Monday, June 3, 2013

24 months! she's a TWO year old folks!

It 's 8:51 on a Monday morning and toots is still sleeping! Mommy got up when daddy left for work, made coffee, worked out a little, and started editing. This is nice!

I love so much about Kinsley at this age! She is talking more and more and coming up with more of her own thoughts and not just repeating what we say. Yesterday she said "thanks for sharing with me mommy" after I gave her a bite of my food... I was like really?! she's doing really well learning manners.

Things she does/says:

- calls me "babe" (taking after Gray)- it's hilarious

- loves head and shoulders knees and toes, itsy bitsy spider, and ring around the rosy

- toddler pandora station is our new go-to music in the car... she LOVES hearing her songs

- kins: "momma, what you doin" me: "driving, what are you doing?" kins: "good"

- talks on her "phone" in the cutest voices ever... i love hearing her conversations with her phone and dolls... She almost sounds like a happy higher pitched william jung- cracks me up every time when I think of that!

-LOVES to sing- even songs she doesn't know.. she tries to sing along.. again a little william jung-ish when she doesn't know the words which again makes me laugh

- still loves baths

- sleeps in the most crowded bed... she wants every doll (even the doll carrier) and stuffed animal in her bed.

-we have finally progressed back to having "buh" for sleeping only... we have a new routine of saying goodbye to music, humidifier, nightlight, blankie and buh when she wakes up, and saying hello to all of it when we come in for naps and night night

- we read these books at night and if one is missing or skipped, you will not hear the end of it:
*Bun book (that has about 2 pages left in it)
*Night Night book
*Big sun (a counting book she used to count everything on each page, but now we search for the big bad wolf)
*Baby book (gray and I both dislike it- we try to hide it constantly and she never forgets about it-- it's SO long and she notices if we skip a page)
*Sheep Dog- touch and feel-- another book she likes to count
*Imagine me
*Izzy jog

None of those books are listed by their actual name.

-fav toys: mommy's makeup, mommy's jewelry, purses, baby dolls, and everything outside

- wants everything you are eating- i don't remember the last time i ate everything on my plate myself- which is hard since I am stingy with food-- i find myself eating ridiculously fast so that I can have it all

Here's our month in iphone pics


















summer morning walks and honey suckles!










kins and ansley



summer time!

sale



memorial day

bday present (at grammy's) 




Amy's Cake Pops for kinsleys party

favors

southern gourmet cake= delish!


food and punch

play area


bday present from us







Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Something New




Easter at the Beach

Lots going on at the Porter House...

MISS FOXY

Yesterday Foxy had an issue with a molar trying to come out.. making her claw herself trying to get it out and almost chewing on it.. so my dad rushed us all the way down town to our vet and my mom stayed with Kins. They had JUST gotten here from Paris and hadn't even made it home!

They gave fox some pain meds, updated her shots, and $200 later she had an appt for surgery and dental cleaning the next day to remove the tooth plus possibly some others YIKES!

She's at the vet right now and I know that she had to have some other teeth pulled.. I have no idea what to expect my poor little 8yr old pup to look like-- not to mention my BILL! Thank you Lord for PROVIDING!

OFF THE MARKET!

We decided to take our house OFF the market! Shocking since it is prime selling season, but we were only putting it up in hopes of building one house in one neighborhood with everything we wanted. We talked to the builder and the incentives were going away and even if we sold that day it wouldn't get the incentives we originally wanted and it wouldn't be done til late november... so we decided to just stay and actually LIVE again for a while.

SO we are deciding to update the kitchen! Not in the hopes of selling it, but actually what WE want. Gray and his dad went to look at appliances yesterday and they might even be here this weekend! I'll  definitely post pics along the way!

Wedding season gears up April 20th! Every Saturday til June is either a wedding I'm shooting or one we'll attend. Uncle Zac and Lindsey are getting married May 11th and I cannot WAIT to post her bridal pics!

SUMMER TIME

The first weekend of June, I think is when we are going to do Kinsley's bday party. We want to do it at our house again now that we know we will be here!

Then the second weekend Gray and I have planned our FIRST getaway without the babe! We are heading to Santa Monica, CA! I can't wait to take him back to some of my favorite places I grew up going to. He's never been past Texas! We are just going for a long weekend so I hope I can detach from Kins enough to enjoy it! It's all booked so no turning back now! We might do the TMZ tour bus lol, a braves/dodgers game, the coffee bean, 3rd street promenade shopping, santa monica pier and SUR tops our list of things to do so far. Let me know if you have a good suggestion! This will be my first time going without the 'rents! I HAVE to recreate this pic my sis took when she went out there.. this was a step with both sat on outside our home in Redondo Beach!

Then in July we are going for the Porter family beach trip down to Surfside for over a week! Kins always loves playing at the water's edge and in a little pool. I think she'll love it even more this year!

Only 4 more weeks of school, then graduation, then SUMMER! Yay! It's going to be busy and great!