Mr. Mom

This past weekend, I went to a seminar down in LA. Steve was awesome Mr. Mom. I woke up really early and headed down to LA before the sun came up. I made it to my destination early so I got my tasty Cinnamon Dolce latte and headed to the seminar. I flew solo so I didn't know anymore there. I met some nice ladies from Visalia and they were my friends for the day. Seminar was good. Steve and Gavin went to the YMCA pool and Gavin got in his fill of swimming. Steve said he had no fear and was jumping in and going under the water just waiting for Steve to pick him up so he could breath again. After my seminar, I went to Vicki's house and we hung out then went to a mexican joint for a nice round of beers, tacos and of course Churros! Yummy beaner food! Thanks Vic for the yummy breakfast featuring eggs with sausage, avocado and tomato with a nice slice of toast, nectarine on the side and coffee. Yummo.

As I pulled away from the gas station, I went to call Steve and there was no tone, so I said hello and there was Steve on the phone. We were on the same wavelength I guess. Steve was getting ready to hike to a little reservoir near town. Packed the backpack and ready to rock and roll. They saw a waterfall and a cave. I went to my seminar again on Sunday and bailed at lunch. I got what I wanted to hear and decided hanging with the boys would be more fun. I got home around 3pm. As I opened the garage, there was a sign on the door that say "Welcome home Mommy" and a tin foil robot made out of old Arbonne boxes. Too cute. Gavin saw robots on Curious George so Steve made him one this weekend. Gotta love it.

Thanks Tigger!

Happy to report I did not hear the pitter patter of little feet and the sweet but not so sweet little tug on my sheets at precisely 1:30 and 4:30am. Yippeee. Mommy got an undisturbed night of sleep and Gavin slept in his bed all night. I must congratulate Mr. Tigger, the loveable little (and somewhat stinky) lovey that we recite this little mantra to each night before we go to bed...."Tigger, when I wake up at night and it is dark, will you give me a hug and make me feel safe so I don't have to wake up Mommy and Daddy?". Nice work dude. I will make sure to wash your stinky ass this weekend as a thank you. Oh, and Blue Bear, you are pretty cool too just not as funny to watch as I shake you and do a little head dance as I recite the mantra.

First Blog!

I thought I would jump on the Web 2.0 bandwagon and start a family blog. Basically it is a way to chronicle what we do each week because in a month or two, my momnesia will kick in and I will forget. It will be fun to look back on the year and see what we did. Also it will save me time. When friends ask, what have you been up to? I can say, check out my blog and feel really techno geeky!

It won't replace the cherished phone calls with pals, but we all know that the more kids we have and the more work we get, the less likely we are to pick up the phone. We are tired at the end of the day and sometimes we just want to veg. No offense to the friends, but it is just the reality of life in your mid thirties!

So here goes.........

8/15/2008: We checked out Avila beach on Friday for the Farmer's market. The food was looking tasty and we chowed some yummo fish tacos. Gavin of course wouldn't touch it so we did the old standby of a milk sippy cup. His stomach is the size of a grape I am convinced. He played on the slide on the beach for about an hour and when he was bored with that he ran to the water. Gavin loves to play in the water. We had fun.

8/16/2008: Speaking of playing in water, Saturday we went to a park and it was kinda wet from the random thunderstorm we had on Friday. Gavin saw the puddles on the basketball court and made a b-line for them. He went swimming in the puddle. He says "Mama, I went swimmin in da pudda". Haha I said and he was dripping with nasty water. He drove home in a diaper. Gavin's new favorite movie is Little Mermaid. He watched that twice on Sat. Yes, twice and I don't care what all you mom's think. It is not that long and I needed some rest.

8/17/2008: Sunday we wanted an adventure and the beach looked foggy so we headed to Lake Lopez. We were going to check out the lake but it was windy so we decided to check out the water slides. They have a kiddy rate and a kiddy pool so we said let's go for it. It was hoopty, Not gonna lie. Tiny little pool about shin deep but there were about 4 slides and Gavin had a ball. Steve did all the sliding and I cheered them on from the side. There was so much chlorine in the pool you could smell it but I guess that kills all the pee that I am sure is in there. Not sure how often we will go back but Gavin had a blast and that is all that matters. We ended the weekend watching the Incredibles. Gavin says "mommy, can we watch da cre-dabulls". I think Gavin will have super powers one day.