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Entries in Family (30)

Thursday
Jun192008

Using Technology to it's FULL Advantage

We took a family trip to the grocery store tonight. Apparently we drank too much wine water at dinner and thought that it would be a fun, family outing. I guess Jason just really didn't want to be left home alone with the two kids.

As soon as we get there, Lucas announces that he has to go potty. Jason takes him while I start the coupon scavenger hunt in a desperate attempt to save a few bucks ($43 tonight - not too shabby! Or as I like to call the savings, "mommy's new shoes"). About 5 minutes later as I'm figuring out which soda's to purchase in the "buy 2 get 2 free" deal (pepsi max - ginseng AND caffeine! Diet Dr Pepper, Diet Sierra Mist for my 2 point margaritas, and light lemonade. We are actually a "Coke" household, so it was a harder choice with the Pepsi products), I get an IM on my blackberry. It's from Jason.

"Dude, this kid takes the biggest shits.."

"Here, let me take a picture and send it to you..."

I immediately replied back:

"NO! Don't! Please, don't teach him that! He'll be wanting us to take pics of all his poops now!"

See, it was nothing that my dear husband was going to take a picture of SHIT and MMS it to me, I just didn't want him to do it in front of the impressionable 4 year old.

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Sunday
Apr272008

There's a Rooster on my Head!

Just your typical Saturday morning around here..

Friday
Mar072008

4 and 4

2308287938_d76a24a611_m.jpgThis week, the big one turned 4 years old while the babe slid into her 4th month of life. It was a busy week with doctors appts and a batman/ superman/ transformer/ power ranger/ spiderman party to end all 4 year old parties. Because in typical Beth fashion, I just had to take a simple pre-schooler’s birthday and turn it into an excellently executed extravaganza. At one point before the party started, Jason looked around at the mesh of superhero décor and strategically placed children’s tables and chairs and said to me, “You really do need to go back to work..”

2308281242_943a55e721_m.jpgThe party was pure insanity. With about 50 guests and about ½ of them kids 4 and under (all dressed up as various superheroes and princesses as per Lucas’ request), the noise and chaos levels were enough to make you want to drink.. which is probably why 3 cases of beer and 5 bottles of wine were consumed by the adults. While I had carefully thought out party games such as “pass the batarang” and “pin the S on Superman”, no one could begin to tear the kids away from the gigantic 20 ft tall batman bouncer. I’m telling you – cake, ice cream, bouncer is ALL you need to amuse the kids. Oh, and a 5ft tall transgender traditional Mexican piñata. Which to add amusement for the parents, is best to hang about 3 ft off the ground so that the kids take the bat and beat the crap out of Batman’s crotch. 2308277168_610db151c7_m.jpg

At Party City these days you can “violence-free” piñatas where the kids pull strings and upon pulling the correct string, treats fall out. But noooo… we chose to get the REAL thing. My mom and I went to a Mexican piñata store and bought this almost scary looking, handmade papier-mâché monstrosity that was actually made a little too well. With thick cardboard pieces holding the piñata together, the thing was virtually impossible for 4 year olds to knock it open with a stick. Actually, it also was impossible for 38 year old fathers to break it open with a stick, causing us to have to pull on Batman’s legs like a wishbone to extract the candy from inside. Oh, and just as a side note, one bag of piñata candy is more than enough for 25 kids.

2307458067_ee538e5c78_m.jpgMonday we had the pleasure of taking both kids into the pediatrician for their 4 and 4 check-ups and vaccinations. Lucas got his first vision and hearing test – proving positively once and for all that he CAN hear us, he just ignores us. Lucas also hammed it up for the Dr, singing songs, counting to 6 in Spanish and even yucking it up with his joke du jour. During his exam, he looks at the Dr and says “Do you know how Monsters count to ten?” and when the Dr said he didn’t, Lucas replied “With their FINGERS!” The Dr found that to be hilarious, and I did not admit that he knows this joke because he watches entirely too much Noggin.

Zoë is now up to a whopping 8lbs 10oz, but as the Dr was nice enough to point out, if we were Chinese she would be in the 50th percentile. We’ve moved pass being concerned about her weight gain and into the acceptance that she is just a petite little princess. She’s 100% healthy and (thankfully now) happy. She’s hitting her milestones with a vengeance, and has fabulous control of her head and neck and has even started rolling over. For height she’s in the 35th percentile.. but for weight we are still way below the chart. She’s on her own little curve though, so really there is nothing to worry about at this point. 2297534588_a0fae2d99e_m.jpg

So here we are, 4 years into our lives as parents, and 4 months into life as parents to two children and things are finally settling into place. The first 3 months of Zoë’s life was plain survival. It was all about getting through each day with everyone alive and fed and if at all possible bathed and not too miserable. But this month things changed. It was like the stories I read in all those zillions of baby books and websites that I scour on a regular basis in need of MORE information, it was as if the clouds parted and the sun shined through… One night we were sitting at the dinner table, Lucas next to me chatting away about school, Zoë on my lap babbling and shoving her hands in her mouth and I looked at Jason and said “This is it – this is our family.” Nothing was missing, we were all there and complete.

2297543074_567eb08824_m.jpgIt was also during this moment that I realized that life is now ready to go on. There is no more waiting for until “after the next baby” or even the “I can’t do that, I JUST had a baby” feeling. We are now free to move on to the next phase of our lives.

Monday
Jan282008

Guessing the "Tween" demographic is now ages 3-12

While it seems a bit strange to by typing this, my brother and his band are gracing the pages of GQ this month. Yes. My brother. My baby brother is in GQ.

INSANITY if you ask me.

The other day Lucas asked me to look at the pic of uncle Lew in the magazine. Upon inspecting the picture, he looks up at me and asks, in a seriousness "Is Uncle Lew in the Jonas Brothers?"

It's amazing the reach that Disney has into the minds of our youth..

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Wednesday
Dec262007

Christmas Coma

We are in recovery mode here. It's 5:20 PM and Lucas is still in his PJs (his choice, he wouldn't let me change him. And as part of my fave parental motto of "pick your battles", I didn't fight him on it) and we are surrounded by a mess of some kind or another.

 2139005314_95280d3a72_m.jpgWe spent 4 days with my parent in LA and it was wonderful. I can't tell you how nice it was to have 2 extra people to entertain Lucas or hold the crying baby or cook us breakfast, lunch and dinner. Jason and I even escaped to a movie. It was like a vacation. I'm telling you, people are quick to bring dinner over the week you get home from the hospital with the baby - I say wait. Wait until the baby is 6-7 weeks old and the parents are really frazzled and sleep deprived. Because having someone else worry about one thing (like nutrition) for a few days, was heavenly.

 

2139012020_8454c1dcc8_m.jpgWe finally went to get our Santa pics taken. We went to the Grove mall in LA and waited for an embarrassing long 1 hour and 45 minutes to see the man with the bag, got to the front of the line to learn that their camera was broken. THANK the lord we had our camera with us. And yes, that is Zoë "the tiny-nosed reindeer.."

 Christmas eve was my parent's annual rocking Xmas eve celebration. We drank and ate.. well, others ate and drank. I nursed. Most of the night. I'm glad my outfit matched my "hooter hider" since that was my main accessory of the evening. Oh, that and spit up. And baby, that was the cutest accessory of the night in my opinion.

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2138253885_13e8088c54_m.jpgLucas awoke on Christmas morning to a tree flooded in a lake of presents. Since I can't seem to find the time to eat or even pee these days, I'm FOREVER grateful that they took on "Santa duties" or Lucas would have had a pad of paper and a half eaten apple to open on Xmas morning.  But instead he had a spectacular array of plastic and color in various shapes like spaceship, balls and cars. The highlight of the morning was when Lucas noticed the large brightly colored stuffed dragon (since named "Furfee") nestled amongst the brightly wrapped presents. He ran over to the dragon, hugged it tight then ran to the window, waved to the sky and screamed "Oh, THANK YOU Santa Claus! Thank you!"

And then, we were spent..

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In celebration of her first Christmas, Zoë 2139047078_5e6b8e95f8_m.jpgwas lucky enough to receive her very first "blue box" from my godmother, Liz. Something that she SHOULD have been way more excited about, but instead it appears that she looks down at her Tiffany box.. from the look on her face it seems that she is horrified that we would be excited by that box and that she wants to scream "MOM! Do you KNOW about the blood diamond controversy in Africa?!" Upon second glance, she also appears to look at bit like Clare Danes in the "My so called life" days.

And just because I never pass up the chance for a good photo opp:

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P.S. - if you didn't get enough of your Zoe and Lucas picture fix, there are way more here..