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Date Posted: 3/6/2010
After brief negotiations I finally sold my Passat to a girl in her early 20’s. It was sad to watch her “old lady it” out of the drive way. I thought she was going to crash it before I mailed off the title to the DMV. Since I know what area of town she lives in I find myself scanning intersections in her area for my car hoping to get another glimpse of it. When in actuality if I saw her driving it I’d probably cringe with sadness.
But on to new and hopefully better cars. Which brings me to…The Van.
Luke and I have a hard time window shopping for cars. I sold my car on a Friday and we were out “looking” the next day and came home a few hours later driving a 2005 Honda Odyssey. It’s a boring silver color, I’m partial to black or white, but it has a nice charcoal grey interior with leather seats…and more importantly it has heated seats. It doesn’t have anything else fancy except for the automatic sliding doors. I miss my digital display screens and my temperature gauge…and the little ding that tells me I’m almost out of gas…no dings or whistles on this car. Okay well actually the other day it did whistle at me, but I think I didn’t have the sun roof closed. Oh yes, it has a sun roof. But when I tried to use it today the sun came blasting down right into the eyes of my sleepy children, so it may be best to use it on cloudy days…you know every other day around here. lol
My friend Melissa (Melissa 1 – for those of you who need clarification) asked me to send pictures to make it more “real.” :) Sooo here are some pictures of my kid’s exploring our car.
Here is Alyssa demonstrating how the button’s on the 6 disk CD changer work.
With maximum effort and willpower, Evan can get in all by himself.
The back seats can be folded backwards so that they become a flat space for hauling. When the seats are up it’s quite a deep pocket of space.
This blog is dedicated to Melissa and Stepfanie, two of my friends who are more excited about my van than I am. lol Well I must say that even if I’m not excited, I am at least grateful we could afford something that looks decent and fits our family plus some. :)
...Date Posted: 2/12/2010
I asked Alyssa what she wanted for lunch today. Not that she usually gives me an answer I can actually use, but I can always expect something interesting. It’s usually something random like “Spaghetti!” or “Pepsi please!” But today’s answer was extra special…with cheese on top.
Me: Alyssa, what do you want for lunch?
Alyssa: Uh, lunch meat, no onions, no bread, pickles, no onions, cheese stick, no onions……and it went on and on for several minutes. Also picture her with her pointer finger listing these things on her other hand!
She said no onions so many times because I was cracking up laughing when she would say it. She repeats to please me. :)
Let’s just say I think we’ve gone through the “Old MacDonald’s” (as she calls it) drive thru WAY to many times this month!
Food Related
In other food news. Since Sunday afternoon, when Alyssa is eating gold fish or Teddy Graham crackers she says, “WATCH THIS MOMMY!” Then proceeds to bite the head off and then say, “I TOOK IT’S HEAD OFF!” and laughs.
Ann & Kevin Yen – What exactly was the Sunday School lesson on this last week?!!!
Evan’s Food Related Achievements
Evan made his first sign phrase today. “More + Food” Luke and I thought it was pretty cool AND Evan was pretty proud of himself especially since we made such a big fuss over it.
AND he eats with a spoon now and is pretty good at it too. Here are some funny pictures I took of him eating from a “real” plate which makes the pictures extra cute.
Yep, I can get the food to my mouth! (most of the time)
Mmm, scouting out my next scoop.
That’s right, I’m eating from a pink spoon and loving it, at least I have a blue bib and a green cup, that doesn’t happen everyday.
And I shovel in as much as possible, because I just like it better that way.
...Date Posted: 2/8/2010
Figured
We just got back from taking the kids to their very first dentist appointment. It went exactly as I thought it would go.
Evan was 1st up in the chair and had a great time. He even let the dentist clean his teeth all the while laughing and smiling as it vibrated and tickled his teeth.
Alyssa was 2nd up in the chair and was off to a great start smiling and laughing at the dentist. Then she read my mind (It’s weird she’s not crying) and then was like ‘oh yeah I think I’m supposed to cry now’ and released the drama tears. Thankfully her teeth were in excellent condition and a cleaning wasn’t necessary so it was a relatively quick trip in the purple dentist chair. And then of course she was super excited that she was allowed to pick a prize from the toy box despite the crying drama act.
So that said…I was thinking this new baby we’re expecting might be a girl and now I’m hoping I’m wrong and it’s a boy! hehe I guess we’ll find out for sure in a couple of weeks.
Hmm Moment
I wasn’t expecting to learn anything new at this dentist appointment, but I did. The dentist suggests using Infant/Children’s Motrin instead of Tylenol for teething pain. because he doesn’t feel that Tylenol does very much to help teething pain. I pretty much fell the same way, but then he told me something I hadn’t heard before.
He said that Infant Tylenol is so extremely concentrated that a child can be easily overdosed if given 4 times the correct amount by mistake causing damage to the liver. Then he said, however, that to overdose on Motrin you would have to give your child 100 times over the correct amount and then it would cause damage to a kidney which would be better than the liver since you have 2 of them. Not that I plan on overdosing my kids with either, but I thought it was pretty interesting information. I’m not saying out dentist is an expert on children’s medication or anything, but I think until I hear differently I’m going to only stock Motrin…especially with my adventurous 2 year old who has now learned how to push chairs up to the counters and can get into pretty much ANYTHING she wants to.
...Date Posted: 1/10/2010
Seems since Thanksgiving I’ve been in a whilrl wind of holiday’s + sick kids = tired me! So I feel I need to back up and share what’s been going on with us.
Here is the video we sent to my family on Thanksgiving Day.
And here is the Christmas Card we sent out this year…for those who didn’t get one…oopsies, I’m sure we’ll catch you next year. :)
The green “button,” as Luke calls it, says “New Arrival Coming July 2010.” It was my turn to create the card this year so it’s on the girly cutesie side, but Luke technically “created” the card so kudos to him for helping me plagiarize a card I saw on online somewhere…although I created the little dots at the bottom and the dots of the wreath, I’m pretty proud of them. :)
So yes, according the the world wide web I’m due July 27th and my medical peps concur with the date which makes me 11 weeks along. Which means…yes you guessed it we have to get a new car. Normally I’d be excited to get a new car, but seeing as how I ~LOVE~ my current car I am trying to prepare myself to be disappointed with the acquisition of some sort of mini-van. Well so there you have it, lots of new adventures await us in 2010…some exciting and some not so much.
...Date Posted: 11/6/2009
I would love to be a thrifty shopper, but it’s just not in my jeans. (not a typo). I have however finally found something that I think is going to help me!
One of my Northwest mom friends (at heart) just set me a link to an awesome blog. It’s titled thrifty NW mom and this is the mission: Bargains, coupons and money-saving tips for the Northwest and beyond!
I’ve got to say I come across pretty neat bargains sometimes, but this lady has them all! She seems to be the first in the know and so I’ve become a follower so I can glean these many wonderful shopping bargains. :) I already feel like I’ve saved lots of money and I’ve only used 2 of the deals.
Here are the deals I just got:
FREE Veggie Tales DVD (well almost free, it’s 2.99 for shipping)
$15 credit at the Kodak Gallery…I got a really cute photo ornament for $2.99 (shipping).
Well I just thought you all should know about my savings…let’s see…
Regular price Veggie Tales DVD $15.00 minus $3.00 shipping = $12.00
$15 credit minus $3.00 shipping = $12.00
So I saved $24.00 today….or as Luke would put it I spent $6.00 I might not have otherwise spent today…BUT did I mention I saved $24.00?!
I think I did good. AND did I mention I didn’t have to leave my house in the rain to get these deals? What do you think baby Alyssa? Yes, we did good shopping from home today!
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