The Wright Side of LifeThe family is one of nature’s masterpieces.

Since Jim’s motorcycle was fixed a few weeks back, he’s been riding it to and from work most days and so Scarlett has become enthralled with all things motorcycle related.  She always reminds me while we’re driving to “keep a eye opened” for any motorcycles that we might be able to spot.  Also interesting to her is the concept of a helmet – a ‘special hat’ to protect the head; she can’t wait to need one for her big girl bike!  Wednesday morning while we were doing the usual routine, Scarlett was playing with all of the tupperware and decided that her bowl-hat was actually a helmet, and of course Sissy needed one too. Read the rest of this entry »

Monday morning I was otherwise occupied with a Jim-related issue (that I will let him explain some other time!), so the girls largely stayed at home with Grammie.  When I returned home, Scarlett reminded me that we needed to feed/water Charlie – you can see that all of the animals are quite interested in this.  The cats seem to have no idea that the dog food isn’t meant for them, but rather appear to think that they have their upstairs food and their downstairs food Read the rest of this entry »

Scarlett with her friends Carter and Sydney on the day of the Bubbles Party, having a great time in her crib (and yes, there were concerns over the structural integrity of the crib, but it survived!):

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Most of the time Scarlett wakes up knowing the entire day’s game plan, or at least the broad outlines of it, because I like to talk with her about what the next day is going to hold.  She loves hearing what ‘tomorrow’ will entail and usually makes me recite the yet-to-happen goings on that our day will hold several times.  With today however, I had waited to tell her that we were going on a little outing until this morning after breakfast when she asked the inevitable, “Mommy, go bye-bye?”  This girl loves to get out of the house!  So when she asked (her knowing all the while that the fact I hadn’t told her we were going anywhere today probably meant it was another stay-at-home-day <due to Victoria still not being quite 100% well>) and I said, “Yep!  Let’s get ready and go to Wal-Mart, we have some shopping to do,” it was like her entire body sprung into action!  After we got dressed and our departure was only moments away, I found her over in front of the mirror doing what I’m going to term the “going to Wal-Mart Dance”:

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