Hello Dolly

Today we were at Walmart and I ran across this very pink stroller. Bryan, like most toddlers, has an obsession with pushing his stroller around. It is so huge for him that he crashes into everything he could possibly run over in the house. I saw this cute little stroller, which by the way, doesn't come in any other color but pink, and I picked it up for him. We now own 1 pink item in our house! Hooray! LOL Bryan has been pushing it around all day and loves it. I can't wait for Jimmie to see it when he comes home from work! =)

Crocs Article

I accidentally ran across an article about the dangers of the Crocs shoes on escalators while looking for a photo of kids feet to put here on the blog. I never even knew that many children have actually LOST TOES in these accidents. Wesley wears his "frocks" all the time and I thought I'd pass this info along to anyone else that has children that wear them.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20837380/

Baby Blocks and Lips

I don't know if anyone remembers playing with these blocks when they were a kid but I remember them. They look like little waffle blocks. Anyhow, my cousin Kim gave some to Bryan for Christmas this past year and both boys love playing with them. Wesley built himself a "pirate ship" with them last night when Jimmie and I were at a dinner for his work. He's so proud he wanted me to take a pic of him with it. (don't mind the blankets that were forts in the background!) He also managed to find one of the spinning pieces that came with the kit and was playing around with it in his mouth (he never put stuff in his mouth as a baby but started with this about a year ago) and got his lip stuck inbetween a crease in the toy. I couldn't get it off for the life of me and he was going ballistic while I was trying everything I could use to get it off. I finally managed to grab a butter knife and pry the toy up off of his lip. He went crazy when he saw the knife and said he didn't want me to cut his lip off. Kids.

Our excitement for yesterday evening was at the work dinner the union gives for Jimmie's union. Everyone receives a raffle ticket and they give away about 40 prizes (there's usually about 200 people there) The best prizes were flat screen tv's, ipods, cameras, and a lot of kitchen supplies. I was fortunate to walk away with a new stainless steel, drumroll, ... .......toaster! LOL Heck, who can't use a new toaster?

Update for Wesley: he booked his Father's Day Ad for Macy's and will be shooting on Wednesday.

Arteest

Bryan, my little picasso, broke into our "junk" drawer a couple weeks ago and decided to make some art work on our kitchen door with a brown marker. He also managed to color the side of our kitchen cabinet but I was able to get most of it off. Thank goodness the door is going to be replaced anyhow...I had to take a picture just for this blog.

Macy's Ads

Both boys' ads ran this past week for Macy's. Here's a copy of Bryan's (my scanner's not too good!) and Wesley's ads.

Wesley just recently went to castings for Macy's, Pottery Barn Kids and Hannah Andersson last week. Everyone in our house is now sick, but the cats, although one was sneezing last night. YIKES!

It's my party and I'll cry if I want to...

The reason I haven't been updating the blog is because nothing wonderful is going on. In the 1 week that Wesley was able to go back to school he picked up pink eye and a very bad virus which turned into pneumonia within a day. I would expect this from Head Start but not a private preschool. It's interesting that the school doesn't monitor the children when they come in in the morning and send the sick one's home. Poor guy has now missed another week and a half of school and we had to cancel their birthday party until next month...