Mr. Smarty Pants

Proud mommy moment here: My little boy is a Mr. Smarty Pants! Not only has he earned all S's and S+'s on his final Kindergarten report card, he is reading at a 2nd grade reading level! I'm so proud of him and I'm getting all sentimental and watery-eyed thinking about all that he can become. I LOVE that he picked up my love for reading and I hope he keeps it up! 


Logan, we are SO proud of you!
- Mommy & Daddy

It's Ours!

We got official word yesterday that the house is ours! We don't have a settlement date yet (still), but the inspection is scheduled for next week, so things are starting to finally feel real! 


Sorry I've been MIA lately, with school ending and ceremonies/parties to attend, friends to play with, pools to swim in, and family reunions, we've been a busy family!


One more day of school and I'll have a 1st grader! Where did the little baby I once had go?

Zoo Day!

                                                            (What's the word June? word of the day: Miss Piggy)

I am very fortunate to have found a wonderful group of mommas who had babies around the same time Dylan was born. I am even more lucky to have several of them in my area! We try to get together as often as possible, sometimes with the babies, sometimes without, and I will say that I have grown to really love the time we spend together. It's really cute to watch them all grow and interact together.


Today 3 of us went to the Reston Zoo. I've been in Northern Virginia for over 3 years now, and I've never been there! It's a small zoo, with farm animals, 2 zebras, some small monkeys, some cows from different countries, alligators, reptiles, and such, but the coolest thing is that you can feed (most of) them! They are all very accustomed to being fed and most were very gentle, but some were acting like little Miss Piggy and pushing all the others out of the way for a Dylan-sized handful.


We had lots of fun, and I can't wait to bring Logan to the Reston Zoo next time!

Cooking Fail

Logan has desperately wanted mac & cheese and hotdogs for dinner lately, so tonight I thought I'd do that for him. Instead of our usual boxed mac & cheese, I thought I'd make it a little more "grown-up" and make homemade mac & cheese. After searching and searching through Pinterest, I found (what I thought was) the perfect recipe. 


First mistake I made: I cooked the noodles regularly. In the recipe, it clearly says to mix the raw noodles with milk, salt, mustard powder, and nutmeg. I didn't read that far. Instead I cooked the noodles in water, drained them, then read what I was supposed to do. Oops. At least I have noodles for Dylan for lunch for the next week...



After a long sigh and a shake of my head regrouping my thoughts, I went to the cupboard to get more elbow pasta out (luckily I had another box!). I then promptly spilled the entire box (which was only half full) on the floor of my kitchen (see exhibit A). 

Exhibit A

After opening the famous blue boxed mac & cheese just for the noodles (I should've just used that darn box in the first place), I finally got started on my homemade mac & cheese. After it was cooked, I started to worry. It smelled delicious, but it looked and felt like a brick of noodles (see exhibit B). I followed the directions to a T, stirring the whole time, adding just the right amount of ingredients, and being patient. Hopefully it's just something I did wrong, because the recipe had wonderful reviews.

Exhibit B

From now on, it's the boxed version for this family.

Garage Cleaning

                           (What's the Word June? word of the day: bubbles)


We're getting started on our cleaning/organizing/packing checklist since our hopeful closing date is June 29, which is 25 short days away!

Yes, this is the after pic.

First up: The Garage. I wish we would have taken a "before" pic, but I didn't think about it until I was taking the "after" pic. It took about 4 or 5 hours, and thanks to wonderful neighbors and a long nap time, the kids were mostly occupied. About 3 hours in, Dylan woke up, so we kept him occupied with bubbles from the bubble machine (if you look closely, you can see it - it's blue and yellow - on top of the washer with the Eagles magnet on it) while we had most of our garage contents in our driveway and were organizing/packing it up. I'm actually very happy with our progress yesterday! Most of the stuff we could get into boxes was packed and placed at the back of the garage, while the bigger stuff is organized into categories. The stuff you see at the front is stuff we need to sell (anyone want a Keurig?) and some of the stuff belongs to our landlord.


What's next? The dreaded playroom.

T-Ball

Lovely action shot thanks to LaLa!

Today was a t-ball kind of day. Logan did wonderfully (of course) and although he was in the outfield once, which he hates because all he gets to do out there is pick grass and mushrooms, he had a great time! Gorgeous weather, great game, Panda Express, and Sweet Frog - sounds like the perfect Saturday to me!

Tugging at the Heartstrings

I am a veterinary technician. I love my job, but sometimes it really does pull on my heartstrings. Like today.


The husband of a coworker of mine brought in a little kitten yesterday. He was just laying by a dumpster curled up into a pall, waiting (hoping?) to die. It appeared he'd been bitten by something and his whole face was so swollen. Poor little guy. We patched him up, now we're waiting impatiently for the swelling to go down. I came into work today, not knowing this little guy's story (I was off yesterday) and I saw him sitting in his little cage. I was instantly smitten. He is the cutest little kitty ever, and I'm not even a cat person! Now I'm contemplating adding 4 little paws to my family...


Oh, hey bloggers! My sister (tabi happy) is doing a blog challenge called, "What's the word June" where you have to incorporate the word of the day into your blog posts. Check it out!