HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MANDYDAX!

WOOOOOHOOOOO!

Yesteray when we got hom from daycare and I unbuckled E's carseat he proceeded not to climb out of the car as usual, but to climb into the front driver's seat. I closed his door and opened the driver's side door. He beamed up at me and said, "I drive the car, Mommy!" I said, "Yes, you are!" He tried turning the wheel a couple of times and then he ( Read more... )

Yup. A whooping 2 years old. Today.

We had a party for him on Sunday. It was small - just a few kids and their folks over to play in the sandbox and have snacks. My Mom flew out to help with the party and just have a little visit with us. It was SO nice to see her and have E get some Grammie time. (In fact, he asked for her this morning when he was ( Read more... )

 E recently discovered his belly button and has been poking at it non-stop. Now he has discovered that his index finger fits perfectly up his nose. M and I have tried to discourage him in a causal sort of way. We're thinking a strong reaction will only get his finger to take up permenant residency, so we say calm and slightly disinterested ( Read more... )

The paper is coming along. I just sent it to a friend to proof for me. She's an excellent writer and I never take her comments personally and they are always worthwhile. I have been reading the darn thing every day for a week and have been up at 5am for the past 2 days writing and editing. I'm taking a break today. Instead, I'll be reading some ( Read more... )

No, it's not a diet eating the food the Buddha would eat. We've put our cat Buddha on yet another diet. This time he and Vishnu are getting carefully rationed meals twice a day ( Read more... )

 I thought it would never come, but it's Friday. And we've been cleared to leave at 2:30. I will be staying to write my paper since I haven't been able to do any work at home this week. I am also staying because I have a horse shoe appt at 4:30 ( Read more... )

Next week I have class. I'm kind of excited about it. At least I won't be working ( Read more... )

It's that time of year again. My tomato dealer called me to tell me he had a crate of 2nd picks with my name on it. Yay! (2nd picks are tomatos with blemishes or imperfections that couldn't be sold individually.) Since they are 2nds I can get them at a discount. I paid $7 for the crate. I got them home and started to work on them. I did 3 quarts of ( Read more... )

I entered E in a photo contest. I have no idea what is going to happen with this. Many of my coworkers and our friends believe that E is extremely photogenic and could be a very fine child model. We don't necessarily want him to be a real child model in the sense that it interfers with his childhood, but if he could make enough money to pay for his ( Read more... )