West Coast Stylin Update

Hey all! Look at silly me. I went and booked a trip when I would like to be staring at Jen's new baby all day. In my defense, this has been planned for a while.

In any case, here are some updates:

1. Charro on a Southwest flight connecting in Kansas City? WTF?

2. The heat is a lot easier to take here than in FL.

3. The Kansas City airport is kinda disappointing.

4. The Disneyland Haunted Mansion dressed for Halloween (Nightmare) is amazing!

5. E thought he was in Cars Heaven in Cars Land

6. If Hub's snoring was a sentient being, I would tell it to go.. Well you can fill in the blanks.

I think I'll do a post on what we thought of Disneyland vs Walt Disney World.

Birth Edit

From Jen:

Ryan Matthew, seven pounds, one ounces, nineteen and a half inches. Born at 6:00pm exactly.

Jen's in the Hospital!

In a good way of course! I've had it on good authority that Jen went into labor own and is now safely at the hospital awaiting.... scratch that, just checked her twitter feed, and there is a baby boy in their family now!!

Send congrats and love her way! Details to follow.

Happy Birthday little man! We can't wait to meet you! Love to all the family.

Anniversary Additions

I told you I'd come up with more additions to my anniversary post for Hub...

72. Watching (and hearing) the space shuttle go up against a gorgeous Florida sunset.
73. Hearing the boom of that shuttle come back and being fooled into thinking a bomb had gone off (more than once.)
74. Watching E's face as Big Pooh Bear came over to give special attention to the little Pooh Bear (his lovey) he was holding out to him.

New Discoveries

So hi! Jen mentioned a Wordpress app a while back, and I was all, "Huh?! Those exist?" So here I am testing out the Blogger one. Since the majority of my posting was done by email on my iPod before*, and I was having such trouble with it, I kinda dropped the ball. You should see my family blog. It's in an even worse state.

But hey, this is one of my new discoveries, and I think it's going to be cool.

In other discovery news:
1. While the Martha Stewart bathroom cleaner I mentioned before is indeed awesome, the also mentioned dish washer detergent is very no bueno. Stay away! You may as well just run a cycle with water.

2. Michael's is awesome for cheap wooden toys and other fun kiddo doodads (Wooly Willy anyone?) I'm sure Jen and others have mentioned it before, but I'm a slow learner.

3. Seeing Endeavor fly overhead at 2000 ft on the back of a 747 was really really awesome. Be jealous.

*E is a lot more tolerant of the iPod than the computer.

Busy and Worried

• Sometimes I get so discouraged with time and money constraints... mostly with time constraints. I am usually ok with the fact that to spend time with my baby and husband the way I want to (the pets have been getting a little bit of the short shrift), the house can't be as clean as it once was. It doesn't stop me from being sad when I find some gross spots.
• A good, cheap busy toy that I loved as a kid and forgot about until recently? Wooly Willy!!! (Dependent on your child's interest in taking apart of course)
• Re-watched Despicable Me and Alice in Wonderland (new one). Love them both!
• I love the soundtrack for Despicable Me.
• Investigating Montessori for E. Anyone have thoughts/stories?
• We may have to apply for a scholarship and hope we get it. I don't know.
• We are also on the plan for me to start working part time when E goes to school. We were thinking Kindergarten but looking at how Florida runs VPK, we may start when he's four.
• The plan involves me trying to work for Starbucks 20hrs/week so I have health care benefits and trying to get E covered under Florida Kids coverage. Health care is such a stress. 

Florida Pros and Cons

In the ongoing indecision (though it's currently a moot point until some things change) over moving from Florida are the following pros and cons:

Con: ROACHES. ROACHES IN YOUR HOUSE AS A REGULAR OCCURRENCE. I hate those bastards.

Pro: Hispanic food and culture. I've mentioned my love before, and I'll probably mention it again.