I'm sneaky

today was Aria's first class picture day! When she woke up this morning I told her, and asked if she could show me a big smile, she said "cheese!" I don't know where she learned that one...

We made sure that she would be as cute as can be, Dana even ironed her dress. it wasn't a super fancy dress, but Aria doesn't care - she really loves dresses these days. When she's getting dressed, if she has a choice, it's usually "pretty dress". well this was a pretty pink dress, so when she saw it this morning, she was pulling off her shirt in no time!

When I got her to school, they were bringing in her class two at a time, so I said my goodbyes and hid around the corner so i could see Aria get her picture taken. I was wondering how it would go. part of me thought we would get pictures of her crying or running up to the camera asking to "see! see! see pictures!"

the room was pretty dark and with the umbrella lights and backdrop, she did get a little scared, so her teacher sat down with her and watched a couple other kids get their pictures taken. she sat there quietly, and watched with what turned into excitement when she saw that the photographer and assistants had an elmo doll who held a feather and wanted to tickle, a scooby doo who liked to sit on top of the photographer's head, and various other fun toys.

towards the end of the other kids' photo session, I heard Aria exclaim "I have a pretty dress!" and then "Aria's turn next?" She was led to the chair where she hopped up and allowed complete strangers to position her legs and hands and then proceeded to smile and giggle at the feather holding elmo! Her teacher was in stitches and how giggly she got, and i couldn't help smiling. we can't wait to see the pictures - they took about 15 or so.

fun with Grandma and Grandpa

The other week, my parents came over for the day. Aria was napping, so we played Bananagrams, a fun, fast scrabble-like game. I won't go into who won the most games, or who was the only person not to win a game...
:-)

When Aria woke up, Grandma and Grandpa entertained Aria with some singing and dancing!

Here's Pop-pop singing the "Which Witch" song (complete with broomstick). she loves this song and asks us to sing it every day!Grandma singing the "Clap your hands" song, while Aria sings and dances along!

Aria loves being read to!

All in all, a fun day. yummy dinner (if i do say so myself) and yummy dessert. we're so blessed to have both sets of grandparents so close (relatively) to us. Aria will have many years of fun memories!

braids!

braids are cute! and mommy loves braiding hair. but Aria doesn't like anything in her hair most of the time. she let Dana braid her hair, for this picture. but when it was done, she freaked out and started pulling at the braid like it was a hair clip, so we had to undo it. someday she'll like her hair braided or clipped. or maybe i'll shave it off like mine! j/k

pink eye

Aria has pink eye again. and when i told one of my friends this, he jokingly said "she's got poop* in the eye!" i laughed, but then it occurred to me that some people might think this is how you get pink eye. well that's the bacterial version which may or may not be caused by poop, and is less common than the viral version. the bacterial version causes more puss and goop, while the viral version has a watery discharge. the viral version is related to the common cold.

to sum it all up: my daughter does not have poop in her eye. :-)
and if you have a cold, don't rub your snot in your eye.

*poop was not the word used...

shout outs

here's some shout outs! The grandma and pop pop one is for all four of you :-)

Grandma and Pop Pop: watch her face as she forgets who else she's supposed to say hi to!

Aunt Jennine: sometimes she says "there's Aunt Jennine's car!"

Tia Maria and Uncle David

Cousin Felipe

counting

our little counter, we just have to work on the perpetual-ness of it! (that and she likes to skip 2 for some reason, but she definitely knows what 2 means)

Labor Day Weekend

We had a really nice Labor Day weekend at my parent's Cottage. Here are some pictures from the trip...

Aria enjoys playing on the beach in the sand.

Aria takes a moment to relax with Daddy. Doesn't she look comfortable?

"Weeeeee, again!"

Pop Pop showed Aria how to fish (so cute).

We got on the boat to test out our fishing skills.

Curly Girls

Yum! Homemade icecream is the best.