Happy Easter

This is for you Nannie! Sorry, I haven't posted in pictures lately. This is Claire bear on our very unexpected snow day! She wasn't to excited about playing in the snow. She would rather look at it through the window in our warm home, just like her mommy :) When she saw it that morning she said...mommy, pwetty pwetty snow mommy!

Happy Holidays

We recently had our pictures made for christmas cards and for Claire's 1.5 year pics. Here are a few of our favorites. We hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season!

BOO!

Halloween has never really been my cup of tea. But now that I have a sweet little girl to dress up and show off, I think I will enjoy it much more! We decided to dress Claire up as a cat this year. 2 reasons...it didn't require any head accessories and she is obsessed with her Nonni's cats, so it only seemed appropriate. She's a little confused though, every time we ask her what sound a cat makes, she barks like a dog :) We also taught her to say BOO, so cute! Here are some pics of her at the pumpkin patch.

Songbird

It is not often that I have a funny story, that I feel is funny enough to actually share. However, I do this week! Some of our friends had been bugging me for the last several months to go kareoking (this was after I spilled the beans that I really like to do this sometimes).

So Last Friday everything fell into place and the stars were all in alignment. The 5 of us(Mark wasn't feeling good)went to dinner at Mi Cocina and happened to be right down the street from my all time favorite piano bar, Bent Tree Grill. This isn't any piano bar though, this is a special little hole in the wall, old person piano bar. I warned my friends but promised it would be a good time. Sure enough it was.

Luckily, Skip(the head piano guy) was playing that night, and he gladly let me get up and sing my 2 favorite songs. Crazy and Dream. While I was singing, I apparently gained a lifelong fan. David, an older gentleman walked over to my friends and told them I was a "songbird" and that he wanted to buy us all a round of drinks. They of course, gladly excepted this offer. After I walked off stage David preceded to tell me that I was a songbird as well, and that he would like to sing me a song and then dance with me. I politely thanked him for the drinks and quickly made my way back over to our table. We all had a good laugh, and decided the name of my practice should definitely be Songbird Chiropractic!

Unfortunately, I think that my lack luster response to David, really pissed him off! The rest of the night he would walk by our table and spout off ridiculous comments:

"That song I sang...that's a gem. You guys should show some respect." (What??!!)

"Oh yeah, I'm just an old drunk guy, what do I know?"

David?? Where did we go wrong? I thought we were friends. Remember me Songbird?? I guess I should have danced with him :)

We didn't let David get us down though. There were PLENTY of other people there to keep us entertained.

Another funny old man was dancing by himself, and would actually dance with a candle when the song was really good. He eventually made his way over to us and asked us all to dance. Being that he was from Terrell, TX Stephanie's hometown she decided to humor him.


Mistake! The entire time they danced, he commented on how nice her girls were! Seriously! Naughty old man!

That pretty much concluded our night at the piano bar, but we will definitely be making another appearance. Mark was pissed he missed out on all the fun!


Steph, me and Lisia

Another photo shoot with the little princess. She is now saying "I know, I know", "Clock", "Guys", "Right Now" (while shaking her finger), "Who is it" and "Hello".

Mother's Day Out

So, we decided to enroll Claire in Mother's Day Out. I would like to say that this was thoroughly planned out, and that we had been on the waiting list at First Baptist Church Plano for the last 6 months. I actually had the brilliant idea about 2weeks ago! Luckily, they had room and there were no problems in getting her started. It was an awesome idea because she ABSOLUTELY LOVES going. She is a totally different baby on Tuesdays and Thursdays. She has so much energy, and is just so much happier throughout the day. It makes us so happy to see her so happy. Here is the pretty girl on her first day :)