Guess Who's Walking...

Our little man decided that he wanted to walk this morning. Time to move everything up an extra foot...

Raising a Clean Lovin' Boy

One can't fully appreciate how much he loves the vacuum by watching this clip. If we leave the pantry door open, he slips inside and starts playing with it and gets crazy excited every time we turn it on.

My Arch Nemesis

Why must they be so ridiculously delicious??

So I've decided that I'm tired of this muffin top Warren gave me and I think I'm ready to do something about it. For about a month I've been talking to Taylor about how I think I might join a gym, or how I might start eating right and exercising. But have I done anything - no way man. Let's recap yesterday: First thing I do in the morning is walk into the pantry to see what kind of cereal or oatmeal I want to eat. While deciding, I opened up my Lay's Kettle Cooked Original Potato Chips (mmmmm...) and had a handful while I took my time choosing breakfast. Well, it turns out we're out of milk, so no cereal. I've got a good idea - eggs, sausage, and biscuits. Yum. I ate a lot, so I wasn't hungry for lunch. But by 5, I was ready to eat. We get a Papa Murphy's stuffed pizza. Then we had a couple people over to watch the Iowa game and served Root Beer Floats. How disgusting is that? A whole day of junk.

I consider this post my invitation to you all think fat thoughts about me and I will just know that if I don't do something about this, then everyone reading will know what a big loser I am. And we can't have that. So starting after my bag of chips is gone :) I'll get serious about this. And by serious I mean I won't have pizza and ice cream every day, and I'll try to get 20 minutes of some kind of exercise going on. That sounds really not hard at all, but it really really is.

We're only sorta excited

The Office is baaaack!!! (click me)

If you're as obsessed as we are, then you're welcome to come over on Thursday. It's going to be great :)

the Zoo!

I skipped out a little early from work on Friday so that we could go with some friends to the Niabi Zoo. It's about an hour or so away in Moline. It was fun. And I think Warren kinda understands what he's supposed to be looking at now, so that's good. Because it's a smaller zoo, everything is really close up. I recommend going :) It was pretty windy most of the day, so I didn't take the camera out as much as I should have - oh well.

giraffes!

scary lorakeets that land on you!

big bear! roar!

riding the train!

Can Someone Please Tell Me Why My Baby is SO Dang Cute?

We (as in Warren) love to watch the maintenance man mow the grass, blow leaves, edge, and everything else he does. Hopefully he doesn't mind if his biggest fan watches him while he works. Here is Warren focusing on the lawn mower in the distance.

"I'm so happy!"

Check out my cool hat that I got from the zoo!

Same day - different shirt (give you 2 guesses as to why...). This is my new favorite picture of my two boys. :)

So sweet!!

baby prison

Even stuck in his crib, he's in a good mood.

walking the plank

Even though I'm a terrible camera girl, you can probably tell that this is one of his new favorite things to do. I just hope his arms don't fall off :)

How to Crawl on Cement

I Guess We Love Chipotle

Seeing how we waited in line for an hour and a half for 3 burritos, one can assume we seriously love us some Chipotle. Taylor called at 5:30 and told me to come pick him up at the law school because they were giving away free burritos until 7PM. We got our stuff together and hauled it downtown only to stand around for half a century. Katie and Ben Knoll were kind enough to grace us with their presence and I think that if either couple had been absent, we wouldn't have made it all the way to the front. But hey - I didn't have to think about what to make for dinner, or make it, or clean it up. And a Chipotle carnitas burrito is SO much better than anything I had up my sleeve to make tonight. They even gave Warren one. But he waited all that time, too, so he deserved it. And then he chowed down. The guys working were impressed at our baby's capacity for food intake. They estimate they served 3500+ burritos today. And even after 8 hours of serving them, the food was still yummy and the employees were still in a good mood. We were there when they served the last customer and they all started cheering and then opened up 15 pizza boxes because "after looking at chicken and rice all day, we don't want to eat it". :) Yay Chipotle!! (Sorry Pancheros...)

Add one more to the list...

Today he peed on the carpet. Diaper off for 0.2 seconds, and the buster peed. I have a puppy, not a baby.

chocolate + baby = chocolatey baby

So I had an Enrichment meeting at my house tonight. And by house, I mean my itty bitty apartment. So there's 10 of us grown-up girls here and Warren was in heaven. Lots of chicas to flirt it up with, everyone's happy to see him, things are good. So I wasn't paying too much attention to him and he found his way over to the corner table with cookies on it. Someone noticed he was eating one and asked me if that was ok. I don't care if the kid eats some cookie, as long as he's quiet. So he's chowing on his cookie and I'm not even noticing that he's managed to smear gooey chocolate chips ALL over the floor, the table, his face, his legs, his ears, and everywhere else. It was seriously out of control. So I'm trying to run a meeting and realizing that my child is a menace, I grab him up. It was truly a kodak moment, but with everyone sitting around, I did not pounce on the opportunity.

He's also barfed a few times on the carpet this week (we're teething and having some crazy side effects), spilled crystal lite, spit out some mushed up banana and played with it by grinding it in the carpet...this is why we can't have nice things! (The fact that we can't afford it is also a good reason) Luckily the carpets are being cleaned later this month, but I'm thinking we'll have to schedule a set day out of every month for the guys to come back, because this is out of control.

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I know this isn't my baby...but it's close enough to what the kid looked like at the time of the cookie incident. :)