ABC Tag

If any of you are interested, I just posted on our family blog.  Michelle and Laura ABC tagged me.  To view the post just click on Our Family Page under Links.  

Happy Day!

Cozy

MONDAY, OCTOBER 6th - 2008

We went to Brian's parent's house for dinner last night.  While we were there Brian's mom asked if we would like this feather bedding.  It's not a comforter.   I'm not sure exactly what it's called, but basically, you put in on your bed and sleep on top of it.  It makes your bed really soft and cozy.  Joe is all about the cozy.  He actually had one of these quite a few years back and absolutely loved it.  I'd find feathers all over the house, but that is a different story.  He used it until it was basically flat and all used up.  He was very sad when it was time for it to go.

Imagine how happy he was when he saw this:  

Of course he wanted it.  We took it home and put it on the bed right away.  It's now the coziest bed ever.  He loves it.
Maybe this will make the night time ritual go faster.  He was actually looking forward to going to bed tonight.

Quality Time

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5th - 2008

Ahh...There's nothing like the bond between father and son.  Here Joe is trying to punch Brian, but Brian is holding him off.  Can you feel the love?

What is it about boys and fighting/wrestling?  They are totally playing around here.  It seems like their favorite way to spend time together is either this or wrestling.  

Guess where M&M spent his Saturday...

SATURDAY,  OCTOBER 4th - 2008

Guess where M&M (see previous post) spent his Saturday.....

That's right - the Emergency room.  Brian woke me up this morning feeling extremely dizzy and light headed.  So, I dropped Joe off with my sister (Thanks Stacy and Paul for keeping Joe for a few hours) and Brian and I headed to the Emergency Room.  He had some x-ray's done and it turns out he has a concussion.  

I tried to get him to go get checked out last night but he was feeling ok.  Curse those Motrin for working TOO good.  We spent a few hours at the emergency room for the doctor to tell us that he needed to stay in bed and take it easy (duh!).  The good thing is that it wasn't more serious than that.  Also, his doctor was pretty dang funny.

Brian's Law

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3rd - 2008

First of all, yes, I am aware that I am over a week behind, but I went out of town for a few days, so it will take me a few days to catch up.  

I'm sure you are familiar with Murphy's Law:  "If anything can go wrong, it will."  Well, I've come up with my own variation on Murphy's Law.  I call it Brian's Law.  It goes a little something like this:  "If anything can go wrong, it will....happen to Brian."  If something is going to go wrong in any given situation, it will happen to Brian.  Let me cite some examples just this past year.  

Example 1:  Brian has surgery on his deviated septum to stop major recurring sinus infections.  It turns out that he was probably mis-diagnosed, as the pain didn't stop after the surgery.  The problem was that he had 7 wisdom teeth that needed to be pulled - 2 of which were very close to the sinus cavity.  That was what was probably causing all of the pain.

Example 2:  Brian goes on a guys vacation to San Diego with friends.  Guess who steps on  a stingray?  

Example 3:  As many of you know, Brian plays on a softball team for Ganem Jeweler's on Friday nights.  This Friday actually started off pretty good.  Jason made an awesome throw to Brian at first base which he caught.  Yep, this girl was OUT!

Here is where Brian's Law starts to kick in:  His first at bat.  All looks fine here, so far.  
He hits the ball and takes off running.  The Shortstop grabs the ball and throws it as hard as he can to the first baseman.  The throw is a little high.  Care to guess where it landed?
Yep, right on the side of Brian's head.  At first I thought that the ball had hit the first baseman's glove and then bounced off it to hit Brian's head, but no, it was a straight shot to the head.  Luckily it didn't hit him in the temple.  It was a couple of inches higher.  But let me just say that you could see where the stitches from the softball left their marks on his head.
Needless to say, he did not play the rest of the game.  Luckily we live about 2 minutes from the field.  I hurried home and got him some ice packs and motrin.  After 4 motrin and about 20 minutes he was starting to feel a little better.  He wanted to stay and watch the rest of the game.  They ended up loosing.  I think he'd like to think it was because he couldn't play first base.  They just couldn't win without him (kidding).  

He did actually stay and play another game after this one.  What was he thinking?

I told Brian I'm going to start calling him Mishap Man (M&M for short).  Maybe I'll start a comic book about all of the misadventures of Mishap Man.  

Be sure to stay tuned for the next installment of Mishap Man where "If anything can go wrong, it will...happen to Brian."

Poor Bunny!

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2nd - 2008

Ok, so Joe is a chatty guy.  He loves to talk - especially to me.  We have some great talks together and I really love it that we are friends and can hang out and have good conversations. However, today I needed some silence.  I had been paying bills and balancing my checkbook and had somehow made an error.  I was off.  I'm not talking pennies here, I'm talking $150.00.  So, I'm trying to figure out where I went wrong.  All the while Joe is sitting there chatting up a storm.  I'm trying to listen and work, but I am getting increasingly frustrated because I can't figure out my mistake.  All the while, Joe keeps on asking me questions, and showing me magic tricks - etc.  Finally, I had to politely ask him if he could give me a few minutes of quiet so I can figure this out.   He agrees and I suggest that maybe he should go in his room and do some reading.  So he leaves.  A few minutes later, I look up from my work and I notice Joe standing across the room with his hand raised.

He had thought of something else to tell me, but didn't want to interrupt my work, so he was politely standing there waiting for me to call on him.  

I thought it was cute that he didn't want to interrupt.  I told him that his school teacher would be proud.

I finally figured out the mistake - thank goodness.

Ahh....October

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1st - 2008

It's getting to be that time of year again.  You know that cooler weather is on its way (finally).

You start looking forward to colored leaves and all things pumpkin.  I love autumn.  I only wish I lived in a place where it actually got cold and where the leaves actually change.  I'm going to have to go up north if I want to see that.  However, Brian came home today with some autumn cheer.  He had gone to bath and body works and picked up this pumpkin candle.  He also brought home  some Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin home fragrance.  You know, the kind that you plug into the wall and it makes your house smell yummy.

I love it because it's not so strong that it overpowers the house.  You just catch a hint of it.  It's fabulous.  So, even if it doesn't quite feel like fall yet (still too hot), or look like fall (no colored leaves in the desert), at least it now smells like fall.  I love this time of year.