A SILLY BLOG ABOUT LIFE WITH THE CRAZIES

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Highlights of a Wedding Day

Well, as I've told my blogger friends already, my daughter E (3.5) was a flower girl in a wedding today. MY WORD was that a lot of work (being the Flower Girl's mom, that is.) The running around, the hot curlers, the lip gloss, the fancy dress, the tights (UNDER the dress, huh honey?), the rehearsal, the dinner, the running around like crazy after my children who are screaming and chasing some older kid, the waiting and waiiiittttiiinnnnggg and WAITING for THIS picture and THAT picture. Sheesh. It was fun though. Oh all except for the puking and the meltdown, but I'll get into that in a moment.

E did great - her first wedding and her first wedding party role! She was absolutely gorgeous, and I only had to walk out of the ceremony with a screaming little brother once. Phew!

So the puking and the meltdown... well, The Prince all of a sudden had almost 103 fever today after his nap (great.) He was fine during the wedding (well, you know - except for the part where he was rifling through my purse (to keep him entertained) and he pulled off the cap to my perfume, proceeded to put it in his mouth, and screamed when I had the GALL to take it away from him. Shame on me. So by the time we hit the reception, he was looking pale and a lot like some sort of pasta noodle... perhaps linguini. He fell asleep on me through dinner and then graciously spared his mommy's pretty new outfit and threw up all over his daddy on the way out.

The meltdown... well that was E - she vehemently rejected any semblance of food offered at said wedding, and was STARVING (she has low-blood sugar issues like her mother, which tends to make her something akin to a Tazmanian DEVIL, who then throws herself on the floor and, like the old lady who's fallen, she can't get up.) So, the head waiter of the hotel actually came over to her since he noticed her rolling on the floor crying. He was asking if she was OK and I poo-poo'd him away saying she's FINE! grrrr.

So, we missed the cake (thus, I'm chowing on a spoonful of creamy peanut butter sprinkled with chocolate chips (my weakness). And now we're home. Hooray! We rock. Be sure to invite us to YOUR wedding soon. We'll guarantee you a night full of memories.

Enjoy.

Precious Flowery One


My Prince


Happy! Bored :( Stoned.


Mini-Bridal Party Shenanigans


Sleeeepy Prince


WWF Flower Girl Smackdown

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

HAHA! I love the smackdown pic! Such dedication - blogging in almost real-time!

Tara R. said...

My daughter ( when she was 3-4 yo) was the flower girl in her aunt's wedding, but after traveling 10 hours in a car, was told she was not welcome at the rehearsal dinner. No baby sitter was provided, so guess who got to watch ALL the little kids! No, I'm not bitter!

Etcetera (Blog Hopper)

Maureen said...

Oh, those photos are great... but the WWF Flowergirl Smackdown was the BEST!

Maureen (Blog Hopper)

OHmommy said...

WWF Flower Girl Smackdown... shw won. Didn;t she? You must be so proud! What cute kiddos.

Tootsie Farklepants said...

Weddings+kids= not a good day. I also want to know how you managed to convince your daughter to put hot rollers in her hair? I wanted to do this for a recital and that was going to happen, never.

Anonymous said...

hahah! So cute!

Jeff and Charli Lee said...

Beautiful kids. She'll make a beautiful bride someday herself! Oh what's that... too early to think about it? Ya, that's what I thought.

Receder Guy (Blog Hopper)

piper said...

I love the smackdown pic too!! Great documentation Mom! ~xo

Rachel said...

They are so adorable!
The smackdown seems to be the most popular. LOL.
Your captions make the pics though.
So sorry he got so sick! Yikes!!
Peanut butter with chocolate sprinkles. MMMM. Yum.

Unknown said...

ADORABLE!!
Love the smackdown pic!!

LunaNik said...

WWF flower girl smackdown...bwahahaha! That's so funny! Especially because I say almost the SAME EXACT THING whenever my two girls "wrestle"...I'm all "HEY GIRLS! What is this WWF SMACKDOWN".

Ahhh, great minds think alike ;)

A Man Among Mommies said...

Flower Girl Smackdown...LOL!!!!

I have all boys...

A little Happy Blog Hopping Going On..

AMAM " A Man Among Mommies"

Irene said...

Great pictures! They look so cute!

Kimberly McKay said...

Awww...my 4 year old son was just in his first wedding. Aren't they adorable at this age? Congrats mom!

suchsimplepleasures said...

my kids were about 2 and 4 when my sister got married. i was the matron of honor(hate the word matron!) and, they were supposed to walk down the aisle at my sides. they were so excited. their favorite aunt, well...only aunt...was getting married. all dressed up, looking beautiful (the kids...not me. the bridesmaids dresses were hideous!) and, it was our turn to walk towards the bima (in a jewish wedding, that is where the bride and groom are married)...and, they started...both of them...having temper tantrums. so, instead of carrying down the bouquet of thorny roses, i carried down the aisle, two screaming kids! sorry...your story reminded me:)
great pics! your kids are gorgeous!!

Anonymous said...

Hey there... just hopping through. :)

Ok, first of all, what *is* it about kids and purses? That is, without a doubt, the easiest way for me to distract MJ too.

Second, nice one on E for taking it out on daddy. Be proud. :D

Thirdly, I love love love the caption for that last picture.:)

Candi said...

What a cutie! It is a lot of work, I hear ya on that one!

JustADad said...

Happy! Bored! Stoned! Reminds me of college (ha ha - sadly, just kidding!)

Awesome pictures!

Keep on keepin' on!

His2Dads