04/15/10

04/15/10, originally uploaded by pyjammy.

Doesn’t he look like a little golfer here? The plaid shorts, the non-matching shirts (believe me, they don’t match, but I let them wear whatever if it means no whining), the golf cart-like Cozy Coupe?

Grandpa John would be so proud!

04/14/10

04/14/10, originally uploaded by pyjammy.

I was trying to get Miles’s cowlick, but instead got his eyes.

Not sure why he’s so pink, though. Hmm. Must work on that.

Silly boys.

The boys think the whale is real, I think. The other day they were trying to get it to blow bubbles, and yesterday they attempted to give him a drink of water.

Sweet boys, but maybe we won’t need to worry about paying for college at the age of 4 or anything.

This one’s about me

(First, don’t forget about the contest! It’s running through the end of the month, as is the free shipping promotion.)

So I started going to Weight Watchers meetings last week. I went to meetings back in 2006, before I got pregnant, and they didn’t really work for me. I did better before my wedding (in 2005) by only using WW online. But I wanted to try the meetings again because deep down, I know I didn’t give WW my full attention back in 2006. Clearly, because I lost like three pounds in 3 months. Sad.

The only meeting that really works for me time-wise is the Thursday evening one. It’s at 5:30, and George has been great about doing the parenting solo-style while I go. But the problem with a Thursday afternoon meeting is that, well, you’re weighing in at 5:30 pm, not 6:30 am. It just bugs me that I have a whole day’s worth of food and drink in me when I step on the scale.

(Don’t worry, I understand that if I’m losing weight, it will still show up, but still.)

I have to get two cavities filled, so I decided to set my dentist appointment for tomorrow morning so I won’t be able to eat too much in the afternoon. Genius, yes? It’s good because my friend Tee and I are going to the grand opening of the new Pinkberry frozen yogurt place here tomorrow night (yes, we are fancy) and I want to be able to put sprinkles on my yogurt, dammit.

So, regarding weight loss. Let me post a picture of what I looked like at my lowest weight.

Okay, I’m not positive I was at my lowest weight there (this was about a year before my wedding) but damn, I was stylish back then, wasn’t I?

Anyway, don’t make me post a picture of myself now. Let’s just say I have a long way to go before I can fit into that red satin jacket again.

Ya gotta have goals, after all!

04/13/10

04/13/10, originally uploaded by pyjammy.

Why do I love this picture? Because of the intense concentration on their faces? Because of Miles’s cowlick? Because they look so alike, yet so different here? I dunno, I just like it.

04/12/10

04/12/10, originally uploaded by pyjammy.

Drawing with chalk is fun!

(Except when it means Mommy has to draw Elmo eight hundred times in each color in the box of sidewalk chalk. Other than that, fun!)

Our fun weekend

This weekend, I took the boys to visit Ren and her girls. It’s so fun to have a friend who:

– lives not too far away, but in another town so it’s like an escape
– has a guest bedroom for ME ME ME
– has room for my three children
– has a two year old child (and an older one too)
– loves my children
– cooks yummy food
– lets me sleep in when we stay over
– has a pool in her neighborhood
– has a cool family (seriously, sometimes I feel like an member of her extended family)

and so on and so forth. I highly recommend you get a Ren of your own.

Saturday morning, we arrived to an empty house. Ren and her girls were grocery shopping. The boys had fun ringing the doorbell.

(I’d insert a cute picture here of the boys ringing Ren’s doorbell, but somehow I didn’t upload it. Just imagine.)

Then they got home, and we had lunch and the kids played inside.

After lunch, we played in the driveway. The boys played in a bucket of water, while the girls “washed” my car. Everyone got popsicles!

And then Ren put the boys down for a nap (another reason I love her, she can get the boys to nap!) while I ran to Target to get diapers. After naptime, we went to the park. The kids played in the sand most of the time. (Just getting them ready for our beach trip this summer.)

Later, we put the kids to bed and Ren and I stayed up and watched TV and drank wine and ate dessert.

Sunday, we hung around the house for a while until it was time to go to Ren’s dad’s house for crawfish. The boys wouldn’t eat it, but that’s okay. More for us! They had a blast playing with the basketballs and the chalk and the bubbles.
Miles playing in the curtains at Ren’s house:

at Ren’s dad’s house:

And while we were there, I took some lovely pictures of Ren and her girls (Not to brag or anything…)

And then we went home, and the boys played with Daddy and went to bed without a peep of protest! Now that‘s the perfect end to a great weekend!

04/11/10

04/11/10, originally uploaded by pyjammy.

I gotta say, I couldn’t decide which picture to post today.

It was between this one, of the boys all playing together (and nary a frown in sight nor whine in earshot) or this one of the crawfish the adults ate while the kids played, or this one of the boys getting chalk outlines in the driveway or this one of Ren and her girls (such a beautiful family!) but yeah, peace won out.