i'm too lazy to take a picture. maybe i will eventually. but we got this awesome desk at a garage sale yesterday and i am currently sitting in what used to be our front sitting room, now turned into our front office. believe me, it will get SO much more use now that there's a computer in it. plus, it's nice to look out the window at the pretty trees in our yard while i peruse facebook and other blogs. because let's be honest--i don't use the internet for anything else.
we're prepping for sydney's birthday on friday. what?? i can't believe it.
syd's favorite thing right now is to take her baby spoons out of the dishwasher and carry as many as she can as she crawls. usually this leads to frustration on her part, because she ends up dropping spoons a lot. it's adorable though.
well, there's not much else to talk about. i basically just wanted to make my first post on our new desk. :p
catch ya on the flip side. don't know what that means, but i'll figure it out.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Haircut and Children's Museum
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| Me sans about three or four inches of hair. It feels so nice to not have it weighing me down during the humid Houston summer! |
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| Syd had a blast at the Children's Museum. She was in the spot with the mirrors for about twenty minutes. Now that I know she has hand, foot and mouth disease, I worry that she was contagious at this time...I'll just pretend that she wasn't so I don't feel super guilty. |
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| Having fun! |
Thursday, May 19, 2011
It's been almost a month now...
that's how i usually start my journal entries, it seems. now i'm doing it with my blog. sheesh, rach.
i think i probably had to take a breather because april was the craziest month known to man. once that month was over, i guess i just needed to hunker down and focus on my sydney-bear and kirk.
this week i started going to the gym at 5 am. gross, i know. but honestly i love it. i took a break yesterday and didn't go, and it threw off my entire day. i want to keep doing it. i think it will help that i've got an awesome gym buddy who will keep pushing me to go. :)
two nights ago i did something i haven't done in a long time: stayed up until 1:30 finishing a book i had just started the day before. it was the mary higgins clark loves music, loves to dance. i've been reading the classics the past few months and while i love doing that, it was nice to read a good murder mystery. i just had to finish it to see who murdered all those women!
it reminded me just how much i really do love to read. growing up i was not a sporty kid. i would just hunker down (especially on a hot, muggy Houston day) and read, read, read. i would get so into the stories that i would snap at anyone who interrupted me. it got so bad, in fact, that my little brother at one point yelled at me, "i hate it when you read! you're so mean!" seeing him in tears because of my addiction, i knew i had to have some sort of balance. hopefully i'm not so mean now. :)
i would love to write stories that drew people in like that though. the biggest problem is that i really have the hardest time sitting down and writing. i feel like there are so many other things i could be doing with my time (like cleaning my house, for instance) that i feel guilty. maybe someday i'll get over that. who knows.
right now i am loving being a mom. sydney is almost a year old and she is the happiest, most social kid i know. we'll walk through stores and she will wave and say "hi" in her little southern accent (you'd have to hear it to know what i'm talking about) to every person we pass. she loves it when we're playing on my bed and i push her over (very gently of course). she'll stay lying down and just start giggling. she follows me around everywhere and gets panicky when i turn a corner too fast for her crawl (sometimes salamander style, sometimes on her hands and knees) and follow me. she gives her daddy a huge grin when she sees him. when he's home and i get her up from a nap, i like to whisper in her ear "be vewy quiet. we're hunting daddies!" we'll sneak up to him and then go "hi daddy!" when we see him. (well, i say that. she just grins).
kirk is loving/hating medical school right now. he loves learning everything, it's just a lot of work. he really doesn't complain much except for around test time. recently he injured himself somehow (he twisted his ab weird when he was playing with syd) so he's been walking around like an old man, poor thing. he's recovering quickly though! a few weeks ago we dropped syd off for a night at a good friend's house and stayed in a hotel downtown. we went to the Houston symphony, cuddled on the king-size bed (oh my goodness. so comfy) and watched the royal wedding, and slept in until 7:30. it's sad how i can't sleep in anymore even if i wanted to! anyway we had an amazing time and it was nice to have just us for a little break.
i think i probably had to take a breather because april was the craziest month known to man. once that month was over, i guess i just needed to hunker down and focus on my sydney-bear and kirk.
this week i started going to the gym at 5 am. gross, i know. but honestly i love it. i took a break yesterday and didn't go, and it threw off my entire day. i want to keep doing it. i think it will help that i've got an awesome gym buddy who will keep pushing me to go. :)
two nights ago i did something i haven't done in a long time: stayed up until 1:30 finishing a book i had just started the day before. it was the mary higgins clark loves music, loves to dance. i've been reading the classics the past few months and while i love doing that, it was nice to read a good murder mystery. i just had to finish it to see who murdered all those women!
it reminded me just how much i really do love to read. growing up i was not a sporty kid. i would just hunker down (especially on a hot, muggy Houston day) and read, read, read. i would get so into the stories that i would snap at anyone who interrupted me. it got so bad, in fact, that my little brother at one point yelled at me, "i hate it when you read! you're so mean!" seeing him in tears because of my addiction, i knew i had to have some sort of balance. hopefully i'm not so mean now. :)
i would love to write stories that drew people in like that though. the biggest problem is that i really have the hardest time sitting down and writing. i feel like there are so many other things i could be doing with my time (like cleaning my house, for instance) that i feel guilty. maybe someday i'll get over that. who knows.
right now i am loving being a mom. sydney is almost a year old and she is the happiest, most social kid i know. we'll walk through stores and she will wave and say "hi" in her little southern accent (you'd have to hear it to know what i'm talking about) to every person we pass. she loves it when we're playing on my bed and i push her over (very gently of course). she'll stay lying down and just start giggling. she follows me around everywhere and gets panicky when i turn a corner too fast for her crawl (sometimes salamander style, sometimes on her hands and knees) and follow me. she gives her daddy a huge grin when she sees him. when he's home and i get her up from a nap, i like to whisper in her ear "be vewy quiet. we're hunting daddies!" we'll sneak up to him and then go "hi daddy!" when we see him. (well, i say that. she just grins).
kirk is loving/hating medical school right now. he loves learning everything, it's just a lot of work. he really doesn't complain much except for around test time. recently he injured himself somehow (he twisted his ab weird when he was playing with syd) so he's been walking around like an old man, poor thing. he's recovering quickly though! a few weeks ago we dropped syd off for a night at a good friend's house and stayed in a hotel downtown. we went to the Houston symphony, cuddled on the king-size bed (oh my goodness. so comfy) and watched the royal wedding, and slept in until 7:30. it's sad how i can't sleep in anymore even if i wanted to! anyway we had an amazing time and it was nice to have just us for a little break.
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