Monday, December 15, 2008

girl cheese

tonight i asked the kids if they would like to have a grilled cheese sandwich. miss ma'am was quick to say yes, but mr.man quite perplexed replied

no...i want boy cheese sanich.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

rock n roll...

mr.man loves hannah montana too. he likes to sing along & the fact that the songs always rhyme makes it easy for him. his favorite phrase when referring to music is "rock n roll". ms.ma'am and he put on a littlest pet shop band (complete with light-up stage) and then the pets proceed to "rock n roll".

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

today was the day...

that i started mr.man potty-training. the real, hard-core, no-more-diapers potty-training.

mr.man and i went to the waterpark today with my friend, kat & her kid. we were there for about an hour when mr.man decides to take a holy-crap in his cars swim trunks. i am talking disgusting. it smelled so bad. i didnt know what to do. he didnt have on a lil swimmers because i am too cheap to buy them (i so regret this poor choice is cutting-corners of our budget! we can live without food, i swear! but lil swimmers should have been a must-buy!). so it is officially time to go for us. luckily, none of the crap spilled out in the waterpark so no one found out what my kid did. (dont worry all the poop was maintained in the netting of his swim trunks)

i get him to the car & lay down the towel in the trunk of our suv & it is a mess. i try pulling the swim trunks off & it is like crap EVERYWHERE! he is crying because it is gross-feeling (and i am practically crying because it is gross overall!) and the crap is just like all down his legs...anyways, you get it, i know. i wont even tell you about the fact that he loves to eat popcorn seeds...

so, it is time for the undies. from the time i attempted to contain the crap & put him in the booster seat i told him "no more diapers" to which he cried "pwees dipuhs pweees!" halfway home before falling asleep.

at home, potty-training began & in less than an hour, he managed to:

* pee in the toliet (yay mr.man!)
* pee AT the toliet but with his undies still on, so a big puddle on the floor
* crap hiding behind the couch (another glorious crap to clean up!)
* pee in the kitchen standing on his little kid chair
* pee at the dinner table with all of us present to witness to sights & sounds (yes, sounds)

i could not figure out how he could have this much pee in him, until i caught him sneaking water from a hidden waterpark cup from earlier today.

several hours later he managed to have numerous false-alarms of poop (which resulted in a lot of farts) and/or pee, and only minutes after a "test-pee" he peed in his little tikes car. then an hour or so later, he did pee again in the potty with dad helping. (yay again)

he is asleep now, with a diaper, because i cannot possibly handle the pee in the middle of the night. i have to recover & have downtime sometime & that is the only time.

tomorrow will hopefully be better.

Monday, June 9, 2008

please invite someone...


to this garage sale. this was our garage sale sign - it happened totally by accident but it was so darn hilarious we kept it!

Monday, May 19, 2008

stds to cuddle...





what better way to tell your loved one (or ex-loved) that you have passed them some super-fun love-bug (read: sphyllis) than with a plush microbe toy!! now you can snuggle up (in more than one way!) with your fave disease!










i am also lovin the yoda backpack - mr.man would love it!





Wednesday, May 14, 2008

one reason i don't love okiehoma

i just love the sound of sirens...yea right!

yes, ms.ma'am is deathly afraid of tornados...she gets very freaked out (I do too but i have to retain the "mom face of calmness").

just a couple weeks ago we were literally right next to a possible tornado, it was pretty scary since the hail was very big & hurt (I had to carry mr.man across the parking lot at the mall because we had to pick ms.ma'am up at gymnastics, so imagine struggling to carry a 30+lb kid who just goes limp when i am carrying him 'cause he wants to walk, while trying to shield his head & taking blows from the darn hail size of quarters! - it was not fun...)

plus, this is the best part, the tornado sirens are going off so i go into the gym to get ms.ma'am and the front desk people, coaches, gymnsts, everyone are completely oblivious to the sirens because they cant hear them over the energy-music they have blaring! they are still like tumbling & doing bars & i just get this sense that they will do gymnastics til it kills 'em (the way these crazies act, it is scary - like steroid crazy! there are kids who are like 13 and look 7 with freakish "muscle & fitness" bodies eating protien bars as snacks! and crying when their parents yell at them to do better, etc. or this one girl who had on a cast on her wrist whose mom was telling her to do aerials, which are the one-handed cartwheels)...i truly think they would die happy that way - swept up into the sky doing the splitz.

anyways, sorry if that was a little long, but those gymnastics people make me laugh sometimes (embarrassingly out loud too), because i think they forget that these are just kids...and its supposed to be fun i thought. but maybe i am wrong because everyone else seems to be fine with coaches yelling at their 5 year olds til they cry, but i am so not cool with that, so maybe gymanstics wont work out as a life-long sport with our family - or maybe just not at this place where the motto should be "Gymnastics til it kills you...or til the foot smell does" - Im not sure which is worse.

so those are my thoughts on this gymnastics place...more than you needed to know, i know. but the tornado thing reminded me of all that stuff. ms.ma'am will be taking the summer off to enjoy real life, which i am sure the gymnastics-people will have a fit hearing, but oh well...it will be nice to be away from the smell of 1,000 sweaty feet for a few months...

Thursday, May 8, 2008

girl things...

ms. ma'am asked if she could have her own email address, since her bf has her own. so we created one tonight right before gymnastics.


on the way home from gym in the car:


ms: i cant wait to email bf
me: ya, i'll bet
ms: i am going to email a very long email. all about girl stuff...like bras
me: bras!?
ms: ya, i'll tell her i want a bra & only she will know from my email
me: unless she tells everyone
ms: ya, she'll be all like "ms.ma'am wants a bra!"


...thoughtful pause...

ms: okay, i can't tell her that...but it will be a long email


so, later hubby comes in to tell her it is time for dinner and sees that she has indeed typed a long email. one word per line.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

a is for apple, o is for olt

so today i got mr.man's breakfast together - he wanted apples & eggs (hard-boiled) -and went to take a quick shower. by the time i got out, the remaining apple on the counter (the half i was going to eat) was a little browned (like all apples get eventually, only this was much quicker than the granny smith's we usually get). mr.man was playing with his thomas table by now.

me: did you eat your apples?
man: no
me: why not?
man: olt - olt apples
me: the apples are old?
man: yesh - olt apples

so, the apples officially went old. in less than 20 minutes & thus are no longer edible. so i get to make a new breakfast. talk about service.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

iron man...

was okay after all...robert downey jr is still super cute, so it was a nice view at least.

Friday, May 2, 2008

what's up with the movies?

okay, so i can tell by mr.man's excited responses to the commercials lately that all the movies coming out within the next oh, month-2 months are boy movies.

i will get stuck going with hubby & mr.man to see iron man this weekend - which looks sucky. then, next weekend the crap-fest speed racer comes out (it looks like rollerball to me. what movie is that, you may ask? exactly), so i am sticking to my guns & vetoing speed racer.

what's up with this speed racer movie? i thought he was like a kid-racer? hubby said he is supposed to be like a young guy, blah-blah-defend-blah, but i cant help but think he was a kid & that was the whole premise, but then again, i was busy watching my little pony, sheera & jem, so maybe i missed that cartoon altoghether...but another thing is hello, how long is christina ricci going to try to play a early-to-mid-20 yo girl when she is clearly on the cusp of 30? dont get me wrong, she is totally cute - i just loved casper...

so, then there is indiana jones, which mr.man is excited about because he just loves the one where they have the monkey brains & the bugs - plus sam (from transformers) is in it, so it is automatically on his must-see list. ms.ma'am also wants to see this one. so, it looks like we will make that a fam-film...hope ford is able to keep up to the old ones in his retirement age. if not, there is always cgi.

girly-movie: kit kittredge (american girl) - so far, the only girl movie that i see is coming out this summer. ms.ma'am & i already are planning to go. she loves the american girl movies on dvd she has (samantha, molly, and felicity).

oh, wall-e looks promising. mr.man is totally into wall-e, he says it a lot & loves to look in his "toy review" magazine (which is hubby's but i let him look at it, because he should - it has toys in it for good-night sake!) which has pictures of wall-e. i am looking forward to wall-e too.

so, summer movies looks pretty "eh" to me. i used to crush on robert downey jr (pre-downfall) so i will be seeing iron man with the men this weekend.

so, here is what the american public will be seeing this summer in an attempt to keep from dying of boredome:

ironman (sounds like porn to me, one can only hope)

speed (racer), just say no

indiana jones & the retirement home mystery meat

wall-e (again, this looks actually cute, so do see it)

kit kittredge (for pre-teen girls)

Thursday, May 1, 2008

being a mom...


...is like a box of kids! well - there is living with a dryer box smack dab in the middle of your kitchen for days because it is your children's "new room" where they need to eat & play & attempt to sneak into at bedtime - but it is a lot of fun to watch them re-built their broke-down room again & again because someone keeps knocking the walls down...

so, this is my general opinion of being a mom...and the photo i am entering into this contest!

mother's day gift ideas


some good mom's day ideas
(okay, okay, you got me - aka: things i love/want/need)

1. turn mom's fave fridge art into real art! i looove this idea & soo want one - picking one drawing is the hard part...(http://www.totallyoutofhand.com/)

2. custom photo/memory charm bracelet from wellsware. you can put little objects in the charms (think: sand, bits of blankie, lock of hair), so they are truly personalized tokens (http://www.wellsware.com/)

3. sterling silver locket bracelet, simple but classy. they have a bunch of lockets available to suit mom's taste (http://www.redenvelope.com/)

4. love these mom's rings. personalize with the babe's names and the whole world can see how proud mom is! (http://www.nelleandlizzy.com/)

5. custom photo link bracelet, many styles available. sterling silver & emailing photos means getting the gift sooner! (http://www.planetjill.com/)

6. so funky & cute. love the tattoo-inspired birdie. the hubby would give 2 thumbs up for this sparrow. (http://www.crazy4jewels.etsy.com/)


so, go out (or not - heck, shop while the kids are sleeping!) and get mom something she'll love to wear for mom's day!

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

james avery charms i want


"milagros love and joy charm"

okay, my hubby likes this charm - and since i do love all the heart charms, i have decided that i do want it. throw it on my x.mas wishlist!


"in my heart charm"

love, love, love this one! with the gold it's a little pricey, but love it! another x.mas wishlist add!


"true heart charm"

also a love, love! man, these are like pokemon!

3 year olds boys say the darndest things...

'course so do 30 year boys...

for example, my hubby was getting really really irritated with mr.man in the car (not last weekend, but the weekend before) because he kept getting out of his booster seat & seatbelt - while driving. finally, i think hubby finally snapped and yelled "you better sit down before i bust you in your a$$!" (which we really do not curse around the kids - when they are asleep we are total sailors, but it is a very big no-no around the kiddos who hang onto those words like pocket-pieces), anyways, mr.man yelled in response "no..uh uh..bust you a$$!" (with arm flailing & finger pointing and all). i was able to hide my laughter & told hubby he deserved it for cursing.

follow up:

tonight after we picked up mcd's (crabby patties & fri-fries - health nuts that we are), mr.man blurts out "bust you a$$" to hubby, for no apparent reason.

funny how it took 6 months to learn "mom" and "dad", but man, give him a great phrase like that & it sticks like glue - especially glue a 3 year old has gotten into.

i love, love, love james avery charms...

because they are high-quality, beautiful & texan! it's the tiffany's of charms, except now tiffany's carries a beautiful line of charms now too. i so likey.


ms. ma'am decided she would like to give her bf (best friend, not boyfriend - how white trash do you think we are?!) a charm bracelet with the best friends charm (2 halves of a heart) and a puppy (since she loves dogs) - so sweet. we picked it up today & of course the lovely staff (who know us well) did a beautiful job soldering the charms on, polishing it up & gift-wrapping it - so we are so done, easy-peasy.


i picked up my bracelet too (it was all cleaned up & looks nice!) and we also picked ms. ma'am out a new charm bracelet to put her half of the bf charm (her 1st bracelet is full, she got it for her 4th b-day), so that is also one of her b-day presents (the g.n.o. charm will look perfect on it!).


this is the current james avery charm bracelet i wear - my "mom/family" bracelet. i only wear it on weekends, there's no point getting all fancy to scrub the toliet!

these are my favorite charms all on one bracelet.

for fun...a dancing chihuahua

this is our chi, she likes to dance.

only in dreams...

i want a new purse! i know that i do this like every 3 months - tired of the bag i have - want a new one....now.

i am a total sucker for flowers and pink (just on purses and accessories, but so hardly ever on clothes - it's so not me! except this one skirt i had that was black knee-length with pink embroidered flowers that i had a few years back, when it fit that is, actually i still have it, it just doesn't fit...but it was/is a cute skirt - so not old-lady) and i love this new bag from coach - love. we are talking: i will carry this bag forever...



what?

i've said that before?

well, this time i mean it. i really mean it. so what if it costs that much...right? yeah, right!

plus, i am so over my vera bag (i refuse to carry it)- i don't care if it is cute and pink with cool designs of flowers, i am sooo over the old ladies telling me how much they like it and worse yet, seeing the old ladies with the same bag...and my hubby doesn't let me live it down...i want a new bag - something that says i am still a 20-something dammit - not an old lady! i officially want, nay, need a new coach bag - my self-esteem and mental-health depend on it. plus, what will i carry all my mary poppins-necessities in (the vera stays in the closet!)? someone needs to put the lean on the hubby...





in case you are wondering, and you know you are, this is "the vera":




so cute, really it is a doll of a purse, but it's a grandma-grabber, i'm telling you. grandma's everywhere flock to me with this purse. i think you might even be able to fit a pair of knitting needles in it...needles you could use to stab me with if one more grandma asks me where i got it.

we love hannah montana

to appease your appetite with a snipit of shopping tonight, i am planning on buying ms. ma'am a new charm for her james avery charm bracelet for her upcoming b-day. the one i found is soo perfect i almost can't stand it! it's no secret that we love hannah montana, heck even mr. man sings along with nobody's perfect in the car when the hubster isnt driving, so it is no surprise that this year i will be proudly purchasing this beaut from james avery.




perfect right?!

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

monster jam is cool


mr. man: "mom, mom"

mom: "yea?"

mr. man: "monster jam cool mom"

mom: "yes monster jam is cool"

mr. man: "yeshh"

this is an on-going conversation that seems to come up about every hour lately, the coolness of monster jam, this is all he wants to talk about. oh, that and robot spiders.

my blog

i am very, very new to this, but it looks like a fun way to spend my computer time instead of ebaying (which the hubby hates!) and blah-blah-blahing on myspace. i think i will post stuff about my kids & the hub and of course about me - mostly my wants since all day i hear what my three year old wants, and no one really hears what i want anymore.

i am a stay-at-home mom, aka: maid to sir monster-jam-is-cool, who loves to online shop - okay and store shop too, but shopping online means i dont have to worry about my kid throwing a tantrum because he wants yet another monster truck and refuses to leave the store period, which i will admit sometimes means we purchase said truck, which means we have spent yet more of my shopping money on toys that i have to clean up everyday, therefore keeping me employed and in-demand - talk about job security.

so, i am employed by 2 kids - 3 year old mentioned above and an 8-going-on-13 year old daughter who so desperately wants boobs. monster jam and boobs, nothing says white trash better than that. welcome to my world.