Aunt Michelle has been gone a week, but here are the last of the photos from her visit. We miss you 🙂
Michelle showing Nadia all her makeup tricks.
Relaxing at the house.
Last photos of Michelle’s visit
Thankful Thursday
I am thankful for these sorts of events that make up my day 🙂
Yao Ming
So with round the clock Olympics in our house I have been thinking a lot of China and the stuff that we saw there. We saw a boatload of photos of products with Yao Ming’s face plastered all over them. And this reminded me of when I used to work at a steak house in Dallas when Yao Ming came in with his translator and a couple other basketball people. They were seated in my station because my manager was confident that I wouldn’t act like a goober because a famous person was in my section. She knew I would just do my job.
Anyway, I went up to greet them and he was so tall that even once he was sitting down he was taller than me. I kid you not the guy had to look down a bit to place his order. HA HA!! The best part was when I asked him how he wanted his steak cooked and the translator said, “well done” a split second before he said, “rare.” So I sent it rare and he gave me a big smile and ate the whole thing. I figured he was the one who was going to eat the steak, not the translator.
Who knew that 6 years later we would be in China meeting sweet Nadia and that he would be such a focus of the Olympics?
Underwire bras for tweens!!!
Okay, you all know that I have a toddler, so I have no reason to be in the girls clothing section. That is why I had no clue about this. When Kim was here we did some clothes shopping for her girls and while she was looking at pajamas I noticed that they have PADDED, UNDERWIRE bras for girls. These are not the training bras of my time (which wasn’t so long ago). These look EXACTLY like women’s bras – just in tiny sizes.
Is this really the message we want to send to our girls? I have already been ticked off enough with the super-short shorts for infants. America has gone off the deep end here with the sexualization of little girls. All this focus on their bodies and being sexy as children is just not right! Another example is the Bratz dolls. Mike and I saw a Bratz Party Bus at ToysRUs. A PARTY BUS!! Once again, is this the message we want to send to our girls? We should be teaching our girls to value themselves, their strengths, and their bodies, not to get their dolls together and pretend they are getting plastered on the party bus!!!! I am getting off my soapbox here, but this stuff really bothers me.