6 things I will miss about summer

This was a question on my friend Noelle's blog....what things you will miss about summer.

Here was my response:

1. Def my little one being little. It flies by!
2. Summer vacations!
3. The heat. Oh wait. I live in Fl, it will be just as hot in December, ha!
4. My birthday. Yah,I know, weird, but next year I turn 30!
5. All the visitors we had. Our family came from all over to see the little man.
6. Yah, can't think of a 6th, but I think again, it's b/c we live in the Sunshine State where summer NEVER ends! I exaggerate a bit. :)

Weekend

So, I have decided that outlet malls are not really that great for deals. It was fun to walk around and spend the day with my hubby and son, though. We went down to Sarasota, which is an hour away. The Coach bags were on sale for 99 and up, which WAS a good deal, but definitely not in our budget. We ended up spending money on food! Fatsos! We got lunch, truffles and Starbucks. Carter's had cute Halloween costumes for baby and cute little T Day 1st outfits, but they were still expensive and I think I can find better deals elsewhere. Ryan had a good day with only one like 10 minute crying episode in the Disney store. We enjoyed ourselves so that's all that matters. :)

The rest of our weekend was pretty uneventful, but just lovely. Friday night we went to dinner with Dad at Umberto's, NOT Capagna's. :0) Ryan was very well-behaved.

Saturday, we took Sean's car in to have the tires rotated and got a nice 0 dollar bill surprise! He purchased his tires there so rotations are free for the life of the tires. Then we went and got my hair cut and colored and Sean got all his hair basically shaved off. I went blonde and shorter.

Ryan is ready to eat so I gotta go.

It's Bath Time For The Baby!

Close call

Something very scary happened last night. We were at youth group and the kids were throwing a football around. Sean was holding Ryan and I was standing next to them. Suddenly, the football came barreling at us (unbeknown to me), but thank goodness Sean saw it and was able to turn quickly so that Ryan didn't get hit in the head, however, it did hit my shoulder and left a pretty good mark. Owie, it hurt! Of course, I am just so grateful that it didn't hit the munchkin. Sean said if it would have hit him, we would have had to have gone to the ER and probably he would have had brain damage. How scary is that?

On a lighter note, I just got home from a meeting with Bobbie at the Humane Society. It was so exciting to bring Ryan in to meet her and Twila and it was really good to see them. I have decided to take on more volunteering. For the Humane Society I will be a part of the adoption support team making phone calls and picking up donation boxes at specific locations. For our church, in addition to the youth group, Sean and I decided to start back in the nursery with the 0-2's once a month, which will begin in September. I'm looking forward to it!

Prego Pics

Sandra did these for us in January and then I sent them off to my mom so she could work her magic on them (photoshop). She sent them back today! :) Thanks mama, they look great. Here are some of them.

Pastel and Boo Boo

As a gift for our birthdays, my mom and stepfather had this pastel done of us and Aldergator. I am 5 months prego in the pic. Thanks again, we love it!

The other pic is Ryan with his famous boo-boo face! How can you EVER say no to a fotch like that!!?? It has taken us days to capture this!

Ryan's 1st Sitter

We decided to do our first date day without Ryan. It was the first time for him to be with a sitter. It did not go so well. My cousin watched him over at my grandma's house. Sean and I went to the movies and saw Time Traveler's Wife. It was really good, but REALLY sad. Any way, when we picked him up, he was not a happy camper. I guess he did fairly well with my grandma and my cousin. I couldn't really get the same answer. My cousin said he did fine, my grandma said he fussed and my dad said he was fussing when he got there, but that he was able to calm him down. So, grandma asked if we would like to stay for dinner and things just got way worse. He cried for a LONG time. At times, he was really, really screaming. He was not able to breathe and was just having a really difficult time. He cried from 6:45 until 9. He stopped after we had gotten him home and calmed him down finally and fed him. It was horrible. I'm not sure if it is because we left him, because of who he was with or where he was (not being at home), being off of his schedule, because he had to have my milk in a bottle or all the above or none of the above. It just made me feel like a 3 hour date night is not worth it to come back to my baby so upset. I know it is worth it and we just will have to do it again to get him used to it, but it was emotionally taxing for all of us, especially me and Ryan! He is sound asleep now and I am exhausted.

Oh and to top it all of, I was just doing our finances and see that I lost $20. I had taken it out to give to my cousin for sitting, but she wouldn't take it. I threw it on top of the diaper bag and now it's gone. Ugh!