Fave children's book?

I have a question so be sure to leave comments galore! I want to know what your favorite children's book is? What did you read as child? What are you children reading now? Lemme know.

Traffic light camera

Let me tell you a story of a girl and her father who were driving down the highway and went to go through the traffic light that has a newly installed camera on it. If you pass through the intersection while the light is red it takes a picture of your vehicle and mails you a ticket. So she diligently made sure she didn't even come close to driving through the light whenever it's red. Today the girl went to go through the light & it turned yellow so she hit the brakes. Hard. The anti lock breaks promptly kicked in which scared the bejeebers out of said girl. The break pedal sunk to the floor which freaked her out even more and somehow she managed to hit the horn with her elbow. After returning home from the trip she realized she'd somehow managed to hurt her back in the process of making a fool out of herself. Now she's in pain.

Say hello to the girl...

Ballad! An upcoming book <3

Ballad can be pre-ordered HERE!

The teaser:

He turned towards me. For a long moment, he stood facing me. I was held, anchored to the ground – not by his music, which still called and pushed against the music already in my head and said grow rise follow – but by his strangeness. By his fingers, spread over the ground, holding something into the earth, by his shoulders, squared in a way that spoke of strength and unknowability, and most of all, by the great, thorny antlers that grew from his head, spanning the sky like branches.

Then he was gone, and I missed his going in the instant that the sun fell off the edge of the hill, abandoning the world to twilight.

Catch me if you can.

The other day I mentioned Bella gets really aggravated at the fact that she cannot catch Beethoven no matter what she does. Today after mowing I sat out in the yard with them, busted out the big boy Nicholas the Nikon & took 184 photos of them.

I didn't do too bad, out of those I kept 94! It's funny to flip through them quickly and see the action but here are some of my faves of today. Enjoy. You can click the pictures to make them bigger :)

Contemplating her move.

Attack!!

Mad & rolling about.

Readddy...

Blast off!

And the race is on.

Sometimes she had to just sit and watch as Beethoven ran around like a mad man.

Then Helen came along, and she reveled in her power! Domination then occurred.

But then she spotted bigger prey...

& she was off!

Shiver contest! WINNER!

The 3rd comment was JANINE! Congratulations :) Janine is actually part of a guild I'm in so I'm sure she'll PM me there :)

Mazey Lazy Saturdays.

Bella's loving lazy Saturdays just as much as I am :) She's slowly getting bigger! She's definitely got slightly taller & a little rounder. Plus she's doing extrememly well on the potty training issues. This morning she got up out of her bed & shot into the kitchen & I was like what in the world is she doing? (Which isn't a abnormal question to be asking about her since she's absolutely bonkers sometimes) So I was keeping an eye on her and she got to the corner of the stove and turns around to look at me with a "WTF come on I gotta go" look on her face, I got up and ran to the front door where she was waiting and she zinged outside to go! I was so proud of her :) She's only 2 days short of being 10 weeks old & I'm amazed at how well she's doing.

Her personality cracks me up. She's a zinger that's for sure. She romps constantly throughout the day especially in the morning and at night. Poor Beethoven is like "Leave an old man alone!" but they're getting along really well. She gets so fired up & aggravated easily so we're trying not to play with her too much because we don't want her to get mean. She loves being by someone and sleeping, which is extremely adorable.

Saying goodbye.

4 days? Who's excited!

Man I needed a break this week. It wasn't one thing that made me feel this way it was just anything & everything. Therefore I'm extremely thankful I have a 4 day weekend, I don't go back to work til Wednesday & I'm reveling in the fact that I can hole up until then. So far I've been enjoying my families company & catching up on some reading. There's nothing better than relaxing and knowing that there's not going to be some sort of drama around the corner. I'm enjoying it a ton, can you tell? ha!

I recently downloaded Ingrid Michaelson's new cd, Everybody and I love it! Here's a song from the new album.


We also got a new puppy & here's a video of her being absolutely nuts.


Enjoy!