SanDisk Shoot

Yesterday, Wesley had his 7 1/2 hour photo shoot for SanDisk in Tiburon. The shoot was at a home that was absolutely gorgeous and happened to have a lake behind the backyard. He started working at 9:30am and had a lot of fun playing with Isabel, his 8 year old sister for the day, and his set teacher, Don. Don played guessing games, they did "search" books where they looked for items, and they played a math card game during downtime. They also got to play with the newest gadgets for the shoots, a laptop that is so small it fit in my purse, the new Nindendo DS1, and the WII games. Wesley has requested a DS1, which is really cool by the way, the kids are able to text each other drawings on it, take pictures and record on the thing. It is coming out on April 6th and he is going to use a little of the money he made on the shoot to buy it. What a nice reward! I did take some set photos of the kids with my camera phone but I have no idea where the cable is to upload them onto my computer. I'll have to figure that one out and try to get them up soon! =)

Busy Little Bee

Wesley has been very busy this past week with auditions for work. Apparently size does matter when it comes to child modeling/acting. A size 5 happens to be the busiest time for kids. He's actually becoming used to them now and has learned to do a "real" smile for the camera rather than the ugly "cheese" grin that he had been doing. He's also becoming a bit more social and learning skills to talk to adult strangers. (good thing???) We went to the city 4 times this past week because all of the auditions happened to be on different days. We recently signed a contract with a casting company in San Francisco that my cousin told me about that represents "real people." Two of the auditions were through them and he ended up booking the SanDisk gig which will shoot on Thursday. If you're wondering where you've heard of this company, they make the little memory cards that go inside digital cameras. We're still waiting to hear from Weight Watchers to see if he booked that one or not. I am not holding my breath on the Truvada gig because he did not look anything like the kids they were looking for when we were there, which may be good thing since I don't know how I feel about him being the poster child for an HIV drug.
The boys were supposed to do a shoot today with a child photographer on trade so we can use the images in their portfolios but it's super windy outside so we had to reschedule for next weekend which happened to be a blessing with going to the city so much already!
Friday evening we were able to stay at my sister's house in Pacifica because they left for vacation. Wesley and I had a night out and went to dinner with grandma and grandpa for grandpa's birthday and then we went bowling for the first time in a long time. He was old enough this time to bowl without the metal ramp and got his first strike! (which was pretty unbelieveable to me judging by the incredibly slow speed of the ball LOL) It reminded me of when I was his age learning to bowl...

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!