Twat did you say?

The MS Walk was last weekend and it turned out perfect! We woke up to rain and were worried we'd have to be walking in it the entire time. Me being the ever prepared Mom of the Year (haha, right) had heard it was supposed to be raining so I'd gone out and bought a rain cover for Charlie's stroller so that at least she'd be dry for the walk but we never even needed it. Guess I'll be returning that b/c I'll never be out walking in the rain again! Just minutes before the walk was supposed to start the sun came blazing through the clouds and it stayed that way the rest of the day! Gorgeous!!! Charlie loved the stroller ride and it was great to get out in the fresh springtime air and contribute to such a worthwhile cause!

You know that is Arbor Mist in those bottles, right? Tasty! :)

Thanks to all who donated! Although I ended up raising $125 I'm sad to say this was my worst year yet fundraising but this just means I can pester everyone even more next year! :)

After the walk Kara, my mom and I went to our friend Sarah's bridal shower where we sipped mimosas and had some excellent food. She's got some great friends and family and it was a lot of fun! Can't wait for her wedding which is coming up fast!

The rest of the weekend was spent w/ family and friends relaxing. We got Charlie a zebra blow up pool for this summer which I can't wait to get out! She loved staying up late and hanging out with the adults. When there are people up she does not want to be the first to go to bed! She fights it like a champ! She's such a little social butterfly and loves getting all the attention. She's starting to mimic people more and is so silly and she knows it too and keeps doing it to keep getting the laughs. Such a ham ball! All in all a great weekend. Couldn't ask for anything more.

Some new Charlie milestones:

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  She can now drink out of a sippy cup all on her own!

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  She waves hello/goodbye, but is picky as to who she will do it for. She almost always does it to herself in the mirror. What a goof.


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  She'll tilt her head to the side and wait for you to do the same and then immediately tilt it to the other side and go back and forth like this w/ a huge grin on her face.


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  She has a new sit and spin move where she sits and spins in circles on her butt. She now has the complete 360 view wherever she may be.







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  Her first tooth (bottom middle right one) broke through May 12th. She handled it like a champ although her tongue is now more often sticking out of her mouth than staying in it.


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  Still not crawling but you can tell she is getting anxious to be mobile. I don't think it will be much longer before she has learned some way to get around although I'm not convinced it will be by crawling...


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  She has started trying to clap her hands but usually does one or two claps and then instantly brings them together up to her mouth all excited and makes little squealing noises.


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  Her babbling is starting to sound more and more like actual words. Sometimes she'll really get on a roll and talk non-stop for what seems like forever. She gets really excited and worked up and it is hilarious.

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  She's very ticklish. :)


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  She loves to play peek-a-boo w/ her blankets and toys.


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  She loves these Gerber puff chip things and inhales them! She also likes pastas, cheese slices, cheese tortellini and quesadillas. She does NOT like green peppers. We found this out last weekend when she took one bite of one and immediately puked it and whatever else she had eaten up all over me and her. Not fun.


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  The second we take her outside she sticks her tongue out. We say she is "tasting" the air. We really have no idea why she does it but here is evidence:



She's perfect. :)




Happy Tuesday!!

A good weekend for the fair, a booze cruise and, oh yeah, puking at the table in front of my friends

Oh yes, what a weekend we had. It started out very promising. Wonderful weather for attending the MN State Fair. We headed down on Friday night for some fried food and beers accompanied by the entertainment of watching the “fair folk”. I consumed an over abundance of cheese curds and some fried pickles, drank a few brews, played 2 midway games and by then we were bored. The people watching was fairly boring this year for some reason. I kept wondering why every chick I saw was dressed like they are going to go clubbing downtown? Didn’t they realize they were at the FAIR? So we headed home and had a few more brews, Wade tried to get us to watch Dolemite (see previous post on how I felt about that movie) and then we called it a night. All in all, a nice night w/ a general lack of excitement, but it was still fun.

Saturday was promising to be a fun time. We did some housework during the afternoon (not the fun part) and then got ready for the booze cruise. Zach, a friend of mine since elementary school, invited us to join him and some other friends on Lake Minnetonka for a 3 hour cruise around the lake. I was really looking forward to this since I’ve never been on one and have been wanting to since we moved up here 3 years ago. The night was perfect for it too. We met some new people who were all very nice and fun to talk with and then decided to continue the booze fest downtown. Zach graciously offered us his 2nd parking spot in the enclosed garage at his condo downtown and we headed out. This is where things get fuzzy for me. Considering I had already consumed a number of drinks on the booze cruise I was feeling pretty good, and I think I only tripped once while walking from Zach’s to the bar, not too bad considering the heels I was wearing. We get to the bar and I was having a blast. And things were going great. And then the shots were ordered. Who ordered me the first shot is a hazy memory. I can’t really recall. But I do remember gagging to keep it down. This should have been my first indication to stop. Instead I ordered myself a new drink to get the taste of that nasty shot out of my mouth. By this time EVERYONE in the bar is my new BFF. And lucky me, one of my new BFF decides to order me another shot. Why? Why? Why? But the better question is why did I take it? Well, in actuality, I only took ½ of it. It was huge and nasty, and I about puked when I took it. So I apologized to my new BFF and told him I couldn’t finish it unless he wanted to see what the insides of my stomach looked like. He agreed that he did not want to see that, so I thanked him and went back to my table. Little did I realize that within the next 15-20 minutes my whole table would get to see that not so pleasant site.

(I apologize before hand b/c the next part of this story is disgusting, I am humiliated by it, and am vowing to never have it happen again. I’m really not even sure why I am divulging this to you all, but it is the truth. I am a lush and a bad one at that.)

As I am sitting at the table I suddenly get hot; I mean sweating, gross hot. My mouth started watering and I’m pretty sure my face turned an unattractive shade of white. I knew I was going to hurl. I also knew there was no way I could make it all the way downstairs to the bathroom in time (seriously, who makes a bar w/ the bathroom all the way in the basement???). In that nano-second before my stomach contents came out to play I determined I would rather toss my cookies into an empty cup sitting at our table than in the stairwell where it would most likely end up on some poor disgusted bar patron. So I grabbed a cup, turned to my side, and let it fly. In that second I’m sure poor Zach regretted inviting me along that night and I’m also sure Wade regretted ever marrying me. How humiliating. Thank God I couldn’t see my friends faces (most of whom I had just met that night) as I tossed my cookies at the table. I’m sure most of them looked like this:

I don’t really remember leaving the bar at that point. I’m sure Wade grabbed me as fast as he could and took me out of there. We found a cab and headed home. Being the gracious pukee that I am, I continued to get sick while in the cab but I made sure every last drop of it went outside the car. I know the driver HATED me; however he should have been pleased that none of it ended up inside the car. You are welcome Mr. Cabbie.

Wade says I drink like a college freshman. I disagree with that though. I never did throw up in a cup at the bar my freshman year. Although it would have been much more acceptable had I done it back then rather than 10 years later. What a bad night it ended up being. To those of you who had to witness that unbelievably disgusting site, I apologize. A very deep down, honest apology. And Zach, should you ever consider inviting us out sometime again please realize, that’s not in my normal routine.

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In other, less mortifying news, we got the bench seat built on the deck. And when I say we, I mean Wade. Yay Wade! Now it just needs to be stained to match the rest of the deck and we’ll be set. The railing is going to wait until next year. It’s not even required for code, however we thought w/ all our drunk friends (i.e.: ME) we’d want something to stop their fall over the 2 foot edge. Safety first!