Holy sicky

Ive been in bed all wknd with a stomach flu. Fun times. On a happy note we are all going to the usa july 14 to sep 3. Way excited as its supposed to be 107 degrees all week here.

aww

So, as I was picking up N out of the bathrub she wrapped her arms around me and said, ¨I love you mommy¨followed by a giant kiss. There´s nothing better! She´s sooo funny. Today A had his arm up and she was like NOOOOO DADDY EWW.. apparently she´s not a big fan of armpit hair!

28 months

Hi Nora. Yesterday you turned 28 months old. The biggest thing that stands out to me this month is that you are weighing in at 17.200 kilos...a whopping 37 pounds! Basically you are the size of a four year old. My arm muscles should be a lot bigger than they already are. Hmm. I´m going to have to carry you around more often! ha. Maybe that´s why people look at me funny when I change your diaper in public..because they think you are like SIX wearing diapers. You ask for the potty on occassion but lately get VERY angry when I mention it. So, I take that as a sign you are not quite ready for the good ole´ potty training bonanza. This month I started to take you to the pool and YOU LOVE IT. I had to tell you a zillion times the first time we went to close your mouth because you kept laughing so hard and swallowed the entire pool. We´ve gone four times and you wear your arm bands and JUMP off the edge ALONE ...that´s my fearless girl. You are a pretty good kicker (we´re working on the arms) and you are good at blowing bubbles with your nose too. Great job! You will be swimming in no time! You love to swing and go to the park and this past month we put you in an art class. You LOVE to paint, color, play with stickers and stack your blocks as high as you can and say ¨castle mommy, play.¨ You are speaking a lot and lots of Spanglish comes out of your mouth i.e. ¨mucho careful.¨ It´s too cute for words. You are still sleeping about 11 hours at night and a 1.5 to 2 hour nap. You have SO many stuffed animals in your crib that you HAVE to have I don´t even know how you fit in there. Not to mention your BIG and SMALL blanket. OCD anyone? I don´t know where you would get that! ha. You are getting your two year molars and haven´t even seemed to notice. FINALLY we are almost done with the tooth adventure that started when you were only 3 mths old! You are STILL obsessed with Peppa and lately spiders and how ¨scared¨ you are. There is an episode on Peppa that has a spider called ¨skinny legs¨ and sometimes after you claim that you saw him in your room you say, ¨It´s okay mommy, he loves you.¨ ha!You are so smart, sensitive and funny and the highlight of a lot of people´s day. You are NOT a great listener at the moment but we are working on that;) As I sat with a friend today and her 1 month old I couldn´t stop telling her how fast time goes and I cannot believe every month as I write an update that you are another month older, another month gone yet another memory made. I love you so much! Mommy

That was a first

N just threw up on the tram and some of it kind of splattered on this guys legs. I offered him a wipey...and apologized. What else could I have done? Ah, parenthood.

Happy Father´s Day

To the two best dads I know!

Date night

Usually on Fri nights A and I have our date nights. Yesterday he cracked me up a few times. We had just gotten ice-cream with nutella on it and he said ¨This tastes nutty.¨ Apparently he didn´t know there was nuts in NUTella?! I bent his ear over and he said very seriously...¨You could break my ear you know..¨ How hard would I have to bend his ear to break it?! I looked it up and it´s not even really possible...... Glad we can still laugh so much together!

Hands OFF!

It´s a known fact that from the months of June to Sept I´m pretty much a raging bitch. Maybe because it´s 100 degrees out on a daily basis. That there are now cockroaches in my home that come with the heat and I have to walk or ride my bike everywhere. I think it also has to do with the fact that I just NEED to get out of here and am missing the good ole´US of A. When you are hot and irritable everyone and everything annoys you. At least me. I need to put a sign on my forehead that says ¨LEAVE ME ALONE¨ I´d like to walk downtown and not be stopped every two feet by someone asking for money or for me to donate money. I don´t have any freaking money. My husband is unemployed too A holes so just BACK OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I also like to just LOOK at stores. NO I DO NOT NEED HELP LET ME FREAKING LOOK. Again... BACK OFF! Finally, there are African American dudes that ¨work¨ the stoplights here and sell tissue. Fine. Do what you gotta do. But WHY do people think it´s ok to just touch other people´s kids? There´s this one guy that we pass all the time and I CaNNOT STAND HIM because he acts like your best friend, tries to talk to you FOREVER and then at the end of all that always aks for money! OK AWKWARD! So, today I was trying to walk past him because it was 500 degrees in the sun and he´s like STOP I want to talk to your daughter...and then he started like carressing her hands and touching her face! WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean, do I know you? How dirty are your hands? SO, I was like ¨don´t touch her¨ GASP I couldn´t believe that came out of my mouth either but come on dude...what gives perfect strangers the right to think they can just touch other people´s kids? Is this an American thing? Me no likey. So, then I felt guilty the whole walk home for being so mean. But why should I feel guilty? I´m just teling some stranger to stop touching my kid. Is that so wrong? UGH! I miss you America!

On Body Image.

My friend Heidi has pointed out to me that I´ve been a lil slow in the blog posting world. My apologies. Things have been pretty freaking boring around here as of late. Nothing too crazy has happened to me recently and I spend more money at Starbucks than I care to admit. I´m addicted. There, I said it. So, since it´s been in the upper 90s I´ve been taking N to the pool at my gym. Which she loves. Although I took her yesterday and she repeatedly kept telling me that she wanted to go to bed and that she was tired. Mind you, it was five thirty and she had just woken up from her nap. Hmm. So, it´s bathing suite season. Beach or pool the bods are in full affect. Lots o skin. I don´t wear a bikini. I haven´t for a few years now. It has to do with the fact that I absolutely despise my stomach. Unfortunately, that´s where I store all of my body fat. I like the rest of my bod..good legs, butt is okay, hips..fine. Stomach...BOO HISS. So anyways, I gotta say, after looking around at the pool I feel pretty freaking amaze balls about my body. I have never seen so many fat rolls in my life and THESE are the women wearing bikinis?! What gives? I would LOVE to know what is going through their heads when they pick out those thongs and skimpty top bikinis weighing over two hundred lbs. There are the fatties and then the stomach hair. WHAT IS THAT?! I was sitting the wading pool with Nora and this lady sat down next to me and had like a trail of gross black hair starting at her belly button trailing down. Here´s an idea....SHAVE! WAX! DO SOMETHING!! So, you have the fatties but you also have the row of hot men in speedos and those girls that could turn me lesbian if I was interested. Ah, to be sixteen again. If I would have known at sixteen I would have gone topless and worn thongs All.Day.Long. I´ve reverted to being shy again in the locker room and change as quickly as possible. We´ll leave it at that. Happy swimming!

What up world?

We have been busy being hot, looking for shade, AC places and pools. So far we´ve been pretty successful! At my gym we have a wonderful pool and they do sell passes for kids. EIGHTY EUROS a month. Isn´t that just ridiculous? BUT I took N for the first time last week and I remember her loving the pool from last summer.....I think that love has grown even more. This kid would not stop giggling with delight. It´s such a fun experience as a parent to be able to make your kid SO incredibly happy by something like a pool! I bought her arm floaties and she was jumping off the side floating away. My little fish will be swimming in no time!

H2o

I always joke about this time of year saying i would like to fall asleep until fall. Prob will not happen. So instead i have decided to live in the pool. I had been promising N all week. I bought her some floaties and off we went. She loooooooveed it. Its so fun as a parent to see your kid sooooo happy. And with something as simple as a pool. Wo knew?