My DVD and Me…

Lisa August 27, 2009 0Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

I am thinking about you both.   Every day, and I mean every single day, Nana plays me a DVD of the two of you.  It has photos in it from the first tour of duty you did in Iraq.   It has photos of you both with me.   She plays it each day, and I watch it, while she says… MOM-MA, DAD-DA, BABY… and hopes that by doing this I can be familiar with your faces.   She knows how I am being a bit shy with people lately, AND TRULY HOPES THAT PHOTOS OF YOU BOTH WILL HELP US WHEN WE ARE TOGETHER for our visit.   Once you are back home for good, I will have a life time to see, hear and touch you.   I can’t wait.   Today she took photos of me watching my MOM AND DAD DVD.  Here I am waiting for it to start!  Not much into the words, and far more interested in the beast and Nana…. but…. when the photos start… LOOK OUT… I inch my way closer and closer and can’t take my eyes off of Mom and Dad!

I am WAITING for it to start…. Here she comes… hey momma!

I watch this every morning… and sometimes at night.   I start my day with mom and dad, and the song reminding me that you are both here with me… even though we are far apart.  And yes, she cries every time. Silly Nana, she is a sap.  She should know we are almost through this and soon it will be over… and we get to begin our lives together.  When that happens, she will still cry, and pull that ‘HAPPY TEARS’ thingy I bet!

If you notice, I am glued to the faces and watch very intently…. it’s true!

Notice… I’m not watching the beast or Nana, just my mom and dad!

When it is done, I hope she will play it again, and sometimes she does.

It may be silly, and it may not help me to know your faces, but Nana says  it is worth a try and I really do enjoy it. 

I was so good today.  Still teething something fierce, but so sweet and so good… my clothes even said I was sweet today.. Berry Sweet!

Me looking sweet, and adorable, AS USUAL… pondering what I will write in my next love letter to you maybe… or maybe just relaxing at camp.   Either way, I am kickin’ back a bit, before my trip to see Great Grandma Sally and Grumpy.  And speaking of GREAT GRANDPARENTS..

TODAY WAS GREAT PAPA ALANS BIRTHDAY, and all of us campers are meeting him for a birthday dinner tomorrow.   I hope he had a good day today and know that my mommy and daddy will be wishing him the same all the way from the land of sand.   Maybe I can wrap my DVD up take it over to his house, and we can all watch it over cake and ice cream?  Or he can do like I do, and close his eyes, and make a wish… and one day soon…ALL OF US WILL GET TOGETHER, AND EAT GUILLIANNA BIRTHDAY CAKE…. (she said wishing, and hoping)

It could happen.   I know we can’t write when and where or how the troops move, but I hope that my mom and dad can get a visit back here in the states around my first birthday!  It could happen – I am just sayin’

Until tomorrow, mom and dad, I am as always, your LITTLE MISS ADORABLE, your daughter,

Guillianna!

Silly Nana….

Lisa August 26, 2009 0Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

Today was my first day back at Goldfish Swim School, where me and my Goldfish Mini Partner got to visit with all my friends in class.  I was so good today, I even went under water for the first time, and I DIDN’T CRY!   I actually did it twice…. THIS MOM AND DAD IS WHERE THE ‘NANA IS SILLY’ PART COMES IN.   Do you have ANY idea, how many times, I have played with Mr. Nikon, aka ‘the beast’.   Nana is taking at least 1000 photos of me a month… conservatively speaking… and the beast and I are BEST BUDS, but today, on my big swim and dunk day, the beast was no where in site…. SILLY NANA, where praytell IS YOUR HEAD?   So … yes, I know we were ill prepared today, since you had to help with something for Poppy… but really Nana, to forget the beast at home… someone needs to put Nana in time out.   Not only did she forget the beast… she needed special training to try and take a photo with her phone…

Nana started ‘borrowing’ Uncle Nicks phone when he was out of the country for a year.  It was a nice fancy little iPhone… and she loved being able to get text messages and emails on it with her kids being so far away.  She was hooked,  even though she could not operate the voicemail option since Uncle Nick had the password, and she didn’t, but she kept using it, and when he returned, a newer version was released, and she kept the old, sometimes ‘not workin’ so hot phone.   Something is wrong with it, and it needs repair, but she keeps using it anyway.   It has functionality she doesn’t begin to understand, or be able to use, but today was a highlight.   While at Goldfish Mini swim class, she needed to try and take a photo… since the beast had been left behind (eh hem… eh hem….) She kept iTouching the camera, and it kept trying to focus in on me in my moment of glory… she gently pushed the button to take the photo, ….. snap, snap, she thought she was so paparazzi cool… with her compact little technologically crafty little iPhone….. only to wonder why she kept getting kicked out of the camera repeatedly, just to get it to turn back on after each photo….at first she thought the little phone was just acting up again,  then it occured to ‘silly Nana’, why is this not working… she used it before, and after snappin off a shot, it refocused for her to take another… at that moment she realized she had a ‘moment’.  A NANA MOMENT…. she wasn’t snappin up photos of me… she was hitting the OFF BUTTON, and not taking a single solitary photo of my underwater submersion… just turning it on, and then back off… over and over…

I love Nana, but if she weren’t so sad she missed the photo op for you and daddy, she too would be making fun of herself.   Once she figured it out, there was about a minute left of class, and here is the one photo you get…

Okay so National Geographic or any other photo mag, will be calling to publish this one!  Great lighting huh?   Not only was she inept with the iPhone camera, did she not notice I am facing the other way?   Being the sweet little charmer that I am, I felt bad for Nana, so after swim class, even though tired, I posed for a few shots with the beast, in my shiny TOTALLY AWESOME red convertible, which I JUST LOVE.   So here I am cheesin’ it up for the beast and Nana, and bailing her out YET AGAIN, with some awesome photos.  

Hey do I have to use hand signals when driving this thing?

I have so many to show you…. cause … well let’s just say it, I am adorable… and this sports car thing, makes me EVEN MORE ADORABLE….

Just me, and my car!

Wind blowin’ in my hair… hey, wait a minute…

Just a second here, hold the phone… is someone makin’ hair jokes…?  Let’s hope not… cause it is a growin’ and I am looking mighty sweet with my little locks!

Until tomorrow, mom and dad, I hope despite Nana’s no brainer episode, I am as always your little SAVING THE DAY, Little Miss Adorable, your daughter,

Guillianna!

Red, White and The Bluest Blue

Lisa August 25, 2009 2Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

I am doing pretty good here at Camp Nana.    Today, I am doing better than I was yesterday.  Teething is definitely NOT GOOD.   I am getting so busy, that it has become very difficult for me to hold still even when I am getting my diaper changed!   I don’t care who is doing what, or what kind of ‘presents’ I have  in store for the changer – I just want to go  – to move, wiggle, roll and twist all over the place.   Nana had Mr. Nikon come out to play with me, and as usual today and I was awesome.   I have a ‘real thing’ for the lens cap… and I definitely smile and show off my SPARKLING BLUEST OF BLUE EYES,  when I see the ‘beast’ coming my way.    

Me and my favorite toy!

I have so many different expressions now, it is truly amazing.   I looking forward to showing you all of them in person soon.  Here is one I do often,

Yea, this face makes Nana smile, but so does just about everything I do.   Except if I am crying… that is the only face of mine Nana prefers not to see.   I agree… I so much prefer to be smiling and happy or exploring because I am one curious baby!

A Love Poem for Mom and Dad,

Today I wear Red White and Blue, thinking of the both of  you.

A vision of sweetness to delight, and stay with you as you dream tonight!

I love to laugh and play all day,  and know that you will soon come back my way,

We will hug and kiss and hold each other tight, then dearest Mom and Dad, everything  in our world will be JUST RIGHT!

I love you both very much,  and as always, I am your one and only, LITTLE MISS ADORABLE,

your daughter,

The Little Princess ….

Guillianna!

A Car, Kitties, and of course ME!

Lisa August 24, 2009 3Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

I have had quite a day mom and dad, I woke up at 04:30 (YES A.M.) for no apparent reason, I was ready to go….not a chance I was going back to sleep… and pretty much that is how it was until ten tonight.   Nana is thinking this is very much like when my bottom teeth came through the skin, and while we cannot see or feel top ones, I am acting like they are there.   I even had a bit of  Tylenol, because I was biting so hard on everything and crying a bit.   Well, a whole bunch, but all is better now.   Tylenol helped immensly and I am sleeping better than I did last night.   Today we went to Babies R Us and got some more princess necessities.   But I didn’t even nap in the car… just plain had an out of sorts day.  Nana says, I am just preparing for my trip to visit Great Grandma Sally, I got up three hours earlier than usual just so my little body can adjust to Pacific time… I am so organized!   (and if you buy that, you will buy anything)  Organization, not Nana’s strong suit lately, and since I leave that stuff to her… it’s not mine either…

Well I promised I would put up photos of each of the zoo animals, and tonight we caught a shot of Layla…

and finally there is GRIZZABELLA the PROZAC CAT!  

Now that I have adequately shared my space here with campers of the feline and canine type… LETS GET TO IT, the important stuff… ME!

Since I am so wanting to walk… Nana had gotten me a special seat to help me walk, and here I am in my NEW CAR!

All my love, as always, I am your Little Miss Adorable, in a convertible, and making the whole world SHINE, your daughter,

Guillianna!