Top 2 Tuesday...2 Random Things About Me

Today is Tuesday so head on over to The Undomestic Momma to link up and play along.

 

Two Random Things About Me

 

1.  I snort when I laugh really hard

 

2.  I cannot iron to save my life, it never fails that I burn myself every time and I have the scars to prove it

Play Along ABC

I found this over at The Undomestic Momma and had to play along, do the same!

A. AREA CODE : 613

B. BED SIZE: Queen

C. CHORE YOU HATE: Scrubbing the floors

D. DOG'S NAME:  Thankfully we don't have one

E. ESSENTIAL "START THE DAY!" ITEM: Tea

F. FAVORITE COLOR: Not sure I really have one...brown?

G. GOLD OR SILVER: White gold

H. HEIGHT: 5'8"

I. INSTRUMENTS YOU PLAY: currently none, used to play piano when I was a kid

J. JOB: mom and group and marketing assistant

K. KIDS: 1 at the moment

L. LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: house

M. MOM'S NAME: Laurel

N. NICKNAME: Ash, Flash

O. OVERNIGHT HOSPITAL STAY: only when having Cole

P. PET PEEVE: smacking, boldness, people who don't say thank you or excuse me

Q. QUOTE FROM A MOVIE: "If you love someone... you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise... the moment just passes you by."  from My Best Friends Wedding

R. RIGHTY OR LEFTY?: Righty

S. SIBLINGS: 2 older sisters, 1 older brother

T. TIME YOU WAKE UP: 6ish

U. UNDERWEAR: Yes

V. VEGGIE YOU DISLIKE: mushrooms

W. WAYS/REASONS YOU ARE LATE: I never give myself enough time...never ever...

X. XRAYS YOU'VE HAD: feet, ankles, knees, arms...almost everything

Y. YUMMY FOOD YOU MAKE: chicken with feta and red pepper, spinach, chicken and feta pasta, pasta bake, stir fry, I love to cook.

Z. ZOO ANIMALS YOU LIKE: giraffes are my favorite

Our weekend was great, we met with the Minister and Decorator to finalize some things, this gave me another huge to-do list (or 2) so this week will be full of phone calls, e-mails and brainstorming with Ryan.  The good part of the meetings, apparently I am on the ball even though I feel like I am doing nothing at the moment.  Let's hope that is the case.

I finally added the follow me gadget, so do just that please.

Happy Monday (super happy Monday, it's a short week)!

'Working at the Car Wash'

Yesterday when Cole came home from daycare with is little daily report his teacher had commented that he continues to have a blast with the whales, sharks and dolphins in the sensory bin and taking them to the 'car wash'.  Ryan and I had a good laugh about this and decided that his daycare teachers are going to think that we, along with Cole are quite strange.  Well, the truth is we are...but that's not where this came from.  I recently picked up the movie Shark Tales for Cole and he LOVES it.  I will hum the first little bit of the Christina Aguilera/Missy Elliot song Car Wash and Cole will chime in 'Car wash, car wash' and fly his little shark while busting a move.  Not only is this super cute and entertaining to us, apparently his teacher finds in highly amusing too.  When I dropped Cole off this morning I told her that it's from the movie, Angela said she figured that out but what amazed her was that he found this toy and pretended it was the car wash because it had a circular part (similar to the toy below). 

This didn't shock me as I see this all the time from Cole, I guess I overlook all of the little amazing things he does at 2 years old being so busy with work, home and the wedding.  Tonight I plan to go home and snuggle him and play the night away and I can't wait!  Here are a couple of pictures of my handsome guy...

On another note, the wedding registry is finally complete!  Tuesday night after work I headed straight to Stokes to start our registry and within an hour I was at The Bay finishing what I had started a couple weeks ago.  Thankfully it was quite painless and it's another thing off the list.  Now onto finalizing the ceremony details and meeting with the Minister and the decorator this weekend.

First Top 2 Tuesday

It's been a while since my last post and there has been loads of stuff going on. Invitations have been made and mailed. Some of the girls came over on the first Saturday in March and we assembled them all (lots of work) and they look fantastic. I'll take a picture of one tonight and upload it for all to see. The girls also got their dresses picked up and they are just so darn cute. The boys have all been measured for their tuxes with the exception of my Dad who will be coming to do that soon enough. I can't wait to see Cole all handsomed up in a little tux, it's going to be so cute. Ryan took Cole to get his hair cut on Friday and it's pretty sweet, it's definitely taking some time to get use to it seeing as he had surfer hair going but he's so cute. We will be meeting with the Minister and the decorator on Saturday hoping to finalize everything with them. Other than that I think things are going well, the RSVP cards have started to arrive (so exciting!) and I am going to set up a a table chart to help organize who is sitting at what table. We are trying to decide if we are writing our own vowes or not...any suggestions?

Over at The Undomestic Momma (check out her cute blog here http://benandtay.blogspot.com/ ) there is a Top 2 Tuesday and I am attempting to link up so here goes!

TOP 2 THINGS YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT

Aside from Family and friends, water, air, etc...2 things I could not live without:

1. Bath and Body Works Warm Vanilla Sugar Line

I am absolutely addicted to anything in the Warm Vanilla Sugar line from Bath and Body Works...heck, I am addicted to that store...in fact I am going there tonight.

2.  My cell phone.
Blah...I wish it wasn't so but I am so dependent on my cell phone it's unreal.  I can't imagine what it will be like when I finally upgrade to a Blackberry or iPhone (I'm old school with a plain old cell).

Happy Beautiful Thursday

I am in a good mood today (I like to think I am most days), not only is it sunny and spring like, it's Thursday. Almost the end of the week...which means I can finally spend some time with my sweet little guy.

Cole has been doing really, really well this week. We were getting quite concerned about the hitting phase he was going through for a while and after speaking with one of the ladies from the daycare we realized that we have to work with them and be consistent. Ryan and I use to watch Super Nanny when I was pregnant and we would laugh and gasp at all the bold little buggers running around. We would say over and over, 'Our child will never be like that, he won't hit or kick. He will be so polite and charming.'. Well, well, well...2 years later our wild child has emerged from his innocent and cute baby phase right into the I'm-going-to-hit-and-scream-and-kick-if-I-don't-get-my-way little boy phase - SOOOO MUCH FUN! Don't get me wrong, Cole is such a sweet, gorgeous, talkative, charming little guy who can melt your heart in a second. He uses please, thank you, no thank you and love you often. BUT...as soon as he gets mad, watch out. The ear piercing screams start, 'I DON'T WANT IT' and the fists are flying. We have no clue where the hitting comes from, we don't hit him and he doesn't watch violent shows or movies. When think it started when he would try to do something and get frustrated and then not being able to express himself with words he would end up having a fit. We obviously aren't experts, so I consulted (broke down in tears on morning dropping him off at daycare) one of the greatest daycare ladies ever and we decided to try being CONSISTENT with time outs. It seems to be working! Cole has had a fantastic week at daycare and at home! It's such an improvement and we can see a difference in his personality already. My only suggestion for anyone going through the same thing (thanks to so many others) is be consistent in whatever you are going to do and know that you are the boss.

Let's hope I didn't just jinx it...

I went and got weighed today and I was down another pound for a total of 27 pounds! Two more to go until my goal weight...soooo exciting!

Keep On Trucking...

So last time I posted I had hit the 25lb mark, well, I went to get weighed last Thursday and I had lost another pound making the total 26! That is 3 away from my goal weight, how fantastic is that? I am super excited that I am so close to my goal. We'll see what tomorrow brings when I hit the scale, I'm really not sure how I will do this week. I've had an 'okay' type of week and that normally brings no change - not that that's a bad thing at all. I would just like to finish losing, maintain for six weeks and stop forking out the cash for weigh-ins.

On another note...I tried on my dress on the weekend and am so happy with the way it fits, EXCEPT...
I have just started to lose in my chest and while I think this is a good thing, the dress has a different opinion. Since it's a corset back I now have to tighten it more to get it to stay up. The only problem with that is that when tightening it, I all of a sudden have this gushing flow of back fat popping over the top. WHAT THE HECK?!?! Where did that come from? I know my back isn't perfectly toned, nor has it ever been, but I swear it wasn't that bad before I tried my dress on. So now to tone and go see the seamstress.

I bought my garter today and approved the proofs for the invitations. It's great, slowly things seem to be getting checked off my list. I found the girls jewelry, I started my registry (which is terrible...more about that later) and the girls dresses are in. Saturday we have organized an invitation assembly to get them made and for some of the girls to get their dresses picked up. So much fun stuff going on!

So back to the registry...
We went to The Bay last Thursday and the lady working was swamped, so we had to wait until 7:15 to meet with her. During our wait we ate, shopped and had a look around to give me an idea of what I might like to put on the registry. Well, by the time it came to scanning items I was so tired and blah. I had no clue what I wanted, what I liked or what might look good in our house. Needless to say, it ended up being so overwhelming. Erin just kept saying that she had never seen me so indecisive. I am actually indecisive, but never has it been this bad. I couldn't even decide on a set of everyday dishes that I liked. We decided to stop for the evening and go back another night when we were refreshed. On the way out of the mall we stopped at Stokes as Erin mentioned that someone else had registered there. I felt relief as soon as I walked in to Stokes and found so many things to add to a registry. We will definitely be heading back there soon.

Check out this link for an awesome give away http://benandtay.blogspot.com/2010/03/giveaways.html
and also check out http://www.etsy.com/shop/LittleGreenRoom for some cute, original jewelry.