Random Wednesday

Okay, so I wouldn't consider this an outfit post, mostly because it was right before I took a shower and wanted to snap a quick picture and I had taken off all of my accessories. Not that it was that much, a necklace and bracelet, so just pretend that's what you see there.

23 Weeks 4 Days (out of 40 for those that don't know)

Random Thoughts:

This is going to be a LONG summer. I mean I really hope it's not as hot as it was last year, else I might be one cranky hot pregnant lady! Seriously.

Luckily we have lots of activities planned for the summer, so it should go pretty quickly. On to the list:

• Go to Seattle to visit family
• Baby Fox's 1/2 birthday celebration (just got the invites in the mail last night, woo hoo!)
• Legoland (wish me luck on that one I'll be 7.5 months pregnant)
• My birthday!
• Hopefully lots of beach days with friends and family

Lots to look forward before this little gets here.

Speaking of which, holy cow, I have so much to do before she gets here! I have to clear out her room from all of my stuff...I have NO IDEA where it's going to go. I keep putting it off, but there is only 3.5 months left and  I haven't even begun to think about room decor. I am SO not my mother's daughter, she would have had the whole thing planned out week 5 of the pregnancy (you know cause you don't know you're pregnant for the first 4).

I guess this post turned out to be all about baby, starting to have anxiety about how much needs to get done...but on the flip side, we did get a Double Bob this past weekend I could barely fit it into the car, and I may have had to take the wheels off to get it to fit...we're now up to 4 strollers, one day I'll take a picture of the ridiculousness of it all.

Linking up with Shanna today and Faith, Sarah and Megan

What A Deal!

This weekend I did something that I don't normally do - I went to a used children's clothing store. They were having this awesome sale...fill a bag (that they provide) for $5! What?! I thought it was worth checking out. It opened at 10am, but Baby Fox had a swim lesson at 10:40, so we were just going to have to hit it up afterward. We didn't get there till about 12:30, while there was a lot of things still available, it was definitely picked over. I talked with someone who went before it opened, and she said it was a mad house. A lot of the stuff was dried when it shouldn't have been, so it was short and fat, or it was just really worn out, probably not going to last another kid. We were picky since we only wanted to fill one bag worth. This is how much we got.

That's right we got 12 things for $5.

2 - pairs of jeans
2 - long sleeve shirts
3 - rompers
2  - pj's
1 - onsie
1- short sleeve top
1 - pair of shorts

Even if some of the things don't work out, the jeans with the hearts are worth $5, so we think not matter what we use it's a win.

Final thoughts: I thought some of the things there that weren't in the fill a bag sale was over priced. It seemed that they typically charged about 50% of what the actual price was, which you can almost find if you go to Target or Carters and have the clothes be new. So for me I think I would only go if they were having the $5 bag sale.

In closing: This little girl almost has more clothes than Baby Fox does...we just keep buying stuff for her. Gotta keep that in check, our clothing budget is dwindling quick!

Weekend Recap

Baby Fox has decided puzzles are really cool, I think we did and redid this puzzle no less then 10 times this weekend! Don't worry, he's not baby genius, we had to help a lot to get the pieces in the right places. I think it was sheer luck when he got it right :)

Saturday led us to another swim lesson. He's doing much better. We switched teachers, who is slightly prettier and Baby Fox couldn't be happier. Does everything she tells him to, we are so proud. I wish I knew how to make my video's smaller so I could post on here...anyone know?

 
His new swim teacher...

Saturday night after dinner Baby Fox and I relaxed watching some Pixar Short Films...love me some cuddle time. Only time I get it is when he's watching TV.

Sunday was a completely lazy day. Baby Fox stayed in his PJ's all day, until some friends came over for dinner and they went swimming.

Baby Fox wanted to help Daddy make his shake (mostly cause he thought he was going to get some)

A friend came over with her 5 week old to hang out for a bit, she's so cute! Baby Fox couldn't stop kissing and loving on her.

The men swimming with the kids, gave us mom's a little break.

 

After everyone got out of the pool the kids were famished and of course the BBQ ran out of gas, so Mr. had to run to the store to get more. While he did that the kids ate some chips and guacamole.

We finally wrangled the chips out of their hands, and gave them some dinner, they ate outside while we cooked our food (which I forgot to take a picture of).

Then while we ate the kids watched Finding Nemo. Notice how J-bean is sucking on her fingers too, she was copying Colton, she isn't a finger sucker, we thought that was cute.

After everyone ate, there was mention of cake and the kids went running to get their piece.

It was a great weekend at home, hope to another great one next weekend.


Linking up with Sami and Faith, Sarah and Megan

Lesson 5 - Communication:The Small Stuff

In case you're new here, I've been doing a marriage series about what makes our marriage work. You can find other posts here. Go check them out, right now.

Okay now that you're back. I thought I would let you guys in on something that most people think is weird, but it totally works for us.

Are you ready, hold on to your seats and don't think we're completely crazy.

You sure you're ready?

As you know Mr. and I have been together for almost 10 years now, and since our very first date (that didn't involve a bar, haha), we have NEVER listened to the radio. Yep we drive in complete silence.

That time we drove from Washington D.C. to Vermont and back in a week (about 1200 miles), we didn't turn on the radio. Or the other time we went to Yosemite to Aptos and back home (about 1000 miles), no radio. If we don't have anything to talk about we sit in silence. Strange to most people I know. But it works for us, it forces us to communicate with each other and really enjoy each other's company. For whatever reason after 10 years, we still have stuff to talk about. I would probably say 40% of our drives are in silence (sometimes I sleep, so that accounts for probably 10%, hehe). We just enjoying the scenery we are passing, like the one time we passed a Zebra on the California Coast just grazing, we back tracked and took pictures.

Now when the radio is on, it seems strange and very loud that it's on in the car when we are both there, and we usually turn it off right away. There have been a handful of occasions when we do turn on the radio, like if a LA Dodger game is on or Chicago Bears game is on and we're driving and I'm sleeping Mr. will turn it on so he can listen while he drives, but mostly when I'm sleeping he just drives in silence.

So next time you're in the car with your honey, turn the music/talk radio off and see what happens. It might just surprise you!

Hair Cut

Someone got a haircut yesterday. Our nanny also cuts hair...what doesn't she do? Anyway, she said that she was using the buzz cut thingy, and he moved and well there went part of his hair, so almost shaved it is. But it's super cute, and makes him look more like a little boy instead of my baby, boo hoo!

Some Random Things:

Colton has this blankie and is seriously attached to it (seen just behind him, has dots on one side and solid on the other). Monday I had to wash it and I had to nearly tear it out of his hands to get it in the wash. As soon as it was done in the dryer, I told him let's go get blankie from the dryer, he screams out "I So HAPPY!!!" and goes running towards the dryer. We've learned to NEVER leave it at home while going anywhere, it's meltdown city. Good thing we've taught him blankie stays in the car. But everytime we get back to the car, he acts like he hasn't seen it for days, not just minutes. He says, "Oh blankie, love you" and kissed it, and then hugs it, a lot. He's the cutest.

If you are an email subscriber to My Publisher they are having a really awesome sale right now. But the catch is that you have to use it before mid-August, now I'm trying to rack my brain for something to put in 70 pages worth of photobook. I just bought a Shutterfly photo book, (through Living Social) that needs to be used before mid-July...I am going to be a busy bee for the next couple of months.

Nordstroms is having their half yearly sale, must find something to buy...hopefully I can score some good deals on maternity stuff. I need more work shirts to wear, I seem to be rotating through the same 5 shirts...need more choices!

Linking up with Shanna today.

4 Day Weekend!

I had Friday off, which made this weekend a 4 day weekend, awesome! First I'd like to thank all of those service members that gave their lives so that my family and I can enjoy 4 day weekends.

Friday was one of my off Fridays, Mr. decided to work from home, yay! Although he did actually work, but he did join us for some lunch in the backyard.

Can you tell who got lunch first? Mom's always last, right?

After Baby Fox work up from his nap, Mr. took this cute picture of him.

See any similarities?

Friday night went to a friends house for dinner, wish I would have gotten pictures of how cute Baby Fox was with our friends little girl, he was hugging and kissing her good night, too cute.

Saturday we were up and off to visit my grandma, trying to get in as much time with her as possible.

Baby Fox was showing Great Grandma the bear he found on her bookcase. Bear was giving her snuggles.

 Sunday we met up with my cousin and her kids, Baby Fox loves his older cousin, and always says "M my buddy" or "M sleep at my house" (we told him that they were coming to spend the weekend with us in a couple of months).

Lunch time! Note: Baby Fox and his girl cousin (on the left) are only 6 months apart

We went to see the fish just outside the restaurant we picked

We got one last visit with Great Grandma before we headed back home.

Baby Fox thought it would be funny to finish off dinner with a bowl on his head. Silly kid.

Ta-da!!!!

 After being in Chicago last weekend and my parents this weekend, Baby Fox's schedule has been crazy. He slept until 10am on Monday! Monday morning we walked down to our community park for their half marathon and they had Marines there showing off their tanks.

Baby Fox wasn't so sure about being on top of the tank

 Lunch outside again. Love eating outside!

For the record, I only ate half of that sandwich

After nap time, Ampa (aka Grandpa) and Nana came over for dinner. They filled up the water guns. Notice how Ampa has the orange water gun? Yep that one doesn't work, sneaky Baby Fox, or Daddy who told Baby Fox to give Ampa the orange gun.

All in all it was a great weekend, got to see a lot of my cousins at Great Grandma's and it's only a 4 day work week! Woo hoo!

Happy Tuesday everyone!

Linking up with Sami and Faith, Sarah and Megan

Easy Butterfly Hand Project

It is our Nanny's birthday this weekend so we thought we would do a nice project with Colton to give to her. I thought a butterfly handprint would be fun.

This was a super easy project and really quick.

Here's what you'll need:

Paint - 2 colors
Paper
Pom Poms (I used the left over from this project)
Eyes (Left over from this project)
Glue

Step 1: Get kid to put two hand prints on paper. This can be tricky. I literally had to tackle Baby Fox's hands so that he wouldn't get more paint on the paper. We had to practice a few times, let him get out some painting first, before I even attempted it.

Step 2: Cut out body of butterfly, I folded a rectangle piece of paper in half, and drew half of the body, cut it to make the full body. That way I knew it was going to be symmetrical. Glue to paper.

Step 3: Place eyes and antennae, if you don't have the pom poms but have some pipe cleaners you can use those for the antennae.

Step 4: Personalize your butterfly, you can see that Baby Fox scribbled on the bottom. I always think it's nice to add the year so that when looking back you know exactly how old they were when doing the art project.

And that's it, super easy right? Took us about 30 minutes from start to finish, so go out and make a butterfly handprint!