Quote of the Day

I have noticed on blogs that people frequently post funny things their kids say. Since my kid is not funny using words yet, I cannot do this. Luckily, I have a husband who cracks me up daily.

Me (on any given day in winter): Reo, be careful not to slip, it's icy.

Reo (with an insulted look): Don't worry, I'm like Gordon Bombay. I was born on the ice.

This is probably only relevent and/or funny to those who know and love The Mighty Ducks movies..But since Reo and I do, it makes me laugh every time!

**If this post was NOT funny to you, and you would like it to be, just watch the first 15 minutes of the first Mighty Ducks movie. But I recommend you watch all three, because they are a golden piece of cinematic history.

Holden Celebrates Mardi Gras

He's been practicing for weeks.

Tell me you don't want to give this kid some beads.

My Baby is Bigger than Your Baby

Unless, of course, your baby is one of the 7 percent of 4 months old who is taller, or 6 percent who are heavier. Yep, it's official--we have an amazon baby.

4 month stats

Height--26.5 inches

Weight--18 pounds

He has grown 5 inches since he was born and doubled his birthweight (and if you recall, at 8 pounds 15 ounces he was no shrimp!)

So watch out, all you shorties out there. It is only a matter of time until my baby is bigger than you (picture a "Honey, I Blew Up the Kid" sequel).

Putting St. Valentine To Shame

Valentine's Day highlights at the Manning household.

1. Dressing Holden in "festive" (ie red) attire. He was thrilled. 2. Looking at Holden's super cute sleeping face. He sucks on his lower lip until he gets a hickey from it.

3. Attempting to make heart shaped pizza like I saw on the Papa Murphy's commercial (I am very impressionable.) No pictures of this, as I was too angry that my heart shaped pizza looked like a kidney bean.

4. Deciding to make Valentine's Day sugar cookies to deliver to family and friends.

5. Realizing that as I cannot remember the last time I made sugar cookies , I have no food coloring to make pink frosting, and minimal decorative sprinkles..And that my decorating icing has all dried up.


6. Deciding to make do with what we have.

7. Realizing that making do with what we have = very sad sugar cookies.

8. Agreeing that we did not want to go outside in the snow to deliver embarrassingly sparse sugar cookies.

9. Feeling sad about my lack of domestic talents.

10. Finding this super cute Valentine surprise on my bed to make me excited for Spring!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Trying to Sell Me on What I Already Bought

I guess you could classify this as beef, since it is something that doesn't matter, but annoys me nonetheless. So, since I paid what some would call a ridiculous amount of money for a Playstation 3 (I would just refer to it as "my baby," but apparently, referring to an inanimate object as your "baby" when you actually have a child somehow makes you a bad parent), I figured that I should get the most out of it. One way to do this is to utilize it as a Blu-Ray Disc player. Since we have a sweet deal (one might call if tenure) with Blockbuster Online, I figured I'd get as many of our movie rentals on Blu-Ray that I can.

This is all well and good. The beef comes in the form of previews. For some reason, 99% of the Blu-Ray movies I watch have a "preview" for Blu-Ray movies in general. I'm not sure why the movie studios feel like they need to sell me on Blu-Ray when I'm already watching it. I know how great it is, that's why I rented the movie that way. Plus, you usually can't skip this preview. This may sound trivial, but it's like having a car salesman explain why you should buy your car for a good two minutes. Every time you get behind the wheel. It gets old pretty quick.

Shout Out

Holden rarely cries. I mean, he is a baby, so he does cry, but it is not that often.
However, this is not to say that he doesn't express his displeasure with his life. Far from it. The kid can YELL! It seriously sounds like he is giving you "what for" at least once a day. He loves to tell you all about how hard his life is. Loudly. I have yet to catch such a tantrum on video, but below is the face I see each time I have angered him in some way.

Needless to say, I am not looking forward to the terrible twos. Or the teenage years.