Moving to the Penthouse Suite

On my way to clean my room....

AB - After Christmas Eli and Oliver can sleep together.

Mommy - Why after Christmas?

AB - Because I’ve already made my Christmas list and there won't be enough room in my room for Eli any more.

 

Mommy just giggled and said something crazy about all three of us sharing a room.. I think it's still early, she either hasn't had enough coffee or my reasoning isn't solid.  I'll keep working on it...

 

 

A Mom Can Only Hope...

AB- So when I grow up I'm going to go to Virginia Tech
Mommy - That's a great idea. I'll come up on weekends and bring picnics for you and your girl friends before the football games.
AB- That's ok, we are going to go to McDonalds after the games for a milkshake or slushie...

Living to be as Old as Dirt

Do you know the secrets to being the oldest person in the world?

• Eat good food
• Be nice to your friends
• Not lying
• Be generous
• Dessert sometimes

Really, it's that easy.

Old Times

AB - "Mom, in your times was it old times?"

Mom - " What do you mean?"

AB - "Did you dress fancy?"

Where Babies Come From

If you were in our car recently, you would have heard this...

Mommy - "How many kids are you going to have?"
AB - "Depends how rich I am. I'll get one and I can buy more from God. I'll put money in the offering can."

The secret is out, I know where babies come from.

Silly Rabbit

 Whoa.... That's an awesome tasting carrot....

 Easter Tricks...

 What's up Doc?

 Laying down on the job...

 A carrot in my pie hole, that's one way to get some quiet....

 

But the real trick was on us.... From start to finish of the photo shoot, we all ate a whole carrot. That's one way to get us to eat our veggies...

 

Happy Easter!!!

 

6 going on 16

Hey my people!  I'm 6 today!!!!!!

Happy birthday to me :-)

Boosterthon Fun

My school had their first fundraiser.... It wasn't selling wrapping paper... It wasn't selling cookie dough.... It wasn't selling oranges.... It was a fun run.... I had to get pledges for running laps.. They wanted us to run 25-35 laps....

 

 With the help of Daddy sneaking me gatorade as I came around each lap, guess how many laps I finished??

Here I am a the end, with 37 laps finished!!! I'm a running rock star!!!!

Love Day

We Mustache You a Question???

 

 

 

 

 

Will You be our Valentine?

Father Daugther Dance

I had my first Daddy Daughter Dance for Valentine's Day. Here I am with my first love...

 

  My second love...

My third, and currently favorite, love....

 

 

We had to capture the goofy shot....

 

 

 

Before, I'd let Mommy have the picture perfect shot:)

 

 Love you now and always Daddy!!! XOXOXOX

Speed Racer

If you know my mommy, you know she has a bit of a lead foot. She has slowed down since becoming a mom, but one weekend in November she got the chance to go to Blacksburg by herself for a football game ( if you know her, you know she hasn't gotten a treat like that in a long time and how happy she had to have been to get back to her alma mater).

Long story short, she didn't get out of town before she got a speeding ticket. She says she just wasn't paying attention because she was dancing to the music.... Ummm, people her age shouldn't be dancing, but that's another post. Anyway, she was sent to driving class. Here is how our conversation went when she told me

Mommy - I have to go to driving school.
Me - are they going to make you drive around with one of those signs on the top of your car?

That's a legitimate question, right?  I'm thinking she might slow down if she had one of those, just saying......

Dishes for Christmas

While laying on the couch watching Sophia on Mom's iPad while she makes dinner, we had this conversation.

Mommy: Annabelle, know what?
Annabelle: What?
Mommy: I love you to the North Pole and back.
Annabelle: I love you to Santa's workshop and back.
Mommy: Have I been good this year? Do you think Santa is working on anything for me in his workshop?
Annabelle: Ya, maybe he'll wash your dishes or something....

Kicking Off the Holidays

It's Tea Time!!! Mommy and I went to our second annual Christmas tea. 

 My dessert plate started like this and ended like like this (I brought my half-eaten cookies to my lil brother).

 Also going on - Christopher Pop-in-Kins has arrived. He's quite mischievous. He strung a trapeze across the living room the other night and was swinging from the fan.

 

Then my brother caught him taking a bath in Mommy's big tub. A marshmallow bath.....

 

St. Nick also stopped by for a visit. We left out our shoes with our letter for Santa. He picked up our letter to take back to the North Pole and left us a few treats to enjoy!

 


 

 Finally, I entered my first art contest. It's the Charlotte Observer Holiday Card Contest. You get to create your own holiday card and if you win, you win something - not sure what though. I drew three designs, but could only submit one. Cross your fingers I'm a winner!

I Rocked the Vote Today

It was election day at school and I got to cast my vote. Here's my ballot.

I like chili, so of course I voted for Barack Obama because he likes chili (see #2). I don't like dogs and I don't like basketball. I only voted for him because he likes chili and he wants to keep Sesame Street on tv and I want Eli to have Sesame Street.

The Tough Questions

AB - Is GOD above space?
Mommy - Yes
AB - How does GOD put his long arm through space to the cemetary?

Times are a Changing

So Mommy says the first week of kindergarten she learned things like ABCs and 123s (as if she actually remembers). Wanna know what I learned the first week of kindergarten?   All about LOCKDOWN.

Lockdown is when they have to lock all the doors to the school until it's safe again. So we learned what to do in our classroom, what to do in the lunchroom, what to do in the library, what to do in gym and what to do in the different center we go to each day. Sometimes you have to get under the desk, depending on why the lockdown is happening. I'm not sure what the big deal is, but Mommy says it's sad this is the first thing I had to learn in kindergarten.

Maybe now that we know all about that, we can start learning innocent things, like ABCs...

Game Day

Sleeping Beauty Ballet Camp

Before school started, I got to go to dance camp. It was Sleeping Beauty Ballet Camp. Ballet camp is serious stuff, not only did I have to wear an official ballet outfit and do my hair ballerina style (bun or ponytail only), there was a performance at the end of camp. Here are some pics of the performance fun.

 

 

 

So happy to see my little brother there....

 

By the way he's pointing, I'm thinking he's so happy to see the other ballerinas there....

Pre-performance pose....

Let the performance begin...

Do you see the way he's looking into my eyes, he's mesmerized!

Ballet camp art...

Post-performance pose. I rocked the performance!!!!

Ballet, it ain't that hard. Look I can do it too....

Me and Sleeping Beauty (she's a real ballerina)....

 

 

 

Camp was so much fun, I want to be a ballerina now!!! Mommy and Daddy spent a small fortune on ballet camp, but the real expense were the tights - I kept running them, so I needed a new pair every day. If I keep that up, I'm not sure they'll be able to afford more ballet lessons...

 

 

First Day Pictures

 

 

6:30am, getting ready for my first day of school.

 

First day of school official picture sign.

 

  Heading to school at 7:15.

 

  

Just got off the bus at 3:15.

 

First day of school celebration cookie!

 First day of school work.

 

 

First bus ride to school (2nd day of school).

 

 

 

It was a great day!!!