Meet GiGiPop!

Lisa March 13, 2010 1Comments

Dear Mom and Dad…

So it is Saturday.   It is the day we are meeting up with Great Papa and my GG-ma now that they are Mitten people again!   Personally I prefer ‘Mitten People’ to MICHIGANDER OR MICHIGANIAN don’t you. 

I was ready to go… and ready to show off my new talent WALKING!   Here I am at camp waiting for all the other campers to go!   I have to work hard keeping them in line.. and on time!

We  had pizza and pasta, and a plain old awesome time hanging with them again!  I made a new friend tonight, I would like you to meet.   See not only did I get to see my great grandparents they brought me a gift.   No reason… just because they missed me.  Just because they wanted me to have something special… so I would like you to meet my new friend… I named her…Gigipop.  She is almost more adorable than I… if you can believe that.

Here I am kissing my Little Miss GiGiPop, and let me tell you… I really really like her.  She is so perfect for me, I can play with her, and kiss on her… and hug her, and twist her every direction… and she is always smiling!  

So as you can see things are good here… I love my new baby.  THANK YOU GG-MA AND GREAT PAPA!  She is ALMOST as adorable as I am…and I love her …. GigiPop and I will be able to hang out at Fort Hood together! 

I am the luckiest girl ever…

Tonight those of us in Michigan and the EST zone will lose an hour of sleep!  The clocks are turned back by an hour.

I am not sure Nana and Poppy are in love with the idea of losing an hour of sleep time, since I was bright eyed and ready to play at 4am this morning…

Does this mean I will be up at 3:00 am next?   Or is my internal clock going to comply with the new change?

Only time will tell but if I do get up early… I will have GiGiPop to play with!

Thanks so much!  I am so glad to have you back …. and so glad to see you both.   What a great night I had!  Uncle David and Aunt Kris with Cuz Steven and Brian were there too… making it even more special.  I think Cuz Missy and Cuz Rachel and Noah would have come too.. IF THEY WOULD JUST MOVE CALIFORNIA CLOSER TO MICHIGAN!   Soon I will be at the HOOD AND WILL BE CLOSE TO Great Aunt Michelle and Uncle Jim… which is nice…  BUT WHAT WOULD BE NICER IS IF WE COULD MOVE TEXAS CLOSER TO THE MITTEN….. then it would make seeing everyone so much easier… Since we cannot move STATES AROUND, WE WILL have to keep things as close as we can… just like we have been doing with you and daddy in the land of sand…until then… and until you two get here… I have my new baby to keep me company!  I love you both….

Until tomorrow Mom and Dad, I hope you have sweet dreams of your little angle, your Little Miss Adorable, your daughter,  (and her new friend)

Guillianna!

I Have A Date!

Lisa March 12, 2010 1Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

So today was a bit crazy at camp… one of my zoo co campers has been acting weird for a few weeks. Lady Liberty has been quiet, and not getting up to go outside, and today she finally came out to Nana and when we let her out… then she would not come back in. She lay on the patio quivering…. and yesterday she stayed out in the rain ane would not come in. Nana tried everything to get her inside… nothing worked. We had scheduled a doctor appointment for Libby on Saturday, to check her out, (tomorrow) but we had to take her in as an emergency this morning. Uncle Nick has always been a favorite of hers, she always gets excited to see him, and sure enough after Nana bothered him, Libby saw him coming to get her to take her to the vet – she got up and wagged her tail and seemed fine. We all hopped into Nana’s car, with Lady Liberty and went to the vet… where we learned…she is fine! Well – they could not find anything wrong and ran some blood tests. But she had no fever, no lymph node swelling, no pain in her belly when they felt it, and everywhere they rubbed her, she just thought she was being pet! So…. wild goose chase, thankfully but, weird. They think she may have pain from arthritis.. so they gave us medicine for it and if she improves, they will attribute it to pain, and that the cold patio feels good on her arthritis. Hmm… told you it was weird…. but sad for Miss Libby. All of that was very early this morning… and it made for a big change in my usual routine, which I am not a fan of. I love my routine. It is true, it has taken so long for me to find one… but now that I have, I am not a fan of being rushed… and I like to take my mornings WIGGLY WAFFLE SLOW. (The Wiggles are on during breakfast here in the Mitten State… and I enjoy eating my breakfast…. very slowly and watching them.)

Nana had a doctor appointment too in the afternoon…. it was funny though because if you read my earliest love letters, the day after I arrived at camp Nana had an appointment with her doctor then…. she carried me in just weeks old, a sleepy newborn. TODAY I WALKED IN THE DOOR OF THE OFFICE AND DOWN THE HALL AND ALL THE PEOPLE WHO WORK THERE SAW ME WALKING LIKE A BIG GIRL. I was so proud!

I switched into my bigger car seat, and actually I loved it today. I don’t like falling asleep in it… cause it is not as comfy to sleep sitting more straight up, but I loved being a big girl!

Everyone else at camp is doing good… and well they too are excited for the UPCOMING ALL HANDS PLAYING WITH GUILLIANNA WEEKEND. Do you think it is coincidental that as I have started this walking thing I am learning ‘NO’. I love going an turning on and off the television, or getting into EXPLORE MODE, yet it seems every time I turn around… Nana is giving me that WAVY INDEX FINGER THING!

Tomorrow I have a special date… GREAT GRANDMA SHARYN AND GREAT PAPA aka the ‘SNOW BIRDS’ HAVE RETURNED TO THE MITTEN STATE. They got in too late for our usual FANTABULOUS FRIDAY but instead we are doing what I will now call a super spec – tac – u – riffic Saturday instead. At least part of camp is. Poppy works late on Saturday’s and there a few other campers who cannot attend… but those who may not be at dinner plan to meet up with Great Papa and GG-ma somehow on Sunday too. The weekends go by quickly around here… and the campers well they just cannot get enough of the Guge-meister! Who can blame them!

In case you are wondering, I am still not much on sleeping and have not sprouted any new teeth. My shot experience is over, and I was fine the next day. I am brushing my teeth well, being good, and most of all I am bringing happiness and joy to just about every one I see. Today, I went to the grocery. I sat in the shopping cart like a big girl. My first time. Usually I had been in the car seat and laying back. THIS WAS AWESOME. I said HI TO EVERY SINGLE PERSON WE PASSED! I am VERY SOCIAL. I say hello to the poeple in the parking lot, every one working and everyone shopping! EVERY PERSON, and to be frank… when someone doesn’t expect me to say hi, and maybe doesn’t hear me… I AM QUITE SHOCKED that they don’t say hi back and acknowledge that I am the Princess…. so I say it again… Even louder. Really shopping with me today was so fun… and clearly I lived up to my name LITTLE MISS ADORABLE!

Hope you are staying safe in the Land of Sand, and that you both remember, I am as always your Little Miss Adorable, your daughter,

Guillianna!

I Made My Nana Cry Today :-) Again with the ‘Tears of JOY’ thingy?

Lisa March 11, 2010 0Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

So today, either one of a couple different things happened here.   Either Nana is “sappy”  –  a definite maybe.

Or I am just so adorable… so cute and so sweet that I can make a grown woman like Nana cry “TEARS OF JOY”. 

For some reason… and after many different love letters having mentioned this whole “grown ups cry when happy (and sad)… babies cry when sad” thingy, and when exactly this transition takes place in life pops up yet again…

There I was just hangin’ with Nana… she had been slow as a snail lately and well, not to brag… I may not be at full speed yet, but I can take her hands down any day.   She was sitting down in the rocking chair in the family room.  I stood in my cute little Gugu stance with the table in front of me, and the couch behind me.  She sat observing me… while I watch a DVD Aunt Arrianna made for me.  It is called THE GUGE SPECIAL… it is a compilation of all the musical theme songs I love from different shows on Sprout, or Nick Jr.  some songs from Jack’s Big Music Show that Laurie Berkner sings, the Pajanimals, Sid the Science Kid and Super Why from PBS, and one very special track with a Mr. Patrick Swayze that I love and Greased Lightning with a very young Mr. Travolta.   Yep …. wierd assortment I know… but I am a fan of anything that has a beat!   IT’S TRUE!

So as I stood there… Nana saw me dancing.  Yep, I sway side to side, hugging myself… and dance now.    Now let’s just face it, I am cute, true, and adorable, beyond words, but I am not DANCING WITH THE STARS MATERIAL, I haven’t any amazing moves, or anything… but this woman looked at me like I was some kind of STAR!  She claims…  she couldn’t help but notice how much I have grown, that my CUTENESS QUOTIENT was enumerated beyond measure!  And that in that moment….the reality bomb dropped, she fully absorbed just how quickly for her our time has passed and how much she will miss all this ‘adorableness’!   Yes, it is true, I have given her sleepless nights, teethed, worried her and tried to make her happy  – to see me go, I tried to wear her out, and remind her that us babies are a  “butt” load of work and a huge challenge….. but Nana slipped up…and I saw… she not just a ‘NO FUN NANA’, tough to the core, she is just another –  a big ole sap… who knows the truth is she has been mighty lucky to be spending time with someone as awesome as me!   She sat with reality pounding upon her heart like a jack hammer… I am going home really soon…and yes she is so happy FOR MOM AND DAD TO SEE ME DANCE  – AND HOPING THAT BOTH OF YOU KNOW ALL THE INGREDIENTS CAMP NANA HAS PUT INTO MY GUGE – A – RIFFIC  HEART.   It is full of laughter, love, and curiosity AND A MILLION OTHER WONDERFUL THINGS!  My time here has been well spent, even if  IT IS the hardest thing ever for THE TWO OF you… I stood there today, a little toddler, swaying to the music, smiling and laughing… and Nana saw in me… your future.   She saw you and daddy dancing with me.  She saw you observing me in the months and days ahead, and then it came…  YEP, like Niagara Falls!   Not that I have been but hear, there is plenty of mistiness and water flowing… just like with Nana today, from both eyes!    She does not know where a year has gone, while you have counted the days the moments until we would be together again, Nana AND ALL THE CAMPERS have had the most outstanding little SPIRIT STICK a hug away!    

She has been working so hard on the book of love letters for you and Daddy, and could not help but notice, that in November, I was just barely able to crawl.   Now I am a dancing diva!   I had a great day Mom and Dad and it is nice to know that being a part of the lives of your sisters and brother, (my awesome Aunts, and my only Uncle!)  really meant so much to them all.  Especially the old sappy slow one… whose days lately are full of tons of not so pleasant things.  Nana says she will be happy… and I belong at “the HOOD” with mom”o” and daddy”o”… ASAP, that seeing us together will only BRING HER…. you guessed it  TEARS OF JOY!  (geez… again with that)    Nana is working it all out in her head… but her heart… it’ll be ‘a breakin’  and let’s just say, I bet, all the readers of my love letters to you and dad over this past year,  WORLD WIDE, will hear it when I go.    Nana hopes one day, when I am big, like mom… that I read this letter and I know… she, Poppy and all the campers LOVED MY DAYS AT CAMP, and LOVED ME more than any words Nana could ever help me write!  

On a lighter note, let me also tell you I have mastered yet another amazing skill… I CAN SAY NO.  Now I do not shout it meanly or raise my voice – no I don’t even really say it…

I just do like Nana… I lift my index finger up and shake it side to side when I want to say NO !   I say no to the dogs, I tell everyone NO whenever I want to!   New trick for the day… how to say no… and have ALL THE GROWN UPS FOLLOW MY PRINCESS ORDERS!  Hee hee… it works too.   You and daddy are gonna have fun with that! 

Until tomorrow Mom and Dad, please know I am your Little Miss Adorable, your daughter, (all ready for you, full of all the love and dedication the MITTEN STATE has had to offer)

Guillianna!

P.S.

Hey Maddie my little GOLDFISH MINI FRIEND… CONGRATS ON BEING A BIG SISTER TO YOUR NEW BABY BROTHER SPENCER!   VERY EXCITING NEWS, HUG YOUR MOM AN DAD FROM ALL OF US AND FROM MOM AND DAD IN THE LAND OF SAND too… So glad to hear everything went well, and that you ARE A BIG SIS  YOU WILL BE AWESOME!   Your pool bud, Guge!

PSS

I also hope my great Grandma Sally feels better soon!  

Resting ALL DAY!

Lisa March 10, 2010 0Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

I spent the day resting and relaxing.   I have had some Tylenol and feel better this afternoon.   Nana took some photos of me at camp today, as I played and got to feeling like myself again after my PEDIATRICIAN DAY!

News around camp is, that my Great Grandparents will be back in the MITTEN STATE SOON!

Great Aunt Pam too is back in the MITTEN STATE after visiting with her daughter in North Carolina!

The MITTEN STATE IS ACTUALLY WARM TODAY, and no need for mittens…  snow is melting everywhere, and well… it would be nice if SPRING WERE REALLY HERE.

I love the nicer weather, I AM NOT BUNDLED UP LIKE AN ESKIMO and actually get some fresh air!

I was really good today.   (as always)   I am making final plans to visit friends and family before my departure.   Nana has tried to include  some sort of visit with as many of my family as she can near the mitten state.   If any one wants to see me before I go… they can always email or call Nana or Poppy and they will try to make sure it happens.   Texas is kind of far away, so my camp directors are happy to try and find a date for me to visit those in the North, over the next few weeks!   After that, you and dad, will be here to pick me up and my CALENDAR IS BOOKED WITH SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS WITH YOU AND DADDY!   YEA!   SO EXCITING….

Because of my shots yesterday and my kind of NOT SO FEELING GREAT DISPOSITION, I did not do my GoldFish Mini Class… but I heard that my little buddy, Maddie’s mommy was in labor and about to have a baby!   I hope all is going okay and hope to hear soon if she has a brother or sister.   We are thinking about all of them!

I am getting  to be so big…

Look at me… I walked to this chair from the bedroom, and didn’t fall once…

I am getting better and better at walking… and the shoes Poppy got me were the trick.  They give me good balance, and when they are on…

Nana has a hard time keeping up!

I figure by the time you and dad get here,  I will be running!

Anyone know when I will out grow RUFFLE SOCKS, cause Nana keeps putting them on … and I am 15 months old!

I am so excited when I walk some place and get where I was heading…

I am giving Nana a toy…

So SWEET, I SHARE, and love playing ! 

It shows doesn’t it?

I love eating grilled cheese, and hmmmm, french fries (the itty bit Nana lets me have) and am very fond of pasta.  I love oatmeal, and fruit of all kinds… but one in particular, I JUST LOVE!  It was a berry mixture, of babyfood that comes in an EARTH friendly package that squeezes out, and let’s just say I love it!

I love water too.   I am not a big fan of juice, either apple or pear, but love to drink water!

I love puffs, or chips and crackers too.   Nana smashes them since if they are the slightest bit too big….. I try to choke!   So its mush for me.   Bacon… is a true favorite though, and even though Nana gives me small little pieces I TEND TO WANT THEM ALL IN MY MOUTH AT THE SAME TIME  so not only does my food get smashed… it gets RATIONED!   I have been so good Mom and Dad, and love eating all kinds of new things… and today, I even ate a tiny portion of a pickle from the side of my Grilled Cheese… and guess what?   I LOVED IT!

I love you and dad very much, and hope that you know today as always, I am your LITTLE MISS ADORABLE, your sweet daughter,

Guillianna!