Another First

Today was the day. Tim had grown some long wings right behind his ears. His hair had never rubbed off in those spots so it has been much longer than the rest of his hair for a long long time. It was hard in a way because I've been told that once you make that first cut the baby hair is gone forever. I can accept that, although I did keep his little locks and put them in a special keepsake container (: I did a rather swell job even if I do have to say so myself. Tim is one handsome little toddler!!!!

Yesterday's Today

Yesterdays Today.... I woke up around 5 am put on my heavy jacket, hat, gloves and scarf (hey I know we live in California but it gets COLD leaving for work well before 6 am when you drive a 71 VW bug with no heat!!) and headed to work. I turned on the radio and heard a live report being giving on the disaster going on in NY. I thought maybe it was a fictional story and checked the station again. I was in disbelief till I arrived at work and continued to listen to reports with a few other coworkers that shared my same shift. I just remember being very frightened for my dad. I thought they'd go after the military bases but that wasn't the case, thank goodness.

Today... I woke up to Timmy crying.. translated "mommy I'm ready to begin my day". I scooped him up along with a pile of poop that had exploded out the back side of his diaper. Yeah a lot has changed but definitely for the better. I love my life!!!

Change is good!

All I gotta say is "change is good!" Well... that's not really ALL I've gotta say... What has changed with me, you might ask. Just the layout of my house and boy does it make a difference. Tim is walking now and deserves the freedom of enjoying his home on his own sooo a few changes had to be made to make that possible. Little did I know that doing so would make me love my home even more than before. I pushed the couch over to the window and brought our bedroom rug in for Tim to play on. I used the rest of my birthday money to get a toy box for Tim and a 5 tier bookcase for our living room. If I could I'd turn almost all of our walls into bookcases. I love books!! Needless to say Tim is having a blast with his new found freedom. He giggles as he waddles from room to room and Tom and I love watching him.

Quick ketchup.... (:
Saturday night we met our friends (the Chandlier family) at the Greek festival down the street from us on Manchester. Tom and I have gone every year since moving to encinitas we've adopted it as being one of our "little" family traditions. This was Tim's 2nd time. We had lot's of fun eating and watching the dancing. Ok, that's all for now gotta run!

Consistency

I'm really going to try to be more consistant with my blogs. So many awesome days go by and I'd hate for them to be forgotten. So here I go.... Today Tim and I headed off to his swimming lesson in San Marcos. According to his teacher, Tami, he is getting better and better(of course, he's brilliant)! Now that he is walking he just wants to go up and down the steps, smile at the other kids, and show them what toy he is playing with. Too cute!! After swim we headed to Target to see if we could find a toy chest for the family room and sure enough there was the one my sister in law told me about. Thank goodness! I couldn't wait to assemble it. It'll be great to scoop up all those toys and pop them into that chest. Once we headed home I had to stop for gas and guess who we saw.. Jon from Switchfoot getting gas for his tour van. Pretty cool. Anyhow that brings back memories from my high school years and of my sister in law. That was the first time I hung out with her. My brother brought me, her and some other chick to Cane's. Switchfoot was opening up for Third Day. I had such a good time and was glad Jim had his eye on Rachel and not that other gal. Yikes, that would have been scary if it had been the other way around. Guess you'd have to of been there (: