Wild Animal Park!

Okay, we went to the Wild Animal Park for Sean's birthday and it was super cool! I have been soo tired/busy I haven't gotten a chance to post yet, but here it is!
We started off with Matt all covered up:

Ok, well, he pulled his sun hat off in anger, but trust me, it was cute. Anyway, he does NOT like sunglasses!
So we had lots of fun,































Okay well I will post this now, but it's a rough draft. It's time to go to work! So, hope you enjoy the pictures, and I'll finalize the post tonight or tomorrow.

Second day off

Yay! Doing laundry, Matt is helping:


Don't plan on doing much today. Sean is at drill because they are stupid and sent him a letter saying that drill was only saturday and sunday. Then he gets a call from his command telling him that he needs to be there 7 am on friday. Since I had already arranged my schedule around him only having a 2 day drill, like the newsletter said, he couldn't make it so they are making him make it up this thursday (today). lame! I'll probably take Matt for a long stroller ride today. Go to Rite-Aid, maybe to Target, who knows. Maybe not. Just looked at the temperature. Supposed to be almost 100 degrees. Lame! Then maybe I will go in the pool with him. Or he could just play with the cat, one of his favorite activities.

As to whether it's one of NINO'S favorite activities, I doubt it. Nino's favorite activity is to make mad suicide dashes for the door before it closes so he can roll around outside and eat the grass.
Okay well Matt is getting fussy. Should attend to him :-) Bye!

who woulda guessed?

Mai likes baby food too...


anyaway, have to run! post later!

Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!

So, I guess Sean wants to go to the Wild Animal Park for HIS birthday (copycat!!!), then go to the zoo again after the 22nd when it is open later. Cool! Everyone loves it.
Joey got me Red Dwarf season 1 on dvd for my birthday and it just arrived today. Watched three episodes then had to make myself stop because I'd be up all night. I used to have quite a lot of episodes on tape--whole seasons--back in the days long ago before Tivo. I have no idea where they are, the quality was bad because the tapes were very old, and often cut out at the end. Or in the middle.
I had a pretty good day at work today, which was nice because last night was absolutely AWFUL. One of those nights where I feel like walking out and never coming back. Until I think about being homeless. Grr...stupid money! Anyway, I can't wait until I get a memory card and can take a bunch of pictures and videos! I love posting to this blog because one day Matt will read it, probably on some futuristic medium, and maybe have a more enlightened view of who his mom was besides that old lady who always makes him clean his room even though it's not that bad.
Cute Pic of the Day:

What I opened my door to when I came home from work today. Cute!
Anyway, have some very important things to do! haha...like take videos of Mai. Videos like this one...

okay, enough for now. Bye!

matt video!!

So this awesome new camera takes video too! So, here's one of him playing in his jumper. Not very exciting, he is kind of tired, but here goes:
Ugh. Taking forever!
Yesterday was so awesome! I ate a whole bunch of junk food and caffeine and didn't get sick! Lucky! While my video is uploading, I took another one which is much cuter. I'll post them both. Might take me my entire LIFE, but I will!
Oh, my, god. IT'S A 1 MINUTE MOVIE! How can it take this long?????
Hm. Going to put Matt down for his morning nap. Will edit this later and insert the videos. Looks like there's a connection problem.
Okay, here we go. This is the first one, where he's just hanging out in his jumper. Not too exciting, honestly. But he is really cute.

This one is cuter--he is smiling and cooing in this one.


Lastly, here is Matt, knocked out after playing in his jumper so much:

Okay, have to start getting ready for work now. :-( Bye!

Zoo to you, too,

The zoo was SO SO SO cool!!!! Oh my god!!! And the camera takes such cool pictures!!!
It was just wonderful. I have been looking forward to it for over a week, and I thought that since I had gotten my hopes up high, that SOMETHING bad would happen. But, no, it lived up to all my expectations and was so wonderful!!! I had lots of junk food, Matt was PERFECT, everything was wonderful, and traffic was good! So, here are some pictures from the zoo.

Matt, I, and a birdie!

Another beautiful bird. They have the coolest aviary I have ever seen. The poop was nice and white and wiped easily off my shirt...

Sleepy bear! Super cute! Until it wakes up and mauls you, that is.

See Matt eying my churro? Yeah. He swiped at it and shoved it in his mouth. Hope it was good!

He liked it a lot. Can you tell?

This is a panda cub. Well, teenager, I guess.

Giraffes! Yay!! I wish I could feed one.

Elephant, starting to run to the food source. You know, someone should really tell him that there are lotions out there for cracked dry skin. Poor guy.

Here is a rhino. Very awesome! Didn't seem to have much room to run around in, though.

Koala!!!

Me and the waterfall. Yay.

Matt likes snakes! Maybe that can be his first pet when he gets older. Not THAT one--of course...heh heh heh...

Finally--a picture of Matt and Dad! And that IS a lizard behind them--one about as big as a Lab. (Labrador Retriever)

Hippo, opening his mouth to get the ball (which is covered in futile teeth marks). Kind of reminds me of Mai. Hm. This guy knew he had an audience. He would chase his ball, then go up for air, then press his snout against the glass and make what could only be described as a hippo attempt at a razberry. Very, very, VERY cool! I can't wait to see him again!

Up close and personal! Here with his ball again. Magnificent creature. He spent most of his time in the water. Honestly, if I were his size/awkward figure, I would too. I'd rather be weightless and graceful, bounding along underwater after a ball like a baby hippo again than stomping around heavily on the ground feeling the whole pull of gravity!
This guy was really just the last thing we were going to see before leaving, and for me, he turned out to be my favorite. Nothing really compares to seeing a 2 ton creature swimming and playing and showing off underwater. Super cool.
Anyway, the rest of my birthday was great--had yummy cake when I got home, and had "Happy Birthday" sung to me with 22 candles and everything. Made a wish! Hope it comes true! Anyway, I am going to go enjoy what's left of my birthday. I'll be posting lots of new pics with this awesome new camera!!!

Aim Before You Shoot!

So, I got home after a rough-ish day--(was busy, phone was ringing off the hook, customers kept coming in, had a standard poodle who liked to whip his head from side to side just as my scissors we about to close, etc.), and gave Matt a bath, fed him dinner, then put him to bed.

I really like that picture.
So, was talking to my mother-in-law, who, for my birthday, bought Sean and I a year membership to the San Diego Zoo and the Wild Animal Park so we could get in for free all year (thereby freeing up money), and I was telling her how Sean's war veteran camera was suffering with multiple injuries, not the least of them being a completely destroyed screen, and out-of focus pictures that we couldn't adjust the settings on because-ta da!-no screen! So all the pictures were turning out very glow-y and distorted. So she asked me why I didn't get a new one. That got me thinking...why didn't I? The cost of a new one is the cost of repairs on the old one (and sometimes euthanasia is the best way), and I DID have lots of birthday money I WAS going to spend for zoo admission...and it is an important day tomorrow (my birthday, Matt's first REAL excursion...), so why not? Really. I am such a cheapskate, I would rather eat 5 year old beans for dinner than grocery shop if I thought I could get away with it. I splurge on other people, but I actually cannot remember when I bought something nice and expensive for myself. Clothing here and there, makeup, little fun stuff, yes. But nothing really nice and cool. So I headed down to my local 24 hour Walmart and got this:






Cool, huh? I am super super super psyched!!!!!!!! Yay!!!! A nice camera of my own!!! The one I have been using is Sean's.
But I bought one more thing, one more very, very important thing. Something that could save me $200. And only cost 4.

Yep. Maybe if Sean had that back in Iraq, this whole thing could have been avoided.
Anyway, I am super excited, but I was dumb and didn't buy a memory card, so the pictures tomorrow will be limited. Unless we stop and get one, which is doubtful. We will soon, though! Okay, I am done rambling (for now!)
goodnight!