Still here!

I was just trying to remember the last time I wrote a blog post... Well, it's been almost 3 months! Yikes!

Milo will be 11 months old this week.  Where has the time gone?  I need to go into supersonic mode and plan his first birthday party!  We do have a theme, but that's about it.  I need to order stuff and and get some good lists going.  Speaking of Milo... What's he been up to lately you might ask?  Lately he's been:

Listening to Daddy play the guitar...

Driving...

Standing...

Eating my laptop cables whenever possible...



Learning to play the drums...



Grocery shopping in his PJs (While his Sis dances in the background)

Yelling at Mama to get out of bed...

Relaxing while watching the ceiling fan...

Eating with a spoon (sorta)...

What's Cady been up to?  She finished up basketball and started track.  Then she finished track and is now finishing up her last month of 7th grade.  She has field trips and concerts and all sorts of fun stuff coming up.  We also signed her up for a week long music came this summer.

Running the 800 meter...

Posing at the start line...



Napping with the dreaded cat...

Being silly with Matt at the Winspear (we were there to see 2Cellos)!

Winspear...

Winspear with Mama!

Getting 2Cellos autographs - the show was fantastic!

So that's a quick synopsis of what's been up.  Gage has been away at school and won't be home until end of May.  He did come home for a few days at Easter but I don't have any pics of that!  Oops.  He is finishing finals this week and heading to Belgium next week for a mission trip.  We are SO proud of him!  I'll be glad when he gets home for the summer so that we can all spend some time together!

A trip, 8 months and some Sci-Fi

How goes it Muggle fools?  I thought I'd check in and share some  insta-happies with you all.  Here's what's been happening since my last post:

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Milo has developed an affinity for Little Einsteins.  If you haven't seen the show, well, it's riveting.  He laughs and squeals when it comes on.  We even have it set up to record in our DVR - that's serious.  It's right up there with Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and Survivor now. 

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I had to go to Kansas City for a week... It was very sad... I had never left Milo for more than a few hours and now I was expected to attend some dumb old corporate conference and leave everyone for 5 days.  It was awful... I cried... a lot.

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 But at least Matt and Cady wrote me lots of letters and hid them in my suitcase!  This made me happy!

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But then it was unbelievably friggin' cold and that made me sad again...  It snowed and snowed and even got down to zero one day while I was there!  This was the last day I was there... I don't have a screenshot of the 5 days before this!

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I did get to eat some yummy food when I was in KC.  I ate out A LOT (every meal...) and charged all that expensive ass food to my corporate card so that made me feel a little better!

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When I came home Cady was thrilled to see me... haha!

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That weekend was Super Bowl weekend and we decided to have some friends over.  Because Syd smelled like old garbage with rotten fish breath, we decided to give her a spa day... at home.  She doesn't look happy "during" the bath but as you can see she was quite smiley afterwards!

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Our friends Vanessa and Woody watched the Super Bowl with us.  They hadn't seen Milo since he was a couple of months old!  They were also one of his first visitors at the hospital when he was born so I needed to make sure I got a pic.

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Hmm, what else?  Milo got a new ball...

He can do mad tricks with it... the kid has skills, just saying.

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He also got a new book... he can read it all, I promise.

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And he also got some new bath toys.  Wait, I'm starting to sense a pattern... Is he spoiled?

No way a face that sweet could ever be spoiled! ;o)

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Last weekend we headed out to the Sci-Fi Expo.  It was an amazing display of freaks and geeks - and just plain weirdos!

Milo may or may not have gotten this new inflatable Spider-Man... ok, he's totally spoiled!

Best Part?  Cady and I got to see a real Dalek!  And boo on you if you don't know what a Dalek is.  You can't be in our Doctor Who club.



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This boy turned 8 months (not pictured... I turned 38 - wth?!)  He is the cutest Mardi Gras partier everrr.

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And Cady played her final b-ball game of the season.  She did great and really enjoyed it but I'm happy she won't be quite as busy anymore!

That's my girl shootin' a free throw.  I'm still working on beating her and Matt at H.O.R.S.E P.I.G. (Horse takes fooooooorrrreeeeevvvveeerrrrr - we have resorted to playing PIG)

P.S. Lent has officially started and we have decided as a family to sit at the table and eat together more often.  We eat together nearly every night but it's generally in the living room while watching whatever is in the DVR.  Our goal is to sit down to dinner at least twice a week - no technology.  It'll be fun, way easier than giving up whiskey and Dr. Pepper like I did that one year; THAT was brutal. 

P.S.S. Today is Valentines Day.  I'm going to call it a success because I not only ate the chocolate that I had purchased for Matt and Cady, I'm also in the process of eating the chocolate that Matt gave me. 

P.S.S.S. Matt and I have started training for a triathlon.  We actually get up at 5AM and work out on some days.  It's tough but we are working hard.  Therefore, I'm going to try and eat less chocolate. 

Hangin' with the Littles (here's what we've been up to)

What beautiful weather we've had here in North Texas lately.  Nice weather is motivating, it makes you want to do stuff like:

wear glasses and spend lots of time in your jumpee...

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do some of your Pinterest craft activities...

I think they turned out cute:



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Let's see...  a sunny day makes you want to head to the park...

I took Milo on the slide for the first time...  And then we tried to teach Syd to slide as well.

She's all "Pfft! If Milo the hairless puppy can do it, I can too!"

And she did...  Yep, she's an expert.

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Cady bought me these amazing Doctor Who sticky notes and I've been strategically placing them around the house - cause Daleks make me smile.  If you're not a Whovian, that makes no sense...

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Milo watched the Presidential Inauguration.  His favorite part was listening to Beyonce "not" sing the National Anthem. (I love his chubby little feet!)

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I took Cady and her friend out for a girls lunch and some shopping...

And Milo enjoyed the outing as well (he loves his new lovey - it's called Sir Prancelot, ha!)  I think he looks like a precious doll in this pic!

And we ate at McDonald's (my first time in 2013) and got a mini star wars skateboard that obvi belongs on Milo's head. 



So that's about it.  Cady's got a basketball game this week, I'm working on a few projects that I might write about later and then I'm prepping to be out of town for a business conference next week.  I'm not sure how that's going to go but I'm trying to remain positive. 

Milo - 7 months!

Can you be believe Smilo Milo is 7 months?!  I cannot...  I nearly hyperventilate when I think that he's closer to being a year old now then a newborn! Waaaaaaaaaaaah!  I can't believe God blessed us with such a sweet baby that I could.not.possibly love more!  Let's see what's he's into lately. 



His MOST FAVORITE thing in the world right now is his "Jumpee".  This kid loves to jump.  I'll try to take a video of him in action soon and post.  It's a show, I'm telling ya.  When he first got it (it was an early Christmas present) we would pop him in there and then sit around and watch cause it's so funny!

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He sits in a regular high chair when we go out to eat now!  I think that's a pretty big deal.  We finally broke down and bought him a high chair cover to keep in his diaper bag because I refuse to put him in one without a cover.  gross... Then our car got broken into and someone stole our diaper bag.  WTH?!  Not even kidding.  We had one of those expensive trendy messenger type diaper bags so we can only assume that whoever stole it thought it was a laptop case.  dumb.  We just recently had to buy a (another) new restaurant high chair cover.  He used it last night and still loves it!  Yay for sitting at the table like a big boy!  Boo for thieves.

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He has started to eat actual solid type food - not just the purees.  In this pic I had given him some apple puffs (sort of like cheerios).  He is trying to convince me with that adorable smile that he ate them all.  Even when I asked him if he had anything in his left hand...

This is actually what I found in his hand when I opened it!  He is such a scavenger.  If you leave ANYTHING within arms reach he will grab it and hoard it away somewhere.

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He loves remote controls, phones and his Sissy.  We keep saying we are going to get him a baby remote or phone but haven't gotten around to it yet.  He only got like a bajillion toys for Christmas but most days he'd rather play with a piece of trash he finds on the floor. 

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Don't let all those cute pics fool you.  He can throw a bit of a fit some days.  On this particular day he DID NOT want to take a nap (even tho he was way overtired), so he snatched a stack of his diapers and tried to rip them all up.  It pissed him off even more when I laughed and grabbed my phone to take a picture. heee!

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We think he is pretty much a rock star (KISS shirt and drums like his Daddy).  He's mastered sitting up and rolling and squirming and scooting all around but hasn't started crawling yet.  Lord help us when he does...  Happy 7 months Baby Milo!