Ohhh Bubbles!!!

Comet, he's my buddy!!!

Zac and Cassidy playing Nintendo DS

The Easter Bunny

We decided to top by the Easter Bunny at the mall. I definitely didn't think she's take a liking to him considering her complete hysteria over Santa Claus. Luckily, there was no one in line for the bunny so she could take her time, so she looked at him for a few seconds and then waved at him. She seemed happy, I was sure the second I picked her up to set him on his lap she'd scream, but nope, she was happy sitting on that fuzzy bunny. So we got a wonderful pic and a couple little presents and then when I went to get her off the bunny's lap, THAT's when she started wailing, she didn't want to leave. LOL

Let there be Cake!

C'mon!!!! Let me at it!!!
















OK, Ummmm I'm not sure if I want to try this?














Well, ok, I'll touch it.



















Hey, this isn't half bad.

















Look, I ate the WHOLE thing!

1 Year Photo Session

Ain't she too cute. Man, it's hard to go through and pick out what pictures to get, luckily the studio limits the shoot to 6 shots. I could have had more if I wanted to, but she was finished with those so fast and was so happy I wasn't going to push my luck.

I love her toes, I know most Moms dress up their girls in dresses for pix, but it's just not me, I wanted her in her faded overalls and her bare tootsies showing. In the meantime, I'll just keep dreading the day she turns into a girly-girly and wants bows in hair and dresses on (GAG!!!!)

I'd recommend Kiddie Kandids (inside Babies R Us) stores to anyone, but I think the biggest trick to good pictures is planning ahead. I made the appt for 45 mins after naptime so I had a few minutes to dress her, give her a snack, and head off to the store. There was no wait, I even got in a few minutes early. That all went smoothly, Chuck offered to go along and I said nah that's ok. But I forgot I had to sit down and pick out the package and the pictures/borders/effects. Well since Cassidy was nice and rested, she didn't want to sit in my lap while Mommy picked out pictures. LOL oh well it was ALMOST perfect.

I'll post some pictures with cake in a few days, we are having a belated b-day party for her on March 2. After I set it up I realized I probably picked that day subconsciously as a way to celebrate Jon Bon Jovi's 46th birthday!!! LOL

BIRTHDAYS

Well, Zac is entering his second year of the teens. FOURTEEN. We sat down and picked out his high school schedule for next year. OMG where did the years go.

Cassidy turned one. She celebrated in Virginia with her big brother's hockey team for most of the day, then we went to a quiet dinner at TGIF with her godmother and one of her sons. The staff came out to sing to her and she had some fun playing with a piece of angel food cake with chocolate mousse swirled inside. I love her Eeyore outfit, it's Zac's outfit and he wore it when he turned one
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We stayed in Chesapeake Bay and it was lovely. We visited the aquarium and stopped at the beach -- Cassidy's first visit to the beach. She would have went right in, she didn't seem to mind it was only 60 degrees


We got her a tickle me Elmo and a Backyardigans radio. We are having a little get together on the weekend (I know a couple weeks late) with few family and friends because we got some hassle that we didn't have a party -- like she'll remember! But I do want to get her a cake and watch her make a mess, so that will be fun.

Apparently I've been Slacking Off

I was "gently" reminded to update my blog, so here's the latest! LOL

OK, the puppy is doing well, HOWEVER, she has giardia, which is an intestinal parasite that gave her diarrhea, once discovered it was cleared up quickly with just a couple doses of antibiotics, she still has a few more days to finish the prescription, but she's doing great. Of course, giardia, is also a parasite that humans can get and since we had the puppy almost 10 days before she showed symptoms, I took some diaper scrapings (Marybeth I know you can sympathize with this! -- and for the rest of you, yes, I know it's TMI) in to be tested yesterday and we are waiting results. Cassidy and Corki share their toys, so there was a small chance the parasite was passed on to Cassidy.

UPDATE: Received her results and the parasite test was NEGATIVE!!! So that's great, I've been disinfecting and sanitizing everything. I'm going to go through and sanitize all the chew toys once more.

On the pregnancy front I have to say today was the WORST day of any of my pregnancies. I had to go have blood drawn for a screening, they did do a draw last week, but unfortunately there it clotted, too much hemoglobin; and they needed to do another draw. Well anyone who knows me knows I have ONE phobia and it's needles. Well I went this morning after drinking copious amounts of water the last 24 hours and peeing every 15 minutes. Well, the girl couldn't find a vein, tried one arm, then the 2nd, I was in tears. It wasn't painful, she didn't hurt me, but OMG I hate this process so much I need someone quick and efficient. So she went me back to the waiting room, she refused to stick me again. They were going to see if they could send me to the lab upstairs. After a few minutes she came out with 3 options, reschedule when another girl was in the office to do the stick, go upstairs to the lab, or she could prick my finger now and get fill five circles on a card with my blood. Well this was a no brainer for me, prick my finger!!!!
It took a bit to get enough blood to fill the five circles but was way better than getting stuck. Now I will be in a panic the first week of March when I have to have the 2nd panel drawn by the same office.