Pull out your party hat!!!

For Father's Day this year, we spent the majority of our day in a car driving back from Ocean City.  I drove while Jason sat back and read the important parts out loud from our new book "Why Enough is Never Enough: Overcoming Worries About Money."  This book came along at exactly the right time for us considering how much money I spent on farm fresh chickens and organic expeller pressed coconut oil the last few weeks!  And my accidental purchase of 10 dozen farm fresh eggs...I have no idea what happened there...  I strongly recommend this book!  The author Gregory S. Jeffrey not only has a first name for his last name which instantly shoots him into the cool category along with Kirk Cameron and Olivia Newton John (THE TRIFECTA!!!), but he also is very witty and funny with his relaxed perspective about money.


But Father's Day didn't end with our road trip.  Leo even told Dad to kick up his feet, sit back and relax for his own personal spa day at home:




And, although this Father's Day card came a couple weeks early for Jason, he didn't mind.  This card was burning a hole in my pocket and needed to be read fast!



(To the untrained eye, there is no positive line.  To the woman who is actually reading the test in her pajamas outside in the bright sunlight while holding a flashlight in one hand and holding the test in the other only a half a centimeter from her pupil while the test is raised at a 45 degree angle, that is most definitely a positive!!!)

But we had even more fun telling his parents.  When they arrived at the train station after a 2-day journey from Fredericksburg, Texas, we piled in the minivan and let them know that we didn't have time to grab a few things from the store so we would have to make a super quick stop on the way home.  I gave Carla The List and asked if she would mind helping me grab everything.



That was fun :)  And now perhaps some of you understand the irregularity of posts and the complete absence of any post that references food.  I accidentally posted the Zucchini Banana Bread recipe while nauseous and now zucchini makes me sick to my stomach...uh oh...need to stop writing about zucchini now...

Now - Even though this is my third and I ought to be a pro by now, it is always important to brush up on my skills when you are talking about something as important as a new child.  Upon the advice of my very wise sister-in-law, who delivered my newest niece just one week ago, I checked out this site: Instrucciones para cuidar un bebĂ©.

Here are just a few samples from their uber-important safety tips and tools for parents-to-be:






This is only a small sampling of their wisdom!!  For the rest of their sage advice, please visit their website!

And now if you will excuse me.  I'm going to go stuff my face with enough bread and sugar to stop the nausea.

And now for his real gift!

We joked about recycling gifts for Leo's birthday, but his real birthday was Saturday the 18th, so we hopped in the car and went to the beach for the weekend!  Jason works with a sweet woman who gifted us her Ocean City condo for the weekend and we gladly took advantage of the gift!!








On Leo's birthday, we walked down the Ocean City boardwalk to wear the kids out before bed.  On a Saturday night...

Have you ever? 

Don't...It was beyond depressing.  Why?  Between the droves of teens rushing down to the "party" at the fairgrounds half-dressed to the full-grown but half-drunk adults chasing after them trying to find the party as well, we just did not belong. 

And the 11 year old girls getting tramp stamp henna tattoos...paid in full by dear old mom...

Oh, and there was that girl wearing a skin-tight flesh-colored body suit with fabric strawberries dangling all over it??????  WHAT???  And she was with her mom????  Okay - Moving right along!


But we made the best of it and had a little birthday treat for Leo and Elena.


While we were sitting there enjoying our ice cream, there was a girl advertising a small hole-in-the-wall store with a bubble gun.  (And by small hole-in-the-wall store I mean a store chock-full of paraphernalia.  Ocean City is a party town plain and simple.)


Leo spent the next hour talking incessantly about this bubble gun.  So we promised we would find him one!!!


We stopped at the first beach store we found and Jason ran in to find the gun.  (Ignore the lack of shorts in these photos - Leo was so excited he peed his pants.)








So now can we please be moved out of the "Cheapest Parents In America" category???

Round 2...

Every summer, Jason leaves for a week to go on a mission trip with his Youth Group.  This year, just like all the others, he snuck out the door at 4:30 am to get on the road.  And, in keeping with tradition, Leo pulled the exact same move two years in a row.

Last year, on the very first day Jason left for his mission trip ...


and just after The Brownaroo FestiWill of Music...


(so named for the one and only Will Brown - the guy on the mike) ...


...Leo puked in his bed.


(I assure you it had nothing to do with the above picture.  Everyone has to pull their weight at the FestiWill of Music.  Everyone is given rotating jobs to do.  That's just how it works.)

Now, one year later, Jason happily picks up his pillow and his bag and he quietly exits the Pukedom.  Shortly after he leaves, Leo wakes up and comes to my room armed with his heavy metal tractor.  I pull him up and quietly tell him it's not time to wake up.  He lays down and plays quietly with his tractor (I should have known something was up!!!!!!)

A half-hour later, he sits up, rubs his belly and says, "My belly hurts" and proceeds to vomit not once, not twice, but 4 times on my bed.  I think...I didn't have my glasses on and I'm completely blind so all I saw was a reddish tinge coming out of one of his 4 eyes.  I'm telling you - I'm completely blind!


I couldn't even reach out to grab him because I didn't know where I was grabbing.  Blindness = no depth perception whatsoever.  So I scrambled for my glasses, waited until he was done and transferred him to the bathroom to clean up. 

The culprit this year (in my opinion) was the red Flavor Ice he got his hands on last night.  We tried to convince him that blue or green were equally as delicious, but he wanted red!  I don't trust Red 40.  Not since, many years ago, a friend did an experiment on her children and gave them Red 40 and we sat back to watch the madness. 


He is resting up now.  And it's just like last year - Things can only get better from here!!!

The Funhouse

PEEK-A-BOO!!!


There is all sorts of fun to be had at my sister's house!

Between the many hidden trap doors and the roller coaster rides, my kids are set.  Yup.  A real roller coaster ride.  And we know for sure that the conductor is not on drugs AND has all his teeth! 

Check it out:









These kids have the best cousins EVER!!!!

Scaredy Pants

You know how in the beginning of Monsters Inc. the monsters sneak into the simulation room to scare the living daylights out of the little boy??

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Slowly he creeps into the room sneaking up on the unsuspecting boy sleeping soundly in his bed...





 Then, just as he is about to throw his arms up in the air growling as loud as he can to wake the boy up,

He ends up tripping in a panic and falling over as audiences everywhere giggle with joy
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 Poor kid nearly had a heart attack watching that movie!!

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 But he's not scared of butterflies.  This tough guy will chase the hell out of some butterflies!!


With a STICK too!!
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