Andrew Anecdotes

I haven't written any of Andrew's funny stories in a while so, here are a few. First off, he is definitely turning 3. Even though he isn't "bad", I will say that 3 is definitely going to be more challenging than 2. We never did the "terrible twos", but he may make up for it this year. He just thinks not listening is funny. Just ask him, he tells me all the time (while he is getting in trouble) that "I'm funny". Every time he does something naughty he has the world's biggest grin on his face (cue evil laugh). I tell him, "it's not funny" and he tells me "yes it is". That's his other new thing, a bit of back talk. He really could careless that he is going to get in trouble. I think he thinks it is totally worth it. Hmmmm....who does that remind me of????? Marc. They both think it is funny to make mommy mad. He also decided that he is going to stay awake talking and making noises in his bed until 12 am. We listened in on him the other night and he was pretending to talk on the phone, then he would make vibrating lip noises for a while then talk about going golfing among other things.

Andrew also told me the other day while he was wrestling around with the dog, "Bruce is my best friend" then gave him a big hug. It was so cute. He also thinks that every time Marc goes to work that he is golfing. That is partly my fault. There for a while when Marc would golf Andrew would cry to go too and I eventually started telling him when he asked that daddy was at work. Turns out he wasn't deceived. Now when he asks me "Where's Daddy?" and I tell him "at work" Andrew replies "He's golfing? I want to go golfing too".

Now when I hold him and tell him "he's my baby", he tells me "I'm not a baby, I'm a kid" and he totally is. It seems hard to believe that he will be turning 3 in just a couple of weeks. Where did the time go? I mean jeez, the kid almost beat me at bowling. He did have the bumpers, but he insisted on rolling the 6 lbs. bowling ball himself and scored a 65!

Wordless Wednesday ~ Stick'em Up!

Wordless Wednesday ~ This is what happens when you try to go to the bathroom alone (sorry it's blurry, dad took the picture)

New Curtains

The other day I put up some curtains while Andrew was taking a nap when he came down stairs he stopped on the landing and said "Hey! Look at that! Where did it come from?". It was cute. Then I wanted to take a picture to show the family in EP and Andrew insisted on being in the picture. Then he wanted to take a picture of me. I think he did a pretty good job.

Andrew getting in the picture

This is the picture Andrew took of me. I did crop it a bit, but not much.

Andrew Anecdotes ~ "Take a Picture of My Feet"

In my preparations for our fancy evening out I took a picture of my shoes (on me feet) to send to my mom. Well, after I had, Andrew said "take a picture of my feet too mommy". So, I did and it came out cute.

This is the picture I took that prompted Andrew to get a picture of his feet too.

Here is the picture of his feet

Then he just had to try mommy's shoes on too. After Marc saw this he told me "first he is singing Mama Mia songs and now he is wearing heels. Hmmmm...."

Night At The Museum

On Saturday night Marc and I got to go to black tie event at the Dallas Museum of Art, Affair of the Art 2009. A friend of ours invited us and it was a blast. The purpose of the night was to vote on one of two pieces of art the museum was trying to acquire.One was a banquet chair made out of stuffed pandas and the other was a pair of 18TH century Jali Screens. The Jali Screens won and in my opinion, thank goodness. I am not into modern art and as describe the chair was suppose to give you the feel of a pile of stuffed animals on a kid's bed. I can see that type of art every time I walk in to Andrew's room. One of the perks of the evening was a private viewing of the King Tut exhibit. It was pretty cool. I was surprised that a lot of the items were of his family members and not his. It was still neat none the less. Most of the pictures below are really for my out of town family to see what everything I wore looked like, so if it seems repetitive sorry. I will mention one thing with my hair. I had initially wanted to wear more of it down, but the stylist said with all the wind that day that it would be better to put more of it up. We stayed in downtown that night at the historic Adolphus Hotel. We didn't want to drive all the way home so late or have to worry about a dd.

Here is my dress. It wasn't easy to find non black dress in my size.

I was happy with the color and several strangers complimented me on the blue.

Here I am showing off my shoes.

I will do a post on Wednesday showing them better.


This is right outside of the Tut exhibit.

Here we are at dinner and the dance.

There was an after party at the museums restaurant Seventeen Seventeen.

They had a camera set up and you could take pictures wearing Egyptian headdresses.



Another silly picture.

Marc with his friends Daryl (left) and Erik (right).

I guess they were trying to be the new "Rat Pack".

Back view of my hair. We took these at the end of the night.

Side view left

Side view right.

Follicle Follies

Wow, it seems like it has been forever since I actually got to write one of these post that was about a follicle. Well, this time around it is looking good. I have one of the right size! Now it is the waiting game to see if everything else falls into line. Of course it wasn't ready on Friday when I initially went in for my scan (no big surprise there). It wasn't ready on Monday either when I went back for scan #2, but it was bigger so that was a good sign. Then, finally, on Tuesday, when I went back for scan # 3 it was ready. YAY! So, now all the other steps in the TTC process need to happen and maybe it will work this time around. So, say a prayer for me/us. ;)

Andrew Anecdotes ~ The Nap Mat

Lately, Andrew has been having trouble staying on his nap mat at MDO. We had finally got hi to take naps there before Christmas, but since we came back after the holidays he hasn't been napping. More recently, he just won't stay on it to rest either. So, we have started to "practice" at home. If he stays on the mat until the timer goes off he gets a treat. Marc is going to pick Andrew up from school and I was telling him that if Andrew stays on his mat at school to take him for some (then I spelled) i-c-e-c-r-e-a-m. Andrew then says "I'm getting candy?" Marc tells him no that is not what mommy said and then Andrew tells us "then it was ice cream". WHAT!?! When did he learn to "spell". I mean we don't do it all that often. I am just wondering if he heard us talking about it before and remembered that we said we'd get him ice cream if he did it. Any, it was funny.


We may not be able to get Andrew to stay on the mat.

Bruce doesn't seem to have the same problem.