Playing with the bug....

As we move into another month, it's time to change the bulletin board at school. This is another fun month because there is a solid theme with Valentine's. So I broke out the Cricut and went to town. Here are the cupids I made:

Then there are the typical hearts and love and friendship. Michael's had some super cute striped paper that I printed out "Who's your Valentine?" to put across the top of the board. Hopefully I'll have enough time to get it all up tomorrow!

Yes, you're jealous of my life, admit it!

A lack of brotherly love...

So what happens when the big on piss off the littlest one?

I'm not really sure what happened, but the little one threw a snow globe at the biggest one's head, causing big tears, screams and a little blood. He didn't throw anything back, so that's a plus, and they've still been friendly after the incident.
Oh, they start young, it will be the first of many I'm sure.

Free Museum Day!

Today was the 10th Annual Sacramento Museum Day, opening 24 area museums from 10-5 for free. DH had heard about it earlier in the week, so we took advantage. We started at the Aviation Museum, the big planes were a huge hit. We were able to go inside one of the Coast Guard planes, the boys were able to sit in the cockpit and look out all the windows. Way fun! Lots of big and small things to see. Then we headed downtown to the Auto Museum. This was also a good one for the boys, a huge variety of things to see. We were also able to smash some pennies. (This has become our favorite souvenir, it only costs $0.51, and we have a cool book to store them in.) It wasn't very crowded either, so it was easy to maneuver our stroller and keep track of the big one. Since we were already down town, we decided to walk around Old Town for a bit, check out the awesome toy store, Evangilines and the mega candy store. After our second meltdown, we decided to pack it in for the day. After a not so quick potty stop, we walked paced the old school house and made a detour, lame! Off to the car we went. We had a fun day, even with DH losing his sunglass. (He finally called the toys store and they had them, Thanks God!) So here's our day in pictures, enjoy!

Another Mama Hero....

I wish I could nail down an idea that everyone loves and that I could produce at a semi rapid pace! (Da, who doesn't?)
Since the middle of last week there has been a buzz on my cloth diapering boards about Goodmama Diapers, specifically her fitted diapers. They are truly scrumptious, especially when she does printed fabrics. She makes a diaper that has an adjustable rise so it fits newborns up to 30+ lbs babies. She is getting $33 per diaper, or a dozen for $365 (OMG!). She randomly stocks her sight, a couple time as month (like this past Friday), and they are gone within minutes! Oh to find the niche!

I've had to back away from the boards, because I want one! BAD! They are supposed to be extremely absorbent, soft and the fit is great. Instead I used a little tax money and bought 4 diapers for the $33 dollar price tag and will love them just the same!

I'm trying to reconvince myself that I love cloth. I think the problem is that I don't love prefolds, the flat kind you have to fold then pin (or use a really cool snappi). This is the cheapest way to CD, although like everything in life there are "designer" prefolds! So in a move to love it, I'm trying to sell half of my diapers and buy some fitteds. Fitteds that I am getting right now are like these, a lot like using a regular paper diaper, then you stick a cute cover, like this or this, over the top. It's easy and even DH simple, if he'd try!

But it's addictive. There a the wool cover and pants that get you into a whole other realm, way too rich for me. Buy I'm happy with my soon to be updated stash, even excited to try a couple of new things I have coming.

Now if I could just get this kid to sleep at night, life would be grand!

So define rest when living with a toddler and preschooler...

So after my thrilling trip to Kaiser this morning, my MD thinks I have small tears in the ligaments below my ankle, causing the sharp pain. So I'm on Motrin for the swelling and lots of rest. I stocked up on a few new magaines and have been surfing the net all afternoon. Yay for rest! It will be another story when the boys wake from their naps, but hey I'm good for now.

You would think I was 80 years old....

So it's happened again. My body is failing me. While at the gym today, my foot started to ache a little. No big deal, didn't have my new kick-ass shoes on, so I'm use to little sore spots on my feet. We headed home, checked messages and I changed so we could go to the mall, to get afore mentioned kick-ass shoes. I noticed the side of my foot was still a little sore, hmm, well on we go anyway. It progressively got worse as we walked around, turning from an ache to a shooting pain. Hmmm, good times, this sucks! So once we were home, Ty and I settled onto the couch to take a nap, when I went to put him on our bed I about fell down because of the shooting pain. Yippee, lucky me, I've won a trip to Kaiser!
So we'll see tomorrow morning.

So if nothing else it means a couple of kid free hours in the morning, driving with the radio up loud, and without my 3 year old back seat driver telling me I went the wrong way and "Why are we going this way?

Let's hope it's something fixable this time and not just pain like usual!

Wed. Weigh-in

Whoopee, it's Wed again!

Weight: 191 (-2) not huge, but at least it's going the right way!


The trainer I met through a body sculpting class emailed me this am with a great work out and also had another one printed for me when I came to class today. Yay, a plan! A goal for when I'm at the gym!

Thanks to our State tax money being deposited today, I finally have a kick-ass pair of workout shoes! I finally put some cash down and have shoes that hopefully won't give me blisters, or pressure pains. I also took the up sell for good insoles, I tried the shoes on with and without, huge difference. Good job dude at Lady Foot Locker!

I'm also ordering our Crocs, so excited!

I heart the mail lady.....

On a not so icky feeling note....

The mail lady dropped off three lovely packages at my door this morning. Oh how I love her for it!
My scrapbooking addiction was fed a little by a new shipment of paper, brads, photo holder/organizer, and new glue stickers. Yes I was excited to see the box, knowing what was inside.
A cover came for my Cricut machine, making it possible for me to leave it out on my desk without little hands opening and closing it, pushing all the buttons. It's super cute with flip flops on it, it's perfect.
Then in the other small package was 2 new diapers for #2. Yes, I also have another sickness surrounding his cloth diapers and am excited to finally have these ones in my hands to try.

Looks like I'm going to have to do that JBF sale again, just to keep my habits funded!

Oweee!

Make the pain go away, please! I've got a headache that woke me up at about 4 this am. It's lingering, ugh!

I will get my laundry done today, including the diaper run.
I will go to the gym after nap time.
I will get the dishes put away and reloaded.
I will get the calendars done for preschool.
I will not snack my way through the day, just because I don't feel well.

A gift from my boyfriend Craig....

Many of you know I have a boyfriend named Craig, he's treated me well on most occasions. Here is one of the best things he's produced so far, enjoy!

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/all/

2 Day-Sale

Ohh, how I love those words. I love this time of year, when all the clothes from the fall go on sale to make room for summer. It means getting full wardrobes for my boys at $2-5 a piece. So that's what I did this week. Hitting a few of my favorite stores, building #1's fall wardrobe for next year. Luckily he's a skinny monkey so all his shorts fit him from last year so that leaves getting shirts for summer time. Good ol' Wally World came through on that end bring back an old school brand so $2-3.50 t's. The are cute too, hot rods, skate/surf boards, stripes, and motorcycles. He thought they were cool, of course 3.5 year-olds are easy to please. He got overly excited about the Lighting McQueen track suit we found a Mervyn's for the fall.
#2 has a closet full of hand-me-downs, so when the seasons roll around I look and fill in where we need to.

I'm equally excited about our tax money coming so I can go on a shopping spree at the Crocs online store. I've fallen in love with my fuzzy Crocs I got at Xmas time and made the executive decision that Crocs will be worn by all in the house! Now, don't freak out, I'm not talking just about the fuggly chunky style in all the outrages colors. My fuzzies are the fuggly style, but I've decided I'm covering them with my pants, so I don't care as much. The boys will be getting croclings, yes the fuggly styling, but kids can pull them off and they have a great stretch strap to keep them on. Mama is getting the athens scandals and the celeste flats, and yes I'm overly excited about it, both in chocolate. DH is getting two pair of slide scandals the scutes for everyday and the sobek for parties and weekends.

Can you tell I would be scary if I actually won the lottery or something? All the scrapbooking and shoe happiness! I would probably even get into handbags if I could afford it, but I know better, although Target has some lovely ones for under $30.

So get out there and boost the economy, don't make me do it alone!

Daily Stats

No real stats for the last couple of days. I've been good with my food, eating moderately when I ate a big dinner and such. I did have a reg soda today, but it's the first on this week, so not too bad. I did an hour step class yesterday while #1 was in school, kicked my ass! I hope to get to a body sculpt class and cardio something tomorrow.

Our snow day pictures

Thanks to another mom who went on the sledding field trip, we have pictures!

Daily Posts

Food:
Special K, banana, & tea
Bottle of water
Chicken Caesar salad w/ ½ tsp dressing and water
Candy Hearts (damn Valentine’s isle a the grocery!)
4 Kashi (2”squares) crackers & a Laughing Cow Garlic/Herb wedge
Cheese & olive pizza
Diet Sprite

Exercise:
Hour body sculpt

Wed Weigh in: 193 (-4)

Today I was able to meet with trainer after the body sculpting class. She is great and helped guide me down the right path. I knew a lot of what she said, but it becomes more real when someone else says it. So she laid out an exercise plan, emailing it to me at some time tonight, and said high protein is the way to go. So it's basically a low carb/high protein for me. I need to figure out how to like veggies and stop snacking so much. Blah!

A day at preschool, followed by a hair cut

Ah, preschool. Lots of fun and work and frustration all in one neat little package!

For it being so rainy and cruddy out today, we had fun at school. We played with the trains, blocks, puzzles, learned about the letter "n," made snowmen out of paper bags, play dough, sang some songs to an awesome late 70's/early 80's record, listened to some stories and counted the days until we return. I do love preschool. I love the friends we've made and the time it gives us together. I love watching the little girls (and #1) play dress-up and act out their always changing scenes. I also love the random things that come out of the mouths of 3-4 year olds. The way they interact with each other, good and bad. It's always interesting to spend the day at school. Here's our day in pictures:

Tangles for Kids:

We also went for hair cuts today, the boys that is. Our friends went to this great kids cut place, Tangles, and we went to try it out because they have $10 Tues. Yay for us! They have video games to play while you wait and while you get your hair cut, lots of toys and two old go-kart things to climb on and pretend to drive while you wait. We were having a good time waiting for the 6 cuts in front of us. #2 went 1st, I sat him on the chair and he preceded to freak and almost fly out of the chair into my arms. So we decided that it would be best if I hold him, so I got a nice cape and we sat back down. He's still freaking out, so he got his sucker early. Cool, happy boy. Then he brings out the clippers, I okayed it, and we precede to freak again. He went quick and by the end, #2 was fine. He sat happy as a clam, eating his sucker while he used the scissors. I was covered in fine, blond hair, but he looks good!

In the middle of #2's cut, a chair opened for #1, so after a short chat with the stylist, off he went. He did really well, because he also usually freaks a little at the site of the clippers. So he also sat in his chair, a bucket of toys in his laps and winced as she cut his hair.

I'm happy with their cuts, will try to get the same stylist for both next time as #2's cut is better than #1's. So here's the pics!

Before

Notice the birds nest on the back of #2's head, it was like this most days.

After:

And I was a good fish mommy today and moved him, after cleaning his bowl, to a higher, safer place. After a week of getting various things dunked into his bowl, including his whole container of food, I finally got off my butt and did something about it. #2 has a fascination with the fish, understandably, but likes to touch way too much. So there you go, loyal golf fish, enjoy your new space!

Daily Stats

Food:
1 PB toast and 1/3 banana
White Choc. Mocha w/non fat milk and no whip cream
Water
Thin cheese personal pizza(300 cal)
Diet DP
Med Loaded baked potato w/ 4 smokies and milk
Crackers, fruit leather & 3 musketeers w/ Diet DP

No formal exercise today, life got in the way. Tomorrow!

I (heart) TaxCut online!

Yay for online tax programs! I was able to get my taxes entered tonight in about 45 min. They are ready to be filed. Now we are waiting for a W-2 correction and we are in business. 10-15 business days until are money is here!

Yep that was my excitement for the day! Jealous I'm sure.

On a more fun note, my best girlfriends took me out for a girls night on Friday, boy did I need it. It was fun and we laughed and we dished and had a great girly time! Love you guys!

Wish me luck, I'm taking the boys for haircuts after school, this should be fun!

Daily Stats

Food:
Special K & 1/3 lg banana
Bottle of water
1c Turkey Chili w/ 6 wheat crackers & milk
fruit snacks
peanuts and ranch crackers
Diet DP
Spaghetti & garlic toast
Fresca
Marshmellow Maties, 1/3 3 Musk. & milk

Exercise:
Free weights for ½ hour, abs, 10 min fast walk on treadmill, & 30 min on bike.

I did good today, didn't need the afternoon fruit snacks, but hey they're good! Now to make it to my workout tomorrow, that will be the true on track test!

Sun Stats

Food:
Eggs, 5 smokies and 1 toast
Diet DP
Thin personal pizza (300 cal)
1 fruit leather
2 tacos and choc. Cake (w/beets!)
Sm fruit loops and 1/3 3 musketeers & milk

Not awful for a Sun sitting at home!

Other parents, urgh!

SO, I didn't want to rant in my last post, but I have to rant about the day as well.

I hate dealing with ignorant parents that have no clue about the rest of the world. Most the time we were sledding today it was our group from school. We had a great system where some were up on the hill and some were down helping the kids get off their sleds and clearing the path for the next person to go. We were very conscious about waiting for people to be cleared from the run before sending anyone down, taking turns and general sled hill etiquette.

There was a dad and his son that came about the same time as us, the boy was probably around 8, so much older than our group. He was the most impatient SOB I've met in a while. He kept giving us looks, yelling down from the top to hurry and move (we went about half way up where he was more at the top, we were standing at the top of our run when he would yell). He was just an ass. He finally moved along to another part of the hill.

Then towards the end of our trip another group showed up, two moms w/5 kids between them. Then came up to the run we were at, which is fine. That being said, they, the moms, were being asses in general. There was a clear run that we were going around and then the sides we were climbing back up. Instead of starting the 1st one on the run, she tries to put her to the side, she got about a foot before the sled got stuck. Mom then proceeded to yell at the girl until she finally stood up and they got here moved over 3 ft to the actual run. Way to go genius!
Then there was the boy that went down, hit the bump and bailed off, landing on his arm funny. He was at the bottom crying and just sitting in the snow. The other mom kept yelling "get up and move your sled!" Hi, dumbass, he's hurt, or at least thinks he is, go down and help him out of the way. After yelling at him for a couple if minutes I finally looked up and said "I think he's hurt." She said back, "he's fine, get up and move your sled (for the 10th time)" So she finally trekked down and picked him up by the arm (the other arm) and grabbed his sled and moved him down to the bottom. Yeah, they stood there for about 10 minutes because he wasn't feeling well.
Same set of moms watched as there girl bailed off and bonked her head. She was a little daised and not getting up, they yelled some more (big surprise). Our firefighter dad went over to her to see if she was okay and said that she looked a little groggy. Finally they came to her and took her away. We left shortly after this last episode.

I hate stupid people, especially when they involve their kids.