saturday funny

I saw Shutter Island last night. A very good movie, but it seemed familiar to me.

*possible spoiler alert*

that's because it's pretty much the same plot (really the exact opposite) as a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode from the sixth season called "Frame of Mind."

*end of possible spoiler (but only if you know that Star Trek episode or look it up on Wikipedia*

When I realized that this morning, it kinda ruined the movie for me. When I told Dana, she responded:

"Well they're running out of ideas."

Aria, hearing our conversation, replied:

"Yeah, they're running out of Quesadillas."

We could not stop laughing! It was just one of those many many moments we wished we had a camera rolling in this house!

Doogan!

a little bit of drama over the weekend: Aria's favorite stuffed animal Doogan got lost in the mall! We re-traced our steps about 5 times, but he was nowhere to be found! We had taken pictures while at the mall, and were able to narrow down where he could have fallen out of the stroller. Still no Doogan! It was getting late, and Emmett had to eat soon (we didn't come prepared because it was supposed to be a quick trip), so we went to the mall security office and gave a description of poor old Doogan.

It was kinda funny, because Aria had no idea what we were doing while frantically running around the mall looking for her Doogan. Finally, we had to tell her. I dreaded this moment. She got a little upset, but amazingly, she handled it pretty well! We knew that if we didn't get a call on Sunday, he was gone for good, so we found a brand new Doogan on Ebay that night and bought him. Dana sewed a ribbon on Aria's stuffed ducky, and he became a Doogan stand-in for the night.

Dana left her cell in the car Sunday afternoon, and checked her messages Monday morning. Mall security had Doogan! I couldn't wait to get him after I dropped Aria off at school—I didn't tell her because that would have made the drop-off SO much more difficult! When Aria got home that afternoon, we took a video of the reunion:

I'm so sorry Emmett...

... but you've been getting the blog shaft from Daddy. You'll understand someday, that 2 kids doesn't mean twice the work, it means 3 times the work (at least)! I used to blog about your big sister lots, but then you came along and I just want to relax and watch TV once we get you both down for the night. Well, first I have to clean up all the messes you guys have made, and the dinner mess, and your bottles, and Mommy's pump parts. THEN I get to relax on the couch for 90 minutes before I have to wake mommy up (she never makes it past 9:30), and go upstairs and get ready for bed so I'm well rested for you 2 in the morning!

Hey in my defense, I didn't start blogging about Aria until after her first birthday! So you, Mr. Emmett, have already gotten more face time on the blog than big sister did at your age! I will try my hardest to post more about you and your development, as well as big sister of course (and also post about my sanity dealing with both of you)!
Oh and more photos, cause who wants to read a boring all text post like this?!?!

love ya buddy frog,
-Daddy

I just noticed that this blog had over 100 posts in from 2007 & 2008, then only 56 in 2009. also, Dana has been posting a lot more. Her percentage of posts went from about 20% in 2007 & 2008 to over 50% this past year! I don't want to change the blog or domain name, so I better pick up the posting! :-)

Shaving my head for a cause

so yeah i normally cut my hair pretty close (been using the clippers with no attachments recently), but i'm letting it grow out a bit so i can have it shaved off for a good cause. I'm shaving my head for the tenth annual St. Baldrick's Day in solidarity with children who have cancer and typically lose their hair during cancer treatment. i will be posting pics before and after :-)
my page on stbaldricks site

Worldwide, more than 160,000 children are diagnosed with cancer each year. While advances have saved many children, childhood cancer still claims the lives of more children in the US than any other disease - more than diabetes, asthma, congenital anomalies, cystic fibrosis and AIDS - combined!

Please make a donation on my behalf to support childhood cancer research so that all children diagnosed with cancer will have a better chance for a cure. Funds raised by the St. Baldrick's Foundation will be used to fund childhood cancer research - to help speed the day when every child with cancer will be guaranteed a healthy future.

P90X done! (for now)

I let myself go. not too bad, but enough to make me get larger pants than I wanted. for the past 9 years, my weight has been around 200 lbs. well, I had been thinking about exercising again, but the exercise bike and the one 20 lb barbell had gotten boring. I can't get a gym membership, cause I wouldn't be able to get the motivation to wake up early and drive to the gym. Plus, even though I know my way around the gym, without someone telling me what to do I'd end up doing the same 5 or 6 exercises, and then eventually get bored with that as well.

All last Summer, I kept seeing my good friend Neil's Facebook status updates about P90X. I had never heard of P90X, so I went to the official website to find out about it. I also bugged Neil about it. I was skeptical of the results that they show on the website, so I wanted to wait until I knew someone who got good results. When Neil was done he posted his results here. I was amazed at just how well this program worked!

So I went all in and bought the P90X program, the chin-up bar, the weights (bowflex selecttech dumbbells), and the recovery drink (yum). I was excited! Emmett had already been born, and I was going to wait a little until we figured out the new routine with 2 kids. Once everything arrived though, I was like a kid who found the Christmas presents early! I started early August, only to realize 9 days into it that lack of sleep does not help at all. I kinda burnt out. :-\

By early November, Emmett was in a good sleeping routine, and I was ready to start waking up at 4:45am every morning for the next 90 days. I know, but as long as I went to bed by 10:30, I was ready to go! This program is amazing. Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's made it a little tough to keep watching what I was eating, but I redid week 7 and that got me back on track. below are my before and after pictures!

27 lbs lost, my waist went from 35/36 to 31/32!

The best part of all this, is my photos and status updates on Facebook have gotten SO many interested/re-interested in P90X. TEN of my friends have either bought P90X or re-started because of my results! I'll be starting the 90 days again in a couple weeks, cause it is so much fun!

Getting Creative with Snow

edit: I may need to change the blog name to goofymommy! goofydaddy needs to get back to blogging about being a stay-at-home dad more...

SNOW!

Last week Aria had school cancelled and THANKFULLY my mom stuck around to entertain Aria for the day. They had lots of fun. When they played outside, they made a cute snowman. Which is now buried under 2.5ft of snow we just had.

2.5 ft of snow - "Blizzard of 2010", "Shovelganza", "Snowtorious B-I-G"

Thank goodness Kevin's been working out. I think I would have broke if I tried to shovel us out. Don't you love the dry pavement? The sun hits our house just perfect and our neighbors on the other side of the street are jealous, haha.

I ran to the store on Friday night to get a couple baby things. I happened upon this stroller and got a great price. What do you do with a stroller for two when you have 2.5ft of snow outside? Ride it around the house of course! The past 2 days we spent a couple hours with this activity. It solved all our cranky problems :-)