baby

It's all about the "baby" lately.  She loves to be held like a baby and pretend she's a baby (cute for about 10 seconds) and she loves meeting new babies.  Tonight we took her to see Marc's friends baby and Poppy was very concerned about the baby getting enough milk.  Every time she saw the bottle sitting somewhere, she would immediately pick it up and try to feed it to the baby.

(this is the only picture from today because Marc is still learning how to play with the settings on my camera :))

And Poppy is in for a real treat because she is about to have a new baby cousin in a few days!

It was a hot day.

Poppy's book of the week right now is Wemberly's Ice Cream Star by Kevin Henkes.  The first line goes, "It was a hot day."  And as soon as I open to the first page, Poppy says "it was a hot day" in her cute little voice, and then let's me read the rest.  So today is a VERY hot and humid day.  For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to bring Poppy to the zoo this morning.  You know, the zoo with all of the blacktop pavement and not a lot of shade zoo.  Not sure why I thought that was a good idea.  We find a parking spot, I go to get the stroller and realize that the stroller is not in the car (we took it out because of the camping trip).  So I ask Poppy if she can be a big girl and walk the entire time.  She says yes.  The first thing she sees is the choo-choo's.  I tell her we can go on them later, before we leave.  The entire time we were there she kept saying "Poppy on choo-choo?" over and over and over.  Well, it was sooo hot and we were both sooo tired by the time we were leaving (and she was really good about walking the entire time, but I felt bad making her walk when it was so hot, so I did carry her for a while, which made me extra hot and tired), and when we saw the choo-choo's, I told her they were broken and that we can go on them next time.  She said bye-bye to the choo-choo's and then asked if it was time for nigh-nigh yet.  And then the whole way home she kept saying "No Poppy on choo-choo?" over and over again.  Too stinking cute she is.

If your daughter is wearing a strawberry colored dress, make sure you order a strawberry flavored snow cone.  Just a piece of advice.

And check out the ratty looking sticker on her arm that she got at the doctors office LAST WEEK.

camping

So we survived our first camping trip.  Actually, we not only survived it, but we also managed to have lots of fun.  We camped at Stoneybrook State Park and it was absolutely beautiful.  Here was our little home sweet home for the weekend...

One of the highlights for Poppy was this awesome playground they had...

The main attraction of this park is the water hike.  You can follow the trail through the stream and slide down waterfalls and swim in the water.  Unfortunately, the water was a brisk 54 degrees when we were there, so we decided to skip the swimming part this year.

My proud little hiker.  She's already looking forward to going back next year!

Poppy's bee movie

Here is Poppy's movie debut.  Marc tried to capture the bee conversation, and Poppy just wanted to make it clear that she is not a performer.  I'm surprised she didn't run away when she saw that he was recording this, although she does try to grab the "cheese" throughout the clip.  At first she is telling you about her balloon that popped (that I accidentally popped when I leaned down to kiss a boo-boo on her knee).  Oh, and she calls balloons "moo's".  And check out her made up sign for "camera".  And lately, whenever she doesn't know what to say, she just says "oh boy."  Ok, just go watch the video already.



And just so that you don't think that I forgot about it, I am still working on her 1 year anniversary video, but these things take time!  (especially when you're super busy and it's the summertime)  Leaving for our camping trip tomorrow, so I'm signing off for a couple of days...

We're going camping this weekend and of course, I'm stressing about Poppy and how she'll handle sleeping in a tent, etc.  Well yesterday Marc set up the tent in the backyard to make sure we would all fit in it and Poppy started squealing with delight - ran right inside and started doing somersaults and twirls and jumping up and down.  So, she likes the tent.  And then we have an air mattress that Marc and I will fit on, but for Poppy we just have a long skinny mat.  I wasn't sure how she would like sleeping on that either.  Well today while I was taking a shower, she went into the spare room, saw the rolled up mat, dragged it into her room, pulled all of her bedding off her bed, arranged her stuffed animals and started reading them books and pretending to sleep.  So, I guess she likes her little mat.  This girl is always full of surprises for us.

Poppy is posing with her best Korean buddies, Brendan and Colin.  She still hasn't decided which one she wants to marry, but all 3 of them decided that no matter what, they would not look at the camera at the same time (there were 6 adults trying to get them to look at various cameras and this was the best pic).

Could they be any cuter?!

"Cheeee!"

beach pics (part 2)

It was all about the wagons while we were at the beach.  Can you imagine what we would have done without them?

She loved the fact that she had her own wagon just like daddy.  And one of her favorite things to do was to fill her wagon with toys, tell us bye-bye, give everyone hugs and kisses, wave goodbye, and then walk about 5 feet away with her wagon, turn around to face us and then say "I'm home!"

We could not get these two bathing beauties to pose for a picture, and trust me, we tried.

Bye-bye beach!  See you in a few weeks!

the bee conversation

(snacking on a piece of seaweed at the park this morning)

Our blogging friends Michelle and Colin are visiting from out of town.  We met up this morning to take a walk in the park and Colin was kind enough to share some of his seaweed with Poppy.  Despite her expression, it was a big hit.

So here is Poppy's new favorite conversation (that we have multiple times a day)...

Scene: I finish buckling her into her carseat and shoo a fly out of the car before I get into my seat.

Poppy: Mommy, a bee eat you!

Me: What?!  A bee ate me?

Poppy: No, a bee ate  ME!

Me: Oh no, a bee ate you?

Poppy: makes a big chomping re-enactment with her mouth and points to her head.  Yes mommy, a bee ate me.  No, no bee.

After a dinner out on a patio last week where I was being swarmed with bees and kept shooing them away, Poppy asked what I was doing and I told her that I didn't want a bee to bite me.  She is now obsessed with the fact that bees "eat" people.  She has never been stung, and she has yet to see anyone else get stung, but now anytime she sees a fly, or anything else resembling a bee, that is the conversation that we must have and there is usually a body part that gets pointed to where she claims the bee "ate" her.  And it cracks me up that she constantly mixes up her "me, you and my's".