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.

Culinary Delights

Our church recently dropped a service, and we have a horrible time getting E motivated and going by the time it starts... so we tried a different church today. Not so much. I haven't been pleased with it in the past and was very much not so today. E wasn't a fan as always. He likes our regular church all right once he's there. He just can't get going that early.

So we ended up ditching and wandering across the street to a new little area where various Latin businesses have sprung up. It's so fun, interesting and new to us. We pressed our noses against the glass at a little Hispanic bakery that has almost every bakery delight known to Italians, Hispanics and a few others. The counter is so long and so high, I imagined E thinking he'd been magically transported to tasty toddler heaven with no end in sight. In fact, he spent a very enjoyable few minutes pointing at various cakes saying, "Dat wooks good! That one wooks good too! Dat one wooks yummy!" It was a beautiful display of cakes and berries and breads and snacks. E and I had a chicken empanada and strawberry cream cake (which he helped choose.) Hub had tiramisu... before lunch. Then we walked over to a new Paella place where Hub tried some chorizo carried out still flaming. I had potatoes with ali oli sauce. It was a very interesting dressing that tasted a bit like a fresher ranch with more bite. E opted for some rice. He hasn't been feeling 100%, so it's been bland all the way for him lately. The restaurant itself was cute, elegant and homey all at the same time. 

We rounded out our culinary adventures of the day by trying the sandwiches and desserts at our new Wawa. We reveled in the cooler rainier weather (Thank you Isaac. Now just don't hurt too many people.) by sitting out on the metal chairs and tables. Yeah. We know how to rock it with the elegant crowd.