Hungry Flower

Disclaimer:  The following blogposts are a montage of all that has occurred this past year in the Shaw household that I have meant to document but haven't gotten around to it.  After we lost Lucy I just kind of... well, I just didn't want to.  We have also had numerous issues with our computer and I just kind of forgot about it all.  These posts will most likely be out of order but I want to remember them nonetheless. 

Sometime last winter Jay surprised me with some flowers and he brought Elle a rose.

Elle was beaming!  

I'm fairly confident most children experience the same love language of sorts when they are 4... GIFTS.  

All gifts equal love and happiness.  At least that's the rule of thumb with my 4 year old.

Let me tell you... a rose has never been so loved, admired and nourished... to quote her she said it was "the most bee.u.dee.fulls flowers evers and evers."

Jay and I were talking about how much Elle loved her bright pink rose and contemplated nicknaming it "my precious" when I looked over and Elle was shoving peanuts into her rose.  

We asked her what she was doing and without skipping a beat

Elle said "I'm feeding my flowers because it's sooo hungry."

ps. she pluralizes everythings.

Intoductions

We would like to introduce the newest addition to the Shaw family.

Princess

Rainbow

Butterfly

aka "Rainey"

Jay wanted to name her Maui, I wanted to name her something that didn't sound like Maui, Hawaii, or any other city/state/island.  We did what most mature adults do and flipped a coin.  Jay won, so we were sticking with Maui.  That is until we introduced fluff buckets to Elle.  Elle had a meltdown.  How could we call her Rainbow Butterfly by any other name?!  (backstory:  Elle has had this puppy named PRB for months...)  I rain with Elle's sobs and petitioned for Rainey.  At this point, we were just so excited to have her home with us that Jay didn't put up a fight.  

I mean... could she be any cuter?

ps. Rainey rode the whole way back from the Mobile area like this.  As we were pulling into my parents we bonded via her throw up all over me.  It was lovely in a smelly kind of way.  :)

Here is Rainey's first bath.  Sidenote:  she is half her size when wet.

I'm not all that tech savvy, so I hope this video works.