Weird

I'm actually doing a weekly post on Monday morning. Can you believe it?!

Sorry I never ended up doing one last week. I just couldn't seem to find the time to write one and, if I did seem to have a little time, I didn't feel like trying.

Toots turned 3 months old last Tuesday! I can't believe it's been three months already. He has changed tremendously since he was first born and really is developing his own little personality now. I did my own measuring and weighing since we don't have a doctor's appointment this month and he was 15 pounds and 26 inches! I didn't do his head circumference, but that's the 80th percentile for weight and the 95th percentile for height. I still have a big boy and I love it :)

We made another offer on a house last week but still didn't get it. They only wanted to come down about $1,500, which was still out of our price range. We are making yet another offer today at 10:00 AM. However, even if we had to pay full price for this house, it would still be coming in a little below the amount we originally wanted to spend, so that would be great. Hopefully it will work out this time. If it does, I'll post pictures of the inside of the house as it looks now.

Friday after Stroller Strides, I went to the Main Street Arts Festival in downtown Fort Worth and also had lunch with the ladies from Stroller Strides. It was really fun and the art festival was very cool so Tim and I went back with Toots the next morning. Saturday afternoon, Toots had his first birthday party to attend for our friends Jen and Alan's son, Conner. It was a Cars themed birthday party and was a lot of fun. Toots did well except after we sang "Happy Birthday" everyone said "yay!" and clapped and it scared him and he started crying really hard. I think we've figured out he doesn't like loud noises because he has reacted that way to several things over the last couple weeks and, when we were at church on Sunday, the orgain was making a trumpet noise that was loud and he kept making a pouty face. Poor baby has sensitive ears. Yesterday we went and looked at a couple more houses, including the one we're making the offer on, and watched the Masters. I'm a fan of Phil Mickelson so I was excited that he won.

Oh, another thing I did last week was join a new playgroup that has a lot of activities in the Keller area. Toots and I went to someone's house for our first playdate and really enjoyed it. It was nice to chat with some other moms and start to meet some new people. I also decided I really should have nicknamed Toots "Hunger Monster" instead because that is what I call him on a daily basis. He goes crazy when it's time to eat and attacks his bottles (yes, bottles...not the breast. Another post coming about that. But, the bottles do have breastmilk in them)ferociously. He is now eating about 7 ounces every 3 hours and last night he ate almost 14 ounces in two hours. My little fatty ;)

I guess that's about all. Hope everyone had a great weekend! Here's some pictures.

We took a walk to the mailbox the other day and it was very sunny so Toots needed to wear his cool new visor.

First nap not being swaddled. This only works if he is dead asleep when I put him in the crib. Notice his cute "Daddy's Helper" onesie :)

I'm 3 months old!

These next ones are all from a little photo shoot we did yesterday when Daddy was making him laugh

(His shirt says"i rule the kingdom" which Tim says is definitely true)

Slice of Me Sunday

1. What color do you wear the most?
I wear a lot of black, but I have a mix of a lot of other colors. I guess other than black, I probably have the most green and blue but I can't think of one color I wear all the time.

2. Would you rather have $10,000 dollars or a dream vacation?
I would rather have $10,000 to buy stuff for our new house (whenever we actually get one!) and have a spa day. Maybe there will be some leftover for a vacation as well :)

3. Do you have a weird, quirky, or unusual habit?
Whenever there is something I really like that I am eating, I leave it for the last thing I eat at the meal so that it will be the last taste in my mouth. Like, if I had chicken, a baked potatoe, green beans, and bread and I really liked the green beans, I would eat the chicken, baked potatoe and bread and then eat the green beans last.

4. I really need to start....?
Being better about drinking water and not saying bad words. I'm going to get myself in trouble when Toots starts talking if I don't!

5. What was the first blog you ever read?
I really have no idea, but I think one of the first ones I read was a mom blog. Now, of course, I can't remember the name of it, but it was one where she would review a lot of products and occassionally talk about her family.

6. Do you collect anything?
Willow Tree Angels/Figurines

7. How old were you when you had your first kiss?
13, but closer to 14 (8th grade)

8. Do you text/twitter while driving?
Sometimes. I'm reallllly trying not to anymore because I know it's dangerous and especially because I have a baby in the car now. My mom gets really mad if I do it when she's in the car with me!

Sparkle & Metal Giveaway

One of my favorite blogs, Life of a Busy Wife, is hosting a giveaway from Sparkle & Metal website. I want to win the necklace they are giving away and this gives me an entry.

Oh, don't go to the website and enter yourself...I mean, YOU don't want the necklace, I do! Haha just kidding! Maybe...

**Sorry, the links not working really was unintentional! Blogger went crazy on me. I think they should work now!

One Way Or Another...

I know I still haven't done a weekly post. I will!

A couple weeks ago, I was coming home from Stroller Strides and I got a ticket. Boo. The cop who pulled me over wasn't even the one who clocked me, which annoyed me even more. I decided I was going to do deferred adjudication because I haven't gotten a ticket in years and that way I wouldn't have to do defensive driving. I went to the courthouse Monday to turn the ticket in and pay. I was planning on mailing it, but the cop didn't put the date on the ticket so I wasn't sure how much time I had (they had to receive the ticket back within 11 days).

I waited in line FOREVER to see the cashier. I finally get up to her, thinking I'm going to get to pay and go and she tells me I have to go to court #4 to wait to see the judge. UGH! It was approximately 5,000 degrees in the courthouse and I had only put an hour worth of money in my meter, thinking I wasn't going to be there that long, and I didn't have anymore change. I quickly called Tim and asked him if he could leave work and come downtown to put more money in the meter for me because I didn't have anymore and couldn't leave since I had to see the judge.

I go in the courtroom and wait about 20 minutes. The prosecutor then calls my name and tells me there was a fatal error on my ticket and he's going to recommend it be dismissed! It turns out, the officer HAS to put a date on it or the ticket isn't valid. SCORE!! I skipped happily out of the courthouse and call Tim as I'm walking to my car.

I tell him my joyous news and he informs me that I had a parking ticket on my car. @#%^$@(#!!!!! He said the officer must have been waiting for my meter to expire and given me a ticket. He had put a ton more money in it, so I still had two hours on it even though I was done. Tim was still downtown so we decided he would park his car at the meter and we would go have lunch. We have lunch and get back to his car and as I am pulling away, I hear him call my name out. I look back and he holds up a parking ticket! AHHHHHHHHHHHH! He still had an hour on the meter so we couldn't figure out what was going on. We both look at our tickets and realize that we were given parking tickets for not parking within the white lines by the meter because the car behind up was over their white line. Dang it!!!!! His ticket was given to him about 3 minutes after we left, so the parking cop must have just been waiting for him to leave.

I thought I left the courthouse $260 richer, but it now turns out only $200 because each ticket was $30. I know that's still MUCH better, but it is sooooo annoying to me!

Hence the title of the post...One Way Or Another...They're gonna getcha getcha getcha!

Skinny Tuesday

Last Thursday at Weight Watchers, I only lost .8 pounds, which isn't very good. BUT, I did make it into the 140s! I weighed 149.4. I'm hoping this week I will have lost a little bit more weight, but I am really happy to be in the 140s again.

I ate some Easter candy this weekend as well as a delicious piece of chocolate cream pie from this place called The Lunch Box in Fort Worth. It was soooo worth the extra calories. I'm trying to be good this week with my eating so I will lose more weight.

I went to Stroller Strides everyday last week except Friday because we didn't have it since it was Good Friday. I also missed today because Toots was having a little temperature. Nothing that is considered a fever by the doctor, but I just thought I should keep him in today.

How did you do this week?

Picture Pandamonium

I haven't written a post yet for this week and I don't really feel like writing one right now (I will tonight, promise!) so I just thought I'd upload lots of pictures to distract you :)

Easter loot from the Easter Bunny!

This is kind of blurry, which I hate, but Toot's face is just classic!

Big Brother Tucker keeping watch so no strangers try to come to our house.

Vent

I'm so annoyed with getting "spam" comments on my blog. I get really ridiculously excited when I see that I have a comment on a post I made and when I click and see that it is some trash about making money on my blog or loving Jesus, it makes me VERY unhappy!

I don't need a comment from some fake blog telling me to love Jesus and I definitely don't need the other trash comments either.

Grrrrr