Photos to share

I have posted all of our photos on our Shutterfly collection (see link on the right) but I had to include some of my faves in my blog:


See how well they play together? Brooke is starting to "get" that Lexi is a person too. They are beginning to have their own little giggle fits without any parent provocation. It's pretty awesome to watch them just sit and look at each other and take turns giggling. Very cute!







Lexi has been climbing all over the place and her favorites are the mini-rocking chair and yellow papa san. She also likes to climb up on Sandy, the table, the stairs, the gates, the toilet, Brooke's stool, the garbage can, the speakers...well, you get the idea.






They both love to paint. Lexi is just at the point where you can let her do Arts & Crafts and she doesn't try to ingest the paint and the brushes. Brooke can make faces and lines and some shapes.
















Brooke has an active social life. Aside from her friends at school (best friend Hannah - how do they already have a 'best friend'?), she has her friend Victoria down the street and Angelina (pictured) from our old neighborhood. Angelina is a cutie pie and will be 3 in August. Thankfully both of these kids have mothers that are great and fun for Mom to hang with too!





Brooke attended her first birthday party (for Nick Wiza) at Scalliwag's. It's a little disconcerting to look up 30 feet and see your 2.5 year old climbing through a plastic tunnel that, if you were in it, you would be completely freaking out! Truly my worst nightmares are getting stuck in one of these things. She seems to enjoy it though so it's one of the few times Mommy tries to bite her ever-wagging-tongue.

I just think this is a cute photo. Note to Brooke in future years - you did have eyes you just would never open them in a picture. They are quite pretty actually, maybe we'll see them in a few years.

Cupcake face. Here is, what I think is an interesting question - what brain surgeon decided that frosting has to be florescent colors that dye your skin for 3 days? Who, really, is the cupcake demographic? Isn't it kids? Don't kids, generally, make a mess? Wouldn't it be smart to make the frosting of a non-permanent-dying type? Just a thought people. Just a thought.

The happy couple after our fabulous evening with our friends the Josts, their perfectly behaved children and my father (who was on his own because his wife, Karen, is in Florida). Many bottles of wine were poured and Dad brought some fantastic filet mignons. Great evening! Tough morning but well worth it.

Duh Mom!

So I was going through the nightmare bedtime routine last night. Brooke was on the potty for the 3rd time. She's wasting time and I was trying to keep my cool so I said, "Brooke, I'm trying to get Lexi to use the cup like you do but she doesn't want to. She wants the bottle. Why do you think that is?"
She looks at me. Thinks.
"Mom," she says "maybe she likes the bottle."
Why didn't I think of that?

Stupid Mom moves

Beware! Some of these may make you cringe (or question my intelligence). Strangely, this list is only stupid Mom moves there are no stupid Daddy moves for some reason. Not sure why this is. Maybe he makes his stupid moves and doesn't tell me. Which reminds me, why don't Dads have guilt about anything? No problem if the kid watches 5 hours of tv straight, no problem if the child is in daycare for 10 extra minutes, no problem if, when they wake up, you leave them in their crib while you shower?

Why is that?

I would be guilt ridden if I did any of these things. I can't tell you the number of days that I go without a shower because I "feel bad" making them stay in the crib for 3 extra minutes.

Ridiculous.

But I digress.
So here is a list of my stupid Mom moves (that I haven't obliterated from my memory - and those I am sure my mother will call to remind me of so check back for an update) in chronological order (backwards):

1. (Cringing already) - So it was about the 1,432 time I was giving the kids a bath. They are happily splashing around and I figured - Hey, haven't shaved my legs in a while (cring away) why not kill two birds with one stone. So I grab the razor and Brooke decides to see what I'm up to. I explain, she touches my leg. No big deal. I go to shave the other leg and she swings out her hand when I wasn't expecting it and I caught the top half of her pinky fingernail. Blood (though not as much as you might expect) and a surprised look. No crying just, I guess you'd call it, aghast.
So, I tried to act like Ok it's alright. We'll get a bandaid, etc. No problem. She talked about it a litte over the next couple of days but it was fine.One night we went to get the bath ready (just she and I) and I was filling the tub and said to her "I guess I won't shave my legs again because I don't want to hurt you." Dramatic pause. Quietly, under her breath she said (I kid you not), "Again!".

2. Preface this by saying I had a bad few months immediatley after Lexi was born, or rather Brooke did. I thought I was the super Mom shopping with both kids. Lexi in car seat carrier in front of cart, Brooke in back. Well, the price of something caught my eye and I stopped a little short and Brooke was standing in the cart and did a flying double cow tow out of the cart through the air smack on to the floor of the grocery store. Face up. Screaming! Mommies came running from all over. None of them seemed worried about Brooke. They were all asking me if I was alright because apparently I made some sort of primal scream noise that is not normally heard at Shaw's at 10am in the morning. Again, child OK. Mother in a state of catatonia.

3. Getting baby out of car. Thank God the other one is able to walk. Shut the door. The walking one didn't walk away but decided to hang on to the other side of the door - the now shut side! Screaming - but may I say it is a major modern miracle that someone designs cars now with almost exactly the amount of space of a 2 year olds fingers to sort of fit. There isn't quite enough room so they have some abrasions and bruising (almost like a warning, this could have hurt much worse!) but it didn't chop her fingers off all together and for that I am thankful.

4. Again, this may have been caused by a little too much Super Moming in the head. Outside with the girls. Baby on grass. Brooke running around like a loon. Mommy decides to swing Brooke by the arms (well, hands if you want to get technical). Mom hears an odd crunch. Brooks kind of goes. Aargh. Mommy tries to pretend like nothing happened. Brooke starts whining and holding her arm. Mom decides to solve the problem with food (what?). Popsicle is brought out. Full blown screaming now. Mom can tell this is going to be a long afternoon. Away they go to the doctors. Doctor has to pop her elbow back in to place (by the way, he had to do 3 other elbows that day, apparently when the sun comes out in New England parents feel a strong desire to fling their children through the air).

So that's the list. It's been 3 years though and I've haven't even gotten to Lexi yet!

OK - the real story

Since anyone that has access to this are my real peeps, my homies, my friends, my pals I'll tell you the real story behind the disappearing butihadaplan.com
I sent the link to a few people at work and apparently they sent it to a few friends, and so on and so on and so on. Well, it hasn't been confirmed, but I think Ms. Hypocrite, about whom I wrote last week didn't so much like that post. She complained to my boss who told me that she had gotten the complaint, etc. Whoops!
Anyway, better to keep my personal thoughts and work separate apparently. So there you have it. The power of the written word, who knew little old me was so interesting to people?
So I'll try not to pick on any of you that now know have the link and if you decide to share it with others for whatever reason you might let me know just in case I have some reason to write horrible, hateful things about them and then make them mad too and have to start another site and come up with another cutesy name (which is harder than you may think).
Such is the life of a big mouth! Good thing you guys love me!

New blog!!

I had a problem with my other blog so welcome to the new one! I'll begin posting tomorrow.