Here are a few shots of my flowering vine, which finally bloomed!  It’s been fun watching and photographing the various stages of progress, but I promise to move on to another subject next Saturday…really!

I had to capture this sweet tendril…looks like it’s giving the post a hug!

The first bud opens!

Full bloom

Thanks for indulging my plant obsession!!  Happy Saturday!

Contemplating caterpillars.

Jessica really looked forward to Easter this year…especially coloring eggs.

She was able to do it mostly by herself with just a little help from mom!

Pretty!!

Did I mention she LOVES hard-boiled eggs?  I’m not sure the color was even dry on this one before she demolished it.  At least she peeled it this year!

And I should have figured her favorite gift from the Easter bunny would be a wind-up chicken that “poops” bubble gum

Another shot of our flowering vine -this time in the evening.  Nothing exciting, but I love the soft, muted colors

I hope it will bloom this week so I can share a photo of the flowers!

Hope everyone enjoys the holiday weekend.

I’ve been having fun playing around with my camera’s macro setting

I happened to capture the first green leaves budding on our flowering vine; still covered in morning dew.  This particular plant I love…though I’m not even sure what it is beyond a vine with lovely purple flowers.

My oldest daughter picked it out a few years back as we were searching for plants for our patio.

Thinking it was an annual, I nearly threw it out at the end of the summer. After all, it looked like nothing more than an ugly mass of tangled, dead vines after all the foliage fell away. But laziness prevailed and the pot sat outside on the patio all winter.

Imagine our surprise and delight when it came back to life the next spring!

Whenever I see it I smile and remember there is always hope.

…like a new pair of lime green gardening boots!

Jessica is a bit obsessed with boots (that is an understatement).  She spent the early winter in a pair of pink, fur-lined snow boots…which she wore with everything.  Then for Christmas, she was given a pair of brown suede dress boots…which she wore with everything. You get the picture.

Recently, she spotted these babies sported by a little girl in a Joann Fabric sale flyer.   She had to have them.  She let me know at least 5 times a day she had to have them (girl green boots!  girl green boots!).

Because she so seldom asks for anything, I bought them.

All is now right in her world.

The wind and the waves were a bit overwhelming at first.   It’s always good to have a big sister to hang on to.

Happy Saturday!  It’s great to be participating in SOOC again

Jessica has been hooked on doing the Can-Can recently (who knows why!?). She “sings” the music herself and kicks and twirls. So of course I had to get it on video!

Here’s another one -notice the artistic “flourish” she throws in- hehehe! At the end she is telling me to turn the camera around…she’s ready to watch herself!

This week’s challenge is to list 25 Random things about your child/family member with CdLS so that we may get to known him/her better. Please also feel free also to do a post with 25 things about yourself!

25 Things About Jessica

1.   Jessica weighed 4 lbs. 3 oz. and was 17″ at birth.

2.  She LOVES to go for rides in the car.

3.  Airplanes are her favorite things.  She has a huge collection.

4.  Her sister is her favorite person.

5.  She is fascinated with hair.  If she finds a strand, she will show us and tell us whose hair it is (she is usually right!).

6.  She has an uncanny sense of direction and always knows when we are heading towards home…even when we are still several miles away.

7.  When she was a baby she was fascinated with ceiling fans, lights and vents.

8.  She started crawling at 10 months.  She walked at 23 months.

9.  The letter “R” is her favorite letter (and about the only letter she recognizes with any consistency).  We get sets of foam letters and she pulls out all the “R”s.

10.  She can count to 10 (with a little prodding).  5 is her favorite number.

11.  She loves to eat!  She especially loves cheese, dill pickles, and McDonald’s cheeseburgers.

12.  She loves music and likes to play it LOUD!!

13.  She knows tons of songs and can hum them note for note.

14.  She HATES having her picture taken.

15.  Jessica has been to three CdLS Conferences (Minneapolis, Dallas & Chicago) and two family gatherings.

16.  She loves to laugh and has a great sense of humor.  Right now she finds potty humor (anything about burping, farting, poop…sorry!)  hilarious.

17.  She is the only child I know who loves going to the dentist.

18.  She HATES having her hair combed.

19.  Her hair is wild and unruly and near impossible to do anything with, so combing it doesn’t do much good anyway!

20.  She loves looking at pictures.  Sales flyers are her favorites…the Sunday sale papers are like Christmas every week!  She also likes me to go on Google Images and print pictures for her.  Some of her favorite items for pictures are airplanes, buttons, eyeglasses, money and spray cleaner bottles.

21.  Her latest obsession is hair bands -the ones for ponytails, not the 80’s rock variety

22.  She is VERY stubborn and opinionated.

23.  She has always been a good sleeper…which is a blessing because she never sits still when she is awake!

24.  She loves playing in water -bathtub or swimming pool- and we can’t pass a water fountain or hose without her wanting to get a drink.

25.  She makes us laugh every day.

Reasons you should never let your sister do your hair after you’ve ruined her CDs, spilled her favorite bath gel, and puked on her blanket…

Reason Number 1:

Happy Wednesday!