Going Shopping

This is how my daughter attired herself to go to the grocery store:

You know all of the fashionable 2 year-olds wear

-A sparkly, purple hair barrette

-A white bead necklace

-A pink princess purse

-Matching purple high heels with feathers

to go shopping.

Potty Power!

Little did I know when I picked this up at the library what a gold mine it is! Potty Power is an instructional video for kids on using the potty. Eliza loves it and now uses the potty regularly. So far though, she is amazing when she is bare bottom, but not as reliable when wearing her "pantalettes."

Today is the day. We are going to panties full time. Hopefully, these guys can help.

Eliza is very excited about these. I hope they will work!!

Ridge Family Dictionary: Entry 1

doink (doyngk)

n.--The sound made when you hit someone with a soft ball or toy almost always followed by incessant giggling.

Example: "Doink!" yelled Eliza as she threw the doll at her dad.


v.--To hit someone with a soft ball. [doinked, doink·ing, doinks]

Example: Eliza doinked him with the princess ball.


Etymology: Made up by Big Al, Christmas 2008.

Going to the Zoo with Mimi

Here's why my mom is the most fun person to take you to the zoo.
She breaks all the rules.

Catch-up: Father's Day

Now that it is September, it is finally time to write about Father's Day. We had a lovely Father's Day this year.

Eliza made a tie for Claron in nursery at church the week before.

Claron had donuts for breakfast before church.

Claron's dad and Clark, Lilly & Violet came to visit, and the girls wore matching dresses to church.


The whole crew after church.

We had a great day. A funny aside from that day... Eliza is very territorial about her chair. Violet found a work around though.... Camouflage!

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Longwood Gardens

As part of our family reunion, we visited Longwood Gardens. Longwood is a huge garden that was developed by the duPonts. It is absolutely fabulous. It has a conservatory, an open air theatre, tons of fountains. Eliza's favorite part was the ballroom and the children's gardens. She called the ballroom the "princess party room."

Here are the pictures:

Vintage Me

While I was in the East I scanned some pics of myself. Here I am just a little older than Eliza.

The doll is Katrina. She's awesome. I know. She now lives in Eliza's room. Eliza doesn't have any love for her yet though. The boy is my brother, Tony, who passed away.

Catch-up: Scott's Awesome Birthday Party

After our Memorial Day BBQ, Scott was hanging out, and we were all playing Dr. Mario (Man, do I love Dr. Mario!). Anyway, Scott mentioned that his birthday was coming up and that he was sure it was going to be super lame. So, I asked him what his ultimate birthday would be like. Surprisingly, he said that he would love to have a party with a bouncy house and a pinata.

The weeks past, and I decided to give Scott his party but to make it a SURPRISE. So, I invited friends, made a menu, ordered the bouncy house, made a cake and picked up the pinata. Lisa and I collaborated to get Scott to our house and man, was he surprised!

The bouncy house was SO MUCH FUN! If you ever see a bouncy house for sale, call me! I think the big kids loved it more than the babies. Beating the pinata was fun, but the adults didn't really want the candy. I made Scott a lemon cake with strawberries, cream cheese filling and a vanilla buttercream icing. He happily decorated his own cake wreck.

It was a great day. Here are the pics:

Catch-up: Eliza's Broken Collarbone

So, I never elaborated. On Memorial Day, we gave an awesome BBQ with Claron's lab mate, Scott. Eliza LOVES her "Scotty." When bedtime came around, she did NOT want to go, which is unusual for Eliza. She is usually an easy sleeper. Regardless, we put her in her crib. About 3 minutes later, we hear a loud thud followed by a cry. We go upstairs, and she is on the floor. She had been climbing out of her crib successfully for months, and this was her first fall. I knew something was wrong because she cried for more than two minutes. Being Memorial Day, Claron didn't want to take her to the hospital because it was surely full of crazy drunks. We took her to the doctor the next day. The doctor didn't think was broken but sent us for an x-ray anyway. We don't have that x-ray, but here it is after healing for two weeks.

The doctors can't do anything for a two year old with a broken collar bone. They told us to give her motrin and try to keep her still and from climbing anything. The main goal was to not rebreak it while it was healing. Eliza actually enjoyed her confinement. She got to watch movie after movie. She loved it. The crazy thing is that now you can't even feel where it was broken.

Here she is that day after she broke it.

Amazing, huh!?