Happy Ending

This is a photo snapped of Skyla as she watches The Grinch for the second time this hour. She seems to convey her emotions as the movie's evil plot twists and turns into WaaHoo Joy. Lovely. LOVE THAT MOVIE! Thanks Mom.

More Ovaltine...

Skyla's been watching Christmas cartoons today and eating grasshopper cookies.......well, feeding them to herself via drool osmosis on her chin perhaps? I don't recall actually seeing her open her mouth....I just handed them to her and they were gone... Uh, yeah that heart shaped goatee she's created with the remnants is definitely gaze-worthy...

Froggies Take a Bath

Skyla loves big puddles. Everybody passing by loves to watch Skyla loving big puddles. Mommy doesn't have any emotions toward big puddles until she finds them in the house.

Pray for her.

WHO Let It Snow??

Uh....so, all of a sudden the weather fairies must have realized the first day of winter is tomorrow and they better do something to make it look like they've still got their skills or something.... Because now it's cold....and there's SNOW. Here's Brian taking a picture of Skyla and I as we walk down our street to the shops for some family fun. We had that alright! All Skyla wanted to do was make new footprints in the snow. Every single step.

Green Is For Greenway

I wanted to share the glorious green moss that is everywhere. I LOVE it! This is an alley that's very near our house. In the background is a tower that is at one end of our street.

Then we have Sulky Skyla. I just wanted a stinkin picture of how green the grass is! IT REALLY IS GREENER OVER HERE ON THIS SIDE OF THE FENCE!!!!! Or, Pond. Ocean.

THEN we have just an "ordinary" staircase that goes up to our street and right outside our house. I just found this shortcut today. I LIKE IT!!! Oh that moss...

Holly Berry

Well I just wanted you guys to see the holly trees that they have just growing next to the sidewalk here. Very Christmas..E.   Skyla didn't want to stand on the half wall without holding onto me, so I told her to sit, and sorry about the face, but it's either that or no picture. The one above I just cropped my gigantic hand out of.

I'm a Jerk

You know when somebody takes a picture and you're not ready, and it makes your face look like this? Well that's what happened here. And she's sitting on a bar stool, on the wrong part of the bar stool....and I just for some reason feel like laughing at this picture today. Call me a jerk but I do.

Skyla, In the Living Room, With Her Finger

Usually every morning, we have condensation on our windows like this. Today however, I found a strange face in it...... Who done it? Was it Skyla's invisible friend Joey? Or was it another piece of her artwork from her workshop? Or was it.........a ghost.........

Look Mommy, Both Hands

Skyla has been taught to use a knife and fork to cut her food like a proper child in England. Apparently Americans are known for cutting their food with the sides of their forks. I still do. It's brilliant. Less dishes! But enough about me, look at her! All grown up sort of and stuff...

Say Cheese

None other than your precious blondie Skyla took these STUNNING photos of me. I was given each prop, and told exactly how to hold my face and body for each shot. She really surprises me with something new each day. Brian finds her quite enthralling to say the least...

Who Lives In a Pineapple...

Spongebob is Skyla's long lost brother. She lllloves him.Oh and she loves Joey. Her invisible brother. She wouldn't let me go and just say Spongebob..... So here's her drawing.

OH Christmas Tree!

Well, Skyla asked me one night, "Mommy why do Christmas trees always have to be green?" I answered, "Well what color would YOU like them to be?" She said, "Pink! Because I like pink!" So I found one in the grocery store this weekend, while Brian had snuck away to purchase what Mrs. Santa had picked out for Skyla at the store next door, and I asked where the pink Christmas tree boxes were..... They told me they weren't getting anymore in, and the only one left was the display---and they aren't selling it. I told a saddened girl she couldn't have a pink Christmas tree after all, when SUDDENLY the Scottie grew a heart and told me we could have the display for FREE! We needed lights and a stand (unlike the tree would have had should we have purchase it in a box), but no worries! Daddy was back and willing to help solve our little problem. He saw two grinning girls and a squashed, pink Chrismas tree in the cart full of groceries, and made a face no one would be able to describe. We love him. He lets us have our crazy ways sometimes, and therefore.....HERE'S OUR TREE!!!!

Please! Not While I'm WORKING!

Here is Skyla taking up half of our window seat with her toys (the other part is covered with her other half of toys). She sometimes shuts the curtains so she has a "workshop" in which she seems to think I can no longer hear her. I hear one toy call another a "snot" and then the accused toy denies it. This goes on quite a lot. Then I hear the exact dialogue from the movie TINKERBELL, and think I've left the speakers on or something... Well she's in her coat in this picture because we just got back from the post office FROM MAILING ALL Y'ALLs CHRISTMAS PRESENTS!!!! Family's that is. Those of my friends can expect a special something random at a different point in time. :)

Fine. I guess.

I know I have to put pictures up as often as possible, so today I just asked her to go stand next to the presents we've been wrapping for YOU ALL, and she couldn't give me a nice smile. She had to give me these faces. So there, now you can get a hint of what we've been up to.

Move Over Vanna White

Here we have Skyla joyfully pointing out that there are 18 days left until CHRISTMAS!!!! Get pumped y'all, SHE is!

Guilty

This is a piece of our GORGEOUS bedroom----you can't POSSIBLEY get the full feel for this place----but TRUST ME it's so cool... There's a chest in our room that's 300+ YEARS OLD!!!!

Time To Eat

This is our new kitchen! The fridge is hidden in cupboards!

Can You Find Skyla?

This is our awesome new living room in Scotland---it's hard to get it to look awesome in a picture though.....I tried to get the Glasgow City View through the window in this shot-----but..... Just TRY to imagine how great a time we're having. Because we ARE.

Daddy's Girl

Skyla took this picture! Very artsy don't you think? Looks like she might've learned a thing or none from her dad!

Whoopsie Daisy

THIS was funny. I know you've already seen my terrible laundry situation, but this picture is of Skyla as I told her to back up and get out of my way because I was busy and didn't want to keep bumping into her----so she literally BACKED up, and tripped on the laundry basket and fell in. HAHAHHHAHA We both had a great laugh about this one. Classic.