Sunshine

OK, I know I don't post here as often as I once did. But it is about QUALITY, not QUANTITY.

And this is about as good as it gets these days for me:

Yes, Virginia remains our sunshine. Although we use different words to describe her when she wakes us up in the middle of the night. Every night. No matter what we do.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Virginia got her first bouquet of flowers from her Daddy this V day and she was thrilled (don't let the picture make you think otherwise)!

Mama E also received flowers and V counted all the roses for both of us.

In other weekend news, we got just about 4 inches of fluffy white snow yesterday which provided a great opportunity for T to build himself a little buddy. The adoption was made official at 10:30 a.m. 2/13/2010. We're naming him Drippy because he is already 1/2 melted.

V was feeling particularly adventurous yesterday.

She licked the snow:

She stomped the snow:

She rode her bike in the snow:


She showed that snow who was boss!

After all that fun, we were able to drop V off at KiKi & Granddaddy's house so T & I could celebrate our 13th V day together all alone. T finagled us a room at the new downtown Marriott and we had a great time sleeping through the night and waking up and lounging in bed with coffee! Luxurious times, folks. Luxurious times.

What a difference a week makes!

So Friday, Jan 22, this was V:

Poor thing was so dehydrated after a 3 day vomitfest that we were sent to Accent Urgent Care to get her some IV fluids. She passed out on my lap while she got a drip, drip, drip.

But by Saturday, January 30, this was V:

Getting pelted in the face by sleet while making a snow angel at 8 a.m. and

attempting to pelt me in the face with snow as we played on her iced over swing set.

On Saturday, January 23, this was T:

Resting in the ER after fracturing his collar bone in 3 places. He managed to go shoulder first over the handle bars of his single speed on the Art Museum trail. Ugh.

But by Saturday, January 30, here he is all smiles:

Hanging out in the snow with the wife and

warming up by the fire with V and some hot cocoa.

I'd like to formally request fewer weeks like Jan 22 and more weeks like Jan 30. Thank you in advance.