Well, for some reason the last week just blew up on me. I have worked 8 straight days which means Brad has been cooking alot of macaroni and cheese:) But, I’m not complaining, I am REJOICING in the fact that I love my job, that God has given me amazing clients, and that I’m busy. I’m hopeful, thankful, and blessed. Even in the hard and busy times.

Ok, end of the sap:) So, after missing last week because of the craziness, we are back to our five on fridays! This week I wanted to pay homage to my Lenabean, who is growing up right in front of me. Just to document the fun stories so that later in life we can remember these busy crazy simple fun days.

1. Dora has alot of rank in the Kelley house. But we let Dora get by with it because when Lena busted out numbers 1-9 in spanish the other day I figured it may be a good thing. Sometimes Lena will mumble something off and my 2 year old translating doesn’t get me anywhere and finally after 10 minutes of guessing I realize that Lena is speaking some spanish word I don’t know. She even busted out “Donde esta” the other day:)

2. Speaking of Dora, Lena calls unicorn’s “unicornio’s”. She loves her unicorn from her playset that her mimi got her. So the other day she spent a morning having fun with nana and came home as proud as a peacock with this painted on her face.

3. Funny little story that I don’t want to forget: If you are my facebook friend or if you were driving by lowe’s looking at the fools standing in the parking lot laughing, you may remember where we went to Lowe’s on one of the first pretty Spring days and bought a bunch of plywood for some projects and then realized we didn’t bring the truck. Well, in the midst of trying to figure out what to do I put Lena in her carseat and I must have sighed or something at our little predicament. Lena looked at me and said “mommy, don’t be ustrated, it has blue sky today”. And with that I realized yes, we have blue sky today, no need to be “ustrated”. So, we returned the wood and just laughed about it. What else can you do?

4. Lena LOVES school buses. I have no idea why really. Every time we see one she screams “A BUS!!!!!!!!!” at the top of her lungs. True story.

5. Some other fun things to remember: Every night before bed Lena asks “maybe we go to the park in the morning”. Every.single.night. She lives on grapes, yogurt, toast and “leabs” (lettuce…she calls leaves), mac and cheese, applesauce and strawberries. She isn’t up for exploring more options usually. She is ticklish. She says “big hugs guys” when she wants us to have a group family hug. She loves her window down in the car and yells hi to anyone who is outside when we stop (the construction zone the other day was hilarious).