TGIF

It's Friday morning and my youngest son and I are watching The Nutty Professor. He found it at Blockbuster and he didn't want to watch it last night. Instead, my husband and I watched Madea Goes to Jail.

I love Tyler Perry's movies!

My son and I have been visiting with family all week in Central Texas and got home yesterday afternoon. I love being there, but it was very good to be home.

And today my oldest two are coming home from church camp. I miss those kids like crazy!

While I was in the hill country, I was able to spend lots of time visiting with my aunt and cousin. I have always been close to my aunt, and I love the fact that she is a big dreamer like I am.

I also spent some time with my parents, though my visits with them are never long enough. It's funny how the older I get, the more I just love to sit and talk to them.

I hope my daughter says that about me one day.

I also spent lots of time with my brother and his family. I can never get enough of his two baby girls, and I treasure my time with my SIL.

My oldest niece is 21 months-old and she is so precious! She has two parents who love the Beatles and Bob Marley, so she listens to them all the time. (She has this cd that she listens to when she sleeps. It is so sweet and would be a great gift for somebody with a baby/toddler. You can listen to parts of the songs online.)

As I was trying to score points with her and play her songs on my Itouch, I asked what she wanted to hear.

Penny Lane, All You Need is Love, Yellow Submarine, Hello Good-bye... That's what she requested. I'm not kidding, y'all! It was too cute.

She's been talking for a long time, but this visit I noticed how she was putting phrases together. We cracked up when she copied me after I said, "Oh my goodness."

She loves reading books, and when she's sitting in my lap letting me read to her I can think of few other things that make me so happy.

The baby is getting big and is smiling and cooing and so sweet, and when we go back next month for a week she will be probably doing even more.

I'm still loving my Itouch, but I will be taking it in to exchange it soon. I got it on Saturday and on Monday it froze. I brought it in Best Buy and the guy reset it for me, but he told me to exchange it if it did it again within my 30 day return period.

It did it again on Wednesday.

It is still amazing, though. While I was searching Youtube for the Beatles for my niece, I also found videos of both of my brothers. One is in a band now and one used to be in a band.

I never would have thought I would be watching music videos of each of my brothers on something the size of a phone. (Or on anything, for that matter.)

It was very cool.

Today I need to balance the checkbook, do some laundry, and cook chicken fettucine alfredo for my kids for dinner. (That's what was requested.)

Have a fabulous weekend!