Save or Splurge

Just thought I would share that I saved $5200.00 by getting a rug that almost looks exactly the same as the pretty Missoni that I have always loved. Can you tell which is which?

You KNOW if I Could Make My Kids Wear a Sign like this I Would

Happy Birthday Danny!

When we met we looked like this. No wonder we loved each other!

The other day....

I know, I am weird. But the other day I was sooooooooo tired and knew that it was going to be another long day with just me and the babe. He's had an ear infection and is up allllll night and won't let me set him down during the day. He's in pain every time he eats because of acid reflux and has been throwing up for almost a week. I feel so bad for him and I feel helpless because no matter what I do, he cries.
So the day started out with me crying and feeling sorry for myself the minute Dan left for work. I was exhausted and just "couldn't" do it again, it was becoming groundhog day, I really needed some caffeine but didn't want to go out (plus I'm trying not to drink it).
Next I went to to the weather channel site to see if the sun was going to come out so I could take baby for a walk. Nope. Instead they had videos of the Tsunami and they automatically played when you went to the site and I got wrrapped up in them. I couldn't stop thinking about the cars they showed driving on the roads that were suddenly swept away and wondering who was in them. Then they showed a rescue of a little family and I started crying again. This time for those people.
I was sent into thoughts about Thailand and the island that we last spent our days on when we visited last year, Koh Phi Phi. Hard to explain but the strip of the island where everyone stays and where the shops and resturants are is surrounded by 2 bays. The strip itself has only 500ft of land in between the two bodies of water. This led me to wondering what happened there with the tsunami and I watched a video (WHY?? I don't know!). It was pure devastation.
I promise I'm almost done here... After I watched that video, one of the side videos was a memorial video for Viktor, a little boy that died on Phi Phi. Now I was in hysterics. And this is where my 3rd breakdown came in and I stopped watching stuff. Charlie was sleeping on my chest, which is the only place that he will nap these days, and I just held him and cried. I couldn't believe that I was feeling bad for myself when I should have been so grateful that I have my baby safe and sound, so what if he is a little bit sick right now. I couldn't stop thinking about how I never wanted to let him go and wanted to freeze time and keep him little and safe.

I decided that I would take a picture in Photobooth because I just wanted to see if the tears would show up,(I already said that I KNOW I'm weird!) They didn't.


I was crying so hard that he woke up and looked at me with a big smile. Thanks Baby. I love you!

I'm not quite ready

.......for swimsuit season yet. I only have 5 lbs to lose until I'm back to my regular weight but the pregnancy areas for weight gain are different than my usual "fat" places. Embrace it right? Nope. Do everyone around me a favor and sport one of these bad boys (and cross my fingers that they are long enough in the torso which is a problem that I have had since I was a kid.)

I Like These

I think that you need a few of them to show how very pretty they are. The little guys are 3 for $15. I need to do some research to find out if I can make a custom book with them.

If Wearing Barf is Cool then I'm.... Super Cool?

This was the 2nd out of 3 and the least amount of "Pedialite barf" all day. At least I smelled like fruit punch instead of milky cheetos like I do when he formula-pukes on me.

Chevron Louboutin's, Yes Please

I never thought of myself as a girl who would want "Louboutins" but.....Mommy likey!

Catfish, neither Dan or I could sleep last night after watching this. You HAVE to see this movie. Holy crap.

This is How we Roll

Booey sits on the foot rest of the stroller (see him down there??) and Charlie's in his car seat while I run, listening to Justin Bieber Pandora and using the 'Runkeeper' program telling me my pace and distance. Oh did I mention it's on speaker? Every person I run by can't help but stare but I don't care, it's safer that way. The old people love to say stuff about Booey.

Obsessed...

...with his blankies. He always has to have one is his mouth or even better, wrapped around his thumb and then in his mouth. I have to get out a new blanket every day because they get giant wet spots on them.

Be Mine.... or else this 10 hours of hard labor would be totally under appreciated

Cookies, homemade chocolates (kinda), and PB Cups in a cute pine box. Seriously took so long but I loved every minute of it.

Homemade PB Cups

Charlie

The other day we were at Shauna's making Valentines for "Daddy" and Shauna snapped a couple of good ones. This guy was soooooo good the whole time and when it finally came down to the finishing touches on the cookies, he was over it. Took me 2 hours to ice 20 cookies with a baby in a bjorn standing up. Welcome to the new way of crafting.

Watching Cartoons

San Fran

Buddy asleep at Dottie's. This was one scary walk through 'The Tenderloin'. How can such a great cut of meat be such a cracked out neighborhood? The food at Dottie's was awesome though.

Charlie is a contortionist.

He will turn his head all angles to see the tv because he's obsessed, I swear he's part owl.
But here's the really crazy thing that happened this morning.... He sleeps in this skinny co-sleeper bassinet type thing. Yesterday when I woke up his legs were over the side and it freaked me out. He was flapping all around like a 'merman' with his bundled up legs so I made dan raise the sides so he couldn't do that. Today when I woke up, he did a complete 180 overnight. His head was on the opposite side from where I laid him down and he had mesh prints in his forehead. Poor baby, I don't even want to know what he went through to get there. So tonight he is graduating to his crib. :( Me sad.

He looks like a big boy in this outfit

A long hard day of playing under the gym

He's worn himself out. This is a rare occurrence. He's only put himself to sleep 2 times total. I love it.

Happy New Year

This isn't a very recent picture but I still love it. I think he was 6 weeks here. If you look closely you can see a watermark from Paper Culture. Whoopsey! I know just like everything else I'll never mail these out.