The first day of my very first ‘Spring’!

Lisa March 21, 2009 1Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

Today is March 21rst, which means I have begun my first spring ever… and it is also Great Grandma Sharyn’s birthday!   This is me just after I was born, Nana and that black camera in my face already!  Do you think I have changed?   If you can believe it, here in Michigan, there were flurries this morning, and yet it is suppossed to get into the 50’s today.  GOTTA LOVE MICHIGAN!

I am so glad your cold is better daddy, and I hope mommy is feeling better too.  

Today we stayed home and I was weaned off a little of my stomach medicine.   So I was a little sensitive.   Please know I am okay though.  The medicine makes me tired, so it is good to have less  – if I can.   I do grasp at my bottle daddy, but I can’t hold it by myself yet.   I have not yet begun to roll over, but I am getting close… I definately scoot all over my crib… I start at the top of it and by the time Nana gets me out, I am at the bottom.   Last night I went to sleep at midnight, and I did not wake up until about 5:30 am.  SHOCKING… but true.   I then stayed up until about noon, and then took a short nap.    I was really tired yesterday, maybe from our trip to the hospital to visit Mr. Tom and Ms. Pat.  (Whom we are all saying our prayers for… )

I am sorry that mommy had sad news from Nana yesterday too, and we all hope she is okay.  Daddy, please hug her for us, and tell her how much we love her okay?  Nana tells me that life is very hard, but when you are a princess, and you have a mommy and daddy, with all the family I seem to have lovin’ on me, I think life is great, and I for one am so happy that mommy came to be Nana’s girl, and met you, and GAVE ME MY PRINCESS LIFE.    It is a very complicated thing, ‘life’… but if you were me, right here, right now, and you saw all the wonderful things that I see, and that I have to look forward to.   Things like going to the park with daddy and mom, going to the zoo, learning to swim, ride a bike, parties, and playing games, going to climb sand dunes, and movies, and maybe even Disney World one day… there are so many great things that Nana and Poppy did with mom, that one day you guys will do with me, and all because of  this crazy thing called ‘LIFE’.  So many great things to do together… Sometimes choices are made for us, and other times we make choices… but destiny, or things that ‘have been’, from the lives of many people from Romania to the lives of many in the USA,  have all  intertwined and become… my princess world.   I am very lucky.  If I could, I would say Thank you to the great grandparents in Romania who sacrificed so much and made it possilble that I am here today the daughter of  my mom and dad and loved by all who love them… that’s what I say!

So enough heavy stuff, and back to all about me…we had a day of tummy time, and strengthening muscles daddy!  You know… Princess Physical Training … and don’t you worry bout a thing, one day soon, I’ll be runnin’ circles around big cuz Cody, cause it is a known fact… Girls rule, and boys drool…. right now however I drool! 

Poppy and Nana say the website is ALL ABOUT GUILLIANNA, and try to limit their stealing my thunder… so pictures of them…. well they are hard to come by… afterall, wouldn’t you much rather look at a most adorable princess.    Every once in a while I will let them sneak in a photo or so of someone else, but these next months, while you are deployed, you can be certain of one thing… ITS MY FACE THAT YOU WILL SEE AND STORIES ALL ABOUT ME… so you know everything I do, and any little change… the other people here.. BOOOOOORING….

Love you very much mom and dad… KISSES AND HUGS and just think we are days away from being together.  I CAN HARDLY WAIT…  Little Miss Adorable, your daughter,

Guillianna!

Fist full of fun on Friday!

Lisa March 20, 2009 3Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

I heard you got our birthday gift daddy, and hope you take mommy out for dinner before you come visit me… Nana said you will love making trips to your favorite place to eat before you deploy so that is why we sent it early.   Nana is worried that both you and mom have a cold.   She says get plenty of sleep, and eat good healthy food, take vitamins and hopefully you will feel better soon.   Be glad you are not here, Nana can be a little overprotective, and worries easily.  

So my day, hmmmm, kind of boring really.   Heres a news bulletin, we sang today.   We did a little Hokey Pokey, and more patriotic songs… I did work on holding myself up more today, but no daddy to answer your question I am not ready to crawl just yet.   I am working this entire week on EATING MY ENTIRE FIST.   This is my latest craze and I find it quite time consuming.

Nana and Poppy had to visit a very dear friend tonight at the hospital, so we all piled into the car, and to try and help cheer up Miss Pat, we went for a visit.   I was a little bit irritated because when I fell asleep in the car, Nana woke me up… and when I want to sleep…well, I am not a happy to be awakened.   Nana was worried because today I took a very long nap (for me) and then was still ready to sleep all evening.   I am fine though, and cars just make me tired.   Obviously…

Ms. Pat’s husband is very sick, and she is very sad, so it was nice to be able to go and try to help her.   Her husband is one of mommy’s biggest fans… Mr. Tom is a veteran of Vietnam.   He always asks about mommy and really truly was so proud of her work and of her dedication to the Army. 

So since we had a busy day, my photo shoot is of me, just before we got ready for bed…. and I was being entertained by my mobile in my crib, and BY MY HAND!

I am also including a photo of me , and Nana!

Sleeping on Nana, uh yeah, who wouldn’t prefer her mushy squishyness to a lonely crib, and yes momma, I may be getting a little of the ‘S’ WORD,  (shhhhhhh – whisper when you say it…  ‘spoiled’)  but I am pretty sure, there is some NANA/MIMI RULE that says, they (Nana’s and Mimi’s)  cannot ever hold us grandbabies tooooooo much.   The way Nana has it figured, she spends only a few minutes a day holding me FOR HER, and then a few minutes holding me for Mimi, and then a few minutes holding me for Great Grandma Sharyn, and Great Grandma Sally as well as several more minutes holding me for Great Grandmonster Connie… and the list goes on and on… so that TECHNICALLY… SHE is not spoiling me, she is just seeing to it I get held a wee bit by all the “grandma” types in my life, WHO WOULD BE HOLDING ME IF THEY WERE HERE IN MICHIGAN!   WOO WOO…. won’t catch me complaining about that Nana Rule…

Hope the both of you feel better reeeeeally soon… I am doing good and you will be so proud of my when you get here… Love and kisses to you both, Little Miss Adorable, your daughter,

Guillianna!

Nana – is a little slow…

Lisa March 19, 2009 5Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

So Nana has been sending my love letters, and tries to transcribe for me my days…and it seems there have been a few entries where she is just slippin a bit, I mean –  not to be mean, but you know the expression “she’s not the sharpest crayon in the box”, well I say if the crayola wrapper fits…. so be it…  TODAY she just found out that Great Grandmonster Connie -lives in PA.   Not CA!   So… Nana says she is sorry… she just misunderstood, but now that she has it right… HELLO PENNSYLVANIA !  I thought it was hard being a Michigander… or Michiganian… but PENNSYLVANIAN is a mouthful too… much love to y’all.   And please accept Nana’s apology for not being more on top of things… BUT WITH ME AROUND keeping her busy, AND A LITTLE SLEEP DEPRIVATION we should cut her a little slack.   She is sorry, and working on getting to know where everyone lives, and how they are all related…. but yes, she is a little slow.

What is accurate though is … today is ” THURSDAY’S WITH GREAT AUNT PAM” day, and boy was it a treat today.  She gave me “bathtime” and I love bathtime… today however I was more in the mood to sleep, so I wasn’t quite as jovial as usual, but once I got in… it was a blast…

Incase you wanted to know how gorgeous and long my hair really is, here is a photo of my head while being shampoo’geed’.  (Aunt Alyx say’s she never saw that word before, I told her its Princess lingo for SHAMPOO!) 

I love being in the tub, and Aunt Pam loves taking care of me, she is so gentle, and so kind…. I look forward to her being here, because she makes everyone feel so special. 

Hope you liked seeing my bath time.   Nana was careful taking the pictures keeping my princess privacy… and she says, it is the one and ONLY time the web will see this much of PRINCESS GUILLIANNA! 

Tomorrow is Friday, and I sent you a birthday suprise Daddy, I know your special day is next Tuesday, but I wanted you to have a present as soon as possible.   It will arrive by way of FEDEX on Friday, no later than 10:00 a.m., it’s from Nana, Poppy,all the girls, Nick and I,  here in Michigan.  I hope you like it… Love always,  Little Miss Adorable, your daughter,

Guillianna!

Wednesday’s are for Wondering?

Lisa March 18, 2009 2Comments

Dear Mom and Dad…

How are you doing?   I am wondering so many things.  I am wondering exactly how I can get my right fist into my mouth?  It seems that the fascination of the day is MY RIGHT FIST.   I just love it… I love it! I love it ! I love it!  And truthfully, to be perfectly honest, I cannot get enough of it…

So Nana, was up today at 0330 hours… waiting for me ….and I like clock work was up at 0350 hours, with my warning shot ‘squawk’…. which she tries to catch so that Poppy can sleep since he gets up about the time I finish my bottle…   I ate, fell back to sleep and didn’t get up until about 0615 hours…and that my friends is PRETTY AMAZING FOR ME… AND WHEN I DID WAKE UP, I WAS totally SMILES…   I didn’t cry, and was just laughing and smiling for Nana… this is big… I am growing and learning… but LOVE how fast they come when I squawk!

Nana and I just stayed home, no errands to run, and no place to go, so you know what that means… YES…. SINGING, LOTS and LOTS OF IT AND PHOTOS OF COARSE… (really, not as bad as it sounds… she grows on you after a while, and again to be frank… I LIKE A ROUTINE…  one where I don’t have to rush through eating, and I can just have THE ENTIRE DAY REVOLVE AROUND ME… but no worries, I am not getting the “S” word.  You ask – what  is the “S” word…?    (shhhh, I’ll tell you – it’s… ‘spoiled’)

I fell asleep before Aunt Arri and I had a chance to play, darn!

Aunt Arrianna and I have play date plans after she comes home from school…  I hope she doesn’t have homework.   You know how Nana is about that …” HOMEWORK FIRST”…. blah blah blah… one of the camp rules I would change if I were QUEEN.   But alas I am just a “princess”.  I am also loving Michigan spring weather… I love the outdoors… Nana and Poppy walk around on the back yard patio, and I listen to the cars near by driving down the road.   Nana lives by a highway, which is not so cool, but she pretends that the sound is the ocean, and together we listen and I smile… not that I know what an ocean is just yet, I do like noise… but Nana says, someday, I too will fall in love with water, lakes, oceans, bubbling rivers….  see she is rubbing off on me…   So after my quick princess nap I woke for our play date… and since daddy can’t wait to see me in bangs, and my hair to grow, I have a great treat for him…. ready daddy? 

In about two weeks you will be on your way to the ‘Mitten State’… to check out your ‘little pot of gold’, LITTLE MISS McCUTIE at the end of the rainbow…  Since you guys see cousin Cody all the time, I probably won’t look all that different.   But being in your arms again, and smelling my mom and dad ooooooh I can hardly wait… (I know that sounds gross) but oh how I look forward to it, and I plan on giving you the ROYAL PRINCESS TREATMENT,  let out my warning shot, (squawk) and then look out…. it’s, hold me, hold me, hold me…. woo woo….can hardly wait…   Hey guess what, Nana just did the math, and twelve hands will become 16!   HA….. 16 HANDS AT MY DISPOSAL… LOL, I am a princess! Just remember I LOVE YOU, Little Miss Adorable, Your Daughter,

Guillianna!