The Tiniest Fashionista at Fashion Week...

please look at this:
Fashion Designer, Alexander Wang's niece, backstage at Fashion Week.

How cute is she? I love her outfit too!

Get ready because I have an even tinier little lady is headed to Mercedez-Benz Fashion week baby!

Off and packing still...get ready cuz we're headed to NYC today...fun pictures awaiting as I we begin..."have baby...will travel (to Fashion Week)...."

mini fuzzy jackets... kandee

Packing for Fashion Week

Packing was a full-on dress up party tonight...
the kids added more clothes to the pile of clothes I was trying to create, pin, cut, make anything out of the "treasure" clothes in my closet.

Blakey found some old little kids kimonos I bought at a garage sale and one of my many hats (I really love hats!), Alani found a sequins skirt, jacket and hats...

 my kimono in the background...Blakey running through the boots...

 he was getting ready to rock out with his guitar and his new costume.

Alani who came out dress up with my captains hat on too....
Mama has fun dress-up clothes....
I remember the highlight of playing dress-up when I was little....I just wanted to stop around in my moms high heels...but she always said might break the arches...
but I don't care if Alani breaks my arches in the high heels....I never wear em' anyway...and they were only $10! ha ha ha

My bags are still not finished being packed...we had to make dinner...but we sure had fun dressing up! when you get dressed today, put something fun on, like you are playing dress up too...
life's too short to dress boring...(hee hee hee)....have fun and make a statement today....
love and sequins.... your kandee

Disturbing photo: In honor of Labor Day

(photo source: 123rf.com)

I have no idea who's baby this is, or who would even created such a picture. Obviously, this baby doesn't want to be wearing a suit, lady shoes, a wig, or be in a little pretend office. I don't even want to know how they got the baby in the chair or kept it there, to be honest this picture upsets me and makes me just want to rescue that poor baby.

*This post in on honor of Labor Day, which is today- 
Labor Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the first Monday in September that celebrates the economic and social contributions of workers. The first big Labor Day in the United States was observed on September 5, 1882, by the Central Labor Union of New York.

So we probably all have had jobs where we feel like this baby looks....
"get me out of here!"..."SAVE ME!!!"....."somebody just hold me!"...."Can't you seen I hate this!"....
yes I could give you a huge list of jobs I've had in my lifetime that I have not really loved:
cleaning houses...as much as I love the "before and after" that cleaning provides-I did not like cleaning strangers pee off of toilets.
One job I had, many years ago, I would pretend in my head I would say: "I quit!" and walk out, in my mind....just to let me know I could quit if I wanted to and then I'd finish my shift.

I got my first official job at 16. Since I was home schooled then, (I went to 2 awful years of high school for freshman and sophomore year, where girls were mean to me, teased me about my clothes - I never made fun of their clothes, and I was incredibly shy and was frustrated because I was used to learning things quickly and moving on, not waiting for everyone to learn stuff before we could move on) I worked almost full-time. I loved that job. Contempo Casuals in the mall, it was like the Forever 21 of the 90's, but not as cheaply priced.

insert this photo of me - circa the 90's: wearing my outfit from mostly my work place....yes those are knee high socks scrunched down

BEST JOB EVER:

being a mama.....just look at this face!

this was my take on the "baby working photo"....minus the crying, baby suit, miniature desk set/scene, andd baby wig...actually i had just set my laptop down....had changed baby's diaper, then she rolled over and this looked so funny i snapped this with my "usually-always-handy-iphone"....
happy labor day.... your kandee

my cowboy...

this was my Blaker, 2 years ago....
he will be 4 in some days...
and it feels like it's gone by too fast...
as we picked out birthday plates and candles for him tonight, i fought back some tears...my precious lil' guy is getting so big so fast and I just want to treasure every moment, every cute word he says, and every precious lil' face he makes...
because I'm sure it will like in 10 minutes he will be taller than me...
and I was glad he was still little and I can still carry him into bed.
cowboy hats and birthday plates, kandee

pictures by my 2 favorite photographers...

 yesterday about 6:54pm-ish: alani took this picture of me and lil baby

mere seconds after that...I carefully supervised a hand off my phone between alani to Blaker's eager hands..who took the awesome picture above.
 

I love my lil precious people....
we then went to dinner at one of our favorite places...
the people know us by name...
the food is delicious and makes the best salad dressing ever...it's like a dessert.
me and blakey walked around with the baby outside..while everyone else finished eating.
-if you have a baby...you won't enjoy calm dinners out for a while...I'm used to inhaling my food then getting up to walk baby around or show her interesting things...and I love ever second of it.

I'll have years of calm dinners were I won't get to hold a bouncing baby....I will miss it and think my calm dinner is not as wonderful as these dinners with little precious voices asking lots of questions and tons of jumps from a little baby...

love and glad the restaurant was out of desserts...nothing to be tempted with...ha ha ha
sweet tooth la rou... kandee

Back-to-School Night & a VLOG video

 yes...Back-to-School night..you did see us tomorrow..which is now yesterday...

Alani in one of her fav outifts...hello kitty shirt and skirt with what we like to call "strawberry shortcake leggings"....if you know Strawberry Shortcake you know why.

Blakey's take on back-to-school night:
didn't really like the classroom part
wanted to go see the paper eagle in the entry way
wanted to keep going and getting cookies and lemonade from the cafeteria
like the book fair part....he got to pick out a book too: Star Wars Lego Sticker book
Alani got a princess cupcake cookbook & a Barbie Fashion story book and a giant "pointing-finger" pen

We went and got chinese food for dinner...the first time I managed all the kids and baby by myself at dinner...a man just looked at me as he walked out and said, "wow, you've got your hands full".....
"yes, yes sir-ree-bob, I do...ha ha ha ha

After I got everyone in jammies, brushed teeth, tucked people in bed, cuddled and loved everyone, nursed baby...edited a video, typed my blogs...yes it's now 3am and I'm typing this...don't tell my mom, she just told me about a young guy that had a stroke and said I need more sleep. I agree, but if I sleep I get nothing done in the day with all the kids....I have to burn the midnight oil... that whole "sleep when the baby sleeps things" doesn't work...if I did that I would never write blogs, edit videos, read any email, or get anything done...laundry...you get the idea.

oh yes!! so here's a NEW random vlog video for my poor little channel on youtube that I have NOT uploaded anything to in WAYYYY to long...it's www.youtube.com/thekandeejohnsonshow (go give it a hug with your eyes for me)....
please enjoy how I look and sound when I'm sick and my little baby love...oh she's so cute. Look how little she was in the intro and then now!


and don't worry....I am feeling wayyyy better now guys! Thanks for all the awesome remedies you guys posted on facebook!
Huge hugs love and giant pens from the book fair.... your kandee (who's going to bed now)

Fake Sunglasses, HAIRCUTS & crepes...

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As you will notice in the picture below...

or maybe you won't now...I did one of the things I'm famous for:

closing my eyes in pictures...SO

I drew some sunglasses on myself!

And the picture above...my little lovebug takes after mama, and her eyes were closed to-

PROBLEM solved: draw on sunglasses!

(see, I look totally better here...valley girl voice totally-intended)

who's in the picture: Sunglasses-McGee, my sweet friend, Bethanie, and my little mini-me

yesterday 11:45am:
my mom, post haircut by my friend who just cut moms hair, Bethanie..as you know, that's baby Elysey-pie in her arms.

I was telling both Bethanie and my mom how I wanted to chop all my hair off- to which they both said no, they like my long hair. They both know that this is the longest it's been in 10 years! (I actually cut it all off in August 2001- so it's been 10 years since my hair was only centimeters long...ha ha)

Bethanie took us to the coolest place for lunch- I am in love with these "bottle-lights". The guy that works there, who was a cool hipster looking guy with tattoos that could've easily been a model, made these. He said his girlfriend came up with the idea and he fabricated them. They recycle all their old liquor bottles and turn them into lights! I loved these!

Then we went down the corner and tucked behind a tattoo parlor is this yummy crepe place. Bethanie treated us to Lemon Butter and Powdered Sugar crepes! They were so tiny and cute, and didn't seem so  bad to eat when they are this tiny!

PS. We were thinking of doing some fun colorings to my hair, but I didn't think baby would be happy staying any longer, so we delayed my hair fun til another time. I want soemthing fun and new. My mom got lots of "hair attention" all day....I really love her haircut and kind of wish I had it too. I'm gonna go brush my hair. (just kidding, I don't even have time to brush my hair- see how much easier the short hair would be!)

wish we could sit and share a big crepe and maybe a haircut!  Powdered sugar and love, kandee