Our lives....: March 2011

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Bug time

Hayden is playing with a beetle that dad brought into the house. Pardon my evil and scary laugh...

Love Spring time

My favorite Japanese maples recovering from the winter freeze

AFTER

Hayden's been on Detox for officially 10 days.. Pacifier detox that is. It was tough the first 2 days but he is fully recovered. He was sick the last few days and he did not relapse... Really... Mom and dad did not relapse.

No telling what he will do with a kid walking by with a pacifier... Beware!

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Spring time

It's my favorite time of the year... Longer days. Weather feels great. No mosquitos. And back breaking gardening.. Good thing I'm married to a chiropractor!

Funny how I hated gardening as a kid. I think it was being forced to wake up at 7am on the weekends for hours of no fun, sweeping, edging, cutting, pulling weeds, etc.

Fast forward 30 years... and I dream about the vines I'm going to train around the door, or about the mystery plant that popped in the back yard that I'm going to espelier. I even find myself going through endless of gardening blogs... Man I'm old and boring.

I must thank god for Jose, our lawn guy. He does the tedious job of mowing, edging, and cleaning so I can enjoy the planting and designing of the garden beds. If I were to do his job it would take me 2 hours... He does it in 15 mins! $20 well spent in my eyes!!!!

Today I woke up early thinking about going to home depot to pick up some mulch but instead decided to plant a succulent garden. At 10am Hayden and I are having breakfast while waiting around until noon when Home Depot opens... I decided to google the store hours. What???!!! It opened at 8am. Arggg. (ha ha)

Well this is my succulent garden... Drought tolerant plants with a modern aesthetics. Give it some time and it's gonna grow into a beauty. The purple fountain grass in the back will grow taller than the horsetail plants in the middle, and the assortment of moss and cacti succulents should fill out nicely.

Here is the back breaking work... 15 bags of composts and 10 bags of mulch. I'll do the mulch next week.

The fruits of our labor is most enjoyed while watching Hayden playing in the backyard. Music is blasting in the background.. and ofcourse... Lennox is doing his thing.

Friday, March 11, 2011

Still sick

Trying to entice Hayden into eating ANYTHING... We left his pacifier and some reeses next to favorite- pepperoni. He's been at home from school now for 2 days straight and laying around like no tomorrow.

I don't know how he exactly does it... but this boy is able to time when he gets sick perfectly. You see, Steve and I had decided to get rid of his pacifier. He does great at school without it. He has it in the car ride right up until we get out of the car into school. We put it away and he really doesn't kick and scream anymore. But as soon as he gets home.... he tears up the house and put on his bomb-seeking vision looking for that mouth plug.

Day one was great. He would occasionally ask for it... but we would ignore him and try everything short of standing on our heads trying to change the subject. Day 2 we pick him up from school and his teacher said he was coming down with a cough. Well a runny nose and 104 fever followed that evening. Too soothe a crabby toddler...we gave it back to him.

Steve and I look to each other and say... Damn... how does he always do this at the perfect time???!!! Well Steve actually made a scientific connection of it.

Taking away the pacifier ---> stressed him out ---> lowing his immunity ---> making him more vulnerable and susceptible to illness and disease ????

Interesting.... Sounds like a something that need to be published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Guess no rodeo for Hayden this weekend

Poor Hayden is running a fever and has got a mean cough... He's been home the last few days resting... We'll try to catch the rodeo next week....

Sunday, March 6, 2011

DIY

Inspired by Lisa's Blog... great minds think alike.

I, too, have been wanting to transform an ugly duckling into a swan. I know I can take any chair or couch and get it upholstered by a professional, but I don't want it to cost the same or more than one I can out-right buy at the store.

Here are some of my inspiration chairs.... I chose chairs that I think I could easily re-upholster with beautiful fabrics, a staple gun, glue, and a can of spray paint.

I think I would have spray painted this rocker white though....

There are plenty of these 'cane' chairs on craigslist for next to nothing.

This one is definitely a lot harder...but I love the mix of prints

Kicking off the Houston Rodeo 10K and 5k Run

In my efforts to get fit and healthy, I picked up running. Tina, my sister, invited me to join her and some of her colleagues at Lockton & Chartis Insurance for a fun run/walk. Roads were closed in downtown for thousands of runners and the Rodeo parade.

I wouldn't say I love it (no runner's high here...) but after doing this.... I will say I enjoyed it a lot. This coming from a person who only ran because you had to to pass the PE portion of school. There were thousands of people cheering you on. And if you looked around...there were kids doing it. Hello... That made me get my ass going and run.... "Run Forest Run."

Got my running shoes on......

Coming up to the finish line...

Tracking myself on my GPS... I finished in 31:57.2 minutes... Woo Hoo... Looking forward to doing a 10K now.... the Half Marathon???? Nah... that requires "real" training for a "real" runner.... Come on now.... (lol)