Beauty consultant

Do you remember seeing her photo last summer when she tried this trick without permission? Check my archives- August 2006. I am too lazy/tired to put the link here.

She is such a girly girl at times. And such a tomboy at others. She killed a beetle in the kitchen last night and then sat and stared at it before deciding to get some paper to pick it up and throw it away. And that was the end of that! No screaming, running or jumping.

"The Green Bean Kid' aka GBK

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And this is how she got her name.

Obsessive/Compulsive cleaners beware!

Want to know the worst possible thing to give to an obsessive/compulsive cleaning fool?

A black light.

We borrowed one to search our hair for unwelcome guests...

*BEWARE*
Do not try that in the bathroom. The black light picks up every single bit of dut, lint, bacteria, etc. If your husband missed the toilet and sprayed the wall, it picks that up too.

Let me just say that I scrubbed my bathroom for 2 hours that first night. I checked it last night and I just saw some dust/lint on the walls. But I scrubbed my walls down too- so I am thinking that is just lint from the cloth I used to wash them with.

Before you get caught at a party with blacklight, make sure you have clean hair, ears, teeth and nose. That could make an horrifying yet interesting date. One you would never forget.

Creepy crawlies- UGHHH!

We are battling the head lice.
Apparently it is going around our church and community.

We missed church because of it last Sunday. We treated it and thought we were in the clear. But the more I heard, the more advice I got from nurses and the more that I read online, I began to realize that we were not done with it just yet.

After just 2 days, I found a live one. From what I understand, the lice are resistant to the over-the-counter products.

So after 3 days of no sleep, 82 loads of laundry and vacuuming until I want the vaccum to suck me up and take me away, I called the doctor. I am desperate.

The Dr called in a prescription today for us to get rid of the lice. I got a $120 2oz bottle of lotion that supposedly will knock it out.

I am on the verge of a nervous breakdown. I do not know what I would do if I was a working mom because the cleaning in itself is a full-time job!


So- my advice. Don't let anyone tell you that you are safe to go out and about with the lice once you did the first treatment! If we had, we could have given it to friends, family, complete strangers!

Check your kids/husbands/self every single day. I missed 2 days of checking and then that is when we found them. It is going around the church/daycare and you know that they are not washing/vacuuming/cleaning every single day.

Not to scare you, but I promise you that this is not something to mess around with. It is like having fleas or termites, only it is on your head and you can not kill it with one spray of pesticide. It takes an average of one hour a day for me to go through all of GBK's hair just to make sure that I didn't miss an egg. (Because the over-the-counter shampoo does not kill the egg- so if you miss one egg, you are welcoming a whole new colony.) I found 6+ eggs last night that I had missed before. So we are staying home.

This is worse than the flu, an ear infection, and a paper cut all put together.

Madi and I are in a wedding Saturday- the festivities begin Friday afternoon!

Pray for me. I am delirious.

Thank you Disney!

Our big Christmas surprise for Princess GBK was a trip to Disney. Yes, we each got a 6 Day Pass and did it up right. We had the best time. We left Christmas Day and came home New Year's Day.

We went to the 4 major parks and saw and did as much as possible- it was crowded since it was a holiday week.

She filled her autograph book. In fact, I just realized that she never got Cinderella to actually sign her book! We were caught up in the moment, I guess. So now I am working on getting pictures together to put in the book.


Here is one such photo. We were surprised at Animal Kingdom when we looked over in the bushes and there was Flik!

More to come...

Christmas 2006

We officially began Christmas in November with the hanging of the decorations and our first party on the 28th.

Remember how much fun she had last year opening presents? I need to get busy wrapping some
little things for her... I really have nothing right now. We have one big expensive surprise for her on Christmas Day.

She loves to ride this reindeer. She grabs his horns (as she calls them) and tells him "yeehaw!" and I just stand there and laugh. I need to get it on video.

See how curly her hair gets? The temperature determines if it will be curly or straight as a board. She is gonna hate it when she gets older.

missing myself

I had a few moments tonight to go and look back on my blog one year ago.

I miss myself.

I miss the pictures that I was taking.

I need to get a camera and get back on track.

I sent my 35mm camera to B&H Photo in New York for them to look it over and make me an offer. Instead, they took it and sold it. So they sent me a check and all of my accesssories. Hopefully I will get that package soon. It has been over a week.

I really need to get back into the swing on things.

Bella getting ready to dig in.
GBK learning to share. Or maybe she is learning to say NO! I was here first!

Digging in her cake. YUM!
And she read each and every card.

these will be a little out of order, but you get the idea
Bella got a car for her birthday. She loved to drive in reverse. I think Sam taught her how to drive. haha GBK wore fairy wings and a fairy skirt at the party- she picked lellow (not yellow). We will let the auntie give the details of the party on her blog.