Another FIRST…

Lisa October 8, 2009 2Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

Yep, I did it, I ate my first Pasta and Sauce!

Poppy bought me Graduates – First Spaghetti Rings and Meat Sauce and I said…YUMMO!   This is how it all went down…

You will notice to the far right, the baby food jar… is NOT WITHIN THE REACH OF MY LITTLE HANDS… BECAUSE, I DO NOT PUT NOODLES IN MY MOUTH, I prefer to do the ‘squash and play’ thing with any food … eggs….. plain noodles, you name it… toys they go to the mouth, food however, is much more fun to squish, squash and pulverize into the tray, my hands and my clothes…   WHY NO BIB YOU MAY ASK,   well, Nana says  a small tarp would be needed, since I like to GET INTO my food…  so for a while pasta time will be when we have plenty of CLEAN UP TIME…

Can you tell how much fun Nana and I have during our meals… not quite in the fast eating OR NEAT eating phase right now… I like to reeeeeeeally enjoy my meals….

Then, I got a little carried away… and well…. it wasn’t pretty… but it was delish!    I was….. full, and I was exhausted… but a picture is worth a thousand words…

The beast got me… and now Nana’s little  secret is out… 

Nana – who is so often more commonly known as…NO FUN NANA…. every once in a while let’s me go WILD, and feel things, and play and just plain make a full on mess!   BUT IT WAS SO FUN! 

Another first today was that Uncle Nick and Poppy got a chance to go to the first at home hockey game for the 2009-2010 Red Wing Season, and it looks like I am back to work as the the RED WING SPIRIT STICK.    Before they left for the game, Nana and the beast captured the moment… they went downtown and watched the Wings WIN and that means, I am 1-0 for my spirit stick season!   They had two other games in Sweden, and I didn’t wear my jersey… they lost….

So… from my head to my toes, I was ready to go… My jersey with my name on the back, and little red shoes… and Cuz Nanc’s Red Wing sockies she sent me…

Well, it was a good day in the Mitten State… hope all is well in the land of sand, and I think I will stick with rooting for the Wings daddy, since the Chargers let me  (or Nana) down…

Until tomorrow, please remember, I love you, and as always, I am THE PRINCESS OF PASTA, AND YOUR LITTLE MISS ADORABLE, your daughter,

Guillianna!

Question Please? Excuse Me..?

Lisa October 7, 2009 3Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

I have great news… Nana got me to Goldfish Mini class today and instead of being late with traffic…. we were early!  REAL EARLY, but it was cool.  Nana got a chance to get me changed, and I played with toys and visited with Great Grandma, Great Papa and Great Aunt Pam.   My GMP, Uncle Nick was there, but all the other campers had class tonight… ‘tear’.

Here I am with the class…

Now I have a question for Mom…. see, I am thinking since Nana already has six kids… and had MANY MANY OPPORTUNITIES TO EMBARASS THEM, must she embarrass me too?   Is that fair Mom?   I mean, there I was …. all mini – ed out, being a part of the gold fish mini-class… AND SHE AND THE BEAST… START POPPING PHOTOS OFF LEFT AND RIGHT…  can you see me thinking here… “what the heck Nana?   This is so not cool…

Nana asked the mini parents, “would it be okay to take a photo or two?”….  A PHOTO OR TWO!… HOW ABOUT A BAZILLION?   Uncle Nick always asks Nana, “who taught you how to count?” since she tends to either under estimate, or overexaggerate OFTEN.  (Kind of like UNDER ESTIMATING HOW MUCH TIME IT TAKES TO DRIVE TO GOLD FISH MINI….eh hem…) Maddie, Etta, Simone, Alex and Connor were all there tonight… and of course your little princess ‘ME’ too…   we all had a blast… kickin’ and a splashin’  -floatin’ and  a slidin’  it was the best tubby ever…

The faces of my buds taken by Nana and the Beast…

Can you say it with me , come on… this is EMBARRASSING NANA!

But cute… and so sweet…

I guess I am glad she is a photo bandit…

I will have photos of this for my Camp Nana memories… and I know both mom and dad will be happy to have them.

So I guess it’s okay….

Maybe…

So now you have seen my friends at “mini’ class, and they are all so nice to me.

I have a pretty big support team here, not only in the water, but on land too…

Swim class is now officially a spectator sport… and everyone sits in the sweltering sauna like conditions… just to see these little faces smile and enjoy… being mini’s!

Thank you friends for putting up with my Nana… she can be a bit much sometimes, but I have learned to just roll with it…

This weeks enterouge…. and last week, Great Great Aunt Ida, and cousin Nancy too…. BUT NO ME, (eh hem remember, poor timing and traffic)… (double tear)  

I enjoyed class very much today, I went down a slide too….

 I was awesome…

I hope to go to Goldfish Mini class with you and daddy when and if you get to come and visit me on R&R…

You will love the friends I have made, and the fun that I have…

When we finished swimming, I was so tired, we went to eat with the family, but I slept through dinner, which you know what that means don’t you…

PARTY my crib TONIGHT!   After a few z’s, I was ready to go, go, go…

I know, it is late, but all the campers are home from school, and I want to visit …

and visit,

and visit,

and play,

and play,

and visit, and ….

yes… PLAY!

So Aunt Arri and I did the whole Patrick Swayze Dirty Dance thingy, and I spent a little quality time with all the gang… and then I sacked out, but here I am before I turned in for the night…

Mom and Dad, I feel so lucky to be able to enjoy so many things thanks to your hard work and your huge sacrifice.  Nana says it is hard some days to send love letters, because she doesn’t ever want you to be sad that you are not here at camp too, but she knows that your seeing me every day like this, is the only thing she has left to give you now that you are big “kids”.   She knows she did a REALLY good job embarrassing all the campers and you when you were small… things like taking all of you to the grocery when you were smaller, and following her around the store like ducks after a momma duck… with two or three shopping carts, gallons of milk, loaves of bread by the stack full, and as you all got older, having supplies shipped to the front door for all the kids on the school bus to see as it passed by… but she really is just about taking care of her kids… and hoping some day, some how, some way, they will know… she never meant to embarrass…. or be too strict… SHE ONLY WANTED THEM ALL TO BE HAPPY AND HEALTHY.   For a short while… she has the opportunity of sharing this ’embarrassing’  stuff with me… I AM JUST GLAD, I AM A TODDLER… AND NOT A TEEN… Nana says, you and daddy get to do the teen thing… and she is going to just hang back and hope I am as sweet and adorable for you then,  as I am now… (just don’t laugh when you hear things she used to say to you, come out of your mouth with ME –  as Nana, says she won’t laugh either… ‘much‘)  Until tomorrow, please know I love you both, I thank you for all you for letting me have so much fun while you are working, and  I am sending a squeeze to get you thru to another day… I am as always

YOUR  ONE AND ONLY

LITTLE MISS ADORABLE, YOUR DAUGHTER,

Guillianna!

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH  TO ALL MY MINI FRIENDS….

FOR PUTTING UP WITH MY NANA…

SHE’S JUST TRYING TO HELP HER KIDS SHARE IN MY AWESOME TIME WITH  ALL Y’ALL.

Still Teething…

Lisa October 6, 2009 1Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

MEET MY BABY LIFE SAVER!

I love you both very much.  Hope you are both well.  Sorry for delay in my love letter, but never worry, because if it is late, it is just Nana, she is old and a little broken, but is trying to get with the times even if she and  her equipment are anceint…. but here I am…. FINALLY.. still teething but here!

 THIS IS OCTOBER and in a few days my Poppa Richard and my cuz Cody will have Birthday’s!    I hope they are spectacular!   Enjoy some birthday cake for me!

Until tomorrow mom and dad I am as always your Little Miss Adorable, your daughter,

Guillianna!

I Am Just Sayin’…

Lisa October 5, 2009 2Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

So, how are you today?   I have so much to tell you today.   First off,  not that I am the complaining type or a Negitive Nellie…, and not that I would ever use a princess like whine…  I am however,  just sayin’ that after ten months on this planet, I have decided unequivocally that TEETHING is NOT FUN.   Nana and the Beast…. well they worked at getting some photos for you today, and well let’s just see if you notice a pattern here…. none of these next pics are duplicates…   

 I am telling you… I am so fixated on biting, and gnawing, and just plain chewing on anything and everything, that it appears my little eyes say it all… ahhhhhhh…. yes… relief, even if momentary.

Nana has been giving me Infant tylenol as the doctor as recommended, and it helps so much, but when it is getting close to time for a bit more the the grape gum relief goo…. YOU CAN TELL, I hate TEETHING…  (just sayin’, NO FUN)

So I am sure you can see the similar factor in each AND EVERY photo the Beast tried to get today…and … well all I have to say is …. YOU TRY THIS!  I am thinking… even strong soldiers would have a hard time with this stuff!

Second thing I needed to speak to Daddy about… is WHAT’S UP WITH TELLING NANA THOSE ‘CHARGERS’ WERE GONNA BEAT GRANDMONSTERS STEELERS?   Hmmmmm?   Nana took your advice, and well let’s just say… that “chargers” thingy didn’t exacly pan out the way you said it would… but it’s okay… she’s just going to make you take all the campers to dinner for your ERROR in judgement. Anyone for Sonic?   From now on Daddy you better stick with the Steelers, or HOW BOUT THOSE LIONS…?

And the last thing I wanted to slide on in here tonight is about my day….I have to send a shout out to Great GREAT Aunt Ida, say Hey there… (and glad you are home), but really I do not want you having any more “great great aunt stuff “, just so I can EAT EGGS  at Great Grandma Sharyn’s house.   Yes, you heard me mom and dad, I went to hang with a little sister today… not mine OF COURSE, but Great Great Aunt Ida’s!    YOUR GRANDMA SHARYN… you see Aunt Ida had to go do some ‘Great Great Aunt’ Stuff, and Great Grandma Sharyn, well as you already know…she can get a worryin’ when someone she loves has “stuff” goin’ on…so I went to hang with her so she would not be so nervous, I thought I could distract her a bit….. chew up things, spit up a bit, maybe have a diaper or two to change, you know usual baby distraction stuff which is different than Great Great Aunt Stuff,  but instead…  SHE MADE ME A SCRAMBLED EGG!   I go to cheer her up, and she is cooking for me!   Crazy huh?   I stayed there and tried crawling a bit, till I was ‘tuckered’ out, (20 seconds or so) and then, I just rolled all over her floor… no dog or kitty hair … just fun fun fun, and when there is FUN AND FOOD, well you can count the “Guge” in… cause I am all about fun and food. 

So as you can see the day was full, and I was busy, I even stopped by to say hi to Poppy, Great Papa, Uncle Dave, and Dr. Randy at the Royal Oak office and took Poppy your favorite chicken sandwich for his lunch…  I was  an object of distraction one moment, and a gnawing, drooling machine the next… but still as always,  I am your Little Miss Adorable,