LOL of the week!

It's Monday again - and because I won't be in town until late NEXT Monday from our VEGAS trip - I found 2 LOLs for you today!


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Halloween Planning - Already

I am one of those crazy women that waits untl after the holiday is over and goes to all of the super-duper markdown sales and buy everything for NEXT year. Well, last year I got this super cute plushie dragon costume for one of the kids. It's a 3T so I figure if we don't use it this year, it will work next year.
So I had this super cute idea where Bug can be the dragon, Dude could be a little knight, and daddy and mommy could be a king and queen. Well, daddy doesn't want to be a king, he wants to be the knight, and no just any knight. Apparently he used to work with a guy who makes chainmail - yeah - the real stuff. For some reason or another I just know this is going to turn into a travesty that every Halloween turns into. We end up planning everything in advance, but he always waits until the last minute to decide what he wants to do and I spend the entire day of the Halloween party sewing and cutting and fitting, etc. everything for HIS costume and have to throw something together for myself. This happens EVERY year.
I don't want to deal with this kind of thing this year PLEASE! So I'm highly considering holding onto the dragon costume for another year so that Dude can wear it instead, then Bug could be a princess, daddy can be the knight like he wants to be and they can leave me alone to eat the candy! LOL!
Oh and that's the other thing! Daddy wants to take Bug and Dude trick-or-treating this year. I still think they're too young! I mean we could teach Bug to say "Trick or Treat" but she can't eat most of the candy yet - at least I don't WANT her to eat it yet!! *SIGH*


*UPDATE*

I just pulled the dragon costume out of storage and it doesn't fit Bug!! She's too tall for it!! The bad thing is that it's a size 3T!!! It does however fit Dude quite well (it's a tiny bit big). So that makes things easier. Bug can be a princess, daddy can be a knight like he wants to & I'll figure some sort of something for myself!

LOL of the week!

'Cuz we can all use a good laugh on Mondays!



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Thank you potty chair gods!

Apparently they "spoke" to Bug last night and told her to make her mama happy and go potty for her - and she DID!! First thing this morning! I actually used MY brain for a change and put her on the potty right after I got her out of bed. I mean, what's the first thing I have to do when I get up? GO PEE! DUH! So did she!
I did learn that maybe she likes to go by herself too because she went while I was out of the room changing Dude's diaper. She didn't even realized she had done it. Even when I started telling her what a good girl she was and tried to get her to stand up - she didn't understand! It was pretty funny!
I made her a little poster that says "I went potty!" on it and hung it above her potty chair on the bathroom wall. I gave her a big Minnie Mouse sticker to put on it for her first one, and found a whole bunch of stickers in my scrapbooking supplies that I'm going to let her use.
Tonight when Daddy gets home from work, we go shopping for big girl undies!

Will he EVER sleep through the night??

I really don't know how much longer I can take Dude not sleeping. I am just at my wits end & at my downright smelliest too due to lack of showers (you think I'm joking).
He's over a year old now and he is still waking up multiple times a night. We've tried moving his crib into our room, adding a nice snuggly pillow, stuffed animals, one of those music thingies, everything! I know a lot of it has to do with his ezcema because he used to get so itchy in the middle of the night that it would wake him up. That still happens every now and again because it's still not 100% cleared up in some spots (mostly his feet & top of his head) & he'll start itching and it wakes him up. I know there's got to be other things waking him up though because his ezcema lately really hasn't been that bad at all.
Well, the only solution has been to put him in bed with us. Which would be all fine and dandy if he would actually sleep the same direction as us - instead he wants to make a capital letter 'H' every night - mommy and daddy are the vertical bars, he's the horizontal one. That, and once DH gets up to go to work it turns into a WWE wrestling match because he just cannot stay still! I miss the days when he'd just snuggle right up next to me and sleep that same way all night long!
I think next step is going to be moving the crib back into his room. He's loud enough now that I can definitely hear him when he wakes up and I'm wondering if the "alone time" would help him sleep now. It just seems that everything that worked for Bug isn't for Dude. Oh well, trial and error I guess.


Oh, and speaking of Bug, still no successful potty chair experiences yet. She even sat on it for at least 30 minutes today and still nothing. I bribed her with stickers, pudding, books, anything I could think of and she's all for the goodies but doesn't want to "work" for them!! LOL! I guess we'll just keep at it, she really likes sitting on the potty chair, I guess we'll just wait for the inevitable!

Cheezburgers & Hotdogs LOL!

I think I found it on someone else's blogroll, but whoever it was CURSE YOU!! I am now totally addicted to lolcats and loldogs!! I've made a couple of them myself:


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and this one:


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Some of the people that make up the "capshuns" are freaking hilarious! They really are LOL!

Just a fair warning, if you're going to click on the links, put down your drink and anything breakable!!


Oh and P.S.
Thanks to Monkey Memories for teaching me how to do the link thingy!!

Potty Training & Patience

Apparently I have none! I've never done this potty training thing and I sure as heck don't remember back that far to know how my mom did it with me, but this is next to impossible!
Bug is totally willing to sit on her potty chair until the cows come home. It's the fact that I cannot possibly hang out with my daughter in the bathroom all day long waiting for a little tinkle. I have a one year old boy that either is in the bathroom with us tearing it apart, which in turn takes Bug's focus away from what she's supposed to be doing; or he's in another room, tearing it apart. I have no idea how I'm supposed to have the patience for poor Bug who really WANTS to go potty in her potty chair but doesn't have her potty timing down & Godzilla Dude who needs constant supervision so he doesn't tear the house to pieces! UGH! If I could just get something to entertain Godzilla Dude for a good half hour we would be golden I think but his attention span isn't even close to that!
Oh well - good thoughts and crossed fingers for a successful potty training I guess - my goal is to have her "trained" by Christmas - we'll see - especially when I've got so much "help"! So anyone out there with helpful hints would be welcome!

Changed the background

So, this is like the 4 millionth time I've changed the background on this thing in a week but I just haven't found one I really really like - until now! This great website skincorner.com has a few different Pooh skins and both of my kiddos LOVE Pooh so I figured it was pretty fitting to have it as the theme for the page - even though it doesn't really match the title - but that's ok! I've never been a matchy matchy type of person anyways!

Digiscraping - it's all your fault monkey memories

Yup - I'm blaming one of my best friends for the reason I've been up past midnight the last two nights downloading digiscraping freebies!! I don't have a clue what I'm going to do with them - ESPECIALLY considering I don't have photoshop on this stupid computer (had I known how much I'd miss it I wouldn't have gotten rid of the old computer that had it). Oh well. I did find a scrapbooking program that will use all of this stuff but it doesn't let you do as much stuff as photoshop does. I guess I'll have to make due!
So anyways - if you're reading this - monkey memories its all YOUR fault!! :)

Just a quick note for no reason

This blogging stuff is hard work!! LOL!!
I'm still working on some pictures to put on here and I still haven't figured out how to link to other people's blogs.
I was hoping to do something kindof fun like "flashback fridays" that monkey memories does too, I just haven't decided what yet. Maybe I'll post fun pictures of all my different animals - a new one every week or something. Not sure yet but I'll come up with something I'm sure!

I should have more stuff coming in the next couple of days. I've been trying to use flickr and I kindof don't like it as well as some of the other photo sites I've used before - but I'm trying - it's taking me like 3 times as long to edit from it so I think from now on I'll just edit the photos BEFORE I download them to flickr.

Anyways that's all for now - Bug and Dude are going to spend a couple of hours at grandma's house tonight - Bug loves going to Grandma's house - anytime I talk to mom on the phone Bug wants to know if she's going over there! Dude likes that Grandma feeds him and feeds him and feeds him!! HAHAHAHA!!

Meet Dude

Dude is the younger of the two kiddos. I am convinced he's part cute baby, part Godzilla! I love my little man to death but he can kick my butt any day of the week and he's only one!! I'll just explain a tiny bit now, as I know people will wonder about his pictures, but Dude has eczema and it's been pretty severe at times. I vowed a few months ago when I got my new digital camera that I didn't care what people thought about how he looked, I'm not going to deprive anyone of photos of my cute little man just because he's got some icky spots on his face!! OK, more on eczema later!

Meet Bug

Bug is the older of the two kiddos. She just turned two a couple of weeks ago and is quite the little diva! She's also the inspiration for the title for this blog (as described in the Welcome post)! She's such a comedian and the smartest 2 year old in the world! No really - you'll see!! :)

Welcome!!

OK everyone, here we go!!! My very first post!
Welcome to the whopping 2 people that will probably read this!! LOL!
I've been reading a couple of my friends' blogs on a regular basis lately and I just really like the idea of keeping a somewhat regular record of what my kiddos are up to so that I can look back at the facinating and fantastic things that they do - and say. Yeah baby books are great but they only hold so much!
So here we go, I hope you're ready for the ride we're about to go on! I'm not sure I'm ready yet for my babies to grow up yet, but they're going to whether I'm ready or not!

Special thanks to monkey memories & lit and laundry - you ladies were my inspiration for finally doing this!!! (I would do one of those fancy link thingies so you could go straight to their pages but I have NO CLUE how to do that!!)

Oh and for anyone that's curious - the name Horses Say Moo comes from my daughter. As she was learning animals and the sounds they make it has now become a joke that EVERY time you ask her what a horse says she will imediately say MOO and bust up laughing. If you ask her a second time, she'll do the "clip clop" noise, but it never fails, that first time she'll say MOO.