Fez does Disney

So am I the only one who's slightly tripped out that Wilmer Valderrama is now the voice of "Manny" on Playhouse Disney's new Handy Manny show?

I know a guy's gotta work and all, but it's just really weird to sit here while J's watching tv and hear Fez talking on a kids show. :-P

Sickies

You'd think we could've made it through at least the first week of Pre-K without getting sick, right? WRONG.

J's got a cold. Ava's a bit stuffy. I'm sneezing. This rain all day weather isn't helping much either.

Other than that, J's liking school. This getting up and at'em early routine is killing me tho. I'll get used to it eventually. Like in time for Christmas break, probably. LOL

Yesterday J demonstrated how they had to sit "criss cross applesauce" in school. I've heard that one before, but then she said they have to "put their hands in their donut hole". That just had us snickering. ;)

Pre-K First Day!

She's into brushing her hair after getting out of the shower. "It needs to be STRAIGHT, Mom"

So her day was fine. LOL Asked her if she had fun. "No, well 1 part was fun. Going to the gym was fun"

What wasn't fun? "Only getting to use 1 crayon on the bus." (they had to color a school bus, yellow) and "Miss Myra has too many tricky rules!" :eyeroll:

Circle time was "Boring"

She's excited about their field trip next week, but not about having to wear the school shirt that day. LOL

She enjoyed snack time. :-P

But she's ready to go back tomorrow.

We went out to McBarf's for lunch. Now Ava's ready for a nap again. I'm pretty much getting nothing done today. She nursed and napped when we got home from taking J to school earlier too.

The Girls

More News!

As if crawling this week wasn't enough. Miss Ava has decided to start clapping. She'd been working on it a bit the week before. Just kinda putting her hands together, but not making any noise. Finally the other day, she slapped them together and "clap!". The look on her face was priceless! She now takes great delight in just sitting and clapping. She laughs and smiles and is quite pleased with her accomplishment.

Having a baby around, to remind you of the small delights in life, is certainly a good thing. :)

T-minus 4 days until Johanna starts pre-k. She's really excited! I'm excited. We're both a bit nervous. Her just about going to school, me about getting us all up and dressed and out of the house in time. It certainly is going to be a change. It's not like we sleep in. I mean we are generally up by 6:30am. It's just getting motivated to get showered and dressed and out the door that will be the issue. :)

Today we went off and did some shopping at Target. We had way to much fun in the $1.00 Section. We also got lots of boring basics, and some "Archer Farms" snacks that Daddy likes. We also picked up a gift for Johanna's buddy. Her birthday is this weekend.

Then, seeing as how it was like 80-something out, we ran thru the Starbucks drive-by. Johanna really likes the Strawberries-n-creme Frappucino. I got my 2pt coffee light one, and we headed off to OUAC. I had filled up my frequent buyer card, so my 20% off was burning a hole in my wallet. LOL

I found a bunch of PJ's there for Ava and some cute outfits. I found this totally adorable sweater too. J got this kitty grooming toy. It has a kitty in a carried with a comb and some other stuff. She had a blast playing with it all evening. All in all it was a good day with my girls. MUCH better than yesterday, for sure!

Emails and Servers and Archives... Oh MY!

So I finally have my Archives up and running! Yeah! Mucho thanks to the Hubster. :) I had noticed a while back, that when you clicked on them, they basically took you nowhere, but we were too busy with a new baby to worry about it too much.

I asked the hubster for help figuring it out earlier this week. We were both really tired that night and despite changing few settings around, and looking at the ftp stuff, we weren't able to fix it.

The next morning, I decided I'd try again. This time I couldn't even publish the dang blog. I kept getting some weird errors. I chalked it up to us messing with the settings the night before.

Meanwhile, we've been noticing a decrease in emails received lately. Figured it was an issue with our mail-forwarding service. It's not like we weren't getting ANY email, just not as many.

One would think at this point maybe we'd start having a clue we were having a server issue, but we didn't. I blame sleep deprivation rather than just sheer stupidity. :)

Eventually hubster realized the server had maxxed out. It was full up of email that hadn't been deleted off.

So, all that to say, YAY! I have archives. We now are getting all our SPAM again (joy) and I can blog once again!

From yesterday....

My morning was filled with an uncooperative, unhappy home computer... followed by a screaming, crying baby who is morally opposed to her stroller and her car seat.

Add to that all the registers at WM crashing. .... while said baby was screaming. All while the 4yo whined that we WEREN'T going to McBarfs for lunch.

Momma was a weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee bit stressed by this point.

I just am thankful I decided to NOT do my big shopping at WM. I can't imagine all that, AND a cart full of stuff. They were telling people, well, the registers are all down, and we can't ring anything up. The mgr.'s are working on it. I put my 2 items back and walked out.

Then we headed off to Culvers, were I stuffed myself with yummy food. Who, me? a stress eater? nooooooooooooooooooo

At least aafter a bit Ava was happy. We still had grocery shopping to do tho.

4 hours later and I only managed to get the cold/frozen stuff put away.

but hey, I saved a whopping $4 at the store. lol

Nothing

... is pretty much what I've managed to get done today. :-P

I was actually going to get OUT of the house, get groceries, that kind of thing. Didn't happen. Instead crabbybaby got in 2 naps, I fed and bathed us, managed to run the dishwasher and washing machine, and the hubster came home early as he and J had dental appointments.

Crabbybaby has now jumped herself tired in her doorway jumper. I'm uploading cutebaby video now. :)She's now back to napping.

ah well, there's always tomorrow, right?

Funny Guy

Being a Stay At Home Parent can definitely be a challenge. Being a Stay At Home Dad presents it's own set of difficulties. I just wanted to give a shout out to Looky Daddy. My Husband ran across his blog last night and sent me a link. Not only is he a SAHD, he's a SAHD to twins and has managed to keep his sense of humor, and perhaps maintain a small bit of his sanity. Not an easy task. :)

A day remembered

I'm pretty sure we all remember where we were this fateful morning.

I was pregnant with Johanna and 6 days away from my due-date. I woke up, and waddled down the steps of our MN house and got online to check in with my gang. They had this thing about my not checking in with them at least once a day. They would get worried about me for some silly reason.

Someone posted that something was happening in NYC and we should check the news. I waddled upstairs and turned on the tv. I called Eric at work, and left a message. I told him, I don't know what's going on, but they think a plane hit the WTC.

I grew up in Northeastern, NJ. My Mom still lives there. They call the town I grew up in, a "bedroom community". A good majority of the residents there work in the city.

I hung up the phone, and continued to watch. I stood there in utter disbelief, watching another plane seemingly appear to slam into the next tower, on purpose.

I called Eric again. I said "OMG. I just watched a plane fly RIGHT INTO the other WTC tower. I swear I think it was on purpose!!"

I was shocked. I cried. I held my huge belly and wondered what kind of world was I bringing a baby into?!

I waddled back down to report to the gang on what I saw. We were all just stunned. Then we got word about the Pentagon being hit. Holy crap, man. This is insane! Planes flying into building, the drama of the other hijacked plane and where it was headed. All flights being grounded. The President being flown to the middle of the country. People jumping out of buildings. The sight of those planes, over and over and over. The loss and devastation. It was all so surreal.

It still is, and yet... how lucky we are. That day we got a taste of what many people around the world have to live in, everyday. The fear, the devastation. Can you imagine that being your daily life. I cannot.

The world has changed a lot in 5 years. The eternal question is always, "Are we safer"? I don't know. Maybe. We certainly are a lot more suspicious and cautious.

On this day, I remember the lives lost and those they left behind. I hope in these five years, you've been able to make peace with all senselessness.

Big News!

We have CRAWLING!!!


I cannot begin to tell you how odd it was the other day, to set her down in one area, and then suddenly realize, she was on the floor next to me. LOL

On the upside, the house ought to be totally babyproofed by the end of the week. LOL

Tag You're It

Sindy tagged me ... and I refuse to be the one cursed by ending the chain. Hehehe!

1. Strip- tease
2. Nut-crack
3. Flat-chest
4. Bowl-cereal
5. Hot-cold

Here are the next five words for the next 5 bloggers:

1. Queen
2. Fish
3. Girl
4. Home
5. Drink

My 5 Targets Are:

1. Shannon
2. Fonda
3. Kerri
4. Deb
5. Kelli

Have fun!