my daughter is taking over my house

As you know, Grandma and Grandpa came into town for a memorial service, and stayed for the weekend to visit. The hub and I celebrated this rare chance at alone time by hopping into the car and going not on a date, not to the movies, not even to a restaurant.....we went grocery shopping. At 11:00 a.m. Saturday morning. Because we're crazy like that. And foreplay - that was a stop at the Home Depot for a knob. Ohhhh, it's getting hot in here just thinking about it.

So we were able to give Grandma her birthday presents in person, and two presents were these mugs we made at the Paint 'N Station. Granted, I never thought I'd see the day that the hub and I went into a pottery-painting place, let alone voluntarily surrounding ourselves with hippies and old women in serious need of a real hobby. But we got down to business making 2 mugs, knowing that if we only made one, Grandma would never use it for fear of breaking it. Each mug has a set of hand and foot prints, and one says "Britton 2010" and the other says "Happy Birthday Grandma." We also got her a 12-month frame and put in Britton's pictures for the first six months. Do you see the theme here?




Grandma and Britton played all weekend, and Grandma appreciates Britton's love of all things musical.



Come Saturday afternoon, the hub and Grandpa decided that Britton's 500 toys were not enough to entertain her, and they trekked to Babies 'R Us for an activity center, which I have dubbed "The A.D.D Maker." And when she gets really excited in it, and starts jumping around, it becomes the "A.D.H.D. Maker." She LOVES it, cannot get enough of it, so in all fairness tonight I started calling it "The Babysitter."