July 2005/5 months and 3 years
July 2006/17 months and 4 years
Monday, July 17, 2006
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Moments In Time
Just a little something I put together to celebrate our life as a family. I hope you enjoy it.
Just a little something I put together to celebrate our life as a family. I hope you enjoy it.
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Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Super Quick Update
1. Bees not gone yet. Guy came out to re-spray this morning. He went down into the crawl space (ours is inside the house - imagine how fun the stress was of waiting to see if they would come up INTO the house. Eeeek!) and sprayed there as well as outside the house. definitely not as many as last time but even one is too damn many.
2. Dryer vent line hasn't been replaced yet. It was supposed to happen today but we are at a stand still until the bees are gone. The guy is coming back next Wednesday - he will check for bees and hopefully replace the vent line then.
3. Grandma came over and stayed with baby K this morning while big K and I went to the free family movies at the local theater. It was Jonah: A veggie Tale Movie. Even though K was super-duper excited about being at movie with me and no baby sister, we only made it to intermission. I'm with him though - that movie was B-O-R-I-N-G!!! Next week is the Clifford movie and Grandma is going to take him. I think that will be fun for him. He wanted her to take him this week but she wanted to stay with baby K and have some time with her since she never gets that. Baby K did amazingly well - which I worried about since she has never been left with someone without big brother.
4. Remember those 100 plus degree days we were having *before* the heat pump was installed? Oh sure - not that I have air conditioning to crank the weather has been cool and rainy. Go figure. :P I like the weather though so I guess I shouldn't complain. Just wanting to give the a/c a real work out, I guess. :)
That's about it for now. Oh - I'll go ahead and put up a few pictures from yesterdays dress-up play. Baby K, as you will see, wanted to be Robin and my big guy....well...he's Woody-Policeman-Bad Guy or something like that. :) Dress up is BIG around these parts. :)
1. Bees not gone yet. Guy came out to re-spray this morning. He went down into the crawl space (ours is inside the house - imagine how fun the stress was of waiting to see if they would come up INTO the house. Eeeek!) and sprayed there as well as outside the house. definitely not as many as last time but even one is too damn many.
2. Dryer vent line hasn't been replaced yet. It was supposed to happen today but we are at a stand still until the bees are gone. The guy is coming back next Wednesday - he will check for bees and hopefully replace the vent line then.
3. Grandma came over and stayed with baby K this morning while big K and I went to the free family movies at the local theater. It was Jonah: A veggie Tale Movie. Even though K was super-duper excited about being at movie with me and no baby sister, we only made it to intermission. I'm with him though - that movie was B-O-R-I-N-G!!! Next week is the Clifford movie and Grandma is going to take him. I think that will be fun for him. He wanted her to take him this week but she wanted to stay with baby K and have some time with her since she never gets that. Baby K did amazingly well - which I worried about since she has never been left with someone without big brother.
4. Remember those 100 plus degree days we were having *before* the heat pump was installed? Oh sure - not that I have air conditioning to crank the weather has been cool and rainy. Go figure. :P I like the weather though so I guess I shouldn't complain. Just wanting to give the a/c a real work out, I guess. :)
That's about it for now. Oh - I'll go ahead and put up a few pictures from yesterdays dress-up play. Baby K, as you will see, wanted to be Robin and my big guy....well...he's Woody-Policeman-Bad Guy or something like that. :) Dress up is BIG around these parts. :)
Friday, July 07, 2006
Finally; Getting Off Our Butts
We live in a state where second parent/same-sex parent adoption is legal. We are VERY fortunate and it is something I do not take lightly. However, the majority of me is ticked off we even have to have something like this on the books. For us, both of our children were dreamed of, conceived by, birthed by and raised by not just me but by both D AND me. Without D, there would be no K's running around the world.
But - no matter how ridiculous I think it is that D has to adopt her own children, that's the way the world is at this point (and like I said: I know how incredibly fortunate we are to live in the state we do so we can both legally be declared as parents to these children).
Our first child was legally adopted by D when he was 7 weeks old. We started the legal ball rolling when I was 5 months pregnant with him and had the "post- placement social worker visit" when he was 16 days old. We went through an attorney and spent a lot of money on the process.
Our second child....well......we jumped on the legal stuff when I was 6 months pregnant but decided to try to work through the hoops ourselves to save money. Seemed simple enough: a call to the courthouse, a trip to the courthouse to pick up the paperwork, filing the paperwork, social worker visit, court date for adoption... however......the paperwork wasn't a second parent adoption request. It was a step-parent adoption request (they assured us it was the same thing. Yeah - ok.). The paperwork was hard to make heads or tails of so we put it off, fully planning to consult an attorney down the road (which D did....only to be more confused). Maybe we'd go through an attorney....or maybe D would hit the law library to figure it all out.
Uh huh.
The baby came and, shortly there after, D was admitted to law school. Excellent! We'll wait until she has the information to be able to do this herself and we will come out ahead in the money department. After all, baby K couldn't be more D's anyway. No big deal to wait. (yeah yeah - I know....something bad could have happened to me and then what? Well - odds were in our favor of baby K being placed with D anyway since D is the legal parent of big K and she can prove intent to legally parent baby K based on sperm bank receipts, doctor records, etc.)
But now....the waiting is finally over.
A few weeks ago D took the file of paperwork from big K's adoption and this time, instead of looking like legal mumbo-jumbo it actually made sense to her! Score!! She started creating documents and making phone calls and today we journeyed to the courthouse to file the initial paperwork to open the case. This afternoon we met with the social worker for the post-placement visit (which was a joke of the highest order. Even she thought it was ridiculous that D has to adopt her own child. She's basically updating the report from big K's visit and will submit that to the court. The kids had a great time playing with her though - so I guess all was not lost.).
Once the report has been filed, we will return to the courthouse to sign a few more papers and to receive the hearing date. The turn around time for a date is really fast so we fully intend for the adoption to be legalized by the end of the month. Excellent!
The hardest part in all this (besides handing over the money) is trying to make it make sense to a 4 year old. He doesn't understand it at all. What do we mean that his baby sister needs to be adopted by mom? He wanted to know if adoption would hurt baby sister and if they would have to put her through a machine. (I never really understood what he was getting at.) We explained the best we could but dang if it isn't difficult to make it understandable in his mind when frankly, I don't really understand the why.
But in the end; our children will legally have two mothers and will be legally protected (i.e.: social security benefits, health insurance, child support, etc.).
All children have a birth right to be protected. It's crazy that same-sex parents have to go to such lengths to protect their children. And crazier still that it's still illegal to do so in many states.
As great as all this is....there is still a HUGE part of me that is angry about it needing to be done. So much red tape to have someone bang a gavel and tell us what we already know: We are a family.
We live in a state where second parent/same-sex parent adoption is legal. We are VERY fortunate and it is something I do not take lightly. However, the majority of me is ticked off we even have to have something like this on the books. For us, both of our children were dreamed of, conceived by, birthed by and raised by not just me but by both D AND me. Without D, there would be no K's running around the world.
But - no matter how ridiculous I think it is that D has to adopt her own children, that's the way the world is at this point (and like I said: I know how incredibly fortunate we are to live in the state we do so we can both legally be declared as parents to these children).
Our first child was legally adopted by D when he was 7 weeks old. We started the legal ball rolling when I was 5 months pregnant with him and had the "post- placement social worker visit" when he was 16 days old. We went through an attorney and spent a lot of money on the process.
Our second child....well......we jumped on the legal stuff when I was 6 months pregnant but decided to try to work through the hoops ourselves to save money. Seemed simple enough: a call to the courthouse, a trip to the courthouse to pick up the paperwork, filing the paperwork, social worker visit, court date for adoption... however......the paperwork wasn't a second parent adoption request. It was a step-parent adoption request (they assured us it was the same thing. Yeah - ok.). The paperwork was hard to make heads or tails of so we put it off, fully planning to consult an attorney down the road (which D did....only to be more confused). Maybe we'd go through an attorney....or maybe D would hit the law library to figure it all out.
Uh huh.
The baby came and, shortly there after, D was admitted to law school. Excellent! We'll wait until she has the information to be able to do this herself and we will come out ahead in the money department. After all, baby K couldn't be more D's anyway. No big deal to wait. (yeah yeah - I know....something bad could have happened to me and then what? Well - odds were in our favor of baby K being placed with D anyway since D is the legal parent of big K and she can prove intent to legally parent baby K based on sperm bank receipts, doctor records, etc.)
But now....the waiting is finally over.
A few weeks ago D took the file of paperwork from big K's adoption and this time, instead of looking like legal mumbo-jumbo it actually made sense to her! Score!! She started creating documents and making phone calls and today we journeyed to the courthouse to file the initial paperwork to open the case. This afternoon we met with the social worker for the post-placement visit (which was a joke of the highest order. Even she thought it was ridiculous that D has to adopt her own child. She's basically updating the report from big K's visit and will submit that to the court. The kids had a great time playing with her though - so I guess all was not lost.).
Once the report has been filed, we will return to the courthouse to sign a few more papers and to receive the hearing date. The turn around time for a date is really fast so we fully intend for the adoption to be legalized by the end of the month. Excellent!
The hardest part in all this (besides handing over the money) is trying to make it make sense to a 4 year old. He doesn't understand it at all. What do we mean that his baby sister needs to be adopted by mom? He wanted to know if adoption would hurt baby sister and if they would have to put her through a machine. (I never really understood what he was getting at.) We explained the best we could but dang if it isn't difficult to make it understandable in his mind when frankly, I don't really understand the why.
But in the end; our children will legally have two mothers and will be legally protected (i.e.: social security benefits, health insurance, child support, etc.).
All children have a birth right to be protected. It's crazy that same-sex parents have to go to such lengths to protect their children. And crazier still that it's still illegal to do so in many states.
As great as all this is....there is still a HUGE part of me that is angry about it needing to be done. So much red tape to have someone bang a gavel and tell us what we already know: We are a family.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Bees.
Bumble bees, to be specific. Big, fat, noisy bumble bees. Lots of them. Far, far too many of them.
In our dryer vent.
Oh yeah - that was fun.
A few weeks ago I noticed a few bee's buzzing by me as I stood near the outside venting for the dryer. I *thought* I saw them flying up inside the vent itself. I mentioned it to D but really - what where the chances of anything serious being there? It was only one, two maybe three bee. And inside the vent? Nah. That just didn't make sense. (Ignorance is bliss, isn't it?)
Fast forward to last week when the heat pump guys where here installing the system. I hear "Hey Casey - I think you might have a bee problem over here. There are a lot of bees flying all over the place."
Freakin' great.
We called around and found someone to come out, confirm the problem and give us an estimate. They said if they were honey bees we were on our own as they cannot endanger honey bees (umm...ok...but it's ok for them to endanger my family? Doesn't seem fair but whatever....). If they were honey bees a bee keeper would need to be called to collect them. Honey bees they were not. Big fat bumble bees they were.
For a mere $225.00 those bees are history.
And for another mere $250.00 we will be having our dryer vent system redone. Apparently it's the old venting (and probably hasn't been cleaned since it was installed in 1978. Can you say "fire hazard"?) and should be replaced with new, non-corrugated venting since our dryer output is only about 25% of capacity (which is why it takes two cycles to dry a load. Huh. Go figure. It's also why the bees found it to be the perfect place to make a hive/nest.
Oy. Sometimes it would be nice to have a landlord to call and say "Problem here. Please fix." But on the other hand....it's nice to have a place of our own - bees and all.
Bumble bees, to be specific. Big, fat, noisy bumble bees. Lots of them. Far, far too many of them.
In our dryer vent.
Oh yeah - that was fun.
A few weeks ago I noticed a few bee's buzzing by me as I stood near the outside venting for the dryer. I *thought* I saw them flying up inside the vent itself. I mentioned it to D but really - what where the chances of anything serious being there? It was only one, two maybe three bee. And inside the vent? Nah. That just didn't make sense. (Ignorance is bliss, isn't it?)
Fast forward to last week when the heat pump guys where here installing the system. I hear "Hey Casey - I think you might have a bee problem over here. There are a lot of bees flying all over the place."
Freakin' great.
We called around and found someone to come out, confirm the problem and give us an estimate. They said if they were honey bees we were on our own as they cannot endanger honey bees (umm...ok...but it's ok for them to endanger my family? Doesn't seem fair but whatever....). If they were honey bees a bee keeper would need to be called to collect them. Honey bees they were not. Big fat bumble bees they were.
For a mere $225.00 those bees are history.
And for another mere $250.00 we will be having our dryer vent system redone. Apparently it's the old venting (and probably hasn't been cleaned since it was installed in 1978. Can you say "fire hazard"?) and should be replaced with new, non-corrugated venting since our dryer output is only about 25% of capacity (which is why it takes two cycles to dry a load. Huh. Go figure. It's also why the bees found it to be the perfect place to make a hive/nest.
Oy. Sometimes it would be nice to have a landlord to call and say "Problem here. Please fix." But on the other hand....it's nice to have a place of our own - bees and all.
Sunday, July 02, 2006
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
Feel that? It's cool air blowing. The only thing I have to say about the heat pump is "Why on earth did it take us so long to do this?" What a difference it makes.
We're still futzing with the temperature. I'm sure we'll find out nitch soon but for those of you with a/c, I'm wondering if you'd share what degree(s) you have your thermostat set. Does this setting change for day vs night or do you leave it consistent? If it changes, what time of evening does to change?
I am SO loving being cool. It makes going outside in the heat much more enjoyable because I know that once I am hot and sweaty I'll be able to walk inside and cool down immediately.
Freedom! There is a lot of freedom to be had when you have air conditioning.
Oh - and laundry....well..it seems decadent to have laundry running at any old time of the day or evening. It removes a great deal of stress form my life as I no longer need to figure out who to get laundry done when the temps will be in the 90's.
Coming up: We went to "A Day Out With Thomas" yesterday. Photos and details to follow as soon as I have time to put it all together. :)
PS...keep reading: Another new post is below.
Feel that? It's cool air blowing. The only thing I have to say about the heat pump is "Why on earth did it take us so long to do this?" What a difference it makes.
We're still futzing with the temperature. I'm sure we'll find out nitch soon but for those of you with a/c, I'm wondering if you'd share what degree(s) you have your thermostat set. Does this setting change for day vs night or do you leave it consistent? If it changes, what time of evening does to change?
I am SO loving being cool. It makes going outside in the heat much more enjoyable because I know that once I am hot and sweaty I'll be able to walk inside and cool down immediately.
Freedom! There is a lot of freedom to be had when you have air conditioning.
Oh - and laundry....well..it seems decadent to have laundry running at any old time of the day or evening. It removes a great deal of stress form my life as I no longer need to figure out who to get laundry done when the temps will be in the 90's.
Coming up: We went to "A Day Out With Thomas" yesterday. Photos and details to follow as soon as I have time to put it all together. :)
PS...keep reading: Another new post is below.
Fun In The Sun
Just a few photos of my kiddo's having fun in the yard. Enjoy!
Just a few photos of my kiddo's having fun in the yard. Enjoy!
It's important to accessorize before entering the pool - even if you decide to go shirtless. Oh - and that tongue sticking out? That's what she does when you say "Smile!" Silly girl.
Goofy Boy
Taking a Dive!
Playing Together 
Upside Down Boy
Sibling Love!
Once again - this is "looking happy". Go figure.
My teething baby girl My poor baby is working on getting four new teeth....and she has been a miserable ball of unhappiness over the past few days. Hopefully soon they will be through and she can get back to the business of being happy. At least she manages to have fun with her big brother for a few moments here and there. Nothing like having someone make you laugh to help you cope. :)
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
A Cool Day
And I mean that literally. It only got to 81 here today - what a relief!! So what's a girl to do on her first cool day in five days? Get ready - this is almost too much excitement.......
Are you ready?
Are you sitting down?
Laundry. Yep - laundry. Seven loads, to be exact. Just think - next time we have a stretch of unbelievably hot days I won't have to wait to do laundry. We'll have air conditioning. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
Oh - and in other exciting news from the day....I chopped down a bush (well - one completely down but there was another that received a serious trim) to make room for the a/c unit and I cleaned out a huge area of the garage so the workman get access the attic crawl space and the circuit panel.
I know...........I, too, am blown away by the HUGE amount of fun I had today.
And let me not forget to tell you that little missy is teething and was a complete velcro baby today. While I feel for her, I was relieved to put her down to sleep tonight. This is the first time in hours my arms have not contained my incredibly unhappy daughter. How, you ask, was I able to chop up a bush and clean out the garage AND do seven loads of laundry with a velcro baby? The physical labor chores were done during her hour nap (I rocked it, if I do say so myself) and the laundry was done with a screaming child pulling on my pant leg. I didn't fold it until after she went to bed tonight. I just couldn't take the hysterics of her not being held. Poor little girl. :(
So there ya have it. My fun-filled Wednesday. Are you jealous? No? Ok - I have one more bit of news that might push that jealousy factor a wee bit further..........we planned a return trip to Disneyland. Oh yeah baby. We're going back! When? In SEVEN short weeks. Seven seems to be my lucky number today. :)
And I mean that literally. It only got to 81 here today - what a relief!! So what's a girl to do on her first cool day in five days? Get ready - this is almost too much excitement.......
Are you ready?
Are you sitting down?
Laundry. Yep - laundry. Seven loads, to be exact. Just think - next time we have a stretch of unbelievably hot days I won't have to wait to do laundry. We'll have air conditioning. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
Oh - and in other exciting news from the day....I chopped down a bush (well - one completely down but there was another that received a serious trim) to make room for the a/c unit and I cleaned out a huge area of the garage so the workman get access the attic crawl space and the circuit panel.
I know...........I, too, am blown away by the HUGE amount of fun I had today.
And let me not forget to tell you that little missy is teething and was a complete velcro baby today. While I feel for her, I was relieved to put her down to sleep tonight. This is the first time in hours my arms have not contained my incredibly unhappy daughter. How, you ask, was I able to chop up a bush and clean out the garage AND do seven loads of laundry with a velcro baby? The physical labor chores were done during her hour nap (I rocked it, if I do say so myself) and the laundry was done with a screaming child pulling on my pant leg. I didn't fold it until after she went to bed tonight. I just couldn't take the hysterics of her not being held. Poor little girl. :(
So there ya have it. My fun-filled Wednesday. Are you jealous? No? Ok - I have one more bit of news that might push that jealousy factor a wee bit further..........we planned a return trip to Disneyland. Oh yeah baby. We're going back! When? In SEVEN short weeks. Seven seems to be my lucky number today. :)
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Hot, Hot and Stupidly Hot!!
It's hot! And tomorrow it's supposed to be hotter. Is that possible???!?!?!?!! Notice how the first temp says 77 degrees? That in the living room WITH the window a/c unit on full-blast only a couple feet away. The living room is manageable....the bedrooms? So not!! I'm afraid to take the gauge in there - it's a case of "ignorance is bliss". UGH.
Have I mentioned how much I hate heat? Oh yeah - this is not fun at all for me.
But.....good news is coming. Can you say "heat pump"? Oh yeah baby - this time next week I'll be saying "bring it on!" because I will have a heat pump and the house will be at whatever temperature *I* want. The WHOLE house. Every square inch of it.
Can I hear an "Oooooooh yeah!" from you all????? :)
Only 5 more days to get through and it should be up and running. Thank God!
PS..keep reading - there are still new ones below. :)
It's hot! And tomorrow it's supposed to be hotter. Is that possible???!?!?!?!! Notice how the first temp says 77 degrees? That in the living room WITH the window a/c unit on full-blast only a couple feet away. The living room is manageable....the bedrooms? So not!! I'm afraid to take the gauge in there - it's a case of "ignorance is bliss". UGH.
Have I mentioned how much I hate heat? Oh yeah - this is not fun at all for me.
But.....good news is coming. Can you say "heat pump"? Oh yeah baby - this time next week I'll be saying "bring it on!" because I will have a heat pump and the house will be at whatever temperature *I* want. The WHOLE house. Every square inch of it.
Can I hear an "Oooooooh yeah!" from you all????? :)
Only 5 more days to get through and it should be up and running. Thank God!
PS..keep reading - there are still new ones below. :)
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Camping in the Backyard
This weekend was the annual "camping the in the backyard" event and it was a hit! Baby K didn't actually sleep in the tent but D and K did and they had a great time!
The temperature here today is 93 - ugh! So as I type this, the three of them are playing in the pool to cool off. Then, later, it'll be bbq for dinner (probably hamburgers as we had hotdogs last night) and s'mores over the campfire (once baby K does to sleep). Then it'll be story time and time to once again camp under the stars.
My boy is in heaven!
PS..Keep reading. I just posted another one below. :)
This weekend was the annual "camping the in the backyard" event and it was a hit! Baby K didn't actually sleep in the tent but D and K did and they had a great time!
The temperature here today is 93 - ugh! So as I type this, the three of them are playing in the pool to cool off. Then, later, it'll be bbq for dinner (probably hamburgers as we had hotdogs last night) and s'mores over the campfire (once baby K does to sleep). Then it'll be story time and time to once again camp under the stars.
My boy is in heaven!
PS..Keep reading. I just posted another one below. :)
I LOVE Garage Sales!!!
I scored!
Check this out.....for less than $40 (I don't know exactly how much since we used some of the left over cash for lunch.....) I got:
17 shirts (16 for baby K, 1 for big K)
1 pair of super cute snowman jeans
1 pair of snowman overalls
2 shorts
1 Pooh book
1 Autumn table runner
13 of the items are brand spanking new from The Childrens Place, tags still attached. The shirts and shorts are various sizes - running from 18 months to size 7. I'm one of those wild and crazy people who buys ahead (bigger sized clothes) so that when the child in question moves into a bigger size all I have to do is walk out to the garage, pick the bin marked with the appropriate size and start filling drawers (I wash everything as it comes into the house so that the container is completely ready to go).
I love garage sale season. Love, love, love it!! I dropped $24 at once on the new items - The Childrens Place stuff was all marked $1 and $2 each so seriously, how could I not?? Sometimes it is frustrating, digging through stacks of stained clothes but the pay-off of finding that one item in perfect condition is such an incredible feeling. The finds today were amazing!
I scored!
Check this out.....for less than $40 (I don't know exactly how much since we used some of the left over cash for lunch.....) I got:
17 shirts (16 for baby K, 1 for big K)
1 pair of super cute snowman jeans
1 pair of snowman overalls
2 shorts
1 Pooh book
1 Autumn table runner
13 of the items are brand spanking new from The Childrens Place, tags still attached. The shirts and shorts are various sizes - running from 18 months to size 7. I'm one of those wild and crazy people who buys ahead (bigger sized clothes) so that when the child in question moves into a bigger size all I have to do is walk out to the garage, pick the bin marked with the appropriate size and start filling drawers (I wash everything as it comes into the house so that the container is completely ready to go).
I love garage sale season. Love, love, love it!! I dropped $24 at once on the new items - The Childrens Place stuff was all marked $1 and $2 each so seriously, how could I not?? Sometimes it is frustrating, digging through stacks of stained clothes but the pay-off of finding that one item in perfect condition is such an incredible feeling. The finds today were amazing!
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
How Is This Possible?
I never thought I would be saying this. I mean, come on...you are talking to the Queen of Coffee. Too much is never enough. Only...I think I hit my "enough" point.
See this mug? Looks innocent enough, doesn't it? Now guess how much it holds.
Ready for this? Half of my entire pot of coffee! That's right - it hold 5.5 CUPS of coffee. I would think that this would make me dizzy with happiness but the reality is, I don't think my stomach can hold that much liquid at one time.
And yet......this fact doesn't seem to stop me at all. Nope. Every morning I wake up, flip on the coffee pot and wait eagerly to pour my cup to the brim. And yep, I drink it all and then, and my stomach churns a bit, wonder what I was thinking.
Go figure.
I never thought I would be saying this. I mean, come on...you are talking to the Queen of Coffee. Too much is never enough. Only...I think I hit my "enough" point.
See this mug? Looks innocent enough, doesn't it? Now guess how much it holds.
Ready for this? Half of my entire pot of coffee! That's right - it hold 5.5 CUPS of coffee. I would think that this would make me dizzy with happiness but the reality is, I don't think my stomach can hold that much liquid at one time.
And yet......this fact doesn't seem to stop me at all. Nope. Every morning I wake up, flip on the coffee pot and wait eagerly to pour my cup to the brim. And yep, I drink it all and then, and my stomach churns a bit, wonder what I was thinking.
Go figure.
Monday, June 19, 2006
From this.......
PS....check out my scrap-blog. I *finally* completed a new page!
To this.....
Of course, she isn't sleeping there - but then, she never slept in her crib either. :) I found this toddler bed at a garage sale and, after talking it over with D, decided to buy it and put it up in her room. After all, the crib was mainly used for storage and at least now she has a bed she can crawl up on and hang out on. Yesterday, she went into her brother's room, picked a book from his bookshelf, toddled back into her room, climbed on her bed, leaned back against the wall and "read". It was so darn cute!!
It's the end of the chapter for the crib. It's actually pretty sad as its been up constantly since November of 2001. We put it up while I was pregnant with K and it hasn't been down again until this weekend (it turned into a toddler bed (but was as high off the ground as a regular crib) and K was still using it until baby K was about three months old. Then K moved into a big boy bed.
I was going to see about giving it to a friend but in the end, I'm way too emotionally attached to it and we decided to put in into the attic for now.
No more babies for us. *sigh* That does make me sad even though I know our family is complete with two children. They grow up too darn quickly!
PS....check out my scrap-blog. I *finally* completed a new page!
Thursday, June 15, 2006
A Little Slice of Heaven
When I was pregnant with baby K, I was freaking out a bit about the realities of having two children to care for. I remember one of my MOMS Club friends trying to reassure me. She told me that someday, I'd be driving my car with the kids in the back seat when one of them would make the other laugh or, her favorite, they would be holding hands across the car seats and I would be consumed with love and know that everything was going to be ok.
Well.....she was completely right.
Some of my very favorite moments are in the car, listening to them laughing with each other, hearing K talk with baby K about nothing and everything (where we are, that's it's ok, where we're going, etc.) and most especially I love when I look back and they are holding hands.
My heart just flips over with love for these two little miracles. :)
(Thanks, Pam! You were so right!)
When I was pregnant with baby K, I was freaking out a bit about the realities of having two children to care for. I remember one of my MOMS Club friends trying to reassure me. She told me that someday, I'd be driving my car with the kids in the back seat when one of them would make the other laugh or, her favorite, they would be holding hands across the car seats and I would be consumed with love and know that everything was going to be ok.
Well.....she was completely right.
Some of my very favorite moments are in the car, listening to them laughing with each other, hearing K talk with baby K about nothing and everything (where we are, that's it's ok, where we're going, etc.) and most especially I love when I look back and they are holding hands.
My heart just flips over with love for these two little miracles. :)
(Thanks, Pam! You were so right!)
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
The Shirts Are On Their Way!!
WAHOO!!!! The 1-800 number the hotel gave me was just the ticket! The cast member I spoke with was able to find both shirts, confirm they were available and process my payment (with no funky 100% mark-up that I found through a website that will send a personal shopper to the resort and find the items in question).
The new shirts will arrive in 7-10 days. YIPPIE!!!!!
WAHOO!!!! The 1-800 number the hotel gave me was just the ticket! The cast member I spoke with was able to find both shirts, confirm they were available and process my payment (with no funky 100% mark-up that I found through a website that will send a personal shopper to the resort and find the items in question).
The new shirts will arrive in 7-10 days. YIPPIE!!!!!
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Anyone Going To Disneyland Soon?
We bought our little guy two really amazingly fun shirts while we were in Disneyland; both are 50th Anniversary shirts which means they are only available for a limited amount of time. One has Mickey Mouse and one has Goofy (the boy's all time favorite characters). I bought them in size extra small and they were plenty big on him (read: if they shrunk in the wash he'd still have shirts a bit on the big side) however.........................they really, really shrunk.
Instead of looking like size 5/6 they are measuring right around a 4T (and that's being generous). I'm soooo disappointed. I figured he'd be able to wear these happy reminders for at least a year, maybe two, depending on how fast he grows.
This is where you all come in.
I'm requesting help in locating and purchasing new shirts in size small.
So........
Is anyone going to Disneyland sometime in the next month?
Maybe you live near Disneyland or know of someone who lives nearby?
Maybe you know (or are) a cast member?
Maybe you are a whiz at locating things on the 'net (goodness knows I've been trying for the past two days)?
Short of booking a trip for one to go down for the day, I have no good idea on how to go about finding new shirts. Maybe someone out there does. Here are what the shirts look like:
We bought our little guy two really amazingly fun shirts while we were in Disneyland; both are 50th Anniversary shirts which means they are only available for a limited amount of time. One has Mickey Mouse and one has Goofy (the boy's all time favorite characters). I bought them in size extra small and they were plenty big on him (read: if they shrunk in the wash he'd still have shirts a bit on the big side) however.........................they really, really shrunk.
Instead of looking like size 5/6 they are measuring right around a 4T (and that's being generous). I'm soooo disappointed. I figured he'd be able to wear these happy reminders for at least a year, maybe two, depending on how fast he grows.
This is where you all come in.
I'm requesting help in locating and purchasing new shirts in size small.
So........
Is anyone going to Disneyland sometime in the next month?
Maybe you live near Disneyland or know of someone who lives nearby?
Maybe you know (or are) a cast member?
Maybe you are a whiz at locating things on the 'net (goodness knows I've been trying for the past two days)?
Short of booking a trip for one to go down for the day, I have no good idea on how to go about finding new shirts. Maybe someone out there does. Here are what the shirts look like:
My boy looking goofy in his Mickey Mouse shirt (taken this morning - he LOVES these shirts!)
The back of the shirts have this on them:
Fresh from the laundry (because he wore this one yesterday), the Goofy shirt.
I can even tell you were the shirts were purchased. The MM one came from the gift shop at Paradise Pier and the Goofy one came from Star Traders in Tomorrowland.
Can anyone help???????
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Video Montage From Disneyland
Well.....I'm not all that thrilled with the music choices but it passed muster with the family (well...those who can speak, anyway) so I guess it's good enough to share. Hope you all enjoy it!
Well.....I'm not all that thrilled with the music choices but it passed muster with the family (well...those who can speak, anyway) so I guess it's good enough to share. Hope you all enjoy it!
Create your own video at One True Media
Sunday, June 04, 2006
We're Home!! Did you miss me????
We had an amazingly great time and while I don't have time (or energy - we all came home sick and I'm feeling pretty darn cruddy) for a full update, I did want to share a handful of the 300+ photos we took. :) And if you are wondering, our little guy did indeed go down Splash Mountain and while he wouldn't do it again, he is still saying that it was "so much fun!"
He had a blast! They both did, actually, but he is at the perfect age to soak up all the magic and wonder. Small World (or "Fall World" as our little man called it) was a hit with both of them and we went on it at least four times. The joy on their little faces was so much fun to watch.
He had no anxiety what-so-ever about walking up to characters and really got a kick out of getting autographs. So much fun! We had SO much fun!!!
More later - enjoy the pics. :)
Arriving at Disneyland!
Outside the Monsters Inc. ride. One of the favorites for the week. :)
The view from our room. We overlooked the California Adventure park.
Pirate Girl
All of us plus The Big Cheese himself.
Shakin' his booty at the pre-Block Party parade warm-up. He was too freakin' cute! 
Goofin' around in Toon Town
The lobby of Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel (where we stayed). P.S. I'm planning to put together a video montage with more photos - so keep a watchful eye out for that. :)
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