Sand boxes, idol, and clothes

So this week has been uneventful, which is a pretty good thing. The highlight of the week was going to Toys r us and getting Mia a sandbox. Every girl needs a sandbox. So for anyone who is keeping count we now have a sandbox, sand and water table, log cabin house (purchased for $50 thanks to Craigslist), a swing, and a slide climber thingy. In a few weeks we can add a swing set to the list thanks to my sister. She has one that my nephew has barely even used and she is going to let Mia have it! Can we say spoiled?!? Anyway....back to the sand box. Mia loves her sandbox and she loves flick the sand out of the sand box. I think by the end of summer we may have more sand outside the sand box than inside. Funny story, Jenny and I were talking a while ago about sandboxes and I mentioned how my dad made me a HUGE sandbox and she said her dad did the same thing for her. I then told her how funny it was that he (my dad) used rail road ties to make my sand box and later I heard that rail road ties have esbestos (or something equally harmful) in them and sat on those rail road ties for hours and played in my sand box.

Another funny story....
Jenny and I were discussing finding clay in our sandboxes, which apparently when your kid is a really cool thing. We would dig and dig and then find clay and then play with the clay until we realized that it wasn't actually clay that we were playing with it was.....cat poop. I guess the cats in the neighborhood used both our sandboxes as litter boxes. We both also admitted that it didn't only happen once, but more times than I can remember. Every time I found clay I would play with it until I realized it was poop. Good times.

I have to comment on American Idol and Paula last night. What is that woman on? For those of you who don't watch Idol like I do (losers). The contestants sang one song and then the judges were to comment on their performances all together and this is a lot different than usual and when it got to Paula she commented on the first song and then started to comment on the second song THAT THEY HADN'T SUNG YET. Sorry for yelling, but they hadn't sung the song. I have noticed before that most times she couldn't even string a real sentence together. She would just say random things that jumped into her head.

Clothes...so a friend of Jenny's is have a Matilda Jane party and I am getting Mia the CUTEST outfit ever! I can't wait to get it. If you want to check out the site it is www.matildajaneclothing.com Click on the goods. They have super cute clothes. They are a little pricey, but cute. I think I may see a Matilda Jane party in my near future!

Also I thought everyone would be happy to know that we got our tuition refunded for music class so we can go next session. We also had the ants killed by a professional. We haven't seen an ant for a while now. I also want to clarify I didn't want the ants living in here, but I couldn't kill them myself. Everyday when Jenny came home I would make her kill at least 20 of them. Now we spend our time doing more important things like watching American Idol.

Now onto the cute girl known as Mia.

Please excuse the play clothes. My sand in my sandbox wasn't so white and pretty.



I couldn't get her to look at me, because she couldn't take her eyes off the beautiful white sand.

Still looking at the sand.

Is this not the cutest outfit EVER?!? She even has those shoes in pink. I can't wait to see her in this!

FFF and some other things

First things first FFF since I don't follow the themes, because I am a rebel here is my FFF!

These are obviously from Halloween. We don't normally put Mia in lion costumes! I wanted her to be a lion, because at the time the one of the only things she could say was ROAR.



She was just getting over having a double ear infection and doesn't look very happy! Also my nose looks huge, I didn't know that I had a big nose until I was 21 or so and then I saw my profile in a video and then I realized that I had/have a fairly large nose! Oh well, I guess.



I got Mia a nightgown and with the warm weather I got to put her in it. Isn't she adorable.



Here she is asking me to hold her, which I did of course.



Remember she likes to play on the stoop. I was cooking dinner and I gave her 1/2 of a red skin potato and she played with that and a metal picture holder thingy for about an hour.



Still playing with the potato. If only we all were entertained by such simple things, life would be grand, wouldn't it?!?



Mia got a little dirty playing outside.



Not only did she get dirty, but she ate the dirt.

64 Zoo Lane

Has anyone seen 64 Zoo Lane? It's a show that is on Noggin. If you have seen it, that means your child was either up REALLY early or REALLY late. Well I live at 64 Zoo Lane, minus the British accents. In case you forgot (or didn't know) I will let you in on a little secret that may or may not surprise you. We have 7 cats, 1 dog, and Jenny thinks I should mention the 3 stray cats I feed.

So at 4:30 Monday morning Rudy (the dog) started barking downstairs by our sliding glass door. Jenny went down to let him out, he is old and has to pee sometimes during the night, and she thought she saw a neighbor cat who is mean and eats all my stray kitties food so she let the do out to scare him. It wasn't a cat, it was a skunk. PEWWWWWW Yes, the do got sprayed by a skunk. Then Mia woke up. Before work on a Monday morning Jenny was outside hosing the dog down. The whole side of our neighborhood stunk like skunk. It smelled inside the house, outside the house, and it was horrible. Then Jenny went to work and Mia and I went to take a nap, I know we suck, because Jenny had to go to work and we went to take nap! Anyway, while we were trying to sleep a cat (Butterscotch) was outside the bedroom door meowing to be let in and another cat Tweety scratched on the door about 10 minutes later. That is when I decided that we lived on 64 Zoo Lane. I should also mention that we have an ant colony (carpenter) who has taken up residence in our house and is driving me crazy so that makes it even more of a zoo. I can't bring myself to kill the little suckers so Jenny has to come home and kill all of them. Don't ask why I can't kill them, but I can barely kill a mosquito.

Jenny mentioned to me about the mouse and how I should mention that too. This past weekend we decided to clean out our shed. Apparently there was a large family of mice living in our shed all winter and they dined on our 20 pound bag of bird seed all winter. Not only did the large family live in our shed, but I think they invited friends and distant relatives to enjoy the shed and bird seed with them all winter long. I can't be sure because I do not have a camera installed in the shed, but not only did they live in the shed they had confetti parties and whooped it up all winter long. It was a mess! They had bird seed everywhere. I can't even imagine how much work it took to get the bird seed everywhere it was and we undid it in a day! We were so mad at the damn mice and we were cussing them up and down the whole time UNTIL..... I saw the cutest thing possible, a baby mouse. All of a sudden a baby mouse appeared in the center of the shed. He looked scared and lost. I called Jenny over and we decided to take the nest they made out of Jenny's golf club holders and put him in the corner for his mama to find him. In a few weeks when he is a big normal sized mouse I will finish cleaning out the rest. So that is all. Now onto some Mia cuteness.

We went to Petsmart to get some deskunk stuff and had to get dog food and Mia thought she would use it as a stool.



Climbing on the dog food.



What? I wasn't doing anything.



Yelling at me! See she has a kitty toy. On the rare occasion that a cat is anywhere near her she will get her cat toy and try to play with them.



Here kitty, kitty. Check out her outfit. I got the shirt for $4 at Target and the capris for $3 at Walmart. Good deals. Good times.


Her favorite place to hang out on the stoop. She doesn't even try to climb the stairs anymore.



Still hanging out on the stoop waiting for a kitty to cross her path.

wagons rides and sunglasses

So Mia and I have had a great time playing outside this week. I can't believe how beautiful the weather has been. We have been wearing shorts and tank tops! Every night for almost 7 years Jenny has been taking Rudy (our dog) for a walk. She does this if it is 100 degrees or 10 feet of snow and 20 below zero. I can only think of a handful of times she hasn't. If she tries not to he stares at her until she breaks down. During the winter Mia and I stay at home all warm and cozy, but when the nice weather hits we walk with them. We weren't sure if Mia liked going on the walks or not, but tonight she saw her wagon through the hole in the fence and made her noise (EEEEEEE) to let us know she wanted to go for a walk. So we got her sunglasses, water bottle, dog and went for a walk.

On a separate note....Mia is eating us out of house and home! She lost almost 2 pounds while she was sick, but she was back to her normal weight within a few days. I think she is going through a growth spurt or something. She can sign eat and say eat. At least 4 times today she came to me and said eat. (its really cute too) I would feed her, but she seems like a bottomless pit. Her tummy is SO big. And don't mention cheese around her or she will sign eat and say cheese and insist on eating some cheese.

She's looks so serious in her striped sunglasses.

Now she is doing her impression of an old man without any teeth.



Mama you are so funny.



You are still funny.



I love my sunglasses.



Still loving her sunglasses.

Long time....no see

Mia is all better, well mostly. On Monday she pooed in the tub! That was fun at 7:30 in the morning.

We decided to go to the park yesterday and blow off some steam for a little while, but before the park pics here are some sleepy sick baby girl pics. She never sleeps anywhere, but the bed except when she is sick - she fell asleep while I was holding her and slept for 2 hours on the couch!

Now here are some pics from the park yesterday.



Isn't this a funny face! This is when I first put her in the swing.



This is her swinging....she was smiling.



and walking around at the park.

Today we had music class. This is a new session. We missed the first class because Mia was sick last week. They moved our usual class in with another class because there weren't very many kids in usual class. So I get there and they have us in a class with 3-4 year olds! Mia was the youngest and the moms weren't overly friendly. They had all been in class together for a long time and I tried to talk to a few of them and they were nice, but didn't go out of their way to talk to me. They were doing songs and things that Mia couldn't participate in, because they were too complicated. I was actually watching the clock to see when it would be over and I have never done that! So I will be calling tomorrow to change days and get into the younger class again. Anyway, after class we went to Toys R Us and we bought Mia a water/sand table! It was beautiful outside today so we got it out and played with it.



First some pics from before music class. This is what I purchased with my Gymbucks. I swear that store is like crack to me. I am so glad their isn't a Gap anywhere near here otherwise we would be in SO much debt. While Mia was sick I kept telling Jenny that I HAD to get to Gymboree to use my gymbucks. She of course said that I didn't have to use them, but I didn't agree.



Side view.



Close up. I used to think who spends $30 on a pair of pants for their kid. Well I guess I know that answer, I do. This outfit cost more than I would pay for an outfit for me most of the time, but I use my gymbuck so not really : )



Add the jean jacket and sweater and we are good to go. This was her very first fake smile for the camera!



It didn't last long, because her evil mom took away her binkie.



Give the girl back her binkie.



On the way home from music class. Doesn't she look like it sucked!?!



Playing with her water table. It is just a water table right now because she would just eat the sand! She thought the water was for her to drink.



She was totally soaked when she was all done.



blowing spit bubbles just for us!

A little better

Today has been a little better for Miss Mia Rey. The day started off with the same, a dirty diaper and bath every 30 minutes or so, but it has been almost 3 hours and no dirty diaper. Her rash is still really bad, but we should be able to get it under control without the 20-30 diapers a day. However, Jenny is sick. She threw up all night long and feels really crappy.

Thanks for all the well wishes! I really appreciate it and it worked.

Everyone in my house is sleeping so I thought I would post some cute pics from Sunday. We had a baby shower to go to and Mia was SO good. We were there for 2 hours or so and she walked around and said, "hi" to everyone. It was so cute!

Here is Mia and me. You can't really tell because the picture is smaller, but you can see her dimples, they only come out sometimes, but they sure are cute!



We attempted to get a family picture, but I kept closing my eyes and Mia wouldn't smile. This was the best one.



This is my big girl walking!!! Check her out!



and her walking away.



Here mom here is a stick just for you.



and here is a birdie. Look at the funny look on her face.



Walking to give me something.




Mia is finally part of the one of the cool clubs of kids who hang out in the fridge, you know, Skylar, and John Carlos : ) This pic is from yesterday. Mia was SO hungry so we let her pick out what she wanted. She wanted some cheese.

Sick, sick, and even sicker

Just thought I would let all you guys know that we are out of commission for a while. Mia has the roto virus and she is really sick. We went to the doctor today and got the official diagnosis. She has had over 20 poopy diapers in less than 24 hours. The doctor said it will likely last for 5 days or so so if I don't comment on your blog or don't update that is why.

UPDATE: We have had so many poopy diapers I can't even count. Her little bottom is SO red and we can't even use wipes anymore. We have to give her a bath every time she goes. She even has a yeast infection and she cries every time we take off her diaper because she knows it is going to hurt : ( This is breaking my heart. I don't think we can take 5 days of this. The doctor said that if the multiple poos a day don't slow down then we will have to bring her back on Thursday so they can run some tests to be sure she isn't getting too dehydrated. Also she has lost over a pound. Her belly is usually so big and round (my girl likes to eat) but it is flat and sad.

This is my poor sick baby. Look at the dark circles under her eyes.



Here she is in one of her many baths.