Irritable Blog Syndrome

Poi'pu Beach

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Landing in Kauai

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And away we go...

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Super Sonic

Our new Sonic has a brick and rock exterior. Pretentious much? Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

Tanning Bed Chronicles - Day 5*

Due to what I can only assume is the result of a combination of tanning lotion and back sweat, while fidgeting in the tanning bed today I created enough suction between my back and the bed to make a HUGE skin fart not once...but thrice!

*I haven't been tanning in 10 years, except for a bad Mystic Tan experience a couple years back, but that's another post unto itself.  I wanted to get a little color on my skin before we go to Hawaii so I don't frighten anyone with my paleness.  Synopsis of Days 1-4 is as follows:  Day 1 - slightly pink; Day 2 - tried a standing bed and fried (maybe new bulbs?); Day 3 - good; Day 4 - good; Day 5 - aforementioned skin farts.

"Thusie Thells Theathells by the Theathore"

It's finally happened.  Naomi FINALLY has a loose tooth.  I say "finally" because one of her friends that's the same age lost a tooth a couple of weeks ago, and it's all Naomi can talk about. "When will I have lose my teeth?  I can't wait 'til I have a loose tooth" and on and on and on.

What I find most interesting is that as soon as she discovered it was loose she said, "When my tooth falls out I'll talk like 'thisssssth.'"   It seems loosing a tooth and gaining a lisp are a package deal I was unaware off.

Best Picture of Me EVER

Munch Munch

Did you have ever have certain foods in the house growing up that you weren't allowed to eat without it accompanying something else? 

For instance, in our house growing up you weren't allowed to just hunker down with a bag of chips.  You had to be eating them with a sandwich.  Makes sense, one bag of chips amongst six people goes a whole lot further when eaten that way.

In addition to that "chip rule" in my own house we have one more item you're not allowed to just sit and munch on by itself...dried seaweed squares. 

Henry and Naomi can sit down together and mow through a bad of those in nothing flat if I don't force them to roll some rice up into it.

Well that's all.  Just a fun little tidbit from our international household.

Cysts Can be Funny Sometimes

Ok, this story is just too funny not to share.  I have a cousin who lives in Kansas (I actually have many cousins there but that's not the point) and a close friend of hers began having pretty bad back pain apparently.  So she had it checked out and guess what the problem was?  Just guess?  Try.  I dare ya.

IT WAS A 15-POUND CYST GROWING INSIDE OF HER!!!  You heard me right.  No, that's not the funny part.  She had surgery to remove the cyst.  Cyst is benign (YEAHHHH!!!).  Now I have never met this girl but I know I would like her.  Why?

[insert drum-roll here]

She named her cyst...and she named it "Marla."

Britain's Got Talent...Seriously, they do...and it's not just because they have cool accents

I can't embed the video because it won't let me so you'll just have to trust me and click the link:

Stavros Flatly - Greek Irish Dancers - Britains Got Talent 2009

Pretty Bird

I bought this dress a couple of months ago.  I lost count of how many times Naomi has asked to wear it.  Now that she has actually worn it, the requests have only increased.

A Little Something for All You "Young Frankenstein" Fans Out There

Naomi is currently laying down in bed and supposed to be taking a nap.  After four times of getting up, (three of them to ask "Is it time to get up yet?" and the last time because she had picked her nose YET AGAIN to the point of bleeding*) I'm pretty sure the nap part isn't really going to happen.

Anyway, I headed back to the laundry room to check on a load in the dryer and as I passed her room I hear her whispering loudly, while moving her head left to right, "DESTINY!  DESTINY!..."

Disclaimer:  If you've never seen the movie then just totally disregard this post because it won't be funny and it won't make sense at all.

*The girl needs a nose-picking intervention or something because this is like the fourth time in a month she has done this.  She claims she's bored.  I think I'd rather she went back to chewing her nails at this point.

Holy Heatwave Batman!

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I'm a...

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My Worst Fear

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My Baby is All Grown Up

Long story short, we have decided to send Naomi to Montessori School in the fall for kindergarten.  I'm still in the process of checking out the ones in the area to see which one we want to send her to.  We had planned to home-school but we think it might be beneficial for Naomi to re-acquaint herself with children her own age again (even as beastie as some of them will prove to be). 

She has been at home with me the last two years and her ability to be hang with the adults has increased while her ability to relate to children her age seems to have taken a dive.  In addition, she seems to be almost 100% sure that everything is all about her, and well that's just not good.  Since she will be an only child we thought a couple years in school might help with this.

That being said, did you know you could buy a small island for what it costs to send a kid to Montessori?  Oy vey!!!  Now that I think about it, having another kid would costs less...hmm...::shudder::...thanks but no thanks. So, I have put a cute little "Donate" button in the upper-right hand corner of my site.  What's it for?  The next time you feel the urge to buy something cute or fun for Naomi...DON'T! Click that "Donate" button and send it there and it will go straight to her tuition.

I am not begging or asking for hand-outs.  It is not going to be a hardship on us to send her to this kind of school.  We just can't waste our money anymore on all the useless things we have been wasting it on the last 10 years.  Having you donate your funds to her education is just much more beneficial then her owning yet another Polly Pocket (hate those things with the teeny-tiny shoes the dog keeps trying to eat) and it will just help cushion the blow a little more.  =)

UPDATE:  If for some reason you feel the urge to buy Henry or myself anything...again, DON'T!  Donate instead. Hehe!

WARNING: EXTREMELY HIGH CUTENESS FACTOR AHEAD

Naomi at about 14 months...

 

I just LOVED those overalls.