His first Halloween

I love all the firsts that we get to experience as new parents, and halloween is no exception. We will not be taking Dylan trick or treating, but I still want to dress him up. We got a catalog in the mail the other day, and I found some cute costumes. Which one do you think Dylan would look best in?

Lobster

Penguin

Goldfish

Turtle

Who knows, I may find another one that I like better.

Baby Crack

Now that I have your attention...

Baby Einstein videos are all the craze. They start for children at 0 months up to 36 months. If you are not familiar with them, they are videos of real life,colorful images set to music or different languages.

I have heard different arguments if they are good for children.  Some say they promote cognitve learning while others say it limits learning.  To each his own, I let Dylan watch his first one the other day, and he seemed to enjoy it.  Now, I won't be letting him watch them all the time, but they are great tools if you need to get something done and to keep the children entertained.  All this to say, I call the videos baby crack as the kids zone out and stare at the TV the entire time, like they are on drugs.

Dylan enjoying the show

My little squirmer

Dylan has learned how to push himself everywhere. I lay him down on his mat in the morning while I eat breakfast, and he starts out normal, facing the toys. Then, I find him all kinds of different ways. None of these pictures were posed, this is all his doing.

Dylan backwards

Dylan facing side backwards

Dylan facing side front

Bad Judgement

You may think this video is about Dylan, and while he's the only one you actually see in the video, it's not my reason for posting it.  You may recall that I have already blogged about Dylan for this event, see my earlier blog Chillaxin at Oaklawn.

I went to the Apple store this week to learn about my iMovie software. On Friday, I was playing around with it and editing some of my video footage.  I usually never have my sound on the computer on, but for this process, I wanted to hear some sound effects. That's when I came accross what I like to call, EVIDENCE. 

This blog is more a jab at my sweet husband Damien.  He had a case of bad judgement. While tossing the football with another adult, a sweet little boy named Caleb (who is 4 years old) asked Damien to throw the ball to him, and Damien did, not knowing any better. Mind you, Caleb can catch a ball, a nerf football. This one is the standard college football. Also, Caleb was not standing a mere few feet from Damien, so Damien could not lob it to him. Nope, he full out threw it.  Needless to say, Damien learned his lesson.  

In order to hear the video, you will need to pause the music at the bottom before playing it. Turn your volume up, so that you can hear it.

.06 secs - Caleb - "throw it to me"

.09 secs - Damien - "you ready"

.10 secs - The crowd gasps

In Damien's defense, Caleb did sound confident that he could catch the ball, and Damien felt horrible that he got hit. 

Caleb was a warrior. Even though he got smacked in the face, by a hard football, he did not cry or even act like it hurt. 

On another note, Dylan does have a cute wink at the end :)

Dinner for cheap

I am no Angel Kennedy, but I pride myself on making meals for cheap. I am not always able to pull such accomplishments off, but the other night, I made a meal for under $4.50.

The already seasoned cajun chicken, I got at super target for $1. That's for 2 fillets. They were regularly priced at $4.92 and there was a $2 dollar coupon, but when I checked out, they rang up for $3. Needless to say that I went back and got 2 more. The potatoes were $1.07, and the mixed vegetables were $1.99.  Let's tally....

1.00

1.07

1.99

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4.06 plus tax 

(Angel feeds her family of 4 on $150 a month.  She teaches a faithful and frugal class at our church that teaches how to get the most out of your coupons. Check out the faithful and frugal blog found in my blog list.)

Rollin with the hommies

This past week, I started really working with Dylan on rolling over. He tries so hard and he gets mad that he can't do it.  On Saturday, he finally did it. He rolled over from his stomach to his back.  I have to help him get on his stomach, as he cannot quite do it yet, but once I had him on his stomach, I went into the kitchen and came back to find him on his back. I was so proud of him.  Now, no matter where I put him, he's trying his hardest to rollover.