Easter & official first day home with mom!

Here are some pics from Liam on Easter - crazy man. He had a great time, this was the most fun so far since he was actually able to understand the egg hunt this year. Previously I think to a one and two year old it was all very confusing!! He got some golf clubs that are now officially weapons, a sweet rubber band airplane, and plenty of candy. We also had brunch with my in-laws and we all found ourselves caught in a terrible Easter storm hail and all! We also tried out the ice cream maker. Liam was really enthralled in the whole process and watched the majority of the making of the ice cream beginning to end.

Monday following marked Liam's first official full time day home with Mommy. It was really great - we did go to the park for a picnic and playtime. We also got his haircut since we're flying to see Mimsy, Aunt Sissy, & G-Ma on Thursday. He was starting to look like Chubacca (spelling Jackson?? Sorry) I did cut his bangs myself and his side burns and the stylist made sure to let me know what kind of job I did on those areas...I guess I need to stick to teaching dance according to her??

We are having a blast staying home - no time outs yesterday, a couple today so far :) We're having to break some bad daycare habits the hard way and I know he's a little confused with the new Mommy rules during the day but we're progressing! I'm just so so very blessed to be home full time with Liam - I'm teaching three nights a week (started off as two) but when Jackson gets home from work I have about 30 minutes to see him before I go off to teach. After May I will be teaching most likely 2 nights a week, we'll see how three goes in April/May.

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The Replacements

Well we had our first pet casualty last night. It's all very weird...

Apple the frog was happy in his new aquarium yesterday that we purchased for him due to the foggy slime he emits when stressed. He had a brand spankin' new 2.5 gallon coal filtered aquarium with plants, gravel, and everything! Well, when Liam went to bed Apple was fine in his new house. Somehow between bedtime last night around 8:00pm and when I got up this morning with Liam around 7:30am, Apple escaped. Now, the aquarium had a lid, with only one nickel sized hole so it took an act of God to get Apple out of there. I searched Liam's room after noticing Apple was gone. Nothing. I looked and looked and finally gave up thinking Apple had spontaneously combusted. So I started on my other pet feeding rounds of the morning. I start with the dogs since they are the most verbal about being hungry. Lo and behold in the laundry room was little dried up crusty Apple. Somehow Apple made the long trek out of water from Liam's room about 20 feet to the laundry room to die. Pitiful. I immediately went into distract and fix mode. I quickly moved a new fish into Apples old tank - the beta fish Liam named "Cherry". Please welcome little Cherry to our house!

Then we went on a mission to cover up the empty old fish bowl that Apple started off in. Thank you to WalMart for having quick cheap fish!! We got 2 new "replacements" that are literally called GloFish. One is orange/pink and the other is yellow. Liam took his time naming these buddies (I think he's had some practice now naming his new pets!!) The orange/pink fish is "Little Guy" and the yellow fish is "Sunny". So, please welcome Little Guy & Sunny to the family :)

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I'm Back!!!!!

We are back from Isla Mujeres and better than ever. Happy 5 year anniversary baby! Crazy how a nice relaxing adult vacation can rejuvenate your mind and body - not to mention add a pretty tan to some much needed white skin :) Jackson & I had a GREAT time - we danced, we drank, we ate, Jackson barfed the last night, I was up all night first night there with nausea, but we did fly first class on the way home -thank you Jackson for flying so much and getting upgrades! Let me tell you, there is nothing like laying on the most perfect white sand beach, dozing on and off, having your wonderful husband ask "I'm walking up to the beach-bar babe can I get you anything?" and then dipping into the absolute most wonderful water when your little body gets too hot. Making you jealous yet? You should be - take a look at these photos of the heaven we were in for four days!!!

Liam stayed here in Texas with his Mimsy - he had SUCH a blast. He's still talking about his time with Mimsy! Guess I need to step up my momma game because he thinks Mimsy is WAY cooler than mom. He's already talking about his plane trip next week to get to go see Mimsy, G-Ma, and Aunt Sissy. I guess home, Mom & Dad are stewed peas!!! Liam was not happy when Mimsy left - he very much wanted to get on the plane with her. What a special time for him - great memories and wonderful stories he's telling us!!

One visitor that came and stayed is Bob - let me introduce our newest family member courtesy of Mimsy (remember in an earlier post my mentioning that Liam was convinced Mimsy had a lizard and was bringing it to show?? She did...). This is Bob - the Chinese Water Dragon. Now don't let his little size now fool you - he will be 3 feet long full grown (including tail... sigh of relief but still huge) He also has a 10-20 year lifespan so Bob will be a college pet for Liam! Bob is actually pretty cool and I don't mind him one bit. He's much cleaner than Apple the frog. He's pretty docile - likes to be handled (although yesterday Bob pooped in my hand as I picked him up - guess I'm not his favorite but Liam found this episode hysterical including mommy's squeal) Now for the fun part....

Meet 45 or so of Bob's closest friends...live crickets for mealtime! Delish! He eats live crickets...every single day...until he's big and then he eats mice! Hooray!

Mom - take a look at the crickets above. I bought the KRICKET KEEPER today after I asked the pet guy for more food for Bob and he obviously saw my traumatized face. Like the toilet paper roll idea but perfectly manufactured with seals so there will be no touching of bugs by me! Worth every penny in my opinion...

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