The 26th was our 5th wedding anniversary (aka our Cinco de Marriage-O), and we celebrated by going to see Cirque du Soleil which was AMAZING. I highly recommend La Nouba it if you ever have a chance to see it. I think this was my favorite part:
We also took a beach trip, and Jana was on her very best behavior- seemed to be afraid of the sand for the most part so it wasn’t too hard to keep sand out of her mouth, but she did eventually get curious- you can see the progression here:
All in all it was a very fun anniversary- I’ll leave you with a few of my faves:
I’ll try to keep accounting humor to a minimum (yes, there is such a thing), but I guess there’s still a little in my blood so this seemed like an appropriate way to get it out.
This is Jana’s very upset reaction to the harsh reality that we don’t get ALL of Daddy’s paycheck to spend since some is to pay taxes. She calmed down once I told her the taxes go to the same government that gives Daddy a day off for every federal holiday under the sun.
This is Jana excitedly counting up our deductions once I told her that they help us get a refund check.
Reposting- for some reason posted before all the others…
I apologize- I’m new to the blogging gig and realized I wrote this just before we left Maryland a little over a week ago and never posted it. Sorry!
So for the past 7 weeks we have been living in a little suite hotel-type place. We leave today and are quite excited because based on the following, we’ve probably been here way too long:
When going away for the weekend and returning to our hotel room, we think how nice it is to come back to “our own bed”
We think it’s normal to throw our used towel on the floor
We can hold entire 30 minute conversations in a whisper in order to keep the baby asleep
When I called the front desk for more towels last week the guy just said “No” sternly and then busted out laughing
You feel free to just go into the back kitchen marked “Employees Only” to get the fresh pot of coffee and bring it to the lobby.
You go out for a couple hours and are frustrated when the room isn’t clean when you get back.
There are other good reasons to go, too- like the always slightly spaced-out lady constantly walking around the lobby with her guinea pigs (seen last week feeding them yogurt with a tear-dropper- is that normal food for them?). So, farewell Maryland. Farewell crabcakes. Oh, and farewell to my winter clothes. HELLO FLIP-FLOPS!!
It occurred to me that I did say pictures were the point of this whole thing. Here’s some favorites from our trip to DC last week. If you ever have a chance to go while the cherry blossoms are blooming, I would highly recommend it- absolutely gorgeous! Here’s the whole album, if you’d like to see more: http://rhodesfam.shutterfly.com/
They say motherhood changes you, and they’re right! Today I did something I would have never done in my former life. If you know me, you know that I’m not-so-much a neat freak. But yesterday Jana was literally sucking on the tile floor (someone please tell me this is normal). So today I actually researched homemade baby-floor-sucking-friendly cleaner recipes and I didn’t stop there, my friends. I MADE and USED one! Certainly you’re now thinking I’m a domestic diva but really, it was easy. Here’s some friends’ posts with some recipes- http://simplemom.net/category/green-living/ and http://www.supercinski.net/2007/08/03/getting-greener-part-2-natural-cleaning/
I ended up doing a cup of white distilled vinegar per gallon of warm water which was recommended on many sites I came across. So, now I’ve done most of the house (the whole thing is tile- oy!) and it really doesn’t smell pickly at all- it wears off pretty fast. And as an added bonus, the bottoms of my flip-flops are now disinfected. This is quite the deal for me since Jana’s current goal in life is to army-crawl to any length to find and bite them. Yup, she’s goal-oriented. We’re so proud!
There was a Jana video here, but it looks like the only way to link it to my blog is to make it a public video on Youtube, which I’d rather not do. So I’m researching other services- anyone have a recommendation?
WARNING: You may find this to be a very disappointing blog. Okay, so now you can’t say I didn’t warn you. You see, starting a blog has been “my own personal El Guapo” for quite some time. (See video below for explanation, and a good motivational speech.) I don’t really want to add anything to my to-do list that I have to keep up with, but I really do want to share Jana pics and video easily from one place. So, I am confronting my El Guapo and starting this here blog against my better judgment and the pleadings of my hubby not to drive myself nutso with it.
So my promises to you, the reader, are as follows:
You WILL see Jana here
You WILL NOT get a daily update, and maybe not even weekly (gee, I’m really drawing in readers, aren’t I? Sorry- just the plain truth)
You MAY get more frequent posts for the next 6 weeks while I’m living in a teeny hotel room and keeping myself entertained
So- “the ten peso version”? Already, if you caught the El Guapo reference you realize I have seen The Three Amigos a few too many times. What can I say, it’s a Garcia family favorite. I tried to find a link for the scene but no luck. When Carmen goes to buy a telegraph to send to the Three Amigos and realizes she can’t pay for all the words she wants to send because she only has ten pesos, the telegrapher says, “ok, I’ll give you the ten peso version”. It’s funnier to watch than to read, I promise. I thought it was a fitting title for a blog that will likely be less than I want it to be, but will hopefully give you the gist of what’s going on. Enjoy!
