more hair tales: First Hair Cut = Bangs

Actually that is all we cut: the bangs. After a day of being out and about we (Nana, the girls, and I) ended up at Golden Spoon which is right next door to a children's haircut place. I gave in and got Buggy some bangs. I am so tired of her hair in her eyes. Ideally, I'd like to keep them long and swept to the side with a cute clip or bow (like she wore her hair for Easter). She used to let me put a bow in everyday - but since about early May she's been very "No Bow!"

So we enter the salon with very droopy pony tails and bangs hanging in her eyes that are sticky with frozen yogurt.

Bangs down to her nose before the first cut:

After a tiny bit of snipping:

The nice lady neatened up her pony tales too. Bug sat sooooooo still. Didn't move a muscle the entire time. She also had "serious face" on the whole time too:

Back to playing with the toys in the waiting area while mommy pays the $6+tip. The finished 'do:

and just love the sly little look she was giving me:

Real Piggy-Tails

I'll admit, I've somehow always used the terms "pony-tails" and "piggy-tales" as the same thing. However, when I first started putting up Buggy's hair, my dad told me that Piggy-Tails are braids. Um... okay. I guess that makes sense even though I've somehow made it through life also calling Ponies "Piggies"

So now that I know braids are piggy-tails, here are Bug's first ones:

aren't they adorable! Too bad they were thrashed within 2 hours due to her constantly messing with them.

and yes, for anyone that knows that bathroom mirror... she is in fact standing in the sink for these pictures. I'm such a good mom. LOL.

5 months old!

and she is apparently super excited about it...

This is one of my all time favorite dresses from the Gap. This was the same dress that Buggy wore for her first Christmas card pics, and for her 6mo. pics (and again for church on her first 4th of July - at 10 days shy of 1 year old).

After we took the dress off Annabelle, Buggy cried that it was her dress until I let her put it on. Here she is modeling it one last time:

Build-A-Bear Day

Thursday was bear building day at DayCare. Actually, it was elephant building day.

here is Buggy's turn:

with her new "L-pent"

Aquarium day 07/19/2011

most pics here are self explanatory:

Turning 2

Turning 2 started a day early on Wednesday July 13th. That was the day she wore her "2" ladybug shirt to daycare and we brought Lofthouse cookies for her classes and the staff.

Her new trick is, instead of climbing in her carseat, she climbs through to the front seat and wants to drive. LOL.

and, this is about the best picture I got of her bday shirt:

On Thursday, July 14th (her actual birthday), Nana came down and we headed out for a day at the San Diego Safari Park. Usually it would be way too warm this time of year, but thankfully we were having a mild summer week. Forecast for Escondido was high of 76. It felt like it was maybe in the low 80s in the sun. The breeze and the shade were actually quite pleasant.

Buggy had a lot of fun, and Nana and Mommy got a lot of walking in. After doing a loop of Elephants, Tigers, Giraffes, Rhinos and finally Lions, we found a Sprinkle play area for little ones. We didn't have a swimsuit on hand, but I did have extra clothes, so we stripped Buggy down and let her have at it in her onesie and socks. The child was soaked. She had fun playing with the Turtle. Covering the top-of-the-head water spout and uncovering. Over and over and over.

While Buggy played, Nana watched, and I fed Annabelle in the shade.

Then we headed up the tall elevator to the platform area that overlooks everything, and decided we needed a snack and a rest. I found my favorite nachos at this location!! Yum!! Just like they have down at the Zoo!

Buggy snacked in her rumble seat:

Nana and the girls:

my nachos.

The monkeys and Gorillas were all sleeping, but Bug really enjoyed watching the duckies.

Bug played some bongo drums, while I fed Annabelle again.

When we got home, it was time for a cupcake! She blew out the candles so fast! Faster than I could catch them both lit on camera.

July 17th was Bug's party at Chuck E. Cheese's. I think a good time was had by most everyone who came. As good of a time as one can have at CEC.

Here is Bug in her favorite blue car with her new friend Reese.

another Cupcake:

and back later to that blue car:

I also found that she loved climbing up into the climbing tubes that went all around the ceiling. I was paranoid of her falling down the side with the straight climbing drop (as opposed to the curvy slide down). Everytime she got away from someone and got in there, I would get a bit anxious. Kelly, our friends' 5 year old, had to go in and get her out a couple of times.

Buggy is obsessed

Seriously, she would have this on the TV 24/7 if I let her, Disney's Little Einsteins:

at bedtime she makes me sing the song to her over and over and over and over and over. She's now started singing parts of it herself.

Over a week late: 4th of July

Yeah, so I haven't been on my blogging game lately. Just tired. As usual, we went over to the Aken's annual BBQ/Potluck. We arrived at 3pm and instantly Atalia and Denise took Annabelle for a bit. After food was done (which was being served when we arrived), Atalia took Buggy into the pool. She had fun in her new little boat:

Then daddy took over swimming duty and Buggy learned to fly. She was tossed up, let drop under water before he'd fish her out. OMG. Scared this mama half to death and I had to nip that one in the bud. Bug learned to put her face under and also just enough in to blow bubbles.

a wet soggy Buggy:

and pretty much the only pic I have of Annabelle:

started out cute...

but ended not-so-funny.

This evening Buggy decided she was done wearing her diaper. She takes off her shorts, and takes off her diaper. I think "well, it's almost bedtime, let's head upstairs and we'll just put on one of the overnight diapers. Bug makes her way up the stairs carrying her used diaper and her shorts. She was all excited to show her daddy (who was tiling the bathroom floor upstairs). So she gets to the top with her naked bottom half and gleefully shows her daddy that she's taken off her diaper.

While she's standing there, she pees on the hallway carpet. Then she says "poo". So I run downstairs to grab her potty. I bring it back upstairs. She sits on it seemingly forever (while I clean up hallway pee with the cat's pet stain remover - what else to you use on baby pee?). Anyway while sitting on the potty... Nothing. She scoots it over to her activity/music table. Plays on the table while sitting on the potty. Forever. Still nothing. She gets up and wanders off to see daddy and once again pees in the hallway. Seriously? I clean again while she's back to sitting on her potty. Lather, rinse, repeat. I start to breastfeed Annabelle, and Bug wanders into hallway again and leaves another wet spot. Ugh! Daddy finally finishes with the tile and comes in and gets a diaper on Bug (something she was fighting me about).

In other news: She drank out of a regular cup at lunchtime today. Only water in small amounts, but she didn't dump it. They don't use sippy cup in the 2 year old room at daycare - she needs to be able to handle a cup. Then at dinner she ate all her mexican rice with a spoon and got it all on the spoon and in her mouth. Virtually nothing on the floor!

Picture People (and by "People" I mean Buggy and Belly)

A big thank you to Mandie who gifted me the Living Social Picture People voucher. We put it to good use.

I took Nana with me to help with our current status of having 2 still under 2. Quite the handful. Buggy was all over the place and barely cooperating. She wasn't really thrilled to be posed with her sister at all. And poor Annabelle would get all posed and then you'd see it: the corners of the mouth slowly turning down followed closely by crying. Poor Belle wasn't into this much at all. So each time we'd get her posed the photographer got maybe one shot before the crying commenced.

This was the baby poser brought out for Belle. The intention was to have Buggy kneeling on the floor behind her. Nope. Bug wanted to be the one to lay in the baby poser:

And Belle in position before cries started.

This was just moments before Bug decided she wanted this chair to herself and started giving her sister a nice little shove off of it. (I was right there to catch Belle) But it was about the best "sisterly" one we got:

The following is Nana's favorite:

Bug's hair was in her eyes in soooooooooo many shots. I'm trying so hard not to cut bangs, but she is not letting me put any bows or clips in her hair. Best I can do is pony tails - and that doesn't help with the bangs until they grow longer. But as to the hair currently in her eyes, at least it's totally representative of how she looks all the time.