Practicing the Wave!

Lisa February 27, 2009 1Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

Here I am practicing my “Princess Wave”, your little Glamour Girl!   I have been here in Michigan for about two weeks now and am doing well at Camp Nana’s.   Lots of  kissing going on and I have lost track of the number of kisses that I am adorned with… but it is a lot…. more than a lot…everyone is talking about billions in bail out money, well if I had a penny for every kiss Nana and the family are planting on my princess cheeks, I could bail everyone out!

Today was the day that President Obama says he is beginning the plan to remove soldiers from Iraq.   I know you and dad are going there and have important work, but was somehow hoping by a miracle you would not have to go at all.    Nana says never stop wishing for good things to happen.   I will be patient, and Nana says you will get to come and visit me when you get R&R.   I think I prefer the initials P.D. to R & R. 

What does P.D. stand for?   I think you are not going to get R & R, you are going to have Princess Days!   Todays photos show me in my sparkly stretch pants and glimmery tee shirt.  I must say… I AM MAJORLY “ADORABLE”…  what do you think?…

From the tip of my toes to my tiny princess nose… I am all about the glam.

With glitter pants, and ruffle socks, I am a little heartbreaker.

(Feel sorry for you dad and mom too… when the teenage years hit….look out…my princess intuition tells me I could be a handful… this diva thing is pretty hard to stop once it has begun, and … let’s just say.. IT HAS BEGUN!

I love you both, and hope you are getting ready to come and see me.   Pack up your stuff and come on up… it will be so much fun taking some pictures with you and dad. 

I am going to be three months old in a few days, and I am already preparing for the Princess-versary.    Thats what I call them… on the fourth of every month Nana says day is my PRINCESS-versary.   When I turn one… and you are here on your P.D.  aka “R&R” we will celebrate the PRINCESS BIRTHDAY, but since I love any day that honors me, well I will take PRINCESSVERSARIES  AS OFTEN AS I CAN GET THEM.  I will post something special on each princess-versary for you to read…. let’s see that means I have about NINE princess versaries before the big HAPPY BIRTHDAYTO ME!    Hey mom, I have a question, what does one do  – on a princess-versary…. ?  (I bet you have some good ideas!  All your sisters tell me you were the princess here until ME)  Well hope you had a great day, and know I am thinking about you.  I love you both very much, and am sending glamour girl hugs and kisses your way… until tomorrow, Little Miss Adorable, your daughter,

Guillianna!

The doctor really helped me!

Lisa February 26, 2009 2Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

I am feeling good today!   My doctor gave me a special medicine for my tummy and boy do I feel better.   I am sending you a letter to say that today I ate every feeding without spitting up any of it, or having problems with “gas”.  I know that is a lot of information, and doesn’t sound like a princess, but I feel like one today.    Today Nana and I hung out at the house, and in the morning Aunt Allyssa and Aunt Mikayla were off school and stayed with me.   It was so much fun.   

After Nana bundled me up we got to go for a walk in my stroller.  I didn’t want them to leave for work… but being “adored” by both of them all morning made me feel special.  After they left Aunt Arri came and she took over where they left off…. I love all the attention!  To top off the day, Great Aunt Pam drove again across town to visit and help out Nana…

The visits with her are awesome because she knows all about PRINCESS pleasing… she holds me like a princess, she kisses me, and plays with me.  We all ate dinner together and I smiled for everyone again while they bathed me!    To all my loyal readers, today may not sound like anything exciting… for me… it was another day of happy times, and most important A DAY FREE OF BELLY ISSUES.  

I know it will come as a shock, but there are pictures of the day for you… enjoy them, and know that I am thinking of you and if you can believe it we have gotten to the end of another week already.   You will be on leave, and packing up our home in no time… then on your way to snuggle me and see how I am doing in person.   Until then, I will continue to send hugs and kisses like this hoping you will know and feel my love.  

I am always watching and learning.  I am starting to really follow things going on around me, and my neck muscles are getting so strong.  

Yes, this it is me, in my PINK PARTY SHOES, and ruffled socks…

Aunt Mikayla is holding me so you could see my “think spring” outfit.

Nana says you will be here in a few weeks and hopefully it will be more spring like in Michigan.   I would not count on it though, it is Michigan afterall, and I think you should just hope we don’t get more snow when you come…

I have a few more shots for you taken today…

A picture is worth a thousand words right?   Well if that is true, I am TOTALLY convinced Nana has enough “words” for a thesis….  A VERY AWESOME AND ALL ABOUT ME THESIS!  JUST IMAGINE IF EVERY SINGLE PHOTO IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS… AND THEY ARE ALL ABOUT ME… we need a name for my “thesis”  too bad “The Princess Diaries” is taken… oh well, here for you to enjoy, are just a few of  pictures from today!  I LOVE YOU BOTH!

Good bye for now, and I will be sure to have more of my ‘adorableness’ on for you tomorrow.  Love always, Little Miss Adorable, your daughter,

Guillianna!

Look at me…. am I cute or what?

Lisa February 25, 2009 1Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,  Today I went to the pediatrician for a weigh in.   I am doing okay,and the doctor is keeping me on this formula.  

I will keep trying this for another week, and then I will go back and see him.  He wants to see that I am not having any belly pain, and that I am growing and being the happiest little princess I can be.

Today after the doctor, I was able to meet my Grandpa. We had lunch with Nana and Aunt Mikayla at Olga’s.  I, was once again, a star attraction.   All the people in Olgas said hello to me, and they went on to say I was so cute.   My princess aura is amazing.  It does not seem to matter where I go, or what we do, people swarm me… and I LIKE IT.  

I had my usual for lunch, but have to say, the highlight of my lunch was that even though he is really a busy guy, my grandpa sat there and fed me the entire meal.  He also tries so hard to get me to burp, but I tend to be a little stingy about just burping for anyone.

I go back to the pediatrician in one week to check how I am doing with the formula one more time.   They are very nice there and are watching me carefully.  This makes Nana happy, and I know that mom would love that they are comprehensive in making sure I am closely watched. 

I am going to share a few more pictures of me from today, if you think Nana can spare em, geez…. I am telling you someone needs to take that camera away for a while.   

I think I am going to have a dimple on my left cheek… like dad! Every once in a while it is really noticable, and personally I think it  makes me even more adorable. 

And then there was this one….

 This little chair is where one of Nana’s favorite stuffed bears once sat…

ONCE SAT….

It is no longer the little bear chair…

It is GuGu Bears’ Chair!

Can you believe I now have my own rocking chair?  AND NO DAD YOUR BUTT CANNOT FIT IN IT, so no trying. 

Do you think the Nike people will have a problem with my Adidas attire…?

Love you very much,

Little Miss Adorable, Your Daughter, Guillianna!

Dear Mom & Dear Dad, Individual Love Letters!

Lisa February 24, 2009 0Comments

Dear Mom, today Nana told me a story about you.  She told me about how much she and dad wanted to be with you and could not be for a whole year- that you were in Romania.   She told me about how she wrote letters too, hundreds and hundreds of letters, trying to get you home to her sooner.   Now,  she helps me write letters to you trying to make you and I be together even though we are far apart.   Nana says that writing letters helped and eventually the two of you were in the same place at the same time…

So today I am writing  a letter to each you and dad, so you can both feel special, like I do, cool plan huh? I thought of it myself! (okay, so Nana may have thought of it, but I am the inspiration!) 

Nana says when you were little, you were always trying to help her out.   She says you would sit in her lap and draw with her, and that once here in the United States you went shopping with her all the time.  She says you would help make salad dressing for dinner and share cucumbers with her.   I know all about how it took nearly a year before she was able to get you and Aunt Mikayla  home to live with my other aunts.  She says that while you were in Romania, you waited patiently, and you were probably so afraid she would not ever come back, (she also says you would never show it, because even then you were ARMY STRONG  and would not let anyone know if you were afraid).   But then you learned  MOM’S NEVER LEAVE THEIR CHILDREN!  A child may have to go physically with out a mom or dad,  but the love of a parent ensures that their children are never ever left behind.     No matter where a mom is, her child is always in her heart.   Nana says that sometimes it seems as though a mom may not be there.   Like when you were really small, but that your mom TRULY was ALWAYS there, SHE NEVER ABANDONED YOU but instead she saw to it that you would grow up in a free world, where the possibilities for you and your happiness would be endless.   Nana says, she ‘felt’ your mom with her, and she helped Nana find a way to get you here… and it worked….she says your mom sacrificed so much for her daughters, and now you are making the huge sacrifice to spend these next days doing that very same thing… 

ISNT THAT CRAZY, WE ARE SO SIMILAR, just like your mom did, ‘MY MOM”  is having to part with her little princess so your “little miss” can grow up in a free world, where my possibilities are endless!  CRAZY! 

Just a reminder tomorrow  at 11:15am I go back to the pediatrician to get weighed and see how the formula is working for me.   I will let you know when I get home…. but I am certain my little princess weight is perfect…

Dear Dad, 

How is Alabama? I bet you are missing mom even more than I am, and since Nana and Pops are not there to burp you, change you, feed you and take five million pictures of you a day huh?   I hope you get back to Fort Hood soon, and safely and when you do I need you to hug mom for me.   If she is really missing me, you can try spitting up on her shoulder but you have to have formula first okay? 

So – Pops says being a “dad” is the best thing that ever happened to him.  He says a dad loves their kid(s) so much that he will do everything he can to give them the all love,and all of things they need.   (Sad for you, that in having a PRINCESS, I may not be shy in showing you  MANY MANY “REQUIRED” THINGS I NEED, none of which have the word video game on them, more like girly girly princess stuff… but you need not worry I will share things like my tiara with you!)  Seriously… he says that you are working hard right now, AND THAT YOU DO IT SO I CAN BE SAFE, FREE AND TAKEN CARE OF!  I bet that being a big tough guy all the time is quite a job too.   You probably cannot show your true self, sitting alone babbling, with huge crocodile tears streaming down, becuase we are parted…. you have to keep up that SOLDIER strong exterior.   But I know daddy, you are missing your little princess, and I am writing you and giving you a “VIRTUAL” hug… to give you all the strength and courage it takes to be without me.   If you want I can ship you formula, or something else that reminds you of me… ? 

I hear we have a date in a few weeks… I look forward to seeing you and having you rub my back ( you can get me to burp so good,  I do it just so you can enjoy the sweet smell of formula, cuz thats what a princess does, she  makes all her loyal subjects get something special out of being around her)  I also look forward to you making me laugh, and smile.   No one here can make some of the silly faces you make for me… don’t get me wrong there are some funny people here… but no one who can make me laugh like you dad…

I watch the cat you call princess all the time.   Very cool kitty.   Mr. Griff is saving some of his extra gooey and thick slime just for you when you come… and Aunt Arri says she is going to “take you” in some video thingy. 

Until I write again, please remember BOTH OF YOU, that your princess is doing just fine… and ” little miss” adorable, loves you both…

Your daughter, Guilliana

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P.S.   Still no joke, this state is shaped like a mitten, just so that you remember to wear them if you live here…. VERY COLD… 

Seems my clothing even serves an educational purpose NOTE: outline of MITTEN ON FRONT OF ME TO remember bring the darn mittens where ever you go….