Sunday, August 28, 2011

sticky situation....

It is a known fact that babies tend to spit up, especially after eating right? Well, time and time again I have told Chris, "you shouldn't lift her up in the air like that, she just ate."

Victim
Culprit

I am pretty sure I won't have to remind him again!

Friday, August 26, 2011

"Friendly Reminder"

So today I was getting our mail and I opened a letter from our HOA. I was thinking it was probably a welcome to our community letter. Instead I read the following:

"On a site inspection of the community on 8/22/2011, it was noted by the Association Manager, Pierre Renault, that your landscaping needs some attention, specifically the removal of dead shrub in front yard."

(As noted in previous post we have been doing work to our back yard and that included digging up some really ugly shrubs. We had pulled them to the front yard to let them die so we could then throw them away in the trash can the day before trash pick up)

Followed by: "Ignoring the situation may lead to fines if not resolved."

#1. Are you serious Pierre. Do you have a life? A dead shrub? This is your complaint? What, it doesn't blend into the dry, desert, cactus, dirty landscape that is all around?
#2. What on earth do we get for our monthly $35 HOA fee? I have yet to see this "common area" that you say you maintain.
#3. This letter does not feel like a very friendly reminder.
#4. How often are these "site inspections" happening?

So much for being welcomed to the neighborhood. Mr Renault, consider yourself blacklisted.

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Vacation?

Chris had his first week of vacation this past week. He gets 4 weeks a year, but doesn't really get to choose when he gets it. We had planned on working on our dead backyard whenever he had vacation, unfortunately, the August heat wasn't the most accommodating for that.

I had made Sam's 4 month well check on monday so that chris could actually come to one of the visits. She got her vaccines...followed by 5 days of a fever.
Here's her stats: *14 lbs (75th percentile) *26 1/4 inches (95th percentile)
The pediatrician said after seeing chris this all makes sense! I am seeing another bean pole in the family...

Tylenol is now her favorite treat. She hung out in her pjs the entire day and took some killer naps poor girl.
Blue print (drawn by Chris, resident by day, landscaper by night)
The blocks are pavers, the space between will be our lovely wanna be grass. The circles are trees already in place.
Before hours and hours of digging and raking

He was trying to talk me into giving him a wheel-barrow ride
This is what happens when you try to apply sunscreen to your own back (notice that he used the underneath technique on the left and overhand on the right). It is really my fault because I told him he needed to take off his shirt because all that time in the hospital was turning him into a ghost (a nurse even asked him last week if he was going to pass out, sadly he is just pale!)
I can't even say how many hours he spent out there digging in the 100 degree heat. I was so impressed by his determination to get the job done. I know it doesn't look like much now, but we have plans (and thanks to chris it might actually happen!)

Now the question is: what do you do with loads and loads of dirt?

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Time flys....

when you live life by months instead of years. To celebrate turning 4 months (trust me, surviving that long with the parents she has is an achievement!) we went for a walk. As you can see, she is really pumped about getting older.



Chris was trying to recreate the scowl she was born with

Her favorite things to date:
-her hands. I don't know what she puts on them, but they must taste like chocolate or something because she loves to eat them.
-laying on the rug and watching the fan and spinning in circles (seriously keeps her busy for hours). She has rolled a time or two but hasn't really gotten it down yet.
-going on walks
-bathtime
-squealing when she is lifted into the air which happens to be my favorite sound at the moment
-playing with chris when he gets home from work (I am so lame after 13 hours)
-swimming, well okay, kicking her legs around in the pool. We haven't really taught her the breaststroke yet, that will come next month.