My Little Girl Is Really Not Little Anymore

My goodness. What a day for my first born. Earlier we hit up the orthodontist office for her initial consultation, yes she needs braces-for like 24-28 months (to an enormous fee), and for x-rays and impressions. Next Monday she'll get her spacers followed by the actual braces the following Monday. She's so excited and I'm glad she'll be out of them fairly young.

Next, she has been at her first paid babysitting job. She's working as our neighbor, Amy Hatmaker's, mother's helper! Amy has one year old twins. She's been gone over three hours!! At $5. an hour I'm sure Ansley is just fine!!!

It's hard to believe that the little full head of hair, tiny baby we brought home is old enough to have braces and babysit.

*sigh*

Do I Or Don't I?

When your children cook anything for you, that's always the question. Since all of our games were cancelled due to this lovely cold, rainy weather, Ansley spent the morning baking cupcakes. Below is the one she made for me. To give her credit, it looks better than this overhead shot of it, but still, would the health department give her cooking and cleanliness a good grade?

Ansley's Softball Opening - 2009

Do you ever feel like the minutia is getting in the way of you being really productive? I feel like a hamster on a wheel. Spinning away, but not really going anywhere. Maybe I have spring fever. Maybe I'm lazy. I dunno, but I seem to be getting behind in just about everything I'm doing. Sleep, the omnipresent laundry, errands and this-the blog. I figured it's almost the weekend and activities will start and then I won't have updated last week's junk, then I'll start to feel like a bigger waste. So, here I am, still blabbing about what went on last week!!

Ansley's softball season opened and here are the adorable pictures taken by Zack and maybe granddaddy. Guiltily, I wasn't there, but it looks like opening was a lot of fun and she won her game and also scored one of the six runs as well as batting her friend Kasey in for a run as well. You go girl!!

Scoring the run.

Lady and The Tramp

This is what Ansley and Rufus do with plain spaghetti noodles. I'm not even sure what to say about this.

The Gray Stable

So, apparently my kitchen has become a barn. I came in to start dinner and this what I found saddled up and ready to go, but with no owner in sight.

Meet Josefina

Ansley and Gary just got back from the American Girl store and would like you all to meet the newest Gray, Josefina, a beautiful girl from Mexico!

Udated Horseback Riding Pictures of Ansley

I took these yesterday. She's getting better and better and Gary emailed this morning to say Ansley had trotted the entire circle of the big ring, off lead! I would have taken more pictures but everytime she saw me she'd lose her form and try and smile for the camera!

My Little Artist