Baby Gap Boycott

About a two months ago I entered Maggie in the "Face of Baby Gap 2007" contest online. Today I decided to go to babygap.com to see if they had announced the winners yet. They haven't picked the final winner but they have the 10 semifinalists for boy and girl on the website for the public to vote on. I can not believe they didn't choose Maggie for this contest!!! (I'm kidding of course. Well, not really.)

Go to the website if you care to:
http://www.gap.com/browse/division.do?cid=6344

And then click on the brown corner on the right side that says "vote now".

Meanwhile, if you think Maggie should have won, vote here on this blog. I've included the photo I submitted to the contest.

I'm about to be violent!!!

Could somebody please tell me if I'm being unnecessarily annoyed? Here's what happened: several weeks ago I called the YWCA domestic violence victim's shelter to find out where I could donate some things. Two weeks and two phone calls (from me) later, someone finally called me back and said I could come by M-F, 8-4 and drop it off at the office.
I stopped by the office today and the woman behind the front desk looked at me like I had six heads and said, "Can I help you?" in her iciest voice. I told her that I was told a week or so ago that I could drop a donation off any time during the week and she said, "Well, that was a week ago. We don't have room for anything right now. You'll have to take it to another shelter." I stood there, Maggie on one hip, two 15-lb bags of shoes on my other arm, and silently fumed. "Okay," I said, and walked back to my car where I had a trunk-full of stuff remaining.

Sheesh! I try to do something good and it's a pain in the neck. I promise to get over it ASAP but would you be annoyed?

Don't Eat Baby Jesus!...and other cute photos

Here are some new Maggie photos for you. First we have Maggie trying to eat Baby Jesus from our nativity scene. Maggie! Don't eat Baby Jesus!













And because I refuse to pay $20 for a photo of Maggie and Santa at the mall, we went to our Kroger where photos with Santa were free! However, this Santa was a little less than desirable. To quote the immortal Will Ferrell in "Elf", "You're not Santa! You smell like beef and cheese!" This Santa had about 3 days of beard growth on him and inexplicably would not pull up his fake white beard to cover it up. No wonder Maggie hated it! The second picture is the only proof that she wasn't crying the whole time. I think Santa had been hitting the eggnog.















In other news...Maggie loves to talk on the phone! She holds it up (backwards, of course) and says very profound things like, "Hi Dada!" and "Mama, no!" She also enjoys saying "Wow!" and "Whoa!" The other day I put up our Christmas decorations while she was sleeping at night, and the next morning we went downstairs when she woke up and she just said "Wow!" over and over in her sweet, breathy way. Sadly, she now says "Wow!" in out-of-context ways, such as while looking at the Hardee's coupons that came in the mail. But it's still very cute.















She also loves to wear ANYTHING on her shoulder like a purse - my actual purse, her drum, even the bags I wrap her dirty diapers up in. She clearly has discriminating taste.















The very latest in baby fashion...wearing your pants on your head! But who needs pants when you have pink baby Ugg boots?