One of my fav Brian Regan routines

Check it out, I promise you will laugh at least once.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIv-xVCCWoY&NR=1

Spring Break

Tim, Brandi, Jamie and Traivs came to visit us this weekend. Brandi's sister and her husband, Jamie and Travis, live in Philadelphia right now. Tim and Brandi have been visiting them for a week and a half. They came to New Jersey on Thursday and spent the day in New York City. They came and stayed at our house that night, then we all went to the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Times Square, Grimaldi's (best pizza ever), and the Conservatory Gardens in Central Park on Friday. We were lucky that it only rained for about 10 minutes, even though it was supposed to rain all afternoon. They were lovely house guests, and we hope to go visit Jamie and Travis soon and see their amazing city!

Paul playing at the Statue of Liberty

Cheese!

Conservatory Gardens, by the Secret Garden fountain

with Paul's new "cheese" face.

Baseball Fever

Paul is getting into spring training. Do you think he has a future in baseball?

Pirate NO FEAR Paul

Seriously, he is balancing on the back of the chair. If he could say, "Hey, watch this" like his dad does before he does something ridiculous he would. Here are some of the things he does say:

woo woo: train
pulpul: purple
boo: blue
cai coke: diet coke (wonder where he learned that!)
word: only to be said while making some sort of gang sign
car: car
room room papa with hand signals: motorcycle
papa: grandpa
daeee: daddy
awa: grandma
am: Sam
Yee: Liz
at: Matt
coter: helicopter (and when asked who drives it he know it's "at")
woun and woun: you know, what the wheels on the bus do or anything else spinning
dooo: Fins, Noggins, Dude

For some pretty darn cute vidoes, see my parents blog goldingsgrowls.blogspot.com

AUGUST 21, 2009

Graduation day for Jared! Buy your tickets now! We would love to see you there.

Just in case your curious

This is what a reaction to Amoxicillan looks like in a Paulwog.  He had an ear infection on Martin Luther King Jr. Day so we went and got some antibiotics.  He took those until Sunday morning when we started to notice some spots on his legs.  Since I wasn't sure what it was, I gave him some Benedryl and we stayed home from church.  After his nap, he woke up with about double the spots. I called his doctor and he said it was probably a reaction to his antibiotic.  He said he would call in a prescription for a medicine to help clear it up.  I asked if we should come in the next morning anyway. and he said that would be fine.  So Monday morning dawned and we took this picture of Pauly to document his first real scare-mom-out-of-her-mind illness. Dr. Hafen walked in and said wow. Apparently he thought I was exaggerating the night before.  He gave Paul some prescription strength anti-histamine and I gave him the prescription that had been called in the night before.  By that afternoon, he looked a lot better. By Tuesday he had cleared up completely. It was great to be able to stay home with him on Monday, and I really appreciate what a trooper he is.  He was his usual crazy self through the whole thing.

Half a decade

Yes friends, Jared and I have been officially married 5 years. We celebrated by being 2000 miles apart! Yahoo! Seriously, the night before he left we went to Tucano's and ate ourselves sick. I also got a pair of Born shoes, and Jared got pants, shirt, and part of his Power Juicer was his anniversary present. A few memories of our time together:

Our wedding: What a rockin party! I hate to tell you, but I mostly remember just Jared from that night. I recall there were other people there...

Helping with grandma and grandpa: His patience when mine was gone, and his willingness to do anything whether he felt it was ridiculous or not.

Pregnancy: Seeing him fully grasp what that meant, and pampering me EVERY day...I mean it. He really did.

Our trip across the country: I couldn't believe how much fun we had. There is nothing better than being on an adventure with your best friend. (And a little guy... he was less fun, although such a trooper.)

Everyday: Watching him with Paul. Two closer peas in a pod you can't find. Even with Paul growing up far away from his daddy, he still manages to make Jared's faces, be smart like his dad, and make me smile everyday too.

Everyday: Texting "good morning" to me every morning, loving me for who I am, and being there through this particularly hard time in our short life together.

I was adamant I was not going to do a mushy, gushy post for all the world to see, but it didn't seem right to not pay this small tribute to my love.