October 23, 2006

Well Happy Monday y'all. We had a very nice visit in the Springs. I forgot my camera, so as Jeremy says (sarcastically) it's like the weekend never happened. But I did take my camera to Laura's Family Fun Birthday Celebration last night:







7:10 Drop off. Now, it looked like I wasn't dressed, but I was in fact wearing my yoga pants workout outfit (stay tuned to find out why).

7:15 Breakfast - apricots. And Becky, she didn't bat an eyelash at them and ate them right up.

7:30 Down for nap with bottle. I got Jeremy and Alex out the door for preschool. I think we've finally figured out a system that will work for everyone. Jeremy will take Alex to preschool early. Alex will not hate going early because we bought him a special new kid k'nex toy, not as a bribe (well, not exactly) but because early drop off is very lonely and boring and it will give him something interesting to do.

8:10 Ariel woke up just in time for our Fabulous Adventure™ - doing a stroller fitness class at the mall. Right as I was backing out my driveway, I notice a man on a bike in front of my house. He wasn't moving so I thought maybe his dog was right behind my huge car. But no, it was our crazy ex-(yes EX) tenet. He had forgotten Jeremy's phone number YET again. Have I mentioned I'm glad he's our EX-tenet now?

8:30 Get to mall. I loaded Adam and Ariel in the double stroller, then we found our way to the meeting place in the mall. The class was pretty intense. It was a lot of resistance training, like lunging and squatting. And running up escalators and then lunging and squatting. It was a pretty hard workout for my couch-potato body. Surprisely, both the kids did really well. The only hitch was that Adam peeded his pants a bit and I didn't bring a change of clothes for him since it's been so long since he's had an accident. I took off his wet clothes and put on one of Ariel's diapers for modesty.

10:10 After class, I went to Old Navy to try and get the to give my $5 on a purchase I made last Friday and forgot my coupon (yes, I bought MORE Halloween stuff!) Wow, all I can say is they really made me work for my money, the transaction took about 10 minutes. Ariel also slammed a bottle in under 2 minutes.

10:30 Left the mall, Ariel fell asleep in the car.

10:50 Got home. I was able to transfer Ariel to the crib. I took a shower, then we ate lunch.

12:00 Ariel woke up. She had sweet potatoes for lunch. I tried to give her one of Adam's spaghetti o's but she flatly refused. Several times.

12:25 Ariel pooped. I changed her diaper.

12:30 Double header. Apparently Ariel wasn't done pooping and pooped some more. I can only imagine what such a sitution would do to dad if he were babysitting....

12:40 Left to pick up Alex from school.

1:05 Pick up. Both Alex and his teacher confirmed that he had a good day and liked his new kid k'nex set very much.

1:20 Stopped by Safeway for some Jamba Juice.

1:40 Stopped by the toy store to buy baby doll strollers for the boys. See, I kinda said I would do the stroller class again tomorrow, but I'll have 3 kids. I thought that Alex and/or Adam might have fun pushing strollers with me. Ariel had a bottle in the car on the way home.

2:15 Got home. Ariel took another nap. While she slept, I designed her birthday invitation. Pretty cute, huh?



Those are Baby Einstein characters at the bottom, that's Ariel's birthday party theme.

4:15 Ariel woke up.

4:30 Pick up.

October 20, 2006

7:10 Drop off. I whisked Ariel into Adam's room to play with board books while I finally completed a big project - finding all of Adam's winter clothes. I seriously need to have a garage sale to get rid of the baby stuff. It's near impossible to find the size I want while weeding through the boys' cummulative lifetime clothes collection.

8:00 Finally finished the job - Ariel had breakfast. Orange and banana medley. And cheerios.

8:30 Ariel took a nap with a bottle. I ate breakfast and took a shower. And I even put make-up on AGAIN. Two days in a row. But I also wore a Halloween shirt and matching socks.

9:40 Ariel woke up.

11:00 Crissy and Gavin came over. I fed Ariel lunch - orange (squash).

11:15 Ariel went down for another nap with a bottle

11:20 Crissy stayed with the kids while I went to Alex's preschool for parent/teacher conferences.

11:40 Jeremy met me at conferences. It's really pleasent to listen to people say such nice things about your child. Jeremy and I decided that we would prefer to live with the Prechool Alex than the Home Alex. Apparently Preschool Alex is very gentle and quiet and doesn't hit people every 5 minutes just for fun.

12:30 Got home. Crissy was feeling a bit sad, the bid the put on the house was refused and they aren't sure where they are going to try now. It's very stressful and can I add that DC housing prices are CRAZY.

12:45 Ariel woke up.

1:30 Ariel had a pooptastophe. The poop had gone up her back and required a bath, which she didn't like. After the clean-up, Crissy cuddled her and fed her a bottle and Ariel felt better.

2:35 Crissy and Gavin left.

2:45 Put Ariel down for a nap with a bottle.

3:30 Ariel woke up just as Becky got here for pick-up.

And no pictures, I spent all day trying to get ready for our trip to Super Grammie's house.

October 19, 2006

7:05 Drop off. I guess I can stop saying I was not showered and not dressed. Just assume that's the case, I'll let you know when I AM showered and dressed.

7:30 Breakfast - prunes and pears. Oh yes, I can see this is going to be a super fun day!

8:00 Nap with bottle.

8:40 Call Crissy for inspiration. She told me she was at the mall last night and did a chocolate tasting research project. Heck, I'd do that for free! That inspired me to shower and dress. And just because of feeling like a slob lately, I went the extra mile and put on make-up. Is it really any better?



And during the extra 20 minutes this all took, Alex and Adam were playing that fun game of Grab and Scream. Sigh.

9:40 Alex and Adam's exuberant playing woke Ariel. She had a poopy.

9:45 Go to mall.

10:10 Get to research place. They wouldn't let me do the chocolate test!!! And they told me all they had was a perfume one. The first question they asked was where I bought my perfume and I just coudn't lie through that. I can't even remember the last time I wore perfume. So I left empty handed. But still treated myself to a Starbucks, since it was right next to the elevator.

10:20 Went down to the dinosaur play area. The Mommy Fitness class had just ended and it inspired me to ask for a flyer. I haven't exercised in way too long, and I'm not finding time to do it. Now I'm thinking that if Jeremy goes back to taking Alex to school, I can take Adam and Ariel in the double stroller and do their workout. Hmmmmm.

A woman also commented on Ariel's cute strawberry hat and asked about it. I gave her a card.

11:30 We went potty and another woman asked about Ariel's hat and asked if I sold them. I gave her a card too. Then we went to the pet store. At the pet store, I told Alex I would think about getting him a fish.

11:45 Pizza lunch. Ariel had her green (garden veggies) and then I gave her my pizza crust. She thought that was the best thing ever. She mouthed it until it was a soggy mess, then she ate about 1/2 of it.





12:15 We went back to the pet store and bought the impulse beta fish. I hope I didn't make a big mistake.

12:30 Got in the car to go home.

12:45 Home. Ariel fell asleep in the car. I took her in, changed her diaper, gave her a bottle and she went right back to sleep.

Here's the newest member of our family - Wish Fish:



I tried to find the beta fish bowl out in the shed and just could not. The shed is an official Gawd Awful Mess and I gave up. Sigh.

1:15 Adam wanted to take a nap too.

Alex spent the afternoon trying to build satelites and Mars Rovers out of Kid K'nex. Which is very frustrating for everyone involved since Kid K'nex were not intended for such detailed models. I've been telling Jeremy that Alex is ready for Legos, but Jeremy does't think Jeremy is ready for them yet.

3:10 Ariel and Adam woke up (chicken/egg).

3:30 We had a little accident. Ariel's diaper leaked, and she had a poop in there. I knew those prunes were going to make today super fun!

3:45 Ariel had a snack, Veggie Booty. Veggie Booties look like they are related to Cheetos, but they are in fact vegetable-dust-coated-packing-material. Strangely, no one under the age of 5 has figured that out yet and so they eat them. Ariel enjoyed them very much. Then she washed them down with a bottle.

4:25 Becky came. She's going to wait for Jeremy to come home so we can go to Old Navy together. I heart ON.

October 18, 2006

Happy Birthday Laura!

And the update - Adam did in fact go to bed at 4:00pm yesterday. He woke up at 9:30pm and I laid down with him. He was wiggly for a while but he didn't get out of bed. And then he got up at 5:30. Oh, and Alex woke up at 3:00 with what must have been a nightmare, he was crying that the birds on his sound machine didn't sound right.

7:10 Drop off

Roses are red,
Sunflowers are gold,
Becky is awesome because
she brought me Starbucks when it was cold.

mmmm. starbucks....

7:10 Breakfast, apples and blueberries.

8:00 I put Ariel down for a nap and the boys and I took a shower. Alex didn't wanna but he had school pictures today and I couldn't let him near a camera with his bedhead. And speaking of, I couldn't decided whether or not to pay for school pictures when I'm a budding photographer and just took his 4 1/2 year pictures. But then Crissy pointed out that you can't go back if you change your mind, and that crappy school pictures are part of growing up. So I picked the cheapest package and we'll see.

Ariel didn't go to sleep right away, so I came in and gave her a bottle.

8:35 Woke Ariel up to take Alex to school.

9:15 I didn't have time for breakfast, so Ariel, Adam and I stopped at Safeway for some Jamba Juice and a bagel.

9:45 We made a quick run through the bank drive-thru and then we went to the library.

10:15 Storytime at the library. I sat on the floor with both kids and they were pretty darn good. Ariel was mostly flirting with everyone while sorting through the library lady's book pile. Ariel was pretty good about not chewing on the books, either.

11:00 Home - I put Ariel down for a nap with the rest of her bottle.

12:15 Ariel woke up and had lunch. It was orange, but a whole different kind of orange. Carrot, apple & mango. Not something that I would choose for myself, but Ariel ate every last bite and got her 90% RDA of vitamin A.

12:40 We left to pick up Alex from school.

1:15 And thus begins our afternoon adventures. First, we went to Old Navy to pick up a gift card for Laura's birthday. Nothing exciting happened there, except we were behind a man buying bags of clothes for himself. He was an employee and he got a bunch (80 items) of clothes for $60. Pretty impressive. But my question is, is he planning on doing laundry seasonally, or did he buy stuff for friends too? Because all I saw him buying were shirts, and 80 shirts is a heck of a lot.

1:45 We drove all the way down to Westminster Mall to go to JCPenny's for a Secret Mission. The Mission was a success (just barely but I can't elborate), but Holy Cow Alex was being a pill. To show you how bad he was being, he spent a lot of time crying about Adam hitting his lip, and Adam was in the stroller the whole time! Ariel was in the mall with only one shoe because it had fallen off somewhere and I was really hoping we found it because I bought the darn boots and I wanted to take a picture.

We found the shoe right outside the car.

Ariel worked on a bottle in the car.

2:30 We went to King Soopers to buy Laura some flowers and balloons. Alex continued to be a pill. I'm chalking it up to an early onsaught of teenagedom or he didn't get enough sleep last night.

3:00 We dropped off Laura's birthday present and then headed home.

3:30 We got home, I changed a giant messy poopy. Then I took the picture of Ariel and her super cute (but don't stay on) cowboy boots:



During this photo shoot, Ariel pooped AGAIN. A distinctly different, messy big poop.

4:00 Alex finally got out of his room and I let him and Adam go outside in their boots to play in the snow. Almost immediately Alex threw a snowball at Adam and had to come back inside. Insanity!!!

4:30 Becky and Jeremy got home. Becky and I went out to her car to fix the installation of Ariel's new carseat. I'm not going to name the upid-stay eap-chay person who installed it, but it took about 20 minutes to get it out and only 5 to get in back in the right way. Becky and Ariel didn't leave until 5:00.

October 17, 2006

7:05 Drop off. Not dressed, not showered. Jeremy didn't know that Ariel was even coming until Alex told him. Pretty sad when your four year old is more in the loop than you are.

7:30 Delcious breakfast of apples and cherries and cheerios.

8:15 Nap.

9:40 Wake up.

9:40 I took a shower with Ariel in the exosaucer in the bathroom. She didn't enjoy it much, but she didn't hate it either. But I do think it's easier for both of us if I take care of that before she gets here.

10:00 Time to go to Crissy's house. So the 411, yes, they are definately moving to the greater Washington DC area at the end of December. Mr. Crissy has a job there, and they put a bid on a house. This weekend, I finally told Alex that his best friend was moving and he was very sad. He cried. Then I told him I was sad because my best friend was moving too. So periodically he asks me if I'm still sad. And he came up with a solution - Jeremy could get a job in DC and we could move too. Uh, not bloody likely (no offence of course, Crissy). Crissy's house hunting trip was a bit confusing for Alex. Last night he asked who Gavin's new mommy was that took him to the park. And I think somehow he thought that Crissy and Mr. Crissy moved and left there kids behind and he asked why they didn't want Marcus and Gavin anymore. But I think we got it all straightened out.

Ariel had a bottle in the car. And when I got her out of the car she gave me a little claw wave and said, "bye." I count that as the first word I've definately gotten out of her.

Have I mentioned it's snowing yet? Technically it's not the first official snow, that happened last week but only the foothills got anything to stick. Today we have big fluffy snow:



11:00ish Ariel ate an ice cream cone

12:00ish Ariel had some oranage (carrots, Jana, not orange colored crayons).

12:30 Ariel took a nap with a bottle on Crissy's floor.

1:20 Woke up. Not very happy.

1:50 I put her back down with another bottle. She drank it but didn't go back to sleep. She was in a better mood though.

Ariel was playing with Crissy and pulled up on the magazine rack. That's the first time I've seen her pull up without getting stuck half way and screaming her head off.



3:40 We finally left Crissy's to take Ariel to Becky's work. Adam fell asleep in the car.

4:00 Drop off Ariel at Becky's work.

PS Adam went to bed when we got home and he's still asleep as of 7:00. That seems bad, huh?

PSS We have 3-4 inches of snow now. Alex asked if it was winter.

October 16, 2006

7:00 Drop off. Ariel seems to be feeling much better.

7:30 Breakfast, pears and apples and cheerios.

8:00 Nap

8:35 Woke Ariel so I could take Alex to preschool.

9:00 Dropped Alex off. Ariel had a bottle in the car.

9:15 Didn't feel like going home but I had no where else to be so we went to Target. That can be dangerous, especially when you don't need anything. And I did pretty good too. The only thing I bought was a My Little Pony for Adam, partly because Adam liked Margot's ponies so much and partly because I know it will bug Jeremy. I did notice that the Sock Monkey sheets are on clearance and I would have gotten the boys some but the only size they had was twin.

10:15 Got home. Ariel played for a while. She's really moving now. And she's an official Butt Schoocher. See?



Gone are my days of leaving her sitting and playing while I change a load of laundry.

11:00 Down for nap with bottle

12:00 Wake up, lunch time. Green beans in a jar and I tried some apple and banana pieces with her. She was intrigued but mostly put them in her mouth and spit them out.

12:35 Left to pick up Alex from school.

1:00 After picking up Alex I decided to take them to a park since the weather is supposed to get yucky tomorrow. We went to the Rocket Ship park and the first thing the boys did was climb the giant metal rocket while I pushed Ariel in the swing. I was surprised Adam made it all the way up there, but not so surprised that he couldn't get down. He was happy for a while but then Alex wanted to do other things and Adam wanted down. The problem was that I couldn't go up to get him with Ariel in the bjorn and I had left the stroller in the car. And if I put her down not only would she ingest 10 lbs of gravel immediately, but she would also have schooched half way to the creek. There were a few moms at the park and I tried to decide which one was mostly likely not a kidnapper. So I sat swinging in the big swing with Ariel contemplating my options while Adam howled when a woman came up and asked if I was Wendy.

As soon as she spoke, I recognized her as Barbara, Crissy's friend who was watching the boys while Crissy and Mr. Crissy went house hunting in DC. And yup, sure enough there was Gavin, who I had noticed previously as "that boy in the neon green shirt" (he was far away, I swear!). So I tossed Ariel over to Barbara and scaled the rocket to rescue my poor child. Then Barbara and I talked and gossiped about Crissy (who is due back tonight). And the weird part is, we hardly go to the rocket ship park and Barbara says she doesn't go there often either but she had been at Whole Foods and didn't want to go home before picking Marcus up.

Ariel dozed a bit in the bjorn near the end, then had a bottle in the car on the way home.

2:50 Got home just as Crissy finished leaving a message on the machine. I caught the phone just in time and we chatted a bit before she boarded her plane.

Alex was pretty excited about the new My Little Pony too (first he saw the brush and told me that it belonged at Dagny's house and what was it doing here?):



I told him it was Adam's and Alex decided it was a Halloween present and demanded to know when he was getting his present. I stalled and asked what he thought he was getting and he said he wanted a robot toy that looked like Fender but a different color and didn't fall apart. Uh, we'll see.

4:10 I was just exhausted. Must have been due to lack of caffeine and/or sugar. I put Ariel in the exasaucer and crashed. Not fully crashed, just sort out. Everyone once and a while one of the boys would wake me by head butting me and at some point I realized they were pretended I was a giant challah that they were eating me. I think.

4:30 Pick up.

And for the record, I crashed again until Jeremy called me at 5:15. Then I decided to get up and make dinner.

October 13, 2006

TGIF!!! (and I mean it!!!)

7:05 Drop off. Not dressed, not showered (me, not Ariel. Ariel was dressed, I'm not sure of her showering status).

7:30 Yummy breakfast of pears and pineapples and cheerios.

8:00 Nap attempt. By that, I mean to say that I attempted to put her down for a nap and she hollered at the top of her lungs. Eventually fell asleep.

8:30 Jeremy took Alex to school. Jeremy couldn't carpool with Becky because he had to go to the courthouse today to get our tenet's eviction started. It's a long story, but the short version is our tenet is crazy and there has been police intervention.

9:00 Ariel woke up.

9:45 Bottle

10:00 Time for Ariel's picture session. Boy, for a baby that can't crawl she's sure getting around. I couldn't get her to sit in one place for a second. These are the best of the bunch.







11:45 Nap attempt #2. Also noisy. I gave her a bottle in bed.

12:30 Nap "attept" aborted. Left to go get Alex from school, stopping at the post office first.

1:00 Pick up Alex.

1:30 Stop at Wild Oats to get our salmon for Shabbat dinner. Is it weird to have a Catholic-sort of Friday fish day on Shabbat? There was only one kid cart availible and the boys did a good job of pushing it together, though it was the closest we've come to actually breaking something.

1:50 Got home.

1:52 Becky called to say she was picking up Ariel early so she could take her to the doctor. I, being the nosey person I am, asked why. Becky thought that Ariel might have an ear infection because she's not, I quote, "her happy self."

Get home. I took a few more pictures of Ariel.

This was the best expression, but the focus is slightly off and it's driving me batty.



Becky likes this one best:



And the collage:



The rest are on my flickr site.

2:15 I fed Ariel some green and some cheerios.

2:30 Put Ariel down for nap attempt #3 with a bottle of water. She actually went down with only a little bit of screaming.

3:30 Becky picked up Ariel early so they could go to the doctor and get Ariel's ears checked out.

October 11, 2006

7:05 Drop off. Jeremy and I are trying a new system. All this school year, he's been taking Alex to prechool. That's super for me because I don't have a 40 minute commute in the morning with 2-3 kids, but bad for us because Jeremy doesn't get home from work until after 6pm on these days. So today was the first day of carpooling with Becky. Becky drove them both off to work at 7:10. I think Jeremy will offer to drive too, but I was under the impression that Becky would prefer not to ride in Jeremy's crappy truck.

7:15 Ariel had breakfast, pears and pineapple and star puffs.

8:35 Left to take Alex to school. Ariel had a bottle in the car.

9:00 Drop off Alex.

9:05 Ariel fell asleep in the car.

9:25 Got to Crissy's house. Had to wake Ariel.

10:30 Ariel played for a while started getting cranky so we put her down on a blanket in Crissy's room and she fell asleep.

12:00 Ariel woke up. She had green and cheerios for lunch.

12:40 Left to get Alex at preschool. So I pretty much blew the whole morning, though I did get to spend some quality time with Crissy. So far, I'm not liking the new system.

1:00 Pick up Alex. Ariel had a bottle on the way home.

1:30 Get home. I took some pictures of Ariel in her SUPER-DUPER cute peacoat.





Then Ariel went inside and played with toys.

3:00 Ariel went down for a nap.

And I took this picture for my internet board, but I thought it was an interesting study of what a slob I've become. I'm at the point where I acknowledge my slobbiness, but don't really care. What if I never care???



4:00 Ariel woke up

4:15 Bottle

4:30 Pick up.

October 10, 2006

Happy birthday to Jeremy, he's 32 today. We celebrated this weekend, having our first night away - all the way to Denver - since Alex was born. It was super fun, we can't wait to do it again (is this weekend too soon?)

And a public service announcement: Chocolate covered espresso beans should really be a controlled substance. I've been popping them like M&Ms for the last three days and running around like a Yorkie on speed. The good news is that they are all gone now. Maybe I'll sleep tonight.

7:05 Drop off. Becky, did you noticed I was dressed AND showered? Which was all the more amazing considering Adam had been screaming non-stop for the last half an hour.

7:20 Breakfast- smooched banana. And Ariel had some of my homemade waffles. The boys had waffles and stopped screaming. Maybe they were hungry?

8:20 Nap. I cleaned the house and actually washed the dining room and kitchen floors. They needed it.

9:45 Wake up.

10:00 Bottle

10:15 We really needed to leave the house but I didn't know where to go. I finally decided on the library, as there was storytime and I had an overdue book. And I also figured the annoying preschool wasn't going to walk 1/2 a mile in 40 deg weather with a light drizzle (and I was right!)

11:15 Got home. Boys had mac & cheese for lunch, Ariel had mixed veggie goop and weird star puffs.

12:00 Ariel went down for a nap. The boys and I made chocolate cupcakes for daddy's birthday.

2:00 Ariel woke up and had a poopy. I was putting the dirty diaper in our outside trash and I saw an animal run up our driveway. My thought process went, "cat. BIG cat. hugely fluffy tail? dog??? FOX!!!!" Way cool. I didn't see where it went after it passed my mudroom door.

2:10 Another bottle.

3:15 I just got the Scott Kelby Photoshop Elements book (on Amazon for $10 including shipping!) - I'm either going to learn a lot about fixng photos, or find a new way to waste more time on the computer. I took some picture of Ariel to play around with.

Here she is, photo all proofed (using Kelby's eye sparkler sharpening technique, whites of eyes whitening technique, basic color correction and then Andrew's AIO).



And this was the original (Toni, I was shooting +2/3 on AV with my 35mm on f2.0 and this was the only one that came out underexposed. Unfortunely all the ones with the right exposure didn't have good focus).



4:30 Pick up.

October 6, 2006

7:00 Drop off. Boy, I did not do well this week. Today I did get up with Adam at 6:05 am, but only made it as far as the futon before falling asleep again. I'm getting ready for the time change this month :)

7:30 Breakfast - apples and pinapples

8:10 Nap

8:50 Wake up. While in the crib, Ariel created a horrible, mushy, LARGE poopy.

9:30 Bottle

10:30 Ariel, Adam and I walked to Starbucks. In the interest of research, I tried a caramel mocha. Crissy, it was ok, but I probably won't order it again. Not worth the extra money for syrup. Adam said he wanted a cookie so I got a biscotti, but he did not like it.

Then we went to Wild Oats for our Friday salmon. I was bummed that they didn't have any kid carts for Adam, he does love pushing them and he hasn't broken anything yet.

Here's Ariel in the big cart. She looks sad, but I don't remember her being sad:



12:10 Got home. Ariel was asleep in the stroller. I made Adam lunch - a tofu dog - which he used to eat his ketchup.

12:40 I had to wake Ariel to put her in the car to go pick up Alex.

1:00 Pick up Alex from school.

1:15 Drove through credit union #1 drive thru so I could deposit more money in my paypal account. I have eBaying to do! Ariel was getting fussy so I made her a bottle and she slammed it in about 2 minutes. She was done by the time we left.

1:30 Credit Union #2. I had to deposit some checks (thanks Becky!) and I'll share my new level of craziness with my found change saga. Remember my found change? Way back on July 6th, I started my change quest, picking all the pennies (and more!) than I found. Well, now I've taken it to a new level. I brought my little piggy bank to the credit union and deposited all $6.10 (without the $5 peso coin and the two RTD tokens). Then I transfered that money to it's own ING account, where it will start making 4.40% interest for me. I'm now shooting for $40 or so, then I'll go get a pedicure or something.

2:00 Got home. We started our challah, I made it with a cup of whole white wheat flour and a cup of regular flour (and it turned out pretty good).

2:30 Discovered Adam in the bay window with his pants around his ankles, claiming that he had gone pee-pee (true, even his shoes had to go in the wash).

2:45 Ariel had her lunch - squash. And then I gave her gold fish with her cheerios, which I later found she had systematically picked out and put on her lap. Or maybe she spit them out. Either way, there were about 8 gold fish and only one cheerio down there.

3:30 Ariel went down for a nap.

4:00 Becky arrived.

And for those interested, Jeremy and I are now caught up with our Lost viewing, including Season 3's premiere. Yay! In fact, I'm listening to the season 2 bonus features while I write this (my favorite has been "The world according to Sawyer." Ah, I do adore Sawyer). And in celebration of Lost, here's Alex's summary (apparently gotten from Daddy).

October 5, 2006

7:00 Ariel was dropped off right as I rolled out of bed. I was tired, as I was awakened at 4:45am by a loud pounding noise, which turned out to be Adam hitting his door. Further investigation proved that upid-stay eap-chay usband-hay didn't plug in the baby monitor properly and who knows how long Adam had been awake. When I went into his room, his jammies were around his feet and he told me that he "went pee-pee on his penguin." Which was true. And some on the floor too. Oy.

7:30 Ariel had apples and blueberries for breakfast. I told her that it would turn her poop green. She was unimpressed.

8:20 Ariel took a nap. I used that time to shower, and then to set up Adam's new carseat and switch his old seat for Ariel. Yes, it's official, Ariel has graduated from the infant seat to the convertible seat.

9:40 Ariel woke up, we attempted to leave the house. Besides all the normal things that slow us down, I discovered that when I put Ariel in her seat, it was at more of a 60 deg angle than a 45 deg angle. So then I had to take it out and put a rolled towel under it and do it all over again.

And here's the big girl in her new seat:



After I took the picture, I gave her a bottle.

And Becky is having a bit of sticker shock paying me $100 for a Britax Roundabout that only Adam used for 18 months. If any of my mommy friends would like to chime in and tell her what an AWESOME deal she got, I wouldn't mind.

Adam got a 5-point harness/booster seat that's like Alex's:



10:25 We finally left for our Fabulous Adventure™™ of the day - going to The Mall with Crissy and Gavin.

10:45 We got to the mall. When we got to the play area, we found that there was a magic show at 11. Crissy and I agreed to take turns watching the boys at the show, while the other one went upstairs to make money at the consumer place. I went first with Ariel.

11:00 Consumer place - my first job was watching a dentyne commercial and answering a hundred billion questions about it. I always feel funny doing commercials, since I never watch them in real life since we don't have TV reception. Plus, this one was more annoying than usual and took 20 minutes and only paid $5. Then I sniffed soap for 5 minutes and was paid $10. Ariel was ok, she played for a bit, and then drank 1/2 a bottle of water.

11:40 Traded places with Crissy and got to see the end of the magic show. The last trick was impressive, the magician turned two doves into a bunny. I have a feeling Alex is going to get a lot of mileage out of today. Already he has shown me two "tricks" - breaking a stick in half to make two sticks, and pulling a toy out of Adam's back.

12:05 The boys and I wandered upstairs to find Crissy. She lucked out, she tasted juice and got to do an at-home body spray survey for $30. Then we all went to get lunch with our earnings.

12:30 Lunch - pizza for the boys, fish tacos for the ladies, and something orange and goopy for Ariel. And then she ate those weird little star cheerios in her diaper bag that I never open.

1:00 We went outside to the sandbox. Crissy got us Blizzards™ and Ariel had a bottle. Crissy rocked Ariel to sleep, and Ariel actually transferred to the stroller.



1:30 Crissy and Gavin departed, we stayed outside for a bit more.

1:45 With Ariel still sleeping, we went to McDonald's for icecream cones.

2:15 Then it was down to the family bathroom with the small potty. Both the boys were inspired to poop in it. The trip took for.ev.er.

2:45 Left the mall.

3:00 Quick trip to the yarn store to photograph this month's community knitting project (mittens) then on to the grocery store to get food for dinner (BBQ shrimp).

4:00 Got home. The boys went out in the backyard. I made my bed with Jeremy's new birthday sheets. An informal poll of my friends showed that 100% of them believed that their husbands would not want these sheets. I didn't even ask if they thought they would make good birthday presents. But when I saw them in the Target ad, I knew I had to get them for Jeremy (in case you can't tell, they are sock monkeys!):



4:15 Tried to feed Ariel a bottle, but she was just playing so I put her back down with her blocks.

4:30 Pick up.

PS - Today I discovered that Blogger has a spell check. Who knows, maybe I'll even use it.

PPS - I have edited this post to turn the blogger spellcheck Crasssys back into Crissys. Um, I don't think I'll be using it again. I didn't think there was any power in the world that could make me more incoherent, but I stand corrected.

October 4, 2006

Well hello everyone. And in case you are wondering, I AM writing this blog on the 5th. We had a Lost emergency last night, in that we had to watch it. We only have 2 episodes left of season 2, and the premiere of season 3 taped and ready to go.

We had a great time in Chicago with Toni, Dagny and Margot. We hung out, we went to the Children's museum and the Botanical Gardens. All the kids got along really great. Alex and Dagny had a slumber party and stayed up until 11:00pm taking about the planets. Adam and Margot know the same version of the ABC's. And Toni is a fellow aspiring photographer and we took each other's pictures. I can't post what I took of Toni yet as I am still working on installing DPP (Toni- I'm trying, but Lost keeps getting in the way). So here's the pictures, not very good from a photography standpoint, but you get the point:

Chicago Pictures

7:00 Drop off. Ariel had apples and cherries for breakfast.

8:20 Nap

10:15 Ariel woke up, had a bottle

10:35 Walk to the post office. Toni expounded the virtues of click-and-ship but I really needed to walk somewhere and NOT get a Starbucks. It was a bit nippy outside.

11:00 Post office. I thought it was some weird bank holiday as there were no cars in the parking lot.

11:25 Get home. Adam and I ate lunch, Ariel took another nap.

12:35 Went to go get Alex from school.

1:00 Pick up Alex.

1:15 Quick trip to Jamba Juice - my Starbuck-vice replacement. But tell me it's a little heathier, and the kids get some too.

1:30 Onwards to Crissy's house. Ariel ate her lunch there, Green.

2:30 Crissy left to go to Target to buy VHS tapes for Lost recording and to pick up Marcus from school, I stayed behind with Gavin.

3:45 Left Crissy's. Maybe Ariel had a bottle in the car, I don't really remember.

4:00 Drop off at Becky's work.

Sept 26, 2006

7:05 Drop off. Breakfast of pears and pineapple and cheerios.

8:45 Nap

While Ariel was napping, I caught this picture of the boys on the futon, who were there on their own free will (Grammie - can you see what they have in their hands?):



And look, we have a new futon mattress! Something you would want to both sit OR sleep on! I must say, not having to feel the boards of the frame on my bottom really enhanced last night's Lost watching.



After I took Alex's pictures, he asked to take one of me. I think he did pretty well, considering I had my heaviest lens on.



9:30 Ariel woke up and didn't want much of her bottle.

10:00 Left the house. We first walked to the close library to get some books for the plane tomorrow (we are going to Toni-land for a week). And lo and behold, somehow we arrived just in time for story time. I was congratulating myself on finding a new story time that both the boys could go to that was 25 minutes closer, when 5 minutes into the reading a preschool of 30 kids came in. Now, this really rubs me the wrong way. The go to the local park too and overrun it. Why must they do this? Alex has only left his preschool once, to sing Rosh Hahshanah songs and the old folk's home.

11:00 We walked to grocery store to buy cat food and dishwasher soap. I think Jeremy would have bought the soap, but I'm afraid that if there was no cat food, the cats would not eat for a week.

11:15 Next, the yarn store. I haven't been in a LONG time (for some reason I don't like knitting in the summer). I got some yarn to knit up on the trip.

12:30 We got home, Ariel had a quick lunch of green.

12:45 Ariel went down for a nap.

1:00 Adam went down for a nap.

I wanted to start my latest knit project, but my yarn got all tangly. And then I got stubborn and was determined to fix it. This is the determination that got me through a year of three triathlons and a marathon, Alex's first year of life, and adjusting Ariel's carseat on Saturday. Unfortunately today, I just ended up wasting 25 minutes before I gave up and cut the knot out. Yeesh.

2:30 Ariel woke up, had a bottle.

3:00 I took Ariel and Alex outside to enjoy the beautiful fall afternoon. It was warm enough that she didn't need the hat on, but I had her wear it for the aestic value, and to also show Becky how I have broken her hat-pulling-off-will with the tie string.

I took pictures, and we played a rousing game of "Not in the mouth."

"Here is something on the ground. Can I put it in my mouth?"



"Ok, well what about this leaf? Is this good to eat?"



"Look at all the leaves! Surely one must be for eating!"



"Please?!?!?!"



"Please with sugar on top?!?!?"



And I do believe that Ariel is mastering bits of locomotion. I have now seen her turn 360 deg on her bottom. And every once in a while she pulls on something like her carseat or a piece of furniture and gets some forward motion. Slowly but surely...

4:30 Adam didn't wake up until Ariel left. This does not bode well for a good night's sleep.

Sept 25, 2006

7:10 Drop off. I was finishing making muffins for Alex's preschool snack today. Somehow I've gotten it into my head that his snack is very competative. Everytime I ask him what he had, it seems like it's been zucchini bread or homemade-something-or-other. So I made applesauce muffins, which may have come out more heathly tasting than I intended, but Alex liked them at least.

7:20 Breakfast - apples and cherries. And cheerios.

I was telling Becky this weekend that I have a hard time getting Ariel to giggle, but Adam can really get her to belly laugh. (And note - it looks like Ariel is getting really shook up, but if you notice when Adam leaves, she does it to herself):



8:30 Nap

10:00 Wake up. Bottle.

10:30 Super Grammie and Pop-pop showed up. Adam was SUPER happy!

10:45 Ariel and I went for a walk. First we went to pick up some pictures for Pop-pop. Then we walked to Starbucks were I caved and had a tall decaf (yes Becky, that IS two in one week. But not two in one day.) I met Crissy there briefly, but all to soon I had to turn around and walk home so I could pick Alex up from school.

12:35 Ariel had fallen asleep on the way home, but woke up as soon as we walked in the door. So she got strapped right into her carseat, then Pop-pop and I went to pick up Alex. Ariel had a bottle in the car.

1:20 Got home. Ariel had lunch - mixed veggies.

2:30 Ariel went down for a nap. I spent my kid-free afternoon dorking around on the computer. But in my defense, Grammie had taken the boys on the bus to the mall and Pop-pop was asleep on the couch, so I couldn't really go anyway. I used some of that time to compose a letter to my parents rabbi, which I may or may not send or share.

4:30 Pick up.

Sept 22, 2006

Ok, so here it is Monday morning and I'm finally getting around to Friday's blog. So let's see... I think Ariel had prunes and apples for breakfast, then took a nap. I spent the morning cleaning my house. On Wednesday, Mr. Crissy stopped by so he could drive me to his house and Crissy could drive to our photography class. That was the first time in a long time that I was embarrassed by my house. It was messy AND dirty. Part of it was that I had evening activities every night last week, which is when I straighten up. And I guess the other part was I was just lazy.

Around 11:30 Adam and Ariel took a nap. Ariel woke up in time to eat a quick lunch of some sort of veggie, maybe it was squash - I remember oranage - and then I had to wake Adam so we could pick up Alex from preschool.

On the way home, we stopped for Jamba Juice, and then went to Wild Oats to get some salmon for dinner.

In the afternoon, we made challah and played, Ariel took another nap around 3:15. And sometime durning the day, she had 3 bottles of formula and 1/2 a bottle of water and pooped a couple times.

Wow, this blog was terrible. I promise todays will be better :)

Sept 20, 2006

7:10 Drop off. And YES I had just gotten up. Remember when I used to be responsible and be showered by they time Becky got here? I've been blaming Jeremy for not getting me up, but I think I ignored him today.

7:20 Breakfast - orange/banana mush and cheerios.

8:00 Nap

8:40 Wake up. Not a very good nap. We must work on that.

8:50 Chugged 1/2 a bottle, then threw it.

9:40 Walk to the library.

10:15 Crazy storytime. It seems like the crowd keeps getting younger and younger and most are not even capable of sitting for 2 minutes let alone 30. But Adam did good. Ariel pooped.

10:50 Quick trip to Michaels to buy some black card stock. I re-did my kid portfolio and it looks much classier. It's good to know that there is a difference between a $1 album and a $15 one.

11:05 Walk home. Ariel had a bottle in the stroller, then fell asleep.

11:45 Home. Ariel stayed asleep in the stroller. Adam had been singing the ABC song all the way home and I got him to do it one more time for the camera.



12:15 Ariel woke up and ate her "green."

12:45 Left to pick up Alex from school. Quite frankly, I'm getting really sick of this pick up. Unless I get there at least 5 minutes early, there is no parking in the parking lot. Which means I have to navigate 2 small kids across the road and through the parking lot and today I didn't have my stroller. And then, once I get in the school, it's still crazy chaos. There must be a better way!

1:40 After a quick stop at the bank drivethru while Ariel had another bottle, we got home.

1:50 Put Ariel down for a nap. She talked for a while, and has a neat new trick of banging her feet on the crib, but she eventually fell asleep without too much fuss.

3:30 Ariel squeaked a few times, but didn't wake up until now. We went outside real quick so I could take a picture, I know Becky must be mad there haven't been any. Oh and Becky, her sweater is getting dirty and you can wash and dry it normal.



3:45 Bottle

Sept 19, 2006

Sorry, I'll post this quick and run. Today, Crissy and I drove the Peak to Peak Highway looking for color.

Here's my pictures.

We are going to a birthday party, I'll do the blog after 7:00.

...

Alrighty, we are back from the birthday party. Josh turned 4 today! He had a space-themed party complete with a happy birthday call from a real live astronaut. Having an aerospace engineer for a dad has it's perks :)

7:15 Drop off. Ariel waited patiently in her chair while I finished making pancakes.

7:25 Yogurt and apples. She did better than she did Friday with the yogurt, but she still wasn't very excited. She ate about 1/2 a container.

8:00 Nap.

9:00 Wake up. Short nap, but that was ok because we needed to get ready for our Fabulous Adventure™.

9:15 I got Ariel started on a bottle while I waited for Crissy to show up. Ariel finished her bottle in the car.

9:30 Our adventure - driving on the Peak to Peak highway to see the changing aspen. We found some nice spots, and we had a great Colorado blue sky today. If you look at the flickr pictures, you'll see that we got the best shots of Mt. Meeker. Longs Peak was too shadowy to do much with. Crissy and I have a difficult homework assignment - take a great picture worthy of our teacher's hall of fame. It's so open ended that we are both stumped. I don't think any of my pictures are worthy, but they are nice additions to my library.

12:00 We got to Estes Park and went to Taco Bell. Ariel had fallen asleep in the car and stayed asleep for a while in the restaurant. When she woke, I gave her the mixed veggies. She drank quite a bit of water too.

1:00 After a quick stop at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory for some, well, uh, chocolate, we were on our way. Ariel had another bottle in the car. Adam fell asleep.

2:00 We had to go directly to Crissy's because she was expecting a plumber at 2. She had raw sewage backing up into her house (lovely huh?). Adam was still sleeping and I stayed in the car with him. Crissy took Ariel and Adam inside and I fell asleep with Adam.

2:45 We all went to pick Marcus up from school. Ariel had another car bottle (I'm started to feel guilty, but she really was pretty happy today).

3:00 Got back to our house. Crissy picked her car up and went home. We had a quick bathroom break, then we drove to Michael's to get Josh a birthday present.

4:15 Finally get home. I changed a very small poopy diaper.

4:30 Pick up. And Becky changed the real poopy diaper.

Sept 15, 2006

7:10 Drop off. Breakfast. Ariel was NOT a fan of the yogurt, but she did eat about 1/2 the container. Then she pooped.

8:00 Nap.

9:00 Wake up - bottle.

10:30 Get out of the house. We went to Michael's to look for flamingoes. One of my internet friend's husbands died last week and we are all sending cards and gifts. Very sad, he left behind two young daughters (here's the link if you are interested). Anyway, flamingos are the group mascot, if that was a disconnect.

I also took some pictures of flowers near Michael's (to be explained later).

11:15 We went to Wild Oats to grab some salmon for dinner. And took a few more flower pictures.

11:45 Got home, ate lunch. Ariel really chowed down her green garden veggies, she must have been hunrgy from a small breakfast.

12:30 Left to pick up Alex from school. Ariel had a bottle in the car.

1:30 Got home, got our challah started.

1:50 Ariel took a nap.

I worked on my flower project (which I shamelessly copied from Crissy). Here's a collage:



I have more flower squares on flickr. And yes, that's all I took pictures of today.

3:00 Ariel woke up, bottle.

4:00 Pick up

Oh, and here's another collage I did:

Sept 13, 2006

Sorry I didn't post yesterday, I had my photography class again. The class was ok, but the teacher is horrible at distilling information in any sort of useful way. He went on a 20 minute tangent on the history of German optics in the 1800's that made me want to pull my hair out. But I did get a few useful things out of it, so it wasn't a complete wash.

So this blog is going to be a bit innacurate because I didn't write down Ariel's schedule yesterday so I'm just going to wing it.

7:10 Drop off, breakfast, pears I believe.

8:30 Nap

9:20 Wake up, refuse most of bottle.

9:35 Walk to library

10:15 No storytime, the library lady was late.

10:30 Finally storytime.

11:15 Walk home - Ariel had a bottle in the stroller.

11:45 Home - lunch - mixed veggies. I also gave Ariel some of Adam's mac & cheese. She thought it was very cool and she was very enthusiastic, but I think most of it ended up in her lap:



12:00 I had an idea of an artsy-type picture that I wanted, but Ariel hated something about being on the plexi-glass nekkid, so this is all I got off before she started freaking out.



12:30 Left to pick up Alex. Ariel fell asleep in the car but I had to wake her to bring her in because the parking lot was full and there was nobody to watch the car.

1:40 After getting gas ($2.65, woo-hoo!) we got home. I got Adam down to nap, Ariel had a bottle, then we got to the business of taking 10 month pictures. Here's a few, you can see the rest of flickr:





3:00 Another bottle.

3:45 Adam got up, Ariel went down.

4:30 Pick up.

Sept. 11, 2006

Well, today was kinda a poopy day, both literally and figuratively. Ariel pooped 3 times today, thought I do believe if her system ran a bit smoother it would have only been once. And I didn't have my game on, so no pictures today. I was still bummed that my camera had dust on it, but I finally cleaned it tonight so Wednesday should be picturerific.

7:10 Drop off. Breakfast of pears and pinapples and cheerios. I always think that Ariel eats a ton of cheerios, then I get her out of the highchair and I find them everywhere but in her. But really, I think a few make it down her throat.

8:30 Nap

8:40 Jeremy took Alex to school, in his jammies. Alex had had a 15 minute warning that it was time to go, and he didn't get dressed. So I sent his clothes with him in a bag, and Jeremy changed him in the parking lot. It sounded like it was pretty traumatic for both of them, I think Alex will remember to get dressed on Wednesday.

9:30 Wake up, bottle

10:30 After conferring with Crissy, it seemed like a good idea to leave the house.

11:15 After running a few errands (like personally running my Netflix discs to the post office, must have more Lost! and picking up pictures) we met Crissy at the camera store. I had fun looking but didn't buy anything. I did find a portrait workshop this weekend that I'm going to do. I'm finally going to learn about lights!

11:45 Go to Safeway for Jamba Juice. And I'm embarrassed to say, donuts as well. I almost never eat donuts, but I had been craving them so I finally gave in. Adam had a donut too, or rather to top sprinkly part of one. Ariel just had mixed vegetables and another bottle.

12:35 Didn't have anywhere else to go, so we headed over to Alex's preschool. Adam played with the toy tables that we never have time for normally.

1:00 Pick up Alex.

1:30 Home. Ariel had fallen asleep in the car, I left her in the carseat while I tried to get Adam asleep.

2:15 *I* could have fallen asleep, but Adam didn't and Ariel woke up, so it was party time again.

2:25 Another bottle.

3:30 Ariel seemed really tired and grumpy, but she wouldn't go down for another nap.

4:30 Pick up.

Sept 9, 2006

7:10 Drop off

7:15 Breakfast - blueberries (baby food, not real ones) and cheerios.

8:20 Jeremy left for work and took Alex to school.

8:30 Ariel took a nap. I had several things to do during this time. First, I took a picture of my "wall of fame." I decided that I'm going to frame and hang all the pictures I've taken that I love. I envision (after many years) having this whole wall covered. Here it is now (the prints are 8x10 in 11x14 frames with UV non-reflective glass):



And speaking of the office, last night Jeremy and Alex put together the big desk. So now we have our new furniture and both computers. All we are lacking are two office chairs. Here's what it looked like 3 years ago (and 2 weeks ago):



And here we are this morning:



The final step is getting rid of that piece o' crap futon and getting some decent sleeper sofa.

My next task was to finish filling out my "American Family Survey" from the census bureau. It was long and slightly complicated and a bit of a pain in the tush. Why yes, my house does have running water and sewage removal. While I was sitting at the kitchen table, Adam announced that he wanted to make a card for Ariel:



9:30 Ariel woke up, had most of a bottle.

10:00 Left for our very excting adventure of the day - grocery shopping. I wish I had brought my camera to the store, Adam and Ariel were very cute sitting in the blue truck together. Ariel sucked on a plastic bag of crazy mac noodles most of the trip.

11:15 Got home, unpacked all the grocery.

11:30 Ariel had lunch, peas. She didn't eat them as enthusiastically as she eats fruit, but she did finish them.

12:00 Another nap for Ariel.

12:45 I had to wake Ariel to get her in the car to pick up Alex from school.

1:00 Picked up Alex, and had to wake Adam from his car nap to go inside. Why is this so hard???

1:25 Got home and started a batch of challah while Ariel fed herself a bottle.

2:00 Play time! Here's Ariel's new hippy chick outfit (these are not my best work, I had to use my flash as it was cloudy and rainy today):





And here's a video in which Ariel plays a drum, we see the kid's new fort (aka our old office desk that we need to sell) and Alex tells us about this year's halloween costume (thank you Gavin!):



2:30 I tried to see if either Adam or Ariel would take a nap, but it was a no-go.

3:00 We got the challah through its two risings, and braided but not baked, loaded up everyone in the car and headed to Grandma and Grandpa's house.

3:50 Got to Grandma and Grandpa's house. Ariel and Adam fell asleep in the car, and I sent Alex in with his challah for him and Grandma to bake:



5:00 Ariel woke up first, then Adam.

Tonight, we celebrated Uncle Dave's birthday:

Sept 6, 2006

Well, hiddy-ho friendly neighbors. I hope your Labor Day Weekend was as enjoyable as ours. The boys and I joined both set of grandparents down at the ranch, while Jeremy went off to a bike race. I did my usual picture taking thing, but didn't take as many as I would have because I have a big piece of dust on my image sensor that I will need to clean off soon. So here's my weekend pictures:

Turkey Toe

7:10 Drop off

7:15 Breakfast - pears (yum), cheerios (fun to playwith), blueberries (no way!). But thanks Becky, I put some of Ariel's blueberries on my waffles and they were very good.

8:00 Jeremy and Alex left for preschool, heading first for some mysterious Target-ole errand.

8:10 Nap time. Adam and I used this free time to clean the bathroom. In the interest of making Adam feel needed, I let him clean the counter while I cleaned the toliet. In five minutes, he managed to flood the counter, soak his pants and simultaneously shred the sponge into itty-bitty green flotsum. But he helped! and it was fun!

9:00 Ariel woke up.

9:05 bottle

9:35 We walked to the library.

10:05 Getting to the library a bit early, we first went to Michael's to exchange some frames I had bought for my wall of fame project I have going on. And guess what, this is the second time I exchanged the frames because I apparently can't remember what I had bought the first time.

10:15 Story time

10:50 Ariel pooped. I changed her diaper. Woo-wee

11:00 Walk home.

11:35 Home - lunch - Ariel had squash and Adam had hummus that he sucked off his carrots. And he may have licked some peanut butter off his bagel.

12:00 Leave the house again. Before picking Alex up from school, I had to drop off Kayla's pictures to her mom.

12:30 Both fell asleep in the car

1:00 Get to Alex's preschool. Both kids were still sleeping. So then I had to play the fun game of flagging down a mom to watch my car while I ran in and got Alex. When I got back, she said that being 15 feet away from my car she didn't think she heard crying. I told her it was ok, I just have to tell someone so I'm not abondoning my kids. I wish there was a better system!

1:30 Home. I transfered Adam to his bed, and gave Ariel a bottle to entertain herself with while she decided if she was going to be awake or asleep.

2:00 Ariel decided to be awake, so she sat in the swing while I framed my pictures with the (finally!) correct frames. I'll post pictures of my wall once I hang these new ones.

2:45 Adam woke up, grumpy as always. I put him in the bathroom to go pee, and he was so intent on being miserable that he stood there crying and peed next to the toliet. When Adam's like this, the only thing to do is get out of the house.

3:00 Out of house - first stop Whole Foods, where I promised the boys Jamba Juice. But alas, when we got to Whole Foods, we learned that Jamba Juice was gone, only to be replaced by a very lame juice bar. So we moved onto phase 2 - walking over to Bicycle Village to see if they had an adult pushing handle for Adam's tricycle (because like many things with Adam, the spirit is willing but the body is not). And no, they didn't have a handle.

3:40 Plan B - go to Jamba Juice at Safeway. I don't know what is up with that Jamba Juice, but it is so s-l-o-w. There was one woman in front of us that ordered two drinks, and it took 15 minutes.

4:00 Get back to the car and take a drink of my juice only to discovered I forgot to say no banana (banana makes me sick). So I couldn't drink my juice anyway. Waaaah!!!!!

4:10 Get to Becky's work to drop off Ariel. Gave Becky my Jamba Juice. Which is ironic in itself because Becky has an irrational fear of Jamba Juice and so I don't even know if she liked it.



And hey, check out Becky's sassy new haircut!

After drop-off, we swung by Taco Bell for dinner. I left the boys with Grandma and Grandpa and went to a community college photography class with Crissy (which is why I didn't do the blog last night).