Wednesday, September 30, 2009

She is Watching Me . . .

I always knew that children learn from their parents. However, seeing it happen with my own child is pretty amazing! I was cleaning the kitchen and noticed that things got a little too quiet. I looked over and saw this:

















Amazing! She did this all by herself. My purse was just sitting there. (Again, I realize that kids all over the world are grabbing their moms' purses, but still, I just love being a mom!)



















She looks pretty good with a Longchamp purse, if I say so myself!! Watch out Brian, there are two of us now:)!


Our House is for Sale

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By the way, our house is for sale, and we had a second showing today. Please pray that our house would sell for a fair price. If you want, you can view our virtual tour online (above). There is some really cheesy music playing (you can shut it off by clicking on the speaker on the top right); however, the pics are great.

Uncle Rollie's Hat and a Flickr Test


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Okay, so I just have to vent. I have loved, loved, loved facebook, blogging, and entering into a whole new world of social-networking, until recently, I discovered something about my pictures.

I have a google reader account where I easily organize the blogs I read and follow. I subscribe to dear friends blogs, their friends blogs, and even a blog written by this girl who loves decorating and lives in Germany. Well, I have noticed something about other peoples' pictures. While I'm not a photographer by any means, my pictures, once posted on my blog, do not look as good as they do on my computer.

I also love, love, love my mac.

HOWEVER, I have been posting pictures on this blog since literally the day Cece was born, and it has taken me nine months to figure out that the picture quality is not great. ARRGGGG!

I guess it has something to do with the fact that when uploading pictures directly to blogger from my computer, blogger compresses them. So, after doing some research, I have found there are other ways to do this. Flickr happens to be one, but I'm not sure if I'm going to like this. For starters, I think I can only attach ONE picture per post. What will I ever do? Just one picture!!! Okay, enough of that.

This ONE picture (although there are five that I wanted to put on here) is of Cece (of course). She was at my parents house, and Uncle Rollie's suitcase was upstairs, open, and within her reach. She found his hat, and the rest, is well super-cute.

I'll try to get a few more posted (if this works, and I have the patience:))!

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Cece's First Words

So, Cece has started to say words--actual words, and she knows what some of them mean. I cannot describe what it is like, as a parent, to watch your child develop . . . . What is really funny is to watch her watch this video because she says the words again--with the video. She knows more than what is on here, but we didn't want to show off:)!