Taking time to smell the roses!

Taking time to smell the roses!

Dear Mom and Dad,

Trying to smell the roses.... but.... they aren't real so.... I am not getting this whole SMELL THE ROSES THING!

Today was a stay at home day,  and I just hung with my peeps here at Camp Nana.  The dogs, well they were their usual slobbering and barking selves… the kitties, were good too.  Grizzy is currently on Prozac … she is doing better than she was… even if Nana is not real cool with medicating her, she figures it is better than having her continue having some of the kitty issues she was having.   All in all the animals are still running the zoo. 

I'm thinking maybe I prefer a toy to the roses thing.

We are getting ready for the big 7TH PRINCESS-VERSARY here at camp.  The day is usually pretty important in these parts…. THEY CALL IT ‘FLAGGIN’ DAY’.   Remember my Guillianna pins… well Nana had a bunch made, and we plan on getting up really early in the morning…. and delivering a US flag to as many people as we have flags for!     They say it is fun… I am just hoping that all we do is “flag”.   I mean if this event includes Nana singing…. OH SAY CAN YOU SEE…. or ‘She’s a Grand Old Flag’  well let’s just say… it could be a long day!   I mean do you know just how many YANKEE DOODLE DANDY SONGS NANA KNOWS?   Scary…

I am so cute Nana can't decide which photos to use for my love letter... so you will get all of them!

As for me, I am game… anytime I get to ride in a car, I am diggin’ it.  I am also on the early riser list… so getting up early is a piece of cake.

Livin' up to my nick name DROOLIANNA!

Here I am today, what do you think… don’t I look exceptionally cute mom… I have on your favorite outfit.   This is an action shot….  I call this shot….”DROOLIN’ “…  and I can “reach” for things now too… look Mom and Dad…

I have mastered the whole.... "reaching skill"!   See me reach!   Woo woo!

As you can see, still sporting the bluest of eyes… and cutest smile ever.

How about a cheek to plant a kiss on?    I think you should...Nana does ALL THE TIME!

 My cheeks are so kissable that someone may just have to call for back up if Nana plants one more kissing spree on my cheeks… jeez I am surprised there is anything left…. she gives me a bazillion a day for each you and daddy… that’s like TWO BAZILLLION KISSES A DAY.     So here is my day at a glance….enjoy Mom and Dad, and know I love you and as always am your Little Miss Adorable, your daughter,

Guillianna!   P.S.  Mom and Dad, my referral came through to get my cardiology appointment.  I go on July 16th.   Aunt Nori, THANK YOU so much for the adorable t-shirt and bib… I will model it for you soon.   xoxo

Great Grandma Sally Leaves…

A kiss goodbye..... Great Grandma is going home.... tear...

Hello Mom and Dad,

Nana, Poppy and I took Great Grandma to the airport this morning.   First Nana and the beast snapped up a few photos of the two of us before she left.                 

I am wearing the antique dress she sent mommy.... see I have really grown..

I put on the pretty antique dress Great Grandma sent me in Killeen, the one that one of her friends cross stitched on for me.

 

I wanted to make Great Grandma smile,

and it worked.

 

Her and I only had a short time to visit, but she sure did make me smile.

 

She says you and daddy have the sweetest baby!

But we knew that didn’t we.   Here I am being ‘sweet’!

I am making Great Grandma Sally laugh!

We had a pretty good day, I meet GG-ma and Great Papa for brunch after our airport run, and then all my aunts and uncle went to an ice arena to skate with cousins Steven and Bryan, then they got to have dinner with GG-ma and Great Papa.  We stayed back at Camp Nana, with a bazillion things to do, and guess what… MOMMY CALLED.  I was not my talkative self but was grinning the whole time I was listening to her voice on speaker phone.

Look at me, hanging out with my great grandma!

My NanaCam is finally working in my crib area… so if you need the pass code, just contact Nana she will help you be able to see me anytime you can get to the internet.  

I have had a great day… and whilethere are still no signs of teeth, I am drooling up a storm lately.   I hope you are both doing well, and enjoy seeing my photos from the day…. (if Nana ever fixes the computer) 

I love you both very much, and as always am your Little Miss Adorable, your daughter,

One last kiss good bye!   Love you Great Grandma, try not to worry everthing will be okay!

Guillianna…

 

 

Sorry again for the delayed photos, but we should be up and running now… with getting the photos up

and with

the NanaCam!

 

So when you can please call Nana so she can tell you how to log on to it.

Love you both very much!

I sat in a big girl chair tonight!

Hello Mama and Daddy...Hey Mom and Dad,

Today is Saturday, and Great Grandma Sally has returned from Northern Michigan for a day before she returns to Washington.   I went to dinner with Great Grandma and we had a nice time.    She says hello to you both, and that she hopes you are home soon.

Me, laughing.... I crack myself up like this all the time...

Tonight was my first time sitting at the dinner table like a big girl.  I sat in a high chair for about 15 minutes.  I was awesome!

Sitting at the table with the big kids....

Grandma Sally took all of us to dinner before she returns tomorrow morning to Grumpy in Washington.  It was really nice seeing her.  Here I am with her feeding me…. she thinks I am adorable too.

Great Grandma and I.... having a Bob!

Nana is having all kinds of technical problems with her computer .   So you will have to come back and visit this love letter if you want to see a photo of me sitting for dinner like a big girl.

I like this... now I am able to see everything...

I love you both very much, and as always am your Little Miss Adorable, your daughter…

Lovin being a big girl... I have found new ways to get into trouble.... better move that glass of water... or I will for you!

 

Guillianna!

 

 

 

Sorry the pictures were a little late in getting posted, but the internet was not up, and Nana tried to get them up as soon as it was back on line… Sorry!

Just another day…or is it?

 

I love being outside!

Dear Mom and Dad, it is Friday, and while we could say it is just another day, it is not.   Every day is an important day according to Nana…

She tells me there are a lot of reasons that every day is important.  For example today is our cuz Nancy’s birthday.   She and her mom are far apart today, like I am from you, and everyone knows how hard it is to be apart.  So before I get to involved with my letter, I am sending out A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY MESSAGE to cousin Nancy and saying how awesome it is that Aunt Ida  brought her to the world just a bit ago… and we are all blessed because of it!   The smiles she has brought to the faces of so many people, the kindness and love that this world is so desparately in need of… these are all gifts…. and all because  a few years ago, on one special June day…. a little princess was born…

Nancy at 5, we tried to get a photo of Aunt Ida holding baby Nancy... but this is adorable too!

Some people think and they wonder if they made a difference.  We hear about the passing of Micheal Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, or Ed McMahon, and we think about these lives… Nana says never forget that all of us have a made a great contribution though.  IMPORTANT PEOPLE, or fame is… grandparents and parents just to name a few… and the difference they make in the lives of thier kids is truely the important stuff of life!  These sacrifices  – they may sometimes go without notice, but make no mistake MOM and DAD, I will always know the sacrifices you have made for me… and it is because of those sacrifices, that I AM.  YOU WILL ALWAYS BE, MY HERO’S, and these love letters will always be here for me to read over and over through time!  Just like everyone else on this planet, we all have families… and in those families, there are people like Aunt Ida, who have sacrificed so much for those she loves, her children, as HAVE  all  of my relatives accross this country and in Romania – have for theirs…  each one making a huge contribution to humanity and giving the the ultimate gift… their love. 

Nana had to go up to Northern Michigan the other day because her mom, Great Grandma, has very serious problems with her son.    The one thing this reminds us all of mom and dad, is that the world is so full of problems, and worries, that SOMETIMES it is so nice when someone is able to enjoy the simple things life has to offer.   Great Grandma Sally is so very tired, and worked so very hard all her life with the hope to give her kids the best life possible.   She did just that, and sometimes things turn – and they becomed so difficult to understand and they make life extremely hard.   In some cases, it is not in our control, and others, it is.   So we learn to accept the things that are not in our power, and we learn to change the things that are.   Nana said that Aunt Ida and her daughter have faced all of the challenges life tends to put before us, and always both carry smiles.   Same with Great Grandma Sally.   She still smiles, and makes me laugh, and plays with me, even when her heart is broken, and she feels she cannot go forward… she does.    I write about this because, I know you are both very sad with me in Michigan and you so far…. but like I promised, I am just waiting my time out here at camp, and soon I am going to be with you ALWAYS…. and this hard journey will be over.  Until that day, I am working very hard on growing and learning.  

Today was not just any day… it is not just Friday, or a day for missing each other, it is a day I have mastered a new skill.   Tell me what you see..

I am sitting up by myself... no hands, no one holding me!  Yea!

Here I am sitting up all by myself, no one holding me, and not using my hands.   You see today, and everyday, is special.  It doesn’t matter where we are, or what is going on in the world, we have to learn to appreciate the little things in life… they will make us smile.   A Happy Birthday wish, a little ‘passy’ time…

Me admiring my 'passy'

Lately if Nana puts me in my crib, I find a way to scoot around and put my legs and head where my arms should be…. and my arms where my head and feet should be…

After I scoot all over I laugh, cause Nana moves me back, and I do it again!

Here are more of me today outside…

Grass is amazing!This grass is just awesome…

 

I know it is just grass, but I love touching it.

 

Look at me sitting by myself.

 

I am so big…

and so talented…

 

Look at this…

Notice no one around... me sitting so big... no help at all!

This is me, and the grass… who needs toys when there is grass to be played with.   Nana let me touch it, but made me sit on this thingy…. that is why I call her NO FUN NANA!

Who knows maybe I will be into landscape design or something... I love it out here!

 

Actually, she does let me come out and play, and today she and I just hung out in the grass…

so… I should be nice.

 

I let her and the Nikon Beast take some photos, and she let me see the lens cap..

 

Silly Nana, didn’t you know where that would end up..

Here is what I think of the Beast!

Take that Nikon Beast!

Today is not just another day, we have to enjoy the simple things in life. Grass, our relatives, birthdays, passy’s and photos… we may be miles apart… but we are so lucky to be able to see photos, and hear voices on the phone.  We are so lucky that my situs inversus has not caused me problems, but makes me a special princess for you to love for a lifetime!  Nana is trying to finish her chapters that make the story of us, I, Mom and Dad, plan on writing the chapters of us for years to come, and today’s entry, is my way of  sharing with you that TODAY IS TRULY NOT JUST ANOTHER DAY… it is one more day closer to being with you!   Hugs and kisses, from your Little Miss Adorable, your daughter,

Little Miss....no nap!

Guillanna!  P.S.  To my Gappy, you too are making a huge sacrifice and you and your daughter will be far apart soon, but know that Nana say’s you will always be closer than you know.   My mom is in Iraq, but I live in her heart every minute of every day, just like my cuz Heather will stay in yours.   Now you can vacation in the Carolina’s… and I bet you and your daughter will never ever let distance get in the way of love… just like me and my parents.   Where there is a will there is a way… and I am just very glad to have modern technology to help me show my love to my Mom and Dad.  Hugs to Heather from all of us at CAMP NANA.    (Tissues available at camp directors office if needed)