Old Pecan Street Festival - Fall '08

Since Daryl and Mia are hanging in Port O'Connor with his awesome parents, I went to the Old Pecan Street Festival solo. Have to admit that it was nice just walking around, checking stuff out and taking shots all by myself. I missed them a lot, though. We went together last year. When I went by the booth were Mia got her first airbrush tattoo...ahhhh all the beer stands reminded me of my sweet husband...who is probably having share of beer while fishing with his dad at this very moment :)

For all our previous Port O'Connor (POC) moments go here.

Another perk about today, is that Melody at Slurping Life is hosting SOOC Saturday. SOOC= Straight Out Of the Camera...no editing, no processing. FREEDOM! Seriously, it's super fab really thinking about the shot knowing that there's no editing allowed post-snap. Head on over for more SOOC shots.

Life of the Party

Was it only last Friday that my latest drumming class ended? What a loooooong week! At the end of each session, Mae throws a big party and jam session. This time, Daryl and I thought Mia would enjoy it. Once she heard she was going to a party....out came her party dress and ballerina slippers. Don't try to call them ballet slippers...she will correct you. I had a wonderful time just playing, and so did Mia. She actually stole the show. I wasn't aware of the ham she most definitely is. She pulled out and played with all the instruments and then picked TWO djembes to play at the SAME time. Everyone was either smiling hard or outright giggling and enjoying her. I just realized that all the video is still in my camera that Daryl took to the coast. Well, I'll post some shots and then the video will come later. Yay! I don't have to edit :)

Lipstick..it was all her idea

Many, many, many more Wordless images

All by myself

For a while now, Mia's been all about doing EVERYTHING 'all by myself'. It's normally fine...not, however, while going up or down steep & tall steps. Daryl got his family out of the house yesterday by taking us to Mt Bonnell. It was an easy climb, and a great view. Relaxing? Um, not so much...Mia wanted to do it all 'all by myself'. I'm used to it, and usually give Mia a lot of her own space, but Daddy was a little more nervous. Maybe it was that I was super nauseous, and just wanted a gingersnap to care too much of the goings on between daddy and daughter. Going back down the steps, Mia was almost in tears because daddy wouldn't let her 'do it all by myself'. Daddy, stood with his arms crossed at an impasse. I asked her gently 'do you want to hold daddy's hand or mama's hand?'....pause.....she opted for mama's. All she wanted was a chance to choose.....'all by myself'.

the impasse

the reason

After a late lunch at Kerbey Lane, we walked around next door at Drumz. I'm currently taking djembe classes there. The area is pushed back from the world and lush as lush can be. Mia spied at Buddha and was very interested in him.....I asked what it was and as she patted it's head, she said, 'my dada'.

Ok. So, I'm toooo exhausted/nauseaous to pick a Best Shot....why don't you pick yours for me and add it in the comments? Thanks :)

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A Little Perspective Day!

Mia's been interested in both my cameras for a while, but knows they are fragile and must be handled with care...ONLY when mama helps. Well, I gave her complete control with my p&s the other day. While she did get MANY shots of her fingers, she did capture a nice shot of 1/4 of my face and some nice sky. When I flipped it to review and showed the shot to her, she got soooo excited and squealed, 'mama! i did that!!' with a HUGE smile on her face. Yes, baby. You did do that.

I'll be trying to add some more shots from Mia's perspective on Fridays.

For more shots by little ones, hop over to Tracey's or the flikr pool.

Friendship

I've known Courtney for over a year. That means that Mia's known her daughter, Izzy for over a year, too. While we've been over to their home many times for playdates, birthday parties...and Courtney has been over her for a MNI and my birthday celebration...Izzy has NEVER played at Mia's pad! Well, that finally changed this week when Courtney, Izzy and baby Emmy came over for a wonderfully long visit. The girls played dress up and were rock stars. Mia's dollhouse and babies got some play. Mia held Emmy for a little bit...testing out the waters :) Then out came the curlers!! At their request, I curled Mia's, Izzy's and even baby Emmy's hair. Izzy was completely still and LOVED all the primping. Mia tolerated it, and Emmy had no clue what was going on. It was fun!

There's a lot more Friendship stuff going on at Stacey's

Little Silly Wolves

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