Painting Toenails

Okay, I know I've been a little obssesed with Kensley this week in my posts, but she's just so stinkin' cute these days & she's giving me good material. This morning she ran around the house yelling "blee-bit, blee-bit". When I aksed her what she wanted, she took me to her room & pointed at the crib. I figured out it was her blanket for her baby... which has to be swaddled about 50 times a day. Then this afternoon as I was changing her diaper, she dropped her baby into the bed & said "uh-oh I dop beebee" (uh oh, I drop baby). She's brilliant I tell ya!

I had the grand idea this morning that we would paint toenails today. I've been dying to paint hers for along time, but just didn't think that she would cooperate. I talked to one of my friends & she started painting her little girls toes younger than Kensley. I needed a fresh coat of paint on mine, so I thought I would try & paint Kensley's. She did great! She sat still & was so excited to see her pink toes. She squealed with excitement and danced around all morning long. She was even excited to show her Bubba's her pink toes.

I've been trying to post this video all week long & hopefully it will finally work now. Kensley is my little talking machine, so we had a video the other day of her saying her colors. Me & Carter were rolling laughing at her, especially when she says green.

Kensley's pictures

I took Kensley yesterday to have her 18 mth pictures made. I'm a big sucker for pics of my kids... especially when they are cute. However, in my defense, I had planned on getting quite a few pictures because it's been so long since I've had pictures of her made & been able to purchase them to give to friends & family. I went to Portrait Innovations in Charlotte. I've never been there before, so I wasn't really aware of all of their packages or special. Kensley did good for most of the pictures. She got tired of it at the end...but don't we all? As we finished up & the photographer sat me down to view all the pictures, we narrowed the selection down to 14 poses. She then tried to sell me ALL of the poses with a package that included 3 sheets of each pose. Why in the world would I need that many pictures of my kid? That's 42 sheets of pictures of my kid. I don't even have that many people I would give a picture of her too. Plus, not to mention the fact that I have 2 other kids and most people would probably prefer a picture of all 3 of them together. Anyway, off subject... I kept telling her that I didn't want but a few pictures, so we kept narrowing & narrowing & finally got it down to 3 poses. They presented what I thought was a pretty good deal, so I accepted. Then, she says "did you know about our special for $9.95?" Uh no... then she blabbered that you get a bazillion pictures of one pose for that price. Hello? Why didn't I know about this at the beginning & I would have spent a lot less money. Mental note taken for next time. So here's the results of the photo shoot. You might be getting a picture of her soon because I've still got a ton of them... even after we narrowed it down.






After we did pictures, I had lunch with my friend Holly. We ate at a fabulous restaurant... Wolfgang Puck Bistro... it was SO yummy. The one thing that I would like about living in Charlotte is the vast choices of restaurants and shopping... although it would probably be very bad for me.