Whats Next?

I am amazed how much Drew has learned and developed in a short amount of time. I am always wondering day to day what will be next on his agenda to learn. This morning, was no different.

We have been practicing waving. Myself or someone would hold up our hand and wave bye-bye or hello so Drew could see and take in what we are doing. Sometimes Drew would stretch out his arm, but not wave. And other times, I would move his arm to show him what to do.

Our morning routine was no different this morning. We said bye-bye to his daddy and grandpy and Drew just sat there and ate his oatmeal. When it was time for us to leave the house, his coat was put on, we walk over to the TV to shut it off and we say bye to Steve or Joe (from Blue's Clue's). After the TV was off, I asked Drew if he was ready to go bye-bye and he held up his arm and waved his little hand and did the baby wave. I was amazed!

My little boy waved for the first time to himself as he was leaving. I was so excited! He figured out what to do when he hears bye-bye. Wow! What's next?

Wordless Weds - I like popcorn too!

Timeline Is No More

My weekly "Timeline Thursday" has come to an end. Last week was the final one. The pictures that were published on Thursdays were taken by my cell phone. Those photo's were actually daily photo's I had taken of Drew and sent out to those who "subscribed" to them since the day he was born. I would then gather those photo's from during the week and post them weekly here.

Well, that ended on Saturday when I had changed my cell phone plan to eliminated the data package which had the email component in a lump fee on my cell phone bill. Well, I took it off of our phones to save a little money each month, which in turn eliminated the daily photo.

But, I will now return to the Wordless Wednesday photo's and they will feature Drew. I hope the photo of the day recipients will enjoy the blog along with my regular "fans".

Another Year

Jeff and I in Hawaii on our honeymoon

I can't believe another year has gone by. Today is Jeff and my 4th wedding anniversary. I can't believe what we've been through in the past four years, good and bad. I wouldn't change a thing since it made us grow as a stronger couple.

We celebrated yesterday by going out on a lunch date to a local steak house. Oh, it was yummy. I splurged and had a yummy crab stuffed steak with a sweat potato. And to top it off, a nice glass of wine. Jeff had his usual salmon (yup, at a steak house) and a beer. It was so nice to have a slow paced, just the two of use lunch. We haven't had one of those in such a long time.

Well, here's to another year and many more to come! Happy Anniversary Jeff!!

Relief is on its way!

Its been a little stressful around our household lately. Its nothing Drew has done. Its nothing my husband has done (this time). Its those monthly commitments we call bills.

Its been a challenge around here. The credit card companies have played their tricks and I'm sick of it. I'm tired of being hounded by phone calls at home, work and on my cell phone and the occasional email that I'm late on a payment (I know already that I'm late with the payment, it doesn't matter how much you call me, I still won't have any money until payday!). We have full-time tuition for day care to juggle. I have a husband who likes to have toys (but I think he's finally realized he has to give and take a little more for now). And me, who hates to fall behind on commitments (especially bills).

So this week, I'm scrounging up the little I have left to sell to try to make a little extra money. I signed a contract today to consolidate some credit cards (I loved telling Discover card today what I did). Jeff decided to sell his motorcycle and continue looking for a part-time job.

We don't know if we will be able to afford an April visit to see Zack, but we will try like heck to see him. We canceled our February visit (mutually between us all which was nice) because things are tight, but I don't want to cancel two in-a-row if I could avoid it.

But now with all of our recent decisions this week, I feel a little relieved. I feel a little of the weight lift and I could relax a little. I had a little spring in my step tonight and it was nice.

Timeline Thursday

Mural Project Day 3

The task I wanted to complete last weekend, has finally been done! Thanks to mom who had extra tracing paper lying around, she let me use it to finish tracing the massive picture on the wall.

I started off with the little section I did last Sunday with the itty-bitty piece of graphite paper the company sent me to use over and over (pictured to the right).

I was able to work through the hand cramps and blood loss in my right arm while I completed tracing the Winnie the Pooh mural. I think it looks great and now I have to start planning out the colors I'm going to use. I'm a tad frightened that it won't turn out like it should, but I still have some white paint left over to cover up what ever I don't like and start over (I hope I don't paint over the entire thing though).

I asked Jeff what I should put on the tacked piece of paper behind Pooh Bear, since I had a few ideas but couldn't decide. He said, why not Drew's birth information? I said like his birth announcement? He said, yeah! So, I'm going to give that a shot and see what it looks like! It should be interesting!!

The mural photo I traced from (what's on the wall is too light to show)