I have this obsession with big comfy hooded sweatshirts.  Shhhh.  Don’t tell Clinton and Stacy.  Actually on second though, maybe you should.  Anyway, I laughed out loud when I saw this shirt, I absolutely love it!

I love it too, where can I get it?
Proceed with caution, I have spent the better part of my day reading all the archived cartoons!  But no worries, because I’ve saved my favorites, and I’ll probably be posting several of them.

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Since I have joined the 21st century in using a rss reader recently, I have saved/bookmarked at least forty photography blogs, a mix between wedding and children’s photography.  I’ve found some absolutely incredible photographers, cough, Jessica Claire, Jasmine Star, & Becker, cough cough.  And I just hang around studying and try to soak up a bit of their knowledge.  I haven’t really ever explored backlighting at all, but it was one of the subjects I read about recently, so I thought I’d give it a try.

For some reason, he just looks so tiny here.

I’ve shot about 4GB of pictures in the last 36 hours.  I find myself thinking about that book I read throughout the day, as if to go back over everything in my head, thinking of how I could put this technique to use, or how I could try that.  To make matters worse, I just learned tonight that a new Canon 5D Mark II is being released in November.  Someone get a drool cloth.  I need this camera.  Therefore, I need some serious cash.

Now if I could just win this, I would still be a photographer.  A very well equipped photographer indeed.  That’s 89 cash.  Just in case you’re wondering.  Eighty nine million dollars.

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Okay, let me preface this with a little explaination.  We are not a big sports family.  I have never really been into sports, and Scott could flat out care less.  Football, basketball, baseball.  None of it.  The only thing remotely close that we enjoy is Monster Jam!  So, I was really bummed when Caleb grew out of his 18mo clothes and I discovered that it is very hard to find cute clothes for little boys!  Why is that?  Girls get all the cute designs and boys get sports and sports.  Sometimes you can find some vehicle stuff, which obviously in this case, is appropriate.  But since I’m anal, it has to be cute vehicle stuff.  Bottom line, I’m picky.  I usually stick to cutesy stuff or just stripes and such.  But I loooove things with animals on them, I have always been drawn to Carters things, so it should come as no surprise to me that the pajamas I found today is the Carter’s line, Child of Mine sold at Walmart.

Look how cute though!

“D is for Digger” & “Good night sleep tight” (footed pajamas)

They have several others that were pretty cute too, I just picked four favorites.  They had some cute blue and chocolate (love the chocolate color!) racoon ones but I couldn’t find his size.  I’m so excited!  If only I got this excited about my clothes…

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Yesterday I got up at 7:00am (early for me) so I could get showered, lunch packed, Caleb up and dressed and out the door to the pediatrician.  I forgot to move my alarm up an hour last night, so it went off at 7:00 again this morning.  I snoozed it and then thought “Ooo goodie, a bonus hour!”  But I needed to reset my alarm so that we didn’t all oversleep and Caleb didn’t wake up wet.  I looked at my clock, pressed down the button, saw that it now said 8:00, and was satisfied that I had done it correctly and turned the alarm back on.  I woke up at 7:45 (luckily) and realized that not only had I turned the alarm off, but it still read 7:00 and the clock read 8:45.  I need this alarm clock:

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…we stop trying to outdo each other and work together?

“Yes! YES! They do have too much time on their hands!!”

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Any guesses what I’m packin’ in my stylish new bag?  If you’ve seen it already no, please keep quiet for a bit and let’s see if anyone else can guess what I’ve stowed away.

I’ll update this post after a few guesses.

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Amber had the closest guess.  That’s right, I’m packin’ a toilet!

I ordered a toilet in a bag from Walmart.com and had it shipped site to store. What? Don’t laugh. I think it’s quite the fashionable toilet, as far as purse potties go.

So back story, we were in Walmart a few weeks ago and Caleb did the grab-the-crotch-I-gotta-go signal.  (That’s normal with boys right?  Yeah, sure, of course.  Hmmm.)  So we headed into the bathroom and it was taking forever to…get things goin’.   Apparently the toilet got impatient and the damn automatic flusher flushed on the kid. I’m sure you can imagine the sheer terror on his face. To make matters worse, he was sitting backwards on the pot, so he was looking right down into the jaws of life as it tried to suck him in. Needless to say, he’s terrified of the automatic flushers now and he vowed to cross his legs through the rest of the store and the whole way home that day.  Now I have a solution, hopefully this will last until the fear has subsided.  I’m pretty impressed though.  It just uses 4 gallon trash bags with an absorbant pad in the bottom.

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He still loves this, and so do I.  If you have a kid that is just all into this, may I point you toward the Haba marble accessories, they have all sorts of different and super cool pieces.

Caleb said, “Dis is so tall, it is even taller than de Awful Tower!”

Where is the Awful Tower you ask?  Why in France of course.  He took me into the hallway and had me pick him up to get the Awful Tower off the map and bring it in for a comparison.  It was indeed at least five times taller.

Oh and just an FYI, this picture of the Eiffel Tower came off my memory card titled IMG0001.  Do you know what that means?  It means I have taken 10,000 pictures with this camera.  Although an am surprised to say Nate beat me by over a year.  He took 10,000 photos in eight months.  I must say, I’m quite impressed.  And I thought I took a lot of pictures!

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I’m going to venture to say we did our share of home learning today. Caleb had a blast getting this on the wall. This is another one of those things I’ve been watching for over a year. I saw it go on sale around Christmas last year, and I’ve been checking on it frequently ever since. Finally, I got impatient and emailed FAO Schwarz to see when and if it might go on sale again. By some ironic stroke of luck, a representative emailed me back the very next day to let me know that it was the sale of the week, and was indeed $75 off again. When I headed over to the website to order, it said it was out of stock! I was absolutely crushed, but I decided to give the store a try. They had plenty available and were happy to send it to me. I dream of going there. It seems like it would be so cool.

The pictures definitely don’t do this map justice, but it is in the hallway, so it is hard to photograph.  We were working our way across, so Asia and Australia were not completed yet.

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Oh yes. Pink tools. In a pink purse. Everything has its own little place. Perfection. It actually screamed at me from the shelf. I didn’t know that a grocery cart could squeal tires coming to a stop.

What’s included, as you’ll see, there are very few pieces that aren’t pink.

And it even comes in this state of perfection. The only thing that has to be unwrapped is the eye protection. Everything else is already in place. If you’re a travelin’ girl, it also has a shoulder strap.

The only additional thing you’ll have to purchase is a padlock. But maybe the thought of using pink tools will ward off Mr. Fix-it. Because these clearly belong to Mrs. Fix-it. ;)

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Where I start contemplating the Halloween costume three months in advance. Halloweens past have always been animals. And I’ve found two cute dog costumes to go along with the theme. I asked Caleb, and he just wants to be a chicken again, because last Halloween was the first year he ‘got it,’ and he can’t get the chicken costume = candy out of his head.

But I also found this, and I absolutely love the duster jacket. He would be minus the bullet belt, as we don’t do guns here. Even toy ones. As of yet, not even water guns.

And while browsing, I found this. Which is wrong on way more than one level. Wow. Um, yeah. I’ll leave it at that.

Is anyone now humming “Oops I did it again” in their head?

Is there not ANY other way they could have posed that dog other than doggy sty…nevermind.

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