Here are Fletcher and Mia enjoying some play time at the zoo last week. See Fletcher there, with 2 good arms? Swinging and acting all carefree? Cute, huh?
That's what time I walked into FedEx this evening to ship a package for work.
try to climb out of his crib. Drat!
Excuse me for posting a thousand pictures of Fletcher in his halloween costume, but I have to show off the fruits of my labor. It's just 1 day of wearing this costume. That's it.
Tomorrow is Halloween. I feel like the past 2 weeks has been nothing but getting ready for tomorrow. Ok, not really. I thought about his costume about 2 months ago, then stopped thinking about it. About a month ago, my friend Brianne, came up with an idea and then it was decided.
You can't buy a DJ Lance Rock costume, so I had to make one. I bought a children's outfit pattern from Ebay (7 bucks) and Claire made the orange part of the costume. She finished it about a week ago, but in typical Mary fashion, I waited until today to (1) see if it fit him, (2) cut out and apply the stripes + stars (3) figure out how I was going to make a boom box for him to carry around and (3) take some cute pics. :)
ok, so it's like 5 days away. Do you know how hard it is to think up a costume for your kid? And me, being the type A personality that I am, has to have her kid in a non-store bought costume. A costume that (a) either no one else will be wearing or (b) at least no other kid in his class of 12 will be wearing. Thanks to Claire, he now has a homemade costume. I bought a pattern off E-Bay and I also bought glasses to go with it, but the glasses were way to big for my kid's 10th percentile head. I ended up finding ones at the dollar store - for, you guessed it, $1.00. So what if they are +3.50 strength reading glasses. That just means my kid will be walking around cross-eyed all night. It's alright, I'll be there to hold his little hand and guide him from door to door. This actually works out in my favor as he won't be able to see the candy I am taking + eating from his stash. Come on, give me credit, I am not THAT bad. We took the lenses out. I can't wait until Halloween to post pics of him in his costume. I still have a few finishing touches to add before it's ready and I also have to make him a prop that goes along with his costume. Big shout out to my friend, Brianne, for coming up with the idea.
Halloween is fast approaching. I've been wondering what we were going to do for Halloween. Are we going to go trick or treating in our 'hood? Should I throw a party? No, because Fletcher's b-day party is the day after Halloween. In the beginning of the week, I was thinking we wouldn't have anything to do and since Monday, we've been invited to 4 Halloween parties on Halloween night. One of which is a wedding reception. For a lebsian couple. Who I can't even remember meeting. What kind of a person am I who doesn't remember meeting a couple that found it in their hearts to invite us to their WEDDING reception? I'm going to pull the mommy card on that one and blame it on baby brain.
and I'm not just talking about the recent weather. Thanks to Terri Cambise, event planner extraordinaire, who sent me the email about the New Orleans Firefighters 2009 Calendar party at Pat O's, some friends and I were able to go out last night and partake of mojitos, gumbo (cooked by fireman Mike, A.K.A.: Mr. September) and a silent auction to benefit the NOLA fire department. I mean, who am I to say to no to such a great cause, right?
ok, so he was 2 on September 27. i'm a bad blogger and we've been really busy. in fact, we've been so busy that we haven't even had fletcher's b-day party, yet. i haven't even sent out the invites. i just decided, today, that we will have a halloween party for his b-day. should be a good time.
From a site, shoot, I forgot which one:
jewelry. random, right?
I was going to write an actual entry this evening, but I am just too tired. I had some good material, too. Like this weekend, in a parking lot, the car next to mine had stuffed animals on the dash and all along the rear. What's up with that? Do people really like stuffed animals that much that they feel the need to put them in their car? I'm afraid to know what her house looks like.
We ended up driving up to Marietta, Ga to visit with Chris + Jen - thanks guys; we had fun! While there, we ended up going to a lakehouse about an hour or so north of Marietta and we had a fun + relaxing time. Much wine was consumed; I think Jen said we drank about 5 bottles a night and we were there for 5 nights. I was able to take some pics, but didn't carry my camera around much because I either didn't want it to get wet or I was too lazy :). Thanks to Rawson + Fred for inviting us to their Tate lakehouse - the food was awesome (Fred is a chef), the kids were great (total of 7 kids there) and we are so thankful for the invite. And Jen - your cooking + Chris' bbq'ing was so yummy. Thanks again!!!
hurricane katrina hit New Orleans and, as many of you know, we were here during the storm and stuck at Memorial Medical Center until Sept 2. I remember it being so hot inside the hospital after the generators failed. And smelly. But it's a smell that I could never describe and it's a smell that I can never forget. It smelled like death. Like dead bodies. It was almost a sweet smell, but not sweet in a good way. It made me want to throw up. It was about 120 degrees inside the hospital, no electricity, no cold water, no food, no bathrooms, no help. I spent most of my time outside with our dogs, sitting on the 3rd floor of the parking garage, taking pictures of the water all around us. Across the street from us was a building that had been empty before the storm and the day after was quickly filling up with people who didn't evacuate and people who were carrying guns. I vividly remember the morning we were told we were getting out of there, I was sitting with my dogs by the stairs of garage, reading my book when all of a sudden a state trooper came running up beside me with a rifle (i think) and he was pointing it across the street, at the newly occupied building, and was yelling, "PUT YOUR F*#@ING GUNS DOWN NOW!"
