Dear PAAS -

I'm stoked that you were free after ecb this week at cvs, cause even though you come with 96 stickers, a memory game 6 colors, etc . . you come with 1 dipper, ONE. If we want to do this as a family we are going to either a, have to take turns with the dipper, or b (what I did) get 2, have my mom get 2 and ask my sister to go get 2. which I feel is kind of wastefull cause we are not going to need all those color tables, we just need some more dippers!!

fun days

nothing too much too blog about this weekend, so I thought I would post some photos of my last weekend, which prompted my pity party blog.
I took last Friday and Monday off work to spend with Blake. On Friday I took him to Rainbow Play place and he had a ton of fun, and I took about a gizillion photos (playing with my camera after my photo workshop on Thursday - which I should add I think confused me and now my photos look worse than they did when I didn't know what I was doing!) and he kept saying 'no more photos mom' I love to take photos what I am going to do if he is not going to cooperate with this!

Then on Monday I took him to Jumpstart playdate. I was so excited they started this since we used to take Gymnastics but I got sick of getting up every Saturday morning to go - I just wanted one day a week to lounge! so it was fun to have him just play with all of the stuff.

so after going to these events - which are only offered during the day - I got all sad that I am not able to do these things with Blake every day! But then I guess on the bright side of that, at least I am able to do them sometime and it makes them really special when we do them.

Regrets, I've had a few . .

but then again too few to mention . . .I thought it was appropriate to list lyrics from a song about my cd regret purchase - lol!
this was one of my finds a few weeks ago at Goodwill and since I love to buy Blake his own cds to listen to in the car and he LOVES the little people, I thought I scored. EXCEPT that it's all he ever wants to listen to. He doesn't want his music together cds, no Laurie Berkner or the 10 - 15 other cds he has. I got so sick of Little People I lied and told him it wasn't in the car. I feel really bad about lying but there is only so much of 1 cd I can take!!! (it is a cute cd though every song is a song about a letter of the alphabet)

Party Over

so I'm done with my pity party - not sure if it's the partial sunlight, but I'm in a much better mood today and have decided to stop complaining (for now anyway)!

and I have 2 stories I am sitting here thinking about. (1 scary, 1 funny)

yesterday I was driving home from work it was horribly scary cause it was raining so hard I could barely see then all of a sudden my windows get all foggy, we are on the interstate and there are cars all going superfast and then . . . BLAKE OPENED HIS DOOR! I thought I was going to lose it - in my head I was like OMG, OMG ..... Got off on the next exit and told him to never ever ever open the door while we are driving. (I know I shold have had the child lock on, but I forgot, lesson #1 learned)

then we get home and I was starving so I'm cooking (a pizza if that counts for cooking!) and I saw Blake had one of those little funsize chocolates, I told him no not till after dinner, but then who knows what happened to it. Blake wants to go to his room. and he was very insistant about the door being shut. I was downstairs thinking 'I never thought at 2 my kid would be hanging in his room alone'. so pizza is done I asked Ted to go get him, and here comes Blake with chocolate EVERYWHERE! (I should have taken a photo) It was all in his hair, on his neck, behind his ears??? I was wondering did he eat any of the chocolate or just spread it all over his body! s
I think my lesson learned there was - if' it's too quiet, there is a reason!

my pity party

Being a working mom is much more difficult than I anticipated. More emotionally than anything. My mom strongly encouraged me to go back to work because she gave up her career for her kids and said when we left than she had nothing. She told me the first year would be hard, but it would get easier. I totally disagree with that. It gets harder every day as Blake gets more fun I want to be with him all the time, so I am currently doing some major soul searching to see what I want to do. I have currently been at my job for 10 years and I'm here to tell you - a career is really overrated!!! I like to have money to do whatever we want - but I save most of it anyway, and I know Blake loves his daycare and the structure that it gives him, I think we actually would miss his daycare the most.

so currently here is my typical day:

wake up at 5:30 a.m. get ready for work so we can be out the door by 7am and usually it's a struggle with Blake because he wants to do EVERYTHING himself, which I want to encourage, but it takes him forever, hence me being late a lot, hence me getting in trouble at work . . .
work all day - miss Blake . . .
get home 5:15, by the time I get done with dinner it's 6, time for some play, bath time and then bed time (I'm so freakin exhausted by this time I CRASH)
What kind of life is this?

I know lots of people do this with more than one child - HOW????

so that is my pity party - thanks for listening my next post will be more exciting.

out with old and in with the new . . .

THis weekend I sold the last of Blake's old stuff - so officially no more kids for us, which I just know is right for our family. All I really had left was a swing, walker, clothes and toys. I had sold some of it already. I made $300 - which is going in Blakes college account, but then of course now we have new toys - that I bought there! This orange construction hat only cost 25 cents and has given Blake hours of fun. He even wore it out to eat on Sat night! Then we also got this big truck, which I'm stoked about cause he loves big trucks

Lite Rock rocks!!

A few weeks ago I participated in a radio survey where I sat and listened to samples of various songs for 2 hours and ranked them. For 2 hours of my time I got paid $60 cash! then they asked if anyone wanted to stick around and discuss the local radio stations and you could get a gift certificates to some local restaurants, so I wanted my voice heard, plus who doesn't like gift certificates! so at the end Randy Rundle comes out and says the whole thing was put on by Lite Rock 107! well then they passed out the gift cards, but wouldn't ya know it they run out when it comes to me!!! so I wrote my name and adress down and they said they would mail me something. and they actaully followed thru and mailed me a LePeep GC! I'm so excited to eat there cause they have yummie breakfast!

St, Patty's Day

We had a beautiful St. Patricks day, we all went down to the parade. Since Blake stayed at Gma and Gpa Mills' last night she dressed him, and had him lookin so cute in his green bow-tie.


He didn't care so much for the parade, but was diggin the tootsie rolls he got and thought he had to eat each one the very minute we got it. Afterwards went to the longest lunch ever at the German restaurant in Grand Prairie (I know German restaurant on St. Pats Day?? - but they had corn beef and cabbage and it's close to our house)

Hello Picassa!!!!

so some of these are the same photos I posted yesterday, but today I have discoverd picassa editing and it is AMAZING!!! I feel like all my other photos look like crap now! Ted may not like cause I may never leave this seat again - except to take more photos - lol!

the zoo

I was so excited for this weekend. It was a long week at work, I had no major plans and it was going to be nice outside!!! so I signed Blake up for zoo tots, it was okay (we got there 20 minutes late so we missed most of it) but we had fun just hanging out at the zoo.

We spent most of our time feeding the 'donkeys' - as Blake called them. It was so cute cause he was really into it and kept saying 'here donkey, here is some food for you' and he kept making me get them more food cause he said they were really hungry.

I also had a lot of fun taking pictures with my camera. This was the first time I took outdoor photos with it. (Thursday I am taking a class to learn how to use all the functions on it - so excited!!)

How adorable is that face!!!

On Thursday went to Schnucks to stock up on my favorite cereal - cookie crip which was on sale, plus I had q's. Plus they had bugels for $1 and I was sure their ad ran from Thursday - Wednesday (like Korgers), but NO - Their new ad starts on Wednesday. so annoyed. I totally could have gone on Wed, why did I wait till the last minute!!!!!

so I need to write this down to keep it straight.

Cubs ads start on Sunday
Schnucks on Wednesday
Krogers on Thursday

What a way to complicate gettin the deals!!!

Monsters

Blake has become obsessed with monsters lately. He will always ask me if I like them, if I have any in my room, etc . . . so last night he started roaring and saying he was a monster. So I asked him if he was a nice monster or a mean one. He said, a mean one! I told him I don't like mean monster, so than he said, "I'm a ketchup monster, you know like ketchup and monster' - LOL it took me awhile. but then I was cracking up - I dont' know if it's just me, but the kid cracks me up!

music or soccer

Last night was our last night of music class. We have been going for over a year and just decided to take a little break from it and try something else for awhile. But last night was so much fun I started to have second thoughts, so in the car I asked Blake if he would rather do music or soccer and he said soccer. so I asked him if he has ever played soccer before (because they do so much at daycare that maybe they played it there) he said, 'no - but I eat them' ( I think he got soccer confused with sucker - lol!)

my weekend

so Blake is going thru a phase (at least I hope it's a phase) where he looks like this ALOT! He expects me to be a mind reader and if I don't do it exactly the way he wants it - he cries; and also he wants to do everything himself, and this morning I let him pour his cereal himself - hence there being so much of it, but I poured the milk and that set him off the deep end . . .

However as soon as his fit was over, he decided to do dishes, so I put some plastic bowls, his sippy cups etc. and let him go to town. I just hope we can find a happy medium with his independence and helpfullness, cause these fits are getting to be a bit much for me!

(also he is back to wanting to be naked all the time, I gave up on that fight unless we go somewhere - so call me whitetrash, but yes I am the mom that has the kid that just wears the diaper and that's it!)

My cowboys

Ted has a thing about collecting hats, all kinds and they are in the storage room. The other night Blake found 3 cowboy hats so he made us all put them on and be cowboys. Then he had to ride his horsey, that his Aunt Terra bought him (before he was even born) and kept saying, 'giddy up - I'm a cowboy'

small things

I haven't been posting much lately and as I have been reading other blogs from people who post random things, I find I really enjoy reading about random things, so I am going to attempt that - we will see how long this last???

so yesterday we were driving home from work/daycare and Blake tells me that his nose is small, but mine is big, 'you have a big nose mom', thanks Blake?, and he also informed me I have big ears, big hands, etc. . . . so I said 'is anything on me small?' he said ' your belly is small' what a sweet boy:-)