Chef in Training

The past few days have been a little crazy over here. We had to go out of town unexpectedly on Thursday and Friday, and then Saturday was spent catching up and Sunday we had a friend and her son over for the day. Suffice to say they didn't leave till around 9pm and we were tuckered out, so no pictures were downloaded.

I do however have a short video of Baby Fox helping me in the kitchen. We decided to make some pumpkin cupcakes, Baby Fox insisted on helping me. I love cooking with him, makes me happy that he just wants to spend time with me, no matter what I'm doing. At one point I had stopped doing stuff, and Baby Fox points to my cookbook and says "What does book say to do?"

 

Linking up with Faith, Sarah and Megan

Whatever Wednesdays - First Kiss

I'm joining up with Shay and Alissa today, they give us a super secret, okay not really, they send out a topic on Sundays and we have 3 days to hash it out, topic this week? Our First Kiss...yikes. Do I really want to remember that?

I was a late bloomer, could be because my brother is 9 months younger than me, so I didn't want him to feel left out, so I naturally was a good big sister and would wait patiently for him to do things at the same time as me...or I am just slow, take your pick.

I am shy, okay, was shy, especially when it came to boys. Seriously, I liked this guy in 7th grade and it took us 9 years to kiss, yep, we had a flirty thing for 9 years, went to 3 school dances together and it took us 9 years to kiss. But that's not the boy who I got my first kiss from.

Back to 7th grade, there was this cute guy Alex who's locker was right above mine. He was even more shy then me, but every once in a while I would help him get a book out of his locker, since I was always in his way. He always smiled at me and thanked me and went on his way. I was sad when 7th grade ended because I wouldn't get to see his cute face everyday. 8th grade, again his locker was relatively close to mine, we would smile at each other but nothing happened. 9th grade (getting ridiculous huh? boy am I patient), we got to pick lockers, and now that I think about it, he must have known where I picked my locker because his locker was right above mine again. Same thing happened as 7th grade, frustrating I know. Now we're in 10th grade, high school (yes if you're doing the math, I still haven't had my first kiss and I'm in high school), he somehow is always right where I'm walking or eating lunch, and now that I think about it, I think he did this on purpose. Anyway, end of the year comes and I get the courage to ask him to sign my yearbook. He says that he needs some time and can I get my yearbook after the next class, I shrug and agree. When he gives it back I anxiously open to where he signed and it says "Hope you have a great summer, I wish I could have gotten to know you better, call me this summer..." with his phone number attached. I'm thinking What?! Holy cow! 

So summer between 10th and 11th grade I got the nerve and called him, okay my friend and I actually stalked him and called him like 50 times before someone answered the phone. I asked him to meet up with us at my church carnival, he agreed. We went on the Ferris Wheel together, my dad was having a mini heart attack that I was there was a boy. Nothing happened. Then he asked me to the movies for later that week. I could drive but he couldn't, so I picked him up from home, we went and saw Phenomenon with John Travolta. While in the theater he picked up my hand to look at the ring I was wearing and then never gave it back, we held hands the whole movie (smooth move huh?), I don't think I remember one part of the movie besides the song that played, Change the World by Eric Clapton, even to this day that song reminds me of him.

After the movie I went back to drop him off at his place. He had gotten a voicemail saying that he needed to come down to his Karate school because one of the teachers couldn't make it and they wanted to know if he could teach a class. He asked me for a ride. On the way there he just blurted out, so why do you like me? I was shocked but think I said something like you're cute and nice. He said so you only like me cause I'm cute? Well yea, but I wasn't going to admit that, I said I think you're nice, why do you like me? He said cause he thought I was cute and was always nice to him. We arrived at his Karate place, we're sitting in the car being all awkward and stuff, and he leans over and kisses me, tongue and everything. Want to know my reaction?

I LAUGHED! Full on laughed. He looked at me dumbfounded, I told him I had never kissed anyone and that it was just new, we kissed again, this time it was slightly better, but slobbery. He left my car to go teach, I was reliving the moment over and over, my first kiss.

I left for camp the next week, and then when I got back he left for vacation for a week, we saw each other maybe a few more times before school started and then I broke things off. Turns out besides being attracted to one another we had nothing in common and he was a really jealous guy. Something I hate.

Long winded story. Want to see a picture of me in high school?

That's me in all my dorky glory.

If you made it through my long winded story, good for you! Until next time!

Jelly Beans Galore...Or Something

For those of you that don't know, when pregnant you have to take this glucose test to see if you have gestational diabetes. You have to drink this sugary drink wait an hour, and then they test your blood to see if your body is processing the sugar and stuff....but with my food allergies, I can't drink that sugary drink (cause it has corn syrup in it - allergic, of course), so I had to find a substitute.  Want to know what it is? Jelly Beans...yep, I found some organic jelly beans when I was pregnant with Baby Fox, and I ate a whole lot of them. So many in fact that I haven't had a jelly bean since, until now.

I was counting out how many I needed to equal this drink...53, yes that's right, I have to eat 53 jelly beans in a few minutes...ugh, my stomach is NOT looking forward to this.

Wish me luck, I'll let you know how it goes. Please don't fail, please don't fail!

What a Week I've Had

Wow, sorry I've been MIA for so long, but it's been quite a week or so. I got a stomach bug while in Seattle visiting family, that took me out for a week, Mr. threw out his back and Baby Fox is sick. Our family is falling apart...

I haven't really taken many pictures because of being sick so I'll leave you with this:

Yep that's my messy family room floor, but Baby Fox wanted to play, but wants to lay down while doing it.

We have watched a lot of movies and if it was up to Baby Fox it would be Cars every single time, we tried to switch it up. Nothing is worse then a sick kid, but it's the only time we really get good cuddles...so I guess there is something good that comes of it. Bright side right?

Luckily my parents were in town and helped out on Friday and Saturday. Sunday I was finally feeling better.

Hopefully we can all get better and not have all this sickness looming over us.

Linking up with Sami and Faith, Sarah and Megan

Father's Day Craft

We're going out of town today, and I realized we would be gone until Monday and I haven't had a chance to do a Father's Day project with Baby Fox. Mr. had a last minute late meeting, so I thought, now's my chance! I went on pinterest and found this. I thought I could modify it a bit because I didn't have any canvas and I don't have art skills like the pinterest, that would have a been a huge fail. So I used the following:

One sheet of white and blue paper
paint
black marker
double sided tape
paint brush

I put Baby Fox's hand print on the blue paper, then cut some waves in it. Added some green paint for grass, a blue eyeball, red lips, yellow sun, and then used the marker for the birds and the hook. For a 20 minute project (because I had to do three of them, one for Daddy, and one for each of the Grandpa's) I think it turned out pretty good. And Mr. LOVED it. He's actually going to take it to work to show off. Yep we did gifts early because I didn't want to lug everything to Seattle with me.

I'm the least artistic person ever, if I can do it, so can you! Just try it! It's the thought that counts right?

Hope you all have a good weekend, I don't have anything planned until I get back. =)

Real Outfit Pregnancy Post

Did you know it's sort of hard to find a maternity dress for a petite 5'3" gal? Well it is. I've been trying to find things that I can possibly wear after pregnancy too, so when I came across this dress at Nordstroms I had to jump on it. I might have bought it in two different styles and two different sizes and had them shipped to me so that I wouldn't miss out on this great deal!

The best part of this dress it? It's one of those convertible dresses, so I can make all sort of styles depending on my mood, and it feels like I'm wearing pajamas, win in my book!

24 Weeks and 5 Days Pregnant

Dress - Nordstrom's (Watch the video and how many ways you can wear this dress, I chose strapless), Shoes - Nordstrom's (these are those famous shoes that this girl keeps talking about, I wore them all day 6 months pregnant, if I thought they were that comfy, you need to go get them right now!), Sweater - Old Navy (old)

Necklace from Forever 21 (old), Mr. wanted me to give him full credit for buying this for me for my birthday last year, without my input or help.

And of course my little photo bomber. He insisted on being in the picture, and then after two shots he got bored and left.

See those wrinkles there on the bottom, this is because I had been sitting in Mr.'s little sports car for over 2 hours trying to get home...ugh, I hate LA traffic!

A few random facts about Baby Fox's eating habits:

He likes warm prune juice and warm milk and will not drink either cold.

Likes oatmeal cold. Yep we started putting brown sugar in it and he likes it cold, so we basically stir the oatmeal with milk add some brown sugar and serve cold...yum?

Last night we can add another random thing he likes cold...rice. Yep we had some left over rice from dinner the other night and he wanted it cold...hard, cold rice, sounds delish...he ate it all up with no problems what-so-ever.

Such a weirdo, but I love him anyway.

Linking up with Shanna today

More Disneyland

Nope, these aren't pictures from a couple of weeks ago. Our nanny got a free ticket to go and her daughter has a pass, so they took him to Disneyland yesterday. What a spoiled boy! He was super excited to go to Disneyland and ride the monorail. That kid loves trains.

Here's Baby Fox and Nanny's Daughter (who also takes our family pictures every year).

How she got him to do that face, I will never know!

On the Monorail...where did he steal that hat from?

What better way to be spoiled then to eat ice cream at 11:30am?

Waiting in line for a ride. I hear that he went on a ladybug ride and DID NOT like it and they had to flag the guy down to stop the ride to let them off...poor kid, he must have been crying pretty hard for Nanny and Daughter to get them to stop the ride. He didn't seem to have any long term affects last night.

I will say when he got home yesterday evening, with no nap, he was NOT a fun kid to be around. Luckily this isn't a normal occurrence and shouldn't happen again for a while. Phew!

But he did have fun and even got a little gift out of the day. What do you think it was? Of course a Monorail train! =)