Growing Girl

Suzy is doing all sorts of funny things these days. She has quite the personality, to say the least. I don’t know where she gets that from?! Her daddy is “Mr. Social”, and I am not the shyest person in town either. She is absolutely hilarious. I know that I am probably a little biased, but I could watch her and laugh at her all day long!

These pictures are from the same day we played outside all day during Spring Break, but they were tooooo funny not to share! 

No, it is not opened! She would have reallllly loved that!! 

Big girl had her flower along for the ride!

Sequence of events- The pictures tell the story!! 

I took her inside to change clothes and grab a quick snack! She was satisfied. 

She loooooooves her KK! Notice the fingernail file that she has hidden under her hiney... She is really hiding it well, isn't she?! 

           -  I can say, “Suzy, are you a bad girl?”. Suzy will shake her head yes and say, “Baaaaaaad”.

·        -  She thinks that all dogs are named: wowwwwa (Lola) or Beeeewwwa (Bella).

·         - All cats have the same name: “CAAAAT”

·         - If she sees a cow on anything (a book, yogurt package, etc.) she will say, “Mooooooo”.

·         Her favorite things are:

o       Shoes- she says shoe and will go get her shoes when I tell her it is time to go

o        Toothbrushes- she loves to sit in the bathroom sink and brush her teeth like a big girl. Laurie always lets her do that while I am getting ready to go somewhere. She also totes around a toothbrush and “brushes her teeth” throughout the day.

o       Snacks- she goes to the cabinet that houses all her “goodies” and grabs whatever she wants. Suzy’s cabinet consists of Nutri-Grain Bars, animal crackers, Ritz cheese bitz, yogurt/applesauce sqeezeables, etc. She thinks she needs something in her hand to eat at all times.

o       Purses and Boxes- she is very big into organizing things right now. All her toys, blocks, books, etc. belong in a basket or a purse. She puts the most random things in the most random places. At least she is somewhat picking up after herself. She will sling that purse up her arm and priss across the house like she is the queen! 

o       Books- she is still a huge fan of books- She will grab a book and sit in anyone’s lap and read for as long as you will read to her. She points, laughs, and nods while you read to her. Let’s hope she gets some good word recognition and vocabulary skills from the many stories we read to her. I think her favorite book right now is, The Wheels on the Bus. She likes it when the mama’s go, “shhhh, shhhh, shhhhh”, the babies go, “waaaahhhh, waaaahhh, waaaaah”, and the people go up and down the most!

Being silly after her bath one night! 

She is doing so much now it is hard for me to even keep up with it myself. I know that her most recent accomplishments are: drinking out of a Capri Sun pouch by herself, blowing kisses, saying PawPaw, saying Thank You, and trying to hardest to jump. She runs full speed and has her head down the whole time. I don’t know what that is all about, but it looks like she is charging at whatever she is running towards.

She wears a size 4 shoe, 18-24 month clothes, and she is very short. We knew she was shorter than average, but when Jill brought Chevy over (he is 9 mos old) and Suzy was only a couple centimeters taller than him our suspicions were confirmed. She also wore her first pair of shorts on Easter. They came well past her knee caps. Maybe she will grow taller as she gets older, but I will tell you… I think she is going to be a little girl! J

KK, Laurie, and I took her on a "junking" excursion one Saturday. We went to Kilgore's in Hernando, which is a junk hunter's dream.... Out of all the mess in that establishment she left there with this Mickey Mouse from who knows where and a Pez dispenser. The man GAVE them to her. Gee, thanks pal, that's just what I wanted.... We had to hurry home to wash Mouse before she got too attached. 

She also had her very first trip to The Dip in Hernando. She got something called a Snow. It was a slush and a milk shake mixed together. She got strawberry banana! She sucked it down! The only thing she didn't like was when a fresh piece of strawberry would clog her straw! She finished probably half of that cup before giving up! 

Cheeto Monster

The month of March started out with the stomach virus and ending with rain (rain, rain, and more rain). In between the beginning and the end of March, Spring Break snuck up on us. The first few days of Spring Break were miserable. It was rainy, cold, and gross. By the end of the week things started perking up in North Mississippi. Mimi and I got Suzy a slide on one of the cold, yucky days in Southaven and couldn't wait for her to be able to use it. Finally, by Thursday or Friday we got to go outside and soak up some sunshine.

This dirt, not Oreo.

Ooooops! 

A little dirt never hurt anyone, right?

Lola doesn't mind helping her clean up! 

Dirt and Cheetos! YUUUUUMY! 

Peek-A-Boo! 

 She loved her slide just as much as we thought she would. Laurie got to come play with us that day. It was loads of fun!!

We had every toy that would roll and entertain Suzy in our front yard. We looked like the Beverly Hillbillies, but we didn't care one bit. Suzy was having fun, and that is all I was concerned with.

Suzy looooves her Laurie.

We have this dog in our neighborhood that loves to litter our yard with his deposits of number two. I know it is not my dogs, because they are far too ladylike for that. Mine want to be out of sight of me before they do it. They will go anywhere else, but they won't go in our yard. I have seen this massive yellow dog depositing his goods quite a few times. Suzy apparently has never seen him leaving us those nice presents. She got very close to encountering it first hand.

YUCKY!! 

She didn't get into the poop, but we made her think she did apparently. She was concerned with getting those hands cleaned off, wasn't she?

Even the pups decided to spend the day with us. They followed Suzy around hoping she would drop food, laid in the sun, and ran from Suzy when she didn't have any food to drop.

 

Suzy loves the dogs.... They like her IF she has food, but other than that... They don't really care for her.

Disinfect This House!!!

Last Friday and Saturday night our Sue Baby got a little sick. We blamed it on the spread of food she ate Friday night. She ate an entire beef enchilada, rice, and beans. We thought her little belly might have gotten upset from over eating, so we didn't pay much attention to it. That Sunday night I got sick. I was siiiiiiick. It was awful. Then, we heard about a few other babies that had gotten sick at daycare. I now know that she had the stomach virus and gave it to me. My mama came to the rescue at about 7:00 AM, Monday morning. She picked up Suzy and took her to daycare and I slept the day away. The phenergan and sleep did the trick. Suzy stayed at her house that night, and I picked her up from Tattle Tales Tuesday afternoon. I was thrilled to see her. Ahhhh. Pure heaven.

Then, weeeellll, then she got sick again. She was fine all afternoon Thursday. I put her to bed as usual, but she woke me up around 10:00 coughing through the monitor. The cough was not the usual cough, so I got up and went to check on her. Wow!!! When I walked in the door the smell knocked me down. It was terrible. I had to give her a bath from all the vomit. It was so sad to see her so pitiful.
After all the throwing up and dry heaving I started getting really worried. I don't think it would have been so bad if she had not been sick just a few days earlier. The more she threw up, the more worried I got. I ended up calling my mama, yet again, for reinforcement. Mimi came over and helped me tend to her. Every time I would get one thing washed another thing would have to be washed. Finally, around 5 o'clock AM Suzy was fast asleep. She didn't throw up or have another yucky diaper after about 4:00 AM. I was oooonnnne tired Mama. I do not want that yucky mess ever again. EVER. AGAIN.

Earlier Thursday afternoon.... Cheeseburger in Paradise.

If she is outside, she is happy! If you add a cheeseburger to the mix..... eeeeven better!

Thursday night. I had to lay her on a pallet while I stripped her bed to wash. Isn't this pathetic. This was after bath number 1.

She got moved to my bed after the next round so I could wash other stuff...

My night stand.... baby powder, water, popcorn, diet coke, and diapers....... My morning was lovely.

Her bumper pads were in the line of fire. I tried putting her in her bed without a bumper pad, but she would stick her legs through the spindles and they would get caught... All I had was pillows, so while she slept I stayed awake so I could make sure she didn't nuzzle into them. I also didn't want them to fall on her. I know it isn't the best thing to do, but I had to do something.

Friday morning Mimi came over around 10:00 AM so I could go to town and pick up some of school work and go to the grocery store to grab a few things. The main thing on my list was cleaning supplies! I bought $146 worth of cleaning junk. I bought all new toothbrushes, toilet brushes, and cleaning supplies to last a year. I was on a mission to clean the house. That night Kalon came over to help me. We cleaned from bottom to top. Literally, we cleaned baseboards, doors, linens, etc. It smelled so good in the house. Saturday we opened all the windows and spent the morning outside. I thought that some fresh air would do us both some good. Kalon spent the night Friday night, so she got to join in on all the fun!

We had breakfast outside. Cinnamon rolls are her favorite. She probably ate two whole rolls by herself. That is icing hanging off her nose and lips. Kalon taught her how to scrape the pan and eat the icing off her finger.

Filthy face!!!!

We got on the lawn mower to clip the yard and mulch leaves. Kalon told me that Suzy and I looked like "country came to town" on that lawn mower.... Suzy loved it. She used the mower as her own personal jungle gym.

Okay, I am a sucker..... I gave her a drink of my drink.... She fell in love. She NEVER gets this good stuff, but I figured she needed a treat.

The treat didn't last long. She spilled the Diet Coke, and started eating the ice off the ground.

We stopped by Kalon's today and they picked some flowers.

We got a lot accomplished Saturday. We cleaned flower beds, picked up sticks, burned a bunch of stuff, and rode the lawn mower! It was just thrilling to see Suzy feeling better. She deserved a good morning, and boy she had one!
I had a blast with her. I bragged to everyone I saw the next couple days about how much fun we had!

Family- Papaw

It has been absolutely gorgeous this week. The weather has been lovely enough for us to spend some time outside. We went to the Methodist Church's park one day with Jill, Ford, and Chevy. Suzy was obsessed with the slide, and Ford was obsessed with anything "boy".

The day after that we went to see Papaw at the shop. I stuck Suzy in Casey's dragster and she played for an eternity. She loved it. I joked on Facebook that the dragster was the "Geeslin PlayPen", but it really isn't a joke. Not. One. Bit. Then, yesterday we went to Mimi and Papaw's house for a little play time before we had to go home to get ready for the next day. That leads me to my topic of this blog... My dad.

Some fun Papaw Facts:
Full name: Ronald Lee Geeslin
Date of birth: 02/26/1962
Family: 4 sisters and 1 brother scattered across the southern part of the U.S.
Hobbies: ANYTHING CAR RELATED
Work Hours: Sun up to well past sunset
Business: Performance Automotive and Towing, Ronnie's Hot Rods
Toys: Street Rods, Race Cars, Hot Rods, etc.
Favorite things: looking at or watching anything that "goes", building anything that "goes", fixing anything that "goes", driving anything that "goes", and Ella Suzanne Smith

Hot Rod Shop, Suzy, and cars all in the photo....
January 2012

Do you see that he loves cars and Suzy? Well, that is no joke. He lets her get away with murder, and will do anything he "thinks" she may want him to do whether it will tick me off or not. Who am I, anyway? Even though I am the Mama, he doesn't care. He will do whatever it takes to make sure that she is spoiled rotten by him. The problem arises when he gets her all fired up, and then sends her home with me. Him and Pops are in a competition to see who Suzy is going to like better.... The child will never have to worry about not recieving enough love.

 

Things Papaw does to spoil Suzy:

1. He lets her drink his Coke or Pepsi. Not just a little.... However much she wants. I am constantly whining in the background about him not letting her partake, but he never slacks up.
2. Gives her whatever food he is eating. It could be a chocolate chip cookie, a hamburger, or whatever. He doesn't care if it is full of sugar! Why, you may ask?? Well, because he doesn't have to put her to sleep at night.
3. Uncle Pasty can vouch for me on this one: When we were little if we even got near a car or anything that had paint on it, and THOUGHT about touching it he was throwing a fit. When we were at the shop the other day playing in the dragster I looked down the front of it.... Fingerprings EVERYWHERE. If that would have been Casey or I.... Oh boy... We would have gotten it. We would have gotten it big time. What did he say to Suzy? Absolutely nothing.
4. He takes her riding on his toys, pushes her around in her cars, etc.
5. Buys her a happy when he goes out of town, and comes back talking about all the stuff that she WILL have one day. For example: those little mini hot rod cars

A good example of him sugaring her up... His coke in the background and a sucker in her mouth.
October 2012.

Please notice that she is sitting IN  the steering wheel.

Vrooooom! Vroooooom!

I  He is infatuated with her, her happiness, and he wants her to love nothing more than cars.

I keep trying to tell her that she needs a convertible or a Jeep. Maybe by this summer she will have him talked into it. She needs Vitamin D therapy while Mama is out of school for summer, don't you think?

See.... She is already so good at driving, why should she spend the summer without more practice?

July 2012

In the steering wheel again....
July 2012