Catching up

I have had a hard time finding a bed ensemble that I like and that will not look to crazy against our hideous forest green carpet. I made this quilt a couple of years ago out of bark cloth that I had been collecting and had it sat stuffed in our amoire. Mostly because I did a terrible job binding it and the thing is pretty heavy. Barkcloth and a heavy linen are not exactly snuggly fabrics. I brought it out just to see how it would look in our room. It is not prefect but it is better than our Pb luau quilt that Tony would set fire to if he had his way. I think the main reason I brought out the quilt is I am feeling rather tropical today. This morning I booked our trip to Hawaii for December. It will be a 5th anniversary/ expiring air miles needing redemption trip. All three of us will be going to Kauai for five nights and then staying on the North Shore Oahu for the last three hopefully during the Pipeline masters. We are very excited.
Yes....this potty actually got used instead of taking up space. It lives in the living room for now. I think the combination of the new location and chocolate treats are a strong motivator. No #2 yet but I am not complaining at this point. He is not yet shopping at Williams sonoma. The bag has some snacks and bubbles from my aunt from dinner last night). He has been carrying it around since.

We started swim lessons at Murray Callan. That is his teacher behind him and a fellow San Dieguito alumni parent knee in the left of the photo. I need to get his name next lesson. I think he is a couple of years ahead of my class. His kids are partnered up with Brayden.

Last weeks Carlsbad 5000. My dad watched Brayden while Tony and I ran. This was our corny version of 80's running attire which was the theme of the run. I ran my fastest time. 28:55 which puts me just below a 9 minute/mile pace. Tony really pushed me ( which I desperately need if I am going to attempt the rock n roll 1/2 in June). Tony barley had a a bead of sweat dripping and could have easily continued at that steady pace for miles (so not fair) . This was extra frustrating since he has not run once since we did the Oceanside Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving.

In other news Brayden has his teeth fixed on Tuesday. He had to have a partial root canal on his front tooth and 5 fillings. Personally I think three of the fillings were unnecessary because they were baby teeth. An anesthesiologist had to put him under due to his age. They used the same medication ( propofol) that MJ was such a fan of to put him under. I will spare you the ugly details of the cost of all of this. Thankfully our insurance will cover well over half the cost. The worst part was watching the doctor put him under and carry him away only to return to him three hours later to a groggy toddler who had no equilibrium for the better part of the day. I lost it. For those of you who know me well, I rarely ever lose it. The next day he was back to normal and my nerves and emotional state had recovered.

Easter morning at Moonlight. I ran from our house to meet Tony and Brayden. We even attended church this morning. I forgot a local church had an Easter service on the beach. It actually was a really nice service. I felt a little under dressed strolling up to the service in my sweaty running clothes but we stayed anyway.

An egg hunt at a friends on Friday morning. This was as close as a group shot as we could get with this wiggly bunch.

He has got the egg hunt down pat.
Last year he only had one or two eggs and got mowed down by some bigger 2 year old and the pushy parents. This year he held his own.

Score!!!

The highlight of the Encinitas egg hunt-- wandering around inside the ambulance. I think he forgot the hunt was over at this point. I found a couple of tongue depressors in his basket.

Hooray candy for breakfast....The sun was not even out yet this morning when we all got up to follow the trail of eggs to his basket. Good thing the Easter bunny comes early to Carlsbad.

....Note to self. Do not make a Easter back pack with a 30 year old zipper. Even if the zipper was in the original package this does not mean it is in new condition.

Happy Easter everyone!

once bitten...

We have a little injured solider. Brayden played a little too rough with one of my parents cats and he decided to retaliate by biting him on the leg yesterday. My mom took him to our doctor ( you know if my mom took him to a doctor and not wait it out with Neosporin, it was a bad bite) and left with a prescription for antibiotics. He has been in pain all last night and the all day today and he has a lot of pain climbing up anything or being carried. We have been having to lift him up and down from things and once he stands up he gets around ok but has a little limp. We are watching lots of gabba gabba and drinking lots of chocolate milk until the swelling goes down and the pain subsides.

Making Easter cupcakes before the Easter sprinkles forever disappear. He has a tendency to hide any sprinkles he can find in his back pack or in his room. His dentist probably would frown on this activity since he is due to have three fillings in his top teeth in the beginning of April. I have stalled as long as possible but he is starting to complain about his top teeth. Anesthesia is required and I am pretty freaked out by the whole upcoming process but that is another blog post all together. Fortunately, we decided to add him to our dental insurance this year.
Did I mention we became Legoland members? That is where we have been hanging out a lot lately.

I have learned to make this water pad the last stop of the day.

Yep...we are those people who burn through all of the diapers and back up outfits and leave legoland in our underwear.

A daylight savings bike ride to the Carlsbad campgrounds to visit friends for breakfast.

2010's Easter backpack. It really is egg- shaped but when filled with hot wheels and crumpled up monopoly money it quickly loses shape.

Taking money out of my wallet to put into his backpack for the bike ride. I guess monopoly money is not enough anymore.

Score! I think I like this machine more than my new Pfaff. I found it yesterday at a garage sale. She said it worked fine but why would you part with a Viking machine for $25.00 if it worked. I thought my mom may like to upgrade to a machine from the twentieth century. She has had and exclusively uses her Singer treadle machine ( you know the human powered kind). I played around with this machine and I LOVE IT. Everything works and all of the attachments were included. It even does the alphabet. I do not need three machines. I am not that in love with sewing. The Huskeylock I had to have sits nicely it's bag in the garage begging to be used ( honestly, threading the thing is quite a challenge) . My mom came over to take a look did not seem to interested in upgrading to an electric powered machine. Maybe I should start a sewing circle.

Spring crafting

Wandering around the garden at Quail gardens.
Playing with friends from Petaluma at Cottonwood Creek park

Easter crafts have officially started here. I picked up this bolt of corduroy at a garage sale last Saturday. I am thinking of using some of it for a Easter back pack for Brayden instead of a basket this year. His current back pack is getting pretty tattered on the bottom from all of the heavy traveling it has been doing for the past few months. We really don't leave home without it. I should post a photo of the contents of the back pack. It is pretty funny.

Here is a start of a lap quilt with some of the Batik I wanted to use. I am not crazy about the green but I wanted to use whatever I had in my stash. Since I have not been sewing lately, I wanted a smaller project to quilt before I try and make a big giant queen size quilt. 3 blocks down 15 to go.

Our new addition to our cozy dining room. We have vacated Leaping Lotus and this was one of our leftover pieces. I am not ready to part with it yet ( I have visions of it turning into a cute craft cabinet). Space is a big issue in our house but Tony was nice enough to do some major rearranging of our furniture and made it work. Brayden is having a blast hiding out in the cabinet and stuffing his little treasures in the drawers. Our dining table is now pushed back to the pony wall that adjoins our living room. I like the change but getting out to our back yard is tricky.

It is probably apparent that I am in serious need of a diversion from the mortgage chaos with all of my time consuming craft projects I have started at the same time...I have had a couple of deals go so wrong that should have been easy that it really did a number on me. I have been doing this nine years and thought I had seen it all. They are now funded and in their homes but the road to get there was nothing short a over documentation nightmare.
Enough about that....Enjoy your week.

x's and o's

Making Valentines and a big mess.

Reading a Valentine card from Nana Wendy

Heart shaped pizza. Yum.
Happy early Valentines.