smiles playdates and sunshine

Danny's chipped/filed/chipped/filed yellowish front tooth finally came out!! his new smile and new lisp ith thoooo cute!!!!

Sam signed up for middle school!! and it's going to be OK! even though he finishes school at 2:28 and Danny at 2:30 at completely different schools :|

made pumpkin bread and immediately had to freeze it so i don't eat the whole darned loaf in one sitting (i think pumpkin should be a controlled substance)

dreamt i found the perfect canoe roof rack system thingie (sigh... if only it wasn't just a dream.... minus one point for the Sienna: useless crossbars)

had 4 cups of coffee for breakfast each day... this tactic for being vivacious and feeling wide awake was suggested by my doctor. i bet Dr Oz would know exactly how many minutes each cup of coffee is taking off my life - he is such a debbie downer)

wore New West because it was like totally that kind of hazy sunshiney week ;)

had a playdate with the sweetest bunch of boogie boarding beach boys and camera wielding moms ever at Bolsa Chica - it's so cool there and our beach pass even works!

finally extinguished the darned 5000 mile oil change warning light... warning lights: VERY bad :| they are depressing and demanding and impatient too!

had a playdate with the sweetest almost-first graders ever... they get on so well together and they have never ever had a falling out - and the moms are the nicest ever, which makes for wonderful playdates :)

made melon/banana/grape/carrot/spinach smoothies. to be honest they are more 'gritties' than 'smoothies' - i need to blend them longer i think. but they are NOT bad!!! they just look really bad ;)

watched Dr Oz - he is such a scare monger, today he wrung his heads in glee as he announced that every single woman in the world will have prolapsed private parts in her lifetime... he is so depressing! how about we just worry that if when it happens? surely all the worrying about things before they even happen is bad for us too? who invented Dr Oz? and what purpose does he actually serve??! i wish he would go away :|

booked a stay at our all-time favorite A frame beach house :) NO RAIN ALLOWED! (softbox skies A-OK)

listened to the Smiths and woefully missed Manchester and the smell of diesel and rain

vacuumed a pile of sand out of my purse (sign of a week well spent :)

swam three times and floated on a big squishy lounger thingie for hours on end

watched Downsized and loved the dad even more this week (he is SO NICE!!)

saw the softer side of that mean penguin, Gage, on Flipping Out this week - he was nice to the poorly pup so that makes me like him 10% more :)

hung out with this sweet little WALKING baby :) he is soooooo cute!!!






his new smile :)

and his new smile :)