Kind-of a rough day.

Piper and I had a hard day today. She is normally a pretty good girl, but today was just one of those days. I think all the mother who read this can relate :) So I figured I would just post some of my latest photos of Piper. I have gotten some nice ones in the last few days.

Here she is modeling her cute outfit in front of a lovely sunset we had a few days ago...

And here she was just looking pretty :)

We gave our two rats, CoCo and Daisy, a bath a couple of days ago. I had put them into the pool earlier in the summer. They did not really enjoy that, but the water was deep and not really warm. I figured they would enjoy it more with warm water that was only a couple of inches deep. I was wrong :)~ They did not enjoy it any more this time than they did the first time around. Here is a funny video of daisy jumping for her life, LOL.

The other night I was snuggling Piper on the couch before her bedtime. She looked right into my eyes, touched my cheek, and said "You are beautiful Mommy"!!! Isn't that just the sweetest??

Drawings and other random things.

Piper has always loved to draw. I took some pictures of a couple of her recent drawings because I thought they were pretty Good. I will put what they are at the bottom of the post so you can try and figure it out :)
Here is #1...

And #2...

Piper and I were outside playing the other day and there is a "rock wall" type thing that Piper likes to jump off of. I have to catch her because it is several feet high. But I cannot catch her AND take photos :) So I took some of her jumping off the smaller one a little further down. I though there was some cute captures :)

And I took this one while we were playing in the sand...

Piper cleaned her room all by herself for the first time a few days ago. Really she just picked the toys up off the floor and put them ALL on her train table. But it is a good start. She was super proud of herself and I took a few photos of her on her "Bear Skin Rug". It is really stuffed, but it is super cool. She really likes the thing. Some of those turned out really good too.

Now this last photo is currently my very favorite. I took it with my phone at the dollar store. I wish the tag was not there, but I still think it is a really adorable photograph of Piper :)

**And the drawing answers are**

#1- Skeleton Head

#2-Dinosaur

Tiffany and Pipers photo shoot.

Tiffany is my oldest daughter, she is 14. She has been with us most of this summer which was just so nice. The night before she had to leave she set up this little photo shoot of Piper. Tiffany always gets fantastic photos and I wanted to share a few of them :) Enjoy!!!

A singing baby and a black eye.

I was able to get Piper to sing part of her favorite song today while I recorded her. She sings a lot but usually won't let me record her while she sings. So here she is singing "I guess that's why they call it the blues" by Elton John. Do you think it is as cute as I do??

Last night Piper was doing a little "Spying" where she sneaks around and tries to not get noticed. Well she ended up hitting her eye socket, just under her right eye, on a doorknob!!! I knew it was bad because there was a mark right away :(  I hoped that she would not have a black eye this morning, but she did. It hurts me everytime I see it :(  Poor baby!!!

Crazy new game.

Piper has a new game she makes her sissy, Tiffany, play with her. It is called the "dead body game". No I am not joking. The game goes like this. Tiffany pretends to be dead in the bedroom and Piper takes a flashlight and finds her and then investigates. Kinda creepy huh??

Last week we got a card in the mail for Piper from the mall kids club she is a member of. She asked me what it was (this was after she had just played the "Dead Body Game" with Tiffy) and I explained to her that the next time we were at the mall we would take in the card and she would get a birthday gift. She very excitedly replied "(Gasp) Maybe it will be a REAL dead body"!!!

What am I going to do with this girl??

Piper turned 4.

Yesterday was Piper's 4th birthday. I cannot beleive she has gotten so big!!! We had a fun day. We made our own cake for her and she got to do most of that herself. She loves cooking so that was really fun for her. She liked licking the batter too :) She is just growing so fast. Here are some of the photos I took of her on her big day...

More video.

A few videos...

Thought everyone would enjoy these...