In my next life . .

I want to be a professional photographer. Here is my attempt to take some random photos of Blake, but he kept saying 'cheese' and running the random effect.


Here is him with his 'tuba' - as he calls it (thanks to Elmo and Backyardigans), and his cool new hat, both of which we purchased at Family Fest.

Misson Mart

I just had to show off my cool things I got all for $16!!! I LOVE to shop, but I don't like to spend money (not a good combo) so I have got hooked on thrift store/resale shopping. (plus it gives me such a high to get good deals!) so last week I had my first visit to Mission Mart. Blake was with me and he piced up the travel lightbright and played with it the whole time we were shopping. He kept asking me where we were, I told him Mission Mart, and then he would say, 'well I like it here'. So for $16 I got these jeep umbrella stroller $6 - my big purchase. a gap shirt, some carter, osh ksoh, and some random shirts for Blake, a pair of Children place pants, shoes and a shirt for me and a video for Blake. He has played with that light bright every day!

Bowling

It's so cool now that Blake is old enough to do fun activities, and I was so excited to take him bowling! We went with the moms group and as soon as we walked in he was all about it. We bowled on a lane with Kassie, her husband, Danny, and Colin. It was pretty exhausting so I'm glad they were there to help me. He did pretty good and kept waving 'bye' to the ball as it rolled down the lane. One game took us about an hour and a half and after that I was so ready for a nap. There was about 5 lanes of moms group people, but the rest of the bowling alley was full and Blake kept trying to hang out with random people - not even the other 5 of our lanes??? That night I told Blake to tell Daddy about bowling and all he says is, 'my ball was pink!' gotta love the simple life of a 2 year old!

Hackey rides and knock knock jokes

Lately Blake has been cracking me up with his funny things he comes up with. First of all he has renamed the piggy back ride and calls it a 'hackey ride' and always asks for hackey rides. This pic is of Ted giving him hackey rides around the house.

Also at daycare his teachers were telling me how he funny he is and they are pretty sure he will be the class clown. Well the other day he put his truck in the closet and says, 'knock knock' I thought it was going to be about getting his truck out of the closet, so I said, 'whos there' he said, 'banana' - I asked 'banana who' - he started giggling and did it again, after the 3rd time he was laughing so hard I couldn't tell what he was saying and ran off falling on the floor laughing. I just never thought Blake would be 2 1/2 when he told me his first joke! ( I asked his daycare teacher if they did jokes at school - they don't where he got it from?)

Other funny things he has been saying,

'oh come on' - when he wants his way with something

'Hey - I have an idea' - but when I ask him his idea he never has one, so I don't think he knows what he is talking about.

and lastly

'what's going on here'

Maybe it's the tone he uses, but they are pretty funny!

cousins

In addition to Blake being an only child, he has no cousins his age:-(. I had cousins on both of my parents sides of the family who were my age so growing up that is how I thought it was for everyone. But luckily I am still close to my cousins and so Blake will grow up with his second cousins - kind of. This pic was at my Aunt's house when my cousin Kimm was in town from Arizona the other day. Her twin boys, at the top (Ben and Lorenzo), along with my cousin Jesse's kids, Abby and JD, and Alexa, Julie's step-daughter, whom we see all the time :-) and I don't know who the other girl is - a friend of Kimm's kid I think.

I just love the pics with a bunch of little ones in it - reminds me of all the ones from when I was little that we all look at now and make fun of our parents for putting us in funny outfits!


this pic would have turned out perfect if I wouldn't have had it on a weird setting by mistake :-(