Playdoh monsters

Pain in the back!

That's it we are officially old, when you spend 2 hours of your night trying to get your other half from a crawling position on the floor to a sitting position on the couch you are officially getting old...er! 26 and 27 that is definitely not old, but it is not 17 anymore. How sad...no more whole bags of potato chips and no more salami cream cheese rolls without adding a roll or two. Poop!

So, do I have to say that Thomas has thrown his back out in a major way and is immobile for now. We have to do a major patch job on him because he has to travel very soon... like tomorrow. That means pain killers, muscle relaxers, warm showers, heating pads, and some not too strenuous walking to loosen things up a bit. Dr. Cara to the rescue with some not too expired meds. You'll be up and running in no time babe, I hope.

Also today, Tyler is in daycare. When I dropped him off I saw a friend of his that he gets pretty naughty with, so they should be having a interesting day. I hung up some curtain already this morning and now our bedroom in glowing a beautiful blue-ish green. I will be in my studio for the better part of the rest of the time Tyler is out and occasionally swapping out to be doctor too! Feel better Thomas!
Bye.

Wormz

These photos ended up backwards. Oh well. Yesterday Tyler was determined to catch a "wormz." Mom these are some of the clothes you sent you can see they are none too big.

Today: Tyler spent the day at the daycare, all went well except he did not nap...ho hum, so he is down right now. I didn't do much but run errands maybe I 'll get more done tomorrow.

You can download the pics at the end of every month, when I upload them to the family gallery at the end of every month. Its easier to do it all at once. Bye. bye.

Weekend

This weekend was another blur. Friday we went to a girls volleyball game. It was really fun we didn't win. We were up against USC girls who were like blond amazon women, and I don't think they probably lose anything, except maybe their tan after being here a couple of days. Saturday was another disappointing game day, but the day was beautiful and it was just nice to be outside! Sunday we chilled out. We went out to breakfast as usual and then we came home and watched football and slept. It was nice really nice. And now we are revved up for the week ahead. Tyler will be going to the daycare center for a full day for the first time this week. And I'm hoping to get some things done! Ciao! (I have been spelling it wrong the whole time! chow...phuph...) and it means, now that I'm looking it up, in some old Italian from Latin "I am your slave" so I don't think I'll be saying that anymore...

Hello Pictures?

I know blogs kinda are blah without the pics, but I haven't been doing any major outings lately on account of a few things. One being I got used to staying in because of a tot with a nose problem which turned into an eye problem over the weekend and now it back to nothing, phew. But during that time I learned I could save money by staying home...surprise. Last week I saved money on gas and mindless spending, which lent to a major shopping spree over the weekend!!! I'm not unhappy about that so I'll stay home some more this week and see what happens. No spending spree in the future though, we have to save to go to a party in DC. One of Thomas' friends is getting married and engagement partys are all the rage now. Grandma is coming to watch Tyler and we are going to zoom down and back.

Outside today is beautiful, and I am at home waiting for the door repair man to come. I can't even go for a walk in the brisk air, which is my favorite air to walk in...I don't think Tyler likes brisk too much though, he hates wind. That means that right now is not his fav. time of the year, especially with Ike sending us some major wind (another reason not to go anywhere.) SO here we are waiting until noon for a man who will probably not show up. The fix it men never show up the first time. Not until you call and say nobody came do they really send someone over. Grrrr! I would rather fix it myself but it is beyond repair they need to replace it.

So with no pics to post, I am looking through the pics that we do have and am realizing that I need to make more of an effort with this picture taking thing. I don't have any really great pics to boast of and it makes me sad that I live in this beauty of a place and I have not been doing my best to capture our time here...sappy, I know! But anyway while fall is here I am going to make an effort to take better/more pictures, which might mean I have to create some photo ops.

Today: Where is the fix it guy!?! I got my coffee in hand. Thanks Thomas!!! and were waiting. Tyler is on a poop boycott (again) and is pacing to keep it all in. The laundry monster has been staring me down all morning and I'm gonna have to give in at some point. I gotta get the guest bed ready for my mom, and in general I need to clean. But it is more likely that I will be reading for a good part of the day. Chow!

Whoosh!

Monday was okay, just to be honest. We had stayed home pretty much last week on account Tyler had a styffy nose and the weather...I think. Being in so much I think Tyler might have forgotten how to act in public. He was slightly unruly at the store yesterday all over a bathtub dino toy. So we went home and satyed home and hoped he acted better at dinner, which he did. So after we got home we just sort of tootled around...at home.

Today: Nothing much going on will have to make a real effort if this day is going to turn out to be exciting at all. The wind is blowing everyone away, and faking everyone into thinking that fall is closer than it really is. But I can't be tricked, even though our tulip tree swears it is already fall and is dropping all of its leaves as fast as possible. I want a huge cup of coffee right now but the coffee can is clinking on empty, will someone please bring me a hot cup of joe so I can get the day started!...no! okay I 'm of to get it myself.

CHOW!

Stuffies

I can't think of anything to write today, which is pretty bad because I have been majorly neglecting my blog. The reason why I am currently about 550 pages into my 800 page book. Its been about 2 weeks so I figure I will be back to normal by the end of next week. The book is so long I am really trying to plow through it before I totally get bored with it. Which I pretty sure could happen with anything eight hundred pages long.

Tyler has had the stuffies in his nose this week so, we have just been laying low. He is almost back to normal today so I'm not trying to drag him anywhere too soon. He's having fun hanging out and watching the TV, which gives me a good time to read so I'm not complaining.
Lunch Time. Bye.

Painting for Thomas

A new painting! This is a sketch for a painting of Thomas when he played football for West Point. It's football season now so may as well do a football painting. Chow!

One Long Weekend.

Tired is all this long weekend gave our family.

Friday. WEST POINT FOOTBALL. This was our first game of the season... and as none hoped for we lost. I was a little miffed because the game did not start until 7 pm that night. But of course there were mandatory festivities to be attended to. Not to mention we were expected to actually get to these festivities somehow with the entire base on high alert! This means it is almost impossible to get from point a to point b in a timely manner. A 2 minute drive was now 15! So Tyler got to bed at about 10:30 that night.

Saturday. Oh wouldn't it be fun to trek halfway across New Jersey after an exhausting evening to go to IKEA, thought the delusional mom! Bad idea we trekked back hungry, more tired and empty handed.

Sunday. Surly we are rested enough to go to our favorite breakfast spot and make a quick run to another furniture store! Um yeah maybe, but the revved up energy from yummy breakfast did not make it much further than that. Running on steam we made the decision to go to the biggest mall ever and thank goodness Thomas found some nice things or that would have been another useless trip. Arriving home a few hour before the BBQ was to begin we got snuck in some not long enough naps and we were up and cooking. Now all the other BBQ's were not plagued with monster mosquitoes, why this one. Well we relocated into our house with 8ish adults plus too many kids. I think the last stragglers left at what felt like 3 am.

Monday. CRASH! Thank you Thomas for letting Mom sleep later than you did on her own birthday...that meant a lot to sleep in until 11:30! We did nothing today, perhaps that was the smartest thing we did all weekend. We sat around and scratched bug bites and babied bumps and scratches... Tyler! This week we found out that he is highly allergic to the sticky stuff on band aids ... great. So not only does he have a gaping wound on his elbow, which was healing fine until I had the smart idea to put a cool Nemo band aid on it just for fun, the scab is now covered in itchy-ugly bumps, and looks way worse than it ever did, because he has now itched the scab off... i can't put a cover on it anymore to keep it from getting re-scrapped, which has now happened about 3 times just today, and the OUCHY is now officially called an ITCHY...mommy! because of stupid band aid sticky stuff. Life is not simple! SO I have a feeling tomorrow will be another lazy day and maybe Wednesday we will hit the restart button.

Tea anyone. BYE!