real-life mermaid... and other very short stories

madi decided to be a mermaid for the afternoon...

(what you can't see is my mom, unable to stop giggling)

actually, we both got quite a chuckle out of it... madison stuck both her legs in the same pants leg after her diaper change, and the way she stuck her feet out, wiggled them and observed the hilarity of it all with a calm, yet slightly bemused look on her face... well, it was quite comical!

see? she's a mermaid!

and mermaids, obviously, love the water.

she's a feisty one... i didn't think mermaids splashed QUITE so much!

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anyway, the kids and i went to mom and dad's again last weekend to spend some time with sarah. she was supposed to fly in to appleton friday night, but she was flying stand-by, and since it was spring break weekend, the airports were insane, flights were overbooked, and she didn't get in until sunday morning.

cole rode in "gweat-gah-mah's" "stroller".

he enjoyed it thoroughly, and something tells me his great-grandma didn't mind it.

cole talked to daddy sunday night.

(his 'conversations' with his kelvin are cute... one big, long, 5-minute sentence about whatever comes to mind or catches his eye at the moment!)

cole also hit a small milestone: he learned to somersault!

he did it kind of by accident, so nobody showed him how it was done. after the first one, though, he really had a blast!

"woah-ho-ho-ho-ho!!!"

(that's the best i can do, but imagine, if you will, his excited chortle as he went head-over-heels)

auntie "sah-wah" was here on tuesday when the kids woke up!

she came the night before, but they were already in bed.

having sarah here was awesome... for once, i wasn't alone after putting the kids down, so we logged in as much stay-up-late-and-talk-sister-talk time as we could.

cole got to horse around with his "sah-wah"....

... but madi wasn't too keen on the rough-housing.

(she was feeling a bit owly and would rather have been a mama's girl that day)

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sarah also modeled a new item for the green*vanilla baby shop for me. it's been finished for awhile, but i never got around to taking photos. i DO have another mama's-only item i'm working on, but it's still in the making. watch for them to debut soon... :)

i was hoping to have my new flash for the little modeling session, but there was an issue with payment verification. maybe it was meant to be, because before my sweet hubby could re-order it, i found something a little better. hopefully within a week, i'll finally have a good flash! goodness knows how harsh those little onboard flashes are... grr.