Beautiful girl :)

*yes, yes, I know. . .the following post does not look like pictures from Disneyland. . .or Easter. . .or Hannah's Birthday. . .or the beach.. . .but those wonderful posts ARE still coming. I'm working on them, I SWEAR!!!**

If you live within a 25 mile radius, and/or you are friends with my mama on Facebook, you probably already saw all of these! But my mama is pretty proud of these photos, so she wants to share them here, too.

All I got paid for this awesome photo shoot was a POPSICLE! But it was a REALLY good one. . .and I ate the whole thing. I didn't have to save any of it in my piggy bank. So, that was pretty cool. . .

I'm so glad you asked!

**DISCLAIMER**

I know this is not one of the posts I promised in my last lame post, but I share it with you anyway! SO there!

Imagine if Hannah didn't ask ANY questions? Wow, it would be really quiet in this house.

I know you can picture this scenario. For the millionth time, she asks yet another WHY question. . .and I sit a moment, trying hard to think of THE answer to stop the chain of questions that are hanging off the first one!!! Of course that is impossible. No matter what I say, there is ALWAYS another question looming overhead. Can't escape it. She's four! She has a lot to learn and A.LOT.OF.QUESTIONS!

I say, bring it on! Most of the time, it is cute :) Even when she asks some real doozies, and I feel totally inadequate, I am able to come up with something to satisfy her inquiry. I always vow to look it up later, in case it comes up again. I feel bad for her teachers.

But, I am not complaining :) I am sometimes very glad she asks "why?" Like tonight. We were making blueberry banana applesauce (HEALTHY!) muffins :) Ok, Ok. She was calling them cupcakes. . . And, the sneaky mom that I am, had to ensure she would eat the *cough* treats *cough* despite their lack of one very important ingredient. . .SUGAR! So, naturally, I went along and called the fruit/wheat unsugared baking creations, "cupcakes". . .but I digress. Anywhoooo! I was measuring out the baking soda, and Hannah was looking very perplexed. She finally asked her 194,366,434,918th WHY question of the day, and it was a good one!

"Mama? WHY are you putting kitty litter in the cupcakes?"

Now, some day, when I am old and senile and blind, this will be a REALLY important question, guys! But today, I was able to tell her with confidence that I was NOT putting litter bits in the batter.

"It's not kitty litter, sweetie. It's baking soda!"

She still didn't look sure. Oh buy, she is SO my child. Don't trust anyone. YOU are usually right, and everyone else is off their rocker. Her perplexed little scrunched up face, clued me in that she did not like my answer, and was still pretty sure, I was wrong.

I am sure she was wondering if I was trying to poison her? Because I've told her in the past that kitty litter isn't food. So, should she call granny and ask for help? or maybe a better recipe?

After a moment of feeling miffed that she didn't trust her dear ol' mom. . . I realized, the Arm & Hammer baking soda box looks really similar to the Arm & Hammer Kitty Litter box! So, I was able to explain it sufficiently enough to untangle her face, and we were able to move onto the more recognizable and less confusing ingredients.

Smart kid. Glad she doesn't trust me, and asked. Without that very important differentiation, we'd all be in trouble later in life if she made us muffins, er, um "cupcakes!" Beware, if they taste like gritty laundry detergent and you see her crumbling the leftover muffins into the cat's litter box. . . she's mixing up the baking soda with the kitty litter again!

On the other hand, if your cupcakes taste like healthy muffins, that's her mother's fault ;) I'll take full responsibility.

Next time, we will explore a gripping, in depth look into WHY you can't chew the noses off of your Tangled figurines? or WHY you can't see the cat's belly button?

or

WHY you should never take too big of a bite of a hot dog at a baseball game when your mom is taking photos??? LOL

Stay tuned. . .

Beaches, Birthdays, Easter, Disneyland, Elmo, and Tball. . .OH MY!

ACK! We've been SOOOO BUSY! It's like we have no idea which way is up??? So, the poor blog has suffered. BUT, the good news is. . .we are settling down now, and mommy can catch up over the next couple of weeks!

Lots to talk about! So many fun things happened over the past month :) Here's a tiny preview!

So what do YOU do in your spare time?

I have something to share with you! You want to hear it?

Are you SURE?

We are a completely normal family. Really we are!

I don't know what you like to do during the day, but we like to make things! Lots of *things*. . .the house is covered in *things* that were carefully crafted and designed by me. I love to do activities! I love crafts, drawing, writing, painting, and creating just about anything in my imagination. . . I also love to play, because. . .well, I am a KID, and that is my job.

Here's some of the things we do in our spare time:

We label things. . .

Like the CAT!

. . .and the DOG. You know, because they look so much alike, and we have trouble telling them apart

We make nifty window decorations to mask the dog nose prints on the patio door

We treat the pets with the utmost respect, and treat them like they are part of the family!

"Come here, Koda! I have something really important to tell you, and it has nothing to do with the water hose in my hand. . ."

GOTCHA'

We spend lots of time reading books :)

I like to jam to some tunes on Daddy's iPod

"Hey, Daddy? I'm all done listening to Bret Michaels. . .where's Bon Jovi?

We use frinkles on just about anything. . .here we frinkled them on a boring cake, but we've been known to put them on oatmeal, crackers,chicken, and even I glued some on Daddy's Valentine's Day card because I thought they'd be better than sparkles (glitter)!

Making a mess while baking is part of ALL of our family recipes. . . Just take my word for it, because I am pretty certain that it is written in invisible ink

Go ahead! Lick the bowl (FYI: mama usually substitutes eggs with applesauce or bananas, so licking the bowl is fun and nobody risks intestinal unrest!)

OK, you get the point, basically we just like to bake stuff!

I like to ride my tricycle

I love to draw something-er-others on my drawing board. . .

Painting is lots of fun!

I like to personalize greetings for everyone

Make "kites" that will never actually fly but look pretty awesome

Make new additions to the family. . .

I am pleased to introduce Cinderella-saurus! A princess dinosaur my Mama and I made. I did almost all the work. Looks just like a royal dinosaur, right? I know. (You can stop bowing. She's not real)

Hang artwork all over the house with painters tape

more painting

I love painting!

More something-er-others on the art board

I love to make things for people :) Like painting this frame for daddy!

Welcome to my swingset diner. What would you like today? We serve ice cream (rocks); hot dogs (rocks); chicken (rocks); malts (more rocks); and cookies (you guessed it. . .rocks!).

Sorry, we don't serve any fiber to help you digest all that.I love to swing! I almost mastered the art of swinging by myself, but I still prefer someone to push me :)Outside play is very serious business at my house. No goofy stuff, I swear.

I love to play dress up. Here I am getting dressed up for bathtime! Hmm. My mom had the same reaction you did! But, I still don't get WHY I can't wear Ariel's dress in the bath!?! She is a MERMAID! She is supposed to get wet! Sheesh!

Even Koda likes to get in on dress-up time!

We color cookies. These were pretty neat because they came with food coloring markers! As fun as it was to color them, I had NO problem whatsoever eating them shortly after this photo was taken. Sometimes eating art is better than creating it!

And when we aren't being artists, reading, singing, making up stories, decorating each other's faces and nails, baking, or eating candy and cookies in my play tents. . .well, then we must be sleeping, of course!

Our house is fun :) Wanna join us sometime?