Painting is fun (and messy:)

Caroline had the best time painting with real paint and a paintbrush yesterday for the first time ever! I thought I was smart (and being really nice...I never painted with my first graders) by doing this outside and by taking off her pants....ha! I learned this would be done best in a diaper with no clothes in sight, her hair put up, outside with a hose nearby, with may towels, and a bath run upstairs...ha! I'll be ready the next time:)

Notice that in the first picture she has on a shirt and a little paint on her knee and hand... After the red paint got all over her shirt (and I removed it) she thought it would be fun to paint her chest, hair, hand, and leg! Heck, why not...she had to take a bath after the little bit on her knee and hand anyway....so we just went all out! Thank goodness for washable non-toxic paint and a hose! ha!

Precious video

Click on this link to see the most precious You Tube video of Caroline counting to 20 at breakfast this morning! This child melts my heart!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICO3hCDNLj8

Mommy's art fix

Corkboard (you can't tell but the wings are glittery)

So anyone who knows me knows that I like to dabble in crafty stuff from time to time. Well, when Caroline went down for a nap today I got my "Artsy fartsy" fix. We have recently made a little playroom for her so I had to do some painting to jazz it up. Takes me back to my teaching days:)

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Beautiful Book Club Girls

Morgan, Megan, Nicole, Christina, Mollie, Rebecca, Stacy, Cameron

All of the book club girls (even though we haven't read or even talked about reading a book in months) met for a wonderful dinner last night at Hampton's (formally Southern Roots). We had a great night celebrating a couple birthdays and catching up over several bottles of wine! What a FANTASTIC group of women! Only one things would have made the night better, if Ashlie would have been in town! We miss you Ash!

Summer pictures of our Sweet Caroline

Caroline loves playing with her brown eyed baby!
Is this my daughter or what? 4 inch heels at 21 months!
Caroline's new favorite food!

Hilton Head and 4th of July pics

Love My Twin Friends

My sweet friends Erin and Meg from Charlotte came last week for lunch, sunbathing, and lots of great conversation! They still teach in Charlotte and I love that b/c they can come hang out during their SUMMER BREAK! Meg was married in September and Erin just got married in May in Key West! They brought Caroline a huge lollipop and that kept her busy so we could catch up! Great seeing you girls. Can't tell you how much an adult conversation over a bottle of wine (or two:) means to a busy momma!

Erin and Meg brought me a BIG lollipop! Thanks girls!
Great lunch by the pool!
Yummy and festive dessert! Very easy too!
"I just want to gety back in the pool!" Ha...I think Caroline is tired of her momma taking so many pictures! Sorry girls...it's me, not you!

Random Acts of KINDNESS (at harris teeter)

So the past two times that I have gone to Harris Teeter grocery shopping with Caroline we have encountered people simply being kind. Last week a little old man walked up to me and gave me 50 cents. He kind of startled me and I thought he was going to ask me for money. Lesson to me on judging people...the little man handed me the money and made me promise to take Caroline up to the little dragon ride for children at the front of the store before we left. I thanked him and and he was off with a hand full of change to find other little children to make happy. I passed him later in the store and he told me "there is nothing like grandchildren...they are only small for a short time." Very sweet.
So yesterday we went to Harris Teeter again (a different one in H.P.) and another little old man approached Caroline and myself and he asked me if she had a piggy bank. I said yes but told him that he didn't need to give her a thing that him talking to her was gift enough. He fumbled through his wallet and couldn't find what he was looking to give her. So, he said goodbye to us and we went on our way. About 30 minutes later, we pass him in an aisle and he gives Caroline a dollar bill. He told me that he went to the pharmacy and exchanged some coins for the bill so that she wouldn't choke on them. He made sure to tell me several times to put it in her piggy bank, not in mommy's piggy bank...kinda funny. So many bad things happen in this world so I thought I would write about these two little but very touching acts of kindness that we experienced this week.