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weekend recap & umbrella overload
First, for the weekend recap…it was busy and fun. And sunny and nice. There is officially hope that summer is almost here. And that also means that my allergies should be improving soon.
- The boys were off school Friday, John took the day off (he had his repeat/repeat MRI appt). Met Jen & her kids for a pizza lunch so Timmy got in some BFF time. Got the oil changed in my car (exciting, huh?) and John took the big boys to a Yankee game that night.
- Saturday we had brunch with the boys racehorse…it was fun and great to see the horse again. She’s getting so big. More on that later this week with pictures. Had a photoshoot on Saturday evening that went really well. Editing now and hoping to post later this week too.
- Sunday I had a photo shoot in Long Island City (fantastic views of the whole Manhattan skyline- loving that!) with a great little family. Again, hopefully posting pix later this week sometime. Kinda lazed out the rest of the day and tried to catch up with some editing. Ended up having an hour + catch with the boys in the backyard. Jack is way more patient with me than Patrick (okay, I’m not nearly what you would call athletic). Patrick laughs when I miss the ball or throw "like a girl". Jack is very encouraging. And man, that kid can catch pop ups like crazy! Watched the whole Indy 500 just cause I wanted to see Danica win, but she didn’t. Loved how she tried to go after the driver who crashed her, though. Girls got spunk!
- Hit the beach today at long last. Set up the locker and cleaned it out with lots of help from John. Went down to the sand for a bit, but it was sooooo windy; we didn’t last long. Went up to the playground instead and had eyeballs and a mouth full of flying sand. But, I really didn’t care…it was just so nice to be back and in the sun. We all got a little color. Timmy LOVES the beach and had a great time and didn’t want to leave. He fell asleep hard in the car and slept from 4:30-5:45 when we had to wake him up.
Leaving you with an overload of umbrella pictures from last Thursday at the boys baseball game. Had to do something to keep Timmy occupied. A few shots of the boys during the game, too. And yes, I bought the polka dot umbrella specifically to take pictures with.
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blurb book
Since the whole scrapbooking thing has fallen by the wayside lately, I had to do SOMETHING to use all those 100,000 pictures I take of us a year. Ok, maybe not really 100,000 but close. So I found this super cool thing online at blurb books where you basically publish your own book. They have a zillion different templates to plop your pictures into, backgrounds, colors, designs, you name it. Plus you can use any font in your computer. So cool, creative and fun. And I got to use all my favorite pictures to boot. I pulled almost all of the journaling right off my blog which makes it so much easier.
Here are a few shots of the book- nothing spectacular. It looks so much better in real life. The whole book is about 141 pages long. Hardcover with a dustjacket and everything. Thanks to Patrick for being my book holding helper.
And for a little sneak preview of my next project: a picture wall for the den. There are currently two small picture shelves there above the couch, but I wanted to do something different. Here are the frames layed out on the living room floor. I just ordered all the pictures for the frames and am waiting for them to come in. Doing a mix of black & white and color. The actual hanging is going to be umm…challenging, I think. I hope it looks as good in real life as it does in my head.
Tommorrow is the wedding- getting excited. I will post pictures on that as soon as I can. The boys finished up their speeches tonight and they are all ready to go. Today I had a shoot for the gup baby- she has her christening tommorrow. I feel so bad that I can’t be there for the actual christening, but that would be a little difficult! So we got in a ton of shots today. Planning on posting those early next week. But here’s one little sneak peek until then…
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the day (and night) from you know where
Oh. My. God. I totally quit. Don’t wanna play anymore.
Last night Timmy decided it would be a great idea to not sleep. Pretty much at all. The whole night. He ended up having a very busy day yesterday (Thursday). Jen and Jack watched him in the morning so I could get my hair highlighted, then we headed over to Sharon & Olivia’s for a playdate there. By the time I looked at the clock, it was almost time to get the big boys from school. So no nap, but I figured it would be okay since with the PT/OT thing, he is generally not napping on Tuesdays or Thursdays. And he slept til 8:25am Thursday morning. Wrong. By bedtime, he was a total mess, trantrums, tripping over himself. He even whacked his head on a toy and gave himself a swollen eye (yeah, thats gonna look great for the wedding pictures Sunday!). Well, he didn’t sleep last night. Just didn’t. He was up crying, schutching, whining, screaming, kicking, you name it. I don’t know why. Maybe overtired + lack of papi = no sleep? I tried everything…ignoring, comforting, holding, rocking, laying in his bed, laying in my bed, yelling, threatening, kissing…nothing!!!! So he slept for maybe 3 hrs (not consecutive either) and was just grumpier each time he woke up. But I didn’t cave and give him the papi!! Not that he asked for it, even, but it probably wouldv’e helped. He was so exhausted I think he was a little delirious! Seriously. He was SCREAMING at me things like, "I spray the flowers!", "I want my roly-poly teddy bear!" (he dosen’t have a teddy bear), "I like honey-nut cheerios!" (he dosen’t). If it wasn’t like 4am and maybe if I had actually slept for more than 15 minutes prior, it would’ve been funny. And then to top it off with the sleeping, or lack thereof, he was up for the day at 6:10am. Nope. I called the doctor’s office then to make an appointment for this morning, hoping for a good old raging ear infection. Nope again. He’s totally fine. Let the beatings commence! (okay, before you call CPS, I didn’t lay a finger on the kid).
In the meantime, Jack decided he wasn’t going to sleep either. He was awake til 3am. Don’t know why. Neither does he. He was a whole lot of fun today too, you can imagine.
I had a slight nervous breakdown at breakfast, being so sick of cleaning up after everyone, all the time. They all seem to think I’m the magic mommy maid. So when they all leave their crap wherever it happens to land, it will magically be cleaned up, washed, and returned to it’s proper place so that when they are looking for it 2 minutes before they are supposed to be someplace (and they only have 2 minutes because even though I asked them to be ready about 20 minutes ago, they were too busy whining and complaining and dawdling about whatever that they couldn’t get ready) it’s amazingly where it should be. I’m all done. Can’t find your (insert item here)__________? Oh, that’s really too bad. Guess you will have to play soccer with one cleat. SO DONE!!!!
Then after going out in the pouring rain to the doctor, dry cleaner, bank, gas station (which, by the way was just the cherry on the cake of my day…. $4.01 per gallon of regular? WTF?) and taking Timmy to his gym class, we come home from class and Timmy proceeds to pee all over the floor, of course getting his sneakers totally soaked with pee too. Yeah. Great, now that will be 7 loads of laundry for today (that are still sitting clean but not folded). Good times!
The day did start to improve from there a little bit. Timmy did take a 2hr nap. I took a 20 minute nap while rocking him. I started working on one of the photo projects for the house. And, the best part…Mom & Ken brought me my two favorite dishes from the Peking Duck House in Chinatown! (crunchy greenbeans with crumbled pork & chicken with walnuts) Yum. Eating right now. And so far Timmy is sleeping. But it’s still early.
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visitors day, japan, & projects
Last Thursday (see, I’m a week behind…arrrggghh!) was Visitors Day at the boys school. The theme this year was It’s a small world and it was very, very cute. John couldn’t make it so my mom came along so each boy had a visitor in their classroom. They started in the gym with a Japanese story and song that they all played on their recorders. Then it was off to the classrooms (in which I had exactly 7.5 minutes each) to hear some presentations on Japan and see the haiku’s the boys wrote along with the art they made. It was a really great Japan presentation. You could totally tell how hard the whole class (and the teachers) worked on the whole thing. And both boys received HUGE compliments from their teachers on their Haiku’s.
Grandma took the boys out to lunch while I took Timmy to PT & OT. Even though I felt bad I couldn’t be in two places at once (I really wanted to take them out to lunch), they didn’t really seem to mind as they each ended up going with Grandma to the store and getting 5 new Kooky Pens each. And on a side note about those Kooky Pens…they have so many now, that Patrick’s backpack actually broke under the weight of all the pens hanging off the zipper today.
In other news around here, I am working on a few photographic projects around the house. Went to HomeGoods and just about bought them out of frames. I have a project in mind for the den, living room, and timmy’s room for now. Then moving on to the boys room and our room last. Might even throw something in the dining room someplace in there too. Ya know, in all my free time! I will post pictures when each project gets moving. Maybe some before & afters.
Getting everyone ready for the big wedding (grandma & grandpa’s) on this Sunday. It should be a whole lot of fun!
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superboy!
If Timmy could read, and saw the title, he would say "don’t call me like that. i not superboy. I am SOOP-erman!!" His favorite song right now is I am Superman from REM- I put it on my ipod for him and whenever I play it, he gets that Timmy "hehehe" laugh. Even after the 5th time in a row.
Big news…we took away the papis (that would be pacifiers). Well, we didn’t…the papi fairy came and took them to the little babies who didn’t have papis. And she left him $10 so he could go shopping for a new toy. I wasn’t planning on having the papi fairy show up right now, but after the Mets game on Saturday, Timmy fell asleep in the car (at 5pm!) on the way home and I couldn’t wake him up for 2 hrs! He didn’t have the papi for that long nap (he only has it in his bed for naps and bedtime) so we talked about it. We discussed how he obviously didn’t need it to sleep, and that he’s not a baby anymore (waaaaaa! says mommy) since he sleeps in a big boy bed, wears big boy underwear, goes to big boy school, etc so he probably shouldn’t have a papi anymore since he’s not a baby. Plus the fact that he makes it a point to tell everyone "i not a baby! i’m a big boy!". I asked him if he thought he was ready for the papi fairy to come and take the papis and he said yes. Could it really, really be this easy? I wasn’t hopeful.
The reason I wasn’t hopeful… two words. Jack & Patrick. When it was their turn for the papi fairy to pay a visit after much discussion about the whole deal (no more papis, papis for the babies, a new toy)… the first night they were going to bed everything seemed fine, UNTIL… they got into bed, broke out into simultaneous crying fits, and screaming "I can’t brEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEathe without it!!!" They were so addicted and were going thru withdrawl. Like crackheads. It was like this for about 3 days. Not so much.
So, things seem to be going pretty well with Timmy (I’m afraid to post it cause I don’t want to jinx it). Went to bed no problem the first night (Saturday) and slept thru til 8am. No nap on Sunday though, but he did play in his bed for an hour. Sunday he had 3 (yes 3!) accidents. I think he was so tired without the nap he just couldn’t get it together. Last night was okay. He went to bed early since he was such a total wreck (he really needed that nap!) slept til 4am and was up for half an hour looking for the damn papi. He did go back to sleep til around 7:15am. Not bad. And today, he was nowhere near napping when I put him down but he was so tired. So I told him I was going to rock him, and he fell right asleep and napped for 2hrs. With no papi. Woohoo!
