So much to catch up on!

The day after the last post we went to the beach again. This time with my mom, a.k.a. Grandma. It was fun. It had sort of a deja vu feeling though. But to switch it up we ate lunch at the nearby hot dog stand.



The following day we got to see our friend Rachel and her cutie baby boy. We went to the park and had fun. She brought my son a Bob the builder playhouse which he LOVES! He got himself all "Bobed" up and went to work pretend fixing stuff. Thanks Rachel!




Then the next week was back to usual. Spring Break was over.

I did get around to making that Muno shirt for my son. Now he has 2 shirts he wants to wear all the time. At least I can wash one at a time!



And I got back to work on the nursery I've been working on (not ours). I made curtains, which get installed today.



I've also been going to the gym A LOT. I'm trying to get in shape for beach season! I've lost only 1 pound but my clothes fit better. I've spent time getting ready for a 5K race too. The last one I did was the Race for the Cure back in October 2004, so it had been a while. I decided to do the Buccaneer's Draft Day Dash. It's a fun one which I had done before back in 2001. It ends whith running through the tunnel and the finish line is on the 50-yard line. You can see yourself on the JumboTron as you cross the finish line. So even if you come in last you still feel like a winner! That race was this morning. A few weeks ago my treadmill time was 37:36, which I was okay with because my goal was to break 40 minutes. Tuesday night my treadmill time was 33:04. I was worried I wouldn't beat it today but...I DID! Not by much though. My time was 32:49 which puts my pace at 10 minutes 35 seconds per mile. Not bad for being older and having 2 kids! This is me(in the red hat, see the black arrow) after mile 1. And me in the stadium being goofy.





I'm also very excited about another couple projects I'm working on, but they are TOP SECRET for now, or at least until after Mother's Day! Then I'll post pictures. But so far I'm VERY happy with how things are turning out, that's all I can say!

A Day at the beach

Today the kids and I went to the beach. We picked up Nana and Aunt Jackie on the way. Nana packed a good lunch- Thank You! I specifically bought a beach umbrella to protect the kids from the sun, so naturally they spent a minute amount of time under it. They just wanted to go in and out of the water. This left me feeling like I was doing some short distance relay game of "touch the water, then go touch the towel, now back to the water- repeat this while increasing speed exponentially". Yes, at first the water was a novelty but once the children discovered they had the freedom to move between our beach spot and the waves, the trips increased. Once one child was deposited back to the towels, you can be sure the other child was either already in the water or on the way. I didn't need to go to the gym today! I think I got weight lifting and cardio all in one! Aunt Jackie and Nana helped out and I'm sure they are exhausted too! Lunchtime helped slow things down and if the kids weren't appreciative of the umbrella, I think Nana, Jackie, and I were. It was nice eating in it's shade. But once lunch was over it was back in the water (imagine that)! Sunscreen was applied numerous times and hopefully did the trick. I guess we'll find out come bedtime, that's generally when sunburns surface fully.

Then when we dropped Nana back off the kids got a treat of taking a bath together in her BIG bath tub. Thank you, thank you, thank you Nana (sorry for all the sand in the tub)! The kids fell asleep in the car about 15 minutes before getting back home (figures) and it was SOOO nice to just pick them up and put them down for a nap without getting their beds all sandy.

So I thought I'd post some pictures Nana took of the kids. They just LOOK like they are little surfer kids!

Yo Gabba Gabba!

If you have a child under the age of 6 you have probably seen this show. Kids LOVE it (and I'll bet a certain percent of the college population does too- watch it and you'll see what I mean). My 1 and 4 year olds can't get enough of it! It's only on weekends on Noggin. Well, in the show some of the kids dance wearing clothes with character faces on them. You can't find these clothes ANYWHERE. Sure they sell T-shirts online, but it's not the same as what the kids on the show wear! So when my 4 year old begged me, I said I'd make him a shirt. I made him a Brobee shirt (the little green one- not sure when that song will leave my brain). I finished it last night and he wore it all day today. We went to the gym, where he palyed in the kids section. The other kids loved it. Then Target, where every little kid we passed would point and say "Look Mama, He's got a Yo Gabba Gabba shirt on". Then the mall, and then the grocery store, all getting the same comments. My son is so proud to have the shirt he kept hugging me and thanking me all day. I have to admit it came out pretty cool. DJ Lance Rock would be proud. I made his dark green fur and unibrow from fuzzy material, so it's fun to touch too. Maybe I'll make myself one as well. But first he's got me commited to making two more, Muno is next and then Plex. I think I have to, just so he can have something else to wear because right now he's saying he's going to wear this shirt every day! Oh, and I feel bad for all the other Mama's we saw today too. They will probably be searching stores and websites looking for one for their kids! Here's some pictures:

April Fools!

My son and I played a trick on Daddy. We brought out sushi for dessert. I think he might have known, but played along saying "Sushi for dessert? Yuck!" but put one in his mouth (with chopsticks even) and feigned a look of surprise that made our son laugh. The sushi was really rice crispy treats with gummy worms inside rolled in fruit roll ups. It's not pictured but I used leftover edible grass from the Easter basket and mashed an orange jelly bean to look like ginger. We had a lot of fun making these!

They still make house calls

I had fun with my kids recently when they decided to play doctor. I was the patient and according to my 4 year-old one minute I had every illness known to man and the next minute I was cured. He's that good. Then it was the baby's turn to be doctor and she was lovin' it! Here's a pic.

Been busy "putting out fires"

Literally! A few weeks ago our toaster caught fire. I threw a dish towel over it but that caught fire too! Luckily we have a fire extinguisher under the sink and that worked brilliantly. Made a huge mess, but worked! Pop tart anyone??