Day 196: Goodbye 2010, Hello 2011

Eric had work first thing this morning, so I spent the day catching up on cleaning in the house and the blog.  You can't tell if you read the blog all at once, but if you follow it day-by-day then you know that I tend to wait about a week before posting anything and then upload multiple days of back-dated blogs.  I don't really feel bad about it, and I don't see it as cheating because I am recounting the events and taking pictures for each individual day.  I just don't have time to sit down and write about it every single day!

I can't wait for our first year to be over so I can go down to actually posting only once a week, or so.  After the year of blogging is up, I'm sure I'll be a lot less structured with it!  That is until we have kids...and then I'll probably commit to a weekly blog...if you're lucky!

Today I successfully pet Moonshine for a full minute!  My nickname for her is now "Mad Eye Moony"

Day 90: Happy Birthday Alan!

Today was a fun work day for me - I spent yesterday and today at MANDT training, which is techniques for prevention, deescalation, and restraint with upset/aggressive students.  We mostly practiced supportive moves, but today we learned the restrain positions.  While practicing, we just used each other through both days.  Today there was one restraint position that is specifically for smaller children, so we practiced using a 3 foot tall Spiderman doll, haha.

After I left the training I went out to Olathe to pick up my nephew for the weekend!  I know that it would probably be better for me to have a chill, relaxing weekend...but I'd rather have some company!  Plus it's getting all of the kids out of the house for Alan's birthday!  Ashley is in Lawrence, Sarah is moving out, and Kris is going to visit some friends.

Andrew and I went shopping for a bath pillow, some squeeze bottles, and cat food before coming back to Eudora.  He took a nap and then got up for a bath and some play time.  When Uncle Eric got home from work, we went on a walk and made breakfast for dinner!

Months ago I was inspired by http://www.jimspancakes.com/, and ever since I have wanted to get some squeeze bottles and food coloring to make fun pancakes.  I thought my first attempt could be some ABC blocks for Andrew!  They turned out really great, except I turned the B too soon and tore it.

This is the proper way to restrain Spidey!

This tool was cruising through rush hour traffic with his hands behind his head.

I love this mirror in my backseat!  That way I can always see what he's up to.

My setup in the bathroom so Andrew could play while I worked on updating the blog.

He REALLY liked the DUPLO blocks.

Silly boy playing in his robe.

Making artsy pancakes with squeeze bottles!

A, B, C blocks!  3-D even!

BAM!  How cool am I?

You can see my messed up B, oops!  Squiggles and dots to use up the pancake batter.

Andrew sitting in his new robot stroller, watching us cook.

Eric was making a Dexter pancake - splatter art!

More leftover batter.

Andrew with his block pancakes!

 A, B, C!

 He already ate dinner, so he just had one of the coin sized pancakes.  Here he is trying it...

Not terribly happy about trying it... 

 Still not enjoying it...

Willing to hold it, but doesn't want to eat it!

 All done!

Addy cuddling with her Mommy while I blog!

Day 86: Updating the Blog

Holy Cow!  We haven't updated the blog in 2 weeks!  It can be blamed on a variety of "too busy" activities with family, friends, work and school.

Luckily, I write a tagline in my planner each day so it was easy to recall what to write about.  Also, I've added Eric as an author to the blog - so you'll be able to see at the bottom of the post which of us wrote it!

 Here I am blogging and eating leftovers from GoJo's