We won't be living here anymore! ha!

This morning, while I was still half asleep and bed,  Lex showed up in my room wearing khaki shorts and a little dressy shirt...this is how our conversation went.

Mommy:  Lex, you're wearing that today? Are you going to be comfortable? Don't you have that thing, you know that thing after school?

Lex: Maaaa, my outfit is fine.  What thing?

Mom:  You know, the thing? you have the thing....running, you know.

Lex: MAAAA, girls on the run???

Mom: YES! That!

Lex: MAAAAAA It's Thursday. Girls on the Run is Wednesday!!! Ma, you better not make that kinda mistake at work (and then she makes the slashing your throat motion) or WE WON"T BE LIVING HERE ANYMORE!!!

Lexo chillaxing in the cart at Costco...with a gigantic can of tuna!

Put your money on the counter

 

One night while waiting at the bar for dinner, I wanted lex to go ask the hostess if we could have a specific table.  Knowing that she wouldn't go on her own, I knew I would need to offer a bribe.

J: Lex, I'll let you get a Sprite at dinner if you go ask the nice hostess if we can have that table.

A: Nope.

J:  I'll give you $2 dollars....

A: Put your money on the counter (said like a card shark!)

I put my $2 dollars on the counter. Lex looked at the money, smiled and went over to the hostess and requested the table I wanted, came back to us, and put the money in her wallet.  

Alligators, Snakes, and Turtles Oh my!

 

This was a week of reptiles for the GRS family. Lex and watched this alligator (a five foot BABY) swimming in the lake. We left for 10 minutes to go to the park to play and he came out in the grass to sun himself (look in the background--I wish I had my zoom lens!)

Then, the next day after lunch, the three of us were walking on the  boardwalk bridge over the dunes when Michael jumped 10 feet in the air and a three foot black snake slithered across the boardwalk into the dunes.  I screamed so loudly and grabbed lex  IN FRONT OF ME, paralyzed with fear.  My snake phobia hasn't subsided at all! Poor Lexo had a bruise on her upper arm from me!

Finally, after our pictures on the beach, lex and I hung back to take a few of our own and again walking on the boardwalk, I spotted a teeny, tiny turtle.  He was SOOO Cute!!!  

 

On the Road again....

A couple of shots of our journey down to HHI for spring break. We've made a ritual to stop at On the Border and Lex loves the gigantic animals!  We also discovered this great diner (MG LOVES LOVES LOVES diners) in North Carolina.  After we stopped, I did a google and it's one of the top diners in the south! They had the BEST chicken tenders and ranch dressing! YUM YUM YUM

One of my goals!

 

I bought these super cute True Religion jeans in January and could barely get them up my thighs. Despite that, I had to buy them and made it a goal that I would fit into them before our spring break trip to Hilton Head.  Every week I tried them on and they inched closer and closer up.  The morning of our trip, I figured I'd try them on.....well, they fit! I wore them down in the car!

Martin Luther King

Lex and I were sitting on the bottom step of our stairs battling it out on Draw Something together, when all of a sudden she got very quiet and says: I feel bad for Martin Luther King.  I ask her why? She then tells me in such a somber little voice: well, Martin luther King was best friends with a white boy, and the white boy's dad said they couldn't be friends and Martin Luther didn't understand why and then he died.  Isn't that awful, Mommy?  

My child.  She has the biggest heart out of anyone I know. 

"When I make a deal, I don't break a deal"

Me: left brained (science, math, logic, facts). Lexo: right brained (singer, artist, imagination).  

Lex comes up with some of the best sayings and ways of getting her point across. 

Case in point:  This morning we she negotiated with me that if I let her wear her short shorts (despite the fact that it's 50 degrees out right now) she would wear her hair down.  I told her that I would be so upset if she came home from school and it was in a pony tail.  She replies matter of factly "when I make a deal, I don't break a deal."  Let's see if she keeps her deal with me today!

who can resist a row of naked mannequins!

Like mother like daughter...

Lex packed her own suitcase for HHI yesterday. Me, being me, went through what she packed.....Bathing suits-check.  Shorts-check.  7 pairs of undies-check.  SIX PAIRS OF PJs-check.  When I asked her why she packed so many jammies for a 7 day vacation she replied: Ma, you know I get sweaty. 

I'm all packed too, but not with 6 pairs of jammies :)  I've got Vineyard Vines, Lilly Pulitzer, Ralph Lauren, Salty Dog, and my Sperry's all ready for uber preppy, HHI.  We're all dying to leave now!!!

"I need a Vacation"

Lexo and I ran to the store to buy a bathing suit and flips for her....Of course we had to try on a winter hat and pose.....

I guess when you're in front of a camera since in utero, posing comes very natural.

Yes we have become "those people"

Sunday, MG and I ran into Walmart to look for planters for the front porch, when lo and behold, what was sitting on the shelf in the garden center? BULLDOG!!! I knew I had to have him!  Dubin (Hailey's name if she was a boy bully and MG's mom's last name) is sitting proudly in our front flower bed, all 50 lbs of him!