Crabby Mama

I was just awarded the Premios Dardo  Award from Mandi.

“The Premios Dardo Award acknowledges the values that every blogger shows in his or her effort to transmit cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values every day.”

I’m not really sure what that means. But she said to answer these questions, throw out one I don’t like, and add one of my own at the end. So here goes…

If you woke up tomorrow and were the opposite sex, what is the first thing you would do and why?
I would have to make sure my new parts were properly functioning.
9) What is your most embarrassing moment?
I fell into a baby pool at the neighborhood pool while walking next to the boy I liked. Just didn’t see it and stepped right in, fully clothed.

So little I can remember. I thought of at least 5 things I wanted to blog about today and for some reason I can’t remember ONE of them now. So randomness…

* I am now Celebration Co-coordinator of my new playgroup. Basically the job entails planning quarterly birthday parties and baby showers. I am hoping we can expand it to include holiday celebrations too because I LOVE planning stuff like that.

* Erin now says “I yuh you, Mom” (I love you, Mom) and I can’t get enough of it.

* I saw He’s Just Not That Into You for MNO tonight. Cute movie.

* We got to play outside today!!! It was warm enough this afternoon to run around and swing.

* Next week I am enrolling Leah in the weeklong summer gymnastics camp that she did last summer. She will also attend a weeklong Music, Movement, and Drama Camp for 3-5 yr olds. Should be SUPER cute.

* I wanna go visit my FL peeps SO much, but we just can’t work it out timing wise. June or August are the only months we don’t have something else already planned. And because we already have SO much planned, I don’t know that we can afford another trip. We shall see…

* There are other things I want to say but I have to make sure this privacy thing is working first. Make sure you are checking the actual site and are logged in to see the private posts. I don’t know how RSS feeds work with some private and some unprivate posts.

I joined my playgroup today at Border’s for storytime and then lunch. It actually took Erin a little while to warm up enough to participate. But they served mini-cupcakes for all the February birthdays so Erin was super happy after that. Then I went with 3 other moms to a place called Bonehead’s for lunch. It was pretty yummy, I ate fish tacos for the first time ever. The other moms’ kids were all way younger, like 10 months and under. So Erin put on quite a show for everyone. I think that most of the moms in the group have younger kids. I offered to host a playdate mid-March for preschoolers and at the end of March for toddlers at my house. Hopefully I will meet some of the moms of older kids.

That’s all I have for today. Thanks for reading.

I am taking up Erica’s suggestion and installing Role Scoper to create groups of people to read certain posts (sorry, Mom, some things are TMI, right?). So here is an excerpt from her post explaining what you need to do to keep reading this blog.

So part of this site will be going private, most of you probably wont notice .. but if you want to make sure you’re getting all my updates go create an account for my site now Also, if for some reason I don’t personally know you, I’d love for you to introduce yourself, send me an email or a comment so that I make sure to give you access. Also .. that means that sometimes when you visit my site, you’ll have to check to see if you’re logged in. Over in my sidebar you’ll see a link to Log in (or if you’re already logged in, you’ll see Log out). As of 2/24/09 the sidebar is on the left side of the page, the Log in / Log out link is under the title Tech stuff.

Hey guys, I have had a great run on Blogger, but it’s time to move on. I have created a new blog at Wordpress and am hoping to be able to do more fun things over there. Everything has been exported so you should be able to see all old posts over there and all new posts will be posted over there in the future. Click here to link to it:

http://g-ratedlife.com/angelle

These are some things I want to be able to remember about this age with Erin…

* How she will cling to your leg and say “uppy” when she wants to be held

* How when she counts she always says “one, two, sick” (six)

* How she is like a vulture when she sees food, she always has to share yours even if she just finished eating

* How she chases and tackles Ally all day everyday

* How she loves to do anything physical (climb, jump, push)

* How she will tell you “kishes” or “huggies” and then give you one

* How when I leave her in her room at nap/bedtime she says “Bye, Mom”

* How, if Mike is the one to get her in the morning, she gets into bed with me and gives me a big hug first thing, then asks to “wash (watch) a show” then says “‘mote pees (remote, please)”

* How she calls my banana muffins “ba-na mussins”

I know Mike already blogged about this, but I wanted to tell it too in case you don’t check Mike’s blog. Last night he called me into the craft room where he and Leah were playing around on the Paint program. He said, “Watch this,” and he wrote H-A-T on the screen. Leah spelled it out first, then proceeded to say the sounds for each letter. It took a few tries to blend it together, but without help from us she figured out it said hat! Next we did frog, but I think that was too hard (the F-R blend AND the unusual O sound), but she got the next one, pig. It was pretty exciting.

I have to say though, I attribute a little of it to this new DVD we got called Letter Factory by Leapfrog (they have it at Target for $10). I was at the bookstore the other day in the children’s section and I overheard two women talking. One said that her son had been watching this video and within a week was sounding out small words. So we ran right over to Target and picked it up. Leah has watched it twice and already is understanding letter-sound relationships. The next DVD in the series is the Talking Words Factory, which teaches them how to put sounds together to make words. In fact, this pack may be your best bet as its got the whole series plus Math Circus. It got absolutely fabulous reviews. I highly, highly recommend either the pack or the first DVD to see how it goes. I wish I had seen the pack before I bought the first one by itself.

Mom’s Night Out (MNO) was a blast last night. I made the Tokyo Tuna (we never buy tuna so it will be fun to eat something unusual) and I won the door prize of a dessert. I chose Key Lime Freeze. After the event, about 8 of us went across the street for a glass of wine and chit-chat. I really got to know about 3 of the moms and liked everyone I met. I am definitely looking forward to more events with this group.

Leah has had a low grade fever since yesterday afternoon. She is staying home from school today and will hopefully make a full recovery by tomorrow afternoon so she can attend a classmate’s birthday party.

So I will have to tell two stories here to get to the point of the post.

#1 – I have been looking for a local mommy group to join for about a week now. I finally found New Mommies of South Charlotte Playgroup 2 days ago and promptly joined. The first event I could attend is scheduled for tonight, a Mommy’s Night Out! We are meeting at Mr. Food no-Fuss Meals and we are having a food & wine tasting AND we get to bring home an entree all for $10! So I am excited about the opportunity to meet some new people, but for some reason I am nervous like this is a first date. Will they like my new haircut? Is it going to be cliquey or will they accept a new member readily? The pressure…

#2 – I went to the dentist today to have a cavity filled. Of course they numb you up good so my entire lower right jaw was numb. I was starving on the ride home so I decided to eat the apple I brought, I would just chew on the other side. Everything was going smoothly until I felt something weird on my lip. I looked in the mirror and saw that I had chomped down and the inside of my lip was all skinned and bleeding a little. Now two hours later, I have a fat lip.

So here is where the two stories converge. I have a fat lip to take with me to the Mom’s Night Out. Yeah, I’ll have to say, I gave myself a fat lip. Nice to meet you.

What do you guys think? You can’t really see my color because I took this in my bathroom and the light stinks.