January 29, 2010: We scored this awesome Lego construction book at the library on Thursday afternoon, so Wyatt spent some time with his Lego sets on Friday morning, using it for inspiration.
January 30, 2010: I broke out the waffle iron for the first time in years. It might even have been the first time I’ve made waffles since Wyatt was born! I used the quick waffle recipe from Mark Bittman’s, How to Cook Everything which was OK, but maybe a tad too egg-y for my tastes.
I like my waffles (and my pancakes and my french toast) with peanut butter and maple syrup on them. Weird, right? I started eating them this way when I was a little girl because that’s how my brother liked to eat them and I thought he was pretty cool. When we were in Iowa at Christmas time, I saw my niece eating her waffles with peanut butter and syrup and I was totally floored because I never see anyone doing this. Then I realized who her dad is. Duh.
January 31, 2010: Ah, a little Mythbusters before bed! We are huge Mythbusters fans. It’s one of the few shows that we all like to watch together. We do check to see what the myths are on each episode before letting Wyatt watch them because some are not appropriate for 5 year olds, but most of the time they’re OK. Zach and I like how it makes science exciting and fun and Wyatt just likes that it’s exciting and fun. He has no idea that the show is sneakily teaching him about the scientific method.
February 1, 2010: I got a big honkin’ order from Shutterfly in the mail. These are about 6 months worth of my Project 365 photos from last year. I kind of fell down on the job with printing them around May.
February 2, 2010: I like to go to the school playground for an hour or so after school to let Wyatt run off some energy. There are usually a few other Kindergartners there too, so he has someone to play with. This week was “spirit week” at school and Tuesday was “crazy costume day” so Wyatt of course wore his Batman outfit.
February 3, 2010: I took Augie to get his hair cut in the morning and he was so traumatized by it that I felt like I needed to cheer him up with a madeleine and trip to the playground. There is a little fenced-in toddler playground a few blocks from the hair place with a giant sandbox and a couple of ride on toys and he had fun goofing around there for a bit.
February 4, 2010: Augie needed a bath and a change of clothes late in the afternoon and when Wyatt saw that I put him in his Batman shirt he immediately needed to change into his matching shirt too. Wyatt has been totally and completely obsessed with Batman and the idea of building a Bat Cave under our house this week. He started talking about it when I picked him up from school on Wednesday at 3:20 p.m. and he did not stop talking about it until he went to sleep at 8:30 that night. That’s right — I got to listen to him talk about his construction plans for FIVE HOURS. I’m all for encouraging creativity and all, but he would look at me every two sentences to gauge my reaction to his latest revelation and after awhile it’s hard to muster much enthusiasm even when you are being informed that the Bat Cave will have an elevator and a microwave in it. When he came into our room to wake me Thursday morning, the first thing he told me was that he’d figured out how to get the bulldozer and the digger into our back yard, so he needed me to give him the phone number of some builders to call them and tell them to come over to start work while he was at school.
My camera started flashing an error message on Monday afternoon, so most of this weeks photos were taken with my iPhone.
Monday:
Monday’s snack had a cup of blueberries and clementine wedges, a half a mini baguette and a little monky box with strawberry jam for the the bread.
Tuesday:
Lunch and snack on Tuesday was Pirate’s Booty, more baguette and jam, clementines, blueberries, rice balls with happy faces on them and salami.
Wednesday:
Wyatt is totally ga-ga for the laptop lunch box right now, so it went back to school with him on Wednesday with many of the same items: bread and jam, whole wheat pretzel sticks, blueberries, clementines, a strawberry cereal bar cut in half and stacked, and baked teriyaki tofu.
Thursday
Thursday’s lunch was crackers, salami, clementines, dried cranberries, and half a hot dog bun. Wyatt has informed me that he doesn’t like sesame seeds, so I just sent the bottom of the bun.
Snack was Pirate’s Booty and I didn’t think it was worth photographing.
Friday:
Friday, I sent pretzel sticks, blueberries and a clementine.
January 22, 2010: Here is a view of the inside of our fridge. Some items of note: the Brita filter (which dominates our fridge and gets used and filled about 10 times a day), leftover Hungarian paprika soup (shockingly bland), eggs, eggbeaters, hippie bread, jello cups, chocolate mousse cups (not very good), raita and whole wheat pitas (awesome, delicious, Weight Watcher snack), a mixer bowl full of chocolate chip cookie dough (awesome, delicious, non-Weight Watcher snack), cauliflower, snap peas, and more cauliflower.
January 23, 2010: Zach bought Wyatt a Lego Batman game on a whim a couple weekends ago. Wyatt loves it. He loves it so much that he’d be perfectly happy if that’s all he ever did, all day, every day. He’s only allowed to play on weekends though.
January 24, 2010: The contents of my purse:
Peets coffee gift card
CVS coupon
Flip video camera
Reward sticker from doctor’s office (I was very good)
Pens and pencils
Hair brush
Ribbon lanyard for my keys that I’ve been looking for everywhere
January 25, 2010: Our refrigerator door is home to all sorts of crap: menus, school papers, drawings, etc.
January 26, 2010: Our back yard is depressing in the winter. The grass is looking pretty good from all the rain though.
January 27, 2010: I’ve been plugging away at reorganizing my desk and craft supplies little by little. I picked up this shoe organizer at Target to hold my Cricut cartridges and my punches. I have to admit, I was kind of shocked to see how many Cricut cartridges I have! I think I might have a little problem…
January 28, 2010: Augie recently learned how to climb onto the rocking chair in the office and delights in getting up and making it rock.
I thought I’d give monthly updates on the goals I’ve set for myself for 2010. I’m happy to report that I’ve completed several items on my list, started a few more and that I’ve laid the groundwork for some others.
Completed:
#14 Finish my project 365 blog posts. Ta da! I wrapped up the year with my final post earlier this month.
#15 Finish the fingerless mitts I started before Christmas. I finished these blue arm warmers this month too.
#67 Start Weight Watchers again. I’m all signed up and I’ve been going to meetings but I’ll admit I’ve been lacking the motivation to really make the program work for me. Baby steps.
In Progress:
#3 Find five reliable, healthy, delicious soup recipes. I’ve tried several soup recipes this month, but I’ve only found one so far that I plan to make again. A White Chicken Chili recipe in a Prevention magazine Slow Cooker cookbook.
#11 Assemble Project 365 scrapbook. I’ve started working on my 2009 Project 365 scrapbook. I’ll post more on this later when I’m a little farther along.
#12 Do another photo-a-day project. Another one I’ve started — I’ve been posting my photos as in weekly posts again.
#19 Make a softie for my niece-to-be. My sister-in-law is due with her first baby in just two weeks! I’ve got a welcome home project under way and I’m hoping Erin can keep that baby inside long enough for me to finish it. (Sorry, Erin — I know you’re ready to burst, but I have just a leeetle more sewing to do….)
#29 Add five new foods to Wyatt’s eating repertoire. Big progress here! Wyatt has been very good about trying new foods in the past few months and he’s started enjoying a few new things if they’re prepared just right. So far he’s partially changed his mind about snap peas, ranch dressing and chicken! I’m not saying these are officially foods he’ll eat yet, but it’s a start.
#55 Find my copy of Wreck This Journal and wreck it. I found the book buried in a pile on my desk and I’ve done a few pages in it.
Upcoming:
#21 Make at least 30 scrapbook layouts. I plan to make significant progress on this one in February! I signed up for Lain Ehmann’s Layout a Day Challenge (also referred to as “LOAD”) and while I’m not sure if I can actually make 28 layouts next month, I’m expecting to get quite a few done.
January 15, 2010: Climb, climb, climb! That’s all this boy ever seems to do! He climbed onto the purple chair and over to this end table in the blink of an eye. See how he’s looking up there? He’s trying to figure out how to shimmy up the blinds and stand on the ceiling.
January 16, 2010: Wyatt and I were playing around on the chair in front of the living room window and the light was so lovely, I was begging him to let me take his picture. He was adamantly opposed to the idea, but I managed to sneak this photo of him. I was totally right about the light, wasn’t I?
January 17, 2010: OMG! Do you see this?? This is where Wyatt carved his name into our kitchen table. I was thrilled to find this, I can assure you.
January 18, 2010: Rain planet! We had pouring, torrential rain for 8 days straight which caused the boys to be stuck inside. They claimed the chair in front of the living room window as their playground and they spent a great deal of time on it drawing pictures in the condensation and antagonizing each other. If you look closely, you can see that there is a cardboard box and a few of the couch cushions on the chair. This was Zach’s attempt to keep them from jumping on the chair. It worked for about 9 minutes.
January 19, 2010: Augie needs a haircut in the worst way.
January 20, 2010: The coffee sleeve I made for Zach.
January 21, 2010: Zach tries to get Augie’s jammies on after his bath. He’s got the pants next to him on the bed and he’s waiting for a chance to swoop in and put them on him.
January 8, 2010: Dropping Wyatt off at Kindergarten. Normally we walk over with Augie in the stroller, but this day the sky was dark with looming rain clouds and I didn’t want to be caught outside when the heavens opened up.
January 9, 2010: We had dinner at our friends Tjames and Robyn’s house. Of course, I didn’t manage to get any pictures of anyone besides our family, which always seems to be the case. We were joined by another family (Evan and Maj and their kids) and we had a lovely time catching up, eating a yummy pot roast dinner and playing Rock Band.
January 10, 2010: Augie was cheerful after his nap today and didn’t want to get out of his crib. Instead we played peek-a-boo for awhile and he periodically chewed on Blue Monkey.
January 11, 2010: Yuck! Sorry — I probably should have warned you that I was going to show you my foot. I was in a hurry to get out the door to Weight Watchers on Sunday and I kicked the fireplace grate really, really hard as I was walking by it. I thought I broke my toe at first, but it was just badly bruised. Like that last little bit of blue nail polish on my big toe there? That’s from August!
January 12, 2010: Zach was working late every night this week on a big deadline and Wyatt ended up putting himself to sleep on the couch while I was getting Augie down. Poor little buddy.
January 13, 2010: Augie had his one year check-up at the doctor, which is kind of funny since he’s over 16 months old. Just so you know, Kaiser’s automated appointment scheduling program doesn’t work very well. He is in great health, perfect in every way. 26 pounds, 32.5 inches tall.
January 14, 2010: Our washing machine broke this week, so the laundry started piling up in the two days we had to wait for the repairman to come out to take a look at it. It wasn’t draining properly and I tried to fix it myself, but I ended up flooding our back hallway. On the plus side, the floor back there hasn’t been as clean in a long while!
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cartridges and my punches. I have to admit, I was kind of shocked to see how many Cricut cartridges I have! I think I might have a little problem…
and wreck it. I found the book buried in a pile on my desk and I’ve done a few pages in it.
