CO Alarm

About 2 weeks ago we bought fire detectors and a CO alarm. We never hung them, the batteries are in them but they sit, all three of them in our living room. And tonight during dinner our living room table went off. the CO alarm. So we called my father in law who is hazmat and would know about these things, and he said we should call 911, which seemed a bit extreme but since we had the alarm and it went off and we had Claire in the house, we thought we should call, cause it would be a shame for us to all die and then they all say that we had the alarm. So the fire department came and opened all our windows and told us that we have a 30 parts per million of CO. (which is low) Here they are, our first 911 call since our marriage. We took pictures:
So they left and we reset the alarm and it went off again... so we'll call 911 again... I'll keep you posted but for now we are sleeping with windows opened and that will keep the levels at 0. All is safe, we just need to find out where this CO is coming from.

Taxes are Fun

My taxes intimidate the accountant. This gives me a better appreciation for the headache that my mom went through to get my taxes done each year by herself. So thanks mom.

Her Own Woman

Claire is def. her own woman. I had a truck when I was little. My favorite toy, or at least one of them. My mom saved it for my children and I brought it home this past weekend.
Claire hates it. She just sits there and screams at it. Like it's about to attack her or she is frightened by it or just outraged. It's kinda fun to watch. But she is def. a little of Jimmy and a little of me but mostly she is her own woman.

Mother Note 1

Carrots are not a corduroy friendly food.

You lose

Sorry to have to tell you this but the nickle has been spoken for. My father will be receiving it in the mail shortly. Once I put it in the mail.
And for those of you who were stumped Jay and the American's sang the song COME a little bit closer.
I've never heard of Jay or the Americans but I like their music.

Free Nickle!

Claire and I love youtube... we like to youtube things and dance like crazy women to them. and then hit the replay button... repeatedly! it's great to stay at home. But today we have a song stuck in our head and we can't find it... cause we don't know the title.. it's a great dance number and we've been dancing to my rendition of it, which is REALLY weak. Claire is sick of it so we are offering a nickel to the first person who can tell me the title of this song. (seriously, I will waste the 49 cents or whatever it costs to mail a letter to send you a nickle) We are desperate! So

Name This Tune:
Move a little bit closer.. your my kind of girl.... so blah blah blah blah... move a little bit closer... blah blah blah blah blah... and the night is so young...

None of those words may be correct but you get the gist. so please help us.

Birthday

Another year, another birthday. I'm 23 now. That makes me closer to 'mid-twenties'. I'm almost in my mid-twenties and I am married and have a child who is half a year old. Wow... time does fly when you are having fun. Yesterday was def. fun. I made Jimmy do all the things we never do cause he's never 'in the mood'. We played dominoes and ate scones (ok, those things he likes) But then I talked him into taking me to see Horton Hears a Who. It was ok, def. not the type of movie you see in theaters but rent it if you are so inclined, but don't expect to be blown away. There were a couple really funny parts and some really random and weird parts like when Horton becomes and an anime character, that was weird and uncalled for. But overall I enjoyed myself very much. And I got flowers, big bright yellow lilies, so pretty. And we ate rollitini which is just so much fun to say that you should eat it at every celebration. It was a wonderful birthday!

I've got a big head and little muscles...

Someone didn't think this one through.









Peek-a-boo

Why is the fish moaning?

Claire's fish have begun to talk... mostly they share Claire's moods with me. Today they were moaning. And one was flying and the green one likes to hide.

Boxes

I know there has been very little about me lately, but I am well. And there isn't anything really exciting going on right now except raising Claire. SO, you will be subjected to more 'Claire Updates' today.
Her newest phase makes me smile ever so often. She has abandoned the toys of her childhood to pursue advertising and market research. She prefers to play with boxes... Blue boxes are her favorite but if you offer another she will take it. She loves the Rice Krispy box the best of all and stares at it on the table when she can't have it. She even cries if I take it away. It's kind of cute. And WAY cheaper than Dora this and Princess that. :) Everyone Wins!

Another First

Claire's first (real) snow came today! We are very excited and hope to go out again for a couple minuets later on. Here are some pictures...

Food in Solid Form

Claire ventured beyond her current horizon to tackle solid food today. Yesterday we cleared it with her Dr. and we couldn't wait to try some mighty tasty rice cereal. (pappi talks it up so much)






Bibs were a fun new accessory, we like them


Our first Bite!






A Success!

Cross it Off Baby

you will be glad to know that I have achieved some of my New Year's resolutions already! It kinda beats the feeling that I don't do anything all day.
So far I have :
Taken the wallpaper off the wall in our bedroom (the walls are now a vibrant blue from the 70's)
Gone to TWO restaurants with my husband that don't have paper napkins (by ourselves once(thank you mandi)!)

I have also discovered that I can not take a bath at my house, because my tub doesn't hold water, so I have to figure out what to do about that.

In general, it makes me feel good, I wish I could cross things out online, so I could get that satisfaction. Maybe I'll write them down and cross them off. Mailing them to myself and smashing them with a hammer is also appealing.

How are your New Year's resolutions coming?

Motherhood

Some days all you get done is changing diapers and you get to the end of the day and wonder where the other 10 hrs went.
And as an update: I made rice yesterday and nobody died or choked and it was good! Yeah for mastering rice.

Love to Laugh

Love to Laugh

I love to laugh
Loud and long and clear
I love to laugh
It's getting worse ev'ry year

The more I laugh
The more I fill with glee
And the more the glee
The more I'm a merrier me
It's embarrassing!
The more I'm a merrier me!

Some people laugh through their noses
Sounding something like this "Mmm..."
Some people laugh through their teeth goodness sake
Hissing and fizzing like snakes

Some laugh too fast
Some only blast - ha!
Others, they twitter like birds
Then there's the kind
What can't make up their mind

When things strike me as funny
I can't hide it inside
And squeak - as the squeakelers do
I've got to let go with a ho-ho-ho...
And a ha-ha-ha...too!

We love to laugh
Loud and long and clear
We love to laugh
So ev'rybody can hear
The more you laugh
The more you fill with glee
And the more the glee
The more we're a merrier we!

Don't forget to laugh and smile and laugh some more. Maybe you could host a tea party on the ceiling. What ever you do today, Do it with a smile on your face.

(we also love Mary Poppins)

My Crazy Daughter

My crazy daughter would rather play with a blanket than with the gym I bought her. It lights up and plays animal or Mozart music and it has a chime that chimes when you hit it with your feet or hands and is a VERY pleasant noise for a child's toy... but my daughter would rather cuddle and snuggle with her favorite blanket and play peek-a-boo with mommy than play with the gym. Go figure, I wish she could talk to tell me this so I didn't buy the gym :( But she can't talk so we will continue to guess.
Think she'll like a bath today?

Sick

Today I am sick. Chills and fever and nausea and weak and tired sick. This stinks.
On a lighter note; yesterday I ordered my groceries online. ALL of them. It was kinda strange but worked really well. And to think I thought my mom was strange for ordering produce offline...

Killer Rice

Not only can I not boil and egg. Which btw, the correct answer is to boil it for about 10-15 min. not any of the cleaver choices I came up with. (sad :( ) I also am incapable of rice. You know the chineese food staple and over all simple thing to make and eat. Well I can't make it or put it in anything apparently. I tried to make rice the first time and it was an oooy gooey mess. Then I tried to make it another time and it came out 'ok' but the lemon juice I put in with the wild rice bleached some of the color and made all the rice a weird pinky color (and it tasted like acid). Then last night I made stuffed peppers! They would have been sooo good if the rice inside wasn't hard as a rock. I'll tell you how bad it was, Jimmy tried to eat his and he choked trying to swallow. (again sad :( ) So rice and I don't get along but soon I will master it and then watch out! (I'm not sure what you should watch out for when I master it but right now you should watch out for my rice, next time it might kill someone.)

Hard Boiled

This is how an egg should NOT look when you are 'hard boiling' it. I have tried to call both sisters to discover if an egg is hard boiled when either:
A. It floats
B. It turns over
C. It changes color
D. It explodes

Obviously I chose D, because it was the most exciting choice.

I needed to know this because I'm making dinner. (yes it's kind of an event) I'm making potato ham salad stuff It tastes good, I had to try it so I knew weather to make a meatloaf in case it wasn't good enough to serve my husband.

What would you choose if you were hard boiling an egg?

Yeah for Omeletts

I never thought that omelettes could make a day so WONDERFUL! but they do. You should try it. Jimmy and I went 'out' for the first time since we got married yesterday. We took Claire, who slept through it (because it was the FIRST time I'm sure). It was sooo wonderful. I forget what else happened yesterday but it was good.