Our 1st Molar!

Brandon's valentine surprise consisted of 20 lovingly folded hearts from rectangles of paper.  Each one had something I love about him.  I used pink yarn tied in a bow to hang them up all around or bedroom.  There are still about 15 hanging up because they look pretty and he doesn't want to take them all down.  :-D

In unrelated news, this last week was pretty miserable.  There was a day with a high fever.  A few days of one very miserable toddler.  And it's probably a good thing that we decided against selling Keely to the nice group of traveling gypsies since she finally broke her first molar!  She has nine teeth now. 

In totally unrelated news, I wish that the Skunkboy Creatures Etsy would have these again:

 source

Although...maybe at a time when my budget for ridiculously cute narwhal plushies is higher....like 70 bucks higher.  And on that note, I will say good night because I have a date with some very gossipy ladies on Wisteria Lane tonight.  ;)

V-Day

Valentine's Day is coming up in just a couple of days now.  Which means I have a ton of projects in my mind that I would like to do as surprises for Brandon, but of course I will probably fail at accomplishing most of these projects.  I'll let you know how it goes after Sunday.  We will, of course, be ordering pizza that night (we're suckers for tradition) and Brandon will be working all day anyway.  Our big plans are for later in the week.  Maggiano's is super delicious and it's been forever since I've been there so I'm super excited.  Now I just have to finish some pesky school work and begin trying to do something sweet to let my husband know that even if I don't spend money on him, I still love him.

source

Watson Adventures

I just found out about these awesome scavenger hunts called Watson Adventures.  They have scavenger hunts throughout different cities and museums.  Some are to learn more about the area, while some are to solve a mystery.  I'm a total dork but just the idea of how much fun this seems like makes me giddy like a school girl.  So now, we are talking about either doing one of these overwhelmingly awesome scavenger hunts or going to a mystery dinner theater for my birthday.  Both sound awesome...it just depends on how lazy we're feeling.

We Are in the Four Percent!

You know how iPhones have an app for...EVERYTHING?  Well, after having Keely I discovered that vaccines are much the same way.  Mumps?  There's a vacc for that!  Measles?  One for that too!  Chicken pox?  Heck yes there's a vaccine for that!  Well, Keely got her chicken pox vaccine last week.  Apparently something like four percent of children will have a mild rash caused by the vaccine consisting of about 10 chicken pox.  Yeah...10 seems about right...for the amount on her right cheek!  The kid is covered in chicken pox.  I'm just glad that she didn't have seizures or any more serious side effects. 

Fortunately, they don't seem to be bothering her, because I was allll sorts of ready to break this idea out.  Remember this?

That is the episode of Friends where Phoebe has Chicken Pox and they tape oven mitts to her hands to keep her from scratching.  Okay...I wasn't really going to do it, but it probably works really well.  

Drowninggggg

I feel like I am drowning in school work so I decided to take a short break to come over here.  I've been in class for about 2 weeks now and I really don't think I've ever read so much in my entire life.  Seriously.  Have you ever taken a Philosophy class?  They are so enriching and wonderful and if you want any spare time don't ever take one because they will literally absorb your entire life.  I am currently taking 2.  Wonderful.  On the bright side, I have this fantastic new computer for which to take all of my online classes on.  It's magical and I love it.  And it doesn't hurt that when I turn it on I get to look at this lovely background courtesy of Kurt Halsey's artwork. 

Looking around at Kurt Halsey's photobucket page is one of my favorite things to do.  And now I must be off to read about Marx and Emerson.  And never ever finish reading....EVER.  

Vacation?

Well, I just got back from Illinois with Keely the other day.  I have a ton of school work piling up already and school just started last Monday!  I am not quite ready to pack up the winter clothes yet, but I will admit I have been longing to go to the beach these last few days.

That is a picture of Keely and me last year in Wildwood.  I am so excited to go back this year!  We might even take off for a couple of days by ourselves...sans the babe.  We'll see how that works out.  With or without Keely, we will be going!

Headband or something like it....

Soooo...I finished my first knit project.  It's a headband...or at least it somewhat resembles a headband. 

That is the back of the "headband" on what I refer to as "my hair".  Give me a break, by 8 pm the makeup is off and I have given up on my dreams of perfectly coiffed hair hours before.

  Yeah...we're not gonna talk about the hair...especially not from the front view.  At least I saved you having to look at my glasses covered, not made up face.  Anyways, I think I kind of like it in a somewhat hippyish way.  I'm almost positive that is only because I made it myself.