Year: 2007

Can I prattle on s'more about my amazing and sweet and funny and cute kid? Yea? Ok, thanks.

Aunt GaGa
Recently, when Tabby sees my sis, Kelly, she goes “GaGa.” So Kelly jokingly said that GaGa must be her new name. I kept the joke going saying things like “Oooh, Tabs, Aunt Gaga's here.” So when we were at dinner the other night, I referred to my sis as “Aunt GaGa” and then Kelly said to Tabby, “I'm Kel-ly … Kel-ly.” My cheeky baby looks right at her, grins big, points at her and goes “Gaga.”

Tabby Goes to the Movies
I took Tabs to her first movie the other day. I didn't really have any reservations about this … she is overall a very easy going and good baby … well except one. She's …. chatty. She comes by this honestly as she is from a long line of chatty women. But that aside, I knew it could be a problem. Luckily, the movie (Juno – awesome, by the way, you must see it), was only about 90 minutes. Somewhere during the trailers, Tabby drifted off to sleep in my arms and continued to sleep peacefully for about 45 minutes. For the next 20-25, she ate the crackers and drank the juice that my mom handed me. Then … she got rather chatty. Ba baaaah! Gooo. Hi (which still sound rather like haaaaaai) hi hi! mama! Mama!!! So we spent the last 20-25 min of the movie walking the ramp that leads into the theatre. She was enthralled by the path lighting and the light coming through the window in the door. She also *really* dug the sound track and laughed out loud a couple of times and danced around in my arms. Luckily for me, the movie was mostly dialogue. But I must buy it on DVD when it comes out.

Well it was a glorious Christmas from start to finish … made that much more prefect because it was a truly white Christmas here in Denver. We had about an inch when we woke up and several more by the time it finally stopped. Matt's dad and stepmom were in town and very excited to see Ms. Tabby. She took to them very well and seemed to have lots of fun playing with them. Unfortunately, they both had some sort of stomach bug while they were here and we didn't get to see as much of them as we might've liked.

Tabby was engaging and a bit overwhelmed, I think, and has a whole birage of new toys, books, CDs, clothes, and DVDs. We got to snuggle down for a nap midday and she weathered the day in very good spirits overall. Matt and I were spoiled beyond belief by our parents and by each other. This is one of the first Christmases that we've given each other gifts and it was really very nice. I got some lovely jewelry and a Lens Baby from him and gave him a few random things including a new duffle bag and some chisels. We're all set now to enjoy a bit of time off with our family … so we can do some skiing and play with our new toys.

Hope everyone else enjoyed their Christmas/Holiday!

Cuz I know all y'all really just come here to read about my vastly superior and exceedingly cute kid (there is sarcasm, here, people, no comments on my arrogance, please!!), I thought I'd share some recent Tabby-isms with you.

In this, her 10th month, we are really starting to see her personality emerge. I'm know it's always been there, but she just hasn't had all the tools to express it. There were a couple instances this past weekend that caused us to laugh out loud. When were cleaning up the condo and getting ready to leave, Mom had Tabby sitting on the counter with her sippy cup, hanging out. Tabby loves to sit on the counter and see what's going on. I guess she got bored or something because she decided to roll her sippy off the counter. So mom picked it up for her and gave it back. A few minutes later, the little minx gives a repeat performance and once it hits the ground and we all look at her, she gives us this big grin and claps her hands together (of course the juice went allll over the floor). It was so hard not to laugh.

Later, as we were driving back into Denver, we stopped at Beau Jo's for pizza. Tabby generally loves pizza, so we cut up a slice into little pieces and put it on a plate for her. She was kinda dawdling with her eating, so Mom and I were feeding her little bites with our hands. She liked the first couple of bites and then seemed to get cranky. Sometimes she gets cranky because she's not getting fed fast enough, so we kept feeding her. After a couple more bites, she spit out her pizza and smashed her open hand on it a couple times as if to say “Bad Pizza!!!” Matt ad-libbed for her and we all cracked up.

I think we're in for a wild ride with this little monkey … hehe. Continue reading “Tabby Talk”

I bet you all thought I was abandoning you for real this time. Nope, I've just been away. We had our third-annual crazy cookie weekend in Vail. We left Friday afternoon and got back last night. Loads of snow. Even more cookies. Three babies. Six episodes of Ugly Betty watched. Hot buttered rum. Fun times with great people. And one amazing ski day.

We had originally planned on coming back on Sunday, but after the amazing amounts of snow that the mountains have been receiving over the past week or so, we decided to take Monday as a ski day and I'm so very glad we did. I got to ski with my dad and my hubby and my mom was sweet enough to spend the day with Ms. Tabby (I think both of them had a great time). The weather was clear and sunny. The snow was beautiful and it was hands down one of the best days of skiing I can recall.

The house is a mess. We have no food. We have no clean clothes. And I could not care less.

Loads of photos here.