Yeah it's been a long time since I've posted and I have lots of catching up to do! Derek's parents came to visit us (well Arden) for 1 1/2 weeks and we had a great time. I was totally spoiled being able to wake up and drop Arden off downstairs in the morning and do whatever I wanted! It was so nice! Arden got totally spoiled too, because now she thinks that someone needs to be with her every minute she is awake so now it's really hard for me to do anything!
On May 15th, we went to an auction for the Young men/women at our church and I made this cake to auction off- Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge Cake. I made one a few days later so we could try it and it was sooooo good.
Last week, Arden tried sweet potatoes for the first time (this was her first food aside from the rice cereal) and this is what she thought of them:
She gagged and spit it out into her bib. She loves them now and doesn't really want her cereal anymore but will gobble up the sweet potatoes. Tonight we are going to try pears.
Last Thursday we went to speed street- the NASCAR festival downtown. A lot of gross people go there, so we thought we'd get there early enough to miss a lot of those folks. Apparently not. Oh well. I'll still go every year to see the bands.
Last Friday, we went to Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden which was really nice and peaceful to walk around and it wasn't too hot either. I HATE the heat.
Arden with Nonni and Grandpa
Nonni and Grandpa took Arden on a shopping spree and this is one of my favorite outfits they got-
and this is Nonni's favorite outfit-
While my mother in-law and I were in Gymboree shopping, Derek and his dad were out in the mall on a couch feeding Arden. A little while later, Derek came in the store holding Arden over his shoulder waving his hand by her bottom- like she was stinky. He said 'she needs her diaper changed. she is so loaded I can't even sit her down' so I took Arden to the bathroom to change her diaper and she was laughing the whole way to they bathroom. I opened up her diaper and there was NOTHING in there! She must've been laughing because she knew she tricked her daddy. After the mall we went to eat at Ruby Tuesday and right when our food came Arden had a blowout. I'm talking Major. I didn't realize it until I was walking to the bathroom with her and my hand felt a little wet. Well of course of all times (I usually have 2 outfits with me) I had NO back up clothes. Good thing we just went shopping for her! I think she really just wanted to try on a new outfit. Little stinker. We had a great time with Nonni and grandpa, did A LOT of eating out and can't wait until they come back!
I decided that the turtle needed to be near water so I got Arden ready, found a container to put him in ( I read that it had to big enough so that if the turtle freaked out and rolled onto it's back he'd have enough room to roll back over or else they could DIE).
You know, I THOUGHT than turtles were scared of people and put their legs and head in their shell when someone came near them or tried to pick them up. How silly of me. Of course they need to protect themselves. I tried picking up this little guy with red eyes and long claws and and his neck seemed to grow by the second and his legs kept coming out each time I tried to pick him up. And what a wiggly thing! He would also apparently dig his claws or suction his feet into the concrete and brick and I couldn't get him off the ground (partly because his red eyes and constantly growing neck and legs scared me) so I gave up (or chickened out) and after being on the porch fighting with guy for 45 minutes, my little helper gave up on me and decided to take a nap to pass the time.
Then I spotted this guy on the door, but I didn't mess with him because I saw him eating bugs.
