Vomiting, Screaming, and Cries...Oh My!

Well, Scarlett and I made our first and possibly last solo trip. We went to see my mom, my sister, my grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. I will not go into all of the gory details, but lets just say that copious amounts of vomiting, pooping, crying, and screaming were involved. I had brought enough clothes for the whole week plus an extra outfit and I had to do laundry 3 times while I was there. Everyone in my family got some sort of stomach virus. Scarlett decided that I was the only person allowed to look at or talk to her, otherwise she'd scream and cry as if she were dying. In all of the ensuing chaos, I was able to have a few bonding moments with different members of my family. The calmest part of my trip was when my sister, Scarlett, and I met up with my mom in Helen, GA. This was after stomach viruses had mostly run their course and Scarlett had decided my family wasn't as noxious as she originally thought. We decided to go to Helen because Babyland General is there and I wanted to see their new facilities and take Scarlett to a place I loved very much as a child. It's located in the North Georgia mountains, so we decided to stay in a cabin and make a little mini-vacation out of it. So, here are some of the happenings in Helen, GA.


The awesome view of the changing leaves from our cabin. It's really the end of the leaf changing season, so a lot of the trees were bare. It was still beautiful, though. There's really nothing quite like the Appalachians in the Fall. The pictures didn't do them justice.




Helen, GA is a re-creation of an alpine village complete with cobblestone alleys and old-world towers. Here is a shot from my mom's camera, yes the sky was really that blue. It was a perfect day complete with crisp cool mountain air.




One of those cobblestone alleys I told y'all about.




This is Babyland General Hospitals' Fancy New Building!




Scarlett in her BIG cabbage patch!




This is where the magic fairy Bunnybees sprinkle cabbages with magic crystals causing babies to grow out of them. Babyland General is a safe place for them to be until the are adopted by someone who will take them home to care for them and love them. You too could come and see one being birthed every half hour!




Scarlett loved the Cabbage Patch Kids.




Can you tell which one's not a Cabbage Patch Kid?




Well, of course Nana adopted a baby for Scarlett. Everyone, meet Ivy, complete with adoption papers!




Funny, Scarlett seemed more interested in Ivy's bottle than Ivy herself. At least for the time being!




This is Goats on the Roof and there were...well, goats on the roof. It was a funny little place. You could mine for gems as well. We didn't, but when Scarlett's older I'll let her mine for gems one day. When I was a little girl, I always wanted to, but my parents said it was a waste of money because they weren't real. Thanks Mom and Dad, I've been left emotionally scarred over that one!




And that was our trip home. Fortunately for all of you, I kept the camera tucked away during the low parts of the trip and saved all of you countless pics of me drenched with Scarlett's vomit!

Halloween 2010

Our church did their Halloween Party/Trunk or Treat/Chili Cook Off/Magician tonight. I made Wes' shirt, hat, and belt. Which was a minor disaster and took a lot of cutting apart seams and resewing, but in the end after some blood, sweat, and NO tears we have Peter Pan. I tried not to be too irritated that everyone kept calling him Robin Hood all night. Why would Robin hang out with Tinkerbell and Wendy? I reworked my bridesmaid dress from my sister's wedding...perfect Wendy dress! I did buy Scarlett's Tinkerbell dress at the Disney store for $18 which I thought was a steal.
I now present to you our 2010 Family Halloween photos!


Here's Wendy and Tinkerbell



Here's Peter and Tinkerbell



Scarlett looks like she's saying, "Um, why are all of those kids eating candy and I'm not!?"



The Whole Neverland Family


And Again!



Tinkerbell sprinkling her magic pixie dust!



2nd Star to the Right and Straight On 'Til Morning! I love how we're so into this picture and how NOT into it Scarlett is.



By the end of it all she was completely tuckered out.




Happy Halloween!

Crazy Nightmares. . .or Dreams?

I recently joined a gym and began working out. We chose the gym because they have a child care center and we're able to leave Scarlett there for up to two hours a day. Is it weird that since I joined and have been leaving Scarlett in their care, I have had multiple dreams where I left her there and went shopping and didn't come back until closing time? I'm not sure if this is a nightmare showing I'm afraid of leaving my baby girl with someone else because something may go wrong or if its my inner conscience dying for a little bit of freedom. . .a little bit of baby free shopping!? I'm thinking its probably both!




"Mommy, why do you want to leave me at 24 Hour Fitness until closing time?"

Scarlett 4 Month Video

This is going to say it was posted by Wes, but it was really posted by Jennifer. I have already uploaded the video and that took too long to log out of his name, log in under mine, and then upload it again. I edited this video all by myself and I am pretty impressed with the sweet transitions I added...thanks to iMovie!

Scarlett 3 Month Video

Okay, so we KNOW that Scarlett is 6 months old, but we have all of this adorable footage of her that we never posted. So, we'll catch up to the current Scarlett in about two to three blog posts. This video is about a week after our stuff arrived in Houston when Scarlett was 3 months. I know many of you would never have noticed but for those of you that do, we were still unpacking, hence the messy background in some of the shots.