Happy Halloween!

This is Britt's costume:



Can you tell what she's supposed to be?



She was so excited, she did a little dance for me:



Okay, just kidding. That was stuff she picked out of the winter clothes bag. She thought she looked great.

Actually, she's going to be a kittycat this year. Well, she wanted to be a caterpillar, but I searched high and low and couldn't find a caterpillar costume anywhere. So she decided to be a kittycat instead:



This was after the Halloween party at school, so most of her whiskers are rubbed off. But do you see the pink feathers around the neckline? Yes, that is the neckline; I had to add the turtleneck underneath because it was so low-cut. I was pissed when I first put it on her! This is how they design costumes for a four-year-old? Also, it was very short, so I made her wear the pants, too.

And then she noticed...



that we had a scary new Halloween decoration:



Ack! That sucker's huge! Like three inches long! At least!

Anyway, Britt will be trick-or-treating tonight, so stayed tuned for more pictures tomorrow.

Blast from the Past

I dialed up my old YouTube account last night and watched the three videos that I managed to upload in 2006 before Bridgie came over and installed her Kodak software on my computer, which caused my software to no longer recognize my video camera. *

Anyway, there was one video I'd uploaded but never posted on here. So, here's our little rock chick when she was about 20 months old:



The part where she imitates Robert Plant's wails just slays me.

* Since I got my new computer, I haven't been able find my video software CD. I checked the Sony website to see if I could download it from there, but they wanted sixty or seventy bucks for it. So, if you're wondering why I never post videos anymore, that's why.

Back to the Barnyard

Yesterday was our third annual trip to Chester's Pumpkin Patch. And I took lots of pictures, of course, because it's fun to see her doing the same things at one-year intervals. This was our first trip, when she was two, and here's last year's trip, when she was three.

Another milestone

Britt informed me today that she doesn't need her potty seat anymore. "It's for babies," she says.

(***high five***)

Although it was pretty darn cute when we'd be fixin' to go somewhere and she'd present herself with the potty seat slung over her shoulder and announce, "I'm ready!" Sadly, I never got that on video.

It runs in the family

"Just sittin' here, minding my own business..."



"Aw, man! Here comes Grammy with her camera again."



"No pictures! I said NO PICTURES!"



(***sigh***)

Giving me the hand already, just like her sister.

Isn't she pretty?

Both of my grandbabies are such beautiful little girls.

Road Trippin'

I took Jessica and the girls out to lunch before leaving Wichita this afternoon; Britt scored a balloon as we left the restaurant.

While driving home to OKC, I heard her say, "My beyoon! I'm going to call you Beyoony! You're my very best friend for ever and ever! You're stupendous!"

I almost drove right off the road. Our little genius used a three-syllable word in appropriate context! When she can't even pronounce "balloon"!

Then she slept for most of the trip home and, when she woke up, she found that Beyoony had lost most of his air. She said, "Oh, Beyoony. You are not my friend anymore. I'm going to pop you!"

And so she did.

And then -- well, have you seen the U-Haul trucks that have the big green spider painted on the side? After we passed one on the highway, she twisted around in her seat and yelled, "You'll never catch us, Spider Truck!"

Seriously, y'all, with entertainment like that emanating from my back seat, what do I need a car stereo for?