Happy Halloween

Figures. Neither kid wants to wear their costume. It was a crying good time to even get them halfway dressed for the halloween party at daycare. (FYI-Brady is Thomas and Jayda is some sort of feline, leopard maybe??) Trick-o-treating tonight should be a blast. :P

Party and pumpkins

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The weekend so far

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Go Tigers

Apparently its exhausting to watch your favorite team play in the world series.

They better win the next one (and the one after that and then the one after that)...

I could ramble on and on about what I've been up to lately. Unfortunately I actually have work to do at work (imagine that) so I have to keep it short. Here are pics from our trip to the circus last weekend. It was way better than I expected it to be. The things people are capable of doing is amazing to me. I cried during the tiger and elephant acts and I don't know why. I know the animals aren't being tortured but still, it seems wrong.

(If you look closely in the picture of me holding Brady you can see my earrings from Erika. I love having crafty friends. Also, Renee was present (Mikey is not a single dad) - I thought I had pictures of her in them but apparently I took all of the pictures of her with her camera not mine. Oh well, I'll get it next time. :p )

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3rd times the charm - or not

The in-laws were here this past weekend and we celebrated Brady's birthday for a third time. Lucky kid. Too bad he didn't think it was so lucky. Maybe next year will be his year not to cry.

We didn't do anything super spectacular over their visit. Brian and I got alot of chores done so it was more of a productive visit than a fun one. I feel bad for the rents. Luckily they love just being with their grandkids so it all worked out. We did go to some Fire Fighter thing Brian had to do at Waltart on Saturday. I was impressed by the firetruck. I've never seen a big ladder like that in real life.

That night we all went out to eat at our usual: Acapulco. If I were on death row and had to request a last supper it would be the #15 combo/soft tacos/chicken. Here are the munchkins hammin it up at the table. They are getting to be way more fun to take out to eat.

Weekend roundup and more

I can't really remember much of the weekend anymore. Friday night (anniversary night) Brian actually came home from work at a decent time and gave me a dozen roses and 2 really sweet cards and then we had subway for dinner. Might seem lame to some but I was actually happy.

Saturday Brian worked all day so I got to work posing the kids for halloween pics to send to the relatives.

Sunday... hmmm... oh yeah, Sunday afternoon Brian and Brady hung out at home watching football together and Jayda and I went shopping. Among tons of other things I bought Brady his Thomas halloween costume and some cute brown boots that I can wear with dress pants. It was so nice to shop with just one kid. I asked Jayda her opinion on things like which one do you like better and she helped me make my decisions. :) It was silly but fun.

Monday at work I actually worked. I didn't have any time to screw around. It was weird.

Tuesday at work things were still slightly off because our work group went out to Stillwater for our annual lunch/boat ride. After the ride was over our manager told everyone to go home. Wahoo for us. You can see me in the pic sporting three coats (2 belonged to other people). It was beautiful out but kinda chilly... Of course I was the brunt of all the jokes.

And today there is nothing to report. Its cold and snowing and my work life is back to normal.

Friday's news...

Five years baby! Anyone who knows how my husband and I are together will understand the enormity of this milestone...

Another one bites the dust - that makes 3 this week. Today is Steve's last day at unitard (otherwise know as unicrap and unisex) and we just got an email saying that one of our editors out in Mission was quitting. Earlier this week we heard that a writer out in Mission was quitting too. I see the writing on the wall but I'm too much of a pile to do anything about it...

Should have known: yesterday during my morning jog with Jen, we were both patting ourselves on the back for not getting sick as often as our less phyiscally fit husbands. Sure enough, this morning I wake up with a full blown piece of crap cold. Serves me right...

Hmmm I guess that's it. Tune in Monday for some more highly stimulating news...

First Braid

I know its silly to be so happy about such an insignificant little thing but truthfully, braiding Jayda's hair was the highlight of my night. (That says a lot about my life I know.) Someday soon I'm going to attempt the french braid. Woohoo!

Mr. Whistler??

Today I went to the dentist to get a filling fixed and Brady went with me for his first checkup. Brady sat on my lap while the dentist fixed my filling and I about died. Not only was Brady moving around and rocking the chair while the dentist was drilling my mouth but he also kept poking his head in my face because he quote "wanted to see!" The dentist also about killed me with his baby talk to Brady. Ok so maybe not baby talk, but definite kidspeak. Every little thing he did to me, he explained to Brady. He called the drill Mr. Whistler, the suction straw Mr. Sucker, the water for rinsing Mr. Squirter, and the thing he used to help dry the composite Mr. Blowdryer. I never knew my dentist had it in him. Kind of funny that everything was Mr. Where's the Mrs?

When it came time for Brady's cleaning and checkup he was fairly cooperative and did a good job overall - no tears were shed anyway. The dentist did note that Brady was/had been a thumb or NUK sucker. He said it was good that we cut him off. As it is, his bite is already a little off. Oh well. Better late than never.

After the visit Brady called up Brian and said "No cavities Dad." (Of course I told him to say that, but it was so cute to watch him be so proud of himself.)

Ruh-oh

At daycare they let the kids watch Scooby Doo. So now Brady loves singing the theme song. Or I should say trying to sing it. This was all he could get out:

Scooby-Dooby-Doo, Where Are You? We got some (blank) for you now.
Scooby-Dooby-Doo, Where Are You? We (blank, blank, blank) ....

And then he would continue to hum for the rest of the song. It was driving me nuts that I couldn't remember the words either so today I finally looked them up:

Scooby-Dooby-Doo, Where Are You? We got some work to do now.
Scooby-Dooby-Doo, Where Are You? We need some help from you now.

Come on Scooby-Doo, I see you... pretending you got a sliver

But you're not fooling me, cause I can see, the way you shake and shiver.

You know we got a mystery to solve, so Scooby Doo be ready for your act.
[Scooby Doo] Uh-uh Uh-uh
Don't hold back!
And Scooby Doo if you come through
you're going to have yourself a scooby snack!
That's a fact!

Scooby-Dooby-Doo, here Are You. You're ready and you're willing.
If we can count on you Scooby Doo, I know you'll catch that villian.