie Baby. She was trying to think of the word ‘crop’ and GD finally remembered it. HG said, “Yes, it was on the tip of my tongue!” Spiffer laughed and kind of repeated, “It was on the tip of your tongue?,” and HG said, “No, you pop her on the neck, not on the tongue.”

“I love beautiful things.”

We often do this little ditty together. John or I will say “Itty bitty baby—,” and then HG will pipe up with, “GIRL!”

Every night before she drifts off to sleep, HG says, “Mama, tell me what to dream.”

“Mama, I used to be Calvin Douglas’s #1 girl and now I’m #2, and I’m so frustrated!”

Taking Blue for his last kitten shots 100 on her first math test!!! Visit with Darby on Ryves’ 30th birthday We found a friendly tree frog on our front door after a storm. My girl went outside to look at him and PICKED HIM UP.She held him for a few seconds, and then he earned his soon-to-be given name, Jumpy. John and I chased him through the flowerbed a few times, and then we had to say goodbye to our new friend. Her daddy put out some new birdseed for the ducks, and HG cuddled up on the window sill to enjoy the show. Doesn’t Blue just look thrilled with this cuddle?!First day of dance for fall semester- now in the elementary class of K-2nd gradeJournaling at its best (that’s a pic of HG and Mommy on the couch)Favorite color day- pink- DUHShe apparently gets this trait from me because her daddy can’t do it.

While We Were Gone

There’s no doubt as to how great HG’s grandparents are. While we were in Vegas, we missed a soccer practice, her first soccer game, and dance class. And HG didn’t skip a beat, thanks to her grandparents stepping in. She barely missed us! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Soccer practice Friday night First soccer game Saturday morning Park fun BINGO at 3 Guys Fun at Grandma’s Grandma continued my lunch box note tradition on Monday, and of course, raised the bar by including these cute drawings!