Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day Mom.
Love you.

Some Mother's Day Humor

This video makes me laugh out loud every time I see it.
Enjoy. :) lol

The First of Many.....

Cooper's first casualty: the cord that powers our cable modem.
He chomped right through it two days ago. The problem is that it's a strange voltage (10.5) and unlucky for us, every single electronic store in the city is out of the necessary adaptor we need to hook it up. Good news is that a phone call into our cable provider yesterday and they kindly offered to next day air us a new one. For FREE. Knocked my socks off. Imagine that - actual customer service! How refreshing.

Anyway, in the meantime I'm using my laptop.

And the neighbor's wireless.
Thanks, neighbors.

As for Cooper....in the meantime....he has a great affinity for sandals.
And my hair.
Which he's chewing on as he climbs all over me while I try to type this.

Isn't he fun??? :)
Everyone needs a puppy to spice up their life a little.

It's A Boy!

No, No.....not our baby. Not our human baby anyway!

Meet Cooper.

He's my birthday present! Steve came home yesterday after work with this little bugger in his arms and a red bow around his neck.
I've been telling Steve-o how much I miss having a dog for quite a while now...how it'd be nice for the boys to have a dog, blah, blah, blah - really laying it on thick. At Christmas-time I suggested it again and he said NO WAY. I (sort-of) resigned myself that it would be awhile before we were once again canine owners and tried to put it out of my head. It really is a little impractical....new baby 2 months away, young children, potty-training a dog, business of life, etc. etc......but I happen to think the best gifts are highly impractical. :)
He's really good...only had one accident in the house so far (thank goodness the majority of our house is tile!) and is really good. Fun, but not too crazy rambunctious and the boys absolutely ADORE him. Especially A.J. - who I think it fast becoming best buds with little Cooper. AJ refuses to go anywhere in the house unless he's sure that "ooper" is right on his heels. The two of them sat and watched a movie this morning together and Cooper is constantly covering AJ's face with doggie kisses. Last night Cooper slept curled up beside Owen all night long.

I think he'll fit right in, don't you? :)
A little out of focus, but it makes me laugh. Taking a picture of this puppy is like trying to take a picture of a fart in a tornado.
Right after I took this one, he bounded toward my camera and licked the lens. *ahem*
He has a few lessons to learn about what is and is NOT ok in this house.

Birthday

Who IS this gorgeous bald baby, you'd like to know?? Look at her gorgeous face and beautiful intelligent brown eyes??? Who can it be??

It is moi, of course.

In celebration of my birthday, which is today, by the way, a few pictures of the cutest female child to ever grace planet Earth.

Who doesn't love having their photo taken on a giant carved turkey?? That's memories, right there people.....
Check out the bangs that start in the middle of my head.
Ah.....the 80's....hello tightly curled bangs.
Hey, I had to do SOMETHING with them while they were growing out. Can't have bangs in the middle of my head forever.
Ok.....things started getting ugly here.....I"ll stop before I really start to scare you all.
Besides, being the neglected middle child, there are approximately 8 more pictures of me after this anyway, so it doesn't really matter anyway.

Yup. It's me. In all my glory. I'm 28 today.
And I don't feel old.

Yet.

Maybe next year. :)

Go Casey, it's 'yo birf-day......

Gonna partay like it's yo' birf-day.....

In honor of your birthday, I broke out the old pencils and painstakingly sketched this likeness of you today. And then I scanned it into the computer.

Ok, Ok....it was really a photoshop action that I never use, and I wanted to try it out and see what it did.
BUT......I had PLANNED on making a pencil sketch of you and it looked EXACTLY like this in my mind.

Happy Birthday.

Geek.

:)

2 Whole Months!

Guess who's potty-trained?!?! Hooray!
He's not batting 1000 quite yet, but almost. He'll go potty all day for me as long as he gets Skittles as a reward. :)

And here's the other good news.....We will enjoy a full 2.5 months of NOT buying ANY diapers. Ahhh....like winning the lottery. :) I was thinking today that not counting the next two months, that by the time baby #3 is potty trained, we will have been buying diapers for approximately 7 years straight - and that's IF we don't have any more after #3.

I should buy stock in Pampers.






















Anyway, way to go A.J.! He does so great and he's so proud of himself when he goes. He thinks it especially cool to go outside and pee in the grass. Um...yeah, we'll work on that.
Sorry for the obnoxious watermarks, but I'm not mess'n around with pics of my wee babe in his underoos. :)

Hooray for big boy underwear!