What's red, furry and ticklish?

We bought Bug's first birthday present today. She LOVES Elmo. So since Elmo Live is coming out about a month prior we decided to preorder it today. Check it out here.

Just wanted to share cause I'm excited! :)

I have to post about this

In California we found this toy at WalMart. It's a caterpillar with letters on his feet. You touch a foot and he say's the letter. Simple enough. Well the one we saw was in Spanish and when you pushed the letter J it said what sounded like a bad word in Spanish. We thought it was hilarious and are drawn to the toy everytime we see it.

So today we were in Target and saw the Caterpillar. Josh turned it to the phonetic selection and started screwing around (which means trying to make it say bad words). Turns out Leap-Frog had enough complaints to put out a new caterpillar that won't let you do this. Instead of saying the last sound that would complete the bad word it say's "hee hee, that tickles." and then makes the sound.

Here's a few of what we tried and what we heard:

Suck - ss uh hee hee that tickles cuh

Ass - aa hee hee that tickles ss

Dick - duh ih hee hee that tickles cuh

well you get the idea. I thought it was quite hilarious and wanted to buy it just so I could find the ONE WORD they missed. I was vetoed though. Da-hee hee that tickles-mn.

Well while I can....

I will!!! Last week Bug was playing on my bed and fell face forward into my nightstand. She split open her top gum and was bleeding everywhere. We got it under control and she was fine. I wondered if it split so easily because there was a tooth there ready to come in and today I was proven right! Her top right (her right) front tooth came in today! We're very proud, as of exactly nine months old our little girl has four teeth! :)

I really want to write more but I'm afraid if I do internet will cut out again and I'll lose it all.

Little spurts people, little spurts.

Broken

Our internet has been broken lately. It works in short spurts. I'll post more when we get it fixed :)

There's always Good and Bad

Good news. All watches/warnings are gone from this area. The bad news is that while Fay looks to travel off land, she'll probably gain strength in the water and may come right back to upper/mid Florida. Let's all send good thoughts and vibes towards those Floridians.

There was one thing in particular that made my day today. Blue sky. That's right, the rain stopped, the wind blew the clouds away and I saw my sun and pretty blue sky. Happy me. Now maybe I can take all that crap back to Target ;)

Final Update before expected storm

I've been told the storm is supposed to hit at 1am and be over by 4am. We'll see if there's any truth to it. The Bug didn't go to sleep until 9:30, I guess she wanted to stay up and watch the storm. Sleep won that battle thankfully. Josh and I are going to {try to} go to sleep now just in case we have to get up with the storm. Hell, if a teeny tiny storm woke me up at 6am this morning, I'm sure I'll wake up with this one.

See you all tomorrow!

Ok, well write to you all tomorrow!

~Kristen

is it too early to say I told you so?

We've been watching the weather channel all day and the weather dude (yes that's a technical term) just said that the storm has slowed down quite a bit and he's very concerned. In fact they've never seen this much of a drop in movement in such a short time before. Greaaaat. He said he'd call his contacts and look into it further. Thanks, that is your job after all no? Anyway, the bad thing about the storm slowing down is that it's gaining force/pressure which means it could do all sorts of crazy things. Fantastic. Maybe it'll do something crazy like go away? Ahh wishful thinking.

and it begins....

Well, it's been raining all day but nothing noteworthy. About twenty minutes ago it got a lot heavier with big gusts of wind. We checked the Weather Channel and found out that we've gone from a Tornado Watch to a Tornado Warning, that's along with the Tropical Storm Warning we were already aware of. Oh and a Flood Watch to boot. Yay us.

Monday Update

So I woke up at 6am this morning and didn't know why. Then I heard a wooshing noise and looked outside. The palm trees in front of our house were leaning to the left with the palm fronds pointing the same direction. Rain was pouring down. I sat there watching for a minute and then began to regress to the 'little kid needing comfort' stage. So I nudged Josh awake.

Josh: What?

Kristen: Look outside

Josh: .......WOW..... (all he could manage at that hour)

So we got up and went outside to put the patio furniture in a safe place. Patio table face down, umbrella and chairs in the shed. I open the front door and....calm. Not even a slight breeze. Barely even a drizzle. Weirdest thing ever. We still put the furniture away and it's been raining all day but no more wind. For now that is.

Josh woke me up at 9:30 this morning and said the storm had turned farther west than they'd expected and all we were supposed to get was 30mph winds and a lot of rain. I'm not believing anything until I see it tomorrow.

1pm today Josh got a call from Joel who said the storm has turned a little more towards us but we're only expected to get 6 inches of rain. Yeah, right. Again, I'll believe it when I see it. Besides, the storm could always turn more towards us at any point.

So anyway, we're all prepared and what not. Plus the cleaners came today so our house is beautifully clean! Perfect time for the wind to pick something up, throw it through our window(s) and destroy my house!! :) Hopefully not. We will see.

As Worry Turns Into Crazy

So I know you're all dying to know whats going on with our hurricane and quite frankly....so am I. We won't really know anything until tomorrow, most likely in the afternoon. They're currently saying that with the projectory of this and wind speeds of that, the hurricane will hit the west coast although they don't really know anything until the Tropical Storm gets to the Florida Straits. At that point it could completely change course and go our away or some other way. Has something to do with temp of water and this that blah de dah. I'm so sick of weather jargon. Just tell me whether or not to make a home in the walk in closet people!

So that's where we're at. I spent a lot of money on supplies today just in case and when I told my husband about it I got nastiness. Let's just say I had a long bitchy blog planned out. And then he called five minutes later and apologized so we're all good. Blog gone. Apparently he's having a terrible day at work. Poor thing. There was no sarcasm there by the way. Seriously. I'm not kidding! Why does no one believe me?!

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Ok, better now. I think I need a beer. Ta-Ta for now!

"Well blow me down"

I know I haven't written in a while, I guess you could say I've had writer's block, in the sense that I'm worn out and exhausted from a long week with the kid. More on that later. Well, I had all these posts in mind because I have a lot to catch you all up on and while I'd intended to get them posted tonight I now find myself unable to think.

I just found out a few hours ago that we are on a Hurricane Watch. Oh goodie. Joy to me.

Seriously, a hurricane, on Tuesday. Thrilling. I'm thinking about relocating for the week. I already talked to the in-laws, they'll take me and Bug! Daddy has to work ... go figure. Damn Indians.

There's a very good advantage to a hurricane over other disasters and that is that you can plan and get prepared for them. Wanna know what the disadvantage is? Huh, do ya? do ya? I'll tell you anyway, the disadvantage is that you have ample time to panic and freak out. Although with me, two hours is time enough. I don't like this feeling. I'm used to earthquakes and blizzards.

Earthquakes are easy. They hit, you deal, they're over, move on. You just have to have a 'shit happens' mentality about it and not spend every day worrying.

I don't really remember being worried about blizzards. The ones that happened (if there were any, which I don't really remember), well they just happened. I think the worst that ever happened was when there was so much snow I couldn't get up the hill to go to school. I don't think I ever thought of that as a problem, more like a damn good excuse for once.

"Hello, Attendance Office? Yes, this is Kristen Gustafson, I'm snowed in and won't be able to make it to school today. What? No, there's no party, I'm snowed in. No seriously, I'm snowed in. Honest, there's NO PARTY. Oh forget it, mark me down as un-excused, not gonna tarnish my record anymore than it already is."

So to have time to worry about something that just recently eradicated New Orleans..... well lets just say I'm on edge. We went to the store tonight for canned goods and extra baby stuff and ended up with some beer for my nerves. I'm on my third. We'll see how it goes from here.

Luckily Josh is off on Monday so I just have to get through tomorrow (which will be spent organizing and trying to get things together, just in case) and then Monday I should be able to relax a bit more.

So I just wanted to let you all know what was going on here in windy, mucky South Florida. Hopefully I'm over-paranoid and it all blows over. HA! Did you see what I did there? I'm punny.

Ok, off to try to relax now. Bu-bye!


* Edit: Ok, so it's not really windy here. Actually quite calm. Very calm. Calm before the storm perhaps? Let's hope not.

Reciprocation is due!

Thank you all for letting me know you do care!! :) And as I read your comments I realized, why should I complain when I don't comment on anyone else's blogs?! Here comes the reciprocation!! :)

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On a side note, Bug's sleeping habits confuse the hell out of me sometimes! This morning she stayed up later than usual and because of this only took a 30 minute nap opposed to the 1 - 2 hour nap she usually takes. Based on this I figured she'd take another nap this afternoon and then might need an earlier bedtime. Boy was I wrong. She stayed up the rest of the day and was even less fussy than usual. I'm so confused! She went to bed at her normal time and we'll just have to wait and see if she wakes up in the night or early morning. Who knows. Wish me good sleep vibes though!

I shall write for myself anyway =P

Adventures in food

When I was pregnant with Bug I didn't really have many cravings. Just corn. I would eat packages of corn at a time, all day long. Couldn't get enough. Now, Bug loves corn. She'll eat a jar at a time even when she refuses other foods. It's quite interesting.

Eggs made me nautious when I was pregnant so I'm curious what she would think of them now. I don't want to try them out because I'm afraid she might be allergic to them. We'll see in a few months.

I've started cutting up fruit for Bug and so far so good. She loves bananas and cantaloupe. We'll soon see about watermelon and grapes!

Is anyone out there?

I don't know why I continue writing on here, it doesn't seem there's anyone reading it. I like feedback people! Or at least a note to say "thanks for keeping us updated".

Anyway, for those three or four people that do read this, here's an update.

Everyone's healthy.

Bug is all better, mommy's all better, daddy's all better. Everyone's good. Yay us!

Bug now has three teeth with another almost here.

We're going to a Cardinals game on Monday and we get to go to batting practice too! Woohoo!

There's more to say but I'm starving and she won't nap forever...gotta go!

Teeth

Remember a couple of weeks ago when I mentioned Bug's top teeth were coming in? Well they haven't made an appearance yet but while we were spending all our time paying attention to her top teeth, her bottom teeth made friends! She's already got the two middle teeth and now she's got the one right next to the right tooth peeking through. Little stinker snuck up on us!

We'd been spending so much time focusing on her being sick that I never thought her crankiness might be teething. Poor thing didn't even have her teething rings this time! At least she was on Motrin the whole time. We stopped giving it to her two days ago and she became much more irritable than usual, I wondered what was up and now I know!

Now I have no clue when her top teeth will be coming in! Or any of the rest of them for that matter. At this rate she may have a full set of teeth by 18 months! :) wouldn't it be nice to have it over with

Big Bad Tissue Monster

My kid freaks out when I blow my nose. Seriously, it's the weirdest thing. It's like she thinks the tissue is eating mommy's nose. It's the sound though, I can be in the other room but if she hears it she starts bawling as if she was hurt or something. Absolutely ridiculous. I will be forever stuffed up at this rate! Just felt the urge to share :)

Night off

Josh and I finally got a date night! Catie was in town and offered to babysit and we readily agreed!!! We went out to a nice dinner and then...well, those that know us already know where we went next...gambling!! Of course!! We didn't win anything but didn't expect to either. We had a really good time though and that was the whole point.

Bug had a good time with Catie and the boys. Until she woke up from a nap that should have been bedtime. Wasn't happy after that. I can't blame her though, there's only been two times that she's woken up and it hasn't been mommy or daddy that came to get her. To be honest I was surprised she went to bed at all without her bedtime routine, but Catie can do wonders, of that I have no doubt.

Apparently when Bug woke up she kept pulling on her right ear. Catie thinks she has an ear infection. I'm so used to her pulling on her ears I pass it off as normal but when the woman whose son has had more ear surgeries than a child should say's she suspects an ear infection, then I start to wonder. So I'm going to find an ENT next week and see what they say.

Other than that I think everyone had a good night, I know I did! A thousand thanks again to Catie and the boys for giving me a break.