The Little Princess

Maybe you have heard... maybe you haven't. That this is our Little Princess. She gets just about whatever she wants when she wants and she usually wants it now. Fortunately for her I happily oblige, I can only imagine what repercussions this will have on me when she's a teenager (I would rather not thing about it thank you very much).

You see, being the baby after your big brother dies, has its perks. You ARE the Little Princess. You USUALLY get what you want. Everything YOU do is adorable. And I suppose it helps that you truly are the most adorable little girl in the history of adorable.

Isabella is probably the happiest person that I know, which makes it really easy to keep her spoiled rotten. When she wakes up from bedtime or naptime, she always comes to me with blanket in hand with strict instructions to place it over my shoulder light blue side up and a "hode chu mama." And I have happy to oblige, even if I have a babe in my other arms or on my other lap as Isabella says.

Why all the posts about the Little Princess? Well, I am glad you asked! The Little Princess had a birthday!!!! Her 3rd one actually. Equipped with balloons, princess Happy Birthday Banners, pink table cloths with matching cups, plates, and napkins, all picked out by her btw, oh and let's not forget the princess tiaras we all wore :). (too bad I don't have a pic). She received many items of jewelry, barbies, and clothes. When i asked her what she wanted for her birthday, she said presents. Smart Girl. When I asked her what she wanted AS presents, she matter of factly stated that she wanted the presents that were blue with the snowflakes (you see for Christmas she had blue wrapping paper with snowflakes on it and that turned out perty good for her then, so she thought it would be alright now) so for less than $25 she had everything she could ever want!

I have the best video EVER of her dancing around here.

Happy Valentine's Month

A few weeks ago we went up to my brother's house for a B-DAY bash, and BASH it was! So many presents, cake, ice cream, pizza, balloons, toys, and people gallore!

My sister in law got a camera for Christmas and has secretly been wishing to take pics of my family (notice how we are strategically laying down :))... so while I am still VERY much postpartum (yuck!!) I happily obliged. She was also dyin to do a photo shoot with Scarlett. We tried when she was littler and succeeded but here are an update for those of you who don't get to kiss on her every day.

By the way, when you do get the chance to kiss on her... beware. Last night I was giving her kisses and hugs and just munching on her, when she barfed. IN. MY. MOUTH. Oh yes. Great mothering moment. YUCK!!! That'll teach me I guess.

Which is probably why we are supposed/allowed to be kissing on the babies at work (which I DON'T do, but ONE time I did and it was in front of the mom, and I almost completely LOST it, because that is a BIG time NO. NO. but the mom didn't mind even though I was totally mortified. It was the first and so far ONLY time).

I hope you enjoyed the pics as much as ME!!! She is a LOVE. She sleeps good, eats good, snuggles good, travels good, and is mostly REALLY patient with her older sisters who LOVE LOVE LOVE her SO SO SO SO much. Too much sometimes. Thank goodness babies typically survive their older siblings, although it is only by a MIRACLE.

Love Me Some SCARLETT!!!!

Tooth Fairy

We don't really believe in the tooth fairy around here because it brings with it the desire to pick teeth out of our head and well we really want to keep the teeth in the head (mouth) where they belong because that is how we eat... so we have banished to tooth fairy due to negative (positively) reinforcement.

However, it is VERY hard to deny a 10 year old who has undergone oral surgery under general anesthesia, and had 7 teeth pulled, the satisfaction of a visit from the tooth fairy. After much consideration, she decided to leave behind some stickers and a coloring book that luckily she had in her bag of tricks, because she is DEFINITELY broke now.

Why 7 teeth you say? Well little missy Savannah has a VERY small mouth with VERY crooked teeth and many MORE problems that would just bore you. Owell, I am going to tell you anyway, its my blog, I can do almost whatever I want :). She has a canine tooth laying sideways above her teeth and we needed to pull some so that they could somehow maneuver the tooth into place. She also has a very randomly placed permanent tooth on the bottom that without serious intervention will cause much discomfort and random looks from strangers (although we dont' really care what they think) and she has never been able to close her mouth (which makes for some stinky breath in the morning and annoyingly loud meals). Just saying.

SO we had 7 teeth pulled so that we can get started on TWO rounds of braces. What does that mean? Head gear, bands, brackets, retainers, oh and lots and lots of dinero (good thing my husband is rich).... all in her tiny little mouth. The queen of all picking is about to be in heaven. Hopefully they have some good bonding material.... (otherwise they will be in the hole with this one). Poor little thing. She is going to be so miserable for a little while.

Just in case you wondered how the surgery went, it was fine. Savannah would not be held back and did not miss a beat. She begged to go to school the next day and I sent her with a shake, some oatmeal, and a note to her teacher with my phone number should she need it. Nevertheless, Savannah had a great day and it was a success! OH and she is very much toothless :)