So the Friday of Memorial Day weekend, I picked up this little girl and her daddy... ... in this beauty!! I worked really hard to get her. It took sweat and tears and a lot of arguing but SHE IS MINE!! I no longer endorse City Auto. The general manager was extremely nice and helpful. It just took a month of back and forths with the customer service rep to get to him. Anyway, it's all over and I have air conditioning and lots of other cool, neat gadgets + fuel efficiency in my Ford Fusion. I'm a big Dobbs Ford on Mt. Moriah fan. Kenny and Cash were two of the nicest people I have ever met ( even when I wasn't going to by the car). I recommend you go see them and when they sell you a car make sure you mention my name so I can get my kickback. :) They truly helped/dealth with me for about 2 weeks while I was handling City Auto. We have just been enjoying the Summer. Matt's been working around the house and doing little things here and there. Squeezing in golf when the rest of his - have jobs that don't have summer breaks- friends can join him. Like today. I get really jealous when I have to get up and go to work. UGH. Not fair. But he's good about gettin up and helping in the am and making my lunch! And dropping my lunch off to me in the rain when he makes it and I leave it on the table. Hadley's been super funny lately! This morning Matt told her she needed to eat her breakfast before we left for school and she responded with, "are you kiddin me?"!! So funny. If you thought she had a personality before, whoa, you should see her now. She is still a little string bean weighing in at about 28lbs and legs for days. Her Spanish has really started to develope now that she is in an actual Pre-K class. Sometimes it's hard for us(me) to understand her especially if its a word we never taught her in English first. Her new teacher barely speaks English. Usually a little kid in the class will translate for me! Crazy, I know. But Hadley LOVES Yolanda. They obvisiously commnicate just fine. I realize I'm due for some updated pictures. It's on my list. Will post soon! Not sure why but when I post this blog, it turns into one solid paragraph. Sorry.

A Very Happy 3rd Birthday to Princess Hadley

Easter 2012

one for the gmas

 The almost whole Scott/Sugg clan loaded up and headed to Oklahoma earlier this month. I say almost because Kacey had to stay and work. Someone has to support this family. We went to visit the other half of our family in Tuttle.

8 hours later we made it!

Isn't he just handsome.

Nanny P! It definitely doesn't look like it in this picture but Had could barely stand it she was so excited to go to Nanny P's.

Hadley with Abby and Drake

This picture and the two below are from this weekend. Saturday morning we went for a 2 1/2 hour walk around our neighborhood. We stopped at the farmers market, the winter market, 2 garage sales, and the park. It was a beautiful morning with all the neighbors out and about. We took our time and strolled around. I say all this not because anyone really cares what we did or that we stroll around on many Saturdays but because I don't always appreciate my neighborhood or give it the praise it deserves. Sometimes hoodlings wonder around creating problems for our neighbors and in turn give our hood a bad rap. I wish I would have taken more pics from Sat. morning because it was a picturesque Cooper Young morning/afternoon. Thank you to the thriving businesses, restaurants, markets, and neighbors for allowing my family and to enjoy a warm Sat. morning. :)

Just really felt like getting it all out there you know. So in 10 years when I look back on this blog, I'm going to remember how much fun Saturday March 24, 2012 really was. Probably should put a cork in the wine.

Nothing much going on

One of my lastest projects is organizing my pictures to create books for each year. I ran into a situation with a defective jump drive and was told that I may loose most of 2009 and 2010 pictures. After I picked myself off the floor, I begged/ordered our tech guy at work to do something about it. And he did!! yeah! Every picture was recovered. I went and bought several new jump drives to store my pictures in serveral places. So today I plugged one of the drives in to post a new blog with the newest pictures and realized I have no new pictures since New Orleans. How sad. We just haven't been doing much of anything lately. We have really enjoyed the calm and quiet these past few weeks and weekends.  We did go to the zoo last weekend to see the dinosaur exhibit. Had loved it because her classed just wrapped up their lessons on dinosaurs. We are leaving for Oklahoma in the morning to visit with the fam. I will definitely take lots of picture this weekend!

Below are just a few of the random pics taken since Christmas that are only blog worthy when there is nothing else to post!

 Miss fashionista!

 My friend Becky's little man, Owen, turned 1 in February! He is one of the happiest little boys I've seen especially on his first birthday!

                                                  Had, too thoroughly enjoyed herself

                                                             hard at work

Hadley and I made Matt a homemade cookie cake for Valentines Day. Yeah and it was not good but its the thought that counts. Right?!

New Orleans for an adult weekender! We didn't spend the entire weekend in the graveyard. Most of these pictures are from walking around during the day :)

Christmas + other fun!

 

Psychedelic birdhoused Hadley painted for aunts and uncles!! No bird in their right mind would live here but they were super fun to make.

Her Thomas and Friends wooden train set Santa brought.

The Lareau girls got a keyboard and microphones from Santa. Between the instruments, 3 girlie girls and attempted adult conversation, loud would be an understatement.

We slipped away for a bit to head down to the river. Matt caught a fish and let Hadley "tickle" it before he threw it back. :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had Christmas with the Scotts on the 22nd and left for Arkansas on the 23rd. We had a great Christmas this year at both locations. This was the first year Had knew exactly what was going on. It was really cute to see her light up when we would count down to Christmas morning. We will work on a giving heart next year because she definitely wanted every single present to be for her. O well. She's only 2. Christmas morning she woke up and went downstairs and saw her Choo Choo train she had asked Santa for! She started yelling and jumping up and down. :) I can only imagine what next year will be like. 

We got back from Arkansas and had to get back to the grind. We did get to go to a birthday party at the skating ring! I will just tell you that NOTHING about the skating ring has changed since I was in middle school. I'm pretty sure it was more fun for the adults than it was for the kids.

Yes they make skates small enough for 2 year olds.

Had's skates and my skates. :) I only got her to go around once. But she did it. If I hadn't have fallen on top of her, we might have been able to go around again. It was fun regardless. And the skates are just too cute.

when your kids teach you

On the way home from work/school today.

Hadley: I see tha moon mommy. Mira! Mira! (Look! Look! in spanish) Up der in the sky!

Me: Wait I can't see it. Trying to drive right now. Is it pretty?

Hadley: Maybe you see in a minute mommy. You have to be patient!

Tears of joy for sure! Love my girl!

Santa sent a helper!

Meet Howie. Last weekend, Hadley and I went to see Santa at the Pink Palace. When asked what she wanted for Christmas, Had said she wanted a Choo Choo train! She was also told that she has to have good behavior for Santa to bring the choo choo on Christmas morning. So Howie came to us last night from the North Pole. He is Santa's helper. Every night Howie reports back to Santa whether Hadley had good behavior that day or not.

 Yes, Hadley named the elf Howie. No, neither Matt or I had any influence on the name she picked out. I simply asked what she thought we should call the elf. Because without a name, he has no magical powers and without magical powers he can't fly to the North Pole at night and tell Santa that Hadley has been a good girl. She quickly replied, "Howie". And I said okay.  So Howie perches himself on different shelves around the house to monitor our behaviour. You also can not touch Howie or he will loose his magical powers!

Daddy and daughter made bird feeders out of cheerios and pipe cleaners and hung them in the trees. You know because birds get hungry in the winter time when there isn't very much food to eat. :) Hope everyone has enjoyed their Thanksgiving holiday! I know we have thoroughly enjoyed our time off!

 

An adorable Nemo and a fall photo shoot

2 trips to Michaels, an oversize tshirt, puff paint, glue gun, felt, pipe cleaners, 4 hours and many bad words later...

Voila!!! One little toddler who was ecstatic about being Nemo! And one tired working mom who waited until the last minute and  who lost sleep over whether or not Nemo would be dry enough to wear.

Bet you didn't know Nemo had the attitude of a teenager.

The rest of the pictures were randomers I thought were blog worthy. Just been enjoying Fall!

September

So I realized September has come and gone and I didn't blog once. Oopps. I figured I should post asap. I shouldn't even wait until this evening after work. :) Or I'm just really not in the mood to work.

We went with Matt this weekend to Nashville. His girls team played Hendersonville Sat. and Franklin on Sunday. The game Saturday wasn't until 6 so we had the day to do whatever. We had planned on shopping but Opry Mills doesn't reopen until 2012. :( And the outlets 30 mins from the hotel making it a solid hour from the soccer fields. Not enough time to shop. So we went to Nicole and Marks new apartment! Nicole and Mark got married in July and I had yet to see their new place in Midtown Nashville. I guess it's midtown. The liquor store said midtown and liquor stores definitely matter. We hung out and watched football until we had to go to Matt's game.

Matt's team beat Hendersonville 2-1! Had was a trip. I can honestly say she was the entertainment for the evening. Being her usual self, she stood on the top bleachers yelling, "hey" and waving to every living soul that walked by. :) She would walk her baby in her baby stroller up and down the walkway of the bleachers talking to people including the other team's parents and fans. She ate some parent's bag of popcorn even though I bought her a bag. After the game and after never have taken a nap, she did soccer moves on the field. Left handedly throwing the ball and then chasing it, then kicking it and kicking it hard with both her left and right foot. Had turned it on. Let me tell ya. So much so that the UT Martin coach asked me how old she was. Umm yea.

Sunday we had to go back to Nicoles because Matt forgot his phone. :) And then we went to his game against Franklin. I have to leave the part about us being lost and not getting to the game until 15 minutes until game time. YIKES. It's a very sensative subject so we just don't go there. Franklin is ranked numero uno if I'm not mistaken and their 1 of only 2 losses last season was to Germantown. Needless to say they were out to prove themselves. But they didn't!! Franklin only beat Germantown by 2. Score ended up being 3 to 1, while Franklin predicted a 10 to nothing game!! Yeah go Lady Red Devils!

And then we drove home. Hadley slept almost the whole way home. And now it's Monday. The end.

Still not ready to work. So...

I have to brag on Hadley for a minute. She has been peepeeing in the potty at school and at home for the last week. She even went to the potty in our hotel room and at rest stops. I was a little anxious about how she would react to the dirtiness of rest stop restrooms and the girl rolled on flawlessly. I put paper on the seats and held her up a bit and she peepeed! And she yelled it out in the public restrooms until everyone started laughing. I think we are on a roll!

New School

Many thoughtful people who know how much I disliked Hadley's last school have been asking about her new one! For those of you who don't know, Hadley is at the Foreign Language Immersion Childcare Center, aka FLICC. She has been there about 6 weeks and loves it! And I love it :) They speak Spanish all day every day. Some teachers can speak English really well and some can't speak English at all and then the few inbetween. The administration is very organized and scheduled which has always been my preference. Good administration makes for a very well organized classroom which has always been Hads preference. I can check the class schedule and know exactly what they are doing at any given point during the day. The teachers are all super friendly and very good at instructing little active toddlers.  Most importantly, they have so much more fun here. Hadley always comes home with art projects. When I pick her up in the afternoons, the teachers are right in the middle of whatever is going on whether they are just playing or reading or playing with play doe. Doesn't matter what activity the teachers are interacting which is the biggest improvement from the last school. The structure of the school is what I love best but Hadley learning Spanish is a close second. I love that she is in a multicultural environment that's also really helping develop her vocab in English as well. When she first started I would ask Had to count to 3 in Spanish and she would simply repeat and say "count to 3 in Spanish". But now she has caught onto the two language thing. Now if you ask her she starts with quatro and ends with siete.  Hadley can also say a few conversation sentences. We were riding in the car one morning on our way to school and she said (to herself), " Como estas, Mona? Bien. "

Claudia (left), Hadley, and Mona

The school's pet rabbits Flopsy and Mopsy. It is a very important part of our day that Flopsy and Mopsy nibble on her finger.

Just for fun. This is of the outside looking at the front of the school. It's located in Harbor Town which is the first neighborhood to the right once you cross the bridge to Mud Island. It's in the way back towards the harbor.

Not sure why these turned after I uploaded. I'll figure it out later. I thought they were super cute. As a treat, we went out to the Collierville Sprinkler Park instead of the Peabody Sprinkler Park.  Fancy treat I know. Its a big deal when you get to go to the newer bigger park. :)

Back in Action!

Not kidding, this pic of us is from one of the Grizzles playoff games! I promise from this point forward to be a better blogger. Anyway, way back when, Matt, Kacey,  my mom, brother Collin and I went to one of the games. My awesome mother spent a fortune on tickets for the fam to sit in the nosebleed section. Despite the threat of altitude sickness, we had a blast!! Its was a great game and a really fun atmosphere.

Because daddy mows the lawn without his shirt.

Hadley has had a very serving and loving mentality lately. She makes sure everyone has exactly what they need. Over the 4th (of July), some of the family was having their desserts outside waiting for fireworks. Hadley served each a slice of pie and poured them a glass of water. So stinking sweet!

Hiking and picnicking at the fish hatchery in Mountain Home, Arkansas.

Happy 32nd daddy! For the record, I made that Brown Sugar and Cinnamon Peach Pie from scratch. Turns out I am domesticated.

This goes to show you how well the potty training has gone. Hadley has been pretty pumped about sitting on the potty, so I thought we would roll with it and see what happens. We went to Target and picked out panties, a new potty, and treats for when she performs. She loves to sit on the pot and not do a thing and then wipe and flush and ask for treats as though she has accomplished a huge task. We no longer have any skittles even if she did decide to actually potty because she has eaten them all. We'll get there one day.