Sunday, May 15, 2011

Blessings

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We had dinner last night with some old friends. It was good to see them and it had been too too long. We shared a laugh and many a memory about a plethora of things...

Sara, Me and Kopec
Brenda and Demete are awaiting Baby's arrival...so exciting!
Rob and Sara
Betsy and Rosie
I forgot to get a pic of me and Mike and together. I always forget to get into the pictures, too. But Mike was there and looked great like always. He ate a regular sized meal this time, however.



Saturday, May 14, 2011

It Always Feels Like....


somebody's watchin' me.

ABC's



Absolutely Adorable Athlete
Awww, Mama- Another Picture?????



Jackpot smile!
Jauntily Jiggling Down the Tracks


Sunday, April 24, 2011

Happy Easter!

It has been made clear to me that I am in desperate need of a new camera. Using my iPhone for all of my picture taking needs is getting a bit hard. It looks here that we had a very blurry, washed out and dim Easter. But you should look past the bad pictures and see that a good time was had by all parties involved.

Steph and Me. Church- We look so young and fabulous. No Really, we do.
AJ and only half of his Dad.
Egg Hunting in the backyard.


Fire Truck toy from his basket.

Mia hamming it up.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Easter Egg Hunt At Church

We arrived.

We colored.



We listened.



We crafted.



We hunted.




We found! We celebrated!




Friday, April 22, 2011

April Has Been Fickle

The weather has been pretty craptastic here in the land of AJ. We did have some nice days, but the rain has been falling along with the temperatures. As we were dyeing and glittering eggs today, we watched the lawn fill up with water and pretty soon we were looking at a real mess. I can't imagine that hiding the glitter eggs in Albandia Swamp will work out too well.

Not to worry. We were blessed with many nice days that I was too busy to blog about so now that I'm in need of nice warm sunny memories to boost my swampy mood- you too will benefit from a little April Recap.

AJ climbed a ladder for the first time EVER! This is big, people.
We did some fish sitting. No one died, although it was sketchy there for a while.
Museum and Science and Industry. One word: TRAINS!
I bought my Easter Dress. IT'S AN 8!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is bigger than AJ climbing the ladder.
We finally got to go play in the sand at the park, too. AJ has been asking to go for so long...
He was real excited to head over to the park and play. On the way we counted birds, houses, squirrels and other random items. AJ has been very talkative as of late. If you know AJ, you know that this is yet another piece of big news.


I have accepted the fact that I am a complete failure at potty training. I have tried everything and he is DEAD SET against even trying. I have read books, blogs, magazines, asked friends, watched other moms, asked other kids to talk to him about it, made Mike pee on Cheerios, and bought him cute stuff. He still gets very upset and scared at even the mention of going on the potty. The other day, however, he told me he wanted to wear his Thomas underwear. But he got real touchy when I suggested he not wear his diaper. So the compromise was to wear the Thomas underwear OVER the diaper. I did not get a picture of this and I am disappointed because as you can imagine, it had a high hilarity factor. Add that I bought the stupid underpants so long ago that they are now too small and he looked like he was wearing a red Speedo. Classic.

Easter Decorations- The Finished Products and Various Other Delicious Doings

AJ and I are home today on this rainy and cold Good Friday. Melba's Daycare is closed even though school is not- grumble grumble- so I decided to take a personal day and have at it.

We have may things we started a few days (weeks?) ago and now after a whirlwind morning of projects, we are done. All I have left is cleaning.

Pink Lemonade Cupcakes
Easter Egg Garland with Paint Sample Cards
Glitter Eggs a la Martha Stewart and Quail Eggs a la Lola and Lolo
AJ brushed glue on each egg and then rolled it in the glitter LIKE A BOSS!
We used Icing Colors to do these...

Tonight I plan on church, then an early bedtime. Tomorrow after an early workout, I clean. Anyone want to join me?