No thanks, Mom. I'll do it MYSELF.

Kylan is now in the wonderful world of exploration and realizing that he can do a lot of things for himself. In my opinion he gets a little carried away sometimes. Here are a few from the last few days that have kept me on my toes.

You wanted to feed me dinner mom? No thanks, I'll do it myself.
In fact, I don't want babyfood. I will just spit it out all over my onesie.

I'll just have bananas, thanks.

I want that thing in the bookshelf that I know you don't want me to get into. So I won't ask you to get it for me - I'll just GET INSIDE the bookshelf and get it myself.

Why would I need help getting out?!
I can do it myself!!

Kylan LOVES the window. I am sure he would love being outside if we actually had grass and it wasn't 200 degrees outside... But the back of the couch is his window-seat and he has a grand ol' time.

Don't worry, Mom! I can get out of the window by myself!

Oh, you wanted to take my picture?!?! I can do that by myself, too!!

Oh, the joys of parenthood!!!

Another Robbery Rant

So, we finally 'finished' cleaning up the remnants of the robbery yesterday. It is always so much fun attempting to put things back together again when they aren't yours and you don't know how they were supposed to be to begin with. (just a HINT of sarcasm....) I brought my dog along, even though my husband and my sister were there, and my dad for a little while, it still freaked me out a bit being in that big house with so many hiding places. On my other blog my friend Natalie posted a comment remembering one of our notorious games of hide-and-seek - it took us a good twenty minutes to find her one time, and everyone there was looking for her!! She finally started banging on the walls until we found her!

The house wasn't completely trashed. Just my grandparents room and their den. That clean up took us what seemed like forever. Can you imagine if they had trashed more?! The funniest part about it is the things they took and the things they left. They left probably $30 or more in stray bills and change, but they took the title to an old car my grandparents don't even have anymore. The entire thing was just strange. I am honestly surprised they didn't spend more time going through things more thoroughly. But when I had stopped by Monday to bring in the mail I noticed a closet was open and I thought I heard a toilet flush. Mind you, the house is really old and makes all kinds of noises so I wasn't TOO terrified, but I had a feeling I needed to get out of there fast... but Matt thinks I probably interrupted them. At this point I have to say I agree. The thought of it just makes me shiver! But now the entire neighborhood is aware and the house is being watched 'by professionals' so that gives me a little more peace of mind. There are several of us stopping by a few times a day, but honestly unless they plan on moving a grand piano out the front doors, by themselves, without being noticed by the entire neighborhood, there's not much to steal. Our family is so sentimental. Looking for valuables they will find pictures and journals, old dresses my grandmother hand-made for dances, weddings and plays over the last 30 years, cabbage patch dolls trashed with the same 30 years of kids and grand kids, and old report cards. I actually found my last Senior report card in the clean up! Even the furniture they have had since before I was born, out of pure nostalgia. 

Anyway - the entire thing baffles me. It is so funny that the things we prize the most are the things that are of no monetary value. I sincerely doubt that all of our wedding pictures hung in the dining room would get a good price at a pawn shop... 

Keeping the blog personal - AND TERRIFYING

I have been such a slacker on this blog lately, and I have been terrible about our family blog too, www.krystalyandmatt.blogspot.com, (but that's nothing new) and it just reminded me about the goal we had in the first place to keep this blog more personal. So, here is our little adventure from last night.... It was a doosey.

I stopped by my grandparent's house last night to pick up the mail only to find that their house had been broken into! I had taken the trash cans up from the curb and walked around the back and found the back door kicked in... *ugh* they are the most giving people I have ever met. That this would happen to them of all people is just heart breaking. I called my aunt/sister (it's complicated - but not wiered. Promise.) who is in charge of watching the house and I called the cops. I wasn't crazy enough to go in there by myself!! I was a kid in this house - I know that there are TONS of places to hide, some you would never be found in! Friends of mine from college will attest - we had many very crazy games of hide-and-go-seek there - even as adults!! The cops had to go and we had to wait for the processing unit to come. So, I called my dad! Having been in law enforcement for years and being a very large and scary looking man, who else would I call?! He and my brother and, of course, my darling husband all came to the rescue (baby in-tow might I add). We were there til about 2 am... (needless to say I have a very cranky child). It just breaks my heart to see that. It is such a scary thing. It scares me to be in that house alone even still, and i'm 25 - even when it hasn't been broken into! *sigh* but, so be it, and all we can do is go from here. And maybe buy them a pit-bull or two... :)

Greek Wedding

Jennie and Dan were a fantastic couple who came all the way from Chicago. We got to photograph Jennie in her suite at the Flamingo while she was getting ready, and her jitters were just darling. They had a traditional Greek Orthodox wedding, which was absolutely amazing. Their pictures and their party were at the Flamingo. I won't call it a reception because that word won't do it justice. If you have ever been to a Greek wedding you would know - those Greeks know how to PARTY! I would do a Greek wedding every weekend for a month! Bottom line, it was an amazing wedding with a ridiculously fun couple. We took over 4,000 pictures - I think that sums up what a fantastic wedding it was.