I*HEART*FACES {Hats}

The challenge this week is hats. I've been trying for 2 days to get Wyatt to stand still long enough for me to get a shot with my oh-so-slow-to-focus camera. Frustrating to say the least. Snapped this one tonight and it is way soft...off focus and garbage by the technical standards, but if nothing else, it captured his essence. Oh and a little bit of his pirate too, lol.

{Kids Entry}





Check out all the other hats this week at I*HEART*FACES.

Tick-tock-tick-tock

Argh....I am downloading the the trial version for Adobe Lightroom2 and it seems like it is taking for flipping ever! Come on already!
I have resisted it thus far, but what the hay, I sure ain't getting any younger, lmbo......and zip it, Jason.
Grrr, we must have the slowest internet in all of Fort Worth or something.....

Ok, whilst I wait....here a few zoo pics. I wasn't terribly inspired by an of these so it took me a while to get some of them done. There were more edited but my computer froze before I saved them and I just don't have the heart to go back and re-edit them all over again. Maybe if Lightroom ever hurries up I might feel more like playing.....weeee!

P.S.. you'd think it would kill him to give me some eye contact even just once....

Musical Monday

I heard this song with fresh ears yesterday, as if for the first time....so may you hear it for the 1st time all over again too.

Say what?!?

It's May 2nd....now how the heck did that happen?

Anyhow, to update on the Rugrat, he's back to his spunky, driving-me-up-the-wall-and-outta-my-mind self. Let's see...today's band-aid count: 1, so in my book, it was a good day. I also finally finished painting the dining room area today. On to the living room next....any volunteers out there? Surely All-You-Can-Eat Little Ceasars pizza must be at least a little tempting, right? HA!

And from Lori over at Teacher Turned Mommy...I accept your challenge!

8 Things I Look Forward to
Sleeping thru night again sometime before I die
- Retirement, HA!
- A cure for Diabetes
- A trip to Paris....someday.....
- May 22-25...Stay-cation time!
- A vaccine for H1N1
- Chinese food...haven't been to Pei-Wei in forever!
- and last but not least....the GRAND OPENING of SAM MOON just one exit from our house! sorry Jason....but WOOHOOO!

8 Things I Did Yesterday
*ok this is gonna be painful....I have no life
- Showered
- Went to work
- Did my Fix-It-Friday photo
- searched high and low for my IPod and it's officially MIA
- went to JC Penny's and only spent $20!
- Wore a pair of jeans I hate and was uncomfortable all day
- Promised myself I would take a sewing class....
- Ordered this super cute crochetted bowl as a newborn prop.....CUTE! I love ETSY!

8 Things I Wish I Could Do
- Wake up 50lbs lighter
- Not have a potty mouth sometimes
- Payoff my mountain of student loans
- Tell my boss to "Take this job and shove it......" but alas, see entry above
- Take better photos, like the ones I drool over
- Be more patient
- Be better with money

8 Shows I Watch
*this is a stretch.....I don't really watch these all the time
- America's Next Top Model
- How I Met Your Mother....this is greatness if you've never seen it before!
- Survivor
- Chopped
- Good Eats
- New Adventures of Old Christine
- The Unit....Scott Foley. yumm.
- Spongebob Squarepants...one of Wyatt's faves...

I*HEART*FACES {FIF}

It's Friday, you know the drill.

Hmmm, looking at my edit now it looks like I overdid it a way too much....oops.

You can see everyone else's versions over at I*HEART*FACES!

Oodles of Fun

Here's a snippit of how my day went...hope your's was a lot less eventful.

6:15 Drug my arse out of bed....groggy and cranky from a series of sleep-interruptions, otherwise known as Wyatt calling out every hour for "covers" because yes, he is sleeping back in our room (in his corner pallet on the floor) and he's convinced he gets warmer when either Jason or I put the blankets back over him than when he does it himself....

6:50 Wyatt wakes up and is complaining his mouth hurts...an inspection shows no obvious reasons why...

7:45 Showered and dressed, force myself to leave for work

8:55 Take a lovely call from a woman at work who tells me her husband has passed away and she has no money cuz she had to have his body shipped from another state where he died and can't make her truck payment....to which I reply? Ok, call us back later, you've got more important things to worry about right now and it's only a truck. I am sure I'll get a good lashing for this....

9:30 Am imformed Wyatt is running over 101 fever and has to be picked up from daycare asap. Crud. Hate asking to leave work, even though I am not fond of my job....I hate looking like a flake even more. Oh and  the guilt hits...maybe his mouth really was hurting him.

10:15 Go get Wyatt, after driving to Jason's office to switch cars so I have a car seat since one of our cars is in the shop for hail repair and we're stuck with a rental.....he's burning up...102.4 by now. Nice....great job Mom. Don't you watch the news idiot...swine flu is coming like a freight train.

10:45 Back home. Wyatt requests Pinnochio....ugh, please, let my eyes shrivel up and fall out...I can't take this, but I can't tell him no.

12:03 Nap time. Glorious nap time......the silver lining.

2:20 Trip to the doc's office. The usual....except the nurse was using one of those worthless temporal thermometers and tries to tell me he's only got a fever of 99.1. Umm, my ass it's 99.1. He's about to spontaniously combust...try again. She does but she's witch about it, especially when I imply I want a different thermometer. 101.9...yeah, thats more like it....and he'd already had some ibuprophen.

2:27 Throat and nose swabs to check for flu and strep.

2:28 and a half   Wyatt pukes up everything he ate for lunch ALL. OVER. MY. LAP.
Swallowing my own urge to blow chunks, I call out for the nurse....ok semi-scream but really, I was caught between a rock and a mountain of puke and I could not get up. The slightest movement would have made the already horrible situation that much more miserable. Minutes pass, my shouts go unanswered so I send Wyatt with vomit down his chest into the hallway but he tells me there is no one out there. A couple more minutes pass....finally our nurse!

2:40 Postive test for Strep Throat. Swell...

2:45 Shot time for Wyatt....

3:15 Back home again. Cinderella this time.....yes, one of his all-time favorites. Seriously.

But we've had a good run....he's 2 and a half and this will be our first bout of Strep. Doc said just the one shot would do the trick and that seems be paining him more than anything else at this point. So thats about it from here....except I really need a margarita.....like NOW!

I will close by saying I am thankful though. Thankful we have medical coverage that allows us to schedule a visit with a doc with only a few hours notice. Thankful I can hop in a car and know it will start, know it will have gas, know I don't have to walk miles upon miles with a sick child. Thankful we have access to medicine if we need it. Thankful we have cool, clean water at our fingertips to wash it down with. Thankful that when crappy days like this come around, we have the means to make it through. I know there are more people than I will ever really fathom that could only wish for these basic things and I want to try to my best to not take them for granted ever.

P.S.....and thankful for those little machines that make frozen margaritas too!