Smiling Mom

BC one year ago. Notice the tooth?

Smi­ling Kids: BC giving the choke hold to eClaire one year ago.

BC and eCaire today. BC’s tooth is back! And eClaire has hair, lots of it!!

eClaire spor­ting her green dress and beads one year ago.

eClaire spor­ting her green jin­gle hair scrunchies and eating Hank & Willie’s deli­cious banana bread.

I’m so lucky.

*(I added Kayla, my dog, per my brother’s com­ment.)

Here’s a few high­lights of the week:

Hubby Santa had the genius idea to buy win­dow mar­kers and give it to the kids in their win­dow stoc­kings. In San Diego. At my parents house. With no less than 50 win­dows and French doors. I’m not exag­ge­ra­ting on that num­ber either!

Smi­ling Mom Mrs. Clause knew her dad well enough and, let’s be honest, her kids well enough, to know that mar­kers on a win­dow and chil­dren at my parents house made for bad juju. (You are WELCOME Dad!) She made an exe­cu­tive deci­sion not to put the those mar­kers into their stockings.

Hubby found them yesterday.

Ahem.

Then eClaire found out that not only did the pink mar­ker make for great abs­tract art, but it also made for a great lips­tick color.

Ya. So.… That was fun!

My kids are such bud­ding artists!

Oh! Oh!

And then today! My daugh­ter thought she’d “help” (quote fin­gers implied) me make cup­ca­kes for her upco­ming birth­day party! It was so much fun!! Having her help, I mean!! Look at what she did!!

Fun huh??!!

Yes. That is a bite mark. But wait there is more!

FIVE Cup­ca­kes!! Thank good­ness for fros­ting. No one will ever know the dif­fe­rence. hehehe

Fros­ting sol­ves all problems.

Well..

Except for this one.

You see, I have this inc­re­dibly cruel sense of humor. I love to take pic­tu­res at totally inap­pro­priate times.

Like just after eClaire gets off of time-out for EATING MY CUPCAKES!! Do you see the cho­co­late up on her forehead?

So funny!!

…I mean, so sad

But really, you couldn’t get a more pathe­tic pic­ture if you tried!

And to ans­wer the ques­tion that’s on all your minds, Yes. I’m already saving for her loo­ming the­rapy sessions.

eClaire on her second birthday