Foto Friday

I call this one "Vogue" after the Madonna song with all the poses.

 

"Multi-tasker" - I can't decide if I want Rylee to focus on piano or ballet lessons so I've come up with this combo activity. :)

 

"You talking to me?"... enough said.

 

I feel like there's a caption in this photo somewhere, but it's stuck on the tip of my tongue. Any suggestions?

 

Summer Showers

Sorry I've been MIA the last few days, but I have been one busy lady with no time for blogging. I threw my friend, Karen, a surprise baby shower tonight so the last few days have been all wrapped up with shopping and food preparation... and some serious work drama that I am way too exhausted to go into tonight. (Let's just say that a dark cloud was hanging over my head for a few days, but it looks like the sky might be clearing up. I'll fill you in on the details in another post.)

There was one big silver lining in my craziness though: Jess & Jerry had their baby on Monday night - so belated shout out to the new parents! Head on over to 21 Days to see photos of Baby Norah and give them your congrats. I can't wait to get over to their house and see her in person!

Silly Sunday Tidbits

Dazed & Confused
Today I washed an entire load of laundry with nothing in it. I started the water, added the detergent, got distracted and forgot to go back and add the clothes. Oops! FYI: my top load washer will go through the entire cycle with the door open...

Shoeless Rylee...
no more! Jon and I bought Rylee a new pair of kicks today at Target (her feet seem to have grown over night). This is the first pair that 1) she's ever "asked" us to put on and 2) that have stayed on while she played and "walked" around. I'm quite excited to have a shoe-clad kid on our next outing. Burger King, perhaps? :)

Scooby Dooby Doo
So Rylee's still too young for cartoons, but am I too old for them? I just read in the TV Guide that this season's Scooby Doo episodes will focus on how the gang got together. It's like Scooby Doo Begins! It couldn't hurt to add to my DVR queue...

Smokin' Hubby
Jon has been a smokin' fool again today. He's already made venison jerky and salmon fillets, and turkey breasts are on the menu for dinner. He must think Rylee's really going to be hungry tonight!

Everything Rylee

Biscuits & More
Rylee recently discovered those big teething biscuits that you gnaw on and gum up in your mouth. Loves them! I gave her one the other day and when Jon walked by, he did a double take. He asked me what it was and when I told him, he looked at me kinda funny and said: "is it food?" "Uh yeah," I replied. "Oh, I thought it looked like a dog chew." :)

Speaking of food that doesn't look to be of the edible variety, I made Rylee a veggie dog the other day. It looked like the unfortunate offspring of a burnt sienna crayon and some modeling clay - truly creepy stuff. I wasn't brave enough to try it, but Rylee seemed to enjoy it. I just can't decide whose questionable origins and nutritional value are worse - regular hot dogs or those impostors? I shudder to think...

Button Pusher
Rylee loves to push buttons (mine included, haha!). Every time I put her in the crib, I hear her playing with the musical crib toy. She turns it on and off, on and off... about a gazillion times (maybe like 20, but still!). She also has a ton of musical toys that keeping starting over when you push the button. For instance, her new walker-rocket says "Let's speed it up," but since she just pushes the button over and over, I hear: let's, llllll, let's, llllll, leee, let's. It sounds like she's working the turn tables. I'm thinking of calling her DJ Baby Ryles.

Fine Print
I love reading the fine print on products. I recently bought Rylee some bigger sippy cups and they had a 100% spill proof guarantee on the box. I was scanning through the little instruction sheet to make sure there wasn't something important I needed to know and I stumbled upon this gem of information: Keep the cup positioned upright for 100% spill proof guarantee. No sh*t, Sherlock! Thanks for the tip! :)

Happy Days

So my bad luck continues: I bought the wrong thing at Office Max and it can't be returned, a black cat ran in front of my truck, and I purposely did my grocery shopping at Target so I could also pick up a prescription and guess what?... the pharmacy was closed! Double aaargh!

I can't get out of my funk, but at least my fantastic friends have helped to improve my mood about it. Tuesday night's Girl Scout Gals reunion dinner was a blast. Everyone had good news: two of the gals are pregnant and the other invented a new product that's possibly getting picked up by QVC. If it does, I'll let you all know what day to watch and buy! :)

Then yesterday, two more preggo friends stopped by for lunch and a Grease 2 viewing. You all know how much I love my Grease 2! They were so sweet about it too - they didn't tease and mock nearly as much as they could have. (Especially since I couldn't get them liquored up with wine first which really would have helped with the cheese factor!)

So if you're counting that's 4 pregnant friends and I have another friend long distance who is also expecting. (Who knows? There might be more out there that haven't announced their pregnancies yet!) How could being around all these mommies-to-be not make a person happy. Thanks ladies!

Crazy Dayz

The last couple of days have been C-R-A-Z-Y. Not only have I been super busy... but Rylee's been super cranky (I think her "toofers" are starting to bother her)... and all my toast has been landing peanut butter side down. (Ya know what I mean? Those days where nothing goes smoothly, everything takes twice as long as it should, and you just need a drink at the end of it!)

For instance, let's recap Sunday:

I thought it would be fun for Jon to come with Rylee and I to the park. Now she was perfectly happy swinging in the shade in our own backyard, but Jon never gets to take her out places so I thought, hey let's go! We had fun, but we had to drive to two parks before I found one that had the kiddie swings in the shade. (Keeping track of the shade is like my new lunar calendar. I can now tell you what park has shade for every hour of the day!)

Then after Rylee ate her breakfast, she barfed (motion sickness from all the swinging perhaps?). This is only like the 3rd time in her little life that she's puked so I know I shouldn't be complaining.

That wasn't all: then I broke something, spilled something, I can't even remember it all. Oh yeah, Rylee "ate" some paper (after the puking so that wasn't the cause & Daddy found it stuffed in her cheek pouch hours later) and peed while I was changing her diaper - twice! And a friend of a friend called while Rylee was having a meltdown and screamed through the entire conversation. I'm sure I made a great first impression!

*Okay, I must appeal to all you parents out there for advice: Rylee has started going psycho lately with regard to food. You would think that I am starving her the way she carries on when I start prepping food or her formula. Mind you, two seconds earlier she was perfectly happy and playing, but the minute you walk into that kitchen - watch out! What is this? She's never been "tantrum-y" before. What do I do besides ignore it and prep all food while she's locked in the closet. (Just kidding on that last one... I think...)

My bad mojo continued yesterday too. I took Rylee to Publix to grocery shop and she was kinda fussy so I had to rush through everything. I forgot have the stuff we needed and learned to never shop at the grocery store at 8am on Monday morning. The produce section was a wasteland, I didn't even bother. (I'll add that to my mommy lunar ("lunatic!") calendar too.)

Then I hit Every.Single.Red.Light.On.Sunrise.Blvd. Aaaargh!

It went on, but I'm getting depressed just reliving it. Thankfully, I'm taking the night off and going out with some girlfriends tonight and I have a couple of fun day things planned the rest of the week. Let's just hope the sun and moon are aligned or whatever brings me some good luck...

Luau

Rylee attended her first kid's birthday party today: a luau themed party for her 4-year-old friend, Alice. This was an excellent theme for Jon - it meant he didn't even have to dress up! (For those that don't know, Jon loves his Hawaiian shirts.) It was a treat for me - I got to ditch my mommy clothes for a cute skirt and top. And it gave Rylee a chance to wear her pink grass skirt (a garage sale purchase that I knew would come in handy!).

Here we are in our matchy outfits (aaahh):

 

Rylee had a great time even though she really couldn't participate in the craft making or pinata smashing. She even got a special baby-sized take home gift with mini sand pail, shovel and beach ball (aaahh again).

I'll leave you with one last oops photo. Some might have deleted, but I love it. It's like she's giving me a very prim "whatever!" :)