FOR SALE: House in RSM...Baby with an attitude...furniture...

Okay, so the baby is not for sale, but boy oh boy she better shape up. I think she missed her Daddy. Straty came home today from his Golf Tournament that his foursome won!!!! Congrats babe!!!! He came home with a bunch of goodies. Sunglasses for the family, a surf skateboard and so much much more. So, we're in escrow and it hasn't hit me yet that August 21st we'll be moving to HB. Does anyone want to buy a great house in RSM? This weekend we'll be busting our butts to get it ready to on the market. Stay tuned..

Little Miss Muffet

sat on her bouncy beating her orange monkey to death!!! The poor thing, once it stopped playing music, she'd bam bam it until it played again. She was throwing her cranky girl with attitude whine while hitting the monkey. Sometimes she'd hold it in place while the motor was burning with this evil smile!!!!! Oh and then she pulled attitude during bottle time tonight. She was soooo mad that I pulled her out of the bath tub, that during winding down time with the bottle she'd look at me, I'd smile and then she'd fling her head to look away. She'd whine and pop her head to the left. Then she'd look back and stare more like a glare. I'd say I loved her and bam she'd toss her head away sometimes smacking my chin. Lit'l bratt. The next time I got smart...I looked around the room as she looked at me...until that little hand started to touch my chin. My heart melted and I turned toward her. BAM and TOSS!!!!!!!!! OH NO SHE DIDN'T!!! Who's child is this? I don't ever remember having such attitude at 6 months!!!!

Amelia knows.....it's The Grandma's Birthday Today!!!!

Happy Birthday Grandma...chung...chung We love you! You melt little Amelia's heart with all the love you bring into her life, through your songs, your hugs and kisses. We hope you're having a wonderful day in Chicago, celebrating your life.
BTW...I had to post the nude photo of my little S girl doing the flirt and rithing Goddess! She's going to be twirling around that pole in no time!!!!

Amelia a busy girl this week...

Amelia spent the next couple days after her shots resting. On Friday it was time to get out of the house. After a yummy breakfast, we headed to Fashion Island for a little RnR:) We met Auntie Sarah, Laura, Auntie Krista and Drew at Cheesecake Factory for a late lunch. After dropping all the spoons onto the floor, almost knocking over my water and entertaining the gang with her new face expression, we headed to Balboa Island for a quick errand. It was great hanging out and getting a little ocean air. Speaking of ocean air....we have been going back and forth on moving back to HB. We narrowed our desired location to live: 16 houses on one side of a street that backs Central Park. Yeah out of probably hundreds and hundreds of homes we narrowed it down:) We made an offer a month ago on a wonderful home and got rejected. That didn't stop up though, because we made a second attempt, which the selling agent, once again pulled the rug right out from under us. We were shocked and kicked ourselves to the moon and back!!!! Determined we wrote a back up off, if escrow was to fall out. Well it got accepted, but escrow seems to be doing fine. Still determined and in love with the area, I made up 20 flyers and we hung them on door knobs. We want to buy your house! Well 4 people said they had no plans of moving and 1 house (we wanted) was sold, which left us with 11 houses we really wanted. A week had gone by and we applauded our efforts, but thought no-one was going to call...but wait...we got a call!!! I couldn't believe it! Neither could our agent. He laughed at my ivory linen paper, 2 hole punched and hand tied with orange rafia and sealed with a pretty butterfly sticker. No-one would ever think he made them. That's okay, because the owners thought it was a scam. They called and we met them at their house Saturday. It's a 4 bedroom 2 bath with approved and paid for permits for an add on. We decided though, if we got the place we would do minimal repairs and just live in it to see what really needed to be done, if anything. It has a great back yard that backs to Central park. Irma, the wife said their back yard was just the pathway to their big back yard, the park. Their eldest daughter volunteers at the nature center that is 50 feet from their fence. As most of you know, the park is a great location: doggie park, lake with ducks, playground for kids, Alice's in the Park Cafe, Nature Center, Public Library, Sports Center....Need I say more as to why we wanted one of those 11 houses? We aren't getting our hopes up, because they love where they live and are just curious to see what's out there for their family. So send your prayers at 7pm on Tuesday when we present our offer! Oh and if that wasn't enough for this week...we start monitoring fertility. Doc says come September, he thinks the old hag's body is ready for round 2. We only hope and pray we are blessed with another baby hadj. A baby that is healthy and like Amelia, sex and all:) Ok so daddy wants a boy. We'll see what the Lord has in store for us. We won't be adopting anymore dogs or buying any trailers:)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAPOU!!!!

Today was Papou's Birthday!!!! For those of you who don't know what that stands for, it's Grandpa in Greek. Straty's Dad. Papou, we hope you had a wonderful day of relaxation over a dinner and movie and celebrated the wonderful and caring Papou and Dad that you are! We love you so very much!!!!!! Papou will someday have to teach Amelia about Putts and Calls. No, it's not golf lango, but Stock trades. If you're lucky enough to receive the family holiday letter, you might have some insight. I'm still learning...I think I'll still be learning for the rest of my life. I still think it's a secret "legal" form of gambling:) XXOXO

In honor of Papou we went shopping for treats. No cherry candies or cashews or chocolate...we went shopping for doggie treats! Hazel, Miller and Indi each had their own doggie truffle for your birthday. Auntie Sarah and Mom stopped off at the bucks for a little pick me up. It was a fun and exciting day in San Clemente with Auntie Sarah. Amelia was a little confused with all the doggie statues. They didn't slobber on her or leave chunks of hair in her hands. She was puzzled. After a long day, she passed out on our way to the car. Love you Dad!

6 month shots

Amelia had her 6 month shots today. She's a trooper!!! We prepared for her shots with a relaxing day. We played a bit, had a yummy lunch with peaches, then had a bath, got a message, took a nap and headed to the doctor with a warm bottle to comfort her when all was said and done. We left the house with the 4 B's: Blankie, Binkie, Bottle and Miss Bunny. We walked into the office where she was all smiles, until Christine walked into the room. Amelia knew what was coming even before we weighed her in! She got that sour cry face and a few tears rolled down those cute chubby cheeks. She laid there though as she got her check up. When the shots came though, the tears started to roll. She didn't scream, she just cried. Mommy shed a few tears too. She was holding my face, starring into my eyes as pain was being inflicted on to her. It broke my heart. Afterwards she snuggled with Miss Bunny and drank her bottle. She fell to sleep. On the way home though she chewed my out! She growled and grunted. I tried hard not to laugh because she was very serious. I explained to her why it had to be done. Before you knew it, she was passed out. She's been on and off in sleep right now.

So, who would have imagined me in an apron pureeing food? I didn't think so....Yesterday we started some new fruits! I did peaches and papayas. The papayas are too stringy for her. She liked the peaches though. I can't believe next month I'll be blending meats!!!! My she's growing. We looked at a house in HB last night and then went to dinner with grandma, grandpa and Auntie Sarah. Grandma is heading to Chicago for the week. The girls said their good-byes in a rocking cuddle:) Have fun mom and Aunt Marcia!!! You girls stay out of trouble...oh, that's impossible with Aunt Stella around:) The three of you are T-R-O-U-B-L-E!!! Love you.

Happy Half-Year Birthday Baby Girl!!!!

So, Amelia is half a year old today....my oh my how she's grown. She's sitting in her bouncey right now watching the birds, sipping her water cup as I do some work. I love when she has poopy pants. She poops and then gets the chills that make her head shake. She's so funny. We love her so and still can't believe she's ours! Thank you Lord!!!!

Amelia hits Rodeo Drive!!!!

And they say blondes are more fun....the redheads headed to LA Saturday! Grandma and Mommy had mini face lifts:) Ok...we had our eyebrows reshaped at the King of Eyebrows...Damone Roberts Salon in Beverly Hills, or is that are Hollywood?? I get so confused. After Damone's we walked Rodeo Drive. We saw lots of bling...bling. We even went over to Oprah's favorite cupcake place, Sprinkles (not sure why). Anyway the line was a block long! Explain why someone would stand 30 minutes in line for a five dollar piece of dried out cake? People were saving the bags! Owell. We also saw a Sex in the City design bride. She had a big ole hat and a wheat bouquet. Auntie Missy and I saw a sexy basketball player, but not sure who he played for:) Amelia saw a Rolls she wanted. "grandmommeeeee, can you buy me that Rolls?" Grandma stated "I would honey if Grandaddieeeezzzz credit card wasn't expired:)" Sorry Amelia No Rolls Royce for you. She'll settle for a red corvette Granddaddy.

SLUGGER misses Auntie Sarah in NYC...

So, my almost 6 month old daughter threw me a right cross right on the nose! Then she grabbed my check with her whole hand! Oh and with a closed fist, jabbed me right in the check! She's started slamming her hand down on anything and everything...BAM BAM BAM! She also hits her bottle out of her mouth, while her head is flying back and forth. She's doing this with her left hand. Does that mean she's going to be a lefty? Today her and Miller were buddies. They played on the bed and then on the floor. She grabbed Miller's eye lid and gave it a good tug. He sighed and rolled over to his other side, after flinging his head right onto her lap. He loves her so. We had Chinese food with Grandma and Grandpa in HB tonight. She had fun flinging her toys off the table, grabbing for Grandma's rice and giving Grandpa kisses. TGIF!!!

We have grapes!

Amelia helped daddy with yard work yesterday. They cleaned up the yard and trimmed back the grape vines. Daddy made greek grape stuffed leaves for dinner. YUMMY! Amelia helped mommy in the garage yesterday. We dumped paint to dry out the cans and then attacked the vacuum cleaner! It's officially cleaned! I love my vacuum. We also did "clothing" yesterday: laundry, iron and cleaned out my dresser drawers, as well as went to the paint store. Today will be another busy day.