The Story of Dean Martin and Little Miss Helpful

Some time ago David and I bought a Dean Martin doll that sings "That's Amore". He's on this little pedastal wearing a suit with an old fashioned mic and his mouth moves. It's a bit of a charicature of him, but it's still entertaining to watch. I think we bought him initially as a gag gift for someone...probably Jason, Zoe's godfather.

Anyway, we ended up keeping him, our $3 Dean, because he was really entertaining.

Zoe finds him really entertaining as well. She really likes the dinner show, where he sits on the dining room table and croons to her while she eats in her high chair. Over and over again the opening notes will play, and she smiles and gets a light in her eyes. She starts to sway to the music and laughs her soft little laugh.

More recently she's developed alot of affections for old Dean. More specifically, she likes to kiss him. Sometimes it's her silly, open mouth stick your tongue out a little on the cheek kiss, but last night it was something different.

She leaned down and pursed her precious little lips to together and gave him a little peck right on the mouth. Then she kissed his head and his cheek. She just laughed with delight. She refused to kiss either David or I (MY face was still sticky from the rain of kisses she gave me when I picked her up from daycare) but she just kept kissing Deano.

I guess she digs the crooners.

Flash forward 20 minutes and it's time to go to bed. David and I have her jammies out and have stripped her down to her socks and taken her diaper off to give her a little room to breath. In a fit of uncontrollable nakedness, she pee'd EVERYWHERE.

It doesn't happen very often, so when it does it's pretty funny. What was even MORE funny is that she promptly pulled of her socks and decided to use them to help clean herself up.

The whole time she has this adorable look on her face that said "I'm HELPING! Look at me!"

I thought we were going to pee ourselves too.

Little Miss Helpful saves the day!

The Safari I Always Wanted

Technology is wonderful. I wanted to share this with you. I found some sites online that are live streams of different animal habitats in Southern Africa. I've always wanted to go on safari to see these animals and now I can see them all day, every day.

It's an adventure and learning experience each day to see the "regulars" and what goes on at these habitats. I'm including below a slideshow of pictures that I've taken online from these streams

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All I want for Christmas is my Two Front Teef

Well she got 'em. Zoe finally got her two front teeth. She looks freakin' adorable with them.

What she's doing now:

Eating grown up food
Cruising on furniture
Trying to stand and walk

Her words are:
Mama
Dada
Cat
Dog
Truck
Daddums

She can also finally pet the cats nicely.

She's going through some separation anxiety though. Dropping her off in the morning at daycare is getting so hard. I just wanna hold her and stay home with her.

Somedays it's so hard to come to work.

I'm sort of out of words for now...but I'm sure I'll have something more later.

It's been a while

Sorry it's been a bit since I posted. Things have been nuts. The aforementioned teething has gotten better, but we had Halloween (which did not go AT ALL the way we would have hoped) and my mom had surgery.

She had a mass on her ovary and they did a thorough surgery to be sure it wasn't cancer. Thankd GOD it wasn't, we were all kinda scared. She had been in the hospital since Wednesday and finally got to come home yesterday afternoon.

Her hospital stay is a whole other story for another day.

Back to halloween for a moment. We didn't really get to trick or treat because Zoe's having some trouble with the time change. So we grabbed some dinner, came home and decided to just hand out candy.

Lo and behold this girl that we knew from college shows up...unannounced. Not to trick or treat, but to come in and visit.

Some background on thsi woman. She was ok in college...we got along better than I got along with most of the girls we hung out with (mainly because David had dated all of them) and so back then all was good.

then she graduated and moved away. She came back to visit and I decided to cook some dinner for she and some of out other friends.

Ladies...you'll be with me on this one. As I'm cooking dinner, she comes into my very small kitches and begins to tell me how I should cook the food. Her justification is that she's the fry cook at her daddy's GAS STATION and she knows what she's talking about.

Take away the fact that I was cooking an original reciped. Take away the fact that she was being ungracious. She was BOSSING ME AROUND IN MY OWN KITCHEN.

Fast forward to the night before my wedding. She shows up at my house where my friends, sisters and wedding party ladies are having a little get together. My last night as a bachelorette. Teh bachelor party is raging across the street at the best man's house.

She wasn't invited to the wedding and she SURE as hell wasn't invited to the party. Yet in she came and my GOD she stayed. She kidnapped my maid of honor and kept her out until 4 in the morning.

Then she invited herself to the weddings.

So in she comes to my house on my daughers first Halloween and her kid is SICK. He snotty and has that loose mucousy cough. I said very plainly that if he was sick the kids needed to be kept separate because Zoe gets so sick so fast.

Nope, he wasn't sick she said. She stayed for two hours. I got up and went to Walmart at one point I was so pissed. When I got back her son was taking Zoe's toys and hitting her and pushing her down.

she didn't do a DAMN thing. I had to be the one to tell him to stop time and time again.

I finally said I needed to work and she left. I never want her in my house again.

She drives me freakin' crazy.