Happy Halloween!!!

Well Halloween has come again and it was a great day!!! I was so excited for this year because last year the little gaffer was only two months old and couldn't really enjoy the 'festivities' to the fullest. However, this year was a little different. We found him the most adorable giraffe costume (I've had a thing for giraffes since he was in the womb and I figured this would probably be one of the only years I could get him to wear a costume like this) and boy did he ever look cute!!!! Unfortunately my husband went back to work this past week so he missed out on the fun from today, but we still had a great time going to visit friends and relatives and then going to the fireworks at the community center. The little guy just LOVED them!! I'm really looking forward to next year... :)
Anyways, hope you had a great Halloween too!!!

My little giraffe and his little duck buddy

Happy little guy


Watching the fireworks with Grandma

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!

Thanks a bunch, jerk!!!

It was a typical fall day here on the island but without the rain, so I thought it would be a great idea to take the boy to the Spit and get some fresh air. So we're out there, having fun and running around and playing on the beach and it's wonderful. There is this one side that has a little hill, so the gaffer was walking up it and falling backwards and it was awesome. He was having a great time!! As I was watching him though, I noticed something on the back of his pants. It wasn't a huge area, but there was what looked like dog shit on the back of his leg. No biggie, shit happens. So I grabbed him to try and get some of it off and as I was just about to release him I had this sinking feeling of 'oh no'. Well my feeling was correct and I took a look at his hand and sure enough, he had a nice fist full of dog shit. So gross!!!! I got as much off as I could and then we headed for wipes from the car. I should have gotten the picture before I wiped the shit off because there isn't that much left on his poor little hand and it's too bad that the picture is blurry, but I think you get the idea.

So I just want to say a big thank you to the assholes for not picking up after their dog. Then again, shit does happen but I just wish that it didn't have to be smeared in between my son's fingers!!!!

Love nose

I have always had a thing for smelling things. Seems like I always have my nose in something - flowers, coffee, checking to see whether meat is good or bad, seeing if my son needs his diaper changed, etc. One of my favorite smells is freshly cut grass *sigh*. There is something so familiar about it, comforting and exhilarating at the same time. I absolutely LOVE that smell. I always have and always will. I guess it's a good thing that I like it so much because my husband runs his own landscaping business. He's actually been away working on Ontario and came home on Friday after being away for 4 weeks, but was back to his landscaping this week to tie up loose ends and finish off the 'season'. It kind of sucks that he's home on days off from Ontario but still has to work, but that's life I suppose. It's been so nice to have him home again and I am going to enjoy every moment he's here. But yesterday he was working, doing hedges and mowing lawns, and when he came home and he smelled just like freshly cut grass - familiar, comforting, and still exhilarating.

Land Legs

Fall. The crisp air, the beautiful colors of the leaves, playing in the leaves once they fall. Perfect for playing outside, especially if you're 13.5 months old and are perfecting your 'land legs'. This little guy loves to play in the garden and run around. Every time we come home he immediately runs over to the gate so that he can go inside the yard to play. On this particular day he had so much fun kicking his way through the leaves on the ground.

He thought that the rake was pretty cool.

There's nothing more enjoyable than watching him explore and discover and take in the world. It is so amazing.



I love this little guy!!!!

Sunday Rant - MIL

I have actually been meaning to write about my MIL for quite some time now. More often than I would like, she does something to piss me off and it is frustrating. Usually it is just small stupid things, but it's the accumulative effect of all these small things that drives me crazy.
For example, she was over yesterday visiting at my Mom's house and my son was running around the house. The nightlight caught his eye and he wanted to check it out. I however didn't really want him playing with it because it doesn't sit properly in the outlet so I told him to leave it alone and come play with something else. Of course he doesn't listen to me so I keep trying to coax him to leave it alone. Now my MIL is standing right by him and is just watching him do this. You'd think that she would step in and take him away from it, especially since the reason I didn't want him near it was because it was a hazard but nope, she just kept on standing there and then proceeded to comment on how good he was the other day not touching things. Um hello, who cares about the other day, he's wanting to play with something that is NOT safe for fuck sakes, could you do something other than just stand there and stare??? I know I'm the Mom but she's the Grandma and was literally standing a foot and half away from him. So I stormed over, ripped the nightlight out of the wall and put one of those outlet plug things in so that he would leave it alone. Maybe not the best example, but she's a passive-aggressive control freak who thinks she knows best and has the answer to everything and when she asks questions about things it's a judgment or a criticism. Like I said, it's all the little things.
At least I know I'm not the only one who has trouble with their MIL...how do you get along with yours???

Not impressed!!!!

I've been waiting for what seems like ages to get my 'new-to-me' car. FINALLY, yesterday I am able to bring it home!!! It is so nice to have a vehicle again. Or was nice.
I was doing a few errands today -checking the mail, buying some light bulbs from the building supply, and dropping some laundry off at my Mom's - and when I was leaving the credit union to go home, the car made a funny noise when I started it and after I had backed up, I noticed a nice puddle of lime-yellow liquid on the ground. I'm pretty sure that it was coolant and that the coolant had come from my new-to-me car that had just come from the mechanic's the night before. But I didn't notice any other leaking for the rest of the day, so I thought I was OK. Not quite so. I ended up going out later on and when I was coming home discovered that the car was starting to get a little hot and kept on getting hotter and hotter. Well, turns out that whatever they had fixed has now broken or was never fixed properly in the first place or something else has screwed up because there was hardly any coolant left in the little container and she was leaking and there was smelly hot steam and basically, it is NOT good and I am SO NOT IMPRESSED!!!!!
What a fucking piss off!!!!