I know my dog is a pain but seriously....

So we got the animal cops called on us...for Pita.
She totally lives up to her name but I never thought anyone would ever call animal control on her.
For those who don't know, Pita (which stands for pain in the ass) is a yappy chihuahua, who barks when a bird flies too low...but we love her anyway.
Well apparently our new neighbors don't love her and called animal control for "incessant chihuahua barking" and added that we don't have food or water for the animals....umm yes we do dumb ass just not outside.
Anyhow animal control came, according to my neighbor Crystal (who we do like) and peeked in my yard to check up on my animals.
Well animal cops Santa Rosa found our dogs to be fine and closed the complaint...but it does go on her record. I guess three complaints for barking and you have to re-home your dog.
So watch out Pita, you may be on borrowed time...kitty just went to the vet and never came home.....

Natalie's wall letters

Finally a pic of the wall letters that Dan and I made for Natalie...which are quite fabulous if I might say so myself.

Umm...okay

So this week is national clean hands week...who knew?

I was in my office restroom this morning and noticed a sign on the wall...and this was the sign.

Who knew there was a National clean hands week....and how gross is it hat there has to be a NATIONAL awareness campaign for this...gross!!!!!

So just in case you were planning on not washing your hands...this is not the week to do it!

Kristin's new camera

I am so jealous, Kristin got a new camera, a Nikon D40...which is the camrera I really wanted, but talked myself out of it and into the cook pix one.
After seeing how great the pics are I think I might be asking for a D40 for Christmas.

Dan + Costco = bad idea!

How is it that I can go to Costco and spend around $100 and get all the things we need, but if Dan goes we spend about $300. The same thing happens at Safeway, somehow he puts all these things in the cart that we don't need. Um..like Cinnamon Toast crunch....what self respecting adult feels the need to eat that stuff.
I swear sometimes I feel like I have two kids, and you'd think by looking at our cart that we had 5 kids at home. I mean eggos, cinnamon toast crunch, Wii games, cheez-its...
Ugh, I seriously had less than 10 things on my list.
Oh well, I guess it is my fault for not wanting to go grocery shopping by myself.

Long lost cousins.

We have a wacky family, as kids we never had any cousins or real family to speak of, so my parents friends were sort of our family. My mom had one brother and a few step siblings but we didn't see them much. We knew that my uncle had kids but we had never met them.

A few years ago my mom got into contact with her nephew Max and they began emailing eachother. Max got married in 2005 and my mom began emailing with his wife Kate. She is great. Well when I was getting married Kate and I started emailing each other, we invited Max and Kate to our wedding and finally got to meet this long lost cousin of mine. Since then we have been in contact with eachother over email. We tried to email each other about once a week or so...so when I got pregnant I of course emailed her. She was so sweet and sent me flowers.

They were not planning on having kids for a few years but were super happy that Dan and I would be having a baby and couldn't wait to meet our little one.

Well one morning I get an email that says "guess what"...yup you guessed it Kate was pregnant...and due only 2 weeks after me.

So we had a great time emailing with eachother throughout our pregnancies.

Over the summerm while we were both out on maternity leave we finally got together and here are some of the pics.

It was great to see Max and Kate and Caitlyn and to get the girls together. I can't wait until they can play together.

"Baby Crack" AKA Baby Einstein

So I have been resisting the Baby Einstein DVDs cause I don't want to just plop Natalie in front of the TV all the time...but sometimes I need to get things done too.
So this morning while I was getting ready for work I put in Baby Van Gough...and she was hooked.
My friends Kristin and Chad refer to the Baby Einstein DVDs as "Baby Crack" and man is it true. She was watching so intently and really appeared to be enjoying the animals, colors and music.
And I got to dry and straighten my hair and put on make up with only a couple interruptions....so YAY! for Baby Crack.

(disclaimer...the author of this blog does not recommend giving babies crack or promoting crack in any way...unless it is convenient for mommy)

What does that mean?

So I have a group of wonderful friends who like to email regularly while at work. We each work for different companies.
In our emails we often abbreviate things or talk in "IM" or text or message board lingo..whatever you want to call it.
Well our one friend doesn't frequent message boards so she often asks what things mean.
This got me thinking...do I speak "IM" too much....and the answer is YES!!!

All too often I find myself saying things like "OMG" or "WTF"...my mod mate and I said these things so much that my super out of touch boss even began saying them.
So I thought I'd share some of my favorites with you,
Of course I love OMG and WTF but I also love HFS...which means "Ho fo sho" a la 40 year old virgin. Another fav of mine is "HTD" which my friend Andrea came up with and it means "Homies til death"

She is on the move

So Natalie rolled over on Saturday morning. I laid her on the bed while I took a shower and turned on Micky Mouse Playhouse...which she loves! She was just hanging out so I enjoyed my shower, when I came out I peeked around the corner and saw her laying on her stomach....wait what...I put her on her back. I had to double take but there she was smiling at me and babbling on her tummy. OMG, I missed her first roll over...but so did her dad so oh well.

So I put her back on her back and low and behold she immediately flipped over. She did it three times in a row.

I called Dan and told him that she rolled over while I was in the shower and he says "well at least you missed it too" I didn't bother to tell him that she did it three times so he thinks I haven't' seen her do it yet....oops.

So we spent the rest of the weekend waiting and watching for her to roll over but that little stinker wouldn't do it.

Back to work...

So the torture has begun again. I am now starting my second week of work. To say that I am working is a bit of a stretch, considering I have completely forgotten how to do my job. I thought pregnancy brain would end at delivery but boy was I wrong. I have asked the stupidest questions ever in the past week, luckily my wonderful mod mate Reesha is very understanding....since she currently has pregnancy brain.

I will say it is nice to have adult interaction during the day, and to have conversations about things other than baby poo and spit up...although those things come up here at work too. And I thought I'd get away from the crying for a while each day but then people call me crying. Oh well.

The worst part of coming back to work is that I now have no idea what is going on with all my new favorite shows...I mean what happened on the view today...ugh and don't even get me started on missing Oprah. I'd tivo them but Dan would make fun of me way too much. I think I need my own tivo dedicated to my "lame" shows like Sunset Tan and the Hills.