We celebrated Xavier's 10th birthday today. A few days late, but he still had fun. He made his own theme and gave me characters to draw. It was great! And my mom just went to the grocery store with sprayed green hair and a gruesome gaping hole temporary tattoo on her face. Awesome.
Just kidding. It's just another slideshow. HA-HA (ala Nelson).
Yesterday we spent most of the day at the Space Center in Houston. They had the usual space exhibits but they also had the animal version of Grossology, and the boys LOVE that. Really fun. Of course it was sad that daddy wasn't there with us, but maybe when he comes home we can make another trip back. I know he would have loved playing with the boys at the Space Center.
Here's a short slide show with pics since we've been in Texas this summer.
At 6 months post partum I am 29 lbs. under my pre-pregnancy weight (I know, I was really fat) and about 41 lbs. under my delivery weight. I still have a ways to go, but I can already see a difference: Pre-pregnancy: Today: (Ignore the mess in the background...I'm in the process of cleaning/packing)
Sonofabitch. It just cost me $62 to fill up. SIXTY TWO DOLLARS. That's 6 packages of 32 diapers. Three orders of pizza. Postage for 7 (and some change) care packages. Two months of cell phone service. Four Old Navy baby bikinis. Three Game Cube games. Two mani/pedis and a bottle of nail polish. 31 sticks of deodorant. An entire year (and some change) of Cub Scout dues. I could go on... When Adrian and I were in college, he had a 24 mile round trip drive to work, I drove ...
This morning the kids and I attended a Boy Scout/Cub Scout Memorial Day ceremony. It was kind of an early morning for us, since we all had to get up around 5:30 am, which is about an hour early for me and an hour and a half early for the boys. They were very good about getting ready, though, and we made it to the post cemetery on time. Unfortunately, the time that had been sent out was 30 minutes prior to the start time. Someone pulled a "dad" on us and posted 6:30 am to be sure that ever...
Izzy had her first experience with a cup and with something besides breastmilk. She had 2 oz of unsweetened pear juice diluted with 2 oz of water. Next time I think I will dilute it a bit more. She seemed to find the aftertaste a bit tart, LOL. She managed to take in about 1/2 an ounce. Photo Sharing - Upload Video - Video Sharing - Share Photos
A little comment about what a smartass my oldest is growing up to be (I'm so proud!): At the Cub Scouts Crossover ceremony (where they get to switch over the next rank up), he kept snickering when the Cubmaster talked about the path to Eagle (scout). Apparently he kept hearing the path to EVIL. Haha.
I am officially going grey. I have found grey hairs before (found my first one during the last deployment), but this time there are MANY. White, crinkly strands of oldness. My mom says my dad started going grey at 17 and apparently it runs in our family. I did some wiki work and learned about the mechanics behind going grey. Unfortunately, there's not a damn thing I can do about it. I can yank those bastards out for now, but I've developed an allergy to hair dye, so when they take over, ...
I can hardly believe this. I just got a voice mail from my child's school's vice principal (I have a home phone, but for some reason he felt the need to call me on my cell, which does not always get reception in my house). He called to inform me that my child had been in the office, speaking to both the principal and vice principal about his inappropriate behavior on the playground at recess. The vp went on to say that my child was in trouble for slapping other students (ok, that's bad). ...
Ignore my stupid baby-talk, please! Photo Sharing - Upload Video - Video Sharing - Share Photos
Good Mother's Day. I got the baby to (kind of) sleep until 10 am. My mom called to wish me a HMD and didn't call at the crack of dawn and wake me up. Baby realized she can splash loudly by slamming her heels into the water in the tub, and that was very amusing. I lost 2 lbs for no apparent reason, bringing my total lost since the end of my pregnancy to 39 lbs. The boys were waiting downstairs with MD cards and Orian had made me a very sweet photo frame in class. My Moby Wrap was in the m...
I think I may have broken my DVD camcorder. It's a Hitachi DZ-BX35A and it worked great until I took it camping a couple of weeks ago. I did take it out on the beach, so it may have sand or something. Although I certainly tried to keep it clean and dry, so I was not aware if it got any sand/water in/on it. When I turn it on I get an almost never ending DISC ACCESS message. The camcorder makes loud spin-y sounds and after an eternity it will show the normal screen as the disc is recogn...