Shelba

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The happy couple

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The dress

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Dresses

Okay, so here are the two dresses I found yesterday.  I have another dress that will arrive in the mail later today. 

So the green and white one.  I'm going to go look for a cardigan to go over this.  What do you think?  Green to match?  Or white?  Or should I go nuts and do yellow? And yellow shoes? 

The second dress will be much easier for me to figure out.  Black shoes. 

The dress that is coming in the mail is longer and it is a halter dress and it is linen and longer. It is also black. 

I'm getting ready to go shopping.  Why didn't I post these last night so I could have heard your opinions before today?

Mission Failed

I didn't find anything for the wedding, but I'm going again tomorrow.  My standards have been lowered.  I no longer care about cute.  Now I just want something that is half decent. 

Shopping Sucks

We're going to a wedding this weekend and and I have nothing to wear.  Sooooo, I am getting Zorba and myself ready to go shopping.  God, I hate shopping for clothes.  Especially when I'm THIS size.  I don't mind it when I'm 2 sizes smaller.  Hell, I like shopping when I'm two sizes smaller!  Anyway, sheesh, I need to find something to wear.  I don't know what to buy, or what to look for, or any of that.  I just want something cute and not mommyish.  Something comfortable, but flattering.  Nothing tight, of course. 

I'm not hopeful that I'll find anything.  Oh crap, it is starting to rain.  I need to get us going before it gets too bad. 

Dramatic Chipmunk

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Bloggy Photo Days **Saturday**

Ray didn't want to be shown, so I had to conceal his face.  Here you can see Zorba and Ray waiting for me to get ready.  I think it was 9:00 am.  I think.  I was sooo tired from the night before.  Zorba getting up at 3 am, etc. 

Zorba pushing a stool across the kitchen. 

Playing with stacking cups sent by my secret pal.  I need to thank my secret pal still.  I must do this today. 

I'm ready! 

Geek heaven!  We got another external hard drive for me to store my pics on.  I'm running out of space on my laptop.   Ray had to check out the televisions. He loves to check out the televisions.

Zorba told me she was hungry and I was hungry, so I told Ray that he needed to feed us.  We headed to the Domain (don't ask) and went into a fancier restaurant than we usual.  We debated whether these flowers were real or plastic.  They were real. 

Zorba took this photo of Ray. 

Zorba's milk.  We had a great waiter.  Zorba had pasta, and she had a good time slurping up the noodles.  She had to go in time out once...or twice.  I can't remember why.  Ray had a hamburger and I had a french dip.  I thought lunch was pretty good.  When we were exiting our booth, Zorba declared, "Mama, I have to pee!  I have to pee!" 

A candle in the bathroom.  It was a nice bathroom. 

At Borders.  This author was there signing books.  I had a nice conversation with him and he signed a book for Zorba. 

After Borders we let Zorba play with this water feature for a bit.  Then we went home to take a break.

Zorba wanted to watch one of her dvds on my laptop.  I forget why she was crying here, but it wasn't a big deal.  I had to put my camera down and tend to her.  We decided to head out to look at playscapes. 

We didn't realize how expensive these playscapes can run.  Now we know.  Zorba had a great time trying them all out. We decided that we need to shop around.

Zorba was sad to leave, but we assured her that we would find more playscapes for her to try out.

And we did, we found another playscape dealer. 

I feel overwhelmed by all of the playscape choices.

This place was more reasonable than the first place we went. 

We are going to get Zorba a playscape, we just don't know from where or which one. 

We told Zorba that it was time to go.  She was running towards me when she fell down and skinned her knees.  To cheer her up, we let her play for five more minutes.  As soon as she got on one of the playscapes, she forgot all about her booboos. 

The booboos weren't bad, thankfully.  She requested lots of kisses on them and even kissed them herself a few times.  She was exhausted once we got in the car.  And she said she was hungry.

She was tired and on the verge of a meltdown. 

Since we had nothing to eat at home, we stopped off at HEB.  Meltdown # one happened.  She was not pleased about having to sit in the cart.  I pushed a crying Zorba around the store. She cheered up once she was presented with one of the bucks that I posted about below. 

Meltdown number 2 happened as soon as we got home.  She was filthy and hungry.  I started making her dinner and then dragged her into the tub.  Woooo boy, it was ugly.  She screamed bloody murder for a long time.  Finally, once she was out of the tub, bandaids had been applied to her booboos, and she was given her food, she was okay.

The booboos.  My Little Pony bandaids on one knee and Sesame Street bandaids on the other knee.  She was in such a state, that I thought she might meltdown further over this.  I half expected her to lose it because I didn't put My Little Pony bandaids on BOTH knees, but she didn't.  I was counting down the minutes until I could put her to bed. 

7:00 pm.  BED!!!!  She was in a good mood once I put her down.  She got up a couple of times, but pretty much slept through the night.  She came in this morning at 7:00 am, got in bed with us, and fell back asleep. 

After she went to bed, I uploaded pics to my computer and posted the pics from Friday.  I surfed the web and then we went to bed. 

It was a good day!

And that is that!  Exciting stuff, huh? 

Jerk

At our grocery store, they give the kids "bucks" for them to use in this little treat machine.  Zorba loves the bucks process and it is the highlight of her grocery store experience.  So, yesterday, she got her buck, and we got in line behind a little 2 year old who was having a hard time getting the machine to accept her buck.  A minute later, a 5 year old boy got in line after Zorba.  I was trying to help the 2 year old get her buck to go in, when the dad showed up.  Finally, the machine took the 2 year old's buck and she worked on getting her treat out of the machine.  While we waited for the 2 year old,  Zorba geared up for her turn  and the dad asked the 5 year old (the brother of the 2 year old) if he was in front of us.  The little boy said, "I don't think so."  And the dad said, "That is okay, you go in front of her."

"Excuse me, she is next." 

"Oh, is she first?" 

"Yeah, she is after your daughter and BEFORE your son." 

"Okay, then she can go next."

"Gee, thanks." 

Jeesh.  Jerk.