The School Picture

My daughter is perfect to me in so many ways.  

Since I am her mother, I think she is absolutely beautiful.

This past week when I received my girls's school picture, 

she looked neither perfect nor beautiful. 

I will let the photo speak for itself.

  

Sonya has experienced her first bad school picture.

Hopefully there won't be too many to follow.

When I think this is the photo they chose, I would hate to see how the rejected ones looked.

Here is her last year's photo.

Adorable, right?

I asked Sonya which photo she liked better, and she said,

 "The one with the black and white shirt."    

Right now in Sonya's school picture career she is batting 50%.

I hope she raises her her average as the years go on.

What We Are Eating This Week

Monday:

London broil, grilled asparagus, and baked potatoes

Tuesday:

Chicken Picata (homemade picata sauce), and sauteed brocoli

Wednesday:

Multi-grain spaghetti with tomato basil sauce, homemade meatballs, and kale chips

Thursday:

Grilled pork tenderloin, roasted brussel sprouts with shallots and roasted carrots

Friday:

Homemade cheese pizza

Plus some homemade M&M cookies for Sonya's teacher's birthday.

What are you eating?

18 months

What's going on with Theodore at 18 months:

• He is 36 inches long above the 97%
• He is 30.8 lbs. in the 90%
• He still wears a size 6 diaper, but they are big on him because he lost 2 lbs.
• He wears anything from a 2T to a 4T in shirts and pants.
• He wears a size 8 shoe.
• His favorite books are Hop on Pop, Baby Beluga, and all of the Eric Carle books.
• He loves trains and cars.  If you ask him what a train says he says "whoo whoo!"
• He is an almond milkahloic.  
• He can finally drink out of a straw.  Better late than never.
• He LOVES to play outside.
• His favorite activities to do are swinging, climbing up the ladder and going down the slide, pushing his cozy coupe around the deck, pushing little cars all over the floor, walls, bodies, faces, and reading his favorite books.
• He and Sonya hold hands in the parking lot when we walk into places.
• He is a very good eater.  His favorites are all fruits, sweet potatoes, green beans, pasta,  asparagus, kale chips, fruit bars, yogurt, black beans.
• He still gets up in the middle of the night for no reason A LOT!!
• He doesn't talk much.  He says, "whuzzat"= what's that, "all ga"= all done or all gone, "ma"= mama, daddy or milk.
• He always has his hands in his diaper touching his junk or is touching his belly button.
• He loves to play chase with Daddy and Sonya.
• He loves to play with our instruments.
• I still think he is a leftie.
• He is really clumsy.
• His nicknames are Teddy, TR, Big Baby T, Tedward, Hambone, Teds, Tedwardo, Big Guy, Big Man, and Jerk Store.
• He is cute and he is loved.

Monday Manifest

These are my confessions:

1. I read blogs of total strangers, and people who are just acquaintances.  Josh calls them my fake friends.
2. I only shower 2-3 times a week.
3. When I wear sweatpants to drop Sonya off at school I wear sneakers to give the illusion that I have worked out, or I am going to work out.  I don't think I am fooling anybody, but I still do it.
4. I love all of the Real Housewives shows on Bravo, Secret Life of the American Teenager, and Make It or Break It.
5. Even though I truly enjoy cooking, I will never turn down take out when Josh offers to bring dinner home.
6. I am useless between 1pm and 3pm.  I physically and mentally shut down.  I could and should be spending that time with Sonya doing all types of activities, but I pretty much ignore her for those two hours.
7. I always fall asleep when I read.  So it takes me forever to finish a book, if I even start one.
8. I don't know the last time I cleaned my shower.
9. I have some gray hairs on my head.
10. I spend way too much time on my computer.
11. I have screamed in Sonya's face.
12. The bottom of my feet are gross.  They look and feel like pads on on dog paws.
13. I listen to Phillips and Company on Y98 FM in the morning at my house.
14. My left breast in bigger than my right breast.
15. I know nothing about politics.

What are your confessions?

Monday Manifest on Thursday

The Names Of All Of The Kids In My Wive's Bible Study (grouped by family)

1. Sonya
2. Teddy

1. Winnie
2. Rush

1. Finn
2. Ainsley

1. Claire
2. Mary-Jane

1. Judah
2. Adeline
3. Harper

1. Noah
2. Luke
3. Henry

1. Sadie
2. Ruby
3. Poppy
4. Charlie

1. Riley
2. Cooper
3. Campbell
4. Reese

1. JJ
2. Henry
3. George
4. Emma

I Heart Faces- Orchard

This week's I Heart Faces Challenge is orchard.  

I couldn't make to an orchard, but here is my sweet boy having his favorite orchard snack.

Click the button above to see all of the other great orchard images from I heart faces.

Doughnut Store

Sonya has been very into writing letters and drawing lately.  I love to see what her little brain cooks up.

This is a picture Sonya drew last week of her favorite things, and I love it.

I wrote down how she explained the picture.

Awesome.