April 8th, 2009

30 years ago today, I arrived kicking and screaming into the world :)!

I tend to avoid the camera when possible but I wanted to make sure I got a picture of myself on my 30th birthday. Sure I am a little chubbier than I would like to be and in desperate need of a tan, but my life is exactly how I always hoped it would be. Since I had to work the night before my birthday, we celebrated at midnight with Sprite shots in med cups. My coworkers are saints for putting up with me :).I came home, slept, picked up Monkey and took him to the park since The Hubs had a install he had to run from home. It wasn't how we had planned it, but I got a cake, flowers, and the customary, practical plant from The Hubs.I've decided I'm not going to be one of those women who lie about my age. I have lost friends too young and stood witness to people fighting for their lives...I am thankful for every year I have and proud of each one :).

Okay, try again...

Wow, I didn't realize I had been gone for almost a month! It has been crazy around here and although I have been taking pictures, I haven't had much time to post them. So here is my crazy new concept to make my life a little easier: Instead of "365: #" I am going to use the date as my posting. That may not make much of a difference to a reader but it is going to help me out a bit so I can keep track. That being said, I am going to post some back pics and then get going with some new ones! Ahhh, photoblog, I have missed you!

What day is it??

The last three weeks have shot right past me and so I am playing catch up (or ketchup, or catsup, whichever you prefer), trying to post my daily pic and some of the older ones. I should be back on track here in a few days :)!

365: 326

04/03/09

We were up bright and early this morning, mainly because Monkey was up at 5 a.m. and also because he was getting tubes in his ears today. Luckily we were able to keep him distracted with a morning bath (not in the usual routine) and some book reading and Sesame Street so he didn't notice that we hadn't (and couldn't) feed him breakfast. He was a trooper and gave us snuggles before the nurses did the "swap and go" with a warm blanket to carry him off to the OR, monkey in hand. Everyone was great, but the emotional part of my brain was winning out over the rational side and I got a little teary eyed.

But everything went quickly and well and pretty soon we were rounding a corner to hear our little guy screaming "Daddy! Mommy!" He was a little loopy from the anesthetic and I ended up wearing most of his apple juice :). After a long nap, he was up and back to his old, pre-ear issue self! He was feeling so good that he made a trip to the store, a consignment sale in town, and to get his hair cut:

We were so blessed and lucky to have such great care and so glad our little guy is back to feeling better!

365: 324

04/01/09

After working all night, I had to go to a 2 hour diversity training seminar (which was pretty interesting...what amazed me is that I don't remember 2 hour college lectures going that fast!), had to run some errands on the way home, and literally collapsed into bed around 11:30. I was startled awake by my phone ringing and got that "oh no" feeling when I saw that it was Monkey's daycare. Sure enough, our little man found a way to hurt the one part of his body scheduled for surgery on Friday... he fell against a table and split his ear open!

It was deep enough and bleeding enough that we headed over to the urgent care, where they cleaned out and wrapped it up (which was a 3 person effort) but luckily they decided not to do stitches. The Hubs and I took bets on how long he'd keep his headband on... he slept through the night with it! He will probably always have a little divit in his ear lobe, my little April Fool :).

365: 322

03/30/09

Mimi brought Monkey a book on her trip and as we read it tonight we noticed it had a sticker covering an error, so of course we had to see what the error was...

Can you find it :)?

Heck yeah this is going to www.failblog.org!

365: 321

03/29/09

We had to take Mimi back to the airport today and although it is never easy watching your family leave, it makes it a little easier knowing when you are going to see them again...luckily it's only few weeks!

Love you, Yo Mama!