I'm so NOT a member of NaBloPoMo!

I'm not sure if I'm being too hard on myself but it bothers me that I've been neglecting the blog. And Facebook. And emails. And returning phone calls.

At this point in the game I'm content with getting my boys to and from wherever they need to be, work on getting this bod into pre-baby shape and spend some quality time with Aaron.

...sigh...

Sounds pretty basic, doesn't it? I guess I'm really a no-frills kind of girl.

Today I caught a commercial for Dr. Phil and the key word was calm. I like that. Calm. That's what I think a lot of kids crave and a lot of families need. Take a step back from the chaos and just be.

And the wet T-shirt winner from last night was.....

LIAM!
Just kidding - kind of. Liam came with Kathryn to check out all the beauty purses and spit up a little on my one shoulder, then a little on my other shoulder and then all over my front. I was wearing a creamy coloured shirt which was pretty see-thru by the last bout of reflux. All things considered, it seems to have no effect on Liam's spirit, he was still a happy little guy flirting like crazy with Cindy R.

And here are my purses that I picked out last night:

The zebra is very Sex and the City according to Andrea - so now I need a dress to go with and I'll be set for our girls night out this July.

And here's my boring but very functional purse:

Thanks everyone for coming! It was a fun night :o)

JT and the Juicebox

You have to listen closely to JT singing his fave song and you'll hear him say juicebox instead of jukebox. So cute!

7 KM seems like a cakewalk when you're with a walking partner

Tonight was the first night of our walk around the Circle in our neighbourhood. Margo had already done the route and said it's 3.5 KM so we're walking it twice. And we actually did it. Okay, Margo couldn't but C and I did. It was a big moment, we talked about it, I tried to make a plan for which nights I could and you know when it came down to it - I pushed it aside and figured we'll do it when it gets nice. Did I mention it's been snowing like CRAZY here??? What the heck did we do to Mother Nature to make her HATE the Sun Goddess of Prestwick? In any case, despite the cool and just a wee bit snowy weather, we did the walk.

Now I just need to remember to wear proper socks next time so I don't get MORE blisters!

It's the beginning of a strict sports schedule - I'm not looking forward to it

Thing One and Thing Two are both in soccer two nights a week as well as baseball two-three nights a week. There's already a few conflicts so we'll have to pick which sport is moe important to the boys..and of course for baseball they're playing at different fields at the same time on the same night. At least for soccer they're both on the same field so Aaron will watch one boy and I'll watch the other. I 'accidentally' signed them up for the same group, Alex is in U-8 where he should be in U-6 BUT if you've seen the size of him -he'll fit right in.

Here's JT in his new Orioles uniform:

And here's the books I got from the library so I can learn all about baseball. (Okay maybe they're not ALL about baseball, but a lot of them are) After watching the baseball practise today I realized that neither JT or I know the basics of baseball.

And you know I was actually considering finding a golf class for JT this spring/summer, seeing as he's really good at it. Then I seen all of the schedules and quickly came to my senses. We haven't even come up with our backup plan for the nights the boys are in two different places and Aaron works late.

It's going to be a BUSY BUSY BUSY 2 months - so if the blogging goes to the wayside you'll know why!

Who's bigger Mommy or the Lego Tower?

Today was the best day ever. My kids were awesome, my dayhome was awesome and we had takeout for dinner which made my evening with Aaron awesome - little cleanup and a lot of time to hang out.

This morning I brought the huge box of MegaBlocks out for the kids to play with and JT and Alex jumped right in and began trying to build a tower way bigger than Mommy. This was somewhere between 7:15 and 7:45 this morning...it was a great way to start our day.

My irrational fear of cocks

Get your mind out of the gutter - I'm referring to peacocks of course!

Sunday we went to the zoo and it was wonderful. Not too hot, not too cold, not too windy and not too smelly :o)

My favourite part would have been seeing the stingrays, they are just so graceful and watching them kind of makes me sit back and just relax, taking in their slow elegant movements...sigh...it's so peaceful.

My least favourite part would be the peacock that kept following us around. It was creepy. I can totally admit that I'm not a huge bird fan. Tina can attest to that - we visited one day and I had to be as far away from Ellie when she was out of her cage as possible. So at the zoo when the boys tried to skirt around the peacock and he started to spread his feathers it gave me the heebie-geebies to say the least!