Pinterest

I freakin' love Pinterest!!! I am thoroughly addicted to it. I hadn't heard of it until Heather over at Heather Drive mentioned it on her blog. Naturally, I had to check it out. It's like your internet bookmarks + scrapbooking + notes. First you make a board (like a file) and name it. Then you can "pin" stuff to your board. Say you come across an awesome DIY project online. Click the "Pin It" button (that you install on your favorites bar), write a quick note about it (or no note at all), then post it on your board. Ta-daa!! Now that note and a pic will be on your board. Easy as that!

I have one board titled "Dream House Inspiration" and I'm pinning all of the dreamy things I'd like in our future home. Even silly things that I know aren't going to happen. But that's what a "dream" is all about, right? So now I can go to that board and it'll show all of the pins (pics and notes) I've saved to it. If I click on one of the pins it'll take me to the original website it's from. Awesome right!?!?! I'm in love.

This pic shows some of that persons boards.

Oh yeah, you can link your Facebook, Twitter and Blog to your Pinterest account. Just like Facebook, people can like the pins. Just like a Blog, you can follow other people and they can follow you. That's a great feature when you find people who have similar interests as yours. The cool stuff just comes to you because they do the work for you!

There is also a little feed on the side that doesn't take up much room. It tells you who's repinned what. Because one of the funnest and addicting things on Pinterest is you can re-pin (jack, steal, copy) other peoples' pins. So they do the leg-work, you think it's a super idea, you re-pin it to your board for later.

This is browsing someone browsing stuff. It looks like it's all wedding related. The feed of the people they follow is on the left.

If you would like to join me on this most awesomeness of awesomely sites, I'd love to have more people to share in the awesome.

Well, I'm off to pin some more! Join me fellow pinners!!

Yellow

We were having a great time in Fred Meyers today. Jasper was giving out hugs to me and Justin right and left. Hugs rank as one of the top five best Mommy feelings ever.

I kept pointing things out to him, like I always do. We went and looked at the flowers. He loves that part. Or maybe I love that part and just drag him along. Haha! It was pretty toasty in the store today so while Justin was checking out me and Jasper headed outside to look at the little garden flowers.

I was showing Jasper that you smell the flowers. Scrunching up our noses and leaning in, then sniffing in and out really fast usually gets him to smell things. So we did this.

My son has mad ninja skills. He could be a superhero he's so fast. With lightning quick speed he flung his hand out and decapitated the marigold. I was in shock and just stared at him with my mouth agape. After I took it from him and put it back on the plant (no one will notice, right?) I told him to tell the plant he was sorry. He hurt it. Jasper looked at me with big eyes and the cutest little pouty face. He was getting upset because I told him he hurt it. Just then Justin came out. I caved and gave Jasper the flower back.

You know what he said when I handed it to him? "Yellow". How can you be mad at that?

In other related flower news. We purchased this for my MIL last year and it bloomed again this year. It's huge!!
And this is Jasper sniffing it. Awwww!

Oh S**T

Funny Jasper moment of the day. He was fussy because he was hungry and we took a while to get home. I put him in his chair, sat down and got out his sandwich from Subway. I don't know if you've seen a kids sandwich from there but for a 1 year old boy they are HUGE.

He's been shaking his tray saying, "Mo! Mo! Mor!". His version of "more". I finally set the whole sandwich, as is, down on his tray. His arms are gripping either side of his chair, his eyes get humongous. Then he whispers clear as a bell, "Oh shit."

I blame Justin.

The upside to, "Oh shit"? He loved his sandwich.

Icky Pew Pew!

While making breakfast for Jasper he decided he didn't want to wait and found the remains of some previous meal or snack on the ground. ...I didn't get to him in time. "Mmmm!" He said. I kindly reminded him, "No, It's icky pew pew. Icky!". He disagreed, I'm sure.

The oatmeal finished cooking in the microwave and dinged. I added a sprinkle of brown sugar. Tried a bite. Yum! It was mighty tasty. I cooled off a spoonful and gave it to Jasper. He shoves his fingers in there after the oatmeal. Proceeds to scoop it out of his mouth with his tongue hanging out like it's been greatly offended. Then he throws oatmeal on the ground with force and says very clearly, "Icky!".

Well then. It would seem I've finally found something Jasper dislikes.

Maternity Ward/Nursery

Justin was working on the fish tank, cleaning the filters out and noticed that there were two babies in there. One of the platy had fry! The other fishies in the tank are quite a bit bigger. I was worried they'd gobble up the babies. After all, there were only two in the tank and they should have many more.

In order to save the remaining babies and any future fry I decided to build what I am affectionately calling the maternity ward. Here's how it went:

I found one of Jasper's old wipes cases. Poked a whole bunch of holes in it with a push pin. Holey jeez I poked so many holes. I even made a goldfish on one side for decoration. You know, *The snack that smiles back UNTIL YOU BITE THEIR HEADS OFF!*
Then I attached two fishing bobbers on either end with some thin thread and voila! Expecting mommies will be put in there to have their babies and then removed so they don't follow through with the previously mentioned jingle.

Once the fry are large enough not to become fish food they will be released into "general population".

Ready? OK!

This evening when I got home from work I thought it would be fun to do some cheers with Jasper. A good way to jump around, expend some energy, be loud and have fun! I started off with a few easy ones and aimed them directly at my little man.

He just stood their staring with a big ol' grin on his face for the first cheer. The second cheer he got the hang of all the clapping and joined in. Doing a crazy off rhythm clap, not unlike many JV cheerleaders. By the third cheer, Mighty Varsity, he's stomping his right foot and saying "T". Then clapping and cheering afterwards. Freakin' cheer genius I'm telling you! Although I'll be super proud of him becoming a cheerleader...I really hope he takes an interest in football instead.

This was for the 2007 Toledo Summer Festival parade.

For those of you who are interested, and for those of you who aren't but can't tear your eyes away. The following is Mighty Varsity. x= clap (Don't be a complete idiot, you know what a clap is.), s= stomp (stomp your foot), Chest= This means pat your chest. Right hand touch left shoulder, left arm down by side.), . The beat the beat= make a patty-cake type slapping on your thighs. After the remix I'm not using the freakin' code.

Got all that? Good. Ready? OK!

We are the mighty varsity
We're gonna rock our team
To a victory
Hit it

ss xx ss xx s x s x s xx

We are the mighty Boomer team
We're gonna rock our team
To a different beat
Hit it

s xx s x s xx s x

Boomers!

Remix!

stomp clap the beat the beat clap clap chest chest clap the beat the beat clap.

"T" clap the beat the beat clap clap chest chest clap the beat the beat clap.
"H" clap the beat the beat clap clap chest chest clap the beat the beat clap.
"S" clap the beat the beat clap clap chest chest clap the beat the beat clap.

Boomers!

It's really a great cheer. Reading cheers kinda sucks.

It sure is a fun way to play though! And boy is Jasper a great cheerleader!! Must run in the family. Oh wait, that's the super competitive, must win at all costs thing. Woops. I have this theory. Take mine and Justin's build + Justin's height + the Leech aggressive opponent gene + Justin's confrontation happy gene = One kick ass sports player. I'm rooting for football but whatever! I just like to cheer!

Claws

I love having fake nails on. They make me feel pretty. But the cost seems high for something so simple. So I decided to take matters into my own hands (pun intended). I purchased a cheapo nail kit from Walmart. How did I decide which kit to get? Why, based on the pretty package, of course.
Now this kit ends up just sitting in my bathroom for about a month. I'm nervous as heck about going through with it. Apparently I thought with one false move I could destroy the tips of my fingers forever. I'm rather attached to them (another pun).The other night I took the plunge and just went with it. I kept thinking, okay phase 1 complete...phase 2, no problem...phase 3, accomplished...etc. But throughout the whole thing it really was a piece of cake. I had a few problems come up that will be corrected next time. No biggies. The end product was better than I expected and now I can finally allow myself to be addicted to fake nails!!Rwarrrrrrr!! Dragon claws attack!