Traveling Back to Camp Nana!

Lisa August 21, 2009 3Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

I am back at Camp Nana, and let me tell you…. I am really very happy to be here.   The zoo animals missed me something terrible.  I am in my crib waiting for you to check in on me.  We unpacked all my princess necessities, and have settled in.   On the way back to camp we surprised Great Aunt Ida and Cuz Nanc with a visit, it was so nice, but the ‘beast’ aka Mr. Nikon, stayed in the car so no photos… darn! Thank you so much for having all the campers and I in to your home on short notice. Today, I was ready to go to ‘the hop’, in my dancing shoes and skirt today.  Yes, I said THE HOP, cause well, thats the way it looked.  See what you think….

The only thing missing  from my outfit below, is a Poodle on my skirt, (for my readers who remember, since mom and dad most certainly cannot!) but no matter what Nana puts me in… I make it look good….

I didn’t sleep much today, not even in the car… just 20 minutes in the morning before we went home,and 20 minutes in the car.  I know you will be shocked at this little tidbit, but Nana did bring enough for me to do for the entire trip, toys, toys and more toys, and yes there is always the singing… lots and lots of singing…, (4 hours worth, aaarrrggghhh)  I was an angel, except for the last ten minutes, when I wanted a bob, and it was a bit too cold… so… yes I shed a tear or two… but once at camp with Mr. Griff, Justice and Libby, as well as all the kitties… I was fine.  Hope you enjoyed my new “peek a guge” game( that’s what I like to to call it… ) on video… I played it quite a bit in the car with Nana… and am just soaking up stuff like a sponge.  Every day it seems I am more and more into the toys you and daddy sent me.  Learning how to work them all.   It is so much fun for me to figure out how to get them to make sounds.   And when I tire of toys there are always the other campers willing to play a game.   This game is very cool and I have an advantage… we call it BIG CHEEKS!

Uncle Nick, Aunt Mikayla and I playing the new game…. we see WHO HAS THE BIGGEST CHEEKS… I am trying to squish thiers in so I can win.   DIDN’T NANA TELL THEM THE BABY PRINCESS SHOULD ALWAYS WIN!    I won though you can be sure… I got them both with my ‘sneak attack’.

We have had a very busy few days, and a special visit with GG-ma and Great Papa.   In a few weeks I will be going to visit Great Grandma Sally and Grumpy for a special visit.  And then pretty soon after that, I am told you two will be here for some R&R, which no longer means REST AND RELAXATION but instead is…. “READY?      RUUUUUUNNNNNNN! ”  Here I am waiting for a dance partner…. I will hold a special dance card, (again mom and dad are WAY too young to remember those)…. but I have dances reserved with both daddy and you when you come. 

Well,  I hope you are both well and doing as well as can be expected …under the circumstances. Nana has much work to do on my website, she crashed it down when we were away for a few hours, but all was not lost, and we were able to get help bringing it back up. 

I hope you and mommy can still see YOUR LITTLE MISS ADORABLE, and that everything is restored there in the land of sand.   If you or anyone is having difficulty you will have to let her know….But all should be well… I hope.  I have such important stuff to get out in my love letters that I will insist she fix it asapp.   (As soon as Princess Possible)  Until tomorrow, I am –  as always  – your little princess, your Little Miss Adorable, your daughter,

Guillianna!

Teaching the Campers!

Lisa August 20, 2009 0Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

We are packing up and heading back to camp in the morning, so today, even though it rained, we had a totally awesome time with GGma and Great Papa.   The ‘Beast’ was extra busy today and so Nana helped me put the photo shoot into a gallery for you to view.   I hope you love the photos, because they are all of me!   Before you see them though I have to tell you, I am working very hard at teaching all the campers here a new trick.    I think they get it though… here it is on video for you to enjoy.    I have officially taught THEM how to play peek-a-boo.   Poppy says he has not heard GG-ma laugh like this in a while.  I am glad that I can ‘entertain’ them, and I think, between me teaching them peek a boo, and the other campers teaching them a new game of cards… GG-ma and Great Papa had a nice visit in the North.   I know we all did.  

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Here are a few of my photos from today’s shoot.   Nana can never EVER decide which ones you would like to see the most, she just figures, you want to see as much of me as possible, and WHO WOULDN’T?    I am definately shooting for most photographed baby, and lovin’ every single minute of it.   Mr. Nikon and I… we have a thing goin’ on, and the end result… A LITTLE PIECE OF PRINCESS PHOTO heaven!

Nana put up a bunch since tomorrow, we will be in the car for most of the day, and she will not have many photo opportunities… rest assured though she will have a few… and will make sure to send off my love letter to you.  But she is posting extra today so you will SMILE – SMILE – smile, just like me!

Until tommorrow… enjoy these, and know  – I   L O V E   Y O U !

I love you so very much, and hope you will sleep well knowing I am safe and happy.   I cannot wait until we are all together again, and hope you will always know, that today and always, I am your Little Miss Adorable, your sweet little PEEK A BOO’in baby…

Guillianna!

Crawl? Look at me walk, IN WATER!

Lisa August 20, 2009 2Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

It is Wednesday, and we are fixin’ to go back to camp Nana, but before we do, we have a few last items on our CAMPER ‘to do’ list.   Today… the other campers went up the river in Kayaks!   Great Papa was a kayak’in too, pretty awesome.   Nana , GG-ma and I, well we watched and took a few shots with the ‘beast’.  We were having fun hangin back, and nearly missed my peeps as they passed….  here are Poppy, Uncle Nick and Aunt Alyx, with Aunt Mikayla and Great Papa.   Hmmmm….  Aunt Arri and Aunt Allyssa where are you?    Should we call the river police?

Truth is, none of the kayaker’s  were  traveling fast…. Nana just missed them as they passed by.   Lucky for us, Aunt Arrianna and Aunt Allyssa were bringing up the rear!   Or you’d have missed the Kayak experience all together.  Any way, since this web page is ALL ABOUT ME, let’s get to it… the important issues of the day….. me, me  AND … ME!

On a special note, I have a few  little tid bits to pass on…

Maddie, my GoldFish Mini Guppy friend, (who by the way wrote to me, so excited) tells me they have missed me in class.   I have been practicing here in the north, and will be back to class next week to show off my skills.  

My cousin Missy… she sent me a very cool e-mail she had been working on.. and let’s just say… I may replace Nana and her transcription skills for my love letters to you guys.   Missy made a very cool montage of ME…. that with out a doubt proves she is a very loyal princess peep.   I cannot wait to meet her.   Nana may just have to mind her P’s and Q’s or she may be out of a job…. Missy and I… well who knows what we could do…  hey, I was thinking how do you Californians tell people where they live…. with out the ‘mitten’?   THANK YOU MISSY, I WILL MAKE SURE MY MOM AND DAD SEE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR ME! 

Meanwhile… check this out… I walked today.  CRAWLING… well it is totally over rated, I discovered mobility via my own two feet.   Today at the pool I was cruisin’ along in my suped up SKY FLYER, and I my little tootsies were kicking along when suddenly… they became functional little walkers… and I walked and walked around the pool…and if NO FUN NANA with her 900,000 block sunscreen would let me –  I’d have stayed in there for hours….

The Aunts and Uncle, formed a circle of trust, around me, and I tooled around…. like a triathalete….  the three events… float a bit, walk a bit, and nibble on the Sky Flyer Floatation device.   GOLD MEDALIST to be sure. 

Yea this is me, walking away from the beast, and Nana… catch me if you can Nana… hee hee hee…  it won’t be long before I figure this leg foot thingy out on land… you just wait and see.  

Can you see the wheels turning…

These two guys…

my new friends…

THEY ARE GOING TO BE REALLY USEFUL…

Nana better get a new pair of runnin’ shoes, cause …

I am one brave kid, who loves to explore and keeps herself VERY VERY busy.

Soon   VERY SOON I plan on mastering this geting around thing.   If I don’t like what Nana is slingin’ at Camp, well I’ll just walk myself right over to GG-ma’s place!   Speaking of walking…. well GG-ma and Great Papa found me the cutest thing ever today… ‘baby needs a new pair of shoes’  takes on a new meaning… they take it literally… and look what I got.   MOCCASINS, princess pink suede Minnetonka Moccasins!  HOW COOL is that.   Move over BLUE SUEDE…. Gugu’s got a new pair of shoes…

I was thinking about it, and I bet these things will come in real handy with this whole  WALKING thing!

I am hoping you can see that I am doing so very good, and grown fast.  I hope you are enjoying these photo shoots.   We are hoping it makes the days go by a bit faster for both th of you.  Before I leave you tonight, I have a few more pictures to make you smile.  

and then there is me… AGAIN… 

Today, Mom and Dad, the older campers got to explore the dunes of sand up here in the north… ANOTHER PLACE MOMMY USED TO GO, and will bring me and daddy to one day… so we too can climb and play in the sand….

As you can see all is well here… and as the sun sets in Northern Michigan,

I think of you both.    Until tomorrow… please know that I am so lucky to be your Little Miss Adorable, your ‘tuckered out’ little pool walkin’ baby…

Guillianna!

Well Yesterday was DEER, and Today there are DEAR!

Lisa August 18, 2009 6Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

Today was a wierd day up in the Northern parts of Michigumme. (yea, I said it, and yea, I may have been in the woods too long…) For Nana, a true low point.   No deer in the window today, and other “Nana Stuff”, that’s what we campers call it when Nana is in a mood.   We just kick back and say… yea it’s Nana Stuff again, and wait for it to pass.   Today ended up pretty cool.  Yesterday may have been deer in the window, TODAY was DEAR people coming to visit!   How cool is this, GG-ma and Great Papa came all this way to hang with me and the campers, or is it the campers and I?    Either way… take a look at this… if Nana was having a NANA MOMENT, well they cured her of her “Nana Stuff” issues.

However, once we finished our travels and the Nana nonsense…. I found myself in a quandry.    I have a question… can you tell…?

See, here I am, with all my peeps around, and they think if they put that little lens cap thingy I play with out on the table, I will hike on over to it, in a “crawling’ fashion.  

they may have to reconsider… since as a princess, I know one thing… if I tire, I can just roll on over, and twenty sets of hands will catch my little head, and most likely hand me the little lens cap when I ‘ask’ for it.   So I negotiated a deal… a few photo op’s in return for a repreve

on the CRAWLING THING for today, in exchange for a few AWESOME PHOTOS…. good deal huh ? 

I am really far more into the whole you bring it to me thing than me working like a dog to go get something.   I mean – seriously… do you really grasp how much I have to do in order to crawl?   WELL I DO, and it is a lot of stuff.    It’s one thing for nana to have to deal with NANA STUFF, but I am too little to deal with GUILLIANNA STUFF.   I say keep it simple…I’ll  just roll over, and they –   who ever, comes to me…. like this.. some folks say, ‘if you got it, flaunt it”, well I say, yea I got it, and if I target the right people, eh hem… hint -hint…. my little GG-parents…. I can work it….

Well incase you cannot see it all over their faces… I have em, hook line and sinker.  That whole Little Miss Adorable thing… well it works like a charm.  I went for a ride in my car today… lookin’ pretty cool behind my Pooh Cruiser… hey,  is that a pun?

I had an awesome day, and just want you to know that I love you both.   I am told we will see sand dunes in the next few days, and Nana says, I love you guys a bazillion times more than there are granules of sand at the Sleeping Bear Dunes.   Mommy used to climb them with her sisters and brother… one day… I plan to race daddy to the top.   For now, I am having a blast…. Look out HERE I COME!

Hugs and Kisses to both of you all the way in the real land of sand…and may you have sweet dreams day and night of me… your Little Miss Adorable, your princess daughter,

Guillianna!

Nana says… the worst part of her trip here is over, and after we pick up a few things and and schedule a moving truck for the last of the the “stuff'” we are on our way back to camp.   She wants my GGparents, when they go back and see my love letters, she hopes they will  know… they are so DEAR.  Thank you for making the trip… Thanks for showing all the campers, and my mom and dad what being part of a family is all about.   HUGS AND KISSES… and a special birthday wish to Cuz Bryan and Cuz Steven.    I hope Cuz Rachel feels better soon too.  So many well wishes, I know… but in light of the fact that we are taking time out to say how much we appreciate being a family… I thought I would fly an internet ‘squeeze’ out to ya’ll from DEAR/DEER country.