Catching Up

I wish we had started this blog long, long ago. I've not been very good about journaling Lola's life or her milestones. However, this blog will probably be about all of our lives together; and you'll guest star at times, since you are such an important part of who we are. We'll be sure to throw in pics & video to liven it up a bit.

I've already been thinking about all the things I want to jot down from just the last two weeks. Lola says the funniest things. She is quite clever and sometimes suprises us with her wit and expanding vocabulary. Here are a few things that have amused us lately.

- Lola recently discovered that her tummy growls. A few weeks ago, she came running to me saying, "Mommy, my tummy said Rawwrrr!" Although, I'm sure she is quite in touch with her hunger pains. We have an open pantry and she is constantly discovering her next snack. Several days later and soon after waking, Lola asked, "Mommy, are you hungry in your belly?" I can't recall how I replied but then I asked her if she was hungry in her belly. She said, "No! I watch Bugs first." She usually watches her favorite show while I prepare her breakfast. I think in her own way she was telling me to get on with the routine.

- Lola recently spent a week with her Nana & Poppy, Aunt Dana, and her Aunt Dee Dee. She would barely say hello to us on the phone and when asked she never wanted to come home. On her last day I called before we were to meet she and Aunt Dee. She didn't want to talk to me. When asked if she wanted to see Mom & Dad, she said no twice. Finally, I had Dee ask her if she wanted to see her MiMi & Pro Pro to which she exclaimed, "Yeah!" Then she grabbed the phone and said to me, "But Mommy, I come right back!" and promptly handed the phone back to Dee.

~About a week ago we took Lola to the dancing fountains in Bricktown. She was in heaven; like her mother she is a water rat. Also like her mom, she is fascinated with horses. She would run around the fountains and as soon as she saw a horse-drawn carriage pass by, she would run to the railing and cry out to the "horsies". I guess a carriage ride is in our future. Our time at the fountains was pretty entertaining - live music, dancing water, horses, a lightning show off in the distance, and the hustle and bustle of Bricktown on a Saturday night. However, Lola was the most entertaining attraction. She kept sipping from the fountains and as one dipped lower to the ground, I saw her bend farther and farther over till she was almost sucking the ground dry. I laughed hysterically as she chased that fountain to the ground. In between her antics, she kept saving me from imaginary spiders on the rock where I was sitting. I had swiped a spider off her chair at MiMi's earlier that day and I suppose she wanted to return the heroic gesture. Our favorite moment happened when she sat on a fountain and jumped up exclaiming, "Oh gosh, there are bubbles in my butt!"

- When asked how old she is, Lola always answers four. Not because that is the only number she knows; she actually knows she is two. However, she has an agenda. A while back she asked Randy about his tattoo and said she wanted one. Randy told her she could choose to have one when she was older. Her reply... "When I'm four?" Randy said maybe and ever since then her answer is four.

Isn't she adorable?