Things Tia Loves

at age 2.

Her pink silky blankey
Dora The Explorer
Pincess Dwesses
her pink gumboots
chips
Candy
Chocolate
rice
noodles
swinging on the bar
jumping on the trampoline
puzzles
her bottle
milk - with chocolate in it
not wearing clothes
swimming
spinning around
counting
singing
Her friend Lauren

she is 3 now. (as of 7/15/09) ouch.. I so miss her 2 year old self. birthday photos when we are back at home :)

taken 14 months ago

I just ran across this photo of this tiny, serious-looking baby.
Where did she go?

smelling the flowers

I decided to work on my photography skills with these flowers. Silly Miss Tia who never likes to be in photos for me, didn't want me to take any photos without her in them either! She climbed up on the counter in her Princess outfit-of-the-day to smell the flowers (or get in the way of me taking a photo!).
processed in lightroom with Rebecca Lily's Faded Olive preset (just learning Lightroom that I recently purchased for the $99 student price, anyone with a child in school qualifies! anyhow I don't quite have it figured out.).

Gumboots with . . .

a smocked dress?

okay, I wasn't too sure it was the right occasion when the Princess of Quite-A-Lot was emphatic that she was going to wear this smocked dress to Bible Study Fellowship on Tuesday. I was even less sure that the gumboots looked good with it. She chose a pink rubber butterfly hairband too (at least that went with the gumboots!). hmmmmmmmmm. I wonder how opinionated she will be about fashion when she is 3!

(not the best photos, but hey, we were on the way out the door for Bible Study!)

Wild Olive Tees giveaway!

Check it out! These tees are super cute and have some of my favorite scriptures on them - and right now they are having a giveaway! click on the link for more info. and to check out these super cute tees!

Fashion Friday!

Both these outfits were chosen by Tia. I let her choose her outfit on Thursday and she put on her most favorite t-shirt - an Old Navy USA t-shirt. I don't know why but she just loves this shirt. She grabbed these size 12 months jeans (that are not meant to be cropped!) and insisted on wearing them - then she had to wear these crocs type pink shoes (her gumboots were missing) and the ball cap. (check out the apple, she had to grab one again this week before we headed outside to take her photo - too funny!) I was actually a little worried when she looked so boyish in this outfit of her choice :) I worried too soon because the next outfit she chose was her "Belle" Pincess dwess with leggings because it is cold here - and her pink jacket and pink gumboots. That's the Pincess I remember :) Check out all the cute child-chosen outfits at Salsa in China

Tia Talk

Some conversations with the Princess of Quite-A-Lot that I don't want to forget:

Sitting at the table one evening Tia kept getting up and walking around so we secured the strap on her booster seat. She kept yelling "up! up! when that brought no response from us she changed her cry to "abawo, abawo" we just looked at her and shook our heads, not understanding what in the world she was talking about. Finally Jonah(12) started laughing . . . "she is saying ABAJO, it's from Dora!, it means DOWN,DOWN!"
we all cracked up!

I was pouring some chocolate powder in Tia's milk and the floors had just been mopped, so when some of the powder spilled I asked Tia to please not touch. She said: "I NOT touchin', I just lookin'!" a few seconds later I noticed she was rubbing her finger in the chocolate powder and putting it in her mouth - I reminded her that I didn't want her to touch it. Tia's response: "I NOT touchin', I just lickin'!"

Last night I was sitting next to Tia's bed as she was supposed to be falling asleep.

T: Mom, you seepy?
Me: Yes,
T: Mom, you supa hungwee?
Me: No
T: you vewy sick?
Me: No
T: Mom, you just vewy vewy tiwad?
Me: Yes, I replied, I am very tired, please fall asleep."
Tia: you seep Mom, you tiwad!