Hey sissy!

I wants a new blog skin too! Help a girl out! Can you do one based on Pidge?! Blue or something and pics, but still pretty like I would want (I refuse to give him nothing but boy stuff. His mamma is a girl, and if a pink sippy cup ends up in his diaper bag, so be it! ;-)

My baby is One!!!

I can not believe it has been an entire year! Hubby and I sat down last night and started looking at photos from his birth and on. So cute! Then he decided to pull up some video files. The first one he pulls up, and boom, in full color across his computer screen is my son, crowning. ;-) He actually jumped back in his chair a little and said "Whoa!" It was so funny! I love that we have video of his birth! (Thank you Auntie LaLa, your first official act of Auntie-ism was a smashing success!) It was just such a special moment, and I love that I can relive it (sorry, it just doesn't gross me out. It is the most important moment in my life, and I can't help but love it.) Of course, mommy started crying looking through all those picks. One comes SO fast!

This week, my little genius has come to realize that he can decide when and where to play peak-a-boo. He has initiated peak a boo once or twice before, but my favorite was today. Daddy brought him in to the bedroom to lay down for a nap and he popped his little head up, olled over to his back and grabbed right on to the sheet and pulled it up over his head, blocking his view of his daddy, then pulled it down and started giggling. Daddy says "Where's Baby? Oh, there he is!" over and over and they played for like 5 minutes. It was SO adorable.

He is trying something new every day and it is such a fun, exciting, scary time in our house. Here's to another year of blessings and fun with my baby boy. I Love you!!

Disneyland... The Happiest place on earth

My sissy, all grown up

In response to my mother's spectacular blog, which can be found at indigorobe.blogspot.com (I can't get the links to work. Grrr!)

I want you both to know this post made me cry and laugh. I know this is hard on you, mama, but you will be okay, and so will she. You know how we say, when you and I are around each other, suddenly we both depend on each other so much, we feel downright incompetent. When we are together, it is just easier and natural for us to lean on and depend on each other. But we survive apart every day, and Sissy will be exactly the same. She is a strong, confident, smart, beautiful woman who can do for herself, if only she gets the chance. I am so glad that she has this wonderful opportunity to spread her wings and fly. Your nest may feel empty, but you know both of your girls will always be your babies, ad are always happy to let you treat them as such (yay for mommy cooking Thanksgiving AND Christmas dinner this year! ;-)

Sissy, this is so exciting and I am SOOO happy for you. I already miss you (which is funny, since we haven't lived in the same house for almost four years) knowing how far away you are. I can't wait to see you in two weeks, and get to experience grown-up life through the eyes of my baby sister. Wow, that totally blows my mind. You will forever be the cool aunt that made Pidgeon's parents think Disneyland is a totally appropriate place to take him for his first birthday, and many many many more times each year, just cuz we gotta visit Auntie LaLa. He loves you, and I know he will love visiting you. I can't believe you are working at Disneyland!!! Remember as a kid, when you would say this was a dream job, and we'd all just laugh. Who ever thought it would become a reality, a real life job with real life pay and a real life apartment! yay! I am so proud of you. (Boy, rambling really does run in the family! I just have so many things to say to you!)

I want you to know most of all, sissy, that I am so proud of how brave you are. None of my plans were ever as ambitious as this. You really went after your dream and as scary as it may seem sometimes, I hope that when you wake up in the morning, and see your castle, you will think of me and know that I am behind you 100% of the way. I know you can do this. I love you!

Hamster on a Piano

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRzTfgds0UI

I wish EVERY SINGLE BLOGGER would copy this and put it on their blog because EVERY SINGLE American needs to know this!!!

Tuesday, October 07, 2008
AIG Executives Blow $440,000 After Getting Bailout

If you'd just gotten a government bailout, you might be tempted to hold a retreat at a nice California hotel -- and that's exactly what American International Group (AIG: 3.51, -0.36, -9.30%) executives did.

The committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing on Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time. to address and examine downfall of AIG, the world’s largest insurance company. The committee planned to discuss the financial excesses and regulatory mistakes that led to AIG’s government bailout.

One of the items discussed was AIG’s expenditure of $440,000 for a corporate retreat at the St. Regis Monarch Beach resort in Los Angeles, Calif. These funds were spent on Sept. 22, a week after the Federal Reserve extended an $85 billion emergency loan to AIG to keep it from going bankrupt due to insurance liabilities.

According to the receipt from the St. Regis, the eight-day company retreat was a lavish one -- $139,000 was spent on hotel rooms, while even more money -- $147,301 -- was spent on banquets. Another $23,380 was spent on undisclosed spa treatments and another $6,939 was spent on golf. A full $9,980 was spent on room service and food and cocktails at the hotel lounge.

The St. Regis Monarch Beach resort is described on its Web site as “a landmark resort of legendary proportions.”


Love you Mommy!!!

Hey! I'm one of THOSE moms!

You know, the ones who stroll trough the mall pushing a stroller ahead of them and stopping every ten minutes to stick a binky back in the kids mouth, or pick up a toy, or stop to feed him. We had SO much fun! Daddy went to a movie with Uncle Mike and we at lunch (baby had a bottle, I had a burrito.) Then we went shopping. I wanted to find some slip on shoes to wear around the house. In the middle of famous footwear, right as I find the pairs I want to try on, Andrew has a breakdown. Crying... loudly! But damn it, I wanted those shoes! So i sat myself down and made him a bottle in the middle of the shoe store. The nice sales lady came over a few minutes later and asked if I needed any help and took my boxes up to the counter for me. As I am struggling to wheel the stroller to the front when, duh-da-da-duh! Super Dad arrives! He took the baby and the bottle and I paid for my shoes and all was good. Yay!

It was tons of fun. Andrew loves the mall and is such a flirt! When he is fed and changed he will smile at anything that moves. I even spent $5 at one of those picture booths and took pictures of the two of us on our mommy and me shopping trip. Only one turned out really cute, but that's ok. I love it! What a great day! ;-)