Go, Go, Goers!

We've been slow (lazy?) about moving G's diet along.  With Ava, we were so good, so structured!  There was a schedule, a plan, a METHOD to how new foods were introduced to her.  Green veggies first, then the orange veggies, and then fruit can be introduced - there IS a reason for this, I promise!  The green veggies aren't as sweet, and they need to be accepted first. If you start with the sweet stuff first, they might never fully accept the green veggies.  With G...not so much.  "Oh, hey, do you think that maybe he should start eating veggies?"  "Yeah."  "Cool."  And then...it's taken 3 weeks (maybe more?) for the green beans to get the all clear.  He likes them, he's not allergic, it's good.  We can move on!  We then tried sweet potato puffs to work on his coordination.  He's not coordinated, and let's just leave it at that.  But, he doesn't mind chomping on them once they are in (and stay in) his mouth. And then...

"Momma, I want to listen to the Bob Song."  These are words I have heard frequently over the last few years.  And it made me start thinking about how the things that we learn (incorrectly) in our childhood will "haunt" us for years into the future.  For example, the Bob Song.  Let me explain... There's a house in California that does an amazing Halloween light show, set to popular music, each year.  In 2011, the song of the season was Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO (watch it here .)  Ava and I were watching the light show on my iPad one night, and she started asking questions about the four jack o'lantern faces that were the primary focus in the light show.  We named each one (Nancy, Bob, ummm, something, and something else...I don't really remember.  Jack, maybe?) and had a little backstory about them.  I think Nancy was a nurse or something like that.  In any case, Ava LOVED watching the video, and from that point forward, this song has ...

There are some weeks where it's best not to relive some events that happened...and this is one of them!  What a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad week that I had at work.  It ended with me working from 1:30-3:30am on Friday morning...and it didn't get any better during the day on Friday.  It's a darn good thing that happened on Friday and I've had a few days to recover! But, we've had a pretty good weekend so far!  I had a chance to do a few fun projects that I've had brewing for a while...it was so nice to take time to do something that makes me happy.  I forgot how much I enjoy being creative and crafty.  On Saturday, there was a trip to the park, a friend's 30th birthday party, and then a visit with the neighbors while the guys were watching the UFC fight.  I was exhausted by the time I got home and promptly fell asleep by 10pm.  Such a night owl! :) Today, Scott and G are going to visit Great-Grandma while Ava and I head to the Mall o...