BABY PLAYLIST

I have really been jammin' to my baby playlist. 


Baby Mine (Dumbo)
Anything Like Me (Brad Paisley)
You'll Be In My Heart (Tarzan)
In My Daughter's Eyes (Martina McBride)
The Best Gift (Barbara Streisand)
Tough Little Boys (Gary Allan)
Your Mother and Mine (Peter Pan)
Love Without End, Amen (George Straight)
Mickey Mouse March


Why the Mickey Mouse March you might say?


It's kind of like my version of the Lord's Prayer... it can go on the end of anything. 
(Eat, Sleep & Breath Disney even before birth.)

BEACHIN'

I already posted the other pictures from our trip to Naples to visit Bob & Sally, but I had forgotten about the ones on Mark's little camera. So this is Naples, part 2.

Our Grandpa's Mickey Mouse sandcastle was a huge hit!

Check out where's waldo in the background.

 She did really good for her 1st time swimming in a while!

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

Well, I have less then 2 months to go and we are still way up in the air with names.


We have some ideas for girl names, but we are pretty undecided with boy names.


For a boy, we still like Keith, but as a rule, we like longer names (for them to grow up into) with shorter nick names...which you can't do with Keith. We have also considered Robert James, after my two grandpas (call him Bobby). Nicholas (Nick). 


For a girl, we still like Elizabeth, but are not as thrilled with some of the nick names (I like Lizzie best.) We have also considered Danielle (Dani, although Joey says she'll call her Dan), Katelyn (Katie- not thrilled with a name ending in "N" since there are so many friends and family kids names around us that end in "N"), Samantha (Sam & Sammy), Gabrielle (Gabby- not thrilled with that nickname), Allison (Allie- same problem with "N" sound.)


(Absolutely no names that begin in M or J as we already have Joey and everyone else starts with a M. I just don't do that.)


We didn't settle on Josephine until a few weeks before she was born. We really like to over think the name thing and work it from every angle!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

I explained to Joey this morning that it was Mommy and Daddy's anniversary; that it was the day we got married.

Joey: "I want to marry Daddy."
Mommy: "No, you can't marry Daddy, I already married him. you have to wait till you're grown up and marry somebody else."
Joey: "Who will I marry?"
Mommy: "We don't know yet sweetheart. When you're older you'll meet a boy."
Joey: "I don't want to marry a boy! I want to marry a little girl."
Mommy: "Well you can have this conversation with your daddy when you're older."
Joey: "Is Maddie going to get married?"
Mommy: "Yes, I supposed so. When she's older."

WORST 1ST MOVIE

Mark and I are different. (not normal, crazy... pick an adjective.)
So while most parents are marking the babies first kick in the womb, we are marking down it's first movie, in utero. 


For Joey, it was Indian Jones & The Crystal Skull. 
But that was totally not our fault. We saw it opening weekend and didn't know how bad it sucked and that there were aliens in it. 


For the current baby (I call Bozo, Mark calls it Rufus) it was Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1.


So I put this question to you: 
Which is the worse movie?


Everyone with a penis has so far said Twilight.
The best response I have received so far has definitely been from Uncle Chris.


"If they released a recently discovered clip of Hitler Manscaping... I'd still say Twilight!"

DOC & DOYLE JR

 Is silliness nature or nurture?

 In the case of Joey & Maddie, (AKA Doc & Doyle Jr.) we may never know.

These two were destined to be this way.

 And of course, there was no coaching involved.

EASTER EGG HUNT AT MOM-MOM'S

 Group photo!

4 kids, 400 eggs or so.

Sounds about right.

Family photo op.

 Joey had more fun playing with the basket then the gifts that went in it.

Figures.

And of course...

 There was no cheating...

 I repeat...

 No cheating!

EASTER EGG HUNT AT SCHOOL

It was a rainy morning the Thursday morning before Good Friday.

So the Easter Egg hunt at school had to be moved inside. 

I LOVE how the kids decorated their egg cartons from home so they looked like easter bunnies. And the egg cartons made it easy for them to collect and count their eggs.

Joey looks like an Easter Egg herself in this dress, I know.

SO THIS IS LOVE

ST. PETERSBURG

I know, more beaches?

Well we were on the west coast looking at motor homes, cause' Grandma & Grandpa were thinking about trading up, but decided against it. So we visited 2 big dealerships over there and stayed at Uncle Tom's house as well.

 This is Fort DeSoto Beach which is just minutes from Uncle Tom's house.

 Joey was much more interested in building sand castles then in swimming.

 The water fight with Grandpa was very entertaining to watch. 

He was trying to show her how to throw the water well, but also not let her win at the same time.

 Teta Vesna, Joey & Uncle Tom pause for a photo op.

 Sunrise from Uncle Tom's house.

ONCE UPON A DREAM

HOUSE BEACH

Where is House Beach you ask?

That is what I called Ft. Myers Beach until about 5th grade.

When we would go over there, we always stayed at The Pink Shell, which was cottages right on the beach. So that's what I called it.

Alas, Pink Shell is no more. But there are lots of other nice hotels and the beach is still awesome.

 A very fine sandcastle, if I may say so myself, considered the make-shift tools we had.

 Joey LOVES to pick shells!

Joey, below, taking a "sand bath." 

STAR SPANGLED BANNER

MY BEST FRIEND

Mark and I took Joey and Maddie to the weekend carnival that Holy Cross did about a month ago.

Boy did they have a BLAST!

Cotton Candy and coke... NOW IT'S A CARNIVAL!

  Joey LOVES the dragon roller coaster, but Maddie WILL NOT be swayed by peer pressure. 

She was NOT going on that ride! 

 I seriously don't know how those children weren't sick after this spinning bear ride. 

JESSICA'S WEDDING

 Joey hitched a ride with Mom-Mom down the gravel path.

(I still say her eye color is closest to Mom-Mom's.)

 Thank you Mandy, for the where's Waldo moment.

Mark loves this picture because: "(insert 5th grade school girl laugh) It looks like I've got my finger up a duck's butt!"

The dancing queen (sans shoes for most of the night.) 

 So we rinsed our piggies in that handy dandy foot bath they had in the courtyard. 

GO ON, GUESS!!!

People LOVE to guess what we're having. Especially because we ourselves, don't know. 
Women from the caribbean, especially.
Just some of the things I've heard:


"If you look pregnant from behind, then it's a ... (heard both answers here.)"
"If you belly points out, it's a boy. If it's more round, then its a girl."
"If it takes the pretty from your face, it's a girl." (To which I reply, "What, I don't look F#$%ing glowing to you?!")
"If it responds when Joey touches your belly, it's a boy." (Apparently sisters don't like each other, even before they meet each other.)


But my most recent encounter is my favorite. 


A Dominican woman took my hand, looked at some lines, and said they were too short, that I was going to have a girl. To which I replied: 


"Oh no, see, I'm white. It gets bigger... just give it a minute."


:)

PAINTING JOEY'S ROOM

Joey was a big girl and helped Daddy paint her new room.

 She did less goofing off then Daddy did.

 Very serious. Very thorough. 

HOMESTEAD RODEO PARADE

Joey and I rode on her Pre-school's float for the Homestead Rodeo Parade back in January. 

We got to throw candy to the crowds. 

 That was fun!

CHEF JOEY

Joey really actually helped me make pizza.

She helped roll out the dough, she gets the ingredients from the fridge, she tears the basil, sprinkles the cheese... anything that doesn't involve a knife or heat.

She LOVES to cook!