ah, the 80's

We were reminiscing tonight about the various 80's fashions we wore, or witnessed other fools wearing............ so here's a top 10 recap:

1. Hypercolor T-shirts. Frankly, this made no sense. I don't want visual aids as to where I'm sweating. I should mention though, that I had one of the first of these in my little circle of 7th grade friends....
2. Hammer pants. What was the stylist on who came up with these? We abstained from this weird trend.
3. Coca-Cola shirts. Mine was pink and white, and I absolutely loved it. I think I wore it long after the trend had left the building.
4. Jeans with zippers on the ankles. What exactly were the zippers for? A shoe emergency?
5. Fold-roll. Boy oh boy did we do this one well.
6. Jams. Why wouldn't you want your shirt to be inside out?
7. Guess jeans. With the triangle on the rear. Fold-rolled.... hot!
8. Converse tennis shoes. I always wanted a pair of black hi-tops. Daring and dangerous!
9. Kaepa shoes. And trying to find a matching set of those blasted little triangle things to accessorize with my neon shirt!
10. Crimping, perms, and other ways to ruin your perfectly adequate hair.

Feel free to add other trends I missed!

Haircut Time

Gen's hair has been growing overtime, and it's halfway down her back when it's wet. It's starting to look a little scraggly, so we decided to trim it up. I can't believe she is such a big girl!

Would you believe that we cut 3 inches off the back? That girl had some serious hair!

2 is a state of mind

Perhaps we should have been worried a couple of weeks ago when Gen learned the number 2. She was just telling us where she (and we!) were going.

So here's some new accomplishments to note...I think she became a 2-year-old over the weekend.

Last weekend "Dada" became "Daddy." And this past weekend "Mama" became "Mommy."

Sunday night she demonstrated her growing fine motor skills as she found a water spray bottle and squirted it at... anything not moving in the house. Here's a picture of her waiting for Daisy to come back in the dog door.

We've been working on "please" and "thank you." She's doing well. So a few nights ago when I handed her a paper towel and said "Go put this in the trash" she corrected me: "peez, mommy." Zing.

She's stringing 3 words together, which is cool. "Good girl, Daisy" is a good one, as is "Daddy go work." AND she actually told me I was pretty (when I put on her very loud mardi gras bead necklace). But pretty, nonetheless.... I'll take what I can get.

She's figured out she likes things a certain way. All snack foods require a bowl, all dinner foods require a fork, chairs belong in a certain place, people belong in certain chairs, etc. And she's very into the number 2... hmmmm, this sounds strangely familiar.....

Doctor Genny

Gen's been playing with her doctor kit lately. She likes to check baby's heart and her ears.
She's wearing her pajamas and her new extra-fancy silver tennis shoes because she demanded to wear shoes, even with pajamas.

After she got tired of checking baby's vitals, she started chasing Daisy with the blood pressure cuff shouting "cock a doodle doooooo....." And no, I have no idea why. But it was funny!

Hungy

My favorite word around here is "hungry", or as Genny says it "hungy." Just a little video of her saying it that makes me laugh every time.

Gen's farm

Target's dollar section had quite the selection of farm animals, so I got Gen a horse, a cow and a pig. She's thrilled with them. She is telling the horse "pat, pat, pat" as she pets it, and she has decided that since the horse's eyes are hard to see, it's sleeping. So she is shushing me to tell me the horse is asleep.

Island Girl!

We took a wonderful trip to Galveston last weekend for my cousin Lauren's wedding. Here's Genny, ready to go, with her "pack-pack."
We went to the aquarium at Moody Gardens, and it was great. Gen loved the fish, or as she calls them, "shoes."
There was a playground at Moody, and Gen requested to play. "Pay, peez. Pay?"
Here we are at Khema, where we ate Friday night.

On the boat.Miss Genny at the wedding, looking through the program. After the ceremony, Gen shushed everyone for a few hours. Wonder where she learned that one.....

With Nana, outside the church.

So every time we travel, Gen learns all sorts of new things. This trip, she really improved her speech. She learned many new words, and she got better at putting words together. One of the new words I'm not so sure about though. She has started calling everyone and everything "bay-bee-dollllllll" Now, none of us walk around saying that (We're not 1930's pimps, for pete's sake!) so I'm not sure where she picked that one up.

Anyway, it was super fun, and we wish the best to Lauren and her new husband Chad! Welcome to the family, babydoll....