Mommy's Makeup

What little girl doesn't get into her mom's makeup at least once? I went to check on Natalie, thinking she was in her room and she wasn't there. Uh oh.....god only knows what she is doing upstairs. I went upstairs and found her in my bathroom, putting on my lipstick. I tried to scold her for going upstairs by herself, which she knows is not allowed, but I couldn't keep a straight face. It was too cute! Typical little girl! Whenever she is in the room when I am putting on makeup, she wants some too, every step of the way. She did a good job too, I must add. She did get the lipstick all over her face, around her lips, but she didn't get lipstick anywhere else, closed the lid (she didn't twist it back down first and that could have been a disaster with my favorite, discontinued color, lipstick that I savor every last bit of it because once it's gone, it's gone forever, but because there is only a little left, it didn't smoosh it in the cap) and put it back in my makeup box. Luckily I got some pictures. Hopefully, with not getting in much trouble, taking pictures and me not keeping a straight face, won't make her think that it's fun and will try that again by herself. Might have to start using the baby gate at the bottom of the stairs again. She is such a girly girl now. She loves jewelry, makeup and dresses (she wants to wear dresses all the time. She is wearing a dress today (hairs not done yet) if you can't tell from the pictures). It starts so young. She is also fasinated with babies right now....big time! Yesterday she waddled, literally waddled, up to Shaya, holding her back, sticking out her belly and talking like she was exhausted and out of breath and told Shaya "Baby sister is coming soon!" (and no, I'm not pregnant). She is so cute and soooo much fun! I love this kid more than words could describe!

Painting Fun!

Natalie and I were bored yesterday so we went for a walk to my favorite store....TARGET! We had fun looking around and when we went to the art section I told N should could pick something out. She picked out a horse ("My Little Pony" as she referred to it) piggie bank that is white ceramic and paints to paint it. This morning, after our doughnut slurge, Dan and Natalie sat at the table and painted her horse. Dan supervised, while I took pictures, but Dan didn't do anything, she pianted this horse all by herself. My biased opinion....she did dang good!

See what I mean (I mentioned in an earlier post...she is just like my mom. The minute you go to take a picture, she looks somewhere else...GRR!) about looking at the camera. She doesn't do it!

I love this family shot!

This would have been such a cute picture, if I had noticed it was on zoom and zoomed it out. Oh well. It's still cute.

Making coffee in the mixer with Daddy

Then they made chocolate mik for Natalie

My buddy!

Easter Egg Dying

Dan wen to a bachelor party tonight so it was just Natalie and I. My cousin Amanda and niece Makaela came over to die Easter eggs with us! My mom even stopped by too for a little while. We had a blast and made some really cool looking eggs! I haven't died eggs in forever. I forgot how fun it was and turns out Natalie is quite the little artist. Most kids with paint just a smiddgen and get bored and stop or want another egg but she spent a long time on one egg and all different colors. She did great. Actually one of her eggs that she did 100% on her own is my favorite.

Such a happy little girl. Mak was tickling her toes

Like the forced smile?

So intent

They were so nice to help Natalie out

My 2 favorite DORKS!

I just noticed Natalie is picking her nose. Add her to the dork list too!

Mom stopped by to say hi

Natalie wanted to go for a walk so we walked mom home. Natalie put her coat on inside out, sandals on, on the wrong feet and 2 sized too big with socks and her nightgown on.

Natalie loves this kid SOOOO much!

Isn't this a cute picture?! You can see the pure look of joy in Natalie's smile. She had such a fun night!

Cooking with Mom

Natalie loves cooking with Mom. Here are some cute picture of her when she helped me make chocolate chip cookies and she got to lick the beaters. Fun times!

Random Pics

I still have older pics I need to post, but until then...here are a few recent pics.


I just took this picture. She doesn't wake up if I scoop her out of bed to cuddle with her. I love that about her! I have always scooped her up when she's sleeping to hold her. Ever since she was born. I snuck downstairs while Dan's sleeping to watch Idol and grabbed her on my way to cuddle while I watched it. The camera was right by me and I just had to take a picture of my sleeping beauty.

Just for giggles I twisted her hair up and she lit up. She was excited to have her hair twisted up like Shaya's. She looks so old to me in this picture!

She climbed into her play food basket and was hanging out watching a movie. Out of all of her toys, her favorites, besides babies of course, are boxes or baskets. She LOVES them. She hides under them, sits in them, etc. She can entertain herself for hours with a box or basket.

She was cooking with Mom. She LOVES cooking with Mom in the kitchen. I didn't realize there was a smudge on the lense. Oh well.

HAHA! This picture kills me every time! She looks CRAZY! Like a hyped up Albert Einstein!

She loves to dress herself now. Luckily...so far...we haven't had any battles with what to wear yet. So far it's all for fun but she still let's me pick out her clothes. Thank god too, because I would never let her leave the house like this! She picked this out and dresses herself 100% by herself. I thought she was playing in her room, and well, I guess you could say she was playing in her room...playing dress up! Notice the ninja toes? (socks with flip flops)

For Marie....:)

My dear friend Marie has commented a few times on my lack of new posts. I have soooo many pictures I need to post and will be the first to admit, I have been slacking. I will get working on sorting and uploading all of my pictures (when I upload pics, I upload them to the computer, upload and sort to snapfish, organize them in folders on the computer, upload some to Facebook and then update and post blogs....so it is a big process and time consuming but I NEED to do it before it gets way too overwhelming). So, in the meantime....here is a post for Marie. I got these earings yesterday and my little girly girl, who has to pick out and wear mom's perfume everyday and loves moms lotion and makeup, wanted to wear them. She just so happens to have her ears pierced, so she could try them on. Too cute huh?

She is becoming like my mom. The most unphotogenic person ever. My mom will look you in the eyes and smile all day every day but the second a camera is held up to her, her eyes are looking at the ceiling, the floor, lala land, who knows (I will have to find a picture of her to upload to show you what I am talking about). We always yell, "mom, look right here" and that is her que to let those puppies wander. I don't get it. It is rare to ever get a picture of mom looking at the camera and smiling. She is always making goofy faces (not intentionally) and looking somewhere not even close to the camera. Her and her siblings got professional pics done and there was only one picture of my mom that looked good (the photographer was getting annoyed too) and they ended up having to photoshop her head off that picture onto the one they liked with everyone else. She doesn't do it on purpse and it only happens when there is a camera nearby. Anyway, Natalie was doing the same thing. The minute I held the camera up, she would start looking somewhere else or making such a cheesy squinty face, that you coulnd't even see her eyes. I hope she doesn't have my mom's unphotogenic-ness (if that's even a word).

My gosh....now that I am really looking at all my pics....there are soooo many good ones and good events that I am mad at myself that I haven't uploaded yet. Stay tuned...now I'm on a mission.