Grandpa and Taylor
We are having so much fun. Today Todd went and played golf with his dad and his sister and mom and Taylor and I went out and ran fun errands. We started off at Toys R Us and bought Taylor the cutest little car that she can sit on and use her feet to push around and then you flip it up and she can stand and push it around like a lawn mower looking thing. Very cute! We also got her a ne w book and some Baby Einstein videos that she watched tonight.    Treats from under my hood!Then we went to CPK for lunch. We started off with some warm honey wheat pita bread and hummus. Taylor loved the pita bread! Then we walked over to Macy's to look at their perfume. I was trying to find the se three different kinds of perfume that smelled like my Escada that has been discontinued. They didn't have any of them and apparently they are hard to find. Great! So we went to a perfume store that was in the same mall and asked them. They didn't have them either. BUT they did have this one scent that I smelled a few weeks ago called Pink Sugar. Very warm and vanilla-ee and sweet. I really, really liked it. We smelled a million other ones first though. I told them that I loved warm, vanilla scents so they were pulling all of them. I still liked the Pink Sugar the best and Todd's mom bought me the big bottle for an early bday present. Soooo nice!! I love it!   There was a See's candy shop in there and I said 'hey lets go get a sample of See's'. The girls didn't believe me about the magical free sample but when you're talking to a girl that just finished a competition and has an open diet, you must trust the wise dieting fitness model. If there is free chocolate I will find it!! :o) We ended up buying a few for the boys. Then we were off to Ikea so they could find some jars that they use to fill and decorate and make presents with. After that we were off to Yummy Cupcakes. This place is soooo amazing! Every kind of cupcake you can think of. They had a peanut butter and jelly cupcake!! I got the Smores, Todd got a Reeses Peanut butter and his mom got chocolate on chocolate and we got his dad chocolate with cream frosting. Aunt Amy is a tad bit crazy and doesn't like frosting!! Yup, we thought about cutting her out of the family but Taylor loves her too much! ;o)  At breakfast with Grandpa!Todd cooked an amazing magnolian beef dish for dinner! After I cleaned up I dished out everyone's cupcakes. They were AMAZING! I only ate half mine and put the other half in the fridge for later. I did help Todd finish his though! There was an actual glob of real peanut butter in the middle. Mmmmm....  Auntie Amy & Taylor at Good Earth The next morning we went to one of our favorite breakfast spots. It's called Good Earth and it's actually the place I ate the day I was in labor. I was having labor pains while eating my egg white omelet! Ha! Taylor had fun drinking out of straws and trying new foods and getting spoiled going from lap to lap!  Taylor & Grammy Smith at BreakfastNext we headed to Bank of America where Todd's parents set up an account for Taylor that they are going to contribute to! In fact, anyone can contribute so Todd and I are going to do our best to put as much money away for her as possible. It's tough these days but we are fine going without a few things if that means she doesn't have to struggle with debt in her future! After that we headed to our favorite little Tuesday Farmers Market. We loaded up on our favorite cookies from a few vendors as well as some toffee and a bunch of fruit. We did have one big scare while everyone was here for a visit! I gave Taylor a frozen banana to nibble on and when it got down to a dangerous size I reached to grab it away from her and as I'm going for it it slipped right down into her throat. I just grabbed her out of her booster seat and yelled 'she's choking' and flipped her over and started to hit her on the back. Todd ran over and grabbed her and gave her a good pound and it popped right out. She was soooo scared and cried for a little bit afterwards and then about 10 min later she was fine. I was very teary eyed. The next morning we relaxed and took pictures and tried to spend as much time together before they flew out in the early afternoon. We were very sad to see them go! :o( It is really hard not having family around for so many reasons. Hopefully we can all be together soon! |
