"Preeeeety Pincess"

Dress-up time is becoming more and more popular around here. Stasa loves putting on her Cinderella dress from her Aunt Jennifer and Uncle Josh and calls herself a "pincess" when she's wearing it - and that's without ever having watched Cinderella (or any princess movie). Add the play rings and she thinks she "preeeety!"

Catching up, again

The summer has flown by and most of our weekends have been busy with weddings, trips out of town or other obligations. We won't have another weekend of nothing until September, which sounds crazy, but is really just around the corner. 


This weekend and yesterday we battled the Big D with Stas and I think we finally have it under control after a couple of days with the BRAT diet (bananas, rice, applesauce, toast). Thank God, because we were all getting tired of starting our day with a bath and bed sheet stripping. I feel like I've done more laundry int he past few days than I have all month. On the bright side, it did give me an excuse to wash her "bees" so they're all clean and fluffy and less gray. 


This weekend we're heading to Deep Creek Lake in Maryland with Dan, Lauren and Audrey. It'll be fun to relax in the middle of nowhere and let the girls run wild. And they have a boat so if the weather cooperates, that will be Stasa's first boat ride!


While I catch up on work and sleep, I'll leave you with these pictures from earlier this month.





"Peek-a-boo, daddy!"






Her favorite "bee"



Dress-up time












Some new shoes (they were $8 at Ross and came with a necklace, clip-on earrings and a tiara)

The scrunchie queen

Lesli and I both bought scrunchies as a gag gift for the girls when we went to Chicago. I ended up coming home with like 5 of them so I gave all of them to Stasa for playtime and dress-ups. Of course she has no clue what to do with them other than to simply throw them around, so I helped her out a bit.







She usually takes everything off of her head or out of her hair, but left these in and would go over to the mirror, see them in her hair, pet them and then giggle. I finally took them out and then she ran over to the mirror with all of her necklaces. "Ooooo," she says, every time she puts one on.







And here's a picture of our little furbaby, to prove that she's not forgotten.

Mother's Day

We started Mother's Day with brunch at Kilroy's with Tom's parents, which I love because all-you-can-eat brunches are the best. After brunch, Tom and I went home, put Stas down for a nap and then detailed and washed our cars and then spent the rest of the day playing with Stasa, who decided to be a ladybug for the day.






Then she remembered to check herself out in the mirror. At first she wasn't sure if she liked what she saw...


But then quickly decided that she LOVED the little ladybug.


So much that she wanted to show her affection with kisses.


She had such a blast in her costume that I realized I better start building up her costume trunk for future dress ups.

Some fun on our non-sick days

Thursday we played inside, as usual, and I took the opportunity to get up in Stasa's face with the camera. Man, that playroom is the best idea we've ever had.





Then Saturday afternoon we played dress up with some of my costume jewelry and purses. Now she'll go "ooooo!" when putting on necklaces.