My baby can read!

Or at least stick his face inside the book.....well, hes not exactly reading yet, but its close right? :) At least he has the book facing the right direction!!
and even though he cant read yet he sure does enjoy pulling ALL the books off of the shelves!

Planning...

So I am sitting here thinking about the baby's first birthday. Its fast approaching and i should probably begin planning. I'm thinking the weekend of August 30th, probably the saturday. Where, what time, what theme, all things he will never remember.
I think I am going to rent a gazebo, shelter thing at CB Smith Park. Its surprisingly not that expensive, yay, thats a good thing and it will give us some shade as it will be August and hot and miserable out. And i think we are going to do Curious George. I am not the biggest fan of specific character related themes however, he sleeps with his monkey every night and that seems to be the only thing he has attached to, and I cant find any other monkey related birthday themes online that look like his monkey. So, Curious George will probably be it. And a cake. My friend Lindsay found a great place that does awesome cakes for not that expensive. so thats good, and I'm not that picky. Just a regular cake with a big monkey face on it, maybe a cupcake cake...that seems easier and I like cupcakes. MMMmmmm, cupcakes. I really like cupcakes.
I cant believe he will be turning one at the end of the summer. times goes by so fast and i miss the little 7 lb peanut i could wrap up in a blanket and snuggle with all day....theres not so much snuggling going on any more....or even keeping him in one place!! oh well, hopefully there will be another itsy bitsy baby sometime in the future, although not for quite some time (need a house, yard, more money) and I dont want a newborn and 2 year old, that seems like a lot of work!

So, birthday, he is going to be one. :)

Parenting at it's best...

I firmlt believe that we are good parents. I do. Although sometimes i question our tactics at entertaining our son, especially when he gets cranky before bedtime. Today, one of our finer moments. Yes that is a box that diapers came in. Yes, we pulled off hte top pieces. Yes, we put him in it. Yes, we cut a hole and put a dog leash through it to pull him around. And yes, we did in fact attach the other end to the dog. yes, we are fabulous parents.
oh, and E attached it to himself as well, solely for a good picture opportunity.
My child loves beer bottles. I dont know why. He sees them and its like you turbo charged his....butt....all the way to it. He likes to chew on the top grab at it and drool all over it. so, whil he was in the baby jail i put it just outside.....and his little had ventured out to get it. again, i swear we are good parents.

Happy Fathers Day a few days late....

Fathers Day was nice, uneventful, but nice. E didnt get a fancy new laptop like I did for Mothers Day (or anything remotely close) but he did get something I put a whole lot of work into (a good 10-12 hours). I made him a chipboard book, covered each page with special paper and pictures and other things that took me forever to do as I am still a novice at the whole crafty thing. The last page had an envelope with a piece of cardstock folded in half with a peom printed on it (a cute heartfelt poem that basically says "walk a little slower daddy, for I am following you") and on the front were the baby's footprints embossed on it. It came out really nice and E seemed to like it, although he was a little lacking in the emotion department, must be a guy thing.

On the baby front: The top tooth is trying its hardest to push its way through. I can see it, but its just kind of hanging out there. He is feeding himself cheerios and goldfish crackers much better now, getting most into their destination and leaving only a few for the dog to get later.

And...we are eating pieces of banana without gagging or throwing up! YAY! I have tried several times to give him pieces but he had no desire to chew it and would gag and usually throw up...everything....it was gross. But this week we were successful at eating a lot of banana without incident. yay. and today I put a few pieceson a plastic toddler fork and he actually got it in his mouth! yay! its the little things sometimes.....

Here you can see those two little teeth on the bottom, not the straightest but cute anyways!

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Jump and Gym

We met the new play group this past thursday at Jump and Gym. Open play all day every day, except Saturday. The other moms were nice, but I still felt out of place, maybe i'm just anti social. i dont like meeting new peopl ewhen I dont know even one of them. oh well. the baby had a blast though. Jump and Gym is 4000 sq. ft of play stuff. 2 ball pits, 3 or 4 inflatable slides and bounce houses, swings, things to climb on and various other toys. It was fun. The baby played in the ball pit and even went down the little slide into the pit...had a hard time crawling through it but it was fun, none-the-less. We also went on the swings (one of our FAVORITE activities) and crawled around on some other things. all in all a good time, we will definately go back.

Congratulations to both Becky and Tessa, both whom delivered their first babies this past Tuesday. Becky had a healthy and happy boy Dominic Charles and Tessa had Maia Grace. Congrats to both of you!!

The Right Stuff....

sorry sara, i stole your blog post title. it seemed fitting.

so yeah, i officially got my NKOTB tickets. YAY!!! Section 115 row 4. Its at the other end of the areana from the stage, but its 4th row next to the floor seats. yay. i am such a dork. Becky is going to fly down for the weekend and we are going to sit in an areana with a lot of 20-40 something year olds (a little strange and unnerving) and watch the first boy-band phenomenom. hahahaha, its already making me laugh. :) yay.


other news: i'm officially on vacation. and sick. vacation is good, except with not working this summer I am broke and have no money to actually do anything with the baby. I know there are "free events" but many are outside and it is HOT here, it is miami. and those events are parks. and there arent a lot forlittle kids at parks. hmmm. so i joined a mommy meetup playgroup. hopefully they are nice and it works out. The do things together in the South Broward area which is close to me so i'm hoping. And we have a free class at My Gym tomorrow. The same concept at Gymboree but WAY cheaper. So that's $180 for 10 weeks. ugh, but its $180. and again, i'm not working. icky. looks like next year i'll be working to pay down the credit cards again.


anyhoo, i'm trying to figure out what to do with the baby when he wakes up. maybe go walk around the mall. its close and airconditioned.