It took me a while to remember when this picture was from.  It’s from the graduation party of my cousin’s son.  Lots of good desserts and Maren mowed down on a couple cupcakes and wandered over and grabbed a number of cookies as well.

She was green for the rest of the day, if not into the next.  Frosting is a pain in the a$$ to get off!

Seeing this picture reminds me that I was supposed to design a program for the grad.  He wants to get beefier – but what 18 year old guy doesn’t?

Andrea took this picture with my iPhone last week and I absolutely love it.

The quality of the picture sucks because it’s a phone, she took it herself and it’s damn near impossible to get Maren to stand in one place for longer than 1/50th of a second and the shutter speed of a camera phone isn’t too snappy.

But I love it because it’s my two favorite ladies and it’s just so frickin’ cute it’s not even funny.

I don’t know how Andrea got Maren to rest her hand on her shoulder and lean in like some cheesy wedding photographer, but she did.

Last week we went to our very first Sesame Street Live.

Maren loved it.  Andrea and I kinda liked it mostly because Maren liked it so much.

However, with about 20 minutes left, you’re about ready to run out of the auditorium yelling and screaming because it gets so annoying and maddening.  Elmo screeching and speaking about himself in the third person, all the singing and dancing…enoug!

But she loved it, so it’s OK.

Anyway, before we went to the show we went out to dinner.  Sometimes that goes OK, other times it’s horrible.  This time wasn’t so bad, plus she likes to eat our salads so that’s good.  We’re getting her started off on the right foot, even though she does take after her daddy and asks for cheeseburgers all the time.

You’ll notice that the majority of the salad is iceberg lettuce.  Iceberg lettuce sucks.  It’s worthless and is mostly water.  There aren’t that many nutrients in it and it’s pretty much void of fiber and all the other good stuff that’s found in romaine or spinach.

Stay away from salads loaded with iceberg lettuce because they’re usually wolves in sheep’s clothing.

One of Maren’s favorite songs, right now, is “So What” by Pink.

Personally, I’m so sick of that stupid song it’s like someone is sticking knives deep into the caverns of my ears everytime it’s played.

I guess that’s just par for the course, though.

However, it’s also one of my niece’s favorite songs as well.

My sister shot a video of my lovely little niece singing (screaming?) the song one morning while she was eating breakfast.

It’s really pretty funny so I thought I’d share it.

First off, Happy New Year!

I hope you had a great New Year’s Eve and I wish you nothing but awesomeness in 2009!

Now, onto this Gratuitous Thursday post.

I just bought one of those pull-up bars you can put in your doorway.  I love doing pull-ups,  but never had a pull-up bar at home (only the studio) because i didn’t want to ding up my doorways or have a giant piece of equipment like I have at my studio.

Well, when I put it together and was testing it out Maren decided she wanted to give them a try.  Honestly, she’s a pretty tough little chicky, and I”m not just saying that because she’s my daughter.  I couldn’t do pull-ups until my late teens (which is why I do them 3 times a week now), but she’ll be bangin’ ‘em out by the time she’s 3!

She even threw in a leg raise for good measure.

So, yes, my kid is tougher than yours!

Have an awesome New Year’s Day…and Go Huskers!  I hope my Huskers beat the living crap out of the Clemson Tigers.  My prediction  Huskers: 69  Clemson Kitty Cats:  3