Phantom sounds

We have arrived safely in absolutely gorgeous Costa Rica. Last night at a wonderful dinner overlooking the ocean I realized something odd that your mind does to you. I swore I heard our cell phones vibrating. What's interesting about this is that 1)we didn't have them with us 2) they don't work down here 3)we needed this vacation. Then this morning i was laying in bed and i "heard" the sound that our alarm makes when someone opens and shuts the door to our house ("beep beep"). i'm sure sometime today while i'm at the pool i'll "hear" the sound of my sweet boy calling "momma".

My goal at the end of this trip is have cleared my mind of the cacophony of our busy lives in Dallas. So that when we return to Dallas I start to hear the phantom sounds of birds chirping, the ocean waves and ice clinking in my cool cabana drink.

The perfect mother's day...

My mother's day began with Quade reading me "the Very Hungry Caterpillar" while i stayed in bed. The story went like this "moon, egg, 'pop', strawberries, leaf, butterfly". It was fabulous.

Bruce made quade and i some delicious scrambled eggs before we headed off for church.

After church we went to an amazing mother's day brunch buffet. The owners i think were a little frightened when they saw a pregnant woman enter the restaurant! I definitely ate a fair portion of food. =) Quade ate two plates full of fruit and he was thrilled.

After the large meal, Quade and i both took long naps. sooooo nice!

Then we headed to a local water spray park. It was super fun. Quade was a little hesitant at first, but before long he was completely soaked!

We ended the day with a trip to Chips hamburger joint...yummy! I think i'm going to treat myself to a bowl of rocky road ice cream. yea!

First hair cut

Yes, you read that correctly. Quade will be 21 months in a week and he just had his hair cut for the first time!

I've included some pics for your enjoyment. Here is the "pre-cut" shot:

He did quite well and did not shed one tear. I thought he looked like a serious, old man sitting in a barber shop.

Lunch container mystery...solved!

I know you have all been staying up late at night, tossing and turning in your beds awaiting my next posting to reveal which container is actually "bigger".

Well, i conducted the official water experiment (using a standard glass liquid measuring cup). By my surprise in regards to liquid capacity the two containers were EQUAL! (the long, narrow container required 2 more drops of water, but considering the confidence interval, accounting for any spills and experimenter error, they were relatively equal).

However, in regards to bulky, solid objects I believe that i can "fit" more into the long, narrow container. Also, for my little toddler son, I can fool him into believing there is actually more in the long container (given the longer surface area).

Thank you all for your input and appeasing my silly mind.

Poll: which is bigger?

I could really use some input on this important issue. Every time i make quade's lunch for mother's day out i have the same conundrum...which food container is larger. (editor note: Now, of course, i could pour water from one container into the other to figure out this simple issue. But it made me think...just looking at the two objects, which one looks bigger?) silly musings of a stay-at-home mom.

Quade likes fruit best so i want to use the biggest container for fruit.

I don't want to influence the opinions...but i do consistently choose one of the two for fruit.

my new enterprise...

move over sprinkles. here comes something yummier (and cuter):

"how adorable" you may exclaim! well, i created several of these lovely delicacies for a baby shower last weekend. The entire production process got me thinking that perhaps there is real money to be made in the cupcake business. The cost per cupcake was less than $1...i think i could charge $3 to 4! what a profit!

But then there is labor time involved, and the 'hired help' (aka Amber Lee) to make the adorable little booties and stars for the top.

All in all, i think that although it's fun to "create" something delicious and adorable, working as a speech-language pathologist is probably more lucrative than a cute cupcake corporation!

First "booby" talk...

Today at lunch during our playdate one of the moms was breastfeeding her newborn. Quade had the perfect vantage point from his high chair and at the time commented “booby”.
I ignored it and continued to eat my delicious lunch.

After lunch, before he went down for his nap, we were reading “Wheels on the Bus” in his room. I decided now was the time to have the “booby talk”. On one of the pages is the part about “The parents on the bus go ‘sh sh sh’.” The picture has the mom feeding the baby a bottle. Since quade is in awe of babies right now I decided to talk about this page some more: “This mommy is feeding the baby a bottle of milk. Mary’s mommy fed her baby with her booby b/c her booby had milk in it. Mommy will feed our baby milk with her booby”.

I figured the entire monologue had gone over his head.

Until he responded with: “Nina booby”!!! =) (‘Nina’ is his nickname for his Aunt 'Christina’ and quade has seen her nurse her daughter before).

So I don’t know if Quade is very perceptive, is fascinated with Christina’s boobs or if he’s seen them a lot! (she happens to be known as quite the exhibitionist around the family).