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Elise keeps randomly saying 2, 3 and 4 words phrases I've never heard out of her before. Like, all day every day :D Yesterday she brought me a bottle of nail polish and said, "Paint my nails?" Later I was brushing her hair and when it pulled, she said "Big knot". Then in the evening she went looking for the brush, and said "Brush my hair more?" She also got the idea totally spontaneously to have her birthday at the beach. I had NO IDEA what she was talking about at first, she walked up to me and sang "Ha-ppy doo-day, happy doo-hay - each! Wah-wee!" (beach, water). It took a lot of questions and some help from Ananda to figure it out :p She also wants a blue cake and whenever it comes up she says "Lees! Twoooo - THREE!"

I am so excited about this birthday, it's silly...I got some little decorations for the blue cake, tonight (sea creatures made of sugar, at Publix) and her candles, and a tube of white decorator icing to write on it with. I even found her a card with a princess ballerina on the front, that plays Fur Elise.







Bob.


Fashionista.


Melt my heart.


HOW CAN HE BE THIS BIG?!


Dinner tonight. Bacon tomato and avocado sandwiches with broccoli and cheese soup. And salsa, and bananas with peanut butter. The lanky one with the iPod cords is Ananda ;)



And then there are these two that I couldn't stand to cut <3 I was out writing while A and A were at a special rehearsal, and Grant got out the camera.





I love these two pictures SO MUCH ♥




I submitted a children's story to a children's book agency, today. And decided on someone I'm going to be querying by mail about my surgery book. And wrote more of the surgery book. And sifted endlessly through agents for my short stories and for this other thing I have.

I'm also seriously considering http://www.authonomy.com I registered tonight, but mostly just so I could explore more. It is a really fascinating concept, especially as it results in publication for people who are writing books the MOST PEOPLE LOVE READING AND RECCOMEND, rather than those who are good at marketing themselves through query letter. If I do go that route I'm going to shamelessly solicit everyone who reads here to sign up there and rate my stuff.




Grant and I just got done watching Pretty Woman. I really, really love that movie in a totally familiar, from childhood sort of way. Yes, I wanted to be a hooker when I grew up. For about a month.

Date: 2010-04-25 11:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ecosopher.livejournal.com
That second pic of E and her brothers is so brilliant.

Date: 2010-04-25 04:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theneolistickid.livejournal.com
I know, right?! I was so happy when I look at the pictures on the computer last night.

Date: 2010-04-25 05:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altarflame.livejournal.com
It makes me happy :) I am going to have to be on a mission to get a good, new shot of all five soon.

Date: 2010-04-25 11:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] its-jemma.livejournal.com
Look at the love in Elise's face in that picture, looking at her big bro :) aww

Date: 2010-04-25 05:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altarflame.livejournal.com
They absolutely kill me.

Date: 2010-04-25 02:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wanderinganima.livejournal.com
What a great way to wake up! It's hard to believe Elise will be 3 soon BIG WOW and Isaac is so tall...
My Grandbaby will be 4 May 11th ( makes me feel old LOL )
I wanna have lunch at your house looks so good :)
and still not smoking :P

Date: 2010-04-25 05:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altarflame.livejournal.com
I know, Elise will be three in a week, and then a month later Ananda will be TEN! It's just wild.

My mother's birthday is May 11. There is a young grandmother for you! She's....uh....45, I think? And between my sister and I she's got 7 grandkids ;)

CONGRATULATIONS about the smoking!! That is super awesome.

Date: 2010-04-25 07:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wanderinganima.livejournal.com
Yes 47 is a young grandmother LOL and here I thought I was a young Nanna ( I'm 49 now)..but you really are only as old as you feel HA HA HA
and thanks about the smoking ..now if I can only stop eating I would be great :o) thing is when I say I am on a diet or even try to monitor what I eat I am just so freakin' hungry I just can't help it ...I've been thinking to tell my dad ( whom I live with ) that he will have to buy his own sweets( cookies and deserts) and hide them as I just don't have the willpower to do it myself
I really like the idea of the plan you follow but my dad wouldn't do well on it...but I am trying and I can't really exercise now with just having stomach surgery ( and being scared to pop another hernia ) so I am walking lots ...and want to buy a bike for summer
and btw LOL how freaking hard is it not to lift and carry anything I am having just the hardest time with that too :P
have a great day
Teresa

Date: 2010-04-25 07:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altarflame.livejournal.com
Not lifting and carrying is way sucky.

My grandmother was a grandmother at 32!

The food thing is really hard. This plan is giving me major trouble this time around. I've lost some weight and not backtracked, but I've kind of plateaued because I end up cheating in some way or other just about every day. I seriously feel like I'd rather hit myself in the head with a baseball bat than continue on ETL right now. But...usually this feeling passes and I'm glad I stuck to it? I don't know.

Date: 2010-04-25 08:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wanderinganima.livejournal.com
32 is way young HA HA HA but on the other hand by the time you are late 30's into the 40's you're done except for the Grandchildren :)
I wish you luck with ETL ...funny thing is if I lived alone I'd eat so much different than I do now it's a bit hard to explain but when I moved in with my dad I didn't change the way "he" did/does things and now I'm a bit stuck with it LOL ...summer is always a bit easy for some reason to eat salads and a tad healthier for me anyhow SO I wish me luck too :D
But I still wanna eat at your house :)

Date: 2010-04-25 08:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altarflame.livejournal.com
Yeah, my Nana was 15 when she had my mom, who was 17 when she had me :p

Honestly today is like..peak hardness...and I seriously just went in my bedroom and threw myself down like a toddler and cried on the bed about how this sucks, and I don't want my life to hang in the balance of what I eat, and I want to lose weight but I don't want to deal with this crap, and all this hooey....and I think I just needed to get it out. Because I feel a lot better now. I came out and Grant and Isaac had made a xylophone out of Izze bottles filled with various amounts of water, and Ananda and Elise just made lemonade, and really, what the heck do I have to complain about?

Date: 2010-04-25 08:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wanderinganima.livejournal.com
Wow I can so relate to you ...except I am never ever alone I don't have a "bedroom door" to close out the world if that's what I need to do for a moment and it's awfully hard to keep it all in... I don't want my life to be all about calories and what I can and can not eat BIG BLAH ! SO Thank you Tina for being my sounding board today and I will just say I wish us both luck for the coming days ahead.
PS I just found this and thought you might like it :)
http://gapingvoid.com/2010/04/05/are-you-a-waker/

Date: 2010-04-25 02:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mommydama.livejournal.com
Oh. Just oh. I love this post so much.

Date: 2010-04-25 05:45 pm (UTC)
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Date: 2010-04-25 04:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theneolistickid.livejournal.com
Him and Jake are both just like "Ok, my sister is a lil crazy"

Date: 2010-04-25 05:46 pm (UTC)

Date: 2010-04-25 03:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] noelove.livejournal.com
Jake! ♥

Date: 2010-04-25 05:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altarflame.livejournal.com
He's behind me right now, trying to talk Elise into taking a vacation with him based on this card he has that is good for two peoples' vacations together :p

Date: 2010-04-25 05:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] treeyaya.livejournal.com
I love the way Jakey and Elise look at each other, like they are scheming something big!

Date: 2010-04-25 05:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altarflame.livejournal.com
I suppose that is what love looks like amongst preschoolers (scheming)...

Date: 2010-04-25 06:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] treeyaya.livejournal.com
TRUE STORY. So much love = what can we get into together. :D ...Come to think of it, it might not be so different for grown folks either.

Date: 2010-04-25 07:00 pm (UTC)

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