Here's another site that I just love to browse. It's a home design site.
Design*Sponge
Maybe one day my blog will be 1. this focused and 2. this pretty.
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Saturday, November 03, 2007
Andrew 31 months
Month 31, how fascinating you are.
He did something the other day that I didn't think I'd see for oh, 10 more years at least. I asked him a question and he said: "huh?", just so bershon I couldn't believe it. Like a teenager who is just so over it all and can't believe his mom just asked him to go clean his room. And I laughed and laughed.
For the past couple of months Andrew and I have a little bedtime routine that I just have to write about so I don't forget. I usually take Andrew to bed and lie down with him for a few minutes. During that time we say our "nigh-nights". Andrew goes through his list of family and friends and says good-night to everyone. He starts with the names of his friends at school, then moves on to his teachers and finishes off with family, saying good night to each one. It's pretty darn cute.
Andrew has an imaginary alligator. He tells us so. And he's scared of it. There's no actual alligator, stuffed or otherwise (like his big tiger). It doesn't affected him too much, but sometimes in the morning he'll walk into our room and tell us about the alligator downstairs and want to come into bed with us.
Andrew has decided that he doesn't like swimming lessons anymore. The move to teacher-only classes did not go well. We tried three times to get him used to the idea that dad was going to stay out of the pool and he was going to stay in during the lesson, but he "no like that". He basically was hysterical during every lesson. That's no fun for anyone. After the lessons he would say "I don't want to cry at swimming lessons." We've decided to pull him out of formal swimming lessons for now and just play in our own pool until he's a bit older or until we can arrange for Regan and Andrew to be in the same class. He may go for that.
Potty training too is on hiatus. (No eye-rolling Grandparents.) We've talked with his teachers at school and since zero progress has been made in the past 5 months, we are going to give it a rest until the New Year. He's just not ready and has regressed to the point that he won't tell us anymore if he has to go, and he's not able to hold it for any length of time. So, we'll get through the holidays and travel, then start fresh in January.
Andrew is speaking very well now and is very understandable. He can count which is a leap from saying his numbers in the correct order. The his favorite book is The Very Hungry Caterpillar and he counts the 1 apple, 2 pears, 3 plums, you know the rest. He loves his toy cars. Dad went to Phoenix and brought him back a small cast iron airplane which he thinks is the coolest.
Andrew at Lego Land. He loved the cities built out of legos. This is Washington D.C.
He did something the other day that I didn't think I'd see for oh, 10 more years at least. I asked him a question and he said: "huh?", just so bershon I couldn't believe it. Like a teenager who is just so over it all and can't believe his mom just asked him to go clean his room. And I laughed and laughed.
For the past couple of months Andrew and I have a little bedtime routine that I just have to write about so I don't forget. I usually take Andrew to bed and lie down with him for a few minutes. During that time we say our "nigh-nights". Andrew goes through his list of family and friends and says good-night to everyone. He starts with the names of his friends at school, then moves on to his teachers and finishes off with family, saying good night to each one. It's pretty darn cute.
Andrew has an imaginary alligator. He tells us so. And he's scared of it. There's no actual alligator, stuffed or otherwise (like his big tiger). It doesn't affected him too much, but sometimes in the morning he'll walk into our room and tell us about the alligator downstairs and want to come into bed with us.
Andrew has decided that he doesn't like swimming lessons anymore. The move to teacher-only classes did not go well. We tried three times to get him used to the idea that dad was going to stay out of the pool and he was going to stay in during the lesson, but he "no like that". He basically was hysterical during every lesson. That's no fun for anyone. After the lessons he would say "I don't want to cry at swimming lessons." We've decided to pull him out of formal swimming lessons for now and just play in our own pool until he's a bit older or until we can arrange for Regan and Andrew to be in the same class. He may go for that.
Potty training too is on hiatus. (No eye-rolling Grandparents.) We've talked with his teachers at school and since zero progress has been made in the past 5 months, we are going to give it a rest until the New Year. He's just not ready and has regressed to the point that he won't tell us anymore if he has to go, and he's not able to hold it for any length of time. So, we'll get through the holidays and travel, then start fresh in January.
Andrew is speaking very well now and is very understandable. He can count which is a leap from saying his numbers in the correct order. The his favorite book is The Very Hungry Caterpillar and he counts the 1 apple, 2 pears, 3 plums, you know the rest. He loves his toy cars. Dad went to Phoenix and brought him back a small cast iron airplane which he thinks is the coolest.
Andrew at Lego Land. He loved the cities built out of legos. This is Washington D.C.
I made cupcakes for fun a couple of weeks ago. Andrew just likes the frosting. See, he IS like me on the inside.
Just a few of his favorite things
Friday, November 02, 2007
I could have saved $400
Andrew just watched this video 5 times. He was singing along and thoroughly enjoying this video. I could have just skipped the annual pass altogether.
Et Tu Jeno's Pizza Rolls?
It may say something about my parenting style that with all of the children's product safety recalls going on, you know, those headlines confirming that every toy your child owns comes from China and oh, they're covered in brain damaging lead paint, and I think "did that toy have paint? I can't tell because my mouthy child has already licked it off.", and all the headlines about recent food recalls, the item that has moved me to post is the E. coli scare with Jeno's Pizza Rolls. That just hit too close to home.
Oh, Jeno's Pizza Roll. You hot pepperoni filled bite-sized bit of pizza heaven. That first bite always burned the roof of my mouth, but I loved you anyway.
I lived on Jeno's Pizza Rolls in jr. high and high school. Didn't everyone? I would consistenly ruin my appetite for dinner by eating an entire box at about 4pm - because really who can wait until 7pm for dinner? Had this E. coli recall happened in 1987 I would have been screwed because the rolls would have been long gone. And I probably wouldn't have heard about it since we didn't have the interweb back then to tell me important things like this.
I'm not really too worried about the recall because I don't think I've had a roll in 10 years, but if Stouffer's Lasagne issues a recall I'm in trouble.
Oh, Jeno's Pizza Roll. You hot pepperoni filled bite-sized bit of pizza heaven. That first bite always burned the roof of my mouth, but I loved you anyway.
I lived on Jeno's Pizza Rolls in jr. high and high school. Didn't everyone? I would consistenly ruin my appetite for dinner by eating an entire box at about 4pm - because really who can wait until 7pm for dinner? Had this E. coli recall happened in 1987 I would have been screwed because the rolls would have been long gone. And I probably wouldn't have heard about it since we didn't have the interweb back then to tell me important things like this.
I'm not really too worried about the recall because I don't think I've had a roll in 10 years, but if Stouffer's Lasagne issues a recall I'm in trouble.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
NaBloPoMo
What's NaBloPoMo you say? Why, its National Blog Posting Month! Everyday in the month of November I'll be posting to the blog. Posting every day will require me to DOUBLE the number of posts I have done when at my most prolific. This will be a stretch for me. But since you've stuck with me with the random hair cut postings, I promise that they can't get much worse or boring.
I signed up to do this about a month ago and have a couple ideas for regular features, but I won't share them yet in case I can't quite get my act together. So the only public proclamation I am making is that you will see at least 1 post per day for the next 30 days. Ok, I'll share one.
Here's my link of the day:
http://www.casasugar.com/
If you're like me, looking for things to decorate your house with is way less stressful that actually having to make a decision and shell out cash for something. I like CasaSugar because several times a day it updates with decorating ideas and often will give me links to even cooler home decorating sites. Fun Stuff!
I signed up to do this about a month ago and have a couple ideas for regular features, but I won't share them yet in case I can't quite get my act together. So the only public proclamation I am making is that you will see at least 1 post per day for the next 30 days. Ok, I'll share one.
Here's my link of the day:
http://www.casasugar.com/
If you're like me, looking for things to decorate your house with is way less stressful that actually having to make a decision and shell out cash for something. I like CasaSugar because several times a day it updates with decorating ideas and often will give me links to even cooler home decorating sites. Fun Stuff!
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