Friday, January 29, 2010

This and that

Momma is tired today. I don’t even know why I’m attempting to write something coherent. I have yawned so many times today that my eyes won’t stop watering. I am sans mascara. Not a pretty sight for my coworkers. Alright. Getting off the whiny train now.

We’ve had a good/exhausting couple of weeks – Springfield the weekend of the 16th and KC the weekend of 23rd for Jeff’s birthday. Springfield was the typical whirlwind. We did a redo of the “Thanksgiving” family pic so we could include a real live version of brother.
Fake Lance
Real Lance
Then off to KC for Jeff’s birthday and for Cal to meet the entire KC crew. We love our KC “family”, we really really do. I would not have been sad at all to live there for a few years before firmly planting ourselves in St Louis. But Thomas Food Marketing duty called and here we are. We got to meet Madison, my cousin Sean’s baby who was born in October. She is such a sweet little peanut and Cal was completely enthralled with her. I think her petite, pink cuteness confused him. He is completely surrounded by boys at all times – his cousins, babysitter buds, non babysitter buds.
  
Momma, Cal, Laura, Sweet Madison
Cousins
"What is this creature dressed in pink?"
Our gracious hosts, Jeff and Kristin, threw a Mexican fiesta on Saturday night. Enchiladas, tacos and guacamole. Delicious. For the grand finale, I secrectly had a birthday cake made with the help of my cohorts, J & K. We brought it out in flames and sang “Happy Birthday” chain-restaurant style (i.e. loud, obnoxious, with lots of clapping). Jeff was equal parts embarrassed and pleased. The ringing in of his 31st year was happy indeed.

Mix Master Jeff
Surprise!!!
Little man also rang in his 7 month. Instead of having his picture taken in a hospital bed, he was rocking out in the sweet chair that Gigi gave him. Oh and his funny little cough that he had over the weekend was actually RSV. He is still bouncing off the walls with energy and eating like a piglet. We decided to keep him out of Momo’s the rest of the week since she keeps another little guy a couple of months younger than Cal. We are all for teaching the importance of sharing, just not germs.

Happy 7 months, little fella
Dr. Z's office has lots of fun toys
Mommy and Cal

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