Tuesday Tid Bits 05.13.15

I will have you all know that before I click "publish", this blog looks beautifully put together. Then somehow the formatting gets all out of whack and I have to do my deep breaths in and tell myself that it's OK if it doesn't look perfect. 

Jude
- He is excellent at gurgling his spit and being one happy baby.  

- At a recent pediatrician appointment we were told Jude was in the 5^th percentile for weight and 20^th for height and perfectly healthy. He is just a little guy and I’ve got to tell you I’m not a bit sad about it! I’ll take him little for as long as I can!

    

- Jude said goodbye to Uncle Christopher for the next couple months while he works in Texas. I think little Jude looks most like his Uncle Chris and his Uncle Alex. Lucky kid!

- Jude was sitting on my lap one day and just stood up, holding onto the table. I thought, “Well, OK then.”.

          

- Jude attended his first play, The Drowsy Chaperone. We spent much of the time in the Cry Room to avoid disturbing audience members but did not mind at all because we could watch the play AND dance along to all the fantastic songs as a family.

Michael and Arianna

- I threw a bridal shower for my best friend from high school, Marissa Flinders. She has a deep-rooted Disney history in her family and became engaged at “The happiest place on earth” so Disney themed it was! It was a total success.

Here is what I have learned about event planning (especially after planning my entire wedding solo):

Location, location, location! We rented out an upbeat frozen yogurt parlor. The atmosphere was already great so it required little decoration, just enough to drive home the theme. I made a playlist of Disney love songs and had Tangled playing on the three big screen TVs.









Feed the people and feed them well! Each guest got a complimentary frozen yogurt with as many toppings as they liked. I don’t know about you, but feed me something happy and I think you are the coolest person I’ve ever met.

Make sure the people come! I hope after a degree in Communication I would be good at this one. Flyers, emails, and Facebook invites.

I am so excited for Marissa and her approaching happily ever after. I’m pretty sure I’ve cried to Mike on a few occasions about how happy I am for her. I love when my friends marry Prince Charmings!

- Michael and I have decided to be a one-car-family. We feel there are more important places for our money to be going right now. Unfortunately our one car is the now less-then glamorous Honda Civic I purchased in high school. But it works! Well, sometimes.

On my way to a shower I was hosting for a friend, the car started billowing smoke. Which is scary but when you’ve got your child in the backseat you’ve now added a couple ‘ers’ to the word- scarier. A lot scarier. I was able to exit and quickly snag my child out of the backseat in a gas station parking lot full of concerned onlookers (particularly so when I pulled a car seat out of the back I can only imagine).

Luckily I have a superhero dad who takes the title “dad” seriously and really does embody the title “superhero” in my eyes. He came to our rescue, dropped me off with plenty of prep time to do the shower and presented me with a clean, smelly-good, and most importantly, fixed car by the time my shower was done.

We know our adventures with this car will only make us appreciate our upgrades in the future. Plus, that great rattle and vibration our Honda makes put little Jude right to sleep. J

*Please note that while that anecdote may have painted a grim picture, our car does not pose a greater hazard to our safety or that of our son’s then that of the average car’s.

- After being very patient and tolerating a dinosaur phone and a frugal wife, Mike’s family ended up with an extra iphone and gifted it to him. He is a happy man.

- Michael and I have acquired our first piece of art! It is an oil painting of Venice painted by an artist from Germany. I love having beautiful things in my home.

- Adding another day of the year to be spoiled is fantastic! Michael did a beautiful job and all of the sweet messages wishing me a happy Mother’s Day were really unexpected (the Michael doing a beautiful job was not unexpected, he always does). It was my first Mother’s Day and I will never have a last!

-It was Uncle Alex's birthday so we sent him some hugs and kisses to Japan.