My Itty Bitty

Last night right before bed
Drew and I started looking through his baby book.


Drew liked reading about the toys he had as a baby
and the friends he met in daycare.


We filled in the chart about his first loose tooth 
and then I went to record his current height and weight....
and my heart broke just a little bit....


The height and weight chart only goes to age 5.
The yearly fill-in pages for info only go up to age 5.


According to the baby book, my son is no longer a baby....
This was very disappointing.. 


So I just took matters (and a pen) into my own hands
and added the sixth year onto the charts... 
along with the info.... 


Check out my boy rockin the Buzz Lightyear chonies... 

sorry for the horrible picture quality..

have i mentioned how much I HATE this camera?

The love of my life... my 6 year old...

Weighs 36 pounds and is 42 inches tall.... 

Yep, he's an itty bitty one....

Best friends....

In other news....

The street in front of my office has become the official 

city dumping ground for dogs...

(ok, maybe that's not officially true, but keep reading and judge for yourself)

Every.Single.Day there are at least 2 different dogs running around down the street in front of my office...

Along with these random dogs are the dogs that I'm convinced the neighboring office uses for breeding, out there running loose in the street...

Monday this lovely little man graced me with his presence...

I am a true dog lover.... LOVER...

every time I see a dog out there, I want to take it home...

and this guy was such a sweetheart and was begging for attention..

Unfortunately my landlord (grandpa) says my yard isn't big enough for a large dog...

otherwise this beauty would have become our 4th family member for sure.

Then Tuesday, by the end of the day I had counted 7 dogs that had run by at one point or another throughout the day... SEVEN...

After trying to catch the first 3... who weren't so friendly and ran away....

I gave up for the day... 

I am currently working to convince my boss that we need at least one (or 8) office/yard dogs... Doesn't every office NEED a dog?

Post It Note Tuesday

Hello March

The year is coming along....
slowly but surely.....


I am looking forward to the time change...
can't wait to be outside at 5:00pm and still see the sun...


I am also looking forward to winter officially being over...
Hopefully this Spring will be a warm one.. NO MORE RAIN!!


This weekend was a pretty calm one for us... 
almost seemed like we were back to normal... almost...


Saturday morning we got up WAY too early...
I guess that's what I get for putting the munchkin to bed so early Friday night.


Drew wanted to make breakfast, which we hardly ever do.. so we hit the kitchen..
(and unfortunately I didn't take a single picture all weekend... I suck, I know... )


Drew decided to make "Panchalidas"... his word for breakfast enchiladas... 
Rock on my future chef.... 


and after breakfast we headed out to do some shopping, run errands and hit Lowe's for their Build & Grow workshop so he could make a cute little car-robot-transforming-thingy....


And for the first time in a LOOONG time, we were home by 1:00pm and didn't leave the house the rest of the day...


We spent the rest of the afternoon with Drew playing way too much Madden on the Wii

While I cleaned up a little, did some laundry, and worked on some on-going sewing projects ( it is seriously going to take me a year to make a rag rug...)


Sunday we knew we were working on a weird schedule (thanks to Father of the Year wanting to borrow Drew for a friends birthday party in the middle of the day)...
After breakfast we went out to shop for a boy thing.... yep, a BOY thing..... 

Thanks to baseball, Drew needed a cup....

the first store we tried didn't have his itty bitty size...

and lucky for Drew, the next store just happened to be right next to Chuck E. Cheese...(did you know CEC opens at 8am on Sundays??.. wtf??)... so we went in to play a few games....

But our CEC just remodeled and had a bunch of cool new games, so we ended up staying for awhile....long enough for FOTY to decide to just pick Drew up from CEC.... 

After the kiddo was gone, I decided to do a little Mommy Shopping.... 

However; I completely SUCKED at Mommy Shopping this weekend....

Other than a new set of bed sheets (which I was already planning to buy since they went on sale), I didn't buy myself a single new thing... Boo for me!

Luckily, the munchkin was returned safely to me a little earlier than expected (which is EXTREMELY rare... the early part, not the safe part).... 

So we headed next door to Grandma & Grandpa's house and hung out with a couple aunts, uncles and the grandparents for awhile (forcing them all to buy raffle tickets for baseball)... 

then spent a quiet night at home, making dinner together, playing Madden..... again.... playing around on my freshly made bed with the new bed sheets, and playing Battleship....

Oh, and also, trying to figure out the whole 'wearing of the cup' deal.... 

I'm not a man.... 

I not at all familiar with the 'wearing of the cup'.....

But I handed it to Drew and told him to just give it a try and move it around until it felt ok..

It took a bit of maneuvering... TONS of giggling... and laughs by Mama... 

but he finally got comfortable.. and refused to take the thing off until bed time.. 

It was a good weekend... 

I'm thankful for our time together... and for our normally chaotic life... 

T-Ball & Chairs . . .

Last night Little Man had his first T-Ball practice...


We have both really been looking forward to this since they initially announced sign ups in December.


Then a couple weeks ago (right after "The Storm") I found out some news that made me LESS excited about the whole T-Ball thing... 
Drew's dad is coaching Drew's team.... BOO!!!!! 


It really isn't a huge issue or anything... 
It's just that for the last 6 years... 365 days a year... 
I have been the Mom.. completely in charge and with full knowledge of EVERYTHING going on in my son's life...
But now with him coaching, he is the one who gets informed about baseball and then has the responsibility to inform me and the rest of the parents.. (which already isn't going very well)

Drew is the one in the red helmet

Practice went ok... and hopefully things will only get better..

I loved watching my little monster hit the ball and run the bases... 

He's just the cutest little thing EVER (it's a fact, seriously, ask Obama)

But I do have two other issues... 

Drew & his uncle Danny

One: It was FREEZING out there.. brrrr!!!! 

and I do NOT do cold very well AT ALL... 

Two: The "coach" made his girlfriend the Team Mom..... 

(umm.. shouldn't you have to BE a MOM in order to be the team Mom??)

That's a whole different issue.. which for once I have chosen to just ignore.. instead of doing paperwork, bugging parents for money and being at every game early and staying late, I have the luxury of just being a Mom... showing up on time with my son, watching him play ball, then taking him home right after.... 

So now that T-ball has officially started, I am officially BUSY... 

with practices during the week, games every weekend and all the fund raising activities, we are BUSY.

But in a very good way... 

**In other news...

about a month ago, I saw this adorable wooden blue chair at the thrift store that I had to have.

When I first saw it I loved it, but I couldn't figure out where I would put it in our house, so I passed it up and moved on with my shopping...

About a week later I went back to the same shop and my little lovely chair was still there..,

So I knew it was meant to be, paid for her and brought her home.

I put the chair on my front porch since I still had no clue of where else I should put it.

After about a week I decided I liked my lovely new porch chair...

the only problem was that I now needed one for Drew (I can't sit out there all alone..)

Lucky for us we found a mini lovely chair at another thrift store a few days later...

Now I'm ok with them being different colors.. I like the contrast... 

However, the munchkin has other plans for HIS chair...

brace yourself..... 

Drew wants to paint MY his lovely chair RED. . .

Not happing buddy... Not on my watch... 

Picture-Less & Kid-Less Weekend

Another one of my LEAST favorite weekends... 
A weekend without my Drew... 


No kisses or cuddling...
No video games and ice cream...
No playing catch or chasing the dogs...
No little dances or hilarious LOOKS...


It was definitely a productive weekend.
Mom was here and we got the house (well, most of it) cleaned and organized..


Had dinner with my grandparents Saturday night..
Lunch Sunday with the Pizzo-Brackett family....
And did some very unnecessary shopping last night. 


Kid-less, but productive weekend...


Can't wait to pick my little munchkin up as soon as I get off work today!!
My arms are literally aching to hold my baby boy.


XOXO

Cleaning Weekend

Cleaning weekend has officially arrived...

Mom is on her way to my house as we speak... 

But this is no ordinary cleaning weekend...

This isn't simply laundry, sweeping, and dishes...

This is "Literally empty EVERYTHING out of the house, clean from top to bottom, and then put only the necessary stuff back" weekend.... 

I am not a fan of cleaning AT ALL.. not a little bit, not sometimes, not kinda-sorta... NOT AT ALL!!

But, this is also the present I asked my mom for for Christmas. 

See our little house has a story behind it, a few actually, but that's for another post... 

My house sits on my grandparents property, and is one of 8 houses that they own... they literally own the first 8 houses on our street.. it's kinda weird when I think about it like that, but it's been that way since before I was born, so I'm used to it. And Drew and I are lucky enough to rent our little 2 bedroom house from them and live right next door to my grandparents... 

Well before I moved in, my sister and her husband (at the time) lived there with my little nephew Justin. And before them, my mom rented the house. 

Ya.. I know.. 

Well when my mom first moved out, she was moving into a home that her then fiance owned and that house was already completely furnished, so my mom basically just packed up her clothes and a few extras and moved out... 

Leaving my sister to move into a pretty much fully furnished (towels, dishes, magazines, furniture.. the whole deal) house. Which was great for her since all she had to bring along were her clothes and my nephews stuff. 

Then in September of 2003 I moved into the house with my sister and her family (again, a whole different post)... and in October I gave birth to Drew... so now there were 5 of us living there.. more than a little cramped. 

Well my sister decided that marriage of hers just wasn't working for her so she ended that and sent her husband packing (YAY!!!)... and along came husband #2 (and father to my 2nd nephew). Once she found out she was pregnant with my 2nd nephew, she decided it was time to move out (since I was showing NO sign of getting my stuff together and getting out... hey, I was happy, Drew was happy, why  should I go anywhere?.. ya ya... I know... )...

 So my sister goes to move into her future husbands house and since his house is already fully furnished, once again everything except the clothes and my nephews stuff, got left behind. 

So in February 2005, I received a fully furnished house to rent…

Just Drew and I in our cozy little house…

Seriously, all that I brought into that house were my clothes and a few boxes of old stuff I wanted to keep, and of course everything that Drew owns has been purchased while living there.

Now, 5 years later, it’s time to clear out the old….. clean it up a bit (there’s actually a major remodel scheduled for my house this summer)… and try to avoid buying anymore new stuff that we really don’t need….

My new motto really should be “Save, Don’t Spend”… I highly doubt that will ever happen, but it’s worth a shot.

My mom comes into town this afternoon, and we will be tackling this huge project together. My mom is a professional cleaner and organizer by nature. I swear there is probably Pine-Sol and storage bins in her blood.

I hope you all enjoy a nice and relaxing weekend with your families…

While I spend mine sneezing from dust and sweating from emptying the never ending closet… all while trying not to miss my little monster too much…

XOXO

Field Trip Time

Wednesday Drew's class went on a field trip to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach and of course I went along. 

Drew had only been on a school bus once before (on last years dreaded kindergarten field trip)...

and Drew is not a fan of buses.... AT ALL...

So we start off our morning with him crying on the bus because he didn't want to go... 

and just as the bus is about to leave he decides to make one last try at a get-away and announce that he REALLY needs to go to the restroom... NOW.. (his entire class, including him, had just gone right before we got on the bus)

So I take him off the bus and into the restroom... (while 4 first grade classes are waiting on buses.. ya, we're THAT family)... 

About 10 minutes into the trip, he finally calmed down and pretty much accepted the fact that he was stuck and now officially going on a field trip... 

It was an hour and a half bus ride.... tons of traffic... with about 50 first graders on our bus... ya, tons of fun. I swear I must have heard "how much longer?" at least 289 times... two kids almost got car sick... and not a single one of them thought that actually staying in your seat was a good idea... 

But once we actually got there... gave the munchkins some lunch.. and brought them inside the aquarium, we had a good time. Of course they all loved everything they could touch. Sure the fish were neat to look at, but who wants to stare at a fish when you can touch a starfish?

Self portraits are ALWAYS necessary

This field trip was definitely an experience... 

There were kids every where... with their own little agendas, trying to take off in different directions, all wanting to look at different things... luckily they all managed to stay together and we didn't lose anyone..

Hopefully by next year my little angel will be used to the bus a little... 

or maybe we'll go on a field trip within walking distance...