Are you sure it's October??

Today's weather was a sunny 63 degrees, so we spend a portion of our afternoon enjoying some time outside playing on the play structure and kicking around the soccer ball.

I also have a budding photographer on my hands as well. Andy did take a couple of pictures and he did pretty well for 3 yr old. Now if he could only make mom look a little thinner.....

New Glasses

Andy is now sporting the ever familiar eye wear in our family. His left eye had started crossing a month ago, so I was referred to a pediatric opthomologist who has quite the waiting list. Once Andy was seen, we received the news of a little boy who is far-sighted.

Mom and Dad both wear glasses, but mom is near-sighted and dad is the far-sighted, gene giver. We were just very thankful no surgery would be needed.

Little brother was also seen, but for now, no glasses.

A Lesson in Saying Good-bye

When Andy began preschool, he was very fortunate to befriend another little boy and the two of them became buddies. They would look for each other each day at school and play together. If was neat to see this little friendship develop. Unfortunately, due to various circumstances, the mom decided to withdrawn her son from school. Now I have a very sad little boy who misses his friend. He'll make it through this life lesson and hopefully find another friend quickly.

When the DOW starts going down....

It's time to pump some money into the economy. I honestly don't pay that much attention to the stock market, but it's been hard not to miss what has been happening the last few weeks. So when the stock market started going back up early this week, it was good news and then the retailers sent their dismal news of projected sales and down it went.
Well, all I have to say is yeah for the sales! One of my local kid's clothing stores has an additional 25% off sale price and I scored! Eight items for my boys for less than 50 bucks. It sorta plays like the MC commercials:
2 shirts ... 3.99
2 shirts ... 5.99
1 shirt ... 8.99
1 shirt ... 9.99
A pair of pants ... 9.99
A pair of shoes ... 9.99
Saving an additional $15 .....priceless!!

Orange Blossom Earrings

One of my creative outlets is beading. My sister-in-law and I got addicted to jewelry making 5 years ago with taking a jewelry class at the local craft store. Last summer, my SIL and I took our pregnancy girl's weekend away to the bead show in Tacoma to take a couple of classes and buy more beads. I found these fabulous orange pendants from one of my favorite vendors and finally made them into earrings. The pendants are Lillypilly, with vintage orange Czech fire-polished crystals, Swarovski crystals and Hill Tribe spacers.

1st Birthday Party

We had Aaron's first birthday party on Saturday with a house full of family. Nana and Papa flew up from Oklahoma, Grandpa and grandma were there along with a couple of aunts, uncles and cousins. I served soup, salad and bread for a light, yummy lunch and then of course, chocolate cake and homemade, vanilla ice cream.

Daddy and Andy helping Aaron open his gifts. Aaron had this serious, furrowed brow look throughout the gift opening. It was kind of funny to see such a look on a one year old.

The delightful face of chocolate cake and ice cream. Grandma was bound and determined to get a picture of smeared cake. I think she got a few before mom said enough.

I Don't Drink Coffee

This afternoon while out running errands in Redmond, we drove through Starbucks for a little afternoon pick me up. Andy didn't realize what drive-thru we were in and asked for a cheeseburger. I explained to him we at Starbucks and asked if he would like some milk. He wanted a cheeseburger, so I went ahead and ordered our drinks and drove to the window.
He was still wanting a cheeseburger, so I asked if he wanted a scone. He was fine with a scone, but wanted strawberries and cream with it as well. I told him they only had scones and coffee, no strawberries or cheeseburgers.
He exclaimed from the back of the car; "I don't drink coffee!"

First Steps

Today, Aaron took his first steps without any assistance from people or furniture. We were over at grandma and grandpa's house while dad cleaned the carpets. Aaron stood up by the end table, stood there for a moment or two and took his first steps, right toward the remote control. Amazing the things for motivation. Unfortunately, dad hasn't seen him take steps yet, but maybe tomorrow. I wasn't sure if Aaron would be walking before his birthday, but he did it with 3 days to go.

It was bound to happen

Poop in the bath. I was very fortunate with Andy that we didn't have any mishaps while bathing. Granted, the fountain would usually appear, so you knew he was relaxed and ready to be cleaned, but he never pooped in the tub.
Enter baby boy number two. Aaron was seven months old before he and his brother began bathing together. Well, tonight the inevitable happened. I was in the bedroom folding laundry and Mike was giving the boys a bath. All of a sudden Andy starts shouting, "there's poop in the bath!"
I was thinking maybe a floaty or two, but it turned out to be much worse. Empty tub, scrub two little boys, spray off with the hand held shower and then scrub the tub. All in a night work.