Holy Crap my brain hurts, and my phone won't stop ringing...i'm on the q right now and some thinks it's appropriate to call me 6 times in a row(on my personal line) and not leave a message! Gyargh....that and my portfolio is making me work overtime cause they're stupid. So i gotta take a sec and get away and here i am...
Weekend update.
I know it's Wednesday and i usually do this on Monday but it was just a little too hectic. Moe left early Saturday morning....5am early. Too early to function...we dropped her off went back home and turned on some Saturday morning cartoons... I have been hooked lately and it was nice to enjoy them with G...we both took a nap while watching cartoons. IT was actually pretty cute...she took a pillow put it on the ground and laid down on it...two seconds later she was out! That's the first time she has put herself down that i know of. After her little nap (it was still only 8.30 when she woke up) we went to Kohl's. I am looking a little ridiculous in some of my clothes and needed to get some interim clothing (Update....i guess i need to make it official it is 40lbs total loss and still counting). G had the time of her life. It took us like 2 hours to pick out some clothes....not because i am picky but because i didn't put her in the stroller...it was too much fun. I would put her down to look at some pants...the second her feet hit the ground she was off running and giggling through the aisles of clothes and she wanted to be chased. It was nice cause there weren't many people in there. We went home for a nap and some lunch and then off to the pool....
IT'S A PUBLIC POOL PEOPLE AND I DON"T WANT TO SEE YOUR 2 YEAR OLD'S JUNK ON THE SLIDE! gross.... luckily enough a lifegaurd put an end to that...
Nap, a bike ride dinner and bam out like a light....
Sunday was just as ridiculous. G was up at the crack of dawn and so we got church out of the way at 7.30.. went home and got some bfast and a nap... As soon as she got up we went hiking at arbor hills. We had gotten a hiking backpack that will carry g and she loved it. It has a shade even which was really nice and managed to keep her cool even when i was sweating rivers. We stopped and took a little break by a creek and she actually wanted to get back in! She thought the downhills were like slides "wooooow wooooow". Another nap and then she got to hang out with the uncles. Matt was outside for almost an hour playing with her in the pool and our friend Jonathan Weinpel gave her an assortment of rainbow colored golf balls that she couldn't get enough of. Well Moe was supposed to get in Sunday night but AA cancelled her flight out of Tampa without any sort of restitution and put her on a flight the next morning which involved me staying home from work for most of the day....not complaining but g had definitely had enough of me and my craziness.....
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008
Anxiety
"The time has come " the Walrus said
"to talk of many things:
Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax
Of cabbages and kings
And why the sea is boiling hot
And whether pigs have wings"
-The walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carrol
"What?"....okay baby nevermind
Well the time has come for daddy and baby to fly solo for the weekend. It's mom's big weekend out! Moe is headed to Tampa....darn(?)....to go to Veronica's wedding, which she has a minor part in. I am going to put this on record however, that I will likely have more friends than she will at the wedding....but that's okay... i volunteered to bite the bullet as recompense for an international trip, and while the exchange is not even i am sure there will be future reparations.
I'm sure we'll do fine especially after Wednesday night....
I was in the living room reading the back of my eyelids during commercial breaks for Conan.. when she woke up with night terrors/a nightmare....(apparently i had bad ones starting at 6months or so). She was so scared she wouldn't go back to sleep without me...i tried so many different things we eventually ended up crashing on the couch and then when she still wouldn't go down in her crib we went to the guest room and slept on the bed. She woke up a couple times after that but she kinda rubbed up against me and went back to sleep...poor thing. If papa bear can keep the bad guys out...then i think this weekend we'll be fine....
Doesn't mean I'm not a little nervous.....
"to talk of many things:
Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax
Of cabbages and kings
And why the sea is boiling hot
And whether pigs have wings"
-The walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carrol
"What?"....okay baby nevermind
Well the time has come for daddy and baby to fly solo for the weekend. It's mom's big weekend out! Moe is headed to Tampa....darn(?)....to go to Veronica's wedding, which she has a minor part in. I am going to put this on record however, that I will likely have more friends than she will at the wedding....but that's okay... i volunteered to bite the bullet as recompense for an international trip, and while the exchange is not even i am sure there will be future reparations.
I'm sure we'll do fine especially after Wednesday night....
I was in the living room reading the back of my eyelids during commercial breaks for Conan.. when she woke up with night terrors/a nightmare....(apparently i had bad ones starting at 6months or so). She was so scared she wouldn't go back to sleep without me...i tried so many different things we eventually ended up crashing on the couch and then when she still wouldn't go down in her crib we went to the guest room and slept on the bed. She woke up a couple times after that but she kinda rubbed up against me and went back to sleep...poor thing. If papa bear can keep the bad guys out...then i think this weekend we'll be fine....
Doesn't mean I'm not a little nervous.....
Monday, July 14, 2008
WEEE....daredevil baby
Another weekend of non stop Rowles style action. Saturday was pretty ridiculous. An 8.30 am walk at Arbor Hills Nature preserve which has quickly become one of our favorite spots. G loves the nice little jaunt and there are aways furry and feathery creatures for her to talk to and lots of people to say " hi hi hi hi hi hi" to. The coolest part is that after we go for our walk there is one of the coolest parks around for her to play at. This thing is massive has like 15 different slides, treetop style walkways...i wish i had something like this when i was a kid...but it's nice having a kid that enjoys it...i can't wait for her to get a little older, then i really get to be a kid again.
Home for a nap and then straight to the pool. Rosemeade rec center has this awesome rainforest pool with a lazy river, slides, water guns, spray thingies everywhere... and best of all most of it is shallow enough for G to enjoy. Well Momma and G go there pretty much everyday without me and they had never been down the slide...leave it to pops to bring out the daredevil in her. The tube was a little daunting for her at first but when we got to the bottom i handed her to Moe so i could get out of the luge thingy and immediately she lunged back at me
...she hasn't learned "again" yet but it's coming and when it does i am in trouble. I think we ended up going down the slide like 15 times and each time we had to wait for a couple of people...."GET OUT OF THE WAY PEOPLE"..
side note....i didn't know ankle bracelets were waterproof and that people with ankle bracelets were allowed at the pool....
Back home for nap#2...and then over to a going away party for the Marx'seses 3+ hours with a ton of kiddos wore her down ... She was begging to go to bed
... Only to torture us with a 5 am screamfest.... which basically beat us down on Sunday.... didn't get to church until the night mass and that was basically a joke...we spent the whole time in the back with G cause she wanted to run a couple miles during mass... so we took her back to the park to get all her energy out...by the time we left she was almost lifeless....
Home for a nap and then straight to the pool. Rosemeade rec center has this awesome rainforest pool with a lazy river, slides, water guns, spray thingies everywhere... and best of all most of it is shallow enough for G to enjoy. Well Momma and G go there pretty much everyday without me and they had never been down the slide...leave it to pops to bring out the daredevil in her. The tube was a little daunting for her at first but when we got to the bottom i handed her to Moe so i could get out of the luge thingy and immediately she lunged back at me
...she hasn't learned "again" yet but it's coming and when it does i am in trouble. I think we ended up going down the slide like 15 times and each time we had to wait for a couple of people...."GET OUT OF THE WAY PEOPLE"..
side note....i didn't know ankle bracelets were waterproof and that people with ankle bracelets were allowed at the pool....
Back home for nap#2...and then over to a going away party for the Marx'seses 3+ hours with a ton of kiddos wore her down ... She was begging to go to bed
... Only to torture us with a 5 am screamfest.... which basically beat us down on Sunday.... didn't get to church until the night mass and that was basically a joke...we spent the whole time in the back with G cause she wanted to run a couple miles during mass... so we took her back to the park to get all her energy out...by the time we left she was almost lifeless....
Monday, July 7, 2008
"WOW" what a weekend
WOOOOOWWW
We learned a new word this weekend. Wow, which hardly describes her reactions to fireworks on Thursday night. We went to the Addison, Kaboomtown which was ridiculous....some drunk old people sitting next to us told us that 300,000 people were there for it..i don't know if i should believe them...one dude polished off 2 bottles of wine, by himself, another polished off a handle of some nasty looking whisky and another guy basically finished a 12 pack...Gianna loves drunk old people by the way(fyi the wives were there to take them home) .... The airshow was cool, Gianna was mildly interested in the planes....and the fireworks didn't start till 9.30 which was way past her bedtime and we had to force her to stay awake but once the biplane with the massive sparklers came out....she got so excited...she taught herself a new word ...wow. It's all she could say for the next 25 minutes....She was dancing and screaming WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWW..... clapping and cheering it was unbelievable. We tried to go see more this weekend but it didn't work out.
So Friday we were just as daring....we rode the DART to the zoo. From Plano. It went surprisingly well. Gianna said HIYE to everyone riding...even the homeless guy with a jug of milk whose stench stayed with us for 5 minutes after he walked by. She loved the zoo...I have to say this...The Dallas Zoo is perfect for little kids (even in 100degree weather) because it is small enough to get through in a couple of hours and has most of the cool animals (didn't see lions tigers or bears....go ahead and say it....oh my). The ride back was a little tedious because it was her nap time..but it went fairly well. IT was reassuring to see several other families on the way there and on the way back. When we got home we managed to clean the house before our friends John Sam +1 showed up for dinner.
Friday was extremely productive only for us to do the exact opposite on saturday....nothing...not one thing.....and it was heavenly...(Sunday we did everything else...you know the chores)....i wish 3 day weekends were more frequent...maybe with the cost of gas and commuting going up my employer will entertain the idea HAH who am i kidding
Oh yeah...and about that walking thing.....yeah she's on it... little bits here and there but yesterday i got her to follow me around the floor for a good 5 steps!
We learned a new word this weekend. Wow, which hardly describes her reactions to fireworks on Thursday night. We went to the Addison, Kaboomtown which was ridiculous....some drunk old people sitting next to us told us that 300,000 people were there for it..i don't know if i should believe them...one dude polished off 2 bottles of wine, by himself, another polished off a handle of some nasty looking whisky and another guy basically finished a 12 pack...Gianna loves drunk old people by the way(fyi the wives were there to take them home) .... The airshow was cool, Gianna was mildly interested in the planes....and the fireworks didn't start till 9.30 which was way past her bedtime and we had to force her to stay awake but once the biplane with the massive sparklers came out....she got so excited...she taught herself a new word ...wow. It's all she could say for the next 25 minutes....She was dancing and screaming WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWW..... clapping and cheering it was unbelievable. We tried to go see more this weekend but it didn't work out.
So Friday we were just as daring....we rode the DART to the zoo. From Plano. It went surprisingly well. Gianna said HIYE to everyone riding...even the homeless guy with a jug of milk whose stench stayed with us for 5 minutes after he walked by. She loved the zoo...I have to say this...The Dallas Zoo is perfect for little kids (even in 100degree weather) because it is small enough to get through in a couple of hours and has most of the cool animals (didn't see lions tigers or bears....go ahead and say it....oh my). The ride back was a little tedious because it was her nap time..but it went fairly well. IT was reassuring to see several other families on the way there and on the way back. When we got home we managed to clean the house before our friends John Sam +1 showed up for dinner.
Friday was extremely productive only for us to do the exact opposite on saturday....nothing...not one thing.....and it was heavenly...(Sunday we did everything else...you know the chores)....i wish 3 day weekends were more frequent...maybe with the cost of gas and commuting going up my employer will entertain the idea HAH who am i kidding
Oh yeah...and about that walking thing.....yeah she's on it... little bits here and there but yesterday i got her to follow me around the floor for a good 5 steps!
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
What?
What? What? What?
Crap....
What? ....sorry baby I'm not going to repeat that...
But I am sorry that I have used that word....or worst respond to most of her inquiries with the oft overused interrogative pronoun. She knows how to use it though... and I think she has added a couple of extra words to her vocabulary because of it...light and i am pretty sure baby are in there now too. I have to put some footage of her newest craze..the bumbo. If you know what a bumbo is then you may think...she's a little old for that right? Well she has been reintroduced to it and she thinks it's the coolest toy in the world...she will cram herself into the seat legs out the side or over the back and often get herself stuck...but she thinks it's hilarious. Silly babies are unbelievably hilarious to watch and this one cracks herself up!
Crap....
What? ....sorry baby I'm not going to repeat that...
But I am sorry that I have used that word....or worst respond to most of her inquiries with the oft overused interrogative pronoun. She knows how to use it though... and I think she has added a couple of extra words to her vocabulary because of it...light and i am pretty sure baby are in there now too. I have to put some footage of her newest craze..the bumbo. If you know what a bumbo is then you may think...she's a little old for that right? Well she has been reintroduced to it and she thinks it's the coolest toy in the world...she will cram herself into the seat legs out the side or over the back and often get herself stuck...but she thinks it's hilarious. Silly babies are unbelievably hilarious to watch and this one cracks herself up!
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