The Barneys: Summer Fun

Monday, April 20, 2009

Summer Fun

After an incredibly inspiring weekend of the Get Lit! festival (a festival of published author panels and aspiring author workshops), and a great time with my cousin Deirdre, Summer and I are heading out again--this time to Provo, UT to visit Aunt Jill, Uncle Lance, and new baby cousin Noah. We are so excited! (PS My mission while we're there is to take as many pictures of Noah as possible, then get Jill to update her blog with them!)

A few recent pictures of Summer. I like this one because of the sun coming through the glass door shining on her. It also shows her pretty-much permanent position of crawling non-stop around the apartment these days.

I also like this one because it shows her pretty blue eyes.

And this is my attempt of a new hairdo: pigtails. Yes, I know she doesn't have any hair for pigtails, but it does kind of look like it, doesn't it?

8 comments:

Taunya Spaulding said...: my gosh! she is just so adorable!!! and she's getting so big! hope everything is going well!; April 20, 2009 at 5:10 PM
Jillyn said...: Britt,

That is the cutest looking hair do ever! I love it. Can't wait to see you tomorrow!!!

Love you!!!; April 20, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Blatter said...: The pigtails are hilariously cute!!! I am so jealous you are going to visit JILL! Have fun!! Try not to have too much fun blog hopping. :) Summer looks adorable in your pictures! Travel safely!; April 20, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Gordon and Robyn said...: Gosh, she is just so dang cute!

Have fun in Provo; April 20, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Cat said...: Absolutely adorable! She needs to take eating tips from Jacob to chubby up those cheeks!; April 21, 2009 at 11:39 AM
Lance and Darcie and Auzzy said...: Pretty good job of trying to make pigtails in Summer's hair. She is most definitely adorable.; April 21, 2009 at 12:42 PM
Linda and Terry said...: That's so great that you get to visit Jill, Lance and Noah! Have a great time :); April 22, 2009 at 9:53 AM
The Christensens said...: Love, love, love the pigtails...she is such a doll!; April 22, 2009 at 10:59 PM

Favorite Quotes

Posted 2013

Summer, seeing my arm peeling from a sunburn: "Why is it doing that?" Me: "Well, when you sunburn, you just tan. But when I get sunburned, it kills my skin, and then peels off." Summer, worried: "Are you getting very, very old now?" (now in tears) "I don't want you to die!"

Looking in the dishwasher: "I thought there was a black leaf in there, but it's just a craisin!"

Posted approx. 2011-2012

"Heavenly Father, Thanks for I stay in my bed."

Summer, typing away on the computer: "I'm trying to check my oatmeal." (email)

Me to Rhett: "Killer french toast, hun." Summer in shock: "Daddy! You killed her french toast?!?"

During the kissing scene in "Gnomeo and Juliet": "Look--they're kissing. Why are their eyes closed? . . . Maybe there's a lot of sun in their eyes."

After I gave her a piece of cheese: "You're a big girl for sharing, Mom."

Looking out the window: "Mom, please tell the grown ups outside I'll be right back."

Booking it to the toilet: "Mom, it's slidey with socks on."

Jumping on her bed: "Mom, you want to jump with me? It could be fun."

Talking to dad in the morning: "What you doin'?" --- "Getting ready for work." --- "But if you weave, I'll be sad."

"I'm not big. I'm just Summer!"

After waking up in the morning and realizing Dad was gone: "Mom, where's dad?" --- "He's at work." --- "Why?" --- "Because he has to get money for us." --- (Pointing to our change drawer) "But we have money right there!"

"Summer, why do you keep unplugging the TV?" Summer: "Because it's tempted to turn it back on. It's tempted, mom. So I unplug it."

Favorite Quotes

Posted 2013:

"I wish my head was in my mouth so I could see what my tongue was doing."

Rhett, after putting the girls to bed, then having to go down to their room again to tell them to stop talking: "I don't want to hear one more word out of here." Claire, innocently, and just asking to clarify, "How many words, dad?"

Claire told me she had "something" in her underwear. I asked her if she had an accident. She said, "No. I had a tooter and poop came out. Shooted right in there."

Me: "Stick your finger in your ear and see if you can get some of that ear wax out." Claire: "Nooooo. Because we have to lick it and that's how we wash it."

Posted 2012:

Claire: "No fry, baby. No fry." (Don't cry)

Claire, looking at her reflection in the oven glass: "Ook! Ook!" --- "Who is it, Claire?" --- "Nummer! Nummer!"

Things You Get to Say When You're a Parent that You Wouldn't Say Otherwise

"Just sit there until you find your shirt."
"Don't eat my hair."
"Because that's just the way he is. Some people only have one eye." (regarding a minion from "Despicable Me.")
After Claire pooped in the bathtub: "I keep thinking to myself--"Is that broccoli? Or poop? . . . This is like a horror movie."
"She stuck the key in What?!?"
"There's a buggy!" (aka bug)
"Stop eating things out of the garbage!"
"Please don't eat the chapstick."
"Hey! Don't sit on the cheese!"
"You're shirt's on upside down." (Not backwards or inside out, but, yes, upside down)