Not many wknd pics

Not many pics this weekend. Went to a lovely yoga retreat on Saturday and had two sick boys on Sunday. Stayed around the house, kept the fire going and made sure they both got naps!

Out of the bath

Walking around the front yard

Helping daddy get wood for the fire

This is what happens when you give a one year old PB&J toast and eggs for breakfast - he required a bath!

Sleepy boys - I woke up early Saturday morning!

Dressed like Uncle Lary - sweats, tee, and sneakers

Numbers Tuesday

• This past weekend, I made 10 freezer crock pot meals. We spent about $150 at the grocery store and we made dinner for hopefully the next couple weeks. I feel accomplished.
• D has slept through the night for the past 3 days. Have I slept through the night? Not really. Last night was better than the others, but I'm so used to waking up with him, I do it naturally. Then, of course, I have to go check on him to make sure he's OK. Because I'm a mom. 
• They are talking about moving D up to the toddler's room at school. This would be his 3rd class he's been in. It's a bit bittersweet. While I'm excited to watch him grow up, I'm so sad to leave the classrooms that he started with, and the teachers who I have formed relationships with. My little guy. Growing up...
• A neighbor of mine has a game cam set up in the creek near our house. He's logged a bunch of animals cruising about our neighborhood, including a couple mountain lions (so cool). Want to check it out? Here's the link.
• This week, we have two grad students going through their qualifying exams. This means I have spent a large number of hours in practice talks. Ugh. But the good news is that we get to have some parties. Hooray!

Wknd pics

Deer in our yard Sat morning

D watching the folks play music at the Half Moon Bay farmers market

Outside with cat and stick

Happy boy 

Wipeout

Rearranging furniture

Eating tamales and grapes for lunch

Wild kitty

Busy

Freezer meals (more on this later)!

Reading in the bath

Playing with the airplane

Looking out the door at school

Happy Halloween Haiku Friday

 Happy Halloween

from my little dragon, he 

even can roar.

 Costume doesn't last

too long but he looks cute for

mostly blurry pic.

Not much planned, school

parade, potluck. Kids dressed up

is surely the best.

Wknd pics

Rain!

Destroying the dishwasher?

Getting stuck in the dishwasher basket and not knowing how to avoid the spiky things to get out

Beach time with Aunt Betsy and Daddy

My boys

Walking

Beach

Rainbow over Pigeon Point

Pigeon Point lighthouse

Sunset

Moonrise

Morning nap

Hike in the redwoods

Deer

Sitting on the trail, picking up rocks

Riding on Daddy's shoulders

Fire in the fireplace, Halloween lights, walking baby 

Forehead bruise from walking

Playing

Free standing

This morning it was 39F

Last night, Alex was coming back inside. He could see a little boy, a fire, lights inside the house. He thought, "This is perfect". And it's true. We live a wonderful life. I'm trying to appreciate it more!

One of those days...

Do you ever have one of those? It started off pretty good, actually. D slept in his crib until 3am, which was lovely. I woke up to a happy, babbling baby. Alex is feeling like he's coming down with something (joy!), so he was slow to get up. But D and I got up and fed the kitties and had some breakfast and all was right with the world. We hit a ton of traffic on the way in, but that was no big deal. We got to school and D's lunch box had fallen over and a lot of his milk for the day had spilled. Breast milk. That I had worked so hard to pump. Ugh. I hate that. Alex had to run, so I dropped D at school myself. Snack time was just starting, and it was a little girl's birthday, so it was "special snack". D would have nothing to do with it. He didn't want to sit and eat with his friends, he just wanted me to hold him. OK, fine, I can do most things with one hand by now. I tried to get him settled in, and he just was not settling. He had his 1yr vaccines on Tues, so I think he might be feeling a little punky - he just wants mama (I'm not complaining!). I eventually had to leave him, absolutely sobbing. As I walked away, I stopped at the bathroom, thinking he would be done crying when I was done. No dice. He was still sobbing when I walked out the front door. Ugh. I hate that.
I got to work and realized my checking account was overdrawn. Fixed that. Then I got my phone/internet bill. It was $455. Four-hundred fifty-five dollars. Are you kidding me? Then I spent half an hour on the phone with AT&T. Thankfully, the girl I talked to was really efficient and could take care of the ridiculous charges AT&T was trying to throw at me. By this time, I am just beat. I just keep thinking about leaving my little sobbing boy at daycare. I was seriously thinking, can I just stay here with him? Can I just take him home and stay with him all day? I know, it's a silly thought. And, by now, I'm sure he's fine. The thing I am dreading is that I am on his daycare's parent board. We have a meeting tonight from 5-6. Because of the spilled milk, I will have to go nurse him before the meeting and then leave him for an hour to go to the meeting. Ugh. Being a mom is hard.

Bday fun

Eating a hairbrush in the morning

Happy birthday!

Cookie and fruit for birthday snacks

Gather round the bin to play

Cornstarch and water for messy fun (of course he must eat it!)

Playing with the squishy stuff

Of course, get in the bin of cornstarch

Then paint the cabinets

Bye everyone!

Thankfully, D's teachers were super cool

with us destroying the classroom with cornstarch and water (non-Newtonian fluid!). We really need to bring them donuts next week!